Blues Echoes
Location of Event: Llanmaes Village Hall
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Show Name: Blues Echoes
The Barnone Brothers: Bill Taylor-Beales and Phil Okwedy are long standing Singer-song writer and Story teller with a passion for weaving music - song and word together to explore the human condition. Myth, legend, social history and autobiographical story interlaced with music and song from the Blues tradition. The show explores themes of enslaved peoples; working class poverty and protest; the 19th & 20th century struggle of man against machine and humanity’s current 21st century experience all in the light of the Blues/Spirituals tradition as a catalyst of resilience and hope. Audiences have found it: entertaining - informative - interactive - moving - inspiring - powerful - personal - uplifting - fun
Performer Name: Phil Okwedy
"Born in Cardiff of a Welsh mother and Nigerian father, Phil Okwedy is a performance storyteller and myth-maker who draws on his dual heritage to tell tales from the world's oral traditions that are by turns deep and direct, playful and poignant, gleeful and grave. "
Venue Details
Address
St Cattwg's Village Hall
Llanmaes
Vale of Glamorgan
CF61 2WJ
