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Aoife Mannix and Janie Armour combine music and spoken word on their latest project ‘Different Words for Snow.’ They have been commissioned by Phrased & Confused to produce new work for the Summer Sundae Weekender Festival The festival takes place in Leicester from 8-10 August 2008.

This follows the success of their poetry and music show ‘Growing Up An Alien’, produced by Mike Kirchner for Apples & Snakes with support from Arts Council England. The show premiered at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival in 2007 before travelling round the country. A book of the poems from the show has been published by Tall Lighthouse . The show will be next be performed at the Ledbury Festival on July 12th 2008.

This summer Aoife will also be performing at the O2 Wireless Festival and at Latitude. Her first collection of poetry ‘The Elephant In The Corner’ was published in 2005 and her new collection ‘Turn The Clocks Upside Down’ will be out in September from Tall Lighthouse. Her first novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’ is due to be published by Lubin & Kleyner in late 2008. She has performed throughout the UK as well as Europe. In early 2007, she did a poetry tour of Taiwan, Thailand and India with the British Council. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, London Live, Resonance FM and the BBC World Service as well as published in numerous anthologies and magazines.

Janie is a composer, musical director and accordionist, working mainly in the theatre medium. She has over 30 professional theatre shows to her credit, including composition for the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, York Theatre Royal, Nottingham Playhouse, the Young Vic, Rhubarb Theatre for Children, Trestle Theatre, and twelve shows for Chichester Festival Theatre. Janie is currently resident composer for Vamos Theatre, the mask specialist company based in Worcester. She has performed as accordionist in Piaf (York Theatre Royal) and in The Life of Galileo (Royal National Theatre) as well as in many other theatre shows and has collaborated extensively with spoken word artists, including storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton, poet Choman Hardi, and most recently with Aoife Mannix. Janie plays piano and mandolin as well as accordion, and has performed with bands at festivals throughout the UK and Europe, including (amongst others) Lisbon International Festival, WOMAD Reading, Glastonbury, Leeds International, Munich Festival, the Golowan Festival in Penzance and Vlissingen Street Festival, Holland.