Several years ago, Rhythm and Muse toured 8 festivals and 5 arts centres over a period of one year. They have been asked to get back together again and will be appearing at St Mary De Lode church, Gloucester, for the Three Choirs Festival on Friday 13th August at 10.15pm.
An exciting and unusual evening combining the awesome talents of international guitarist Rick Payne with the relevant and irreverent verse of the star of the roaring boy world of performance poetry, Peter Wyton.
Slide guitar maestro Rick Payne’s performances have taken him to prime time TV, to festivals and theatres throughout UK and on tour to Europe, USA, Scandinavia and the Greek Islands.
Reviewers have described his sound as: heart wrenching and passionate, delicate and scorching, seriously brilliant, totally absorbing and spellbindingly evocative with raw and fiery vocals to match.
Peter Wyton has twice been nominated for the Forward Book Of Poetry, appearing in it in 1997 alongside Seamus Heaney, U. A. Fanthorpe and Ruth Padel. He has appeared at events as diverse as Cheltenham Literature Festival and Glastonbury, Radio 4 and Oxford TV delighting everyone from formalists to the avant-garde. Reviewed as; ready with irony, riddled with word play, acute with enquiry and a real writer with something to say; often something uniquely skewed. He writes with economy and wit.
Each is widely known as a solo artist. As the duo Rhythm And Muse they mix their solo work with collaborations of both arts. The music encompasses Celtic, traditional American folk, mediaeval, Spanish and of course blues and ragtime. The poetry ranges from the reflective to the hilariously funny and always has a cutting edge.
‘Just brilliant – nicely put together, lots of laughter with honest and well thought out perceptions of life intertwined with some great music. This partnership is destined for much higher things. ‘The Lowdown’
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Tickets available from the Three Choirs Festival Office – 0845 652 1823