Martyn Joseph and Nancy Kerr are among the folk musicians taking part in the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and Folk by The Oak’s new Sweet Liberties commission.
Sam Carter and Maz O’Connor will also feature, composing new music in response to the rights and liberties that people have fought to achieve and protect over the past eight centuries.
The four artists will have access to to the Parliamentary Archives and historians, together with folk material from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library as part of the project.
The commission will culminate in a tour later this year taking in dates across the UK.
The project has been commissioned by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and Folk by the Oak in partnership with the Houses of Parliament’s 2015 anniversaries programme, Parliament in the Making. It is partly funded by the PRS for Music Foundation.
The full list of tour dates are below;
Tues 24th November - Cambridge Junction
Wed 25th November - Colston Hall, Bristol
Thu 26th November - The Met, Bury
Fri 27th November - St David's Hall, Cardiff
Sat 28th November - Cecil Sharp House, London
Sun 29th November - The Sage, Gateshead
Sam Carter and Maz O’Connor will also feature, composing new music in response to the rights and liberties that people have fought to achieve and protect over the past eight centuries.
The four artists will have access to to the Parliamentary Archives and historians, together with folk material from the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library as part of the project.
The commission will culminate in a tour later this year taking in dates across the UK.
The project has been commissioned by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) and Folk by the Oak in partnership with the Houses of Parliament’s 2015 anniversaries programme, Parliament in the Making. It is partly funded by the PRS for Music Foundation.
The full list of tour dates are below;
Tues 24th November - Cambridge Junction
Wed 25th November - Colston Hall, Bristol
Thu 26th November - The Met, Bury
Fri 27th November - St David's Hall, Cardiff
Sat 28th November - Cecil Sharp House, London
Sun 29th November - The Sage, Gateshead
