STEEL SKIES with ALISTAIR ANDERSON at the Lewes
Saturday Folk Club
TWO DAYS OF WORKSHOPS plus
PERFORMANCE
Elephant & Castle, White Hill, Lewes, Sussex, UK
BN7 2DJ
One day: £30. Two days: £50.
Steel Skies performance on Sunday March 20th: free
admission for listeners with charity collection (informal session to follow).
Alistair's Saturday evening performance at the Lewes
Saturday Folk Club:£5 for workshop participants, £5 for non-participants.
Alistair Anderson's first major composition Steel Skies
was described by the Guardian as "the finest recent original contribution to
the tradition of English music". It is a suite of pieces based on
traditional forms and inspired by the landscapes and townscapes of his native
area of Newcastle and Northumberland. The CD has recently been
re-released.
This is a very special opportunity to spend two days
working on the music of Steel Skies under Alistair's direction, with a final
performance early on the Sunday evening. Admission to this will be free with a
charity collection. The full performance takes just under an hour, so there
should be time for an informal session afterwards.
On the Saturday evening, Alistair will also be the
guest performer at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club.
Alistair Anderson has been at the forefront of the
performance of traditional music for over three decades. Internationally
acknowledged as the leading performer on the English Concertina, he has taken
the music of Northumberland to new audiences around the world, touring
extensively throughout Europe and has no less than 35 tours of America to his
credit. As well as championing the traditional music and musicians of the
area, he has a growing reputation as a composer of new music rooted in the
local traditions. He also plays the Northumbrian pipes. He founded the
Newcastle University Traditional Music Degree course and remains one of the
most uplifting and inspiring performers of the music.
N.B. It's too early to take formal bookings, but if
you'd like to go on the Interested list please let me know