Adrian Utley's Guitar Orchestra to headline launch event
Adrian Utley's Guitar Orchestra
Adrian Utley (Portishead) brings together an orchestra of electric guitar players to interpret Terry Riley's In C. This influential piece of 20th Century music, written in 1964, helped to establish minimalism as a music genre - using 53 musical phrases in C and no duration, taking C's simple musical rules and allowing for infinite variations.
Utley's impressive Guitar Orchestra is augmented by percussion and organs, making for a vintage and mesmeric sound. The effect is that of an organic musical experience, very much created in front of the audience - both fragile and thunderingly uplifting.
Event programmer Rhiannon says;
“This is the perfect opening gig for our newly refurbished space and we are so pleased that Adrian and his orchestra have agreed to perform. The launch follows the completion of our Big Lottery funded building works which have focussed on bringing our underused upstairs hall into use.
With a new sprung wooden floor and underfloor heating, as well as a new reception and improvements to our external grounds, we hope that this event will be the first of many to bring new life and use to this much-loved Bristolian landmark.”
Adrian and his orchestra will be supported by Young Echo, a group of musicians individually composing electronic music, who will bring their rich sounds together to fill the full height of this beautiful, newly renovated, iconic space.
Smithy & Mighty will headline our Re-launch After Party following in our downstairs main hall until late, with support from old and new Trinity favourites including a DJ set from Young Echo – with more acts to be announced.
As part of our re-launch, we will also be hosting a Friends of Trinity Evening for funders, partners, supporters and members – so watch out for your invite, or get in touch to find out more.
Join us for this exciting re-launch weekend to celebrate the rebirth of Trinity!
Tickets go on sale Thursday 23rd January at 9am via Bristol Tickets Shop
More info can be found here
