Fresh Thursday // Hands of the Heron + Anna Anise
Schedule
Thu Oct 31 2024 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
10 Boyd Street,Shieldfield,NE2 1AP,GB | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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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.- --
Hands of the Heron is a dreamfolk trio from Bristol, UK. Their instantly recognisable vocal harmonies are delivered by three frontwomen - Bec Garthwaite , Beth Roberts & Claire Vine - each of whom brings a signature writing style to the band's mercurial sound. Their latest album Quiet Light is due to be released in November 2024 on their own DIY label Cuculi Records . They move effortlessly between sparse choral folk and spellbinding chamber pop, richly layered with an assortment of strings, drones and reeds. Their second album 13 Moons (2021) has been praised as "a wondrous collection of curious story-songs, choral singing and carefully layered instrumentation" (Joyzine) with "songwriting mastery that perfectly delivers reverberating folk-pop" (Tap The Feed). Esteemed jazz critic Ted Gioia recommended 13 Moons as one of his top recordings for 2021.
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Anna Anise
Anna Anise is a warm summer breeze of feel-good folk, captivating audiences with her lyrical storytelling and glorious melodies. Her passion for building community is evident in her infectious energy onstage and ability to bring a whole room together with a hooky chorus.
Anna fell in love with folk music growing up in Cornwall, where she picked up a guitar aged 11. After honing her craft across festivals and venues, and then studying music in Bristol, Anna has securely made her mark in the grassroots folk scene in the South West. She regularly collaborates with other emerging artists, working on a variety of songwriting and folk song projects.
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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.
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Where is it happening?
10 Boyd Street,Shieldfield,NE2 1AP,GB, 10 Boyd Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1AP, United Kingdom,Newcastle upon TyneEvent Location & Nearby Stays: