Fresh Thursday // Woven Ensemble + Maja Bugge and Dave Evans

Name: Fresh Thursday // Woven Ensemble + Maja Bugge and Dave Evans
Start: 2025-04-03T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-03T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Cobalt Studios CIC

Schedule

Thu Apr 03 2025 at 07:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Cobalt Studios CIC | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Please note, the advertised start time is when our doors will open, generally music starts one hour after doors.
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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Maja Bugge & Dave Evans
Cellist Maja Bugge (NO/UK) and pianist Dave Evans (UK) explore their own tunes and old hymns/folk tunes from Maja’s home country Norway in this new collaboration.
The musicians fuse evocative melodies, riffs and grooves and are not afraid to go to the quietest of places. The music often takes inspiration from narratives around birds, nature, place and vulnerability but has a lot of joy and playfulness in it as well.
They started their collaboration in 2023 with the Sortland Jazz festival commission SORTLAND a musical exploration of memory, place and what it means to grow up in the arctic. They have recently played Manchester Jazz festival and Lancaster Jazz festival.
They will release their first single in the spring of 2025 and are working towards an album release later in 2025.
Bugge and Evans has been active on the UK jazz scene for the past 15 years with various bands and solo projects. Evans won the parliamentary jazz awards in 2023 and Bugge has been awarded a range of prices including the Norwegian arts councils best price for childrens work and Jazz Northers Northern line scheme.
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Woven Ensemble
Woven Ensemble is a new musical trio from Newcastle upon Tyne made up of harpist Emily Toth and vocalists Katie Oswell and Sarah Li. They delicately weave classical, folk and electronic music together sometimes with a medieval sound to immerse you into a world of spirits, nature, play and sorrow.

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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.