19/10/2024
The folk club's next performance night on 3 November is very special. The life, songs and poems of Laurie Lee.
We begin with "The Lost Recordings"; An Illustrated talk by David Parker. Reflections on love, landscape, writing, poetry, childhood, music and much much more from the voice of one of the great English writers of the last century.
In 1994, the year of his 80th birthday, Laurie Lee shared his memories of an ‘eventful’ early life in a series of interviews with the film maker David Parker. It was quite a coup, Laurie did not ‘do’ television! In the recordings he talked with sublime eloquence about his life in the Slad Valley, and the influence of the landscapes and memories of his childhood on his subsequent writing. In this session David will introduce the recordings, and using extracts from them reveal what they tell us about one of England’s finest chroniclers of our times.
This is followed by a concert by Johnny Coppin renown Gloucestershire singer, musician and composer recorded the Edge of Day album with Laurie - with Laurie reading and Johnny singing his settings of Laurie’s poems. He will sing these along with his other Cotswold compositions, some based on the poems of Frank Mansell Laurie’s close friend.
