A girl, a goat and Gallipoli
Graham’s 15-minute collaborative film and podcast based on the Welsh Fusiliers presence in Royston during 1915 will air as part of the Society of Genealogists’ All About the Place festival on 29 September 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.
To view the video and listen to the song visit http://www.p-arts.co.uk/
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local man and Charles Dickens…Jenni Pinnock’s settings are apt and seldom predictable, fresh-faced when required, more withdrawn and ambiguous when the poetry calls for greater shades of meaning.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)