Isle of Wight What's On Guide: 2024 Events OnTheWight

People in the Basement Free

Saturday 2 7.00pmJuly
2016

Music

This event has now finished

People in the Basement Free

Source No source link supplied

Part of Ryde Arts Festival 2016

Puzzle muteson by tom roelef

Music by Puzzle Muteson, Swan Levitt, Blue Moss and Hester Chambers. Free.


Puzzle Muteson is the musical project of enigmatic songwriter Terry Magson from the Isle of Wight, rendering his music in a tremulous tenor over a delicate web of finger-picked guitar. Born in London, Isle of Dogs, the southern English Island provided unexpected shelter for the transformation into Puzzle Muteson. His grade-school music teacher was first to recognise his unrivalled vibrato, and a little while later a parade of chance and coincidence led him to inhabit Puzzle Muteson, and start shaping a body of calming, yet unsettling songs.

Swan Levitt
Simple, soulful, lyrically driven songs - Swan Levitt carries the listener through an intricate yet cinematic journey that is both emotionally charged and rhythmically satisfying.

Josh Woodford is a Folk Singer Songwriter from the Isle of Wight. He created Swan Levitt in February 2016, co-writing with Sam Woodford. He started recording his debut EP under indie label organ records in April, releasing a full album later in the year.

Blue Moss
Hailing from Yarmouth, Blue Moss has an affinity with the sea, and sees coastal erosion as a metaphor for an unrequited love through a fictional reincarnation of two lovers doomed to be to opposite to connect for thousands of years, until their sins are forgiven for the past lives they led.

Hester Chambers
In short, a hopeless romantic who writes about ghosts and rain, whilst playing guitar.


Ryde Arts Festival
Ryde has been celebrating with its own festival for fifteen years, receiving many Arts Council grants and backing from the Ryde Town Council, Isle of Wight Council and local business organisations.

Ryde Arts Festival has always been a community based celebration of the talents of the town and wider Island. Our mission has been to commission new work and so grow opportunities for professional artists. We always seek to involve many individuals and groups in all our projects and believe that by working in collaboration we can all achieve exciting outcomes.

Previous years have seen towering installations, heard new music and created a life size rag doll family, to name a few. This year we have achieved a two-year grant from Arts Council England which we hope will Grow Ryde’s fame even further.

Image: © Puzzle Muteson by Tom Roelofs