When Bill Danced The War

Sarah Murphy's anti-war story with jazz/sound-art
setting
Saturday December 1st,
Next to Nowhere
96 Bold Street
Liverpool L1 4HY
Door open 8.00pm £5.00 & £3.00 concs
venue link [ go here]

Canadian writer & activist Sarah Murphy has collaborated
with Huddersfield's The Word Hoard to devise a performance version of her fierce anti-war story When Bill Danced The War. Musicians Shaun Blezard and Keith Jafrate have created a strange, powerful hybrid of jazz, improv and n sound-art to surround Sarah's vital text, which concerns the horrors witnessed by her Choctaw father Bill, a sailor who was involved in 3 American wars.

Personnel:
Sarah Murphy: voice
Shaun Blezard: laptop & processing
Keith Jafrate: saxophones & percussion

Sarah Murphy spins her tales of the tragedies of everyday life the way Bob Dylan used to write songs. In her beguiling, savage and sometimes witty style, she prods her readers to look into worlds they prefer to ignore. The Ottawa Citizen

...written so close to the bone you can hear the scraping. The Saskatoon Star Phoenix

Funny, angry, passionate, joyful, Sarah is a true storyteller, and her fiction shows a profound understanding of our need to make stories, to communicate, to confirm ourselves and our understanding of the events that make us who we are, and the world what it is. Dianne Darby

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Text excerpts

Sarah Murphy

Shaun Blezard

Keith Jafrate