We are thrilled to open our dai hall again with roam festival to celebrate the future of music and art scene. The festival commissions new works from across the world -performance, exhibition and radio streaming along with online workshops and talk sessions.
As some of you might know from Rhodri Davies’s social media announcement, due to his unforeseen circumstance, unfortunately, he will not be able to make to the 11th opening performance. Instead of the event cancellation, he has introduced us to an amazing musician and dearest colleague, Brìghde Chaimbeul, to come and play for the night!!!
This first performance evening is on the second Saturday in September with :
The first performance evening is on the second Saturday in September with :
Brighde Chaimbeul with Solo Bagpipe
Voice: Restoration by Rebekah Alero
Performance and Talk on the use of their voice to channel and challenge experiences that exist within the performer. Looking at the way they take a reflective approach in activating sounds, and melody from a feeling, or how their body exists in spaces as a black, non binary person. The talk will also include examples from text, and other artists work , as well as references to The Dandelion Archives.
Concert starts at 19:00.
The newly commissioned group exhibition beyond//roam and a.hop’s video installation will be open till late on the day of the performance.
Rebekah Alero is a Sound Artist, Composer and Writer. Their work focuses on extended techniques, improvisation, voice and electronic music. Rebekah also brings elements of graphic scores and words into their practice, bringing an experimental approach to performing sound and words.
Rebekah has developed a project titled ;;The Dandelion Project” which will be a platform to showcase and archive works from experimental BIPOC composers and artists.
Upon graduating from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Rebekah has now gone on to deepen their research into archiving within the context of Black Classical Composers, and the connections between Western Classical music and traditional West African music. They are currently studying their MA. at Goldsmiths University.
Brìghde Chaimbeul is a Scottish bagpipe player who has devised a completely new way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the tunes.Growing up in a musical family in Sleat on the Isle of Skye, she was no stranger to the sound of the pipes, and indeed the sound of music at home.She is a winner of the 2019 BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award, and 2016 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk award. A native Gaelic speaker, her style is rooted in her native language and culture. Her debut album ‘The Reeling’ was named as Folk Album Of The Month by The Guardian, given five star reviews in both fRoots and Songlines with praise by BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and listed as The Quietus’s Albums Of The Year, voted one of the 20 Scottish Albums Of The Year by the Say Awards.
