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Archipelago + Nina GarciaThe Cumberland Arms
Saturday 27th September 2025
Doors: 7.30pm (Music Starts 8.00pm)
Full Price: £12.00 with an optional £2 festival donation available (+ Booking Fee)
Nina Garcia 8.00pm - 8.45pm
Archipelago 9.00pm - 9.45pm / 10.00pm
Part of Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music
This concert is presented by Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in association with The Cumberland Arms and Jazz North East.
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Archipelago
Faye MacCalman (Saxophone / Clarinet / Vocals / Electronics)
John Pope (Electric Bass)
Christian Alderson (Drums)
Archipelago are a genre-defying trio of adventurous musicians, formed out of the North East of England’s creative musical underground. Fronted by multi-instrumentalist and composer Faye MacCalman, their sound is a dreamlike collision of otherworldly atmospheres, heartfelt song-writing and energetic off-kilter rhythms. Moving between instruments and effects to create the illusion of a much larger ensemble, before peeling back to their raw, improvisational trio form, Archipelago’s uncompromising refusal to fit in one genre makes for a fully-charged musical experience.
With influences stretching from Joni Mitchell to Don Cherry to Esperanza Spalding, Archipelago draw on a deep pool of sonic references and the diversity of their individual musical histories. Faye began working with bassist John Pope (John Pope Quintet, Richard Dawson) and drummer Christian Alderson (The Unit Ama, Month of Birthdays) in ‘mutant funeral jazz big band’ The Midnight Doctors, brainchild of Newcastle guitarist, composer and producer Phil Begg, (who suggested the trio should play together outside that project). Barely a year later Archipelago were playing their first show, squeezed into a tiny coffee shop. Since that debut they have continued to defy expectations, playing anywhere from DIY arts spaces and small rock bars to mainstream pop festivals and respected jazz nights, honing their music onstage and connecting with audiences across supposed genre boundaries.
'A shape shifting sound' - Kevin Le Gendre
'Truly Remarkable' - NARC Magazine
www.archipelagoband.co.uk
Amongst other releases Archipelago have previously issued the album ‘Echoes to the Sky’ on the festival’s associated New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings project.
Echoes To The Sky
https://archipelagobanduk.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-to-the-sky
Nina Garcia
Nina Garcia (Solo Guitar)
Born in 1990, Nina Garcia lives and works in Paris.
Since 2015, Nina Garcia has been researching and creating around the electric guitar, halfway between improvised music and noise. Her set-up is reduced to a minimum: a guitar, a pedal, and an amp with which she sculpts sound and delves into chaos to bring out the unheard-of. Her concerts draw audiences into an immersive sonic space where power and fragility intersect with communicative intensity. In just a few years, she has attracted the attention of numerous international stages.
“noise guitar’s secret weapon” - Thurston Moore
Nina Garcia Live Video
The Cumberland Arms
James Place Street, Ouseburn, Off Byker Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1LD
0191 265 6151
www.thecumberlandarms.co.uk
Age Restrictions: Please contact the venue for age restrictions.
Accessibility: The Cumberland Arms has a ramp at the rear of the venue space for wheelchair users to access the building, no wheelchair accessible toilets are available in the building.
The front entrance to the venue space is preceded by a number of stairs.
Travel: Any Bus and Metro to Shields Road Morrisons which is located less than 1500 ft from the venue (approximately 5 minutes walk). Byker Metro is located a half mile away from the venue (approximately 15 minutes walk)
There is parking available on a grassy space next to the building.
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The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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