Hyndburn Mela and Community Festival 2006

[KIPAX]

Go on Tealeaf.. Honest truth.. Is that so you can organise your day or so you can go look them up and pick at them. find fault and complain. You should set yourself some limits mate

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by KIPAX

Go on Tealeaf.. Honest truth.. Is that so you can organise your day or so you can go look them up and pick at them. find fault and complain. You should set yourself some limits mate

Good idea, kipax....I'll be in Accy that weekend. I think it may well be worth a visit to Oakhill Park & to use every opportunity for vocal, objective criticism.

[Gayle]

12noon – 1pm – under 12’s hour with the GLAM SLAM dancers

1.10pm – 1.30pm – Remedy – local band, a unique sound with melodically woven vocal lines, sweeping piano with rhythmical acoustic progressions under a light twinkle of the occasional arpeggio

1.40pm – 2.00pm – Save The Day – duo, sort of Alanis Morisette style

2.00pm – 2.10pm – The Mayor’s speech

2.10pm – 2.30pm – Fairy Land Inferno – local band with a punk, rock, retro feel

2.40pm – 3.00pm – PDQ – a young local band formed at the New Era

3.10pm – 3.55pm – Jinx – a Banghra band from Rochdale

4.05pm – 4.35pm – Cool Shades – no information at this time

4.45pm – 5.05pm – Dhamak – a local band, mostly drumming

5.15pm – 5.35pm – Funnel – sort of a quirky, pop band

5.45pm – 6.05pm – Semihere – a little like the Chemical Brothers

6.15pm – 7.00pm – Gubi Sandhu – a Banghra singer

[yerself]

What is a mela? Gayle claims the Hyndburn one is a multicultural festival while the Visit Preston website describes their (cancelled) 2006 mela as:
"Preston Mela is an annual community festival that aims to promote South Asian arts and community amongst the wider community of Preston."
So is a mela multicultural or is it an Asian festival?

[Madhatter]

Mela is a Sanskrit word meaning get together. In modern usage in the United Kingdom it has become a term for a multicultural (though mainly Asian) festival incorporating music, dance, food and other aspects of British Asian culture in the UK.

Melas regularly are held in larger towns in the UK, especially in areas with large ethnic minority populations. They are often considered important as a way of improving relations between the "indigenous" (white) UK population and the Asian population. The Melas began in the nineteen nineties.

Public money is sometimes available for these festivals. They have also been seen as a way of ensuring that festivals are available for the whole population. (The Arts Council produced a study on this examining eleven festivals in the Leicester region).
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The Sanskrit language (संस्कृतं saṃskṛtam, संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 22 official languages of India.

It has a position in India and Southeast Asia similar to that of Latin and Greek in Europe, and is a central part of Hindu tradition. Its pre-Classical form of Vedic Sanskrit, the liturgical language of the historical Vedic religion, is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family, the most archaic of the Vedic texts being the Rigveda.

Today, Sanskrit is mostly used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals in the forms of hymns and mantras. The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and literature, as well as scientific, technical, philosophical and religious texts.

The scope of this article is the Classical Sanskrit language as laid out in the grammar of Panini, roughly around 500 BC. Most Sanskrit texts available today were transmitted orally for several centuries before they were commited to writing.

[Madhatter]

In British English the word "Asian" usually refers to those of South Asian ancestry, such as Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans; those of East Asian origin, such as Chinese or Japanese, and Southeast Asian origin are usually not included in the term; this is reflected in the "ethnic group" section of UK census forms and other government paperwork, which treat "Asian" and "Chinese" as separate.

Although increasingly common, the term is, like "Black Briton", somewhat contested. Some consider the term "Asian" somewhat vague given the wide variety of religious, ethnic, and racial groups in both South Asia and Britain, and prefer specific labels based on nationality (e.g. "British Indian"), religion (e.g. "British Muslim"), or ethnic/language community (e.g. "British Bengali"). Others see a certain degree of unity in the South Asian diaspora; the term Desi is sometimes used to name a South Asian person in a manner that avoids any allusion to the specific state of residence, pointing to a common identity, but is more often a word used within the Asian community. From about the 1960s to the 1980s, some British Asians also referred to themselves a "Black," a political term covering British immigrant communities from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean

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According to the 2001 UK Census there are 2.33 million British Asians, making up 4% of the population of the United Kingdom. This further subdivides to 1.05 million of Indian origin (1.8% of the population), 747,000 of Pakistani origin (1.3%), 283,000 of Bangladeshi origin (0.5%), and 247,000 from other Asian origins (0.4%) (largely of Sri Lankan origin). British Asians make up 50.2% of the UK's non-white population. British Indians tend to be religiously diverse, with 45% Hindu, 29% Sikh, and 13% per cent Muslim, while their counterparts of Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin are much more religiously homogeneous, with Muslims accounting for 92% of each group.

British Indians tend to originate mainly from two Indian States, Sikhs are largely from the Punjab region whilst Hindus tend to originate from the Gujarat, Punjab and West Bengal regions. In recent years, there has been significant immigration from South India.

British Pakistanis originate largely from the Punjab region, with the remainder originating from other parts such as the NWFP and Sindh.

A number of British Asians originate from Azad Kashmir (many from Mirpur and surrounding areas), the Pakistan-administered part of the disputed Kashmir region.

British Bangladeshis largely originate from the Sylhet region of the country

[Tealeaf]

,,,its just a shame, then that we don't have a few more African around in Accy. Then we could have a Jamboree, which in todays parlence means a big gathering. The original word was Jambo, which in Swahili means Hello & Welcome.

[CASPER]

I'll be there Gayle, looking forward to it. I met Gubi Sandhu when he came to Moorhead to play for the kids. He's a really nice guy, very down to earth, the kids loved him and he took plenty of time to give autographs and have his photo taken. I asked him what it was like to be a star and he replied that he wasn't a star. Thats not what our teenagers thought!!

[Madhatter]

Whats the weather forcast like for sunday, I might be up your way.
Who else is going?

gordon bennet, I've just looked back, I do write some cr@p don't I lol

[Neil]

I hope this link will work for you, Accrington Weather

Or you can try this one as well, Accrington Weather

[Gayle]

It's not looking promising is it?

Well, I suppose we've had about four good years on the trot so probably due for a bit of a damp one. But let's hope it stays dry for the majority of it, even if the grass is damp people will still stand up and watch the acts if it's not actually raining.

I hope to see some of you there - obviously not expecting to see you Tealeaf - if you do come say hello.

[semihere]

Originally Posted by Gayle

5.45pm – 6.05pm – Semihere – a little like the Chemical Brothers

and possibly a little bit more like Orbital, but also a bit like FSOL with perhaps moments of Orb influence showing!? Anyway, if you like electronic music of one flavour or another, you might like some or all of what we do.

Looks like it might tank it down, bring your brollies

If you want to listen to us before Sunday to get an idea, check out a couple of (admittedly, now getting a bit old) tracks on our myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/semihere

[semihere]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

The original word was Jambo, which in Swahili means Hello & Welcome.

And the swahili word ukelele means 'a noise' or 'noisy' or something like that, which sounds about right... hehe

[Mick]

Well according to "Metcheck" the weather is not that bad Gayle.
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/...crington&day=2

[KIPAX]

I will be there with a pocket full of disposable cameras.....

Part of the above isn't true