New Seahorse Songs are sung to wind their way into the waiting inner ear. New Seahorse Songs are sung for being alive. New Seahorse Songs are sung to explain a yearning to become the ocean. They are sung to myself, as a gesture of kindness and they are sung to you, as a gesture of invitation. They are asking for help and giving of help. New Seahorse Songs are nautical, delicate, playful, noisy, fumbling, fragile and expansive. Your ears and your eyes will be full: a wind-up seal, a singing hearing aid, buckets of mixed-up Maria Callases, trios with old phones, a fairy kidnapping, and a hand-made banjo will be knitted together into an unlikely and cocooning sweater for my voice to wear. New Seahorse Songs is a programme for a solo performer and all the instruments/toys she can play at once. It is also a programme for voice and nothing else at all.

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Slow Flower by Eleanor Cully Boehringer

Surrounded by Ocean Sunfish by Patricia Auchterlonie & Amber Priestley

Ukeoirn O’Connor’s Three Songs by Jennifer Walshe

New work by Patricia Auchterlonie

Tam Lin, trad.