Kate Verney: “Being a Girl Clown Was Hard.” Recorded at Glastonbury Festival 2025.

Welcome to Roaming Voices, conversations with people who live in nomadic ways.This is my first episode and was recorded at Glastonbury Festival 2025, in my van, and under the Ash tree opposite the Pyramid stage, on the Wednesday before the festival started. I am having a conversation with Kate Verney, hear about her extraordinary life on the road and her mission to be a female clown and mime artist - which was rare back then-  her life living in a truck, travelling with troupes and travelling solo, busking for breakfast and how being neuro divergent was her super power as a performer.Kate reminds us to look hard for the magic.Kate has worked as a body harmony teacher and practitioner for over 25 years, her hands on body harmony work is intuitive and holistic, working with people and the stories they hold in their bodies, she is happy and in love and living in South Wales by the sea.Check out her website⁠ ⁠bewellbehappy.co.uk⁠⁠Useful links:Roaming Voices Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠Friends Families and Travellers ⁠⁠⁠Battle of the Beanfield Operation Solstice 40th anniversary edition⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Atchin Tan Glastonbury⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Alan Lodge (Tash) Battle of the Beanfield photographs⁠⁠⁠⁠Traveller Times⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Criminal Justice Act⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Nik Turner⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Gerry Cottle Circus⁠⁠ ⁠Kidz Filed Glastonbury⁠'Tread softly because you tread on my dreams' ⁠He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Poem by W.B. Yeats. ⁠If you enjoyed this podcast and would like to find out more please follow the links in the show notes and if you would like to join me for a conversation please email ⁠[email protected]⁠ Thank you for listeningJosie 🌞Music Credits:Theme Tune Jingle: Pappa Jeffery!