Jennifer Reid

Live Music in the Theatre at Horse + Bamboo from Jennifer Reid

Jennifer performs broadside ballads so audiences can reconnect with their heritage. Think rousing songs and passionate oratory.
Folk music has lost its way, and people have lost track of their geographical heritage. The working classes made music as a provocation and this is a tradition Jennifer continues. She is a performer of nineteenth century Lancashire dialect and Victorian broadside ballads
Her work has taken her to Venice, Croatia, New York and lately Bangladesh, where she tested the idea that the Industrial Revolution never stopped, it just moved to Dhaka. She spoke at the first ethnomusicography conference on the Indian sub-continent about her research into Bangladeshi and Mancunian weaving songs.

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