Finding my voice

This concert celebrates creativity and is the result of a close collaboration between four acclaimed musicians and four astounding writers. Together they will explore what it means to find your voice after it has been lost.

Programme

Trad. West African Aramata
Trad. Scottish Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair 
Trad. Ukrainian Oi, U Vishnevomu Sadochku
Poem The wonder of my voice
Trad. West African Faso des Nou
Poem I lost my voice
Sidiki Dembele Tama
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson Calvary Ostinato Movement lll from Black Folk Song Suite
Alice Zawadzki China Lane
Poem When I grew up
Kuljit Bhamra Himalaya
Poems I had a voice; In my mother tongue with Ali Tajvidi Raftan and Trad. Armenian (arr. Mohen Karbassi) Zepyr Nasim
JS Bach Allemande and Sarabande from Cello Suite No.4 in Eb major, BWV 1010
Poem This voice is not my voice
Trad. Sardinian Tancas Serradas a Muru 

This programme promises an exciting 70 minute journey of solos and ensemble improvisations led by each of the musicians, exploring wide-ranging influences from the West African Griot tradition, Punjabi music from India, Western European classical music and folk music from Europe and the Middle East. Interwoven with this will be specially-written texts spoken and sung by their authors adding further cultural references from Iran and South Africa.

On stage

Alice Zawadzki voice/violin
Laura van der Heijden voice/cello
Kuljit Bhamra MBE tabla
Sidiki Dembele djembe, kamelen n’goni, calabash
Writers: Shahab, Tanya, Nalougo and Yamikani Tracy

Tickets £16.50/£8.50 (under 30s)

Part of voices unwrapped at Kings Place