Ian McMillan & Luke Carver-Goss | Flipchart & Squeezebox | Create a Song in an Hour | Age 11+ | £4.50

Ian McMillan & Luke Carver-Goss | Flipchart & Squeezebox | For young people aged 11+ | £3.50

Flipchart & Squeezebox is the creative partnership of Barnsley poet, broadcaster & comedian Ian McMillan and Olympic composer Luke Carver Goss.

CREATE A SONG IN AN HOUR:

For Junior & Middle Schools & Colleges Ian & Luke & raring-to-go students conjure up a song in an hour. You don’t believe that’s possible? You haven’t clapped eyes on Flipchart & Squeezebox… Collaborative impro & perspicacious ambition from two masters of their trade!

‘Brilliant - they always go down a storm. Ian is totally captivating. One of the most popular artists at our festival – ever.’ Chris Wade, Beverley Festival

‘Luke Carver Goss is a composer who creates big worlds of sound … British music at its most ingenious’ John L Walters The Guardian

‘the verbal gymnastics of a north country Spike Milligan coupled with the comic timing of Eric Morecambe’ Martin Dimery, Frome Festival

‘it’s like theatre for your ears’ www.folkwords.com

‘world-class – one of today’s greatest poetry performers’ Carol Ann Duffy

Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan hosts weekly hit radio show The Verb. He’s Poet-in-Residence for English National Opera, The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC. He’s a BBC regular on Pick of the Week, The Arts Show, You & Yours, Last Word and Coast. He was featured with his Orchestra on The South Bank Show and recently castaway on Desert Island Discs. His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats make him sneeze. @IMcMillan www.ian-mcmillan.co.uk

 

Luke Carver Goss has written for Black Dyke Brass Band, The Sage Gateshead, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Pure Gold: a 4X4 relay for the Cultural Olympiad. He records & performs with his own group, the acclaimed Carver Trio, the Balkan singer Tea Hodzic, jazz singer Tina May and story-teller Daniel Morden in the group The Devil’s Violin. ‘Luke Carver Goss is a composer who creates big worlds of sound… British music at its most ingenious’ John L Walters, The Guardian www.lukecarvergoss.co.uk

Venue: Gulbenkian Theatre