On Land’s Edge Festival closes the weekend with Simffoni Mara evening. This year sees new music from David Pepper and Jobina Tinnemans, another new collaboration with Visual Artist Connor Malone and poetry readings from Ceri Wyn Jones.

Simffoni Mara is a collaborative project, inspired by lyrics and visuals, based on life on the edge of the Irish Sea, life on it and life underneath it.

Like Manx shearwater and petrels and swifts, these songs live their lives on the sea. And equally, like seabirds, they are about lives little studied and poorly known.

As a very first introduction to her new chamber opera, set on both sides of the Atlantic ocean in the 17th century, Jobina Tinnemans has written three songs that will have their premiere performance in her coastal muse, here in North-Pembrokeshire. Songs about ordinary people at sea, crossing continents for weeks depending on the weather, their stories retold as they are found in 17th century private letters Jobina is currently transcribing for the Prize Papers Project, based at the National Archives in Kew, in commission of the Oldenburg University.