Meet the team

Founder/Director/Musician

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Aerial Co-ordinators

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Music co-lead/Musician/Assistant lighting engineer

Dominic is a performer, improviser, and composer based in Birmingham, where they enjoy the opportunity to draw inspiration from a range of influences encompassing a breadth of classical and folk traditions.

Dominic trained as a bassoonist at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and while there also studied the full range of the orchestral woodwind family. They currently specialise in whistles, clarinet, and bassoon, while continuing to expand their interest in simple system wind instruments from across Europe and Southern & Eastern Asia.

Performing highlights include festival and ceilidh appearances across the UK with bands Juniper and Filkin's Ensemble, working with the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, and creating music for several contemporary dance and movement productions, including working with live improvised scores.

Sound Engineer/Musician

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Alex Garden is a fiddle player, guitarist, composer and producer with over 15 years experience performing folk, electronic, classical and improvised music around the UK. Alongside working with Tarren, Sheelanagig, The Drystones, Harriet Riley & Alex Garden, The Terra Collective and The Longest Johns, Alex is a recording artist who produces a variety of collaborative work. Alex studied music at University of Southampton, graduated in 2017 and moved to Bristol shortly after, where they are now fully immersed in the city’s thriving music scene. Their longest running project, The Drystones, was nominated for the BBC Young Folk Award in 2018.

In 2025 they launched the Greenbank Folk Club, a new organisation in Bristol, bringing world class folk music performances, workshops and ceilidhs to the community. They received Arts Council England funding in 2024 and work with project partners EFDSS, Halsway Manor, Bristol Beacon, Ear Trumpet Music, Cuculi Records and English Folk Expo to research and deliver better accessibility in this sector whilst establishing a new folk club for Bristol run by younger people. Alex has been running a regular, twice-monthly, folk session at The Greenbank Pub since 2022.

Lighting Designer

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Lighting designer, Sound engineer and musician, Rob has a focus on giving grass roots music and events the extra production value they deserve, transforming them into a full experience for everyone involved. As well as this, they also tour with the Jasmin Vardimon company, a contemporary dance group and Imitating The Dog, a theatre company with a focus on digital technology. As a musician he performs with Juniper, the Conservatoire Folk Ensemble O’Sullivan, Hammond & Roberts.

Partner/Venue

“Dream way too big and forget not your purpose, but live every day like your life is a circus.”

Founded in 2011 by circus performer and educator Joe Fearn, CircusMASH has built a thriving creative community in Birmingham dedicated to empowerment, self-expression and togetherness through circus arts.

Over the past decade, CircusMASH has become a hub for people of all ages and abilities to explore performance, develop skills, and celebrate individuality. From aerial and circus skills to theatre and creative collaborations, their work spans classes, community projects and large-scale productions, all designed to make circus accessible, inclusive and inspiring.