Latest Events in Barrow-in-Furness(June Updated)

Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson Tuesday 27 May 2025, 7pm From the very first sounds we made, the connection was profound and the music came through us almost effortlessly. It just keeps getting better...” - Maggie Nicols The legendary Maggie Nicols arrives at Piel View House with Dan Johnson. The two improvisers come from different generations yet share a fearless approach to collaboration based in radical communality and deep-listening. Maggie's voice, piano and tapdance meet Dan's gong drones and percussive patter with profound results. The duo met for the first time on stage at St Georges in Bristol and the formation spawned a live recording 'Contact' released on 16 May 2025 available HERE. Also on the bill - jazz duo Jilly & Geoff. Maggie Nicols Maggie Nicols is a legendary Scottish vocalist, dancer, and performer. Since the 1960s she has been a key figure in the free improv scene, including as part of John Steven’s Spontaneous Music Ensemble which she joined in 1968, Keith Tippett's fifty piece band Centipede (along with Julie Tippetts, Zoot Money, Phil Minton, RobertWyatt, Dudu Pukwana and Alan Skidmore), and as a founder of the Feminist Improvising Group with Lindsay Cooper and influential trio Les Diaboliques with Irene Schweizer and Joelle Leandre, along with countless other groups and collaborations around the world. A committed feminist, much of her work has sought to amplify women in improvised music, dancing and other creative arts, not least through running workshops such as those at Oval House Theatre in the 1970s, and Contradictions, a women's workshop performance group that began in 1980. Dan Johnson Dan Johnson is a percussionist working in improvised sound and expanded composition. Undermining conventional notions of drumming, his experimental work is manifested across a wide range of projects; from eight-hour solo improvisations responding to instructions provided by the audience, to invite-only performances in rail tunnels, lifts and public toilets, to non-hierarchical group improvisation project Ecstatic Drum Beats. Running through this multifaceted output are consistent concerns with balancing chance and control, exposing performer-audience relationships, and the demands of discipline and physical endurance. Deeply rooted in Bristol’s DIY scene, where among his innumerable collaborations he was a mainstay of Dali de Saint Paul’s sprawling power-improv vehicle EP/64, Dan has brought the same spirit of openness to live and recorded work with artists like Moor Mother, Ximena Alarcon, Valentina Magaletti, Rattle, Yama Warashi, GNOD and Surgeon. www.tbceditions.bandcamp.com Jilly & Geoff We are delighted to add Jilly and Geoff to the bill. The jazz duo join Maggie Nicols & Dan in what will be a intimate evening of musical wonder!.Jilly and Geoff have been playing jazz together for about 15 years but started consciously pursuing improvisation together during lockdown. More info here: jillyjarman.co.uk Information Source: Full of Noises | eventbrite

Maggie Nicols & Dan Johnson Tuesday 27 May 2025, 7pm From the very first sounds we made, the connection was profound and the music came through us almost effortlessly. It just keeps getting better...” - Maggie Nicols The legendary Maggie Nicols arrives at Piel View House with Dan Johnson. The two improvisers come from different generations yet share a fearless approach to collaboration based in radical communality and deep-listening. Maggie's voice, piano and tapdance meet Dan's gong drones and percussive patter with profound results. The duo met for the first time on stage at St Georges in Bristol and the formation spawned a live recording 'Contact' released on 16 May 2025 available HERE. Also on the bill - jazz duo Jilly Jarman & Geoff Bartholomew. Maggie Nicols Maggie Nicols is a legendary Scottish vocalist, dancer, and performer. Since the 1960s she has been a key figure in the free improv scene, including as part of John Steven’s Spontaneous Music Ensemble which she joined in 1968, Keith Tippett's fifty piece band Centipede (along with Julie Tippetts, Zoot Money, Phil Minton, RobertWyatt, Dudu Pukwana and Alan Skidmore), and as a founder of the Feminist Improvising Group with Lindsay Cooper and influential trio Les Diaboliques with Irene Schweizer and Joelle Leandre, along with countless other groups and collaborations around the world. A committed feminist, much of her work has sought to amplify women in improvised music, dancing and other creative arts, not least through running workshops such as those at Oval House Theatre in the 1970s, and Contradictions, a women's workshop performance group that began in 1980. Dan Johnson Dan Johnson is a percussionist working in improvised sound and expanded composition. Undermining conventional notions of drumming, his experimental work is manifested across a wide range of projects; from eight-hour solo improvisations responding to instructions provided by the audience, to invite-only performances in rail tunnels, lifts and public toilets, to non-hierarchical group improvisation project Ecstatic Drum Beats. Running through this multifaceted output are consistent concerns with balancing chance and control, exposing performer-audience relationships, and the demands of discipline and physical endurance. Deeply rooted in Bristol’s DIY scene, where among his innumerable collaborations he was a mainstay of Dali de Saint Paul’s sprawling power-improv vehicle EP/64, Dan has brought the same spirit of openness to live and recorded work with artists like Moor Mother, Ximena Alarcon, Valentina Magaletti, Rattle, Yama Warashi, GNOD and Surgeon. www.tbceditions.bandcamp.com Jilly Jarman & Geoff Bartholomew We are delighted to add Jilly and Geoff to the bill. The jazz duo join Maggie Nicols & Dan in what will be a intimate evening of musical wonder!.Jilly and Geoff have been playing jazz together for about 15 years but started consciously pursuing improvisation together during lockdown. More info here: jillyjarman.co.uk Information Source: Full of Noises | eventbrite