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Led by bassist and composer Alison Rayner, multi award-winning quintet ARQ are widely celebrated from 10 years of extensive UK and European touring across a complete range of jazz clubs, concert halls and international festivals and critically acclaimed for their three album releases August (2014) , A Magic Life (2016) and Short Stories (2019). All have garnered extensive press acclaim and international radio play, with Rayner also winning a coveted Ivor Novello Composer Award for ‘There is a Crack in Everything’from Short Stories.This year, ARQ celebrates 10 years of contributing to the cultural jazz landscape with their fourth album of collaborative, newly composed and original music Semaphore, recorded live in summer 2024. Following a series of successful regional UK dates this Autumn including a sell-out at London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the band look forward to 2025 Spring touring and the album launch at Soho Pizza Express in March.
Richly nuanced compositions, rhythmic interplay and folk-infused melodies, ARQ play ‘songs without words’ carrying a strong sense of narrative and cinematic quality. The group are lauded for their vibrant, communicative performances and the newly-recorded material on Semaphore is as engaging, imaginative and groovy as ever.
ARQ are:
Alison Rayner: bass | Buster Birch: drums | Deirdre Cartwright: guitar | Diane McLoughlin: saxophone | Steve Lodder: piano
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11 Railway Street, NE4 7AD Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 11 Railway Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7, United Kingdom,Newcastle upon Tyne
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