Dave Reeves: performer poet and freereed player.
“a kind of cultural hired gun around the West Midlands” The Times Saturday Review.
“Entre la tradition des conteurs de blues et celle des poètes enragés, Reeves n’a pas choisi. Il mélange les genres” Midi Libre, France.
Dave Reeves is a performer poet and freereed player. He accompanies his spoken word performances on bluesharp and melodeon, amongst other instruments. At times he uses these to give his work a ‘hokum’ feel, at others he creates droning soundscapes as background to his voice. His performances are as at home in folk, world and roots venues as in arts centres & poetry cabarets.
Writing in English and Black Country Dialect he’s performed in venues as diverse as The Other Place theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; a limestone cavern which can only be reached by narrowboat, deep beneath Dudley Castle; alongside theatre companies and rockbands; and to an audience of 7 (plus tables full of bemused non-English speaking customers) outside the Moli 2 bar in Finestrat, Costa Blanca.
His writing has been commissioned for inclusion in public art and by BBC national radio, and appeared in publications which include Poetry Australia and Norwegian text books.
Dave also regularly works in community settings encouraging other people to express themselves in words, and to use their own personal stories to create usable histories during public history projects. He also organizes Extreme Writing Workshops