What The River Sings

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

What The River Sings, devised by Grand Union’s composer / director Tony Haynes, brings together soem of East London’s finest performers across an astonishing range of musical cultures. Together, they create a portrait of East London’s ‘Water City’ and the 500 years of trade and migration that have made it to the gateway to Britain and engine our prosperity.

Framed by the sumptuous orchestral textures of Rimsky–Korsakov’s Scheherazade, the music ranges from Turkish and Bengali songs, through West African and Caribbean rhthyms, Portugese fado, Inuit folk poetry and Yoruba chants to Bhangra and big band jazz – with a flourish from Sir Henry Wood’s much–loved Sea Songs!

TIME: 4pm – 5.30pm

FEE: £10, £5 CONCS.

FOR TICKETS & MORE INFO:

For tickets email mail@grandunion.org.uk and quote ‘What The River Sings’

Trinity Buoy Wharf

What The River Sings