Touchable Dreams – free tickets!

After several very successful outings over the summer, “Touchable Dreams“, a poetry and music show with the excellent Jeremy Harmer, will be playing at the Halesworth Arts Festival this coming Wednesday, 14th October at 7.30pm. The venue is the Cut Arts Centre in Halesworth.

I have a number of completely free tickets for this event, so if you’d like to see this unique show all you need to do is email or phone me as soon as possible to secure your free tickets.

“Touchable Dreams” takes its title from a poem by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. It is an exploration of the symbiosis between the expressive beauty of words and the ethereal poetry of music. Both aim to express the passion, tenderness and agony of deep feeling, and when they complement each other, the effect can be extraordinarily intense.

Sometimes, in Touchable Dreams, words follow the music, echoing its plangent harmonies; at other times music follows the words, transforming their individual power into raw emotion. And sometimes the words and the music are intertwined in an almost physical interdependency.

Touchable Dreams describes romantic love, transient love, ridiculous love, bitter love, lost love, and sublime love in the music of J S Bach, Steve Bingham, Nick Drake, Andrew Keeling, Johann Pachelbel, Astor Piazzolla, eugene Ysaye and other, and in the words of poets and playwrights such as W H Auden, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Bishop, e e cummings, Carol Ann Duffy, Jeremy Harmer, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Jenny Joseph, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, William Shakespeare and others.

In the words of Steve and Jeremy, “we want to show how music and words – the very bases of human emotion – can co-exist and enhance each other’s power for one of the greatest emotions – love – of the human experience.”

I hope to see you there….