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This page gives an insight into the unique and innovative Cricket Roots Project, which combined sport, music and heritage.
With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Canterbury City Council the project supported a group of young people living in East Kent to research the lives and achievements of overseas cricketers who had played for Kent County Cricket Club throughout its history.
They were helped in learning research skills by Peter Ewart, and worked at the Spitfires Study Centre at KCCC.
They chose to focus on four key players Asif Iqbal, John Shepherd, Carl Hooper, and Bernard Julien.
Download research findings PDF.
They were introduced to the culture of the players through music and performance by Trinidadian Calypsonian, Alexander D’Great and 'Jugnu Bhangra' a Punjabi Dance and drumming troupe from Gravesend.
Working with Alexander, they devised composed and wrote a song based on their findings “There’s A Lime Tree Inside the Boundary.” The song was recorded and a CD made, and the young people bravely performed it in front of a crowd of 2500 at the match between Kent and Sri Lanka A on 16th July 2007.
The project was filmed, and along with the song, the film, research findings and artefacts relating to the players leant by KCCC, formed an exhibition at Canterbury Museum that was open to the public from 16th August to 17th September 2007.
Invaluable curating and design support was provided by Peter Davies of the Museum. This page gives an insight into the project.
Credits
Photos:Performance day - Julie Larner, the rest by Douglas Noble. Film credit:Anton French Curious Research & Film
Thanks to: Heritage Lottery Fund, Canterbury City Council, Peter Ewart and Cressida Annersley-Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Craig Riley, Martyn Kelk and Hannah Moyes- Kent Spitfires Study Centre, Peter Davies and Ken Reedie-Canterbury City Council Museums and Galleries Service, Emma Bourne and John Gater-Red Cross Canterbury, David Robertson and Jamie Clifford-Kent County Cricket Club, Anton French-Curious Research and Films, Alexander D. Great, Surinder Dhinsa and Jugnu Bhangra, Joey Wicks- Prince of Wales Youth Club, and the young people from Archers Court School, Canterbury High School, Prince of Wales Youth Club, KERAN at Riverside and the Red Cross Befriending Project Canterbury.For more information please contact:
Douglas Noble douglas@musicforchange.org
The project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Canterbury City Council
