Stroud Jazz Club Jam Session at 8pm on Friday 20th November with special guest Harriet Riley

We look forward to the next Stroud Jazz Club Jam Session at 8pm on Friday 20th November with special guest Harriet Riley at the Stroud Vally Arts centre.
Harriet Riley is a British Percussionist and Composer based in Bristol. With a broad range of percussion disciplines, Harriet plays in many settings including orchestral, classical, jazz and contemporary music. Long established chamber quartet Spindle Ensemble featured in The Guardian’s Top 10 Contemporary Classical albums of 2021 and collaborated with Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan in Toronto. Harriet also plays with alt pop project Stevie Toddler on vibraphone and percussion which featured on Guy Garvey, BBC Radio6 and Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2.
Harriet regularly plays with Charles Hazlewood’s Paraorchestra and has performed with them in Australia and Russia as well as at the Barbican and Bluedot Festival in UK with Hannah Peel. She has also played with BBC NOW, Multi-storey Orchestra and the Novello orchestra. Harriet studies Balinese Gamelan and regularly goes back to Bali to learn and play Gender Wayang, a chamber music gamelan used for ceremonies and shadow puppetry.
Harriet’s solo percussion credits include Hidden Notes contemporary music festival in Stroud and a percussion concerto "Heartbeat" by William Goodchild with Bristol Symphony Orchestra. She is also an official artist with Malletech. Harriet is a busy performing and recording artist and has been freelancing since 2014.
www.harrietrileymusic.com
All are invited to these sessions - whether you’d like to play or just listen and enjoy. Please bring your friends and spread the word.
Pay upon entry, either £6, £8 or £10 (you decide) - cash or card.