Josephine describes the band “as like a Andalusian jug band playing very energetic and animated music”. Taking their cue from Lorca and La Argentinita’s infectious 1931 recording of the songs, Josephine Foster and her partner Spanish musician Victor Herrero have arranged the poetically rich collection for their new acoustic band, formed while living in the Grenadine Sierra.

Josephine Foster is not only a captivating songwriter and performer (former Opera singer!) but she is also daring, amazingly versatile and irregular in her subject and form. She has covered Emily Dickerson (“Graphic As A Star”), sung German Art Songs (“A Wolf In Sheeps Clothing”) and released an album with The Cherry Blossoms among other projects. This current concept she handles with grace, charm and wit but she still retains that vitality, density and romance that a true poet bestows on their work.

A deep well of Spanish popular folk histories is to be dived into as song, poetry and dance is staged in the former amateur dramatic theatre with Lorca, Josephine, Victor and band as our guides.

“She’s a Grace Slick for the 21st Century – and that’s all grace, no slick. An amazing combination of God-given ability and formal skill. You can hear Jefferson Airplane in her music, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Joan Baez… She’s also the one, out of that whole scene, that has embraced the electric guitar, while at the same time being the most classical of them all.” – Jay Babcock / Arthur

Out of a tiny village in the rural north of Italy, staunch indie promoter and tour booker Tiziano Sgarbi becomes song hero Bob Corn. Sketching with simple lines of guitar and voice, he conjures pretty/anxious tracks concerning people and love, like early Adrian Orange or a bare-boned Bonnie Prince. “A great cat…beautiful tunes, very soulful” said Mike ‘Minutemen Watt’. “Oh Mother Mary, Bob Corn is a real shit!” said someone else (in Italian)…we’re certain this is a good thing.

As a plus tonight we get SJ Esau, a favoured son of Qu/Bristol downing tools to play a rare interim show before his drooled-for brand new album drops next year (almost ready).