South East London Folk Orchestra
South East London Folk Orchestra (SELfolk) Ruskin Park Bandstand, 3 – 5pm, Free. Fiddles, accordions, concertinas, whistles, bodhrans, guitars, mandolins, flutes – SELfolk has it all!
South East London Folk Orchestra (SELfolk) Ruskin Park Bandstand, 3 – 5pm, Free. Fiddles, accordions, concertinas, whistles, bodhrans, guitars, mandolins, flutes – SELfolk has it all!
Misty & Rufus Miller
Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses, 3.30 – 5.30pm, £13/£11
Misty and Rufus Miller are two South London musicians who also happen to be brother and
sister. Both have a long career of wowing audiences with their soulful voices and on this
special concert they will come together to enthral. Expect to hear folk, country, Americana, raw confessional
music.
Festive Choral Evensong Sunday
St Paul’s Church, 6 – 7pm, Free
Professor Noël Tredinnick will conduct the St Paul's Festival Choir, accompanied by local
organist Norman Harper.
The music will include the Evening Canticles in B minor by Tertius Noble, the anthem "Lift up
your heads" by William Mathias, and much more! All welcome and to stay on for
refreshments after.
An amazing, first-ever Festival event with Alicia, featuring powerful quantum gong baths,
mystical guided meditation, light language and more. A unique uplifting mental/physical/ emotive experience not to be missed.
Heads Up Jazz Jam Off The Cuff, 8 –11pm, Free. Come and play, Jazzers of all levels welcome! A regular session hosted by Roger Humbles, much sought after by Jazzers from all over London and beyond in an atmospheric setting under the railway arches. Amazing.
Adam Beattie
The Prince Regent, 8 – 10.30pm, £15/£12
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist Adam Beattie has become a celebrated artist of the
London scene. With roots in Scottish folk music and a lifelong interest in old time jazz and
blues, his music is held together by his distinctive voice, narrative lyrics and fingerstyle
guitar.
The Fabulous Honeys South London’s sweetest big band! And Professional dance teacher Martin will lead a swing and
jive dance class from 7pm, before the big band plays at 8pm.
Roots-based improvised music on orchestral instruments, using folk and world music as starting points, iyatra Quartet are 'one the most exciting new music events.'
I am a one woman band and my other band member is my laptop - I’m the Creature and it’s the Machine! With a background in computer science and machine learning. I also tend to combine organic vocals and electronic sounds in my production, so that’s another creature and machine combination.
On this immersive sound journey we’ll travel through transcendental landscapes, with the help of meditation, visualisation and music. The sounds of the gong, singing bowls and autoharps (to name just a few) will ease you into a state of profound relaxation, where you might explore images, colours and memories. As you listen with your whole being, all the creases and frayed ends are smoothed, so that you leave feeling blissful, and more in touch with your depths. Suitable for those new to meditation, and experienced practitioners alike.
Magic Tree Collective. Garwyn and David Edward created the Magic Tree Collective, centred around a core ethos of celebrating the magic of nature, through integrating music with art, poetry, meditation and movement. Perfoing new and re-imagined Celtic folk music with voice, cello and violin, drawing on their mixed ethnic heritage.
The Last of the Boggarts. A Junior School musical. This tale of the boggarts, their gradual disappearance as peopleswitched to electricity, the children who knew about the boggarts, the adults who didn’t,the electricity men laying cables, and the coal men (and horses) losing their jobs, will be performed by Year 5 from Judith Kerr Primary School.