Hannah James & Toby Kuhn - 23 November 2024

We'd seen Hannah James before with her Jigdoll Ensemble which featured a lot of clog dancing and soft shoe stuff. This time it was as a duo with a Belgian cello player. He played a beautiful sounding cello often plucking in addition to bowing. She sang, played accordion, also occasionally a small electronic instrument and added in some barefoot clog dancing if there is such a thing! Near the end of the gig she put on some tap type shoes and added some percussion and dancing to tracks. The highlight of the first set was a song called 'Three Ravens' and the second set included some fantastic cello/accordion instrumental stuff near the end. Varied and unusual this gig absolutely enthralled the audience - me included.