SCHEDULED DATES AND LOCATIONS
September 7 – Stokesdale/Reidsville, NC/Danville, VA
August 24 – Asheboro/Ramseur/Seagrove, NC
August 10 – Welcome/Lexington/Midway
More to Come
Cloud Diary and Music in the Greensboro News and Record
Cloud Busking Tour rolls through Davidson County
HOW IT WORKS
The Cloud Diary Buskers will perform in three small towns on the same day, generally at noon in the first listed, 2:00 pm in the second listed, and 4:00 pm in the third, though these exact times are subject to change. We’ll decide where we will perform once we arrive in the town and will post the location 30 minutes before the performance. Pre-show information will be posted to the Cloud Diary Twitter feed, Instagram, and Facebook. Parts of the performance will be livestreamed and taped for later use. We encourage you to come out and be a part of the show!
ABOUT THE CLOUD BUSKING TOUR
“Part of the idea behind our Cloud Busking tour is about bringing writers, authors, and musicians to places that usually don’t hold readings, where folks might not normally have the opportunity to meet a writer or hear them read.
I grew up in rural North Carolina. A writer was a rarified thing. It took me years to realize it might be something I could do, because it always seemed so far away. Part of what we want to do is bridge that distance. To help folks realize a writer isn’t just someone you see on TV or read about. A writer could be you.
Both Ben and Laurent are fascinated with performing music in new ways and in new spaces, as well as working with the intersection of music and text. Ben writes and performs live music for old films like Faust and Night of the Living Dead. Laurent’s group ensemble baBel performed at abandoned gas stations throughout Europe.
There are no fixed performances on the Cloud Busking Tour; though our goal is to eventually perform the entire book live, each performance will adapt to the surroundings. We will livestream segments of each performance and videotape them for future use. Audiences are encouraged to tweet and Instagram. Copies of Cloud Diary may be purchased on site, online through Indiebound, or the C&R Press website.”
PERSONNEL
Steve Mitchell is an award-winning writer and journalist, published in december magazine, Southeast Review, storySouth, Red Fez, and Contrary, among others. His novel, Cloud Diary, is published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53. He is a winner of the Curt Johnson Prose Prize and the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Prize and has been nominated a number of times for the Pushcart Prize. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC.
Ben Singer combines the formal training in jazz and classical music he received at Eastman School of Music with the roots music of his British folk-singing, bluegrass-playing parents and with the technology of being a computer programmer. He regularly performs original music as a singer/songwriter and as Modern Robot, which plays live soundtracks to classic silent films and other weird movies.
After studying saxophone at the Conservatory of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he received in 1994, a concert license (Master of Arts soloist), Laurent Estoppey has devoted himself mostly to contemporary music, but performs and teaches classical saxophone repertoire and transcriptions of baroque music. Numerous collaborations with composers have led him to create at least 100 works. Now his musical activity is divided between written music and improvisation, and occurs throughout Switzerland, many European countries, but also in Canada, the US, Argentina, Guatemala, and South Africa.