Harp and poetry isnt the coolest gig in town and on a cold blustery Sunday night during the busy festival period the tragically poor turn out could testify to that. Performed in the magnificent St Michael and All Angels church the interspersed harp playing and poetry recitals complimented each other, exploring spirituality in a divine setting. Magdelena Reising played the celtic harp, which due to the acoustics reverberated all around, rising up through my feet and making me tingle. The sound of the celtic harp is so pure and ancient its like a shortcut into a past steeped in mist and myths. A mysticism that Reising herself embraces sharing with us how she became inspired to play the harp through a series of dreams of a lady playing a harp by the sea.In stark contrast to the deep resonance that Reising evoked with her singing and harp playing, the poems seemed over-simplistic with childlike rhyming, hitting on platitudes rather than profundity. The only exception being Charles Anthonys last recital, which repeated the phrase, Ill do you a deal, scraping under the surface of the human condition to reveal more complex truths. Overall, Reisings harp playing was magical in the perfect setting and although Anthonys storytelling via poetry would be better suited to a child audience it was a great shame that the place was almost empty.