Met veelal ongehoorde muziek, van artiesten, die men niet snel ergens in Nederland op de podia zal tegenkomen. Nieuw talent in combinatie met musici/componisten, die in de schaduw blijven opereren.

Lucinda Guy (uk)

The Meadow Verse.

For Springtij, Lucinda will perform a solo ritual to crown the Princess of the Feast.

17^th Century poet Robert Herrick was vicar of the Church at Dean Prior, a small village on the outskirts of Dartmoor National Park in  the South West of England. His thousands of poems reveal lore and liturgy of the time—feast days, crude theatre and Morris dancing, drinking, plant symbolism, beloved pets, farting witches, spells and charms. This treasure trove of magical, hedonistic texts are being dragged back into the light by The Meadow Verse, (pronounced Metaverse), a loose collective of artists and musicians living in Herrick’s neighbourhood, re-inventing his work through sung rituals, composed by Lucinda Guy.

In the church, under motorways, in rivers, around transmitters, with bells, bread, cake, casio keyboards, pasta machines, kazoos, flutes, fiddles, bodily fluids, flower crowns and tape recorders, they revive the words and practices of 300 years ago, with no respect for historical accuracy but deep respect for Herrick’s vivid, vulgar worldview.