| Main Performers | Gwyneth Herbert,
Ned Cartwright |
| Performance Notes | Our intimate Late Night Jazz series presents sensational music in the sultry setting of the Royal Albert Halls Elgar Room.
Gwyneth Herbert is a strikingly original performer, award-winning composer and lyricist and versatile musical adventurer who continues to redefine and challenge expectations. With one foot in the jazz world and the other somewhere in the future, she has released 6 albums to date on both major and independent labels, including the first Blue Note UK release for 30 years.
Since the huge success of 2013's large-scale cross-artform project "The Sea Cabinet" - the result of an Aldeburgh Music residency - Gwyn has seen her musical co-written with celebrated playwright Diane Samuels open at the Southwark Playhouse, recorded a new run of BBC Radio 4's Playlist Series singing the favourite tunes of Nell Gwyn and the Duke of Wellington, built an interdisciplinary installation about sculptors Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore and a Fun Palace in Stratford Station (both with artist Mel Brimfield), and recently spent a month in Kenya collecting lullabies, sharing songs in slum schools and staging multi-tribe storytelling happenings under the Mombasa stars.
Gwyn appears in this beautiful venue tonight on ukulele, melodica and cheese-grater alongside boy-wunderkind pianist Ned Cartwright... Expect tales of jaded seaside hotels, East End vagrants, loves and losses and drips and drips and the occasional Swahili nursery rhyme. |
| Related Archival Material | Handbill (RAHE/6/2016/3) |