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Eliza Carthy + Jennifer Reid
Taliesin Arts Centre Swansea University, Singleton Campus, Swansea, SwanseaThere’s hundreds of years’ worth of English folksong, which amounts to the material being passed down through several generations, and in the tour pairing of Eliza Carthy and Jennifer Reid …
Jackie Morris & Jay Griffiths
Taliesin Arts Centre Swansea University, Singleton Campus, Swansea, SwanseaBirmingham-born, west Wales-based illustrator of renown Morris, whose 2017 collaborative book (with Robert Macfarlane) The Lost Words has had various spinoff projects, is joined here by Manchester-born, mid-Wales-based writer Jay Griffiths. The pair will discuss the human relationship to the natural world as part of this year’s Go Green series of events at the Taliesin.
George Lewis
Taliesin Arts Centre Swansea University, Singleton Campus, Swansea, SwanseaInstagram-popular comedian Lewis seems to mine a sort of post-Michael McIntyre seam of finding hilarity in domestic mundanity, with extra emphasis on one’s children. “His characterisation of TK Maxx is damningly spot on,” wrote someone in {The Scotsman}, and as someone who is what I believe they call a ‘shooter’ for TK Maxx I take …
Seth Lakeman
Taliesin Arts Centre Swansea University, Singleton Campus, Swansea, SwanseaAnother English adult-oriented folk act who emerged just over 20 years ago, Seth Lakeman also hails from a musical family, starting out in teenage trio the Lakeman Brothers. He’s now notched a dozen studio albums, with latest The Granite Way out this month to coincide with a UK tour.
Poetry Showcase: Jack Jones
Taliesin Arts Centre Swansea University, Singleton Campus, Swansea, SwanseaIt’s a locally-sauced special tonight in the Taliesin’s bar area, with Jack Jones getting his verse on. Jones formed indie band Trampolene in Swansea, before moving to London like they all do and becoming part of the Libertines travelling circus, often reading his poems as a tour warmup act. This should prove fairly different atmosphere-wise.
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