Fri 23 Aug
|Ramsgate Tunnels
Water Holds Me Like A Lover
Experience a very special vocal and visual feast curated by composer Donna McKevitt in Ramsgate’s WWII Tunnels.
Time & Location
23 Aug 2024, 19:30 – 21:30
Ramsgate Tunnels, Marina Esplanade, Ramsgate CT11 8FH, UK
About the event
A collaboration between composer Donna McKevitt and writer and filmmaker Susan Thomson, this immersive event will bring together live music from The Swimming Diaries (2024) film soundtrack album, composed by McKevitt, with tracks from her earlier album Translucence, based on Derek Jarman’s writings.
Performed by Donna McKevitt and sopranos Penelope Appleyard and Clare Stewart both members of the critically acclaimed vocal ensemble Apollo 5 together with cellist Rosie Banks-Francis.
The Swimming Diaries (2024) film which premiered this year at the Dublin International Film Festival, funded by an Arts Council of Ireland Reel art award, is based on a memoir Thomson wrote when her mother was dying, using swimming as a way to process grief.
The music of ‘Water holds me like a lover’ evokes an imaginary train journey hallucinated when ill and on morphine, a journey from life to death. This set list is a rich, ethereal journey where lyrics are…