IN THE BELLOWS vol. III
THE SILVER FIELD + WILLIAM JACK + ROSIE BROWNHILL
Saturday 16 November 2024, doors 19:30
Sandfields Pumping Station, Lichfield
In The Bellows is a new event series set in the historic Sandfields Pumping Station in Lichfield. A collaboration by Kikimora Records and Lichfield Arts, the programme explores the imaginative spaces between folk, jazz, electronic and ambient music.
Reverberant high ceilings and 1800’s industrial architecture form a cinematic backdrop to three innovative acts; The Silver Field, this year’s Oram Award winner crafting dreamlike electronic tapestries, William Jack, a virtuosic bluegrass cellist from Australia and Rosie Browhill, a Staffordshire-based trad-folk musician.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
THE SILVER FIELD | website | listen |
The Silver Field is a sound world of Coral Rose Kindred-Boothby. Voice, tapes, bass, samples, synthesis, strings, reeds, drums, small sounds, big sounds, sunlight, moonlight, a lot of water. Using her modular synthesiser and other self-built electronic instruments, she weaves together song-soundscapes, creating a rich and dream-like tapestry of sound that draws from folk music tradition, experimental electronics and psychedelia.
Alongside celebrating being this year’s Oram Award winner, her music has received praise in The Guardian, Mojo and The Quietus among others, and has had radio play and guest playlists on BBC 6 Music and NTS.
WILLIAM JACK | website | listen |
William Jack is an Australian multi-style cellist and songwriter, based in London. He is best known for incorporating his jazz guitar background into an unconventional style of cello playing. His music transitions seamlessly from virtuosic folk & bluegrass compositions, to non-Western sound worlds.
Since his classical studies in Vienna, William has forged his own cello pathway, touring Europe, Australia and the UK extensively. He has recently performed his solo compositions from his debut album ‘This Old Cello Box’ live on BBC Radio 3 at the Edinburgh Fringe, and was selected to perform as a ‘New Folk’ songwriter at the 2023 Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas.
ROSIE BROWNHILL | website | listen |
Rosie Brownhill is a multi instrumentalist, playing a mixture of traditional folk and composed melodies on guitar and penny whistle whilst accompanied by her self built puppet organ. From her canal boat on the Stafforshire waterways, she crafts delicate and magical compositions, plucked out from the soles of muddy shoes.
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