Jennifer Reid @ Rocky Bay Folk Club
April 10 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
$20
Rocky Bay Folk Club are thrilled to present ethnomusicologist and performer of 19th century Lancashire dialect and Victorian street ballads, Jennifer Reid.
Folk music has lost its way, and people have lost track of their geographical heritage. The working classes made music as a provocation and this is a tradition Jennifer continues: think rousing songs and passionate oratory.
The singer and researcher began her career volunteering at Cheatham Library and the Working Class Movement Library in Manchester. Following this time Jennifer completed an advanced diploma in Local History at Oxford University.
She researches 19th century music to educate students from primary to university level; perform the songs and stories live; develop talks, seminars and traditional craft workshops for history and community groups; and contribute academically to the field with funded research and artistic projects.
Her work has taken her to Venice, Croatia, New York and lately Bangladesh, where she tested the idea that the Industrial Revolution never stopped, it just moved to Dhaka. She spoke at the first ethnomusicology conference on the Indian sub-continent about her research into Bangladeshi and Mancunian weaving songs.
Jennifer has recently supported Eliza Carthy, John Cooper Clarke, and Pulp, and in April brings her one-woman show to Auckland.
Tickets $20 via undertheradar or can be booked in advance by emailing rbfcwaiheke@gmail.com, regretfully we cannot respond to emails and messages sent on the same day as the event.
