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Venue: Band on the Wall (Copper Bar Stage)

Flo/ra

Band on the Wall (Copper Bar Stage)

Flo Taylor alto saxophone / Sol Christopher guitar / Callum Greenaway keyboards / Woody Hayden double bass / Louis Berthoud drums

Flo/ra is a genre-blurring jazz quintet led by Leeds saxophonist/composer Flo Taylor (Ferg’s Imaginary Big Band, Goddess Collective).  

With performances at Hyde Park Book Club and Lancaster Jazz Festival behind them, the band’s sound is crafted, varied and evolving: at times heavy and distorted, at others gentle and fragile. Their music draws on spiritual jazz, classical, folk, drum’n’bass and chant music, defying classification, and reflecting Flo’s own resistance to stereotypes as a neurodivergent queer person.  

Flo’s honest and open on-stage demeanour captures their approach to music: an invitation to listeners to be part of it, to come as you are, and to join the band on a journey through sometimes difficult concerns – grief, loss and overwhelm – but also brighter themes of finding community and belonging. 

 

Photography credit: Ginny Koppenhol 

Date: sunday 24 may

Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Price: Free

Calico

Band on the Wall (Copper Bar Stage)

Amy Griffiths vocals, acoustic guitar / Sarah Hind flute, saxophone, vocals / Sam Winterbottom keyboards, vocals, guitar, samples / Tommy Sarosi bass / Jordan Pryce drums 

Hailing from Manchester and the hills of the Peak District, Calico are a 5-piece collective fusing pop hooks, catchy melodies and blissful harmonies with elements of jazz, folk, blues, samba, and trip hop.  

Merging influences from Hiatus Kaiyote to Sault via Erykah Badu, Zero 7, Robert Glasper, 4hero, John Martyn, and Portishead, a Calico song is as likely to soundtrack a hot summer’s evening dancing into the early hours, as it is a crisp autumn night by the fire. 

Date: thursday 21 may

Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Price: Free