Story Time with Mark Turner and Jessie Gordon
Jessie and Mark have been best friends for years. So many of them. And there comes a point after that many years when you start to finish each other’s sentences. Or sandwiches. One of the two. Sometimes both.
Either way, they have stories to tell. So for this show, they’ll be sharing some of their best and worst memories and the songs that have been the sound track to their many years of friendship. As always, it may go off the rails, and the audience is free to take the wheel. Have requests? Yell them out! Want to hear about the best party Mark went to on his 2019 European tour, or the time Jessie fell off a park swing at 3am? Perhaps tonight’s the night!
“an absolute wonder to watch, where every key change is flawless, and they never skip a beat” ★★★★½ - Megan Hogan, Fringefeed 2022
Presented by: Jessie Gordon
Jessie Gordon is a very sun-shy Perth red-headed singer and songwriter who brings her love of old world roots music into the 21st Century. She has toured Australia, America, South East Asia, Germany, France, Spain, Poland and the UK. She is also a 20 time Fringe World Music and Cabaret Award winner. Her original music is a combination of soulful blues, harmonic gospel and joyful swinging country.
She has also recorded nine albums, including two with Mark Turner (Best Friends 2019 and Live at Kidogo 2021), an original album (A Work of Friction 2018), two intercontinental albums entitled Berlin Nights (2017) and Unknowable Journey (2020) with Berlin band Ginger Blues, the latter of which won the German Blues Award for 2020, and most recently the eponymous Sassafras (2021).