Back by popular demand, and having performed in the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, viola da gamba player Sarah Small is dropping in to Edinburgh for her second Pianodrome show in a month!
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.
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.
To find out more about the tour: sarahsmallviol.crd.co/#goodagaintour