WHAT'S NEW

Sylvia playing bicycle wheel cpt theatre dec 2004

RECENT ACTIVITIES:
Oct 04
played musical saw and bicycle wheel for a ninja-tunes party launch of a new Hextatic album
solo performance at the Kingston Rowing Club Hull
played music for a performance of ACHILLES by Elizabeth Cook, read by the author at Beverley Literary Festival.

Nov and Dec 04
Sylvia Hallett and Clive Bell played at the RED HEDGEHOG, Camden Peoples Theatre and Stuttgart.
Our new album called THE GEOGRAPHERS has just been released on EMANEM.

I played hurdy-gurdy and harp on a short tour with JOGLARESA, Belinda Sykes' medieval band, culminating in a sold-out gig at St Johns' Smith Square

Feb 05
as part of Free Radicals at the Red Rose I played a duo with Simon Hyde, VJ artist - he did live improvised video manipulation while I played bicyle wheel, saw, violin and electronics.
I also played at the Spitz,in duo with Clive Bell, opposite Mike Adcock and Nils Okland (Hardanger fiddle player from Norway)
and did a solo gig at the Lewisham Arthouse.

18th March I played Hardanger fiddle duos with Wilfred Gibson at Richard Sanderson's Scaledown club
It's a beautiful instrument.

I have been working on some BBC radio commissions - "Pliny's Naturalis Historia" - music by Adrian Lee, Sylvia Hallett and Simon Rogers.
Also "Caesar!The best of mothers" - radio drama for R4. Transmission no date as yet, watch this space.

April 05
I spent a week in Dartington on a Music and Dance Exchange. Exciting and creative time. Then on holiday to Sardinia where Clive and I visited some 4000 year old houses.
Gig with Anna Homler at the Corsica Studios

May 05
I played at The Freedom of the City Festival, in trio with Caroline Kraabel and Veryan Weston, also with the London Improvisers Orchestra.



COMING UP SHORTLY:

I am off to Amsterdam 22nd and 23rd May to do a couple of gigs.
In July Clive Bell and I play in St Arcangeli di Romania in Italy.
Other gigs coming up,
The cross-dressed quartet at the Klinker in Nunhead on 26th May.
Medieval Music gig in Basingstoke on 22nd July.

Also you can now download mp3s from my NEW website which is www.sylviahallett.co.uk specially designed by Simon Adcock and without adverts! 

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