A girl, a goat and Gallipoli
Graham’s 15-minute collaborative film and podcast based on the Welsh Fusiliers presence in Royston during 1915 aired as part of the Society of Genealogists’ All About the Place festival 2024.
Making a good impression
Graham collaborated with composer Jenni Pinnock and the King James Academy Royston Boyz Choir on a song to celebrate the life of Roger Britten (1840-1883), Royston’s first recorded black resident. For more information on Roger visit HertsMemories.org.uk
The recording and workshops were part-funded by Creative Royston.
Cracked Voices
Graham’s texts formed the basis for a song cycle composed by Jenni Pinnock. Cracked Voices premiered at Anglia Ruskin University in 2018.
Incredibly moving, profound, ground-breaking – Audience feedback
Digital downloads, a CD and a 48 page pamphlet are available from the shop.
He is currently writing a historical biography. For updates follow him on X/Twitter.
The poems explore the lives of ordinary people down the ages, delving into Celtic mysticism, German POWs celebrating Hitler’s birthday at a nearby English camp, a migrant woman giving birth on the highway, to resonant evocations of a meeting between a local man and Charles Dickens…Jenni Pinnock’s settings are apt and seldom predictable, fresh-faced when required, more withdrawn and ambiguous when the poetry calls for greater shades of meaning.
– Music Web International
Not only intriguing gloriously quirky stories, but really personal.
– The Daffodil Perspective
Two voices weave their songs between simple and spacious clarinet and piano… Palmer’s stories and poems truly bring these cracked voices to life; Jenni Pinnock’s compositions take them to another level.
– International Times
Explores ‘new parameters of the song cycle‘
– So You Want to Sing music by Women,
by Matthew Hoch/Linda Liste
an incredible project (Cambridge105)
inspirational (Royston Crow)
very powerful (HCR104fm)