One of the most important voices in British Folk, singer and song collector Shirley Collins returns to performing in her beloved home county with music from her first release in nearly 40 years, Lodestar.
Sun 14 May
Shirley Collins presents Lodestar Live
Bringing together English, American and Cajun songs dating from the 16th century to the 1950s, collected by Shirley and recorded at her home in Lewes with Ian Kearey (Music Director), her expressive vocals transcend time, connecting ageold tradition with a contemporary edge. A key part of the British Folk revival of the 60s and 70s, her voice is still as captivating now as it was then. Lodestar shows that, even at the age of 81, Shirley still pushes at the boundaries of Folk music. Shirley’s band will feature members of Trembling Bells, Rattle on the Stovepipe and Cyclobe, and a fine array of musicians and dancers will also join the event, including Boss Morris, Brighton Morris Men, Sam Lee, John Kirkpatrick, Bing Lyle and Naomi Bedford. Sun 14 May, 7.30pm Brighton Dome Concert Hall £22.50, £25, £27.50 Festival Standby £10 (see p75)
‘Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived, and yet utterly humble’ Stewart Lee
The Unfilmables Wrangler and Francesca & Mica Levi The history of cinema is teeming with stories of mythical films which never made it onto screen. Works such as Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon, David Lynch’s Return of the Jedi and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Dune are famously unproduced masterpieces; masterpieces simply because they can only ever exist in the imagination. The Unfilmables is a response to the greatest films never made. Wrangler (featuring Stephen Mallinder, ex-Cabaret Voltaire, Benge and Phil Winter from Tunng) and Francesca and Mica Levi, calibrate film,
music and imagination to bring lost film concepts to life in two live audiovisual performances. Commissioned by Live Cinema UK in partnership with CINECITY and HOME Manchester. Supported by This Way Up Exhibition Innovation Fund, a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, and Arts Council England.
Sun 14 May 9.30pm Duke of York’s Picturehouse £16, £15 retired, students
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