Wed 23 July 2025 7:30pm - 9:30pm

The Bookshop Band

at Number 8 Community Arts Centre, Pershore

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£15.00

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Writing and performing songs inspired by books, The Bookshop Band have collaborated with over 100 authors, including Philip Pullman, Louis de Bernieres, and Margaret Atwood.

Between them, Ben Please and Beth Porter bring books to the stage, along with a multitude of instruments, including cello, harmonium, glockenspiel, guitars, and ukuleles, and their distinct voices. They create a cinematic sound that draws you into a highly intimate performance, at once touching and mesmerising, heart-wrenching and funny. No previous knowledge of the books is required as the band guide you through the stories behind each song’s inspiration.

The Bookshop Band have released fourteen albums and have toured extensively around the UK, Europe, Canada and America. They have been commissioned by the BBC, The V&A, and Aardman Animations.

The Bookshop Band

The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books, and perform them at themed literary evenings held at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, in Bath (Independent Bookshop of the Year 2008 / 2011). The collaboration was started as part of a plan to help Mr B’s rejuvenate its traditional ‘author evenings’. The band would read the forthcoming author’s book in advance and write two songs based upon it, to be performed at the start of the evening. Their performances are inextricably linked to the books themselves, as the members of the band take it in turns to describe where the inspiration for each song came from. The band is made up of two British musician / songwriters, Ben Please, and Beth Porter.

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