The Listening Room
Current & Upcoming Listening room events
Border Readers - Words - 17th October 7pm (doors 6.30pm)
We are delighted to welcome back Border Readers at Dry Water Arts
Come and listen to contemporary short stories about people in and out of love read by professional actors. A live audio event suitable for anyone 11 – 100.
Lasts approx. 1hr 50’, inclusive of interval.
The Row by Penelope Lively. A brilliant piece of comic writing on the ups and downs of married life from the much loved Booker prize winning author.
Taking Flight by Helen Hutchinson. The poignant story of would be lovers in Victorian Perthshire and the role of a rural library in shaping their destinies. New writing that’s our contribution to the national ‘Year of Reading’ initiative.
Plastic Heart by Jeremy Page. Jamie dumps Helen so Helen dumps the clothes he bought her…or tries to. A painfully funny take on the unexpected perils of starting over.
To Belong To by Kerry Andrew. Shortlisted for the 2018 BBC national short story award. A heart-warming tale of loss, redemption and healing through the power of nature and community on a remote Scottish island.
SH#RP Collective - 13th November 7pm (doors 6.30pm)
SH#RP Collective play post-bop, groove based jazz. Their current repertoire includes lesser-known modern/contemporary jazz compositions and some original works. They have played together for many years and their mutual respect, jazz telepathy and humility are immediately engaging.
Mark Squires (piano), Michael Howard (drums), Karen Rann (soprano sax), Nigel Robson (trombone), Dave Parker (double bass).
Past events
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Dry Water Arts
Friday 28th February
6.30pm - 7.30pm
FREE
Re visit the magical transformation of Little Shore
“Amble at its best”
Come and relive the magic of this amazing community event which transformed Amble Little Shore for one night in November
This beautiful film captures the performative delights of the evening - the behind the scenes preparation and the thoughts and feelings of the participants
It is a beautiful tribute to the creativity and imagination of the people of Amble and serves as a wonderful showcase for our beautiful town.
This a FREE event with complimentary refreshments and a chance to help us shape future events with you . As you know our aim is to put Amble firmly on the map as a place of active creative engagement
Art with heart and partnership is always at the centre of the Dry Water approach
Please book so we can prepare for you visit
We look forward to seeing you
7th December 7-9pm (Doors 6.30pm)
Morag and Lewis play a rich repertoire of instrumental music from Scottish traditions along with many others. Lewis performs with accordion, cittern, guitar and bouzouki, and Morag plays fiddle and five-string fiddle. Their shared intuition and love of spontaneity allows them to freely move between melody, harmony and improvisation. Both musicians have performed extensively with bands playing music from the Balkans, Greece and beyond, and have pursued these musical interests in depth over the years. In one moment their music might be heard to draw deeply on their Scottish and Celtic heritage, the next to slip into a sound which is altogether eclectic.
Following over a decade of experience performing in various line-ups, the pair released a debut album ‘Auld Springs New’ in Summer 2024, which has been launched to great acclaim with a series of sell-out concerts across Southern Scotland and Northern England. The album has since featured in The Guardian, as Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Week and on BBC Radio Scotland.
“Each track is just phenomenal”
Celtic Music Radio (of debut album 'Auld Springs New')
“an eclectic mix of Eastern European and Celtic Music… wonderful”
BBC Radio Scotland
https://moragandlewis.weebly.com
Castillo Nuevo Trio 12th October 7pm - 9pm (doors 6.30pm)
Castillo Nuevo Trio is an ensemble dedicated to performing the various rich traditions of Afro-Cuban music , Afro-Latin music, Latin Jazz, Salsa, and Samba. Comprised of trombonist Jason Holcomb, pianist Alix Shepherd, and percussionist David Olantunji the group regularly performs a mix of traditional pieces and contemporary compositions in Afro-Latin styles celebrating the remarkable history of these musical cultures.
The Listening Room presents an evening of comfort, calm and belonging with singer songwriter Steve Jinski and special guest percussionist Brendan Murphy.
Tickets £15
December 13th
7pm - 9.00pm (doors 6.30pm) Bar/Refreshments
18th October 6.30pm - 8.30pm (doors 6pm)
‘Land Lines’, five fictional short stories with rural settings by contemporary writers. Established literary names Deborah Moggach, Tim Pears, Helen Dunmore and Adam Thorpe are joined by Northumberland based writer Jo Scott. Each of these powerful narratives have lots to say in entertaining and relevant ways about life in today’s countryside.
The Border Readers
The Border Readers is an association of regionally based professional actors who present themed audio narratives in libraries, art centres, galleries, hostelries, village halls and pubs across the borderlands. The readers toured Haunted, classic and contemporary ghost story readings, around Halloween in 2018, 2019 and 2022 and recorded more classic ghost stories for listening on You Tube during the Covid crisis. They returned to live touring in Spring 2022 with Many Deadly Returns, fictional crime stories celebrating 21 years of Murder Squad. The tour of Murder They Write – crime stories by Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards & Cath Staincliffe – played in 14 venues through October and November 2023.
More on writers, stories and readers at www.theborderreaders.co.uk
20th September 6.15pm to 7.30pm
Back by popular demand, we welcome musician Simon Wood back with a fantastic group drumming session. Drumming together is a wonderful way to experience positive life affirming vibes. People who attended the last session were beaming when they left. Simon brings an impressive kit of drums and percussion to enhance your drum experience!
3pm to 4pm
Ian McKone is a musician based in the North East of England with a love of folk song and in particular sea shanties. Come and sing these beautiful work songs from the days of sail in this one hour workshop. They are simple, joyful and great fun. No singing experience is necessary and all are welcome.
You can find out more about Ian on his website https://ianmckonemusic.com/
Saturday 18th November 7.30 - 9.30pm
As part of Dry Water’s Listening Room programme we are delighted to be hosting an evening with Steve Jinski
Steve is a songwriter, singer, performer, musician and music educator.
He has toured the UK, Ireland, Europe, and Scandinavia as a solo artist, made numerous festival appearances and opened shows for David Gray, Richard Thompson, Eddie Reader, The Proclaimers and Rick Wakeman, to name just a few. Steve’s music is born of the singer songwriter tradition drawing on influences that include acoustic, folk, Americana, indie and blues but still he retains his own unique voice.
Playing ‘live’ Steve accompanies himself on acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and piano. Added to the mix you’ll hear the occasional acapella tune, a wailing harmonica, a couple of interesting cover versions, some tall tales and a positive vibe that will leave you feeling so glad you came to see the show.
Keeping music live and intimate at Dry Water Arts
Doors open 7pm
Refreshments available
Tickets £10
“Music has the power to bring people together beyond impossible odds - if we’d only let it. So lose the earbuds, share the listening experience, the joy - and let’s keep the moment alive.”
7pm to 9pm - Doors opening at 6.30pm
Join The Grand Assembly on a listening expedition that will evoke the places, people and very special musical traditions of North East England. You’ll travel through a vibrant musical landscape with shifting combinations of instruments. Discover the sounds of viola, fiddle, flute, whistles, bouzouki and shruti box, as well as the region’s own border bagpipes. Get lost in lively dance tunes, soulful airs and stately marches, all played with passion and precision. Traditional music is convivial. It brings people together to dance, to sing, and to play. In that spirit we invite you to come together with good company in the warm and welcoming surroundings of Dry Water Arts Centre to enjoy listening together.
The Grand Assembly is: Iain Gelston, (border pipes, bouzouki); Rachael Hales (viola, fiddle) and Trish Winter (wooden flute, whistles and shruti box)
7pm - 9pm
The Ran Tanners are a pair of roving musical miscreants who play fiddle, bagpipes and squeezeboxes. You are guaranteed a night of foot tapping joy and possibly some impromptu singing and dancing.
Folk for Folk !!
Read moe about them on their website https://therantanners.com/home
7pm to 8.15pm
Come and sample the work of composer, sound artist writer and published novelist John Kefala Kerr. John will present work-in-progress created as part of his recent Associate Artist residency at An Tobar and Mull Theatre on the Isle of Mull.
Fray is an audio-visual installation that is inspired by handweaving on Mull (and further afield). The work invites audiences to consider pattern, hue and texture, and the interwoven sights and sounds of coastlines, mountains, running water, living things, machinery, optical illusions…
John’s work is motivated in part by his British-Greek heritage; having grown up immersed in the language and culture of rural Greece, he is sensitive to the striking environmental and geographical parallels between the Inner Hebrides and the Pelion region.
As part of Dry Water’s Listening Room programme, John will share some of the fabric-inspired music and sound he has been developing. He will also be experimenting in situ: working with live weaving and reading extracts from his Fray poems
John is a prize-winning graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama John has studied composition with Jonathan Harvey and Michael Finnissy. John has had work presented at festivals and venues in the UK, USA, Europe and Japan, including the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York; Wigmore Hall; St John’s Smith Square; South Bank Centre, London; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art; Select 107 FM; Teatro Rossini, Pesaro; Atelier St Ann, Brussels and De Singel, Antwerp.
6.30pm to 8pm
You are invited to share your poetry and or prose in a delightfully warm and beautiful space. Room to listen and enjoy the power of words and the creativity of our community. Come to share your work or to listen and appreciate the work of others
Refreshments will be available.
Please ensure that your work(s) are no longer than five minutes.
6pm to 7.30pm
Come and sing traditional Northumbrian folk songs and as we’re in Amble, Northumbrian folk songs of the sea. No singing experience is necessary and all are welcome. Explore traditional singing styles and local songs, learn simple and fun harmonies by ear and enjoy singing with others as part of a group.
Laura Hewison is a singer, songwriter, choir and workshop leader from Northumberland. After studying folk music at Newcastle University, she worked in London for many years before returning home.
Friday 24th May 6.15 pm - 7.30pm
Women on Air - a lifelong love affair with radio
It’s Radio Caroline in person
A fantastic talk from a feminist perspective
Caroline Mitchell is Professor of Radio & Participation - University of Sunderland
This is a personal reflection on 45 years of listening to, working in, teaching about and researching, all things radio.
From setting up Fem FM, the first women's radio station in the UK to researching how coastal communities can use 'sonic archeology' to document sounds and stories of their community. Caroline will explain how radio has shaped her personal and professional life and taken her on many adventures. She will outline her 'radio history' which has taken her from listening to Radio Caroline from the east coast of England in the 60's, broadcasting on 'Radio Avalon' at the Glastonbury Festival in the 1980s to producing podcasts including 'Rebel Women of Sunderland' podcast launched this year.
If you are interested in Listening communities then this is a must and the talk will conclude with questions and sharing of radio experiences
Saturday 1st June 7pm - 9.00pm (Doors 6.30pm)
‘Tom Waits for No Man’ a sensitive and compelling reimagining of the music of Tom Waits.
Composer and Vocalist Lindsay Hannon( “A voice soulful, brooding & unselfconscious in its longing” - Jazz Journal ) has rearranged a selection of songs by the legendary Tom Waits.
From the tender nostalgia of 'Martha' to the gospel infused 'Picture in a frame'
Reacquaint yourself with the unique artistry of Tom Waits , or perhaps discover him for the first time -
Lindsay Hannon – Vocals
Alan Law – Piano
Paul Grainger – Double bass
Photo Credits: Roweena Russell
July 6th 7pm - 9pm
Doors 6.30pm
Cost £10
Singer songwriter and cellist Laura Victoria performs original and traditional folk songs:
‘A spell binding and all-consuming performance’. Folk Radio UK.
As seen at Cambridge Folk Festival, Lindisfarne, Sidmouth Folk Week, Bestival.
Laura has supported artists including Jackie Oates and O'Hooley and Tidow ( of Gentleman Jack TV fame!)
She has released three albums. ‘A grand slab of originality’. Maverick Magazine
Originally from Northumberland and living in Amble ,Laura studied Folk & Traditional Music at Newcastle University
She is a gifted and encouraging choir leader and vocal coach. Expect plenty of singing along. Laura is also leading a traditional folk singing workshop at Dry Water on Fri 17th May at 6pm.
'Whatever I Want', featuring the Northumbrian coastline on youtube here: https://youtu.be/sJwoV6FlO6s
Video: My Lagan Love- Live Solo Performance
https://lauravictoriamusic.com/
Photo Credit: Sara Hannant
Friday 21st June 6.30pm - 8pm
Cost £3
In a series of three talks Artist Sarah Bradford will share her understanding of key periods of artistic experiment and development.
We invite you to come and join the conversation which is open to everyone
Tea and coffee provided as well as time to connect chat and share
Thursday 12th September - 6.30pm - 8pm
Cost £3 - As a courtesy to the speaker booking is essential
In a series of three talks Artist Sarah Bradford will share her understanding of key periods of artistic experiment and development.
We invite you to come and join the conversation which is open to everyone
Tea and coffee provided as well as time to connect chat and share
Thursday DATE TBC 6.30pm - 8pm
Cost £3
In a series of three talks Artist Sarah Bradford will share her understanding of key periods of artistic experiment and development.
We invite you to come and join the conversation which is open to everyone
Tea and coffee provided as well as time to connect chat and share
BENEATH SHADOWED WOODS - Opening Event Friday 6th September 6pm - 7.15 pm
“The hope that the seasons offer … Even in a seemingly dormant state, changes are happening underneath, and in a while, everything will come to life again” A note from my sketchbook - January 2021
The inspiration for Beneath Shadowed Woods began during 2020 - a time few of us will forget. I moved to a new house in a small village with an ancient woodland, where I would walk almost daily. I would then return home and paint in sketchbooks at my dining table in the weeks and months before I could return to my studio. I would spend hours just painting layers and layers, trying to capture the feeling and atmosphere of the woodland and something of the experience of that time. Then came Storm Arwen later in 2021 and the devastation of the woodland and forests in Northumberland and beyond. The impact on our landscape was clear for all to see. Like many others, the tiny scrap of woodland in my village changed dramatically.
Though these paintings feel dark, to me, they reflect the beautiful, earthy, mysterious atmosphere of the woodland and undergrowth. Trees allow us to feel as rooted and grounded as they are—a chance to pause, observe, and connect with nature and ourselves.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!
Castillo Nuevo Trio 11th April 7pm - 9pm (doors 6.30pm)
Street Food at the interval by Zaytoun Street Food!
Castillo Nuevo Trio is an ensemble dedicated to performing the various rich traditions of Afro-Cuban music , Afro-Latin music, Latin Jazz, Salsa, and Samba. Comprised of trombonist Jason Holcomb, pianist Alix Shepherd, and percussionist David Olantunji the group regularly performs a mix of traditional pieces and contemporary compositions in Afro-Latin styles celebrating the remarkable history of these musical cultures.
Sunday 5th October 2pm to 5:00pm - FREE
Come along and experience the centuries-old songs for the Afro-Cuban deities, The Orishas
Over many decades the music from the Afro-Cuban culture of Santeria has had huge influences on the popular musics of the island and on Latin music generally.
Join Adam, Richard and Brendan to learn more about these incredible call and response songs sung in the old Yoruban language and accompanied by the 3 Bata drums.
No experience necessary.
Adam, Richard and Brendan have been studying this music in depth within the UK for several years now.
They find themselves in the unusual position of still being students of the music, whilst also being (to the best of their knowledge) the most experienced musicians of the genre within our north-east region.
Through this workshop they hope to share their love of these songs and rhythms and also widen the circle of interest in this wonderful music.
This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, with the North East Combined Authority as the Lead Authority.
The Brothers Gillespie
Doors 6.30pm - Performance 7pm
Described by Folk Radio UK as ‘weaving an especially compelling magic’, and 'showing British acoustic music in its best possible light’, Northumbrian duo The Brothers Gillespie make music that is animated by lyrical songwriting, fine fingerstyle guitar playing, multi-instrumental musicianship and ‘the glorious tones of their blood harmony’ (Sam Lee).
Brothers James and Sam Gillespie found their sound growing up in the fells and valleys of Northumberland, their songs often describing relationships with wild places and the experience of finding oneself in a world alive with soul. The music comes to them most strongly when walking in the borderlands with their packs and instruments which remains a regular practice for them. This spirit is channeled into their live performances which have a rare and intimate energy, both ethereal and earthy, romantic and radical. The brothers have travelled far and wide with their music and have played at Cambridge and Sidmouth Folk Festivals and opened for Lankum and Sam Lee. In 2021 they featured in the English Heritage ‘Songs of England’ recording series that appeared on BBC Radio 4. The release of their new album ‘The Merciful Road’ (‘pure magic’, Living Tradition) in Spring 2022 saw them embark on their most extensive national tour to date.
‘The Merciful Road’ was recorded in a cottage by the banks of the river Tweed and like their previous album ‘The Fell’, it blends rootsy, acoustic elements to create a rich warm sound with a touch of vintage magic. In some ways it is an album about finding the thread of love and belonging in a world that seems to be nonetheless unravelling.
The brothers emerge from the time of lockdowns with a yet greater reverence for the joy and privilege of being with an audience in real time and space.
‘Our music is inspired by the still wild soul of the land in which we live, a land alive with presences, not owned by anyone. It is about seeing with the eye of the heart and recovering our imaginations. It is about finding home, belonging and each other in a world which is singing to us as we sing to it’.
“Anyone who has seen the brothers live will surely attest that it is an experience that will stay with you. There is a feeling of warmth that exudes from them and affects everyone in the room” - Folk London
Saturday 24th May 7pm (doors 6.30pm)
We are delighted to be hosting a talk Coquet Island – a place for Puffins and their Pals on Saturday 24th May 7pm (doors 6.30pm)
Dr Paul Morrison and George Martin will give a talk about Coquet Island and its wonderful wildlife – including everyone’s favourite bird: the Puffin.
Cost £3.50
Saturday 5th July
Doors 6.30pm - Performance at 7pm
£15
After their sellout listening room concert last year we welcome back The Grand Assembly with more grand northern tunes for your listening pleasure.
Expect old and new music with a connection to Northern England: lively dance music, soulful slow airs and stately marches, all presented in thoughtful and compelling arrangements with their roots firmly in the musical traditions of the Borders region. Featuring both of the region’s own bagpipes, experience the lyricism and precision of the Northumbrian small pipes as well as the evocative, hauntingly beautiful sound of the border pipes, woven with fiddle, wooden flute, whistles, bouzouki and good humour.
In their Grand style, the Assembly are presenting the first performance of Iain’s new tune Dry Water, dedicated to Dry Water Arts Centre.
The Grand Assembly are: Iain Gelston (border bagpipes, Northumbrian small pipes, bouzouki); Rachael Hales (fiddle) and Trish Winter (wooden flute and whistles).
Friday 18th July 2025 6.30pm
A chance to see and hear about the work of local Amble artist Sandra Totterdell. Sandra will be giving a talk about her work and current exhibition at Dry Water.
Sandra’s creative journey began suddenly in 2006 –amongst chaos and life changing trauma . This is an opportunity to hear about her process and work which often starts with a thought, a word or a feeling and sometimes a response to an emotional storm.
“very powerful and almost visceral. Evokes loss, despair and grief in profound ways, thanks to Sandra’s skills and talents. Wonderful”
“Such integrity and honesty in this work”
“How wonderful to be able to express such emotion through art. there were many pieces which you can get lost in and each time you see and feel something different”
FREE - JUST COME ALONG
Thursday 7th August - 7pm
Join Stronger Shores Marine Engagement Officer and discover how, as climate change takes hold, kelp, seagrass and oysters can help to not only defend our coasts from erosion, but bring numerous benefits to the North East of England.
"Stronger Shores is an innovative new project exploring the potential for 'nature-based solutions' to be used in the reduction of coastal erosion across the North East. Join us as we discuss the fascinating research taking place through the project, with our partners from across the North East exploring the potential benefits associated with kelp, seagrass and oyster reefs, whilst investigating how best to restore them."
7pm - 9pm (Doors 6.30pm)
The Listening Room brings you a double bill of folk and traditional music with an American flavour, featuring American singer and guitarist Gerda Pickin and North East-based duo Cloth Eared Mule.
Cloth Eared Mule play traditional old time American music from the Appalachian mountains and beyond. Expect a weird and wonderful collection of old time fiddle & banjo tunes and songs from the pre dust bowl era as well as some of more modern origin.
Gerda Pickin has been on the folk scene since she arrived from California in the 70's. She has been in various collaborations, including Pickin, Blant, and Squire, Luce Women, and Late Bloomers. Her repertoire includes music from England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. She sings from the heart, and chooses songs because she loves them--as simple as that.
Cloth Eared Mule:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61567812752857&locale=en_GB
https://soundcloud.com/clothearedmule
Gerda Pickin
Shorelines – Stories from the Coast
Doors open 6.15pm - Start 6.30pm.
The Border Readers present Shore Lines at Dry Water Arts on Friday 17th October (6.30)
The Border Readers is an association of regionally based professional actors who present live audio events in libraries, art centres, galleries, hostelries, village halls, theatres, pubs and historic houses across the English border counties and into Scotland. They have toured every year since 2018 (Covid excepted) with intimate readings of both classical and contemporary ghost and crime stories. In autumn 2024 the readers were back on the road with Land Lines, short stories with a countryside setting by leading contemporary writers.
Shore Lines. The company are delighted to return to Dry Water Arts after their sell out debut here with Land Lines last year. 2025’s programme is entitled Shore Lines: four contemporary short stories in different genres, all with coastal locations. Two of them - The Weather Gleam by Tony Glover and Touch and Go by Jo Scott – have been specially commissioned and play out against the distinctive backdrops of Lindisfarne and Amble harbour respectively. The other two tales - Mud by Ann Cleeves and Crossing the Bar by Linda Cracknell – both happen to be set on the combined estuary of the Taw and Torridge rivers in north Devon.
More at: www.theborderreaders.co.uk
The Border Readers autumn 2025 tour sees the actors give intimate readings of fictional short stories set in Northumberland and Devon. The much loved coastlines of the two counties - with their distinctive islands, harbours, estuaries and beaches - are central to each narrative, providing the atmospheric settings against which the protagonists stories unfold.
Tony Glover’s The Weather Gleam illuminates Jonty and Violet’s rocky relationship during the course of a working weekend on Holy Island, as witnessed by Charlie, her faithful Capheaton terrier. A bitter sweet supernatural love story from the author of the Kitty Lockwood crime novel series.
A successful middle aged businesswoman is compelled by the smell of mud on the estuary to recall her pivotal role in an adolescent romance that had a deadly outcome…Ann Cleeves haunting tale Mud first appeared in the 2011 Murder Squad anthology Best Eaten Cold. Fans of Ann’s Two Rivers police detective series, set like this tale in her native north Devon, will particularly relish another great example of her compelling writing style.
Also set in two rivers territory and originally commissioned in 2018 by BBC Radio 4, Crossing the Baris an evocative elegy from novelist and travel writer Linda Cracknell. Inspired by Tennyson’s classic poem of the same name it draws on her Devon family’s historic involvement in the coastal shipping trade. That’s a proud legacy maintained by Linda, a crew member of her local skiff rowing team.
Touch and Go is set mainly in Amble harbour. Singleton Jenny has been unexpectedly gifted the means to buy her very own yacht, but circumstances and superstitions combine to thwart her plans to set sail. Jo Scott – herself an experienced mariner – entertains with a warm hearted witty tale of one woman’s multi-layered voyage of discovery.
We’re particularly delighted that both the Northumberland coastal tales have been specially commissioned by the Border Readers for the 2025 tour.
7pm
Free event
Composer, sound artist and writer John Kefala Kerr returns to Dry Water Arts with Fray, a 40-minute audiovisual installation featuring projected poems and images, and an immersive soundtrack.
Developed as part of his recent Associate Artist residency at An Tobar and Mull Theatre on the Isle of Mull, Fray is inspired by the patterns, hues and textures of woven fabric,inviting audiences to consider the connections between the interweaving of warp and weft and the sights and sounds of coastlines, mountains, running water, living things, machinery, optical illusions…
The Fray poems were shortlisted in the 2024 Magma Poetry Pamphlet Competition and are due to be published by Black Cat Poetry Press in 2026.
This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, with the North East Combined Authority as the Lead Authority.
Steve Luck - Saturday 3rd October 2026 7pm (doors 6.30pm)
Piano music shaped by landscape, memory and quiet reflection in the beautiful setting of Dry Water Arts Centre. Steve Luck performs a programme of original works, sharing the stories behind the music along the way. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Steve creates intimate, understated piano pieces shaped by simplicity, space and emotional clarity. His music invites stillness and quiet focus, offering a chance to slow down and connect.
The programme will include music from his recent album Homecoming, a collection of original works inspired by place, memory and the feeling of returning home, with strong ties to local landscapes. These influences run through the music, including pieces inspired by the Cheviot Hills and The Haven – a house in Northumberland, where Steve spent time growing up. Alongside the music, Steve introduces each piece from the piano, sharing the stories, ideas and moments that shaped them, giving a deeper insight into the inspiration behind the work.
A two-time Royal Television Society award winner for Professional Excellence in Music, Steve’s music has been streamed over 4 million times worldwide and is regularly featured on TV and radio. His work has drawn comparisons with composers such as Ludovico Einaudi and Max Richter, while maintaining a distinct and personal voice. A recent press review described his music as “contemplative and uplifting, with a delicate balance of melancholy and hope.”
This concert offers a rare opportunity to hear this music in the atmospheric setting of Dry Water Arts Centre. Steve would like to extend a warm welcome to all.
Find out more at www.steveluck.com or read about Steve's life as a musician and composer on his substack at https://steveluck.substack.com/