Details
                        
                                                            October Gallery
                                                        
                                24 Old Gloucester Street
Bloomsbury
                                
London                                                                
WC1N 3AL                                
England                            
                        
                        
                                                
                    
Programme
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Betty Jackson King – 1. Dawn 2.Theology
                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Maria Corley Thompson – Motherless Child (arr.)
                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Kamilla Arku – 3 Improvisations on poems by Angelina Weld Grimké
                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Nkeiru Okoye – African Sketches: Dancing Barefoot in the Rain; Dusk
                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Shirley Thompson – Psalm to Windrush
                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Errollyn Wallen – I wouldn’t normally say
                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Margaret Bonds – Troubled Water
                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Margaret Bonds – Three dream portraits
                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Florence Price – Song selection: 1. Song to the dark virgin, 2. To my little son, 3. Hold fast to dreams
                                                                                
                                                                                                                        
Performers
                                                            
                                                                                                                        Simone Ibbet-Brown – mezzo-soprano
                                                                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                        Francesca Chiejina – soprano
                                                                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                        Kamilla Arku – piano
                                                                                                            
                                                    
Programme Note
The African Concert Series: African Women Concert
12 March, doors at 7.00pm, for 7.30pm start
Venue: October Gallery, London
For the International Women's Day, The African Concert Series is delighted to bring you an evening of music by African women composers performed by female musicians, featuring piano music and songs by Errollyn Wallen, Shirley J. Thompson, Betty Jackson King, Maria Thompson Corley, Nkeiru Okoye and Kamilla Arku.
 
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