Music In The Malthouse: Chris Hoban

Local bard Chris Hoban returns to ‘Music In The Malthouse’ at the fabulous The Bridge Inn, Topsham for a solo gig on Wednesday 8th October, 7.30pm (doors 7pm).

The main feature in the programme will be ‘Cartography’ – a chronological journey through song and narrative of our relationship to the land on which we live – including landowners and commoners, heaths and allotments, enclosure acts and rights (or the lack of them), Dartmoor landowners and exuberant West Country miners.

Featuring well-known original songs including ‘Hallows’ Eve’, ‘The Old Lych Way’, ‘Katrina’, ‘The Terror’, Chris will also be joined by renowned actor Martin Reeve who will guide us through a patterned landscape of prose and poetry.

Chris is a Topsham-based songwriter, composer, arranger, lyricist and multi-instrumentalist who plays the guitar, ‘cello, piano, piano accordion & mandocello.

“Chris Hoban… expresses, with musical skill and poetic originality, the beauty and diversity of the whole of England.” (Dame Judith Weir, Master of the King’s Music 2014-24)