Gaelynn Lea is an American folk singer, violinist, public speaker and disability advocate from Duluth, Minnesota. She is a classically trained violinist and songwriter who's been bewitching scores of fans with her haunting original songs and experimental takes on traditional fiddle music.

Charlotte Keeffe Sound Brush / trumpet, flugelhorn and compositions Ashley John Long double bass Ben Handysides drums Moss Freed guitar With her Right Here, Right Now Quartet Charlotte Keeffe enables raw musical ingredients and individual expressions to come together and flow. She is captivated by trumpeters like Jaimie Branch, Peter Evans, Tomasz Stako, Nate Wooley and Lester Bowie, and inspired by abstract painters referring to her horns as Sound Brushes. The radical spirit of offhand precarity which radiates throughout this session frequently bubbles over into an effervescent sense of the imperative to explore. In a word Fearless. PRESTO MUSIC A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness. Alive. Keeffe and her quartet nailed it. Sammy Stein, FREE JAZZ BLOG Charlotte Keeffe is rapidly developing a reputation as one of UK's finest improvisers Tony Dudley-Evans Charlotte vividly describes the quartet as a breeding ground for squelchy, sploshy, splashy sound-brush playing Overtly over-blowing, splitting, splattering, squirming, squeaking and squealing out ALIVE! Howling and hooting, chomping and chaffing Dusty, distorted, flimsy, fragile, manic, ghostly, guttural sound strokes rip through whirlwinds and whirlpools of wholesome gooey-sound-dough! A turbulent tease, staggering, swaying, abruptly plunging into intentional vagueness A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness. Alive. Right Here, Right Now. It is as it is Larker Matt Clark is an improvising guitarist and composer from Brighton, drawing on free jazz, avant-garde, experimental and electronic music. He is currently working with MC3, a London-based improvising trio with Charlotte Keeffe and James Edmunds the trio engages in musical conversations and sonic exploration; interweaving dialogues between three distinctive voices: guitar, trumpet and drums; and with Simian Carbuncle, a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques, with regular collaborator Ade Southby. Annie Kerr draws on a wide range of influences to create improvised soundworlds using violin, piano and text in performance, session work and studio collaborations with dancers, artists, actors and filmmakers. She plays in regular and ad hoc combos with musicians in Brighton and London. Toma Sapir has drummed with Wax Machine, Rokurokubi, Ancient Infinity Orchestra and Daisy Rickman among many others. + Wildcard Quartet + DJ Fiery Biscuits

Geoff Hearn tenor sax Olie Brice double bass Spike Wells drums Geoff Hearn has been playing tenor and soprano saxophones and flutes for many years in a wide range of genres and now mainly free improvisation. For the last 20 years he has been playing shakuhachi in a meditative mood in sharp contrast to his more energetic free jazz. One of his main interests is improvisational 'sonic sculptures which is most evident in his work with his trio TORQUE with legendary drummer the late Steve Harris and extaordinary Canadian guitarist Jim Black and the ground breaking 'shape shifting ensemble ZAUM. He was also one of the co-founders of Safehouse! Olie Brice leads and composes for two groups, a trio with Tom Challenger & Will Glaser and an Octet with Alex Bonney, Kim Macari, Jason Yarde, Rachel Musson, George Crowley, Cath Roberts & Johnny Hunter. Both of these groups were featured on the critically acclaimed double album Fire Hills. Frequent collaborators include Mark Sanders, Paul Dunmall, Rachel Musson, Tobias Delius, Cath Roberts and Luis Vicente, and he has also appeared with the likes of Evan Parker, Tony Malaby, John Butcher, Ingrid Laubrock, Ken Vandermark, Eddie Prevost and Louis Moholo. Spike Wells is a phenomenal sympatico drummer who has played with the best of British and American jazz exponents during his career. He played as a regular member of Tubby Hayes quartet and big band from 1968 to Tubby's death in 1973. As well as playing with Hayes, in both his quartet and his big band, Spike spent a year in Humphrey Lyttelton's band, and also worked with many visiting soloists at Ronnie Scott's, including Stan Getz (with whom he also toured Scandinavia), Roland Kirk, Art Farmer, Johnny Griffin and James Moody. He's currently part of QOW Trio, a saxophone-double bass-drums trio who continue to explore the territory Sonny Rollins first mapped out on Way Out West. Ron Caines Trio Ron Caines saxophones Gus Garside double bass James Parsons drums Saxophonist Ron Caines co-founded the ground breaking experimental prog rock group East of Eden. After becoming disillusioned with commercial music he moved to Bristol and became involved in progressive jazz playing with Keith Tippett, Larry Stabbins, Paul Dunmall, Julie Tippetts, Steve Lacy and others. His string of albums released in the last decade on the Discus label have been met with great acclaim: This is outstanding! Record of the week!! Matt Parker, British Progressive Jazz An impressive and original collection one of the most worthwhile CDs Ive heard this year London Jazz News Gus Garside is a double bassist mainly concentrating on improvised music, free jazz and contemporary music. Gus plays in several different groupings including his longstanding string trio Arc (with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill). He has worked on three highly acclaimed albums as part of the Ron Caines/Martin Archer Axis and a duo album with the French saxophone player Hervé Perez released on the New York 577 label in 2021. He has created structured improvisations for performance in the UK and Canada featuring leading players in both countries and is on a new collaboration with dancer Mim King. He is also founding member of the Brighton Safehouse collective. where he differs from the average jazz bassist is in the range of sonorities he conjures from his instrument Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. James Parsons is a drummer with an affinity for free, improvised playing, and has performed in a wide range of groups over the years including Bolide, Ron Caines Trio, Bare Springs, God's Teeth and the Interstellar Tropics, The Burbling Mind and Grass Balloon. + Wildcard Quartet + DJ Fiery Biscuits

Caroline Kraabel + Khabat Abas Caroline Kraabel is a saxophonist, artist, conductor, and composer who has been a key part of London's improv scene for at least 25 years. She founded a large improvising group ONe_Orchestra New, made up of all sorts of women, non-binary, and transgender improvisers. She regularly plays live in duos and trios with John Edwards, Zhuyang Liu, Bex Burch, Charlotte Hug, Maggie Nicols and Pat Thomas among many others. Over the years she has also recorded with the likes of Robert Wyatt , Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Annie Lewandowski, Susan Alcorn, Mark Sanders, Veryan Weston , Mariá Portugal, Neil Metcalfe, Charlotte Keeffe, Alex Ward, Cath Roberts, Dee Byrne, Damsel Elysium and Chris Corsano. Kraabel's soundfilm, London 26 and 28 March 2020: imitation: inversion won the 2021 Ivor Novello Award for Best Sound Art Composer. Khabat Abas is a cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist from Kurdistan-Iraq. Her work explores time, space, and memory through music, everyday sounds, and noises. She delves deeply into how we experience sound, particularly in various geopolitical contexts. Abas uses her instrument beyond traditional normsimprovising, composing, creating videos and sound installations, crafting cellos from diverse materials, and incorporating her body into performances. Through this approach, her work merges politics with personal expression, challenging conventional values and control. Khabat has performed with various ensembles, including the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra, Sulaymaniyah string orchestra, Gothenburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, and the Non-Ensemble for experimental music in Sweden, London Improvisation Orchestra and ONe_Orchestra New, Noise women. Tara Franks + Tullis Rennie Tara Franks Tara is a performing cellist, composer, curator and creative project leader working across genres and art forms. Her work centres around collaboration, both with other professional artists and within the community. As co-founder of acclaimed string duo Balladeste, she has been interviewed on Radio 4 Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 3, Soho Radio and NTS. She has worked with renowned artists including: Kae Tempest, Akala, Jocelyn Pook, Sam Lee, Jasdeep Singh Degun and is a core member/composer of contemporary trio Quest Ensemble. She also collaborates on cross-arts projects with theatre, dance and visual artists, including creating the sound score for the acclaimed show Foreign Body by Imogen Butler-Cole. Tullis Rennie Tullis is an electronic musician, field recordist, composer, improvising trombonist, whose work foregrounds the act of listening as an active component in the creation of musical experience The Wire Magazine. His latest album Safe Operating Space (2024, Efpi Records) is a hybrid of club music and acoustic free improvisation, described as boundary-pushing electronica as if we were listening to an intergalactic visitor's attempt at appropriating the dancefloor theQuietus. Other work encompasses sound installation, community-engaged participative projects, mixed media and live/improvised performances presented across 20 countries, alongside broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, NTS and ResonanceFM. He is also released by Matthew Herbert's Accidental Jnr label, Moving Furniture Records, Flaming Pines, Luminous, a new wave of jazz and ZeroWave. https://www.instagram.com/tara_soundscreative/ https://www.instagram.com/tullisrennie/ + Wildcard Quartet + DJ Fiery Biscuits

ChopChop have been beavering away since their last Rose Hill show, and are coming to this one laden with exciting new material, including their new single '7 in the Morning' - to be launched on this very date! ChopChop's music has been described as veering from super-bumping agit-funk to angular jazz-punk and beyond", and comparisons have been drawn with Talking Heads and No Wave bands. They've had tracks played on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, played festivals such as Supernormal and Acid Horse, and have been described by 6 Music DJ Tom Robinson as a fantastic life affirming noise a wildly original quintet from Brighton. They are joined by Fuck You and Your A-Sides - "unauthorised feminist lo-fi indie pop from Brighton - surreal, forceful and at times deeply upsetting".

Amanda Hallam Lane is a playwright, dramaturg and host of Scratch|Meet, a space for performers to share new work. Following a project with Canada Theaters and a week in Anita's Room at the Dome she's been trying to create a fun piece of theatre about friendship that brings people together. Big thanks to Cerys Evans, Aurelia Williams, Lorraine Yu, Stuart Warwick, Robin Hodges, The Dome, and Arts Council England who have been instrumental in getting this project off the ground.

Scratch|Meet, Brighton's unique night for performance makers of all disciplines to share work in progress, is coming back to the Rose Hill! An informal gathering for performance makers to share new ideas in front of a live audience, the night showcases performance of all kinds and might include theatre, spoken word/poetry, comedy, dance, music, film, performance games, sounds - and more. The aim is to encourage collaborations and supportive conversations. The event is open to the public wanting to see a varied selection of works in progress and have a chance to meet the makers. (Free for performers). A note for performers: Performers are booked in advance of the evening. If you'd like to perform at Scratch|Meet please email [email protected]

Eva Lunny is a London/Brighton based harpist, inspired by ambient greats such as Brian Eno, Laraaji and Aphex Twin, as well as jazz harpists Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane. Eva uses drones, looping, layering and improvisation to build soundscapes and bring audience members on an introspective journey, infusing neo-classical melodies with modern electronic production techniques. Presented by Love Thy Neighbour. This is an 18+ event

Ceremonial Laptop and Nocturne present a triple headliner featuring: Pillow, Ben Roberts and Ceann Capaill, in a night of meditative strings and improvisation. PILLOW - A contemporary classical group performing the dark and cinematic compositions of James Osler. Sighting influence from artists such as Jonny Greenwood, Harold Budd, Nick Drake, Max Richter and Olivier Messiaen, Pillow embarks on telling their own story of how sounds can emerge and give meaning to life's experience. For this show, Pillow will perform a stripped-back version of the group, giving you a taster of sounds from their up-and-coming debut album as well as some new material just for the evening." www.pillowofficial.com/ Composer and cellist BEN ROBERTS' visionary new project 'Vibrator' harnesses sacred frequencies to elevate wellbeing and inspire a creative revolution. Vibrator's seven tracks correspond to the body's seven chakras, sketching a beautiful cello improvisation around a core home frequency. Each tuning, each piece, speaks directly to the body's energy centres, inspiring peace, harmony and balance. https://www.bencello.com/ plus CEANN CAPAILL: improvisation and electronics

Born in Ohio but now resident in the South of France, Bob was a founding member of avant-rock heroes Thinking Plague and has been a member of the 5uu's, Hail and The Science Group but it with his series of solo recordings between 1994 and 2023's The Room in the Tower that he has really found his voice as a peddlar of avant-garde, individual, but always highly melodic tales of anthropomorphic animals, haunted farmhouses, wells, fountains, mystical reveries, inexplicable phenomena... the list goes on, all performed by himself and guitar Crayola Lectern takes the show out on the road to support his third album, Disasternoon, released on Onomatopoeia Records on August 1st. The trio, incorporates Al Strachan on cornet, organs and effects and Damo Waters on percussion and synth. The album features artwork by Alfreda Benge and the piano-based songs bear psychedelic flavours of a darker hue, obliquely reflecting the world around us but still seeking redemption. The group are overjoyed to be playing on a bill with their friend, the effervescent Bob Drake and at the wonderful Rose Hill in what promises to be a very special night

Jackie-O Motherfucker's music draws from a variety of subgenres including various folk musics of the world (American folk and blues, Traditional English folk ballads, etc.), drone, free jazz, psychedelia, and noise rock , and is heavily improvisational in its nature. Because they are a collective, rather than a consistent band or group, the sound of their music can change from performance to performance. Jackie-O Motherfucker began as a duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Tom Greenwood and saxophonist Nester Bucket. The group has had more than forty members drawn from the U.S. experimental scene, notably Natalie Mering, who now records under Weyes Blood, briefly on bass; the core of the group is founding member Greenwood. The group has had recordings released by Fire Records, Ecstatic Peace, Feeding Tube Records, ATP Recordings and their own U-Sound Archive and has been on several international tours including performances at All Tomorrow's Parties Festivals. In collaboration with the band, Fire Records will be reissuing one of their albums this summer - the first official vinyl reissue of ‘Flags Of The Sacred Harp’ with restored original artwork and a download card featuring unreleased extras and rarities. Presented by Melting Vinyl. Under 16s accompanied by an adult