Samuel Sharp (Saxophone) and Liz Hanks (Cello)

Solo sets from two like-minded artists from opposite ends of the country coming together for a double bill of cutting-edge music featuring solo instruments, live looping and electronic manipulation. Saxophonist Samuel Sharp and cellist Liz Hanks blur the lines between jazz, contemporary classical, folk and electronic music.
TICKETS: £10 or £7 for students.
Pay on the door, or alternatively get advance tickets by emailing lescarjazz@gmail.com or messaging the Jazz at The Lescar.
Doors 8pm, music 8.30pm.
London-based saxophonist and composer Samuel Sharp will be performing music from ‘Consequential’, his second solo album recently released on Scottish label Blackford Hill. Playful, mellifluous and sometimes dizzying, he layers and weaves intriguing, soporific and occasionally slapstick patterns, with effects pedals. Samuel has worked with the likes of Hackney Colliery Band, Augustines, Hollie McNish, Philip Selway (Radiohead) and Beverley Knight.

“One of the great sax innovators of our time” – Louder Than War
“Beautiful” – Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2
“I love the way he plays the saxophone” – Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 3
Performing music from her debut and acclaimed album ‘Land’, Liz Hanks is a Sheffield-based cellist, composer, and collaborator with a rich and varied career. A longtime cellist for Richard Hawley, Thea Gilmore, and Martin Simpson, she has recorded and toured with an array of artists, including Liam Gallagher, Pulp, Smokey Robinson, Cara Dillon, Paul Heaton, and Real World Records sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun.
A beautiful mix of minimalism, folk, Indian classical music and improvisation her music is heavily rooted in her local landscape, weaving together cello, looped field recordings, and storytelling to transport audiences into the lost landscapes that inspired her work.

“Stunning” – Elizabeth Alker, BBC Radio 2
“An immersive album of depth and subtlety” – Folk Radio UK
“A beautiful meditative work” – Duncan Seaman, Yorkshire Post
Unique and compelling, a vibrant and unmissable gig.