Antidote

In the Victoria Theatre Green Room Bar.

Antidote welcomes performers, musicians, poets, actors, dancers, writers and digital creatives who explore, challenge and expand our relationship with ourselves, the everyday and their own art forms.

If you seek challenge and enjoy the unexpected then Antidote might just be for you.

Sharron Kraus

Sharron Kraus is a singer of folk songs, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose solo work and collaborations offer a dark and subversive take on traditional music. As well as drawing on the folk traditions of Britain and Appalachia, her music is influenced by gothic literature, surrealism, myth and magic. Her songs tell intricate tales of rootless souls, dark secrets and earthly joys, the lyrics plucked as sonorously as her acoustic guitar. Her latest solo album, Joy's Reflection is Sorrow, released by Sunstone Records, explores the spiritual and emotional rhizomes of the human condition, plumbing the depths and rising ecstatically to the heights.

Yorkshire Trombone Quartet

The appropriately named Yorkshire Trombone Quartet are four Trombonists based in Yorkshire; George Murray, Gary Pulleyn, Gordon Watts and Peter New. Between them, they have over 150 years experience of playing the trombone in public; in big bands, brass bands, orchestras and small ensembles. Their breadth of experience and confidence in their craft is showcased and highlighted in this pure trombone ensemble.

They will be playing a set of music from classical, pop and folk repertoire based around the theme of death and dying. The trombone has often been used by composers to represent the underworld. One of the earliest examples of the use of the trombone in classical music is by Monteverdi in Orpheus in the Underworld.

Members of the Yorkshire Trombone Quartet have arranged these beautiful pieces for four trombones, specifically for their appearance alongside Sharron Kraus and her band in the Green Room Bar at the Victoria Theatre.

Our first season of events is curated by the amazing and internationally recognised composer, music therapist, multi instrumentalist and songwriter Aby Vulliamy.

“I’m hugely excited to be giving a platform to some of the musicians I most admire; particularly those who are exploring brave and challenging ideas in their work, and are under-represented in the music world. I believe we can work towards all kinds of 'antidotes' through collaboration, innovation, co-creation, participation” Aby Vulliamy