HAVE you ever thought about making a carrot-clarinet or a root-flute?

If you want to blow your own trumpet about loving your veg, then a weekend of musical workshops being staged as part of a Pembrokeshire-wide community technology project could be an occasion of note.

Taking place alongside Narberth Food Festival on September 22 and 23, DigiVeg is being delivered by Span Arts, which is launching its Span Digidol programme this autumn.

Pembrokeshire-based electronic musician, Andy Wheddon, will be leading the Narberth sessions, which offer the chance to make vegetable instruments, sample sounds and create a digital vegetable keyboard for electronic music making.

The day-long workshops are suitable for adults and children over seven. No prior experience of musical vegetables or electronic music is needed, but booking is recommended.

The two-year Span Digidol programme aims to introduce innovative and creative technology to rural communities across Pembrokeshire.

Said project manager Rowan Matthiessen: "Span Digidol has the potential to transform the way we create, share and consume art here in rural west Wales.

"We want this project to reach the people in our communities who struggle to access the arts, and bring opportunities that are usually only available to people who live in urban areas.

Span Digidol will launch with a free event for the incredulous and the curious at Canolfan Hermon on Thursday October 18.

Artists, technologists and members of the public are all invited to go along to find out more, have their say in how the project develops over the next two years, be inspired by talks and demos and play with some hands-on technology.

The project is funded by the Arwain Sir Benfro Leader programme and the Arts Council of Wales.

To find out more, or to volunteer, contact rowan@spanarts.org.uk or call 01834 869323.

A video of the musical veg may be seen here.