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DOORS OPEN AT 7.30PM. Arrive early to purchase drinks at our CASH BAR!Admission £5 CASH on the door or reserve a seat through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-purple-room-evening-of-music-the-spoken-word-tickets-1063828131579?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
Graeme Matthews is a singer - songwriter, music production and sound engineer. He is an ex student of Leeds College of Music where he studied music production. He can frequently be seen busking in Ilkley either on The Grove or Outside The Box cafe. Graeme also supports many of the open mic sessions around the area of Wharfedale.
Mark and Gill Connors will be reading from their debut joint collection ‘The Where we Were' out now through Yaffle Press.
Mark Connors is a widely published poet from Leeds. His debut, Life is a Long Song was published by OWF Press in 2015. Nothing is Meant to be Broken was published by Stairwell Books in 2017. Optics was published by Yaffle Press in 2019. After was published by Yaffle Press in 2021. His novels, Stickleback (2016), and Tom Tit and the Maniacs (2018), were published by Armley Press. He is currently working on his third novel and a hybrid book of memoir, travel writing, short fiction and poetry. He is a managing editor and co-founder of Yaffle Press and Yaffle’s Nest.
Gill Connors is from North Yorkshire where she lives and works. Her pamphlet ‘Uninvited Guests’ was published by Indigo Dreams in 2017 and her two collections, ‘Tadaima’ and ‘A Small Goodbye at Dawn’ were published by Yaffle in 2019 and 2022. Gill is working on a third collection which will be the result of her PhD, on the subject of the links and parallels between sixteenth century and twenty-first century women. She is a managing editor of Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest
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LS29 8PT Ilkley, United Kingdom, Ilkley, United Kingdom
