Fri 6 June 2025 7:30pm - 9:30pm

George Eliot in Words and Music

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SuRie bring George Eliot to bold and dramatic life, through Eliot’s novels, letters, journals, poetry and journalism in GEORGE Eliot in Words and Music.

In tune with George Eliot’s radicalism, David Le Page has devised a dazzlingly creative music programme that features 21st century female singer-songwriters including Kate Bush, Florence Welch, PJ Harvey, Alison Moyet, Bat for Lashes, FKA twigs and more.

Orchestra of the Swan performs with acclaimed singer-songwriter, SuRie. Internationally renowned for classical, pop and musical theatre, SuRie also won the Offie for Lead Performance in a Musical in 2024 for her portrayal of Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun. SuRie’s released her brand new album Little Frames on the 3rd November and is available to buy/stream from all

Orchestra Of The Swan

Orchestra of the Swan, under the Artistic Direction of David Le Page, strives to captivate audiences through a blend of experimentation with both classical and non-classical music, embracing our role as storytellers. Our commitment to being distinctive drives us to push creative boundaries, offering performances that are both innovative and unique. We work with outstanding collaborators and international soloists, focussing on melding our unique orchestral sound with folk, jazz and world music, making ‘orchestral’ music more accessible to a wider audience whilst celebrating the art of storytelling with fabulous world-class narrators. We are fighting hard to mitigate the appalling state of music education in our regional state schools, have set up a Swan Youth Orchestra, delivered an extensive programme of over 300 annual workshops within the regional community, released 32 albums, been in the Top 40 Classical Charts for our last 5 cross-genre albums, were nominated for a Grammy award in 2022, and enjoy a 14 million global audio streaming audience.…

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SuRie

Singer-Songwriter SuRie shares short sung stories (try saying that really quickly) about finding things and losing things, then finding them again; almost finding bits, not quite finding bits, finding some bits, losing other bits; always searching for more. Losing and finding focus, hope, desire, confidence, friends, lovers, dreams, joy, calm, fear, control and sometimes her keys or socks (always losing a sock). Not extraordinary snapshots, but real, honest pictures, driven by intimate, piano accompanied indie pop.

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