NW Live Arts presents Creative Connections, in conjunction with St John’s Waterloo.

We are NW Live Arts. We love music and we love telling stories. We’ve invited five musicians to co-curate a concert, sharing their favourite music from their cultures and their careers as musicians. The result is a captivating mix of music from plainchant by Hildegard of Bingen, to music by North American composer Kenji Bunch, accordion virtuosi Richard Galliano and Astor Piazzolla, violin music by Enescu and arrangements of pieces by Attab and Kuljit. The programme will also include solos from Kuljit Bhamra’s latest album A Tablanaut’s Journey. The programme is delightfully woven together in a continuous 70-minute performance, telling stories of what brings us together in a joyful celebration of our shared humanity.

Alongside the concert performance, we’re running creative workshops with the St John’s Waterloo community with Aga Serugo Lugo. In these workshops, music, improvisation and storytelling will collide, culminating in a soundscape devised by the musicians and workshop attendees as equal creative partners.

“I’m delighted that NW Live Arts has created a mission to actively create  platforms where social themes and ideas can be delivered in engaging ways – directly into the hearts of communities by talented artists and musicians.” 

Kuljit Bhamra MBE

“Just seen NW Live Arts …’Along the road’ beyond brilliant….the reason why we live in London!” 

Paul –  Audience member June 2023

Performers

David Zucchi saxophone
Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade accordion
Emma Purslow violin
Attab Haddad oud
Kuljit Bhamra tabla

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England