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Gina Moxley’s show The Patient Gloria, produced with Dublin’s Abbey Theatre and
Pan Pan Theatre Company, has been one of the hot tickets of this year’s Fringe
programme and the performers received their Herald Angel award hot-foot from their

Sunday show from fellow Irish-person Camille O’Sullivan.

She is in the middle of a run of shows at the Pleasance, singing the songbook of Nick
Cave with a command of cabaret performance that has made her a regular Fringe
favourite.

O’Sullivan also presented an Angel to guitarist Nick Harper, who stopped by en route
to a train south after the Jazz Bar run of his show 58 Fordwych Road which celebrates
his upbringing when 1960s virtuosi Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Davey Graham
would regularly drop by to see his father Roy Harper, and Paul Simon and Sandy

Denny were also visitors. He opened our ceremony with an equally virtuosic version
of Graham’s Anji.

The Festival’s Head of Music Andrew Moore collected an Angel on behalf of pianist

Angela Hewitt for her two-night performance of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, part
of her epic Bach Odyssey that had taken her to Manchester to play the composer’s
Goldberg Variations on Saturday night.

He delivered her thanks, which cited her Scottish heritage.

“My Scottish grandparents on my mother’s side (they came from the Borders—

Hawick and Galashiels) would be so happy to know about this. I was a champion
Highland Dancer when I was a kid (I still have my kilt in the Ancient Hunting

McLeod tartan!), and Scotland has always had a special place in my heart.”

Angel awards also went to previous winners 1927 for Roots, which the inventive
company is performing at the Church Hill Theatre as part of the Festival’s You Are
Here season, and to comedian Jonny Pelham, whose Off Limits show at Just the Tonic

makes hilarity of coming to terms with childhood abuse.

The week’s Little Devil, recognising the ethos of “the show must go on” was accepted
by Robert Wilson of art venue Jupiter Artland on behalf of the Trisha Brown dancers,

whose outdoor performances there went ahead in defiance of the terrible weather.

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