GRAND UNION ORCHESTRA – SOUNDING BETHNAL GREEN, 1 & 15 Feb, 1 & 15 March, 5 April – 6.45-9pm
The Grand Union Orchestra is the acknowledged pioneer and leading exponent of cross-cultural music-making in the UK. Once memorably described as ‘making cultural diversity an art-form’ – and more recently commended for its ‘practical idealism’! – it continues to blaze a trail unrivalled by any other organisation. Sounding Bethnal Green is a development of Trading Roots, re-imagined for a series of events on the first and third Friday of each month at St John’s, to bring to the attention of local residents the extraordinary variety of people and...
Read MoreWILLIAM BASINSKI & LAWRENCE ENGLISH: Friday 29 March, 7pm & 10pm
William Basinski is a United States avant-garde composer of ambient music via tape music and process music. Basinski is also a clarinetist, saxophonist, sound artist, and video artist. He is best known for his four volume album, The Disintegration Loops, constructed from rapidly decaying twenty year old tapes of his earlier music. Lawrence English is writer, musician and media artist based in Brisbane, Australia. Working across a broad range of art forms, English’s work is eclectic and characterises a long-term exploration of various themes – including audio/visual environments...
Read MoreDYLAN CARLSON – Tuesday 26 March, 7pm
plus Thomas Ragsdale. Tickets: £15 advance 18+ “I guess what ties this all together—all my musical projects and my life in general—is the idea of the quest, that search for new horizons and something unnamable and possibly unreachable,” Dylan Carlson says regarding the theme behind his solo album Conquistador. Carlson’s musical explorations can be traced back to his pioneering work with the minimalist ensemble Earth—from the groundbreaking drone metal of Earth 2 to the ominous instrumental twang of Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method. Untethered from the...
Read MoreMUSIC FOR CUBA – Benefit Concert: Saturday 9 March, 6pm
This is a benefit concert to raise money for a project to buy musical instruments and spare parts for the Conservatorio Guillermo Tomás music school in Havana. The donation will be taken to Cuba in April by a solidarity brigade organised by the campaign Rock around the Blockade. This project follows up on a previous fundraising campaign to send a piano to Cuba initiated by Cuban pianist Eralys Fernandez. Eralys Fernandez – piano Solo piano pieces by E. Lecuona, G. Gershwin, C. Debussy Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 2 in G minor Op. 5 by L. van Beethoven Catherine Lee – cello, Cettina...
Read MoreO’HOOLEY & TIDOW: WINTERFOLK – Saturday 15 December, 7.30pm
Join ‘one of British Folk’s mightiest combinations’ (MOJO), O’Hooley & Tidow, for an evening of beautifully performed original, contemporary, and traditional winter songs from their latest album ‘WinterFolk Vol 1’, produced with BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Ben Walker. Nominated this year for the fourth time in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and described by the Guardian as ‘exceptional songwriters’, Belinda and Heidi’s powerful, deeply moving, and soulful performances are infused with an honesty and empathy that will disarm the hardest of hearts. BBC...
Read MoreLUMEN CHAMBER CHOIR: A FESTIVAL OF CHRISTMAS, Wednesday 12 December, 7pm
Lumen choir are going festive this holiday season with a celebration of choral music, featuring Christmas classics and festive favourites. But we also have a little something extra! We’ll be joined by members of the Tower Theatre Company who will be accompanying us with some of your favourite readings, poems and tales for the Christmas season… and there will even be a chance to join in with a Christmas carol or two! Music to include; In The Bleak Midwinter, Ding Dong Merrily On High, Bethlehem Down, Gaudete and much more! Miss it, and yule be sorry! Admission is free and there will be...
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