Southwark LGBT Pride Festival, June 25th - Clare Summerskill
THEN AT 8PM ALSO AT THE IVY HOUSE......
Clare Summerskill and Martha D. Lewis present an Evening of Song and Celebration: From Fairly Vocal to Varifocal. Many of you will know Clare from her peerless work in oral history which has resulted in such classic books of reminiscence as Gateway to Heaven, Hearing Voices and Rights of Passage. However, before that, she was an incredibly talented lesbian musical comedy cabaret performer, initially in the duo Alice and Clare, with Alice Arnold, and then as a solo performer. Now with a new album out, Love to be Found, Clare is back with a vengeance. She is joined for this occasion by half of another talented duo; singer/composer Martha D. Lewis. Martha met Eve Polycarpou in 1987, and formed the hugely successful Donna and Kebab, everybody’s favourite Greeks. The duo mutated into Donna and Kbb and then Martha and Eve. Martha will, like Clare, be featuring a lot of new material, and we are hugely honoured to have secured them for the Festival at the Ivy House in something of a coup!
Clare Summerskill has made a career as a respected oral historian with books such as 'Gateway to Heaven', but in a previous life she was one of the pioneering lesbian comedy and music acts; along with Alice Arnold, she formed Alice and Clare, and together they were part of that first wave which gave lesbians permission to laugh at themselves. Much the same might be said of Martha D Lewis, of Donna and Kebab (or KBB), and we're delighted to have them here together for the first time.
This EVENT IS FREE TOO!!
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