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Future Folk: Contemporary Sounds from Traditional Roots

Future Folk: Contemporary Sounds from Traditional Roots

Kings Place is proud to present the return of Future Folk, our series showcasing emerging artists creating and reshaping music inspired by folk traditions in new, progressive ways for contemporary audiences. Across an initial set of four events in 2024/25, we will put these talented musicians centre stage in a time when breakthrough acts can easily become lost in the current economic realities of folk music programming.

The series offers an exciting opportunity to discover new music. In 2024, join us and experience Tarren’s modular hooks and minimalist forms, the “Extraordinary” (Jools Holland) Frankie Archer, and Kora player Jali Bakary Konteh, the latest torchbearer for his family’s kora legacy on the world stage. In 2025, we welcome the virtuosos Finn Colinson Band who create a powerful and pioneering sound between folk and early music. Plus, George Sansome and Sophie Crawford, founders of Queer Folk – an organisation which researches queer music and champions LGBTQIA+ musicians. Since finding a wealth of LGBTQIA+ folk music in the archives, they now perform these songs together accompanied by guitar, bouzouki, and accordion.

In partnership with Alan Bearman Music.

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Kirckman at Kings Place

The Kirckman Concert Society was founded by Geraint Jones and Calton Younger in 1963 to promote young artists of exceptional talent.

The Society’s panel of distinguished musicians has developed a reputation for ‘spotting’ tomorrow’s stars in the making. The Society offers its young musicians a London platform as well as the possibility of concerts further afield; and while these artists are not yet household names, concert-goers have a unique opportunity to hear for themselves the exciting promise which these artists offer.

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Earth Unwrapped

Sirens for a wounded planet

Kings Place turns its focus to Earth for our 2025 award-winning Unwrapped series, bringing artists together to explore our wounded planet and how collectively we can seek healing.
We turn to Artists in Residence Sam Lee, Jason Singh and Gazelle Twin to tell stories of the Earth through their performances, installations and celebrations throughout the year.

You’ll see us working with our King’s Cross neighbours Central Saint Martins, shining a light on their Climate Emergency Network. Environmental artist Alice Boyd creates The Sounds of King’s Cross for our d&b Soundscape system, listening and talking to the people wildlife in our local area, whilst EarthPercent, the music industry’s climate foundation, will host an important conversation with their expert advisory panel.

Virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro invites you to a weekend of deep listening for our audiences, with works from Catherine Lamb, Pauline Oliveros, James Tenney and Valgeir Sigurðsson.

We celebrate Terry Riley’s 90th birthday, look to Pauline Oliveros’ concept of deep listening and are taken on a Mahler adventure with Resident Ensemble, Aurora. You’ll hear new music and commissions from artists who dedicate their work to our planet including Julia Wolfe, Josephine Stephenson, and Erland Cooper.

Our d&b Soundscape system will bring the outdoors in with artists such as Soumik Datta, Ligeti Quartet and The Rheingans Sisters enabling us to feel immersed in the outdoors from sounds on our doorstep to around the world.

This year-long series will offer a place to listen deeply to our world on a microscopic to cosmic scale, inviting you to celebrate our natural world, provide a space to listen, learn and be inspired by the artists around us.

See our Digital Earth Unwrapped brochure – here.

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The Crick Crack Club

Born & raised in London, the Crick Crack Club has pioneered the capital’s performance storytelling scene for over 30 years. Enter their wild haven of fairytale, myth and epic, and delve into the underground city, the city of shadows, the hidden city, the city of dreams and the city of the dead.

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London Chamber Music Society

The London Chamber Music Society (LCMS) is dedicated to bringing the best in chamber music to London audiences and can trace its origins back to Victorian music making in London in the 1870s. The LCMS Concert Series aims to continue this rich legacy.

The list of famous artists and ensembles appearing through the years includes Henry Wood, Frank Bridge, Albert Sammons, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Goosens, Ysaÿe, Percy Grainger, Primrose, Harriet Cohen, Myra Hess, John Ireland and many more. Britain’s most celebrated string quartets have regularly appeared in the Series, from the Brosa and Amadeus to the Allegri, Lindsay and Chilingirian Quartets. Patrons: Sir Jeremy Dixon and Julia Somerville.

‘The London Chamber Music Sundays are an absolute joy and we should ‘spread the word’ as far and wide as possible.’ Seen & Heard International

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Online

An exciting virtual Kings Place has emerged and our audience can now experience events streamed live at home via KPlayer.

For information on how to use KPlayer please refer to our guide or see the KPlayer FAQ.

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Politics

Political commentator and broadcaster, Steve Richards, presents the latest behind-the-scenes guide to the epic dramas and the characters shaping seismic events. How have we got here? What’s going to happen next? Are there any answers to these questions? Come along and find out.

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d&b Soundscape

Kings Place has a creative partnership with d&b audiotechnik to introduce artists and develop new projects using Soundscape in Hall Two. A revolution in the live sound experience, d&b Soundscape is an alternative to the traditional left and right stereo system, using up to 39 loudspeakers to open up a plethora of creative possibilities for artists to reinforce their sound.

The following shows will all be using the d&b Soundscape system. Find out more about the technology in our Magazine.

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Soundbites

Sixty-minute transportive music experiences in collaboration with Kings Place Resident String Quartet, Piatti.

Come and unwind and get a taste of classical music and all its variety in this Soundbites series, with famous quartets from the movies, including Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, the ultimate love-inspired playlist from Borodin and Tchaikovsky, a beautiful story of love and loss from siblings Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, plus minimalist icon Philip Glass and fellow American star composers Caroline Shaw and John Adams.

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Bach, the Universe & Everything

Bach, the Universe and Everything is back with another season of celestial adventures inspired by the music of JS Bach and the amazing cosmic discoveries of the last 350 years.

The scientific Enlightenment revealed that whilst space is unfathomable in its beauty and mystery, it is at the same time an extension of the world we know on Earth. Our speakers this season will explore how that knowledge is shaping our relationship with and understanding of the worlds and galaxies around us. In Bach’s church cantatas, we find one of the most intense explorations of the relationship between the human spirit, in many ways liberated by newfound knowledge, and the necessity of faith in a higher cause.

Alongside Bach’s cantatas we explore the choral works of Orlando Gibbons; often described as the last great English polyphonist, he was one of the most naturally talented composers in setting the English language to music.

‘Wowbagger gazed for a moment at the fantastic jewellery of the night, the billions of tiny diamond worlds that dusted the infinite darkness with light. Every one, every single one, was on his itinerary. Most of them he would be going to millions of times over.

He imagined for a moment his itinerary connecting up all the dots in the sky like a child’s numbered dots puzzle. He hoped that from some vantage point in the Universe it might be seen to spell a very very rude word.’

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

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Jewish Book Week

London’s longest running literary festival returns to Kings Place, bringing together over 150 speakers across 90 events in-person and online. Covering fiction, faith, politics, music, and everything in between, the 74th edition will see world-renowned thinkers take the stage, from Nicholas Hytner, Emma Barnett, and Simon Sebag Montefiore to Jonathan Freedland, Elif Shafak, Susan Neiman, and Lionel Shriver.

Presented by the Jewish Literary Foundation, the 74th edition Jewish Book Week will grapple with our fast-changing world through a challenging and enriching programme. Among those speaking for the first time are Private Eye diarist Craig Brown, screenwriter and comedic talent Robert Popper, author and journalist Yossi Klein Halevi, football manager David Pleat, and award-winning Ukrainian writer Ilya Kaminsky. They feature alongside returning favourites Anne Sebba, Anthony Julius, Maureen Lipman and Ariana Neumann.

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Platoon Presents at Kings Place

Platoon Presents at Kings Place is a brand-new creative partnership forged by two pioneering organisations – the Platoon label, and Kings Place. Together they will present a series of imaginative live performances, showcasing the Platoon roster through contemporary, classical and spoken word genres, from both internationally-celebrated artists and emerging new voices.

Listen to the Platoon Presents at Kings Place playlist – exclusively on Apple Music Classical, the app designed for Classical music.

Watch the Platoon Presents at Kings Place trailer on YouTube.

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Bach Weekend

Martin Feinstein’s Bach Weekend returns to Kings Place in April with its annual exploration of the great masterpieces of Bach. This year’s concerts feature many of his best loved works: the Magnificat, the Orchestral Suite in C and the Brandenburg concertos alongside some wonderful choral and orchestral masterpieces that may not be as familiar.

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Folk Weekend: Birdsong - You’ve Never Heard So Sweet 

Our annual Folk Weekend tunes in to the ornithological world. Song traditions of the British Isles are inspired by the relationships that singers have with their environment and the seasons, and many are infused with the sounds and images of birds. From blackbirds to ravens, they are used symbolically to reflect human experience. But, in turn, birds themselves are the inspiration for many musicians, from larks ascending to crying doves. Akin to unsung folk songs, many bird populations are at risk, with severe declines in numbers, from curlews to turtle doves and swifts to swans. Influential performers from across the contemporary folk scene including Eliza Carthy, Martin Simpson, Chris Wood, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron and The Wilderness Yet celebrate and shine a spotlight on all things avian: from new songwriting to musical dialogues with birds.

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Aurora Orchestra - Far, Far Away

Combining live instrumental performance of the highest calibre with original storytelling and a playful, multi-sensory approach to concert presentation, Far, Far Away is the perfect way to introduce young children to music.

Each concert explores a particular composer or style of music, weaving together stunning live performances with an original story from Aurora Orchestra’s Writer-in-Residence Kate Wakeling and a beautifully designed set built around the audience and musicians. Audiences are invited to step inside each story through guided listening, singing, dancing, holding props and much more, becoming immersed in a magical world of music, language, discovery and play.

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