PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release May 18th 2017
The Spoken Word category at Buxton Fringe has been growing in recent years and 2017’s substantial line-up is full of talent and interest.
Sparkling highlights include the award-winning comic, poet and psychiatric nurse Rob Gee offering a dementia ward murder mystery with Forget Me Not - The Alzheimer’s Whodunnit, and the Fringe Award-winning poet Mark Gwynne Jones making a welcome return to the festival with Psychicbread.
Also coming back to the Fringe are the Morecambe and Wise-style stand up poets The Glummer Twins with Beat Generation magic at The Old Clubhouse, and last year’s Discover Buxton local history gems Vera Brittain’s Tale and A Victorian Conversation. The history theme continues with Scott Allsop’s Historypod: Live - a live recording of the popular daily history podcast - at Scrivener’s Bookshop. Meanwhile Fringe goers will find themselves in safe hands with Buxton Spoken Words’ regulars performing at a special Festival event at The Tea Chest.
Some Fringe newcomers offer equally exciting fare with Peter and Gillian Byrom-Smith creating an evening of nature-inspired music and poetry in Heading for the Hills, while Genevieve Carver and the Unsung Funeral Band explore forgotten heroes of musical history in a poetry and sound performance titled The Unsung.
Also part of the Fringe this year is author Bryce Main reading from his debut book Love & Coffee and Georgina Kirk offering what she calls “stand-up psychology” on the theme of How to Be Perfect… In Your Own Way.
Fringe chair Keith Savage comments: “I may have to declare an interest here – Scott Allsop plans to interview me for his Historypod Live broadcast. But I’m hoping to catch most of these shows – they are intriguing and daring and need to be heard.”
The Fringe wishes to thank its sponsor The University of Derby as well as financial supporters The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust and High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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