Québec traditional music quartet La Déferlance bring vibrant arrangements, rich vocal harmonies and infectious energy to Kings Place. Drawing on both traditional repertoire and original compositions, the group present music from their latest album, Âmes des bois.
Hear Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in the composer’s original four-hand version as Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva launch a new series transforming orchestral masterpieces at the piano.
As part of (Re)Sounding India, curated by Guest Curator Keval Shah, Shah performs the complete solo piano works of Reena Esmail, including the UK premiere of works written especially for him.
Irish harpist and singer-songwriter Dara Dubh brings her full band to Kings Place for a Sunday afternoon Irish Folk Nights show, the only London date of her debut album tour.
Pianist composer and technologist Zubin Kanga performs new works at the cutting-edge of new music technologies, featuring the world premiere of ‘Sataniq Paniq // Satanipanicon’.
The road stretches into darkness. This month, Bach, the Universe and Everything explores hope in the face of doubt and the remarkable drive of humans to journey beyond our earthly limits.
Rooted in Nordic folk traditions, Tsuumi Sound System is one of Finland’s most notable music groups of recent times.
Described in The Living Tradition as ‘captivating, bold and striking’, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne is at the forefront of his generation of English folk musicians as both a powerful and commanding singer and a masterful player of the Anglo concertina and melodeon.
After more than a decade performing internationally with award-winning Cape Breton supergroup Còig, Celtic folk multi-instrumentalists Rachel Davis & Darren McMullen are charting a new path in modern folk together.
Darkness. Wonder. Light. Bach's music and atmospheric science come together in an exploration of beauty emerging from uncertainty, and how joy can be found in the darkest places.
Forged out of the traditional Folk music scenes of Scotland and Ireland—yet influenced by the sounds of the Balkans, North America, and far beyond—Dallahan have spent over a decade guiding audiences through a musical world tour of their own making.
Arthur Coates & Kerran Cotterell are a two-man trad tornado tearing through the folk world with foot percussion, fiddle, guitar, vocals, and groove to spare. Kitted out with grooving basslines, tight harmonies, and offbeat charm, they’re just a couple of lads with a tangle of strings - yet they somehow summon the sound and swagger of a much bigger band.
Three years on from their acclaimed debut 'Double You', Welsh-Irish, harp-violin, folk-classical duo Catrin Finch and Aoife Ní Bhriain return to Kings Place following the release of their anticipated second album.
Born and raised in the idyllic province of Prince Edward Island, Canada, Catherine MacLellan has been captivating audiences around the world with her music for over two decades. Rooted in folk and roots, Catherine's modern songs reflect her deep connection to the land and people that call it home.
For the first time, Kings Place resident ensembles Festival Voices and Phaedra Ensemble join forces for Good Friday, culminating in James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, a modern masterpiece of extraordinary emotional power.
One of the most in-demand and unique live acts in the UK and Irish folk scenes today, The Haar brings together the staggering musicianship of Molly Donnery, Adam Summerhayes, Murray Grainger and Cormac Byrne. Their new album, The Lost Day, is a coming-of-age journey through traditional song, alive with poetic storytelling, heartbreak and hope. Honest, tender and epic.
Musician and sound artist Alice Boyd launches her debut album at Kings Place, weaving voice, field recordings, synths, and folk-inspired songwriting into music that explores our relationship with the natural world. Alice will perform solo before being joined on stage by special guest collaborators.
Beethoven meets Florence Price and Gershwin as the Renaissance String Quartet brings its fresh, inclusive approach to a programme spanning more than a century of chamber music.
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.
For more than three decades, Flook have redefined contemporary folk with virtuosic musicianship, inventive arrangements, and an unmistakable sound. Experience one of the genre's most influential Anglo-Irish bands live in concert as they return for another epic Hall One Irish Folk Nights show.
Beethoven’s Fifth and Pastoral Symphonies as you’ve rarely heard them: Duo Pleyel brings their orchestral drama and colour to a single piano in remarkable four-hand arrangements by Beethoven’s pupil Carl Czerny.
Olivia Murphy and her Orchestra celebrate the release of their sophomore album, performing major recent works by the award-winning composer. The concert will feature selections from Murphy's critically acclaimed debut album 'Fateful Birds & Fledgling Stories', followed by the Orchestra's first ever London performance of 'Siren Cycle', adding strings and four vocalists alongside the Big Band.
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.