Good Again?

Cycling between venues, viola da gamba player Sarah Small is taking a slower and greener route to reach audiences all over the UK. Disillusioned by the lack of support for sustainable touring within the arts, along with concerns about the impact and cost of audience travel from rural areas to venues in cities, she’s taking matters into her own hands and cycling from venue to venue to share her programme Good Again? with audiences far and wide.

Centred around the title work Good Againe by Tobias Hume, this programme features Antoine Forqueray’s La Girouette (the weather vane), Marin Marais’ Les Voix Humaines (the human voice), and specially commissioned Good Again? by Lillie Harris*, responding to the changing climate and posing the question of whether we can return to good, again.

She is joined by Edinburgh-based theorbo player Eric Thomas for this first performance in Scotland before pedalling onwards towards the Outer Hebrides.

*Commission supported by the Francis Routh Trust and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.