Here at Boxfresh we have an ongoing partnering arrangement with Shrewsbury Folk Festival and indeed we will be again a key sponsor for this year’s festival. An interesting off-shoot of this relationship is a smaller sponsorship (us providing some of our food) to what’s know as the Darwin Song Project.

Basically a group of 8 highly esteemed folk songwriters are getting together for a week in March in a house in South Shropshire to write songs celebrating the bi-centenary of Darwin’s birth in Shrewsbury. Artists involved Karine Polwart, Jez Lowe, Stu Hanna and Chris Wood. The residential week will culminate in a concert to showcase the songs at the new Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury on Thursday 19 March 09. BBC Radio 4 are also on board as a sponsor and will be airing a programme about the project. All songs written during the week will also be available on CD and will be given special prominence at the year’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival.

For more info on the project click here: http://www.darwinsongproject.com/project.htm

For more info on the Shrewsbury Folk Festvial click here:http://www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk/index.shtml