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The stories we inherit. The music we pass on.

Origins Unwrapped brings together artists whose work is shaped by heritage, migration, community and creativity.

Through music, they reveal how family histories, cultural influences and encounters across borders have shaped their artistic identities and inspired the work they create and champion today. Led by Artist-in-Residence Alice Zawadzki, Guest Curator Keval Shah and Composer-in-Focus Nico Muhly, alongside a cast of world-class artists including our resident ensembles, the season invites audiences to discover the personal stories and creative journeys behind the music they love.

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Alice Zawadzki: Bag of Bones

Jazz / Artist in Residence: Alice Zawadzki

Alice Zawadzki presents a new version of her acclaimed chamber opera, Bag of Bones, an immersive work of inherited memory, Eastern European folklore and cultural severance, blending strings, accordion, keyboards and voice.

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Phaedra Ensemble: Lines Made by Walking

Classical / Phaedra Ensemble

Phaedra Ensemble follows music into the landscape, tracing movement, environment and cultural memory through works by Gabriella Smith, John Luther Adams, Alvin Lucier, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and Raven Chacon, inviting us to listen to place anew.

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Shared Threads VIP Day Pass

Folk / Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer

Get the full festival experience at Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer with a VIP Day Pass. One ticket gets you access to the workshop and lunchtime show with Old Spot, front row seats for Hall One shows, and meet and greets with Petunia and The Vipers and Amythyst Kiah.

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Old Spot Workshop

Folk / Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer

Bring your own instrument to a special workshop with established old-time roots duo, Old Spot. Part of Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer at Kings Place, Rowan Piggott & Joe Dank teach an Appalachian tune and some of the idiomatic playing styles that bring them to life.

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Old Spot

Folk / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Old Spot have quickly established themselves as a fresh force in old-time folk music. Join Rowan Piggott (fiddle/viola) & Joe Danks (banjo) for a special intimate Kings Place show as part of Shared Threads: North America Roots All-Dayer.

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Family Barn Dance with Cut A Shine

Family / Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer

Don't miss out because of early bedtimes! Give children a chance to experience real live music with an afternoon barn dance led by Cut A Shine. Have fun with all the family on the dance floor as part of Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer. Let’s cut some moves!

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Petunia & The Vipers

Folk / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Vancouver-based Petunia is more than just an entertainer: he’s a modern musical enigma, channeling old-soul energy into a hybrid of vintage Americana, country blues, western swing, and underground folk. Together with his band, he opens Hall One at Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer.

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Amythyst Kiah

Folk / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Amythyst Kiah is a powerful contemporary acoustic American roots performer blessed with an unforgettable voice and unique clawhammer banjo and fingerstyle guitar playing. She makes a rare London appearance as the closing Hall One act of Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer.

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Hoedown Night with Cut A Shine + Interstate Express

Folk / Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer

Hoedown Night at Shared Threads: North American Roots All-Dayer opens with a high-energy set from traditional American roots band Interstate Express, followed by a floor-filling barn dance led by Cut A Shine.

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Luke Wallace with Fire Choir

Folk / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Vancouver artist Luke Wallace is a dynamic force in the world of folk music, using his talent as a songwriter, speaker, and choral arranger to champion environmental causes and inspire positive change.

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Scottish Fish

Folk / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Scottish Fish present a fiddle-forward infusion of original and traditional Scottish and Cape Breton music.

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Giacomo Smith's Routes In Ragtime

Jazz / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Accomplished saxophonist and clarinettist Giacomo Smith brings early jazz into the present with Routes in Ragtime, a programme of original music inspired by the Great Migration and the pioneering generation that created jazz.

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Rum Ragged

Folk / Canadian & Québécois Folk

Rum Ragged takes a bold approach to the distinct folk music of their home, the Eastern Canadian island of Newfoundland. On bouzouki, fiddle, bodhran, banjo, guitar and button accordion, these new champions of East Coast music enliven audiences with songs and tune sets delivered with an honest swagger that is far beyond their years.

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Aurora Orchestra: American Quartets

Classical / Aurora at Kings Place

Journey through a century of string quartets from America in an immersive setting, performed by the principal string players of Aurora Orchestra.

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Attacca Quartet: Weird Grooves

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet reimagines the Baroque suite through dance, rhythm and unexpected connections in music by Couperin, Caroline Shaw, Radiohead, John Adams and Paul Wiancko.

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Chineke! – Percussion of Sound

Classical / Chineke!

Four Chineke! Percussionists showcase the remarkable breadth of percussion in a programme that travels from body percussion and West African drumming traditions to the rich melodic possibilities of marimba and vibraphone.

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Beethoven by Heart: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132

Classical / Beethoven by Heart

Beethoven by Heart continues with Op. 132, as director Tom Morris and the Sacconi Quartet bring audiences inside Beethoven’s late quartets, performed entirely from memory in a uniquely intimate and theatrical Hall Two experience.

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Beethoven by Heart: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132

Classical / Beethoven by Heart

Beethoven by Heart continues with Op. 132, as director Tom Morris and the Sacconi Quartet bring audiences inside Beethoven’s late quartets, performed entirely from memory in a uniquely intimate and theatrical Hall Two experience.

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Kings Place Jazz Orchestra: Decades of Jazz

Jazz / Kings Place Jazz Orchestra

From its New Orleans roots to the big-band brilliance of Ellington and Basie and the vocal artistry of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Kings Place Jazz Orchestra traces jazz’s changing sound across generations.

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Neave Trio & Tango Movement

Classical / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Following their much-loved Kings Place collaboration in 2025, Neave Trio reunites with dancers David and Kim Benitez of Tango Movement for an exhilarating evening where chamber music and tango collide.

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Re(Sounding India): Amrit Kaur

Contemporary / (Re)Sounding India

Amrit Kaur brings a singular musical language to the stage, weaving Indian classical music, Punjabi folk, blues and soul into live performances rooted in storytelling and human connection.

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KOLINGA

Jazz / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

French-Congolese fusion outfit Kolinga, led by singer Rébecca M'Boungou, brings a compelling mix of contemporary music, jazz and Bantu music to Kings Place for an exclusive performance.

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Marlon the Pannist

Jazz / ‘Under 30s’ Tickets

Experience the vibrant sounds of Trinidad & Tobago with Marlon the Pannist. Joined by a dynamic mixed-instrument ensemble, he celebrates the rich heritage of the steelpan through original compositions, imaginative arrangements and infectious Caribbean rhythms.

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