Ex-Moulton musician in folk duo at South Holland Centre

Newly-created folk music will be premiered at Spalding’s South Holland Centre tonight (Wednesday, January 6).

Guitarist and vocalist Dave Malkin, a London-based musician, will return to his roots (he was born and grew up in Moulton) to perform the music from “Gravity”, with fiddle player John Dipper.

The duo received the 2015 English Folk Dance and Song Society Creative Artist Residency from the largest-ever field of applications.

Gravity explores the unique relationship between music and dance in the English tradition, especially the illusion music lends to the seeming gravity-defying aspects of the slow, floating leaps performed by traditional dancers. The duo researched their compositions using unique archive manuscripts of folk music collected by such great composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, who travelled widely throughout the UK collecting and notating traditional English music.

Spalding Folk Club hosts the duo, playing the original and reimagined music for viola d’amore, guitar and voice. Later this month the full work will be performed, with dancers, at Cecil Sharp House in London – the home of English folk and dance, and again in April at London’s South Bank Centre.

The South Holland Centre performance begins at 8.15pm in the foyer bar. Tickets are £6, £5 for Spalding Folk Club members, and you can pay on the door.

Dave and John have appeared on BBC Radio 3 and been described by Mike Harding as one of the most inspired and inspiring duos he has  heard in years.