A Flat Place: Audiovisual Night Celebrating the Norfolk Broads

Friday, 23 May 2025 at 19:00 at The Holloway, Norwich

The Happy Couple are Judith Goodman and David Ross, a unique instrumental folk duo creating music, photography and video inspired by the countryside around their home in the Yare Valley on the Norfolk Broads. Judith writes for and plays lapsteel, tenor guitar and Stoessel lute. David plays the rarely heard mouthbow and from his collection of jaw harps from around the world. They can often be heard playing at their favourite spots, such as the ruin of St. Saviour's, Penguin Dyke or in the secluded backwater Newman's Hole on their rowing boat.The Happy Couple have performed at Cecil Sharp House, The South Bank Centre and Lavenham Guildhall. They have been featured on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone, Late Junction, Cerys Matthews and the Riley and Coe show. Judith Goodman studied at the Royal College of Music prior to becoming a freelance French horn player in London. Having recorded and toured all over the UK and Europe, she now lives next to a nature reserve in the Norfolk Broads which she…