Voices of the Sands: The Watch Party

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19:00-20:30 Tuesday 20th September 2022

Online

Music: Michael Betteridge

Words: Rebecca Hurst

This show was part of the fifteenth Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival.

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Join us online to enjoy Voices of the Sands together. Book for free to watch the video recording of our live performance before a chat with the creators of the show.

More than 2000 ships have foundered and sunk on the Goodwin Sands, a perilous sandbar that lies six miles of the Kent coast. Voices of the Sands is a dramatic cantata for three voices and harp. Performers invoke the sandbar and the stories of those who have travelled and died there across the centuries, as well as the voices of seals and birds for whom it’s a place of refuge. Drawing on sea shanties, folktales, and found text, Voices of the Sands is as multitudinous and shifting as the sandbar itself, providing an acoustic anthology of this haunting place.

Age Rating: All ages, but mostly adults

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In a festival of new work, please note that shows can often overrun.

Produced by Michael Betteridge and Rebecca Hurst

‘Voices of the Sands’ is kindly supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation’s Open Fund for Individuals, The Marchus Trust, and the RVW Trust. Development of this work was supported by a Wild Plum Arts Artists Residency.

Venue: Online