Lara Eidi & Anthony Fort: The Living Songbook

Folk roots, jazz freedom and original songs.

Returning to Toulouse Lautrec for her third appearance, Lara Eidi presents The Living Songbook with fellow musician and improviser Anthony Fort.

Folk and jazz share a love of melodies passed between musicians, reshaped in the moment and given new life with every performance. Lara and Anthony explore that common ground through songs from different folk traditions, jazz standards and Laras own compositions.

Moving between voice, two pianos, guitar and fiddle, the pair may honour a familiar melody, take it somewhere unexpected or let an arrangement open into improvisation. Their shared musical language began at Londons Union Chapel, where they discovered a mutual fascination with how far a song can travel when musicians have the freedom to play.

The Living Songbook brings together the songs we inherit and the ones we write, with stories, spontaneity and two musicians who relish making music together.