Performer Name: Pagoda Project
Show Name: Pagoda Project
Show Description
Paul Hutchinson and Karen Wimhurst have been playing together for over twenty years. Their work has ranged from duo, trio, quartet and big band situations as well as a number of larger projects such as their tour of UK cathedrals in the Pub to Pulpit show 2022-2023. They are joined by Hannah Cumming who recently toured with the stage show Fisherman's Friends the Story. Expect superb musicianship and humour!
For smaller venues we just need vocal mics and we can supply them with a bluetooth speaker
Yes, we have posters for download and overwriting
PAGODA PROJECT
Paul and Karen came together through their love of traditional music cut through with experimentation, boldness, humour and risk. Their first duo album Coracle had five-star reviews and led to them touring widely across UK and European Festivals. Both composers and improvisers, they now celebrate over twenty years of close collaboration and original music playing as a duo and with other bands and large-scale projects.
Expect ethereal to turn gutsy, passion to be tempered by a good laugh and a tide of improvisation which means no two evenings are ever the same.
Paul Hutchinson is a BBC Folk Award Best Live Artist nominee with Belshazzar’s Feast, a much-feted accordion player and teacher. He’s equally at home on the concert stage, playing dance tunes for enthusiastic revellers or running workshops. His previous collaborations with Hoover the Dog, Pagoda Project and
produced albums and performances that drew five-star reviews.
Karen Wimhurst is a widely commissioned composer ranging from chamber works to music theatre. Eclectic in nature, her own distinctive music manifests diverse traditional and jazz influences alongside a strong grounding in contemporary classical music. Latest works include Synthetica, an online opera in collaboration with MoDiP; Heart of the Matter, a bijoux chamber opera for Bass and piano featuring in Tete a Tete opera festival 2024; Freedoms for mixed choir and cello; a Song for Dorset one of the featured composers in the lockdown A Song For Us project and Jump, a solo work for clarinets, insect and amphibian sounds, featured at the British Library event Small but Perfectly Formed hosted by Martha Kearney and touring 2024 with an accompanying video by film maker Sonia Killmann.
Hannah Cumming is a virtuosic fiddle player and singer who studied music at Falmouth University graduating with a BA (Hons) Music. Hannah's most recent big achievement was in the UK stage production of Fisherman's Friends the Musical.