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OneTrackMinds

Thu 12 Dec 2024
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OneTrackMinds

With special guests

Piers Torday author (Midnight Treasure)
Roxanne De Bastion singer/songwriter, author
Sam Lee singer/songwriter
Natasha Farrant author (Voyage of The Sparrowhawk)
Laura Dockrill author and performance poet (I Love You, I Love You, I Love You)

Celebrate the power of music with OneTrackMinds, a cross between Desert Island Discs, TED Talks and The Moth that sees a selection of storytellers share one song that changed them forever.


In this December edition, we welcome three celebrated children’s authors and two acclaimed singer-songwriters, coming together to share the same stage and taking their turn to present a thought-provoking story about that one song that changed their life forever.

Piers Torday is an award-winning children’s writer of books and plays, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning The Last Wild, and Midnight Treasure. Natasha Farrant is the winner of Costa Book Award for Children’s Book for her Voyage of the Sparrowhawk. Laura Dockrill is an award-winning children’s author, illustrator, script-writer and performance poet, and Poet-in-Residence for BBC Radio 1.

The Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter Sam Lee, Artist in Residence for Kings Place’s award-winning Earth Unwrapped series, is a highly inventive and original arranger, folksong interpreter, passionate conservationist, song collector and creator of live events. Roxanne de Bastion is a singer songwriter and artist advocate with two critically acclaimed albums, and the author of The Piano Player of Budapest, which tells the story of the survival of her grandfather and his piano in the Holocaust Budapest.

This event will last approximately 2 hours, including an interval

Reviews

‘This show is like stepping into a warm bath.’ Vanessa Kisuule

‘Every time I visit OneTrackMinds, I learn something about music and something about the individuals revealing themselves through their song choice. Music is a lifelong lover and companion. She can make you laugh, move and weep against your will. She will always make you remember.’ Deborah Frances White

‘OneTrackMinds is like oxytocin for the soul.’ Pauline Eyre

Date:Thu 12 Dec 2024
Start time:7.30pm (Doors: 7pm)
Venue:Hall One

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