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CANTA!

5 women musicians and one man play in a Havana bar in Cuba
“Canta” performed with the amazing Cuban Women’s Band at a busy bar in Havana.
Canta – Havana

Had a wonderful, unexpected visit from the amazing Beccy Owen (who is going to do a gig at BlueJam on December 7th! YEAH!) last week. She said that she has put together 600 songs that she does with her choirs and Canta! (which I wrote to lyrics by Pilar Marchori) is in the top favourite 6!

This has given me a big buzz and a push to collate more of my songs for free community use.

At the moment you can find many of them on the Vocal Union website which you can explore here.

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EVAN Open Studios 2023

I’m so chuffed that my painting has been chosen for the cover this year – the colours really work I think. I’m enjoying showing people round the exhibition and big thanks to Penny Grennan, Julie Hoggarth and Gail Bashall for helping me with the hanging schematic. We had a lovely Family Party on Saturday 9th Sep – lots of drawing and also because it was SO hot, spraying with the garden hose – both adults and children! The exhibition will stay up for the forseeable future as I am adding portraits daily.

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Bleep2: Jilly, Mark, Josh

BlueJam Arts has a series of Electronic/Improvised gigs we are putting on at our small Arts Space in Penrith, Cumbria. Short slots are filled by local artists, supporting the main acts. Really good to get a chance to play with Mark Pinto after a gap of about 25 years as well as with BlueJam team member Josh Jackson. Here I play around with a twist on Cassandra Wilson’s amazing song Sankofa, in 5/4 and extended. Listen to the original!