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.

Her first Pianodrome show, on 27th May, was an inspiring reminder of the power of taking positive action in the face of todays immense challenges. Sarah had already cycled 1300km to get to Edinburgh from her home and expects to ride at least another 3000km on her 26-date tour. If you missed her first show this is one not to be missed.

This time around, Sarah is also hosting a "Folia Jam" in which La Folia in D will be the ground to riff off. Come at 6.30pm to join in or just to watch the open Folia Jam, there will then be a short break before the concert begins at 7.30pm.

Note that the pitch will be tuned relatively to A = 415hz so anyone /any instrument is welcome as long as it can be played at A=415hz (typically, standard teperament these days is based on A=440hz).

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 again by Edinburgh-based theorbo player Eric Thomas.

To find out more about the tour: sarahsmallviol.crd.co/#goodagaintour