Hyndburn Mela and Community Festival 2006
 

As Tealeaf has managed to hijack two totally unrelated threads with his yearly Mela rant I've decided to open a thread especially for him. I wasn't going to bring the subject up but here we are again.

This years Mela and Community Festival is being held on Sunday August 6th, at Oakhill Park, Accrington.

It runs from 12noon to 7pm.

From 12noon to 1pm there will be a cheesy disco and the GLAM SLAM dancers who will be playing all those tacky songs that we love to dance to - Macarana, Birdy Song, Achy Breaky Heart, YMCA etc. This hour is specially for our younger audience who enjoy doing the dance steps for these songs.

From 1pm - 7pm there is live music on the main stage featuring a range of different types of music - something for everyone. Either sit back and watch or get up and dance.

There are also arts and crafts, street entertainers, a large inflatable assault course, community groups and great cuisine.

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It's a festival, whats wrong with calling it a festival?

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It's called a festival - can you see the word Festival in the name, it is there.

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*LMAO* @ festival

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I can see mela too. how can it be a mela and a festival, a mela is a festival, so that makes it a hyndburn festival and community festival:confused:

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If we call it a Mela everyone thinks it's just for Asians, if we call it a community festival everyone thinks it's for white people - that's why we use the two names so that both groups know that it's for them. That's how we get a really balanced mix of all ethnic groups at it.

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why would anyone think a festival is just for whites? They didn't start until the 90's. it's politically correct rubbish agagin. It's a festival and has been called a mela to suit newcomers.
you'll be having hyndburn mardigras and community carnival next.

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I'm glad you have explained that Gayle....it puzzled me a bit....I did think it was aimed at the ethnic groups....much clearer now. Having said that I will be on the long journey back from a weeks hols in Devon....so I won't be there.

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I think Kipax put some pictures up from last year's event and it clearly shows what a multicultural event it is. If you come on the thread Kipax can you find a link to the photos please?

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Bull***t if you hadn't used the word Mela you would not have got any funding.
Gayle as you gave me neg karma the last time this topic came up I will keep an open mind when I go but believe me if it's anything like last time I will let you have my opinion.

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Hyndburn Mela 2005
http://hyndburn.fotopic.net/c643922.html

Hyndburn Mela 2004
http://hyndburn.fotopic.net/c253297.html

I ahve to say I am impressed at the level of knowledge on this MB .. I had no idea what a MELA was..what it meant... You should start a quiz team instead of using this knowledge to attack everything that moves:)

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One event needs two names and in effect two invites to get it to be multicultural.
if it had never started to be called a mela in the first place noone would think 'festival, thats only for whites.' 'mela thats only for ethnic groups' and mela festival 'oh thats pc thats for both'

It's utter madness, this is england, england has festivals and carnivals and fun days and fetes and they are for all, anyone can go, no on needs a special invite or event name.


I'm not sure if this is the pc people created this or the ethnic groups just wanting their own exclusive thing.

I think we should start having a 'festival of light' in everytown in the uk. october 21st this year. It shall start in Atherstone. The Atherstone festival of light.

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u know whats gonna happen innit?

eventually the word mela will be integrated into mainstream english language and no one wud notice the difference

but i guess the conotations both words - festival and mela have are different to different people

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Also, it used to be over two days - one day was the Mela and the other day was the Sound music festival which later got changed to the Community Festival. Now it's just one day so the two names is because it's the bringing together of two events.

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Could you please give us an itinery of the live music, by name of band & type of music.

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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 :)

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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.

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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

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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?

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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.

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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

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,,,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.

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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!!

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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

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I hope this link will work for you, Accrington Weather

Or you can try this one as well, Accrington Weather

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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.

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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

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

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

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

Part of the above isn't true :)

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Look out for me cos im going along with Jack :)

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What do people look like, I live near and might pop round :p

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look at the meets in the gallery

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Does this help?


Although I don't always wear green dresses so I might be hard to recognise.

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That helps! I'll look for a woman with big ears :D

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il be pushing a blue and black pushchair with my lil' monkey in it:)

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I'll be there... strangely, on stage around 5:45ish... you can't miss me - the odd one bobbing my head - or should that be the odd TWO bobbing OUR heads!? Done a quick weather check and it's looking a bit more promising than BBC weather would have had us believe earlier this week. It's now supposedly going to be 'sunny intervals' rather than 'cat's n dogs'. Good really - laptops n precipitation don't mix too well.

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It's been quite good! I found Gayle :p

Going back now!

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Well I looked for you kitty, but couldn't find you.

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I can confirm Cyfr was there cus I got his pic (green tee shirt?) :).. Only saw one other accywebber who had her hands done ..can I put that on here? you know who ya are :)... Will post some sample pics in a while

All in all it went well.. slow start.. very hot with no sun... Stayed nice all day and only rained right at the end for the final and main act.. but they must be good because quite a few stopped out in the rain to watch them.

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I got very very wet just now :p and yes it was me in the green tshirt :D

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What an odd do that was... having some kind of obscenity shouted at us from a line of primary school-aged kids. Maybe we were crap, or probably they just wanted us to get off so they could see the main act before they got too wet (forever optimistic), but there's no pleasing everyone I guess - tried to make it a bit more chilled and melodic, but they wanted cheesey pop music, which we can't bring ourselves to write so if we ever play it again they're gonna get nothing but very dirty, very dark hardcore acid, gabba and drum n bass, just to make sure they really hate it... mwuhahaaaa!! ;)

I saw Paul (Funnel) giving it some like a rock star on his guitar... goy bwoy go.

All in all though, a much darker atmosphere than last year - hope it doesn't go any further in that direction because the Mela and the old Sound festival before it were always a really good day out for everyone.

Anyone know what was going on near the end when the music stopped and security started lining up in front of the stage?

T (Semihere)

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Excuse my ignorence but which where semihere?

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Really? i'm not a she and I didn't have my hands done :) you loosing your memory now you turned 50 :) :) :)

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Did I see you KSH? oops sorry... Did we speak?

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You always get some semihere, don't let the minority get to you, I'm sure the rest enjoyed it.

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Just a quick hello as you were passing, you were on yer way to take mayors pictures in the tents, i was sat on the floor as you passed

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You where led on the floor.. big grin... i remeber.. :)

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Was waiting to get my hands done :) :) :) :)

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Yes you can put it on here, always assuming that I didn't break your disposable camera.
It was a great day, I enjoyed myself. Well done to everyone involved in organising it.
Oh by the way I made two fantastic bracelets for my niece and nephew, I'm sure that they are going to love them.

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Thanks all of you for coming - but only Cyfr said hello, you miserable lot, why didn't you say hi to me?

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I was going too but you can't half natter :)
I made my way across to where the fire engines were and you were talking to a couple of people, I don't like butting in on people so we took the kids in the playground for half an hour and you were still at it when we came out, by the time I had taken them for a look round the fire engine you had gone and never to be seen again:)

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I only spoke to you so I could gather more information on the enemy! ;)

Where are the photos then? :p Specialy the one with me in it :D

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What enemy:confused: You don't mean me do you tory boy? :D

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Sorry, :o but you shouldn't be surprised - I am a woman after all! :D

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I did think that but didn't like to say it :)

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Damn labourites! ;)

I noticed you disappeared when it started raining hard at the end :p

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No, I was still there until the end - then had to pick up all the litter when everyone had gone. I got home looking like a drowned rat.

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Kipax : we were the odd electronic band after Funnel - two powerbook G4's and a couple of keyboards. You took some photos of us last year as well. I saw you briefly when I was backstage packing up the stuff...

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think you were putting your camera away at the time, so you were probably preoccupied

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Ahem... apart from saying hello to Pav (who would've had me shot had I not immediately gone to say hello), you were the first person I said hello to.

Oh, hang on, no, I said hello to Amran, THEN Pav, THEN you...

heh ;)

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Sorry, wasn't counting you because I know you already - I was meaning people who I'd never met before! Touchy aren't you? :D

You were fab by the way!

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Do I sound posh gayle? :p

Peoples first impressions are always posh with deep voice :( lol ;)

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A bit but I won't hold it against you! :p

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See even if I prefered Labour i'd never have a chance, people still pickup on something I didn't even realise I did until like a year ago when people started saying it... just after I started politics lessons at college.. hmm :p

It was a fun day, certainly better than my average Sunday!

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Glad you came.

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I looked for peeps but didnt recognise anyone but was difficult as only seen pics on here (never been to a meet or owt),had a fantastic time anyway and Jack was knackered when we got home so thats always a good thing :)

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So that would be me then...

Can't win can ya Gayle :)

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Not when I'm faced with a bunch of bloomin pedants! :)

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1) Casper group pic .

http://www.kipax.com/mbgfx/mela1.jpg

2) large tent full of these type of instruments.. mostly drums... got full as well and everyone who had a go where really enjoying themselves... including the Mayor and wife later on.
http://www.kipax.com/mbgfx/mela2.jpg

3) General crowd shot
http://www.kipax.com/mbgfx/mela3.jpg

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Haa right... I didnt get many of you this year I am afraid as it started raining... As soon as next/last group came on I just grabbed a couple and that was it.. Last years are still on my website did you know?

http://www.kipax.com/mbgfx/mela4.jpg

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so it was good?

damn i wanted to coem this year too - i was in london - enjoyin the capitals lapdancing bars *cough*

anyway glad seems to have gone down well enough :)