Alasdair Roberts and The Sound of Yell
Folk, Live music
When: - 20th August 2015 | 7.30pm – 11pm
Genre: Folk, Live music
Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre
Cost: Tickets £6 | £4 concession
Funder: Esmee Fairbairn
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish musician, primarily a singer, guitarist, songwriter, composer, arranger and interpreter of traditional songs and ballads. In 1996 he released his first 7” single on Will Oldham’s Palace Records imprint; since then he as gone on to produce some 13 full-length albums of music, primarily working with Drag City Records of Chicago.
Alasdair has collaborated with a wide variety of fellow musicians as well as with other artists including poets, puppeteers, film-makers and painters. He has toured widely at home in Scotland and abroad – in USA, Canada, Europe, Brazil and Australia – both solo and with various bands.
Supported by Sound of Yell, based in Glasgow and can number as many as twelve. The debut album Brocken Spectre is out now on Chemikal Underground Recordings.
Doors open at 7.30pm
A well-attended mid-week live music performance. Alasdair Robert’s romantic melancholy style suited the atmospheric surroundings of a candlelit church.
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Bradford Festival: Create Together Day
Family Activity
When: - Saturday, 15th June 2013 | 10am - 4pm
Genre: Family Activity
Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre
Cost: Free
Funder: Bradford Council
A Saturday daytime workshop for families to share an experience and create together in a choice of workshops in the church space at the Delius Centre.
Workshops were led by four new Bradford-based community artists.
This was a free event as part of the Bradford Festival Xtra Programme
Outcomes
A great session type to introduce new artists to community arts, easy to monitor and evaluate effectiveness, would be ideal for post- CPD training for new community artists/facilitators.
Parents and children had a great time working together and making a variety of items that they could then take away with them.
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Bradford CREATEPLAY Open Art:Open Music
Scratch Orchestra
When: - 13th June 2013 | 4pm-10pm
Genre: Scratch Orchestra
Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre
Cost: Free
Funder: Bradford Council
A daytime into evening event where the audience was invited to work alongside artists to transform the church space into an immersive installation that formed the playspace for an evening performing with community orchestra Dales Jam.
A large multi-media structure was created using grand techniques such as lighting, set design and projection. The musicians gathered at 7pm to work together on an original piece utilising the participants’ unique musical talents, shared skills and interests, and love of music – and, of course, instruments.
An ephemeral, eclectic musical performance in an extraordinary, aesthetic setting. A great and fun session that worked beautifully with the installation giving the participants a very special experience.
This was a free event as part of the Bradford Festival Xtra Programme.
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Family Concert – Delius and Gauguin
Family Activity, Classical
When: - 5th April 2014 | 3pm
Genre: Family Activity, Classical
Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre
Partner: Midori Komachi
The English composer Frederick Delius (1862-1934) was born in Bradford, and
later on moved to France, where he interacted with many painters,
including Paul Gauguin
Through music and art, the family friendly concert with Midori Komachi and Simon Callaghan explored the life of Frederick Delius and his artistic friends.
This performance was supported by the Delius Trust and ACE Grants for the Arts.
FRITZ – A System of Weaving
Exhibition
Genre: Exhibition
Venue: Delius Arts & Cultural Centre
Cost: Free
Funder: Foyle Foundation
A specially commissioned musical and movement installation and performance piece to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer Frederick Delius, written, produced and performed by local artists Chemaine Cooke, modern space-responsive dancer, and Seth Bennett, musician and composer.
‘FRITZ: A System of Weaving’ explored the various tensions in Delius’ life which impacted his compositions and will also explore the relevance of Delius in today’s Bradford. It included new material generated by the two artists’ responses to various sites in the city associated with him and his family, as well as improvisations based on his works.
Performed in front of an audience of 50
Testimonials
This event was supported by the Delius Society with its inclusion in their programme of events for Delius’ 150th Anniversary. A 4-page article of the commission and performance was featured in the internationally distributed ‘The Delius Society Journal’. Chris Green, Project Adviser for the Anniversary attended the performance said: “The event featured a specially-commissioned musical movement and text-based performance piece to commemorate Delius’ life which impacted on his composition – it also explored Delius’ relevance to Bradford today with sound bites from members of the community taken at a number of sites associated with him and his family. A very contemporary way to finish the year – a new piece performed to a new audience of young people. We must hope that through events of this kind we really can draw in a future membership to keep our society alive and well.”
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Vinyl DJ Workshop
Family Activity
When: - 17th August 2013 | 12pm-3pm
Genre: Family Activity
Cost: Free
Funder: Foyle Foundation
A family friendly event with the aim of families learning DJ skills whilst having fun together. A great workshop to help all ages develop a love of music, bond and build memories.
Children and adults tried their your hand at playing records on decks and created their own set which was played live to the dance-floor. Their was also an activity to create their own poster and LP cover which could be taken home as a souvenir of their day.
The session enabled families to build relationships whilst being creative together.
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King Ayisoba (Ghana) | Zea (Netherlands, The Ex) | Ayuune Suley (Ghana) | Dean McPhee
World Music
When: 21/01/2016 - Doors open 8pm
Genre: World Music
Cost: £10/£7 Concession
Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Partner: M@BU - Music at Bradford University
M@BU – Music at Bradford University presents:
KING AYISOBA (Ghana)
Traditional kologo music from the Upper East Region of
Ghana brought with the energy and flavour of the twenty first century. The kologo is a two string guitar with a calabash gourd resonator, it is rhythmic and melodic at the same time. King Ayisoba sings in Frafra, Twi and in English and is a big star in Ghana. If you caught him at Fuse Art Space as part of Recon festival a couple of years back you’ll know not to miss this.
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Ayuune Suley (Ghana)
Another traditional musician on Kologo guitar, playing authentic music from East of Ghana.
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ZEA (Netherlands)
Solo performance from Arnold de Boer of legendary post-punksters The Ex deploying guitar
and sampler for an almighty bout of high energy songs. Urgent lyrics
over guitar, roughshod beats and grimy bass lines. This is fat-free
music with no words wasted; joyfully obstinate, wonderfully bonkers.
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Dean McPhee
Blisfull ambient solo guitar compositions from Bingley. His influences include British Folk, Dub, Krautrock, Post Rock, Moroccan Trance and Modal Jazz, and while his sparse, melodic and echo-laden playing has been compared to Vini Reilly, Fripp & Eno and Loren Connors, his singular approach to the instrument is very much his own. Respected dub connoisseur, “On the Wire” presenter and champion of unusual and esoteric music Steve Barker recently described Dean as being “definitely one of the leading contemporary guitar stylists in the UK, and in the world” and his albums have been widely praised by The Wire, Uncut, Record Collector, Music OMH, Dusted Magazine, Brainwashed, DOA, Drowned in Sound, MOJO Magazine, ATTN: Magazine and more.
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This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
Laura Cannell / Magpahi / Stephanie Hladowski
When: 23/01/2016 - 19:30 to 23:00 (GMT)
Cost: £5
Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Laura Cannell plays fiddle, overbowed fiddle and double recorders. Drawing on ancient transcendental and earthly musics, her sense of space, dynamics and working with acoustics is highly attuned, often utilising a fragment from a medieval theme to her own end, embracing the apparitional, historical or the otherworldly. Her current live music show finds her performing improvisations on ‘over-bowed’ fiddle and double-barrelled recorders creating spell-binding new interpretations and breathing new life into lost and forgotten melodies from the 5th – 14th centuries. She has appeared on BBC Radio 3, 4 and 6Music including performances on Late Junction, The Early Music Show, Stuart Maconie’s Freakzone, In Tune and Radio 4’s 15 minute play. She has also appeared on ITV, Sky Arts and BBC Four. Laura regularly collaborates and was recently awarded a PRSF Beyond Borders grant to work with the Welsh violinist Angharad Davies in a new project which spans England, Scotland and Wales.
Magpahi is the solo project of Todmorden based multi-instrumentalist Alison Cooper. Transposing falsetto fairytale folk songs and 16th century poems from the black and white birds nest Alison joins the dots between Victorian parlour music and a dreamy tone world inspired by forays through the mossy undergrowth, liminal space, and eternally vibrating string that is the Yorkshire/Lancashire boundary line. With solo releases on Bird Records and Devon Folklore tapes, a collaborative streak that has seen her produce some mesmerising performances accompanied by the crystal light refractions of artist Emma Lomax, original soundtrack commissions for the Moomins no less, and releases with Sam and the Plants and N Racker on labels such as Twisted Nerve and Pre-Cert Entertainment, this first performance of 2016 promises to be special indeed.
Singing out from an early age, across a variety of genres, Stephanie Hladowski has slowly surfaced as an enigmatic interpreter of British folk song – most notably through her collaboration with guitarist C Joynes on the album ‘The Wild, Wild Berry’ (Bo’ Weavil) which was nominated for several awards and featured as editor’s choice in fRoots magazine. She has previously released one solo EP, ‘The High High Nest’ on Sheffield’s Singing Knives Records, and has collaborated with a range of acts from A Hawk and a Hacksaw, The Family Elan, and Scatter, to the dub sound system Inspirational Sound, also sharing the stage with such luminaries as Shirley Collins and Martin Carthy. Her last live performance also featured a cameo from new addition to the family Jonah Charlie Smith. Typically performing unaccompanied, Stephanie’s mesmerising, direct performance of balladry tells tales of love, life and loss sure to conjure up a wealth of emotion.
This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
Winter Herb Day at Delius
Family Activity
When: 23/01/2016 - 12pm - 4pm
Genre: Family Activity
Cost: Activities vary from FREE to £3/£10 donation
Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
A day of herbal inspiration led by local Medical Herbalists, Heather Ware and Helen Rideout.
Come in from the cold anytime throughout the day to experience a range of activites that will empower you to use herbs for healthier and happier winter living. Just sit and relax with a tea or join in a workshop.
Free cups of Herbal Tea! Herbal Footbaths! Chats! Library! Hands-on workshops for adults and kids!
Workshops:
12.30 – 13.15 Fire-cider (non -alcoholic) making: learn how to make a stimulating immune tonic herbal vinegar. Bring your own jam jar to take what you make away.
14.00 – 14.15 Herbal Balm making for kids and adults. Make a yummy lip balm (that actually does stop your lips chapping) or a magical healing balm to take away.
15.00 – 15.45 Intuitive herbal tea tasting. A guided sensory experience where you learn about a mystery herb. FREE.
Just come along. No need to book!
Practical workshops £3 – £10 suggested donation.
This event is supported by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
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Za! (Spain) | NOPE | FALCO | Bradford Scratch Orchestra
When: 19/02/2016 - Doors open 8pm
Cost: £5/£4 concession
Funder: Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Partner: M@BU - Music at Bradford University
M@BU – Music at Bradford University presents
Za! (Spain)
Two people in front of your eyes, yet a transoceanic, futuristic/primitive orchestra in your ears the duet from Barcelona known as ZA!, keep on with their post-world music conquest of PachaMadreTierraWAH.
Two years after releasing WANANANAI (Rockdelux’s Album of 2013), ZA! present a record that defies many conventions, even their own. The title LOLOISMO comes from ‘Loloiza’, the Spanish phrase for the chants that echo out from football fields, where often the collective act of singing holds more value than the lyrics. The only premise the band set themselves was to avoid repetition of songs. To accomplish this, Spazzfrica Ehd(drums/keyboards/vocals) and Papadupau (guitar/trumpet/samples/
There is no set style: industrial meets dubstep, hip hop, clicks n’cuts electronic music, math-rock. Diversity is key, from the old-shool hardcore clichés to Asian, Arabic or invented landscapes, sometimes sampling live guitar, sometimes passing the whole drumkit through the amplifiers. The elements have been recorded live, on the same take and in the same room, only adding vocal overdubs.
ZA! call it “Loloizable experimental music with a chorus”, because until LOLOISMO the band’s lyrics had never evolved beyond a concept or a single word. As expected, these newly unearthed lyrics match with the experimental language of music, with repetitions, encrypted metrics and neologisms. The will is always to “loloize” rather than to pontifícate; to sing freely, collectively, and in tune with the Halfmighty Silly Sister of Wisdom.
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NOPE
On tour with Za are another band from the Audacious Art Experiment stable; krautrocking underground ‘supergroup’ NOPE. Featuring members of That Fucking Tank, Hookworms and COWTOWN NOPE have been pummelling ears and expanding minds for a while now with two albums of duel-drumming psychedelic repeato-rock performed with post punk intensity and a dash of early nineties alternative rock.
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F.A.L.C.O
Zizek Stardust and her band from another time return to Bradford to teach us in the ways of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Three teenage girls making a polticised postpunk riot.
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Bradford Scratch Orchestra
A performance from the open platform for musicians and non-musicians of all level of experience to make collaborative and improvised music.
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This event is part of Artworks Creative Communities programme of events funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.
Linda Sharrock / (In) The Abyssity Of The Grounds
Live Music - Jazz
When: 20/02/2016 - 5pm
Genre: Live Music - Jazz
Cost: £5
Funder: Esmee Fairbairn
An early evening/matinee performance from one of the most uniquely wondrous voices in music – free jazz legend Linda Sharrock! Singing alongside her current band (In) The Abyssity Of The Grounds, consisting of Mario Rechtern (saxophones), Theresa Eipeldauer (voice), Didi Kern (drums) and Margaret Unknown (guitar, electronics and voice), this is a rare opportunity to witness one of the most powerful voices of the 20th Century avant-garde.
Sharrock’s vocal work on her deceased ex-husband Sonny Sharrock’s albums ‘Black Woman’, ‘Monkey Pocky Boo’ and ‘Paradise’ augured a transition from the old jazz toward a revisionary and visionary smashing of form and idiom. It blended her rich gospel heritage with a drive toward the avant-garde that stood as a hugely powerful symbol for the African-American experience, as the United States moved from the subtlety of the early civil rights movement to the sociopolitical primal scream that was Black Power! Melodic moans and wails slowly unfurled into waves of shrill, powerful screams that mirrored and battled with the ferocity of Sonny’s guitar.
Linda divorced Sonny Sharrock in ’78 and moved to Vienna where she she worked with Franz Koglmann, Eric Watson, and Wolfgang Puschnig into the 1990s. In 2007, after forging a now long-running musical partnership with saxophonist Mario Rechtern, Sharrock suffered a life-changing stroke that not only impaired her ability to move freely but also to sing. It’s no understatement to say that her recent return to performance has been more of a rebirth than a rehabilitation. Gone are the Gospel-infused exultations. In their place a deep, rising moan that extends and draws itself out into a final, lengthy primal wail that illustrates the sociopolitical position of Sharrock’s disability as clearly as the records she made in the ’70s illustrated her position as a Black Woman in America.
This performance precedes the release of a brand new triple album on Golden Lab Records (out March 2016), credited to Linda Sharrock / (In) The Abyssity Of The Grounds – Sharrock’s first major work in years. Needless to say, it is an unmissable event for anyone even vaguely interested in the 20th Century avant-garde, Free Jazz and African-American history.
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SORM FEST IV
Live Music
When: 05/03/2016 - All Day
Genre: Live Music
Annual SORM fest
Plus SORM record label grand launch!!!
Bands tbc
Women of Palestine: Living through Trauma, Building Resilience
Event
When: 12/03/2016 - 12pm
Genre: Event
Cost: Conference: Free Evening event: £10/£5 concession
Join us for a day dedicated to the women of Palestine in this special event for International Women’s Day.
Conference (women only): 12 noon doors open for soup and to browse the exhibition. 1pm for conference opening.
Through film, music, poetry and women’s personal accounts, we will explore the daily trauma endured by Palestinians and celebrate how Palestinian women survive and thrive against the odds supporting each other, their families and their communities by being active both politically and creatively.
This event, at the Delius Centre, is the grand finale of a week of events across the north of England. Come and meet:
• Reem Kelani, the Palestinian singer
• Arwa Haikal from Hebron
• Kholoud al Ajarma from Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem
• Kholood Ersheid from Nazareth
• and view a new a film from The Freedom Theatre of Jenin, who recently toured the UK to great acclaim.
The event is organised by Northern Women for Palestine – a group of activists from seven towns across the north of England committed to campaigning for justice for Palestinians.
Our key message is that all of us, whatever our circumstances, can contribute to the cause of justice for Palestinians – so come along and find out more on March 12th.
The evening celebratory meal, beginning 6 for 6.30pm, is open to all and is £10/£5 concession
Tickets and further info available from hillyfletcher@btinternet.c
Pleasure Grounds and M@BU Present INCLUSION PRINCIPLE / SOPHIE COOPER / CHRIS BYWATER
Jazz
When: 17/03/2016 - 7pm
Genre: Jazz
Cost: £5 (£3 concession)
Partner: M@BU & Pleasure Grounds
Pleasure Grounds and M@BU – Music at Bradford University – present atDelius Arts & Cultural Centre
Inclusion Principle
Martin Archer – electronic keyboards, laptop, saxophones, clarinets, recorders
Hervé Perez – laptop, saxophones
Peter Fairclough – drums and percussion
Inclusion Principle operates in a space between electronics, nu-jazz, contemporary electroacoustic music and free improvisation tending towards a minimalist approach. In performance you will hear pure jazz skill, electronic beats and areas of texture and abstraction all seamlessly woven into a fascinating tapestry of sound.
Both Martin and Hervé play a similar set up of laptop and woodwinds and yet have a different approach to their instruments. Put together, there is a chemistry that inspire and drive their improvisations towards a wide range of soundscapes.
The choice of instruments and sounds on their palette allows them to dramatically change their music between beat driven electro, minimal and microtonal improvisation via electroacoustic experimentation and nu-jazz.
Long time collaborator Peter Fairclough fills a space in the soundscape that was meant for him, bringing a range of sounds and acoustic instruments. His inventive use of hand percussion, cymbals sculptures and bells blend perfectly with abstract textures while establishing definite jazz grooves that sit comfortably amongst electronic beats.
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Sophie Cooper
Sophie Cooper is a West Yorkshire based musician influenced by psychedelic pop, weird noise and drone, whose main interest is in experimenting with conventional song writing. Cooper’s music is written to reflect her life and more often than not is inspired by the people around her. The songs have a dreamlike quality, with sounds and vocals drifting in and out of clarity. Cooper has been making music since her early teens and has been in a string of acts including Cooper Jones and Leopard Leg.
Chris Bywater
Part of the stupendous Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere, (with Martin) , Transient Vs Resident and Bradford Scratch Orchestra among many. Synthesised electronic immersive environments a speciality.
7pm – 10pm. at Delius Arts & Cultural Centre, Great Horton Rd, Bradford. £5/£3 concessions on the door.
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Dales Jam
Jazz
When: 18/03/2016 - 7pm
Genre: Jazz
Cost: £4 (£3 concession)
DALES JAM
Friday, 18th March
World music and jazz orchestra Dales Jam return to the Delius Centre with Spring in their step and two completely new sets of music for your delirious enjoyment.
Time: Doors open at 7.00pm (band on at 7.30pm)
Tickets: £4 (£3 concession) on the door
Lunchtime Jazz with Imani Hekima, Pianist (THIS IS A RESCHEDULED EVENT)
Jazz
When: 14/04/2016 - 12.45pm-1.30pm
Genre: Jazz
Cost: £3 (£2 concession) - Children Free
Funder: Esmee Fairbairn
Bradford jazz pianist Imani Hekima has a diverse musical background, and takes us on a journey across genres. His performance blends jazz influences with soul, reggae, Bollywood & Middle Eastern music.
Join us for a lunchtime jazz session and BYOF (bring your own food)
Cost: £3 (£2 Conc.) on the door | children are free
WILFUL MISSING - Unsinkable Sailor Album Launch
Music
When: 23/04/2016 - 8pm
Genre: Music
Cost: £4
Wilful Missing launch of their new CD album Unsinkable Sailor.
Playing songs old and new, and generally having a good time.
Only £4 on the door.
Kascarade - Debut Album Launch
Live Music
When: 30/04/2016 - 8pm
Genre: Live Music
Cost: £5 advance / £6 on door
Debut album launch
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