Saturday 11 February / 8.00pm / £6.50 advance/£8 on the door
Mary Hampton fetches out old songs from the silent archives of the traditional canon and winches up new songs from her imagination. Then she sets them both to work alongside each other, creating lyrical tensions between the past and the present, the natural and the civilised, the extraordinary and the familiar, the abstract and the real.
Her style has its roots in mauve, turn-of-the-century European chamber music, with frequent nods to the hairiness of older forms. This evening she will be playing with Mary Hampton Cotillion, featuring Seth Bennett on double bass, Alice Eldridge on cello, Jo Burke on fiddle and vocals and Alistair Strachan on horns and percussion.
With support from Dogface Sockets and Motes, this will be a night to savour.
