Sonic Shorts Of Frank Borzage is a unique and fascinating show featuring champion fiddler Kate Lissauer that pays homage to the titular Borzage, one of early Hollywood’s most distinctive early directors whose films, 7th Heaven (1927) and Bad Girl (1931) earned him two coveted Best Director Academy Awards.

In this absorbing glimpse of a bygone age, two of his original and mesmerising silent movie shorts are brought vividly to life, accompanied by an original score performed by Lissauer and two fellow-musicians who make up the trio, Sonic Silents.
The Pitch o Chance and The Pilgrim are both adventure films that evoke a world of hobos, travelling men, cowboys and adventurous women, and the moral and practical dilemmas to which their precarious lives will lead them.

Sonic Silents play gorgeous old-time country and bluegrass with Lissauer, also leader of The Buffalo Gals, fiddling – naturally – alongside Leon Hunt, regarded as the country’s best five-string banjo player and Jason Titley, one of the UK’s finest Bluegrass guitarists.
With music ranging from lively to melancholy, it’s a poignant revelation of what were often hard-lives of days gone by.

katelissauer.com/sonic-silents.
Saturday, January, 21, Winterborne Stickland, Pamela Hambro Hall.
Sunday, January 22, Studland Village hall, both at 7.30pm.
Visit artsreach.co.uk for more details.