Name: Crow Culture (Tara Cunningham / James Kitchman / Will Glaser)
Start: 2025-09-24T20:00:00+01:00
Location: The Lescar, 303 Sharrow Vale Rd, S11 8ZF Sheffield, United Kingdom

$Crow Culture (Tara Cunningham \/ James Kitchman \/ Will Glaser)$

Vital new improvised music from three musicians at the beating heart of the London music scene, immersive and ground-breaking explorations from a brilliant trio featuring Tara Cunningham (Red Snapper, Modern Nature, Seb Rochford, Claire Rousay) on guitar/electronics, James Kitchman (Bruno Heinen, Heidi Vogel, ESKA, Alice Zawadzki, Laura Jurd, Cinematic Orchestra) on guitar and Will Glaser (James Allsopp, Ruth Goller, Soweto Kinch, Stan Sulzmann, Kit Downes, Yazz Ahmed, Henry Lowther) on drums/percussion.
TICKETS: £10 or £7 for students.
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Doors 8pm, music 8.30pm.
Guitarist Tara Cunningham is making a mark on the music scene with a string of startlingly original releases and in multiple collaborative projects, including 90s acid-jazz outfit Red Snapper and post-rock four piece Modern Nature. She has also worked with Seb Rochford, Liam Noble, Laura Jurd, Claire Rousay, Steve Noble, and Jack Cooper, amongst many others, as well as working in film as a composer with art film maker Luca Baioni, in collaboration with Switzerland-based Nick Walter, and for Pascal Bergamin's 2024 feature film Portraits of Dangerous Women. You may have seen Tara previously at The Lescar in a duo with drummer Corrie Dick, a gig that was subsequently released (https://idontneedlight.bandcamp.com/album/lifecycle-of-a-squid-live-in-sheffield).
London-based guitarist James Kitchman is one of the most distinctive and sought-after jazz guitarists of his generation. His various projects have included collaborations with Bruno Heinen, Heidi Vogel, ESKA, Alice Zawadzki,Arfoud Brothers & Sisters, and Laura Jurd. He’s also worked with Chaka Kahn, The Libertines, and The Cinematic Orchestra, among others and his debut album ‘First Quartet’ received critical acclaim.
Will Glaser is one of the most in-demand drummers on the UK jazz and experimental music scenes, an energising and dynamic musician, he draws on the jazz tradition, improvised music, rock, noise, folk, blues, experimental and electronic music, leading his own projects as well as performing widely with artists including World Sanguine Report, James Allsopp, Sly and the Family Drone, Ruth Goller, Alex Bonney, Tom Challenger, Olie Brice, George Crowley, Liam Noble, Soweto Kinch, Dame Cleo Laine, Stan Sulzmann, Kit Downes, Ben Van Gelder, Nikki Iles, Iain Ballamy, Dinosaur, Alex Garnett, Josephine Davies, Yazz Ahmed, Henry Lowther, Babelfish, Rick Simpson and Riley Stone-Lonergan.