Kings Place, London. - Live and Streamed Winter Season Announced.
Friday, November 20, 2020
The show will go on at Kings Place London as the renowned multi-arts venue will stream a host of live performances this November and re-open its doors to live audiences in December. Press release att.
Ruth Marsh from Kings Place writes;
Live events streamed from behind closed doors this November include Yazz Ahmed, Dinosaur and Binker Golding for EFG London Jazz Festival (screening from this this week until 29 November) and Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar celebrating of the 350th anniversary of the blind Irish harp composer Turlough Carolan in an event streaming from 26 Nov - 6 December.
Events taking place in front of a live audience in December include Sheku Kanneh-Mason and friends, Aurora Orchestra and Steven Osborne, The Brodsky Quartet, The Guilty Feminist, Sam Lee and Folk in the Fall. A range of festive shows have also been announced including Robin Ince’s star-studded 24-hour marathon Nine Carols for Socially Distanced People and Awake Arise – A Christmas Show For Our Times, a unique collaboration between five of the English folk scene’s most inventive artists, Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans & Hazel Askew) and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith. If, due to continuing lockdown restrictions, events are unable to take place in front of a live audience then they will be streamed online from the venue.
Kings Place is working so hard to keep live work happening!
FULL PRESS RELEASE:
The show goes on at Kings Place London with live-streamed gigs from Dinosaur, Yazz Ahmed and Binker Golding at the EFG London Jazz Festival in November and a packed December programme featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason and friends, Aurora Orchestra and Steven Osborne, The Brodsky Quartet, The Guilty Feminist, Sam Lee and Folk in the Fall
Get into the festive spirit with a series of live Christmas shows including Robin Ince’s star-studded 24-hour marathon Nine Carols for Socially Distanced People and Awake Arise – A Christmas Show For Our Times, a unique collaboration between five of the English folk scene’s most inventive artists, Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans & Hazel Askew) and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith
The show will go on at Kings Place London as the renowned multi-arts venue will stream a host of live performances this November and re-open its doors to live audiences in December.
Three highlight gigs of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2020 will stream from the venue until 29 November: Mercury-nominated jazz quartet Dinosaur celebrating a decade of music-making with the first ever live performance of their third album To The Earth (streaming from now); British-Bahraini trumpet player, Yazz Ahmed, with a live solo show blurring the lines between jazz and electronic sound design, bringing together the sounds of her mixed heritage in what has been described as ‘psychedelic Arab jazz, intoxicating and compelling’ (streaming from 8pm 19 November) and saxophonist Binker Golding (one half of MOBO award-winning Binker & Moses) joined by bassist John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble for a completely improvised set of high energy, boundary-pushing free-jazz (streaming from 8pm 21 November).
Other highlights streaming live from Kings Place to your living room include Philippe Sands, author of one of Waterstones’ books of the year The Ratline: On The Trail of a Nazi Fugitive, in conversation with Elif Shafak in partnership with Jewish Book Week (streaming from 15 - 22 November); a celebration of the 350th anniversary of the blind Irish harp composer Turlough Carolan presented in association with Chamber Music on Valentia Festival, with poetry read by Line of Duty star Adrian Dunbar and music from the combined talents of members of Flook, Fidelio Trio, Carducci Quartet, Smith Quartet & Irish Chamber Orchestra (streaming 26 November - 6 December) and an evening of poetry and discussion through the words of Romantic poet William Wordsworth in association with Poet in the City (streaming 5 - 13 December).
Lockdown rules permitting, Kings Place will open its doors to live audiences from 6 December for a host of events in front of a socially distanced audience, with many also streaming live online via the Kings Place digital KPlayer. Live highlights include:
The London Bridge Trio – David Adams (violin), Kate Gould (cello), Tim Horton (piano) are joined by Gary Pomeroy, violist from the Heath Quartet, in a one-hour concert that contrasts Beethoven’s dramatic early piano trio with Dvořák’s beautiful and ever-popular Piano Quartet in E-flat. (6 December live in front of a socially distanced audience)
Comedian Deborah Frances-White hosts a special live episode of her blockbusting podcast The Guilty Feminist (50 million downloads and counting!), recorded in front of a live audience. Each episode, Deborah and her guests discuss their noble goals as 21st-century feminists and the paradoxes and insecurities that undermine them. (7 December in front of live a socially distanced audience, plus streaming online)
Winner of six BBC Folk Awards, Chris Wood performs live showcasing writing permeated with love and wry intelligence as he celebrates the sheer one-thing-after-anotherness. Chris has played with The Royal Shakespeare Company and was a key member of The Imagined Village along with Billy Bragg & Martin Carthy. (9 December live in front of a socially distanced audience)
The Brodsky Quartet, joined by tenor Daniel Norman and pianist Sholto Kynoch for a special performance of Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge, presented with Jeremy Hamway-Bidgood’s shadow-play film, edited live by the director during the performance. (9 December live in front of a socially distanced audience)
Superstar cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performing an exclusive evening of chamber music as part of the Kings Place Master Series alongside his siblings and friends Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin), Ayla Sahin (violin), Didier Osindero (viola) and Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano). (11 December live in front of a socially distanced audience)
The Aurora Orchestra with special guest, multi-award-winning Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, in a kaleidoscopic programme pairing Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet with a chamber arrangement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, plus a brand new work from exciting young Australian composer Sylvia Lim. (12 December live in front of a socially distanced audience)
Sam Lee - award-winning inventive singer, folksong collector, conservationist and founder/director of The Nest Collective - closes Kings Place’s 2020 series Nature Unwrapped with this special show of folksongs inspired by nature and accompanied by a special ensemble (18 December live in front of a socially distanced audience)
Folk in the Fall - the long-awaited all-day festival celebrating the very best in the UK’s folk scene in partnership between Alan Bearman Music and Kings Place - will light up Kings Place Hall One andTwo throughout Saturday 19 December. The packed day includes live performances from Leveret, a collaboration between three of England’s finest folk musicians, Andy Cutting (button accordion), Sam Sweeney (fiddle) & Rob Harbron (concertina); Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith mixing classic old songs with new material that gets to the heart of live in Britain today; Northumbrian piper and composer Kathryn Tickell with her long-time “right hand woman” Amy Thatcher (accordion, clog dancing); a a stripped-back and intricately woven set from Emily Portman & Rob Harbron and folk virtuoso Martin Simpson, who has picked up an astonishing 32 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominations in his 40+ year career and is a true master of the art. (19 December live in front of a socially distanced audience)
The Christmas spirit is alive and well at Kings Place this December with a host of live and digital seasonal treats to get you in the festive mood. Highlights include:
Comedian Robin Ince’s 24 hour live spectacular Nine Lessons and Carols For Socially Distanced People - an update on his annual Nine Lessons show which has become a Kings Place Christmas institution - which will see him live on stage and joined virtually by very special guests from the world of space, science, stand-up and song including Professor Brian Cox, astronauts Chris Hadfield, Helen Sharman and Samantha Cristoforetti, stand-ups Rachel Parris and Josie Long and musicians Nitin Sawhney and Tanita Tikaram. (12pm 12 December until 12pm 13 December in front of a live audience, plus free online streaming, with donations to Turn2Us, Doctors Without Borders, Mind: for Better Mental Health and the Kings Place Music Foundation encouraged)
The Marian Consort following the thread of Advent mystery through an hour-long sequence for voices, All Creation Waits, featuring intricate renaissance works by Palestrina that once rang through the Sistine Chapel alongside the ecstatic serenity of contemporary motets by MacMillan and Treseder. At the heart of the programme sit two songs devoted to Mary: a beautiful setting of the Inviolata, written by the Afro-Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano in homage to his predecessor Josquin, and the 16-year-old Britten’s sublime miniature, A Hymn to the Virgin. (15 December in front of a live socially-distanced audience)
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment launch their new season of Bach, the Universe & Everything Sunday morning sessions, juxtaposing Bach’s cantatas with scientific talks, with a seasonal treat. The words ‘Marvel, o Men, at this great mystery’ open the first aria of this Advent Cantata, BWV 62, which ponders the enigmatic complexity of the Supreme Ruler, whilst a talk by Dr Harry Cliff explores what the future may hold for the quest to understand the fundamental laws of nature. (20 December in front of a live socially-distanced audience)
Awake Arise - A Christmas Show For Our Times is an unmissable collaboration from five of the English folk scene’s most inventive artists, Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans & Hazel Askew) and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith, celebrating the riches of our varied winter traditions and reflecting upon the hope and resilience in music and song that can bring joy to us all in the darkest season. (20 December in front of a live socially-distanced audience)
If lockdown continues during December the live events (with the possible exception of Folk In The Fall) will move online.
Helen Wallace, Artistic Director of Kings Place said:
“I’m delighted to say that we’ll continue to present a vibrant programme from Kings Place despite this second lockdown. Having run more than 100 events since September both in our halls and live-streamed, and developed our digital audience, we’re covid-proof, but also looking forward to bringing audiences back into our halls as soon as it is safe to do so for some captivating – and comic – Christmas shows”.
A registered charity operating with a small key body of staff, Kings Place is proud to have continued to deliver a packed programme of culture throughout the Covid-19 crisis. From digitally streaming archive events through and live behind-closed-doors concerts via the venue’s new KPlayer since May to re-opening to audiences from 1 August for their one-on-one live Culture Clinics and hosting big names at the London Podcast Festival in September, the venue has never gone dark.
For tickets to live events an online streams please visit http://www.kingsplace.co.uk.
About Kings Place
Kings Place is a creative centre within 5 minutes’ walk of King’s Cross-St Pancras, presenting music, paintings and sculpture from around the world. There are two beautiful concert halls, with concerts and events taking place nightly and cafes, bars and fine dining on the waterfront of Regent’s Canal. In addition to providing the headquarters for The Guardian, The London Sinfonietta and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, there are two art galleries within the building, Pangolin London, which is run by the renowned Gloucestershire-based sculpture foundry, and Piano Nobile at Kings Place, a major new concept space promoting painting and sculpture by international artists which aims to complement the Kings Place musical programme. Both have a rolling programme of free exhibitions with many works for sale. For more details, including the safety measures and the ticketing information, see http://www.kingsplace.co.uk
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