The ballad is a story, a story in song. In this newly commissioned piece, Horse + Bamboo depict songs of a great fight, a broken contract and a female smuggler. Each is a historic ballad arranged and performed live alongside puppetry and simple illustrations, drawing out the tales before your eyes! The voices, harmonies, stories, puppets, music and animation will combine to create an evocative new look at visual theatre and folk music.
Featuring Bryony Griffith (fiddle, viola, voice and piano), Kate Locksley (voice and narrative presentation), Ewan McLennan (guitar and voice) and John Kirkpatrick (melodeon, accordion and voice) and puppeteers Gretchen Maynard-Hahn and Ailsa Dalling.
Jointly commissioned by EFDSS, The Met in Bury and Colston Hall in Bristol and funded by PRS for Music Foundation
Dates & Times
Derby Hall @ The Met
Related events
- Sun 25 Oct 7:30 PM
The Haunting of Widow’s Leap Farm
Joe O'Byrne's The Haunting of Widow's Leap Farm is a supernatural horror where a murder investigation in a seaside town reveals a dark truth.
- Thu 29 Oct 7:30 PM
All The Single Ladies (Bury)
Marilyn balances the demands of her cantankerous mother with her search for romance at the weekly "Single Ladies Tuesday" event... A new dark comedy performed by MaD Theatre's Bury actors.
- Sun 20 Sep 7:30 PM
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town
Immortalised by The Two Ronnies, this Jack the Ripper parody is raspberry-jam-packed with Spike Milligan’s and Ronnie Barker’s love of surreal absurdism, clever puns, near-the-knuckle ribaldry, quick-fire jokes and famous wordplay.