TURNER SIMS Southampton
GLOBAL / FOLK
SPRING SEASON 2017 GREATMUSICLIVE
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MARY-ANN OCHOTA
TCHA LIMBERGER
SHE’KOYOKH
Thursday 9 February 8pm
Friday 17 February 8pm
Tuesday 7 March 8pm
What clues should you look for to puzzle out the origins of a village, or the age of a hedgerow? What are the secrets hidden in tumuli, chambered tombs and churchyards? Drawing on her new book, Hidden Histories: A Spotter’s Guide to the British Landscape, presenter and archaeology writer Mary-Ann Ochota takes you on a journey through Britain’s historic landscape.
A five-star international Gypsy jazz line-up as Mozes Rosenberg – the most recent guitar genius from the Rosenberg dynasty and younger brother of Stochelo – joins violin superstar Tcha Limberger and his trio. Since picking up his first instrument the guitar, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Tcha Limberger is one of a handful of world class musicians to have become accepted and respected in a style of music culturally not their own. Born into a renowned Belgian family of Manouche musicians, he grew up in a world of the Gypsy swing style of Django Reinhardt, and over the years he has collaborated with many of its leading performers, including the celebrated Fapy Lafertin. Put Tcha – a spectacular guitarist himself – on stage with Mozes Rosenberg and you have something close to Gypsy jazz royalty. Expect guitar mastery and swinging Reinhardt classics mixed with traditional western European Gypsy repertoire.
Hailed as one of London’s musical treasures, playing the best Balkan and klezmer music in Britain (Evening Standard), She’Koyokh have spent over a decade absorbing the rich folk music traditions of Jewish Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Balkans. Their evolution spans the origins of busking at East London’s Columbia Road flower market to performing in the famous concert halls of Europe including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Gasteig in Munich and London’s Southbank Centre. She’koyokh’s members hail from the UK, USA, Serbia, Sweden and Turkey, forging a unique sound that is traditional yet original. Their live shows are an expertly crafted, multi-lingual exploration from the Baltic to the Black Sea with klezmer instrumentals and folk tunes from Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia.
HIDDEN HISTORIES
Mary-Ann Ochota is a broadcaster and anthropologist whose work has taken her across the world, including into the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Algerian Sahara, and the slums of Dhaka and Delhi. She writes regularly for Geographical, The Great Outdoors and The Telegraph. She has presented programmes such as Time Team and Unreported World.
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FO’C’SLE IN THE FOYER
VIN GARBUTT
MANU DELAGO
QUERCUS
HANDMADE Friday 10 March 8pm
Thursday 6 April 8pm
Saturday 8 April 8pm
Powerful, hugely moving, warm, humane, inspired, funny and gut wrenchingly honest. These are just some of the superlatives used to describe Vin Garbitt’s live performance. Vin’s career has spanned over 40 years of constant worldwide touring which must make him some kind of elder statesman of folk. His songs were inspired by the folk tradition at the beginning of his career – they still are – but have transformed into gritty social comment and life observations. An evening with the affectionately nicknamed ‘Teesside Troubadour’ is an exciting combination of his talents as a raconteur, humorist, and his unique and powerful delivery of the music he loves. Tonight is an opportunity to experience Vin’s artistry in the intimate surroundings of the Turner Sims foyer.
The world’s leading Hang player, Manu Delago made his Turner Sims debut in 2015, when his unique, ethereal sounds and percussive virtuosity blew everybody away. A much-sought-after drummer, producer and songwriter, Manu frequently collaborates and performs with artists such as Björk, Anoushka Shankar, Joss Stone, Bugge Wesseltoft, Aurora Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, among others. He returns with music from his new album Handmade, exploring a vast array of sounds, ranging from sweet and delicate vocal lines with colourful Hang accompaniment, all the way through to chunky, electronic beats.
Quercus brings together three of the UK’s most creative musicians to produce exquisite chamber music that weaves together the essence of folk and jazz. Two time winner of the BBC Folk Awards Singer of the Year, June Tabor rose to fame in the mid 70’s and has maintained a high profile career ever since, working with the likes of Maddy Prior and the Oyster Band amongst many others. Listed in the BBC’s 100 Jazz Legends, Iain Ballamy is one of the UK’s most widely celebrated jazz musicians and composers, enjoying an international career stretching from Scandinavia to India. Welsh pianist Huw Warren’s distinctive and enticing music has led to collaborations with Maria Pia de Vito, Mark Feldman and Erik Truffaz. Drawing on their life’s work including original compositions, traditional folk songs and reclaimed standards, Quercus create beautifully poignant music that forges June’s intensely passionate voice with Iain’s gloriously mellifluous melodies and Huw’s off-kilter musicality.
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…amazing percussionist and Hang player. Björk
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THE UNTHANKS COOPE BOYES AND SIMPSON
MAARJA NUUT
HOW WILD THE WIND BLOWS PERFORMING THE SONGS AND POEMS OF MOLLY DRAKE
FAREWELL TOUR
Tuesday 2 May 8pm
Saturday 13 May 8pm
Friday 19 May 8pm
Following their acclaimed reinterpretations of the works of Robert Wyatt and Anthony & The Johnsons, Mercury-nominated mavericks of British folk music The Unthanks perform the extraordinary songs of Molly Drake. Mother of Nick Drake – one of the most poetic and influential songwriters of all time – her charming and bittersweet works deservedly rank alongside those of her brilliant son.
In 1993, three blokes from South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, with a name like a firm of solicitors, released an album of acappella songs full of social comment and (in the words of Folk Roots) harmonies you could chew. They were, of course, Coope Boyes and Simpson, and the album was Funny Old World. Q Magazine named it as their Roots Album of the Year in 1994. Twenty three years later, with a career that has encompassed at least a dozen albums, numerous tours and festival appearances, as well as a Folk Awards nomination, Coope Boyes and Simpson embark upon their Farewell Tour. Featuring music from their tenth and final studio album CODA, mainly self-penned or drawn from the tradition, Coope Boyes and Simpson return to their roots and complete the circle that started with Funny Old World.
Hailing from Northern Estonia, fiddler/singer Maarja Nuut combines traditional dance tunes, songs, and stories with live electronics to create a space where minimalism and experimental music meet the village musical traditions of pre-war Europe. Having received the 2015 Tallinn Music Week Prize and showcased at the 2014 Womex festival, Nuut now brings her unique renditions of Baltic folk music to Turner Sims.
Intimate, epic, overflowing with feeling and musical intelligence. The Independent
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Estonian fiddler Maarja Nuut takes her country’s folkloric tunes on a stunning personal journey. Her voice’s unusual pitches and repetitive phrasing form gradually shifting soundscapes. Chicago Tribune …that’s what it sounds like when the snow sings. Simon Le Bon
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Turner Sims is provided by University of Southampton and gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council England.
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