Trio of Men
Trio of Men - Ben Ballard, Steve Sowden and Hugh Nankivell - are municipal song-makers; all glorious asymmetric rhythms, strange headgear, mis-spent harmonies and the joy of living. They have been making songs in care homes, hospitals, schools, fields, libraries, bus shelters and with non-traditional community choir The Choral Engineers. Sometimes you can dance, sometimes you can try, but find that you don’t have seven legs.
They are the house band for the FRANK Water charity and have been heard/observed writing instant festival songs with strangers & friends at Womad, Cornbury & End of the Road.
For Wavelength, Trio Of Men present an experiment musico-performance on the journey from the tail-end of their 5 year research into the explorations (locally and globally) inspired by the mathematician and Engineer Oliver Heaviside to the starting point of a new journey into the first ever wave-machines built inside William Froude’s house in Chelston in the middle of the 19th Century.