Saltlines: The Gigspanner Big Band & Raynor Winn (Author of The Salt Path)

The Gigspanner Big Band and Raynor Winn (The Salt Path)

“Saltlines is beautiful, exquisite. A must see. It’s just what we need right now” Marianne Elliott OBE Director (War Horse and The Salt Path film)
“An exciting and ground-breaking collaboration. An evening unlike any other...thought provoking, meditative, mesmerising” Mag North
"But the highlight was undoubtedly Saltlines. It played to a standing-room only house...an evocative and intense triumph" R n R (R2) Magazine

Taking audiences by storm from Land’s End to the Scottish borders, SALTLINES is a compelling Prose and Music collaboration between bestselling author Raynor Winn (The Salt Path) and The Gigspanner Big Band, a top tier lineup which features some of the most influential names on the British folk scene.

Saltlines has a powerful originality which is equally compelling and transporting. By weaving reimagined folk music from the south-west, and original prose written and narrated for the production by Raynor Winn, it reaches into the rich and visceral history of the South West Coast to celebrate the area’s landscape, social and natural history and enduring traditions.

It is an unmissable experience for anyone with a love of lyrical writing and inspiring music, and those who value the social and natural history of Britain’s rural landscape, and the common threads that bind its fragile communities and wildlife.

Its impact on audiences has been a powerful one…

“Saltlines was truly off the scale. Completely carried away by the beauty, sensitivity and pure artistic genius of the whole performance”
“Quite simply one of the most exquisite, breath-taking, hauntingly beautiful and life- affirming performances I’ve ever seen”
“Powerful, thought provoking, seamless and blessed with the flow of brilliance. Libretto perfect, musicianship perfect. Quite astonishing”

Beginning life as a trio formed by legendary Steeleye Span fiddle player Peter Knight, the line-up has been expanded to form the Gigspanner Big Band, with acclaimed multi-instrumental duo Edgelarks (Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin) and Bellowhead co-founder and melodeon player extraordinaire, John Spiers, joining the fray.