Southbank Centre featured free events, 20th -26th May 2019
These are some of the selected free events taking place at The Southbank Centre from Monday 20th to Sunday 26th May 2019. Click on the event title for further information.
Archive Studio: Drop-in Volunteer Session
13 March to 18 June 2019| Various times | Royal Festival Hall | Free but ticketed
Drop in and lend a hand with the organisation of Southbank Centre’s collections.
You’ll have the opportunity to explore the Archive Studio, as well as giving much-appreciated help to our collections team.
Everyone is welcome, no skills required. For ages 16 +
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Composers’ Collective Open Rehearsal
Tuesday 21 May & Wednesday 22 May| 2pm | Royal Festival Hall | Free, but ticketed
Composers: come and see a dress rehearsal of Acts I & II of Stockhausen’s monumental opera, Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light).
For the first time since 1985, this remarkable work returns to the UK for just two performances, on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 May in Royal Festival Hall.
This Composers’ Collective event offers an insight into the musical, technical and theatrical challenges of bringing a production of this scale to the concert hall.
Maxime Pascal conducts the combined forces of his Paris-based ensemble Le Balcon, the London Sinfonietta, the New London Chamber Choir and students from the Royal Academy of Music, in this new production directed and adapted for the concert hall by Benjamin Lazar.
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Friday Lunch: Chris Maddock Quartet
Friday 24 May 2019 | 1pm | Royal Festival Hall
The saxophonist leads a quartet on original tracks that combine the Hammond organ’s charm with contemporary soul-jazz flavours.
Saxophonist and composer Chris Maddock and versatile keyboardist Liam Dunachie are joined by iTunes Jazz chart-topping guitarist Tobie Carpenter and drum prodigy Ed Richardson.
Maddock’s original material and arrangements gives this group of exceptional musicians free reign to explore powerful grooves and electrifying improvisational flights.
Friday Tonic: Me and My Friends
Friday 24 May 2019| 6 pm |Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer
Gloriously danceable folk music with sun-drenched influences from Ghanaian highlife to Jamaican roots
Shake off the week at a free Friday concert of gloriously danceable folk music with sun-drenched influences, including Ghanaian highlife, Jamaican roots and Afro-Brazilian folk.
The Bristol-based quintet create a timeless, soulful sound with a global outlook, performed with infectious energy.
The elegant voice and West African finger-picking guitar style of songwriter Nick Rasle and the rich tones of the cello and clarinet are all underpinned by a rhythm section with a deep sense of groove.
Me and My Friends released third album Look Up in 2018, the follow-up to 2016’s acclaimed Hide Your Way.
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