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Performance TitleBBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season - Prom 21: Nubya Garcia
Performance Date18 August 2021
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersNubya Garcia - saxophone
Set List'Source',
'The Message Continues',
'Pace',
'Together is a Beautiful Place To Be',
'Before Us: In Demerara and Caura',
'Stand With Each Other',
'Inner Game',
'Boundless Beings',
Unknown,
'La Cumbia Me Esta Ilamando'
Performance NotesIn 2021, the BBC Proms returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a summer of live music, as it has done every year since 1941. With 52 concerts over 44 days, featuring 30 orchestras and ensembles and more than 2,000 musicians, this ambitious season promises a celebration of live music on a scale not seen since before the pandemic. From the power of a symphony orchestra to the sheer joy of a single performer on the Hall’s magnificent organ, this summer we look forward to coming together through music. Every Prom will be live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds.

British saxophonist, composer, DJ and bandleader Nubya Garcia is one of the brightest of a new generation of jazz talent, drawing comparison with greats such as Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon. Named a ‘major voice’ by The New York Times, she has devised a brand of ‘eclectic, danceable, political jazz’ that draws on influences from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Tonight marks her Proms debut.

The season was shortened to six, rather than eight, weeks because of the financial risk to the BBC not knowing audience sizes due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Related Archival MaterialProspectus (RAHE/1/2021/5),
Programme (RAHE/1/2021/26),
Digital photographs
Ticket Prices£7.12-£
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/jRjpxYjshYT1
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2021/26BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season - Prom 21: Nubya Garcia18 August 2021
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12261BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2021 - One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Proms Season46
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/23442Garcia; Nubya (1991-); British jazz saxophonist, musicia, composer, bandleader
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