Whats on at Colourfest 2020
Listen to the hearts deepest calling.
Be quiet. Feel where life is moving.
We have gathered another wonderful program
full of amazing offerings.
What’s On
With many more still being confirmed
Earthsongs with Yvette Staelens
Come and share songs of love, healing, protection. There will be simple chants, delicious harmony, joy, and a little laughter. Our Mother loves mirth! . Arrive with an open heart and depart with [...]
Olivia Fern
Olivia Fern – earthy, soulful songstress from The Lake District- is fast making a name for herself in the UK Folk and Alternative scene. Last year saw her touring alongside acclaimed artists such [...]
Attuning To Our Heart’s Expression
A journey of voice and movement into a richer connection with our heart’s expression, held by facilitators Tallulah Rendall (Qi Gong/Sound Practitioner/Songstress) & Sophie Bolton [...]
Kamala: Sacred Heart Kirtan Concert
. Join Kamala (mantra artist & folk singer Elise Yuill Cohen & producer/musician Charlie Bishop) for a heart opening kirtan concert of contemporary devotional music, from their [...]
Meeting In Truth With Ananta
Ananta grew up in London and left England aged 19 with the strong desire to live as a Free Being. This first expressed itself through travel and lead her to Asia in 1989 where she lived until [...]
Bob Hillary
Bob Hillary & the Massive Mellow Bob is a folk Singer-songwriter who makes music that is Earthy, funky & positive, with a strong World music influence. He is a passionate advocate of the [...]
Kez Hinton
New Forest Songwriter Kez Hinton is passionate about live music, supporting the local music community and connecting with his audience, and is thrilled to be returning to Colourfest this year [...]
Creative Kids
We are delighted to welcome back Dorset based Arts Education Charity Creative Kids who will be offering free arts and crafts workshops in willow sculpture. Children will learn how to make willow [...]
Devotional Songs of the Heart
Join Georgia Palmer in singing a range of circle songs and Kirtan; all with a focus on the loving heart of devotion. We will sing songs from around the world that unite us in heart-felt intention [...]
‘Thrive’ for mothers and daughters
We are the powerful women who are walking on this Earth Come with me – let’s dance together Come with me – let’s sing this song ‘Thrive’ workshops are the [...]
Adrian Atma
. Adrian was born in France and started his journey with music in his early 20’s. autodidact learning by himself guitar, piano and many other instruments. first band was a french songs [...]
Kali Yuga Jive
A STORY-CONCERT: Love is impossible, Life a beautiful mistake. And it don’t mean a thing -Sweet Durga Durga- If it ain’t got that swing! Story-wizzard Iwan Kushka is joined by everybody’s [...]
Kids/Family Yoga with Jocasta
Kids/Family Yoga with Jocasta This year our Yoga classes will focus on our connection with nature. Many of the Yoga asanas were inspired by the natural world. There are the elemental poses like [...]
Soft Power Wisdom Oracling
Colourfest 2020 workshops Katinka Soetens Women’s Sacred Space workshop: Soft Power Wisdom oracling. (2 hours): Women only In this Soft Power Wisdom oracling workshop, we will connect to the [...]
Ceitidh Mac
Ceitidh Mac blends the warming tones of the cello and soaring vocals to create a transformative sound that puts a progressive twist on the alt.folk genre. Originally from Wales, now based in [...]
Contact Improvisation
ContaKids – Teens ContaKids Teens is a movement and contact experience for teenagers rooted in play and fun. It is a unique approach which uses the body to explore different ways of moving, [...]
Healing with Sacred Sounds
. . In the Deep Relaxation Space Ammaprema Grace will be offering some deep relaxation sessions with very gentle Sacred Sounds. She works with Her Gong, Tibetan and Crystal bowls and Solfeggio [...]
Saadho Kirtan
Saadho is an ever evolving collective of friends walking together on the path of inner knowing, loving and blossoming. It is a collective that helps each other stay consistently authentic and [...]
Sunny Davidson
Sunny Davidson is a singer-songwriter, song carrier, ceremonial drummer and multi instrumentalist. During his time journeying with the sacred fire of Itzatchilatlan and drumming for tobacco [...]
Lula Rose McGill
Vinyasa Flow for Intermediate Students Lula will guide you through the next 90 minutes with creative vinyasa sequences designed to increase strength, flexibility and breath awareness. With a [...]
Creative Kids @ Colourfest
Colourfest welcome Creative Kids to work alongside other artists to create a really beautiful set of offerings for our children. Creative Kids is an award-winning charity that gives children free [...]
Soma Yoga – The Shaman’s Gift
Soma Yoga – The Shaman’s Gift You are not your Genes, you are your Dreams Yoga practice cultivates a body that is free from suffering. This is called the natural, primordial state. In such [...]
Dj Shanna Mandira
. . Dj Shanna Mandira has been Djing for 35 years playing at various festivals such as Glastonbury Festival, Blue Rock, Dance Camp Wales , Osho Leela’s Puravida Clubbing nights and [...]
Mystic Loop Project
Adrian atma It’s first a breath of fire and a wind of expansion. it’s a travel in the whole world in one song, an orchestra in one body, a whisper from the soul. The concert “Mystic [...]
Offerings with Elahn & Gisela
For the last 11 years or so Elahn Keshava & Radhe (Gisela Lirusso) have been running Shekinashram the much loved devotional sanctuary and Bhakti Yoga ashram in Glastonbury. The ashram is [...]
Shakti Flowing Yoga
Shakti Flowing Yoga is part of a whole practice called Shakti Dance, the Yoga of Dance as taught by Sara Avtar. A style of Yoga movement-based, rather than posture-based, Incorporates slow, [...]
Outlandish
. . Comprising 3 singer songwriters each established in their own right, Outlandish features the sounds of Wendy Jane, Kez Hinton and Graham Wey, all of whom have graced the stages of Colourfest [...]
Sacred Belly Dance
. . Come, sisters, and explore the healing potency of Sacred Belly Dance! With a deep focus on inner growth and empowerment, you will learn some fundamental steps of Belly Dance whilst exploring [...]
Roving Crows
. Caitlin, Paul and Laurence make up 3 members of Celtic Folk Band ‘Roving Crows’. Roving Crows tour extensively across the UK and France taking on injustice and societal imbalance [...]
India Blue
India Blue: Have you ever heard the music of the faeries? Gentle harp sounds with enchanting song. India Blue shares alt-folk music channeling the spirit of the fae. With poetic lyrics inspired [...]
Limbic Imprint ReCoding Meditation
Colourfest welcomes Barbara and Michal who will be offering two sessions ab this years event. These will be a deep dive in 3 hour sessions. Limbic Imprint ReCoding Meditation – a signature [...]
Georgia Palmer
Georgia Palmer is a travelling creative from North Devon. Her music tells tales of the world of the self, and adventures to lands within and without. Her passion for embodied presence and [...]
Tulsi’s Temple
Soma Yoga – Tulsi’s Temple – A Soma Yoga Nidra and Sound Journey Experience with Nicole and Gisela Russo. Using Nidra techniques, Shamanic Journeying, Soma Yoga and Sound bathing we will [...]
Dancing the Goddess
Dancing the Goddess with Shakti Sundari: is a powerful, transformative practice for EVERY WOMAN of connecting with & embodying the DIVINE FEMININE. Devised by Shakti Sundari, it synthesises [...]
Contact Improvisaton
Contact Improvisation Workshop Contact Improvisation is a practice of how two or more bodies move together as one in physical contact, within a spontaneously unfolding improvise dance. It can be [...]
Victor Chetcuti
Victor has been with us from the beginning and his intimate sets around the fire have been some of the most memorable. We’re very glad he keeps coming back. Very honored to welcome him [...]
Kim Roswitha – Into Your Heart
Kim Roswitha, founder of Into your heart retreats, is an adventurous open-minded and open-hearted dutch woman, who lives in Southern Spain. She offers retreats focused on awareness and personal [...]
Glenn Ross
With a style that invites you into a deep web of song, Glenn Ross weaves a narrative that is both thought-provoking and poignant.
Yin Yoga & Sacred Sound Journey
Elise and Charlie will also be leading a YIN YOGA & SACRED SOUND JOURNEY workshop at the festival. Yin yoga is a very slow, gentle practice that invites you to rest and rejuvenate on a deep [...]
Tallulah Rendall
Tallulah Rendall is a Multi-instrumentalist, Producer, Sound Therapist, Qi Gong Teacher, Creative Facilitator & Songstress. To date she has crowd funded, released and toured four [...]
Omer Makassa
Omer is a Master Percussionist, experienced performer, singer, songs writer from Martinique in the Caribbean Island with a vibrant multicultural music scene. Omer is grow up in a musical family. [...]
Body percussion – Algy Behrens
Body percussion and nature rhythm walks with Algy Behrens. The body percussion and nature rhythm walks are a great way to gain percussive/rhythmic skills without having to use drums or [...]
White Shell Yoga – Your Sacred Body
Coming Home to Mother Earth. (2hours) We are being asked now… to come into our bodies in a way that for us feels new. It was only understood by the ancient ones who carried wisdom from the stars, [...]
Dancing Beyond the Void
Francis will guide us into the awakened experience through the relaxed yet dynamic movement of body and breath. The 5Rhythms are rooted in real life. We dance alone, with partners and with the [...]
Algy Behrens
Algy has years of experience in performing, running workshops and music production. His eclectic musical journey started when he was a child. He was brought up in Italy and was given a guitar [...]
World Kirtan & Ecstatic Chants with Ravi
. . A transformational experience of devotional singing with songs & chants from around the world plus sound journey “Ravi is a rare talent – a musical shaman who knows no fear. He has [...]
Ruth Blake
Ethereal songstress Ruth Blake writes multi-faceted contemporary folk, rich with symbol and story-telling, weaving hypnotic guitar riffs and tender poetry with rambunctious offbeat grooves and [...]
Mateo Tabatabai
‘Meetings in Stillness are Meetings in Truth’ with Mateo Tabatabai Mateo is a yogi dedicated to the path of moment-to-moment awakeness. He has studied and explored many [...]
Contact Improvisation Jam
Contact Improvisation Jam A guided warm up into a free creative exploration of Contact Improvisation with live improvising musicians. David Leahy works as both a lecturer and dance musician in [...]
Yoga for Teens with Rosie
“A class designed specially for teens… Come along for an hour of Yoga with Rosie! Filled with mindfulness games, yoga flow, partner work, maybe even some acro challenges! Or just [...]
Nature, Moving Prayers and Star Henge Expansion
We gather for a sacred walk, connect with each other and the Earth, Sun and Stars. This is a family… a Universal family that we are a part of. The intentions of this session are to send our [...]
Essence and Mystery
Mixed group Movement meditation (2hrs) Become conscious of the flow of Nature and your connection to the sacred life force in your body and in the land. Becoming aware that, at any moment, we may [...]
Isabel Cressy (Indira Devi Dasi)
Isabel Cressy (Indira Devi Dasi) invites you to bathe in the sweet nectar of Devotional Love through the union of our heartfelt voices. She has been playing music for over 25 years, working [...]
Natural Dance with Leigh
Leigh is well known in the Bristol area for his ever popular Wed night ecstatic dance night. What started 15 years ago as a weekly 5 Rhythms® class, has now become an evolving exploration of 5R® [...]
ContaKids – Children & Parents
ContaKids – Children & Parents ContaKids is a movement and contact experience for children and parents rooted in the celebration of play and joy. It is a unique approach that utilises [...]
Lorraine Taylor
Lorraine Taylor: From a very young age, Lorraine was fascinated by the beauty of movement and music. Her childhood was spent exploring the body through gymnastics, ice skating and different [...]
JAMES FROST
James Frost is a songwriter, singer and acoustic guitarist, who sings to the open-hearted and authentic nature in us all. His live shows challenge the typical performer-audience boundaries and [...]
5 Rhythms & Alive Collaboration
Alive are a collective of musicians brought together by Mark Fisher and have been playing for 5Rhythms and other movement practices for the past 10 years. They have diverse musical backgrounds [...]
Sophie Nevill
Sophie has been playing music and writing her own songs for the last 8 years. Many of her songs are inspired by her own life experience and spiritual lessons that she has learned upon the way. [...]
Kinship Workshop
. . Kinship Workshop invites participants into experiential relationship to nature, landscape and other species through grounding physical practice. From this enlivening and thought-provoking [...]
Bioenergetics
Bioenergetics is a Body-based Therapy and Step-Up Tool that removes emotional holding patterns from your muscle system. You can use Bioenergetics in two ways… …. as a Therapy, to free yourself [...]
Blazing into Self Mastery
Blazing into Self Mastery- Sangeeta Chohan Pranayama Workshop At Colourfest we will be exploring a practice that facilitates the cleansing of the subconscious mind to release years/life-mes of [...]
Embodied Presence – Lee Bolton and Jamus Wood Inspired
. . Embodied Presence – Lee Bolton and Jamus Wood Inspired – Dance and Movement Workshop The World Needs You at This Time It can be too easy to believe we have very little to offer, [...]
Awaken & Nourish Your Empowered Voice
‘Transform the fears you hold around your voice and join me in a gentle and playful exploration of the power, fragility, beauty, wildness and creative individuality of our voices.’ Tallulah [...]
DJ sets with Parvesh
I am Parvesh – the Lord of Celebration and I bring you sunshine and sublime sounds from across Brazil, Africa and Europe. I weave musical genres of samba, rap, rhumba and ghetto-funk to get [...]
Prajna Ginty
A dedication to the Truth of Being with Prajna Ginty Prajna’s Journey: In 1986, after the death of her first teacher Eunice Zimmerman, Prajna was introduced to Satsang and Non-dual Wisdom [...]
Patrick Morrow
Patrick Morrow is the founder of Tigerspeaks. He is a musician, author and storyteller. He’s host of ‘The Parent Journey Podcast”, and the leader of Songs of Freedom and Forest [...]
Caradon Kirtan
Caradon Kirtan began in 2019 with Agata and Julie, two bhakti yogis from the beautiful Caradon area of Cornwall. Julie’s bhakti journey began in the mid 1980’s after an emotional breakdown and [...]
Devamurti
Where do You exist? What is your essence and who is aware of it? With a radical new hypothesis as our map, these meditative explorations will investigate the key centres of the soul. These [...]
Sika
Sika carries us into a world of earth wisdom and mystery. His music invokes a primal memory, soaring from lush rainforests to desert caves, from firesides to moonlit skies. Hypnotic rhythms that [...]
OMNION by Tomas Reindl
Colourfest welcomes Tomas Reindl, who has been with us since the start. He’s an amazing talent, is loved so much at the event and so we welcome him back for 2020. Omnion is a solo [...]
Gong Bath with Bhanu
Bhanu has had a deep passion and connection with sound since attending a one day sound workshop in 2008. This connection led him to study a Diploma course with the British Academy of Sound [...]
Biodanza
Workshop 1 “Listening to your dancer – expression, connection and resting in the body” Workshop 2 “Deep in the rhythm – letting go to the rhythms from within, dropping into [...]
Magdalena Atkinson
Magdalena Atkinson – a soulful singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, yogini, music therapy facilitator and a dreamer … Her music gently heals confusion, empowers and inspires. Experience [...]
Alexander Workshops
These interactive workshops will demonstrate how the Alexander Work can really affect the way you move, think and feel. Improve posture, release tension, relieve stress, and enhance your yoga [...]
Yoga with Amba
Our relationship to Self, others and the natural world Amba will be offering yoga workshops which invite participants to explore their relationship to themselves and the natural world. As the [...]
DJ Pixi Pete
DJ Pixi Pete With over a decade of embodiment practises, self development workshops and as a musician, Peter has developed and expanded his Djing skills and knowledge to a high level and now [...]
Breathing Art Mandala
Raila: Breathing Art Mandala gathers various specialists, artists and their works to support tropical reforesting. Listen to the interviews and enjoy. Breathing Art Mandala community page [...]
Thrive – A family session
Hearts open when all co-create the soundscape together – with singing and drumming, chanting and dancing. ‘Thrive’ workshops are the unique original blend of Magdalena’s [...]
Full-body Dancing with Tom
. . Full-body Dancing: like people, like particles, like planets. Solo, partner and group dances and movement practices that navigate fundamental energies of emergence, initiation, response and [...]
Attuning To Our Heart’s Expression
Sophie & Tallulah workshop: A journey of voice and movement into a richer connection with our heart’s expression, held by facilitators Tallulah Rendall (Qi Gong/Sound [...]
Fool Expression Workshop
Fool Expression Workshop with Christie Dehoux Do you long for more play and authenticity? Are you ready to access more aspects of yourself? Are you ready for more inspiration in your life? The [...]
SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE JOURNEY
SHAMANIC TRANCE DANCE JOURNEY with Lisa Bridge & Live music, percussion & drumming provided by sound alchemists Paul Cerigo and Ruth Ford. Held in ceremonial and sacred space, supported [...]
Ruth Blake
Ruth Blake. Introspective and multi-faceted, singer-songwriter-guitarist Ruth Blake blends the numinous with the oh-so-very-human, dancing between hypnotic guitar riffs and tender poetry with [...]
Nalini & Friends
. . Ceremonial Concert with Nalini & Friends . Nalini is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter, sound healer, ceremonialist and workshop facilitator. Over the last 20 years, she has [...]
Swami Asokananda
Swami Asokananda, a monk since 1975, is one of Integral Yoga’s® (IY) foremost teachers—known for his warmth, intelligence, and good humor. His teaching comes out of his own practice and [...]
Loving Your Body Space
Loving Your Body Space – Soma Yoga for your 5 Elements. Yoga refers to an action of yoking or harnessing. The 2 powers that must be harnessed are the life force and the inner intelligence. [...]
Dancing Freedom for Families
Dancing Freedom for Families is a friendly, fun family event for all ages that offers games, movement and connection through free form dance and play. It is a place for building community and [...]
Sing from your heart – Eloise
Sing from your heart Find your voice and feel safe, free and happy in a fun environment creating beautiful noise bringing you back to your heart centre Let go of any inhabitions and play with [...]
Skedaddle
Skedaddle is made up of professional musicians with many years of performing experience behind them. We draw inspiration from a rich history of amazingly talented musicians who wrote great tunes [...]
