Join Scrapyard Studios CIC in their recording studio for an intro to studio skills.
Build your confidence and experience in recording and mixing. A free practical session for trying out techniques with lots of tips and tricks to improve your sound.
They‘ll be setting up mics, recording, and mixing.
All welcome – whether you’re a beginner or have some experience.
Join other women songwriters to workshop your material, try out new techniques, and refine your work in a supportive environment. Begin new songs and demo your works in progress.
These sessions are suitable for all, whatever your prior experience.
Works Performed:
Gavin Bryars – Ramble on Cortona (2010)
Gavin Bryars – White’s SS (1977)
Gavin Bryars – My First Homage (1978)
Gavin Bryars – After Handel’s “Vesper” (1995)
Gavin Bryars – Out of Zaleski’s Gazebo (1977)
Performed by the Ensemble for Different New Music (ADNM) [from Belgrade/Serbia]:
Branka Parlic
Nada Kolundžija
Lidija Stankovic
Nataša Penezic
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This concert will be the first ever UK performance by the Serbian piano ensemble Ensemble for Different New Music (ADNM).
To mark the 80th birthday of composer Gavin Bryars the ensemble will perform a programme consisting solely of Bryars’ compositions. The event will serve as a unique portrait of one the most important composers of our time.
ADNM has always been attracted to imaginative and progressive ideas in music and art, so it is no surprise that Gavin Bryars’ music continually inspires members to perform both his solo and chamber works. Carefully curated as a celebratory concert, the programme highlights the performers’ favorite pieces, a selection of compositions written across a span of over 40 years dating back to the 1970s. It aims to show the incredible versatility and enduring quality of Bryars’ piano works.
The concert will include a performance for four keyboards of a new arrangement of the rarely performed piece White’s SS, performance of a new four keyboard arrangement of My First Homage and there will also be a special appearance by Bryars himself, who will join the members of the ensemble in a performance of his 1977 composition Out of Zaleski’s Gazebo.
Following the concert there will be a post-concert Q&A with the composer.
Francesco di Fiore – piano
This concert has been organised in tribute to the renowned and award-winning Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto who sadly passed away earlier this year. The concert will include some of Sakamoto’s most popular and enduring music for solo piano including Forbidden Colors (theme from “Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence”), Energy Flow, Amore, Aqua and The Sheltering Sky. It will also include a new composition by pianist/composer Francesco di Fiore composed in memory of Sakamoto.
Sakamoto began his musical career in the late 1970s as a member of electronic band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). In 1983 he starred alongside David Bowie, and also composed the score for, the film Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. In 1987 his film score for The Last Emperor, in which he also starred, won him an Oscar, a Grammy and a Golden Globe. Over the years, his extensive body of work has embraced collaborations with artists such as David Sylvian, Brian Eno and Alva Noto. Alongside his electronic music, his music for solo piano forms a significant backbone to his vast output.
Francesco Di Fiore, concert pianist and composer, was born in Palermo, Italy. He studied piano and composition variously with Harald Ossberger, Bruno Canino, Peter Toperczer and Eliodoro Sollima, in Vienna and Prague. In 1986 he began his concert career performing hundreds of concerts worldwide. As a composer, alongside music for piano, his compositions include chamber and orchestral music, film soundtracks and stage music. His albums are released by Dutch Label Zefir Records.
NB: Following the concert at 9pm there will be a film screening of the 2017 documentary RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA. Tickets can be purchased separately via this site or can be purchased on the evening of the event.
With self-effacing humour and stories told of growing up on a remote Irish Island Niall McCabe possesses an effortless charm which both captivates and liberates his audience.
His natural distinct voice is earning him a growing loyal fanbase, discovering his music as he travels extensively, with his recent critically acclaimed album RITUALS bringing him to venture off the Island, touring across Ireland, UK, Europe and North America.
An extra-special chance to hear master craftsman Martin Carthy perform and reminisce on his illustrious career in folk song to date, with musical interludes and conversation with his talented friend, musician and journalist, Jon Wilks. Martin has an insatiable musical curiosity, as well as a lifetime of wonderful stories and songs to share.
Martin Carthy is one in a million: one of folk music’s greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. Now aged 82, he is a consummate storyteller, singer, guitarist and oral historian renowned for his settings of traditional songs as well as his authoritative interpretations of newly composed material. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers from within the folk scene and beyond, including Bob Dylan and Billy Bragg.
Jon Wilks is an acclaimed fingerpicking guitarist and singer of traditional folk songs and broadside ballads from the English repertoire, and a devotee of Martin’s work. His background as a journalist (a former editor of Time Out magazine and contributor to Dazed & Confused, The Guardian and other publications, as well as the founder of the Tradfolk website) means that he has a great eye/ear for a story. The only thing he anticipates difficulty with is keeping Martin on track.
Share festive sing-alongs and magical tales with Santa’s helpers at the Mansion in the run-up to Christmas.
Get ready for an unforgettable evening of Bollywood classics, Indian ragas, ghazals and contemporary music.
Swati Natekar is an illustrious and highly-accomplished singer, composer, and the voice behind hit songs such as ‘Nadia’ (with Nitin Sawhney), ‘Khwaab’ (with Niraj Chag) and ‘Jakatta American Dream’ (No. 3 on the UK charts). She has toured extensively across the world and has collaborated with the likes of Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Ghulam Ali, Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney and Sonu Nigam.
After last year’s extraordinarily successful national tour, Swati returns to Liverpool with a brand-new concept – ‘Raag-Rang’ – Shades of Ragas. Accompanied on stage by a collective of the UK’s most talented musicians, she’ll perform Bollywood classics and popular ghazals alongside the classical raga equivalent, giving audiences unique and inspiring insight into how popular songs are developed from classical roots.
Swati will also be paying tribute to India’s legendary vocalist, the late Lata Mangeshkar, with a specially curated selection of her most beloved melodies.
Part of Indika Festival 2023, see here for full listings
J. S. Bach’s Cantata 101 ‘Nimm von uns, Herr, du treuer Gott’ [Take from us, Lord, severe punishment] which is essentially a prayer for peace and tranquillity for the nation, performed by Liverpool Bach Collective on Remembrance Sunday.
There are few songwriters to ever surpass the gifts he’s brought, either on his own, with The Pale Fountains, Shack or The Strands, but Michael Head and his Red Elastic Band start to unwrap the fifth decade of his artistry with some of his finest work.
His 2022 album, Dear Scott, as cohesive and coherent as any album he’s made and this time in the company of producer, Bill Ryder-Jones, is the luminescent result of Head’s star collapsing before morphing to illuminate the skies twice as brightly as before. A dizzying constellation of carefully-crafted songs, pin-sharp playing and deft, life-bringing production, Head’s latest masterpiece, according to the man himself, was a simple matter of his band leading by example and honing their craft, requiring him to up his game.
Dear Scott’s title refers back to a golden age of show business, writing and movie-making, a million miles from a pandemic-shrouded Liverpool, that captivated Head in recent years. It’s a place of escape. It is a rewarding journey, made special by its ocean-deep depths. Is there another, living songwriter who can make us feel quite this way?
The show is part of Knowsley Music Festival 2023, tickets are also still available for their Late Night Lillies show, featuring Lapsley on 16 November, see here for tickets.