These three events are a fun and rhythmical introduction to new music for all ages. Toy pianist Isabel Ettenauer and composer Rachel Leach put the ‘play' back into playing the piano (Toy Play Programme SPNM). Percussionists Richard Benjafield and Chris Brannick show that music can be made with anything, from bare hands to glasses of water. This family-friendly event will appeal to anyone with a pulse: you've got rhythm, they've got music, who could ask for anything more? The line-up culminates in a performance featuring a dazzling display of virtuosic tabla and jazz piano from tabla phenomenon Kuljit Bhamra and Mercury Award-nominated jazz pianist Zoe Rahman.
From the Pet Shop Boys to Mike Leigh, King's Cross has been a draw to artists. In the first of three events exploring the area, sound artist and environmental educator Tony Whitehead will take you on a sound walk, revealing the character and sound poetry of local life. Soprano Loré Lixenberg (who's played leading roles in operas by Maxwell Davies and Birtwistle and Jerry Springer, the Opera) performs a programme including new pieces setting texts from the King's Cross Voices oral history project. We end with new short films featuring live music, using archive and recent footage of King's Cross.
