Festival 2008 - Fèis 2008
Seth Lakeman - Saturday
Heard the one about the mad Danish pirate who lured ships to disaster on treacherous rocks so he could plunder their treasure? Or the Bodmin bad boys who went to play hurling instead of going to church and were turned into stone by a vengeful priest? Or Lady Howard, whose ghost still rides through Tavistock in a coach of bones drawn by headless horses to re-visit her old haunts?
This is the strange, exciting, often dark world inhabited by the dynamic Seth Lakeman, who - armed with raging fiddle, rampant imagination and energetic voice - has given fiery new life and contemporary relevance to the rich heritage of legends that lurk in the shadows of the English west country.
Born and bred in the desolate beauty of Dartmoor, Lakeman was raised on such ghostly tales and, in a sensational rise since his shock Mercury Music Award nomination in 2005, has created a unique, highly original niche both as a dramatic storyteller and a thrilling live performer.
