A delicious evening of poetry and jazz beckons at The Bakehouse on Saturday 30 October, with improvisation group Trio Verso – poet Brian Johnstone (co-founder and former Director of the StAnza Poetry Festival) and musicians Richard Ingham (saxes, bass clarinet, low whistle, trombophone) & Louise Major (double bass). Get there at 7.30pm to enjoy a most un-Halloween-weekend experience of imagination, fusion and harmony.
Trio Verso’s work interprets and refocuses the 1950s poetry & jazz movement for a 21st century audience, through fusing Brian Johnstone’s evocative lyric texts with free improvised jazz grooves and jazz-inflected soundscapes. Trio Verso performances are centred on close interaction, the poet exploring different interpretations of the texts in reaction to the sounds created, and the musicians exploiting their technique and their instruments’ potential in response to the readings.
Since forming in 2007, Trio Verso has performed at the Big Tent Festival in Falkland, at the WordFringe Festival in Aberdeenshire, at the Callander Poetry Weekend and for poetry sessions at the Scottish Poetry Library, Shore Poets and the Golden Hour, all Edinburgh and Last Monday at the Rio in Glasgow. Their CD Storm Chaser was released in 2010. myspace.com/trioverso
Tickets from 01557 814175 or email bookings@thebakehouse.info
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