We love how the Isle of Wight seems to bring out the creativity in people, especially collaborations.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening sees the beginning of a new series of events taking place on the Island to showcase original material. Chorderize.
Providing a platform
Organised by John Armstrong, who describes himself as old, fat and something else we’d rather not repeat, he says Chorderize is all about providing a platform for musicians and writers to perform original material in front of a live audience.
The first gig contains an elegant blend of accomplished musicians/songwriters together with three poets performing with a wide range of material.
The singer
We’re big fans of the talent of Floella Grace who’ll be performing live on the night.
Floella’s style, for those who haven’t seen her play live, is best described as a mix of ambient folk with hints of jazz, country, blues and dream pop – all delivered with the help of her Ukulele and beautiful voice.
The poets
John will also be performing himself. He says, “the problem with poetry is that it’s too poetic and is doing what he can to alter this state of affairs.”
We look forward to seeing what he comes up with.
He’ll be joined by James Bradley, a writer of short stories, which he hopes are quirky, descriptive and sometimes humorous.
The project
Finally there’ll be The Landlying Project. This is an audio-visual collaboration by John Armstrong and the outstanding photographer, Julian Winslow, on the general theme of landscape.
They say the original idea was to interview people who worked with or on the land to get some kind of idea what it is to be in the landscape rather than driving past it. It turned out that people wanted to talk about childhood experiences of ‘nature’ and how these had endured and strengthened into adulthood. It sounds fascinating and we can’t wait to see the results.
Where and when
It takes place at Quay Arts Centre (the bar will be open). Doors open at 7pm and performances start at 8pm.
It’ll only cost you £3 to get in.
See you there!
Image: © Used with permission of Lucy Boynton
