Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

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.

Kamilla Arku – piano, Francesca Chiejina – Soprano, Simone Ibbet-Brown – mezzo-soprano

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