Faye MacCalman

Faye is an improvisor, performer and composer on saxophone, clarinet and voice with a boundary challenging ear. Growing up in the North of England, spending time at school in the Australian countryside and honing her ears as an improvisor in Montreal before returning to Newcastle upon Tyne, her music making is free-roaming; drawing on jazz, surrealism, folk-blues and the avant-garde, combining magical and socially activist themes.
Faye composes for and leads award winning, genre defying band ‘Archipelago’, as well as performing solo and in collaboration with like minded artists across the UK and beyond.