Demi Spriggs + Friends: Of Love and Land – Live Scores at Newman Cinema

Composer and songwriter Demi Spriggs presents Of Love and Land at Newman Cinema: a live-scored film blending British folk, country, and quietly experimental jazz-pop in an intimate performance.

Composer and songwriter Demi Spriggs presents live at Newman the performance Of Love and Land. This is a work in which songs and melodic soundscapes drawn from the British Isles and American country-folk function as a live musical soundtrack to a handmade film—an ode to her mother.

Songs from her recent album Nights on the Folkway, released by Submersion Records, come together with the jazz and orchestral soundscapes created by her five-piece ensemble. At the same time, images of her mother and the British countryside convey the legacy of British folk music, inextricably bound to the land and its stories.

Demi Spriggs is a musician based between Athens and Essex. Her work loosely follows folk and country traditions, crafting songs for and about the weary, while traversing themes of love and loss. Her band, the “friends,” is an orchestral project that envelops these original compositions and folk covers in a quietly experimental jazz-pop sound.