Cobalt Tales return to Seven Arts with a new creation, blending some of their familiar songs and new material, to take us on a trip through time – From the 16th to the 21st century.
Through song and extracts from diaries, logbooks, petitions, interviews, newspaper articles and desperate Facebook posts, they explore women navigating through a man’s world.
From the official court account, ‘The Wonderful Discovery of Witches In The County Of Lancaster’ 1642, recording the ‘non’ trial of the ‘murdering, devilish’ Pendle Witches, through James I’s ‘Daemonology’ and his campaign to rid the ‘Wild North’ of witchery, to a haunting letter from Mary Read, pirate, to her unborn child.
Moving into the 20th century, we meet Lizzie, trying to hold a family together as the men are sent to the trenches and the ‘Canary Girls’ or ‘Munitionettes’, yellow and infertile from close work with the poisonous explosive, TNT.
Suffragettes protest and campaign for equal rights to work and vote; Dolly Parton writes a hit song inspired by the ‘9 to 5’ organisation; Nina Simone uses music as a political weapon to defend the rights of American blacks and third world people, and Malala Yousefzai, (Youngest ever Nobel Peace laureate – 2014, aged 17), advocates for human rights and the education of women in her native homeland, SWAT.
With Grace O’Malley, Vera Brittain, Anne Frank, Ruby Bridges, Greta Thunberg and our own mothers and grandmothers, Cobalt Tales sing of wise, strong and ordinary women in impossible situations.
Some of the songs, from their album Ever Changing Blue, will be familiar to Cobalt Tales followers. From their live set comes the dramatic Pendle Witches and One Small Voice… With new original songs, and covers by Parton and Simone, this will be an entertaining, educational and passionate evening of music and song.
Show 7.30pm /estimated finish 9.30pm.
£12.50 adv.
£15 on the door.