Event type: Music

St George’s Hall Organ Recital: ...

The best of Eurovision like you’ve never heard before. Get ready for a music event like no other, as St George’s Hall Charitable Trust team up with organist, Lee Ward, to present the best of Eurovision as never heard before, on the 7,737 piped Willis Organ of St George’s Hall!

About Lee Ward

Liverpool-born Lee Ward is well known as an organist throughout the country and beyond, performing in many town halls and cathedrals nationwide.

Also a music lecturer at the University of Liverpool, Lee loves playing the magnificent organ at St George’s Hall and is excited to present a programme which he has chosen to best show off the organ and the brilliant variety of Eurovision music over the years.

Women of the Windrush

Through mesmerising song and archive film footage, Shirley J. Thompson’s opera Women of the Windrush portrays inspirational narratives from the lives of women who travelled to the UK from the West Indies between the 1940s and the 1970s, when persons from those countries were invited by the British government to assist in the rebuilding of post-war Britain.

Women of the Windrush breaks the convention of weak characters and femme fatales prevalent in the operatic canon by conceptualising an artistic work about the so-called Windrush generation with strong female roles.

Compelling stories from a cricketer’s wife, a student nurse, a concert pianist and a new bride who all relate their experiences of arriving and settling in England.

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Manchester Collective: Rosewood

A kaleidoscope of musical colours.

From La Folia, the original baroque smash hit, to the spiritual music of Julius Eastman, all the way to David Lang’s hot, heavy and hard-hitting Killer – this show takes in a dizzying range of music.

Scottish star guitarist Sean Shibe joins forces with Manchester Collective for the first time in an artistic meeting of minds that is long overdue. The set is an ever-changing musical melting pot, demonstrating the extraordinary range of these boundary-breaking performers.

At the heart of the programme are a pair of new works written for Sean and the Collective. British artist Emily Hall writes music that inhabits the spaces between genres – classical, electronic and folk traditions are absorbed and reimagined to create work that is intimate, touching and altogether new. New York composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Kelly Moran also walks an artistic tightrope, poised somewhere between the experimental, the wild and the human.

With Sean performing on electric and acoustic guitars alongside an all-star string quartet lineup, this show will transport you to unexpected sound worlds and strange new places.

This concert will last approximately 1 hour 50 minutes (including interval).

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Music and the Machine

Artificial intelligence (AI), like in the rest of our lives, can now be found in every corner of the music industry. From analysing music listening behaviours to creating personalised playlists, to evaluating which songs are most likely to be popular with music consumers, it is everywhere.

But what if machines could also write the music that you listen to? In this experimental concert, we will present a set of original pieces created by a team of composers, computer scientists and researchers using AI algorithms that are now being used across the world to create music with machines. These algorithms analyse large corpora of music written by humans and learn to compose new music in different music styles. We will explore how the choice of these corpora and the intervention of humans in the AI composition process affect the music that machines create and the implications it has in terms of authorship and copyright.

Programme: to be decided by the machine! Follow its progress on the Applied Music Research Lab website.

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

Part of the Lunchtime Concert Series and Musical Futures.

Disco Fest x Hustle – St. Patric...

Join Liverpool Disco Festival & Hustle for a special Paddy’s Day party on Friday 17 March, 5pm until 3am.

Lineup:

FISH GO DEEP (‘Cure & The Cause’ – Defected / Local Talk) Cork – IRL

MORGAN (Disco Fest / Hustle) Belfast – IRL

Demob Happy – Stripped Back Albu...

Grunge/psych rock band Demob Happy will play Liverpool’s Phase One this spring.

The band formed in their hometown of Newcastle, U.K and quickly set about gaining a reputation for their raucous live shows and freewheeling spirit. Their debut studio album, Dream Soda, caught the attention of DIY Magazine, giving the album 4 out of 5 stars calling it a “Frantic, f***ed-up mission statement to rival the best of this year”.

In late 2016, the band embarked on a co-headline tour with fellow-Brighton-based band Tigercub and then later released their new single Dead Dreamers which was produced by Tom Dalgety and released via Atlantic Records imprint Taste & Tone.

On 23 March 2018, the band released their second album Holy Doom, which was preceded by the singles Be Your Man and Loosen It. This time, the album was given 5 out of 5 stars by DIY Magazine. The band went on to support Jack White of the White Stripes on his UK tour.

Darkside: The Pink Floyd Show

Darkside, The Pink Floyd Show, performing the music of Britain’s greatest progressive rock band, make a welcome return to The Epstein Theatre with two evenings of classic Pink Floyd.

After 17 years of touring, playing at theatres across the UK, seven musicians will deliver two shows with empathy and passion playing tracks from Pink Floyd’s massive back-catalogue, from the early magical days of founder Syd Barrett through to later iconic albums, renowned for their complex structures.

Friday | 21.04.23 will include the entire Dark Side of the Moon album

Saturday | 22.04.23 will include the whole of the Wish You Were Here album

The emphasis will be on replicating the experience of Pink Floyd live on stage in the 70’s which many believe was Floyd at their very best. The superb Cariss Auburn takes on the role of Clare Torry, who performed Great Gig in the Sky on the original 1973 Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon, recreating this unique enigmatic vocal with its extra-terrestrial soundscape which has been leaving audiences enthralled. As would be expected, the show incorporates a spectacular and dramatic laser light show and evocative images and animated sequences projected on a circular screen, which were key features of Pink Floyd’s live performances.

FOR FLOYD FANS, BY FLOYD FANS. www.darksidefloydshow.com

Heart Opening Sound Healing with Cacao...

Step into deep love and open heartedness with this special Sound Healing event. With drum, Gong,Cacao,Voice,Singing bowls + meditation

Join me for my first Sound Healing session at the beautiful Scale.

Feeling disconnected from your heart space? Wanting to embrace loving energy more fully? Wanting to welcome more love into your life? Wanting to feel more self love? This Sound Healing session could be just what you need! I have designed this special Sound Healing event to open up your heart space, to help you let go of all that needs to be released and clear the way for a more loving life!

The session will begin with the sharing of some beautiful, heart opening, bliss inducing ceremonial cacao paired with mindfulness, and then flow into a deep and meditative Drum Journey which will help you really drop into your body and your heart space. When used together the therapeutic sound and the ceremonial cacao work as one to ✨?maximise the therapeutic effect and enhance your experience?✨

There will then be the opportunity get clear on anything that may have come up for us and work it out with some journalling or drawing. You will be invited to contribute any words, images, symbols that feel important for you to a large group canvas and keep those things in the forefront of your mind as we go into the second sound healing of the evening…

A Sound Bath with Himalayan + `Crystal Singing Bowls, Voice, Venus Gong + Therapeutic Percussion.

This will be composed to help you connect even deeper to your heart space. I’ll be using a beautiful, heart chakra opening Gong tuned to the frequency of Venus. It’s gentle tones evoke positive emotions such as joy, love, harmony, beauty and compassion and it allows us to spiritually surrender with grace, to explore our creativity and imagination and find things which bring us comfort and balance. At a time when many are pre-occupied with thoughts of the love we’re told to be celebrating, Venusian energy reminds us of the abundance of love we already have within us. The sounds of the Venus gong are blissful, and sooth away concerns and worries, bringing balance, strength, renewal and hope.

After the Sound bath we will then have the opportunity to tear up the group canvas and step into an even greater sense of renewal and authentic heart opened love.

I wanted to create this session as an antidote to the typical ‘Valentines’ sense of materialism, and really bring it back to what’s important- cultivating that sacred, special, pure spirit of love within ourselves.

What to know/bring:

? Your mother, your lover, your sister, brother, your best friend and your boss! Anyone whose wanting to feel the love within

? Wear loose comfortable clothing

? We’ll be lay down so bring a yoga mat, blanket, cushion and anything else you might want to make yourself comfortable.

? A bottle of water as the experience can make you a little thirsty

And to enhance your experience you may want to:

? Avoid eating a heavy meal in the hour before

? Apply a few drops of your chosen aromatherapy oil to your pulse points

? Bring a journal to note down any thoughts that come to the surface at the end of your experience

If money is a barrier to you for any reason then please contact me as making sound healing accessible is super important to me

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More on Sound Therapy….

Sound Therapy is a powerful and potent tool for relaxation, reflection and reconnection and is a wonderful way to step towards more ease and flow in your life. Through helping you to drop into a sound induced Altered State of Consciousness, healing sonic vibrations can help you process unresolved resistances, gain clarity and move through pain towards a more whole harmony…

m i n d, b o d y & s o u l

Sound Therapy is an ancient tradition that has history in cultures throughout the world. Sonic healing helps us to experience altered states of consciousness by shifting our brainwave state to lower frequencies that can impact the body, helping to promote deep relaxation; induce total relaxation, release emotional trauma, manage pain, sleep better and relieve stress and anxiety.

Experiencing therapeutic sound allows us to deeply listen to ourselves and receive the true healing that we need on a mind body and spirit level.

Richard Dawson

Embrace the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and prepare to travel 500 years into the future as modern-day folk troubadour Richard Dawson performs his new album The Ruby Cord.

The new album is a return to Dawson’s own world with tracks that plunge us into an unreal, fantastical and at times sinister future where social mores have mutated, ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated… a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone but yourself and your own imagination. It’s a leap into a future that is well within reach, in some cases already here.

While 2020 dealt in social realism with explorations of testy football matches, the fallacy of work-life balance and therapeutic forms of repetitive exercise, The Ruby Cord shakes off the limitations of so-called real life and delves headlong into a (sort of) sci-fi world where human society has collapsed and morphed into something distinctly less solid.

“So many of us are moving into these fantasy worlds,” says Dawson. “Whether it’s actual constructed virtual realities, computer worlds, or retreating into even more fantastical realms…. conspiracy theories, nationalism, amateur football punditry. People construct their own world because this one is so flawed.”

Written during 2019, throughout 2020 and finished in 2021 – the lyrics to most of the record were conceived throughout the various Covid-19 lockdowns, as the side effects of isolation and state-imposed inwardness affected millions around the world. In that setting, tensions in the UK rose, people showed both altruism and selfishness, and the world got a whole lot more difficult to comprehend. Dawson wanted to move away from the “on-the-nose” directness of 2020 and bring down a layer of “fog” over proceedings, masking meanings that are there for those who care to delve just a bit deeper.

This concert will last approximately 2 hours (including interval).