“Power and Intimacy”
Doors at 7, show at 7.30pm. Sliding scale $10-$40; to reserve a seat please email iramarlowe@gmail.com at The Monkey House
It’s deep, tiring and beautiful to return to the Bay Area. I have a new body of work, Anthropocene Motherhood. In these times as things are breaking down, and around the world far-right responses to doom are taking power, where is the space, the voice, for a hopeful, regenerative vision for our lives and future? One place, is here in these songs of mine, here in this heart of mine.
It’s contemporary acoustic folk-soul music from singer, pianist and improviser Briony Greenhill (me).
She Rises is an epic exploration of over 2000 years of structural gender inequality, and a vision for a deep rebalancing.
Youngest of the Youngest is a song to my son Robin’s soul as he enters a world where modernity as we know it is crumbling. “My phoenix boy rise from the ashes of a time that’s dying out. Your magnificent light…. and the wings, the wings, to fly into the darkness of night, and co-create a better way to live this precious life: with all our kin in the web of life.”
They Long for your Beautiful Eyes is an invitation to, and celebration of, rekindling good bonds with our Ancestors.
And on it goes. This outpouring of new material through my Matrescence Energy, this birthing of a being who will likely live until 2110, is where my creativity has been a-whirling in these past 2-3 years.
Bells for Decolonisation is a mashup between Tori Amos’ Bells for her, and a lament to the pain of living in these times. “Can’t stop what’s coming, can’t stop what is on it’s way. And I feel it coming, and it’s on it’s way: Decolonisation.”
And so on.
It’s soulful, honest, deep, politically potent, original music from the heart. Thank you Bay Area: You healed me, wholed me and taught me. I studied Poli Sci and Berkeley in 2001-2, and Vocal Improvisation with Rhiannon 10 years later in 2011-12. Now here we are over 10 years later I am a mother and my artistry is integrating my politics more than ever before.
It’s a solo show, with audience singalong and some live improv. Navigating these times with song.
Of course I will end with Thank you for your Heart!!!!
Did I give too much away?
You are invited <3
To reserve a seat email iramarlowe@gmail.com.
“Greenhill’s jazzy, languid lyrics groove on the healing beauty of song, the planet and your own heart and soul, like Marvin Gaye crossed with a funky Earth mother. This is sensual music that, if you want them, could give extra reasons to live.”
— Mojo
