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Sarah Davachi + LCO Players

Wednesday 2 October, 7:30pm

St Giles Cripplegate

Tickets from £22.50 plus booking fee

Composer and performer Sarah Davachi returns to the Barbican for the first time since 2018, this time in the intimate setting of St Giles Cripplegate. Davachi’s contemplative work experiments with temporality and timbre via extended durations and harmonic structures influenced by medieval and Renaissance music. 

This special Barbican concert will celebrate the release of Davachi's new album, The Head as Form'd in the Crier's Choir (Ba Da Bing, 2024) and opens with a special extended performance of Possente Spirto with Davachi playing the chancel organ, joined by string and brass players from the London Contemporary Orchestra.

This will be followed by a solo pipe organ performance by Davachi on the church's grand organ, featuring pieces from her new album, alongside solo organ works from previous albums.

Produced by the Barbican

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Touching Bass presents: Lynda Dawn

Friday 4 October, 7:30pm

Milton Court Concert Hall

Tickets from £17.50 plus booking fee

R&B songwriter and producer Lynda Dawn brings her blend of 80s-inflected soul, funk and jazz to Milton Court, in a continuation of Barbican’s partnership with Errol and Alex Rita’s South London-based musical movement Touching Bass. 

From north-west London, Dawn weaves nostalgic grooves with celestial vocals, set against the crackle of her parents' record collections. She attributes her upbringing in the Pentecostal church as her spiritual education in funk and gospel expression, and her rich melodies and distinctive arrangements have made her a luminary for both old-school and new-school R&B enthusiasts. She first gained attention with her breakout single ‘Move’ on Gilles Peterson’s 13th Brownswood Bubblers, while her debut EP At First Light (Akashik Records, 2019) landed the No.1 spot on Jamz Supernova’s Top EPs of 2019 on BBC Radio 1Xtra.

Produced by the Barbican and Touching Bass

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