Fresh Thursday // Galvanize Ensemble + Harkling

Name: Fresh Thursday // Galvanize Ensemble + Harkling
Start: 2024-11-28T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-28T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Cobalt Studios CIC

Schedule

Thu Nov 28 2024 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cobalt Studios CIC | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Collaborative, improvisation & new contemporary classical music meets ethereal, experimental pop, conjuring sounds to soothe the human soul.
Fresh Thursday is a unique regular event that showcases new music alongside a home-cooked meal. For more information about how this event works please read the info at the bottom of this event carefully. Thank you. If you have a dietary requirement you can indicate it by selecting one of the free add-ons when purchasing your ticket.
Please note we are unable to offer refunds.
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Galvanize Ensemble
Galvanize is a collaborative, improvisation/new music ensemble based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Cumbria and London run by pianist Kate Halsall. Galvanize is made up of musicians who work with composers, artists, film and text to create installations, cross disciplinary performances & exhibitions.
A fusion of classical contemporary music, improv, electronic and acoustic forces, with special guest vocalists.
https://www.galvanizeensemble.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/galvanizeensemble
https://x.com/GalvEnsemble
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Harkling
Harkling is a Northumberland-based artist crafting ethereal pop with edges that dip into darkness and experimental depths ☽�☾
Coming from her classical background and with a strong practice in free improvisation, Harkling creates music that navigates the immersive, the ritualistic, and the raw—anchored in her classical training yet unrestrained by it.
She draws on both the personal and the collective, on nature and folklore, channelling the unseen forces that pulse beneath the surface of the everyday, weaving hard-hitting pop with delicate textures, using field recordings and DIY sonic manipulations to form a soundscape both haunting and hypnotic.
Her sound is a vessel that sails through fog-shrouded realms, conjuring melodies deep from the belly of the sea goddess, but grounded in the human experiences we share.
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More about FRESH Thursdays...
FRESH happens every Thursday during our open seasons. It is a platform to bring you fresh new music served up alongside a homecooked plant based meal, board games and candles. It can be hard to get people out to hear music that they don’t know yet & this is why we decided to offer dinner as an incentive to try something new, these gigs are cosy, communal nights and often you get to hear completely new music for the very first time.
The music varies across multiple genres but it is usually fairly gentle listening type music & well suited to a relaxed Thursday night. The gigs are seated and during the sets the audience is very music focused & quiet with time to chat in between the sets and at the end when we keep the bar open.
We cook the food from scratch usually and dinner is well suited to lover of vegetables and wholesome cooking, it's usually something like a dhal, veggie chilli, tacos, roast veg or similar, our base line is vegan sometimes with veggie options. We can cater for nut/gluten free meals, but nuts & gluten are used in the kitchen so if you have serious allergies please bear that in mind.
Doors at 7pm, we aim to get dinner ready by 8pm and will bring it to you when its ready… music usually starts around 8pm, sometimes later if it’s a busy night for food (we are a tiny team) and we aim to have the music finished by 10-10.15 pm. We can only guarantee dinner with advance tickets and these days we cap dinner at 60 meals and the food tickets do often sell out.
We hope/think it's obvious that quality music and dinner for £10 is all about culture & community and that these events cost us money… If you can afford to purchase a higher level ‘Cobalt supporters‘ ticket we appreciate the additional help towards costs very much.