The Living Room - Upstairs at The Grapes (please note this is upstairs and is accessed by stairs - no lift is available)
Friday 10th October 2025
7.30pm.
Tickets £10 (pay more if you can, less if you need to)
It is with great excitement we invite Cirenne to join us again as part of the 'returners' series of the Living Room Sessions. Cirenne is the bringing together of two of the most understated, talents on the Bristol music scene and we're lucky to have them back. Last here in June 2024, this time, they will be bringing with them tracks from their newly released EP. Here is a bit about the duo in their own words:
Cirenne is a singular duo playing new, experimental music at an intersection of klezmer, folk, chamber jazz and free improvisation, using violin, viola, trumpet and electronics. Playful and cinematic, deadly serious and sometimes pretty silly, Cirenne reflect upon real-world conditions and explore imagined utopias.
They weave scenes and soundscapes that are at once dense, rich and mellifluous, spacious, dancing and angular. Based in Bristol, the duo is comprised of Celeste Cantor-Stephens (trumpet/electronics/toys/compositions) (TORU, Shabbos Ranks) and Caelia Lunniss (violin/viola) (Spindle Ensemble, Terra Coda). Cirenne has played in spaces including Sands Film & Music Studios, The Ivy House (London), Chapter Arts Centre (Cardiff) and for Improvs Greatest Hits (Bristol), sharing the stage with bands such as Gentle Stranger, and NY trio Astroturf Noise.
Their song 'Trying the Seas: Try 3.5' won the People's Choice Award for Best New Klezmer Composition at the 2022 Bubbe Awards, and their music has been played on Radio 3's Freeness. According to Benny Dart, of Friendly Records, Bristol: “Their air of dancing humour recalls the compositions of New York avant garde street musician Moondog or the spaciousness of American string group the Kronos Quartet.”
