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| 0 | LONDON: The Green Carnation |
|---|---|
| P | Thursday 18th February, 2010 |
| N | 7:30pm |
THE ERROLLYN WALLEN SONG CLUB LAUNCH 2010
Thursday, February 18th, 8pm The Menagerie
The Green Carnation
5 Greek Street, London W1
>From Schubert to Stevie Wonder; Bessie Smith to Lily Allen. From a lullaby to a psalm; from a plainchant to a sea shanty - songs are at the centre of human expression. Words and music conjoined can transport us like nothing else to new realms of discovery, memory, self-expression and connection.
"In my own songwriting and indeed in all of my music, I see no barriers of style or genre. At the Errollyn Wallen Song Club we will celebrate all forms of songwriting and it is my avowed mission to unearth and bring together all those singer-songwriters (not necessarily professional musicians) with a secret stash.
"Amongst the first special guests unveiling new songs are Tom Dixon, world renowned designer and Mathew Tucker, television director of numerous South Bank shows. As well as my own performances of brand new songs and those from The Errollyn Wallen Songbook the audience, too, will be invited to contribute. Get writing!" --Errollyn Wallen
The next shows are Thursday March 11th and Thursday April 15th
The Menagerie @ The Green Carnation is Soho's new and only venue for cutting-edge performance art and music. Created by Soho promoter Aubrey Dobson and recording artist Ezra Axelrod, The Menagerie aims to revitalize the neighbourhood's bohemian tradition by bringing the vanguard into the mainstream.
ERROLLYN WALLEN BIO:
The 'renaissance woman of contemporary British music' (The Observer),
Errollyn Wallen studied in London and Cambridge. On leaving university, she performed as a keyboard player with numerous bands, on the comedy circuit, then ran a commercial recording studio and wrote the music and performed live as a tap-dancing hostess on a 21-episode television game show for Channel 4. On becoming a full-time composer she formed her own group Ensemble X to perform her compositions. Widely commissioned (including the Royal Opera House, BBC and Royal Ballet) she has performed internationally and her award-winning music is featured on numerous recordings including the Brodsky Quartet's Moodswings (alongside Sting, Elvis Costello and Bjork) and The NMC Songbook CD. Errollyn's own CDs include Meet Me at Harold Moores, The Girl in My Alphabet and Errollyn. All three have been to outer space. Her multi-media show Jordan Town was a sell-out hit at the Edinburgh Festival as was her opera The Silent Twins at Almeida Theatre in 2007. The Errollyn Wallen Songbook !
is published by Peters Edition and features twelve of her celebrated songs.
Recent performances include All the People of the World for the Hallé Orchestra (text by Jackie Kay) , a tour of Carbon 12: A Choral Symphony for Welsh National Opera, the film Falling for Channel 4 and ABC television, English Folk Songs for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Comfort Me With Apples for the Dunedin Consort, the music theatre show WALLEN (with her brother Byron) and a tour of the USA. Future projects include a climb of Kilimanjaro with a roll-up piano.
Errollyn Wallen was awarded an MBE in the 2007 Queen's Honours List for services to music. www.errollynwallen.com
