Mike Dennis: Violinist, Rapper, Looper
Not to be missed!
Tom Brown’s favourite Mike Dennis returns for the finale of the Hardy Har comedy festival 2025.
Mike Dennis is a classically-trained violinist whose boyhood love of Run DMC, Beastie Boys and Gangstarr led him to create a unique kind of string-heavy hip hop music he refers to as Violinica.
Performing using Jess (violin), a loop pedal and a cajon, Mike builds up layers of dense harmony and embellishes with thoughtful, energetic rhymes drawing inspiration from daily British life and the perils and profits of love with a geeky fanaticism for rhythm-bending and syncopation.
You won’t have seen an artist like this before.
