TBC#6: Matt Hill, Edgars Rubenis , ADRA

The Black Circle is an events collective based in Glossop. This will be their sixth event, promising a night of intersting and thought-provoking music at Victoria Hall.
Other Voices: Leftfield acoustic music and stories from under-represented communities
MATT HILL
A special set performing songs co-written with marginal communities
EDGARS RUBENIS
Experimental blues and ragtime solo guitar from the Latvian underground
ADRA
Music for Psychiatric Wards and Fluid Structures: ambient spontaneous composition using looped acoustic instruments
Ticketing information:

Tickets for The Black Circle #6 are on sale now via Eventbrite, costing £10 (+ applicable fees). There is a limited number of free tickets available to anyone who is low or unwaged and wishes to join us. Any remaining tickets will be available at £12 on the door.
Venue Info:
There is no bar at Victoria Hall, but you are welcome to bring your own refreshments.
The venue is wheelchair accessible but there is currently no accessible toilet.
About this event:
Join The Black Circle for a pop-up show at the historic Victoria Hall, Glossop’s former library, now a creative community hub and arts centre.
Other Voices will highlight music for and from voices often unheard in society, sharing sounds and stories from under-represented communities.
Glossop’s own Matt Hill is an artist and Creative Practitioner who uses songwriting and music as a way to connect with people on the margins of society, whose voices are often ignored. He has co-written songs with people affected by homelessness, poverty, addiction, dementia, those who live inside prisons, asylum seekers and military veterans. These songs often explore topics like history, place and identity and his work has been commissioned by arts organisations, national museums, galleries and charities. For the first time ever, he will be playing a set of songs drawn exclusively from his community co-writing work.
ADRA (aka Andy Abbott) will showcase music from his work as a Creative Practitioner in psychiatric wards as part of an NHS pilot scheme run by Creative Minds and Everybody Arts in Wakefield. “There's spaces where people might congregate informally, or hang out in or pass by, and I wanted to be in those spaces,” he explains. “So it felt a bit more like I was soundtracking the ward, or even busking in it, rather than being like: right, you've got to come and do this activity with me. I just thought I'd go in there and respond to the atmosphere.”
The resulting compositions that he constructed as part of this project now make up a finished album: Music for Psychiatric Wards (and Fluid Structures), a varied yet engulfing collection of music that runs the gauntlet from immersive soundscapes to organ drones, and features the gentle plucks of baritone guitar, the ethereal chimes of a mbira and the hypnotic flurries of a steel pan drum.
We also welcome special guest Edgars Rubenis, a Latvian composer and guitarist who emerged on the underground scene in the mid-2000s as a member of Riga’s experimental rock band Mona de Bo. However, Rubenis’ first love was the blues, and it’s to this form he has returned, pushing and expanding the blues and ragtime into new areas via a series of solo guitar compositions that extend into folk, classical and beyond. "Rubenis' bluesy picking ignited images of Hank Williams to bluegrass and classical guitar playing, from which, for example, John Fahey also drew his expression." (fragment, google-translated from Finnish).
Useful to know:
The bands at TBC #6 will be finished by 10.00pm at the latest - the last train from Glossop back to Manchester Piccadilly is at 10.53.
We will be collecting donations for Glossopdale Foodbank on the night.
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