Tom Oakes – The Hearth

“A fragment of a melody appears in your mind and only begins to reveal itself when tied to a person, a place, a smell and you’re back there in all its gloriousness or dreadfulness! Details are gone but the important things still remain. A funny story if you’re lucky. An embarrassing incident if you’re less so. A smile, a taste, an accent.”

The Hearth is Flautist/Guitarist Tom Oakes’ first solo show receiving rave reviews and an Off Fest nomination from its mammoth Edinburgh Fringe run, a place on the ‘Scots Trad Music Awards’ shortlist for ‘Best Original Work’ and headline shows at Celtic Connections and Sidmouth Folk Festival. A unique and multi-layered blend of New and Traditional Music, Storytelling, Poetry and Sound Design taking us from a 19th Century Leeds Irish community to a sweaty festival dance floor with much in between. Featuring original poetry by award winning Icelandic writer/director Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir and read by the inimitable voice of Dolina MacLennan.

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