Fourth Fridays: Dan Johnson and Maggie Nichols

Join us for a special performance from legendary free-improv vocalist, Maggie Nicols, and experimental percussionist and performance artist, Dan Johnson. With support from Cardiff-based sound artist, Heledd C Evans.

About the artists...

A mainstay of the European improvisational community since joining John Stevens’ legendary Spontaneous Music Ensemble in the late 1960s, Maggie Nicols has performed internationally for several decades at major festivals and worked with many improvisers from all over the world. As co-founder of the Feminist Improvising Group, she has also worked to further women in improvised music, dancing and other creative arts. https://maggienicolscreations.com/bio/

Dan Johnson is a Bristol- based percussionist, performance artist and educator who pushes the boundaries of how drumming is perceived through his solo and ensemble work. Known for intense, intimate and often durational solo performances, he’s also a frequent collaborator and has worked with EP/64, Moor Mother, Valentina Magaletti, Robert Ridley-Shackleton and Copper Sounds. Dan’'s approach is infinitely adaptable and centred around meaningful exploration. Audiences have described his performances as vulnerable, generous, enduring and untethered.

Heledd C Evans is a sound artist based in Cardiff, a recent graduate of Fine Art from Cardiff School of Art and Design. She creates sonic interventions that seek to disrupt and enhance our surroundings. She also co-hosts a weekly arts show, Pitch Radio, on Radio Cardiff. Evans creates soundscapes through a combination of field recordings, narration, drone tones and electronic elements, and her violin. She works mainly site specifically, preferring to create work that is particular to one location and both its contents and acoustics.

Join us for a special performance from legendary free-improv vocalist Maggie Nicols and experimental percussionist and performance artist Dan Johnson. With support from Cardiff-based sound artist, Heledd C Evans.