“Music is Everywhere, Everything and Everyone.”

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Charlotte Keeffe’s Sound Brush project may be a solo venture in form, but in spirit it feels anything but solitary. She describes each performance as a series of “secret, or disguised duets, trios, quartets…” with Everything and Everyone in the moment - an improvised conversation with the world around her.

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Inspired by abstract painters, Keeffe treats her trumpets and flugelhorn as Sound (paint) Brushes, using them to create spontaneous sonic artworks in response to space, energy, and time. Each performance becomes a living canvas for imagination, emotion, and experimentation.

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In 2022, Keeffe was invited by world-renowned trumpeter Dave Douglas to take part in the Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT). For her commissioned piece, she collaborated with filmmaker Omri Dagan, capturing an audiovisual duet with the mighty City of London.

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“London and the trumpet share unique percussive and vocal qualities. Enriched in history and glazed in overstimulation, the City’s driveness, heaviness and tightness constantly spew out spontaneous unique Fanfares!” - Charlotte Keeffe

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Sound Brush Performances include; 

Ear We Are Festival in Switzerland, STIO Festival in Austria, Great Yarmouth’s Yarmonics Festival, Derby’s Out Front! Festival 2Funky in Leicester, Two Ship concert series in Hastings, Oxford Improvisers, London’s NoizeMaschin!!, The Pool, Klinker Club, Hundred Years Gallery, LUME and The Vortex, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Lincoln’s Weird Garden