First Stories Festival
THERE WAS A WORLD
SONGS FOR THEN AND NOW
Saturday, May 17 @ 3pm
Music by Ellen Mandel Starring The Swinging Sirens
Bridget Beirne, Jessica Crandall, Sonni James and Ellen Mandel on piano
Hear composer Ellen Mandel and three super-talented singers perform Mandel’s songs in celebration of her new CD There Was A World, to texts from First Stories like Agamemnon Home and Wolfpit by Glyn Maxwell (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble resident playwright), Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, Shakespeare, e.e. cummings and others.
The New York Times calls Ellen’s lyrical and jazzy, humorous and moving songs “ardent, spiky, and freshly organic.”
All Things Considered says “a striking collaboration…I wish I could give this CD to every poetry lover I know.”
