First time coverage for festival
THE RECENT Cross Rhythms Roots & Branches music festival at Dudley Castle has been televised by the Christian Channel Europe - the first time that the station has covered a festival of any kind.
CMTV presenter Jennifer Hughes, who used to work on Channel Four's The
Big Breakfast, interviewed many of the bands and artists taking part,
including Viola, Chris Lizotte, After The Fall and S'dANCE. Other
people interviewed for two CMTV programmes filmed at the festival were
CEO Chris Cole, magazine editor Tony Cummings and Cross Rhythms Prayer
Co-ordinator and Roots & Branches administrator Les Wilkes. The
footage was used to make two half-hour CMTV programmes which were
shown in October and November. After the event Jennifer Hughes
commented, "It was an extremely well organised weekend and the
presence of the Holy Spirit could really be felt." The Christian
Channel Europe, operated by the Angel Christian Television Trust, has
been on air via satellite and cable for over a year. Britain's second
Christian television channel, ARK2, were also at the festival filming
many of the artists' sets for transmission when they begin
broadcasting in 1997.