Enjoy a relaxed Sunday afternoon of music with three of the finest folk musicans around.
Fiddle player and composer Miranda Rutter is joined by Rob Harbron on concertina to present Bird Tunes, an exquisite new suite of folk tunes with birdsong at their core. Miranda has crafted every tune in the project out of fragments of birdsong which she recorded on her phone during woodland walks near her home. The suite is both a love song to the intricacy and beauty of birdsong, and a timely reminder of the struggles with habitat loss and human made dangers faced by migrating birds today.
Detta Kenzie (dettakenzie.com) creates original songs alongside reworking traditional music. With both Irish and Scottish heritage, Detta is committed to collecting, restoring and sharing songs passed down in the oral tradition. Having worked as a secondary English teacher before transitioning into music, Detta’s love of language shines through in her storytelling. Her words capture the diversity of the landscape and its ability to both mould and reflect human experience. In her original work, a deep connection to the natural world is ever present. Inspired by place names, her specific references to locations in Britain, Ireland and Australia bring a strength to Detta’s creations. Themes of womanhood, grief, rebellion and rage can be found in her deeply narrative-based songs.
More about Miranda and Rob
Miranda (mirandarutter.com) is a fiddle and viola player, composer, performer and teacher. She performs with Methera, who focus on making folk music through the voice of the string quartet. She has also performed with the English Acoustic Collective and Morris Offspring in ‘On English Ground’ and with Chris Wood in his ‘Listening to the River’. She was also a member of Jabadaw and Fika. She is a much sought-after tutor, having taught on Newcastle University’s Folk Music degree course, at Folkworks’ Fiddles on Fire Festival, as part of the English Acoustic Collective Summer School team and is a core tutor for the National Youth Folk Ensemble.
Rob (robharbron.com), described by The Guardian as a ‘concertina wizard’, is a uniquely skilled player of the English concertina, renowned for his highly individual and harmonic style of playing. He is a member of Leveret (alongside Sam Sweeney and Andy Cutting), with whom he has toured extensively and released four landmark albums. Known for his work with a wide range of artists including Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings, Emma Reid, and The Full English, he has also worked extensively with the National Youth Folk Ensemble and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
There will be a selection of tables and chairs set out in the hall for you to choose from on arrival.
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