FROME musician, Vicki Burke, is bringing her band Sutura back to Frome following the successful launch of her new album ‘Keys to the Golden City’ and a supporting tour. The Frome gig will take place at The Grain Bar on Wednesday 1st November at 8.30pm.
Having toured around the South-west for the last few months the band is playing two more gigs before the Christmas break, one of which is a return to the Grain Bar where they launched the album in February this year.
The band, who play an eclectic mix of folk and jazz with soulful songs and funky grooves, send audiences on a journey, lifting their spirits and warming their hearts. Vicki supplies the vocals, accompanied by her harp, sax and flute. She is joined by Mike Hoddinott on drums and Andy Budge on bass.
Mike is a veteran from the Bristol music scene, having played with countless names from Pete Gage to Innes Sibun. With his own All Stars band, he excites audiences in every style he plays from blues, jazz, rock and folk. Andy Budge, a bass player of repute, has had a career of playing with many well-known professional musicians and is best known, locally, for his work with Cary Grace.
Vicki’s love of music has taken her from rock to folk and from world music to jazz. Having played with Up, Bustle and Out with Ninja Tune Records in the 90s on sax, she has been playing with many other bands including Bristol’s Flash Harry (folk/blues/ rock) ever since. However, some of her favourite gigs were playing here in Frome with local funk band Fat Stanley and more poignantly together with Nikki Mascall and the late Griff Daniels.
“Weaving together melodic Joni Mitchell-style folk, pop and jazz, Sutura’s music has an ethereal beauty. Vicki Burke not only writes the songs but gives the music an unworldly nature with her Celtic harp and occasional sax and flute solos.”
Bristol Evening Post
The gig is free entry but the hat will go round
