Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall (NFOJAiM 2025)

Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall

Ouseburn Victoria Tunnel - ‘Sounds of the Underground’

51 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ

Saturday 27th September 2025

EARLY START: 6.00pm

Tickets are priced at £10 with an optional £2 festival donation available.

Presented by Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music in association with GemArts, Jazz North East and Ouseburn Trust.


Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall
Olivia Moore (Violins) / Adam Fairhall (Accordion)

Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall’s duo bring Indian classical music, American folk music and contemporary jazz together in a highly individual manner. The improvisational aspects of the source traditions are used as an opportunity to blend disparate compositional materials and soloing vocabularies in a subtle way, resulting in a distinctive duo idiom that extends the performers’ established artistic voices.

The format of accordion and violin is particularly well suited for this material; Olivia switches between violins depending on whether the material is Indian or Western in origin, and Adam switches between a tradition Stradella accordion (for highly rhythmic, folk-based playing) and a free bass accordion (for more contrapuntal playing). The repertoire is a mixture of original pieces, Appalachian folk tunes and pieces inherited by Olivia from her Indian teacher. All are approached with an overall sense of creative improvisation.

“Nourished by Indian and jazz traditions, but with an elegance that comes from her classical training, Olivia Moore’s violin has an Eastern tang that is genuinely entrancing” – Manchester Evening News

“A hugely accomplished instrumentalist” – The Wire

“Adam Fairhall is a total star” – Independent on Sunday

www.newcastlefestivalofjazzandimprovisedmusic.co.uk

The performance from Olivia Moore and Adam Fairhall comes as a Newcastle album launch for the recently released ‘Triangles’ on New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings. 

https://newjazzandimprovisedmusicrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/triangles

This is an early evening concert for ‘Sounds of the Underground’ in conjunction with Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music and GemArts. Music starts at 6.00pm to around 6.45pm / 7.00pm allowing audiences to attend later evening events scheduled for 7.30pm at either The Cumberland Arms (Archipelago / Nina Garcia) or Glasshouse (Orchestral Qawwali Project featuring Rushil Ranjan & Abi Sampa) 

https://ouseburntrust.org.uk/events/sounds-of-the-underground/