Milap presents one of India’s most celebrated and undisputed stars of Indian classical music, Bombay Jayashri as she returns to England for the first time in over 10 years to perform her signature programme of Carnatic compositions and improvisations.
Jayashri will perform alongside a stellar ensemble – H N Bhaskar (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam) and Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam) – all of whom are considered amongst the finest Carnatic musicians. Bombay Jayashri is known for her distinctive vocal range and quality, her incredibly varied repertoire of songs from various Indian languages and is frequently a headliner at major Indian music festivals.
This concert will last approximately 2 hours 35 minutes (including interval).
Sarah Jane Morris Sings The Beatles with the Solis String Quartet.
The sublime musicianship of the Solis String Quartet and their magical arrangements of The Beatles’ great songs have been a gift to singer Sarah Jane Morris. Fashioned with absolute respect, their collaboration enhances the classical status of The Beatles’ art and provides their public with a sense of treasures rediscovered.
Already launched in Italy to unanimous critical acclaim, All You Need Is Love comes to the UK in the Spring (March 2023) where audiences in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Hastings and Milton Keynes will experience this extraordinary re-invention of songs which quickened the senses and transformed popular music back in the 1960s.
Sarah Jane’s four octave range from booming baritone to poignant soprano combines with the funky, dramatic, sonic factory of a contemporary string quartet at the height of their powers. These are musicians for whom the tag “chamber music” no longer applies.
Sarah Jane was a little young to have experienced ‘Beatlemania’, but she can claim some Liverpool roots of her own, since her father was the boy scout chosen to carry a pair of scissors for King George V when the Mersey Tunnel was opened in 1934. Sarah Jane has worked with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra performing a cycle of Kurt Weill songs and starred in the 1994 production of Sheldon Epps’ Blues in the Night at Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre. In March she returns to Liverpool here at the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, where she is sure to confirm her contribution to the story of musical Merseyside as she and the Solis Quartet bring The Beatles back to life in Liverpool.
Libyan pioneer Ahmed Fakroun will play his first UK concert at Liverpool Philharmonic’s Music Room in 2023.
Presented in partnership with Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, the star has seen a revival over recent years as his music has been rediscovered and sampled by artists including David Byrne and Bat for Lashes.
A ground-breaking artist, Fakroun is a purveyor of Arab melodies and western electronic music. In the 1980s, a promising career looked set to begin with the release of his acclaimed album Mots D’Amour, but international sanctions displaced many Libyans and curtailed his superstardom in the Arab world. Fakroun disappeared altogether in the 90s.
Now, almost forty years on, he is beloved for his unique blend of new-wave, synthpop, and disco infused with the folk sounds and melodies of his homeland. Fakroun has become a rediscovered star in the western world thanks to renewed attention from the electronic community and appreciation with a dancefloor resurgence.
The Master of the Maghreb brings his glittering Saharan sheen to Liverpool Philharmonic for his first ever UK show.
Bringing together six of the UK’s top musicians across Jazz and Indian music genres, the Milap Indo-Jazz Club will come together to present a completely new sound and vibe, as they kick-off the Liverpool International Jazz Festival’s tenth anniversary.
Audiences can expect richness, complexity, improvised grooves and amazing artistry, as they witness the premiere of the ensemble.
Specially curated for LIJF – and the result of ten years of creative collaboration between Milap and The National Youth Jazz Collective – the group will feature Milap’s artist in residence Kousic Sen (tabla), Issie Barratt (baritone sax), Rowland Sutherland (flute), Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Olivia Moore (violin) and winner of the Best Jazz Act at the 2012 MOBO Awards, Zoe Rahman (piano).
Bringing together six of the UK’s top musicians across Jazz and Indian music genres, the Milap Indo-Jazz Club will come together to present a completely new sound and vibe, as they kick-off the Liverpool International Jazz Festival’s tenth anniversary.
Audiences can expect richness, complexity, improvised grooves and amazing artistry, as they witness the premiere of the ensemble.
Specially curated for LIJF – and the result of ten years of creative collaboration between Milap and The National Youth Jazz Collective – the group will feature Milap’s artist in residence Kousic Sen (tabla), Issie Barratt (baritone sax), Rowland Sutherland (flute), Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Olivia Moore (violin) and winner of the Best Jazz Act at the 2012 MOBO Awards, Zoe Rahman (piano).
What makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands?
Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that? In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore.
Grayson Perry, white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment, takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are.
Merseyside hero Ian Prowse is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, and frontman of Amsterdam and previously the frontman of indie cult band Pele.
Raised on protest songs, influenced by the Celtic sounds that make Liverpool so unique, and inspired by the song writing craftsmanship of Paul Weller, Mike Scott, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello, Ian’s 30-year songwriting career and live shows have gathered him a reputation as the ‘Scouse Springsteen’ amongst his devoted fans.
Fresh off his special guest slot for Elvis Costello on his recent UK tour, Ian will be celebrating the 15th anniversary of his summer shows at Liverpool Philharmonic with an acoustic set of Pele, Amsterdam and Prowse classics, as well as a few surprises.
After the success of her tour in 2022, Nell Bryden is back on the road promoting her latest album Arms Around The Flame.
In the lull of the pandemic Nell Bryden has been anything but quiet. She has written and recorded a whole new album in Manhattan and LA, digging deeper than ever to document the breakdown of her marriage. Themes of heartbreak, self-empowerment and resilience resonate throughout the album, already being called her strongest yet.
With four more songs added to the BBC Radio 2 playlist since her release of her greatest hits albumThe Collection, Nell is spoilt for choice on what to play. Expect one fabulous song after another from this New Yorker.
A truly special team of intuitive musicians coming together by serendipity, John Perry (Only Ones) and Martin Stephenson (Daintees) certainly have a ‘new wave connection’.
In 2019, John and Martin got chatting and decided to do a pub gig together in London for a laugh. They got on so well that not long after Martin invited John to join the Daintees, as a special guest at a sold-out gig in London. John joined the band on stage for a rip-roaring version of ‘Another Girl Another Planet’, as a homage to The Only Ones. That evening of music inspired Martin to create a platform for John’s sublime guitar playing, entitled New Wave Connection.
John recently appeared as a special guest during a handful of Martin’s shows, where the New Wave Connection combo teamed up live for the first time, bringing the houses down.
Bassekou Kouyate is one of the true masters of the ngoni, an ancient traditional lute found throughout West Africa, and is respected as one of Africa’s premier global artists.
His band, Ngoni Ba, includes ngoni players (featuring ngonis with differing tonal sizes), percussionists (talking drum, Yabara, Calebasse) and the fantastic singer Amy Sacko. Together they have revolutionised the sound of the ngoni, and radically fired centuries of griot tradition into the future.
Bassekou is recognised as both an innovator and a stronghold of traditional Malian music, and has collaborated with the likes of Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate, Taj Mahal, and The Kronos Quartet, and in 2016 joined the Africa Express tour along with Damon Albarn and Paul Weller.
Bassekou’s recent album Miri (‘dream’ in Bamana) topped the world music charts, and was voted ‘Best Album of the Year’ by Songlines.
The concert is held in the Philharmonic Hall Music Room.
