| Main Performers | Holly Corfield Carr - speaker |
| Orchestra or Band | Snowpoet (Lauren Kinsella - vocal, Matt Robinson - piano, Josh Arcoleo - saxophone, Nick Costley-White - guitar, Chris Hyson - bass guitar, Dave Hamblett - drums) |
| Performance Notes | Free event - tickets had to be booked in advance unless attending the evening's Prom in the main auditorium.
Georgia Mann presents an informal late-night music and poetry event featuring emerging UK talent. Tonight, hear poetry from Holly Corfield Carr and music from Snowpoet.
Holly Corfield Carr has been commissioned to write poems for a passenger ferry, a car park, a floating island in the Bristol Channel, the underground river Frome, a tour of Portland stone in Hackney and the former Spode factory works in Stoke-on-Trent. Her poem for an eighteenth-century crystal grotto was performed in the grotto for audiences of six people at a time and has been published as a pamphlet by the art gallery Spike Island.
She received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2012 and won the Frieze Writers Prize in 2015. She recently featured in BBC Radio 4s How to Write a Poem and she is currently a PhD student at the University of Cambridge where she is researching site-specific poetry and sculpture.
London-based Snowpoet was born out of a musical friendship and understanding. Fusing together the writing duo of Jazz FM Vocalist of the Year Lauren Kinsella and composer / multi-instrumentalist Chris Hyson, Snowpoet bring melody, form and text to a new setting. Inspired in equal parts by artists such as Björk, Joni Mitchell, E. E. Cummings, Tom Waits, Ólöf Arnalds and John Cage, the group explore the beauty of original composition and song form in all its complexity. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2016/50),
Mini-Guide (RAHE/6/2016/45) |