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A Farewell to Dawn by the Solan Players is the epic story of the human race in its westward migration from the dawn of antiquity to the stars and beyond. A shepherd boy asks the forests hermit ‘whose father am I ?’ and the story of his destiny then unfolds in the magic cauldron of the seer. Bronze Age, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, The Empires of the 19th and 20th Century … the story of mankind unfolds in original music, verse and song. Sara and Don on narration and a musical ensemble including; singer songwriter john dignan, manfred malzahn on bouzouki, ishbel maltman on clarsach, stuart farrar on whistles, andrew hennessey storywriter and songwriter, on fiddle and bodhran.