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An evening celebrating the musical genius of late American songwriter David Crosby.

Featuring BC Camplight, Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers), Kris Drever (Lau), and The Staves, this special show revisits the groundbreaking psychedelic folk record, initially recorded with a star-studded lineup of Crosby’s Laurel Canyon friends and cohorts, including Joni Mitchell, Gerry Garcia and Neil Young.

The performance also includes a selection of Crosby’s music from his time with the Byrds, Crosby, Still, Nash & Young and his later solo work. 

The Musical Director for the project is Kate St John, who has gathered together an all-star house band:

Ed Harcourt – Keys and Featured vocalist
Margot Buchanan – Featured vocalist
Michelle Willis – Featured vocalist and Keys
Kate St. John – Vocals and Cor anglais
Robbie McIntosh – Guitars 
Calum MacColl – Guitars
Evan Jenkins – Drums 
Ben Nicholls – Bass 
Ernesto Marchiales – Congas and Percussion 

Produced by the Barbican
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A new collaborative project by literary and sound artist Belinda Zhawi (MA, MOYO) and multidisciplinary artist Duncan Bellamy, a founding member of Portico Quartet, will be performed in an intimate, one-off concert in Milton Court in February.

This will be the first performance of a new project of sonic poetry, Jump Ship, Sit Lean, Be Still, Stand Tall, that sets Belinda Zhawi's illuminating words in dialogue with Duncan Bellamy's explorative sounds.  

Joined on stage by musicians from Manchester Collective, a shape-shifting ensemble known for their groundbreaking performances, together they render these disparate forms into something distinct, melancholic and luminous, with contemporary classical arrangements and intimate layered vocal experiments.

Support comes from Damsel Elysium, an experimental sound and visual artist, multi- instrumentalist and composer, who uses double bass, violin and original field recordings to explore alternative communication and connections with physical spaces and nature.

Produced by the Barbican
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