Our recent recommendations for The Mount Without
Sell out warning! The most sensational figure in Scottish smallpipes since they were first forged! Brìghde revitalised a dying sound, moving it beyond the folk tradition and her native Isle of Skye towards the global stage. Now she’s collaborating with sax maestro Colin Stetson on towering, droning masterpieces of experimental mystical minimalism. Totally unmissable for trad and drone fans alike.
Brighde Chaimbeul + Loula Yorke at The Mount Without.
A kinetic exorcism of working-class identity and masculine performance, Oona Doherty’s 'Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus' is a mutating pastiche of regional archetypes. Best known for 'Hard to Be Soft', an electrifying portrait of her hometown Belfast, the Northern Irish dancer-choreographer’s chameleonic blend of comedy, swagger and grace is unmissable.
Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus at The Mount Without.
Urzah’s post-metal punishment has reached such epic proportions that we’re now just going to call them Bristol’s Neurosis. Get ye to the crypt on time for Gnasch’s piledriving sludge/noise brutalism + can someone just sign Necronomicunt already? Whopper FFO: Conjurer, Minsk, Mastodon, Khanate, Eyehategod, Indian.
URZAH, GNASCH + NECRONOMICUNT at The Mount Without.
In ELEFANTIN, Cree Barnett-Williams invites Barbie onto the psychoanalytic couch of dance-theatre-satire. Splicing music videos with sketch-show absurdism, this piece peels back 66 years of gendered choreography and asks what happens when the dreamhouse depreciates.
ELEFANTIN at The Mount Without.
A rallying cry in 5/4 time: help keep Bristol Jazz Festival alive! Their One Night Only fundraiser is a five-act blowout traversing hard bop, post-bop, avant garde, classical and fusion – complete with good eats and a crypt-set nightcap. However you like your jazz, from spacey voyages to political requiems, this is an unmissable one for the heads.
36 tickets available OTD - Bristol Jazz Festival Presents: One-Night-Only Mini Fest Fundraiser May 28th | The Mount Without