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Hello, my name is Michael Cookson and this is my website.I work as a freelance Sound Engineer and Web Designer while also studying Electronic Engineering at the University of Leeds.
This website has a lot about me and what I do, I hope you find at least some of it interesting or entertaining.
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| Garforth Arts Festival |
| Written by Michael Cookson |
| Monday, 20 October 2008 01:10 |
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The Garforth Arts Festival is described as being a "very ambitious community festival, with a very strong emphasis on educational projects." and is also "designed to bring local school children, community arts groups, local businesses, visiting professional artists and the wider community together, in a celebration of the arts." The first festival was held in the summer of 2005 and has since grown and gone from strength to strength. During my work at the festival I have been involved with events that have commanded performances from prestigious acts such as Richard Hawley, Courtney Pine, Soweto Kinch, Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, 3 Daft Monkeys, the James Taylor Quartet, Jazz Jamaica, Tony Benn, Gervase Phinn, The Ian McMillan Orchestra, Harvie S and a whole lot more! Engineering for festival events has pulled on all my prior experience and involved me engineering a wide spread of live events ranging from musical theatre and public address for speakers - such as Tony Benn and Gervase Phinn - through to live music from a range of difference genres including Jazz, Blues, Rock and Folk. For more about the festival please visit the festival's website at: |
I worked on both the 2007 and 2008 Garforth Arts Festivals as their resident Sound Engineer and am already partially involved in the preparation for the 2009 festival.