Sarah Small as part of her ‘Good Again?’ tour : viola da gamba

Cycling between venues, viola da gamba player Sarah Small is taking a slower and greener route to reach audiences all over the UK.

Disillusioned by the lack of support for sustainable touring within the arts, along with concerns about the impact and cost of audience travel from rural areas to venues in cities, she’s taking matters into her own hands and cycling from venue to venue to share her programme ‘Good Again?’ with audiences far and wide.Centred around the title work ‘Good Againe’ by Tobias Hume, this programme includes Marais’ Les Voix Humaines (human voices), Forqueray’s La Girouette (the weather vane), Sainte-Colombe’s Les Pleurs (tears) and Hume’s galvanising The Spirit of Gambo.

Sarah also plays a specially commissioned piece by composer Lillie Harris, pondering our wish to return to what was before and whether the future can, in fact, be brighter.