Award winning and critically acclaimed folk musician and singer Luke Daniels hosts Kaleidoscope Music Memes – a series of four folk and world music concerts showcasing three world-class performers from Syria, China and South Africa in duo concerts that will culminate in a final full quartet performance.
Kaleidoscope Music Memes
Luke Daniels & Abel Selacoe
Wed 8 May, 1pm, Free
Luke Daniels & Rihab Azar
Wed 22 May, 1pm, Free
Luke Daniels & Shu Jiang
Thu 13 Jun, 1pm, Free
Full Quartet
Wed 26 Jun, 7:30pm, £14/£12
In an exciting project with The Atkinson, Met Bury, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Citadel St Helens, these concerts will also use digital technology to allow audiences to jointly create new music in the run up to each concert. Create and share your own musical arrangements on social media and with the artists through the MusicMeme mobile app – free to all concert attenders!
Enjoy outstanding music and be part of the creative process with this unique series of concerts.
Wed 8 May, 1pm, Free
Luke Daniels & Abel Selacoe
Abel Selaocoe is a South African cellist who collaborates with beatboxers and world musicians and performs solo classical recitals and concerto performances as a soloist with numerous orchestras including Kwa-Zulu Philharmonic, Johnannesburg Phil and Randburg Symphony.
Wed 22 May, 1pm, Free
Luke Daniels & Rihab Azar
Rihab Azar is from the Syrian city of Homs. She studied at the Conservatoire of Damascus under such masters as Askar Ali Akbar and Issam Rafea. In 2014, She became the first woman oudist to perform accompanied by the Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music. Since moving to the UK in 2016 under the Migrant Talent Scheme, she has performed with the London Sinfonietta and at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Thu 13 Jun, 1pm, Free
Luke Daniels & Shu Jiang
Shu Jiang is an ethnomusicologist and expert player of Chinese zithers (zheng and qin) with a special interest in the music of China. She has a particular interest in cross cultural exchange of East Asian music in the context of Western music and works alongside a range of composers and world musicians in the UK.
Wed 26 Jun, 7:30pm, £14/£12
Full Quartet
Luke Daniels is a multi- instrumentalist specialising in button accordion and melodeon and has enjoyed a long career collaborating with a range of artists and organisations as a means of promoting folk music.
Posted on 3 April 2019 under Just announced
