Posts Tagged music
Rhythm and Muse
Posted by Culture Vulture in Events, Literature, Live Music on July 26th, 2010
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’
www.myspace.com/peterwytonpoet
Tickets available from the Three Choirs Festival Office – 0845 652 1823
Get creative in Campden
Posted by Culture Vulture in Art, Crafts, Events, Poetry on July 7th, 2010
Creative Campden presents a rich diversity of creative talent for you to visit and enjoy. Artists, writers, jewellers, photographers and musicians are amongst the many to whom Chipping Campden is home. The second Discover Creative Campden Weekend will be held from 17th – 19th September 2010, with plenty to see and do and events to attend. More activities are being planned so do keep a close eye on our website – www.creativecampden.co.uk.
Some of the events will be free to enter at any time; others will be by ticket only. The suggested starting point for your Discover Creative Campden Weekend is the exhibition of works by members in the Upper Town Hall. Here you will get a glimpse of the creativity which exists in Chipping Campden. But this is just a taster; to really appreciate both the weekend and the creativity visit the open studios and other events and to be announced in a creative trail around Chipping Campden. On Saturday you can enjoy teas, coffees and light lunches, together with some crafts in action by Chipping Campden’s Country Markets, in the Lower Town Hall.
Events include Abstract Art is Rubbish, Creative Cows, Chocolate Workshop, Made in Campden, Throw Your Own Pot, Painting in Action, and many more.
The sounds of the Cotswolds…
Posted by Culture Vulture in Live Music on April 17th, 2009
There’s some amazing music to be heard this summer in the Cotswolds, so we put together this very small selection for you, for more information on the music events, just click on the Live Music link below. The main events include WOMAD, Cornbury , Wychwood and Cheltenham Jazz Festival is coming up soon, covering a brilliant range of artists.