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Aoife Mannix and Janie Armour combine music and spoken word on their latest project ‘Different Words for Snow.’ They have been commissioned by Phrased & Confused through the hub and Arts Council England to produce new work for the Summer Sundae Weekender Festival.
This follows the success of their poetry and music show ‘Growing Up An Alien’, produced by Mike Kirchner for Apples & Snakes with support from Arts Council England. The show premiered at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival in 2007 before travelling round the country. A book of the poems from the show has been published by Tall Lighthouse.
Aoife is an Irish writer and poet based in London. Her first novel Heritage of Secrets was published by Lubin & Kleyner in 2008. She is the author of four collections of poetry; The Trick of Foreign Words (2002), The Elephant in the Corner (2005), Growing Up An Alien (2007) and the recent Turn The Clocks Upside Down – all with Tall Lighthouse. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, London Live, Resonance FM, and the BBC World Service. Her short stories are included in the anthologies Tell Tales Volume 3 (2006), Small Voices, Big Confessions (2006) and Westside Stories (2003). See www.aoifemannix.com for more information.
Janie is a composer, musical director and accordionist, working mainly in the theatre medium. She has over 30 professional theatre shows to her credit, including composition for the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, York Theatre Royal, Nottingham Playhouse, the Young Vic, Rhubarb Theatre for Children, Trestle Theatre, and twelve shows for Chichester Festival Theatre. Janie is currently resident composer for Vamos Theatre, the mask specialist company based in Worcester. She has performed as accordionist in Piaf (York Theatre Royal) and in The Life of Galileo (Royal National Theatre) as well as in many other theatre shows and has collaborated extensively with spoken word artists, including storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton, poet Choman Hardi, and most recently with Aoife Mannix. Janie plays piano and mandolin as well as accordion, and has performed with bands at festivals throughout the UK and Europe, including (amongst others) Lisbon International Festival, WOMAD Reading, Glastonbury, Leeds International, Munich Festival, the Golowan Festival in Penzance and Vlissingen Street Festival, Holland.
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