Siapiau plus Steve Lewis

Siapiau Maggie Nicols: voice/keyboards - Fran Bass: electric bass/voice - Richard Harrison: drums/voice - Phil Hargreaves: reeds/voice Maggie Nicols has been a force in improvised music since the 60’s, and her involvement in John Stevens’ Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Siapiau was formed in 2022 to play improvised music that reaches across bases, touching on song, dance grooves, abstraction, tonality, the power of the voice. And at all times the transformative effects of Listening.

Steve Lewis Steve Lewis is a vocalist and guitarist based in Morecambe - he has a long history with Liverpool, as he played the second-ever Frakture gig in 1997. He explores the possibilities of the human voice in the 21st century in relation to the classic forms of popular song and its related tonality.