The Ballad (mini version) in Nantwich

On Sunday 19th June 2011,

at Nantwich Players Theatre,

as part of Nantwich Festival of Arts.

Contact the Festival / Venue for details...
www.cheshirearts.org.uk/html/programme.html

Rebecca will be playing a selection of harp & spoken-word pieces from her CD The Mystery Workshop, as well as selections (if not all!) of The Ballad.

Also featuring The Nantwich Players themselves, performance trio Onya Wick and the wonderful poet Angela Topping.

Another chance to see the mini-Ballad...

Rebecca will again be reading the complete poems and playing music from The Ballad, at Metal at Edge Hill Station, back where it all began...

Under the invitation of the Suitcase Ensemble and part of the Liverpool Working Class Life and Music Festival.

Saturday 23rd April, at 4pm and 8pm.

Full details at:
http://www.suitcase-ensemble.com/page9.htm

The Ballad...a mini version...

Rebecca and Elizabeth presented a mini-version of The Ballad in February ('11), at the Threshold Festival at Liverpool's NOVAS Contemporary Urban Centre.

They were given a lovely, secret room tucked away at the back of a gallery on the fifth floor, which Elizabeth transformed into the world of The Ballad, using feathers, branches, broken gramophones, bird cages, candles and other delights...

Rebecca read the poems in sequence, interspersed with music from the score played on lever harp. Audiences huddled round in the cosy space and were enchanted...

Photos by Minako Jackson.

The Ballad, Book & CD

The book of the poems and CD of the original score of The Ballad is available to buy, published by Spike (Liverpool), £15. Poems and music by Rebecca Joy Sharp, artwork and design by Elizabeth Willow. ISBN 978-0-946057-93-1

For sale at News from Nowhere bookshop, Bold Street, Liverpool and at Octopi on Renshaw Street, Liverpool.

Also available from Rebecca at most solo gigs: www.rebeccajoysharp.com/diary

Or by contacting Spike:
Spike
Liver House,
96 Bold Street,
Liverpool
L1 4HY

Email: dw.windowsproject@btinternet.com
Tel: 0151 709 3688
http://spikepublishing.wordpress.com/

Photos by Mark McNulty

Wonderful audiences...

Every night sold out so far, just a few tickets left for Saturday matinee and evening.

Here are just a handful of the wonderful comments we have received from our audiences so far... A testament to everyone involved.

"This was one of the most beautiful and magical performances ever in the history of performance!"

"The beautiful atmosphere of the event touched my humanity."

"I was transported."

"Entertainment on another plane."

"It made me want to create and invent."

"A most inventive and atmospheric, quirky, passionate and unique event."

"It was wonderful to have the performance with the everyday life of the station happening all around. There were times when I felt the performance unified everyone. The beautiful words, performances, attention to detail, the lovely music, the care of the conductors and maids. Thank you!!"

"The music was really lovely, I could have curled up listening to it and fallen asleep."

"I am delighted."

...Three more shows to go...

Tickets...

The Ballad is selling out...! Tickets still available for Friday night, Saturday matinee (accessible and signed version) and Saturday night.

Book in advance with News from Nowhere bookshop, Bold Street Liverpool.

From the Art in Liverpool blog, by Ian Jackson:

'...From the moment you arrive and hand your ornately inscribed ticket to the conductor in his top hat and long black coat you enter a bygone era, reminding us again that this is the oldest passenger station in the world. It was opened in 1836 and the characters Juniper and Sonny have inhabited the place ever since, or is it just a rumour, an urban myth, they may even be pigeons.

I was lost in the magic... and the beauty.'