Katy Carr is performing a special selections of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience 🖤 katycarr.com/news 🖤
Sept 20th 2024 : The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Rd, London EC1R 3BL – Starts after dusk – As free as it gets
BEOWULF TO BLAKE VIA BACH
Anglo-Saxon poetry from The Hoard / Bach from Will Summers / New settings of Blake by Katy Carr / Benedict Scrivener from The Thumping Tommies! (featuring Jennifer Sanin) / Holly-Jane Shears / Early Electronica from subterranean dance duo Sunken Gardens.
Sept 28th 2024 : Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare Hampton Ct Rd, Hampton TW12 2EJ https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-with-music-tickets-1010410072727
Loki Music and Garrick’s Temple will host an afternoon combining music and poetry – poets associated with Peter Pegnall will assemble to read from their work, some with music, while others associated with Garrick’s Temple will perform Anglo-Saxon riddles, and sonnets by Shakespeare and Blake set to music. Those attending will have an oppotunity to read a short poem of their choice. There will be a short tea break. Please join us for an intriguing afternoon. To book tickets, see below
Tickets: £14 in advance; £16 on the door Half price for Temple volunteers/ students/under 18s/unemployed
2nd Oct 2024 : St Bartholomew the Great, EC1A 9DS Blake Society & St Bart’s event
How to book : Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-and-catherine-blakes-songs-of-innocence-and-of-experience-tickets-980004278177
I am so excited to be cooperating with The Blake Society for this incredible concert celebrating William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience – 2nd Oct 2024 see you there I hope 🙂
https://blakesociety.org/product/songs-of-innocence-and-experience/
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Wednesday 2 October 2024, 19:00 – 21:00, St Bartholomew’s Church
£10, £8 concessions (plus booking fee)
The Blake Society and St Bartholomew’s present an evening of music and talks focussing on Blake’s timeless poems and pictures, with Katy Carr and Stephen Pritchard.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Wednesday 2 October, 19:00-21:00
St Bartholomew the Great, 57 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9DS
£10, £8 concessions (plus Eventbrite booking fee)
Please choose Concession if you are a member of the Blake Society
Internationally acclaimed singer and musician, Katy Carr joins with the Secretary of the Blake Society, Stephen Pritchard, to explore Blake’s deceptively simple poems and exquisite artwork, some copies of which were hand-coloured by Catherine Blake. These unique works of art will be projected, sung and their beauty and profundity celebrated in words and song. Whether you know the poems well, or they are entirely new to you, this combined musical and analytical exploration of text and image will offer a unique opportunity to experience a work still completely relevant to our times- and to what it means to be human.TICKETSKaty Carr is an award-winning, independent British singer songwriter with Polish roots. She is an aviator and multi-instrumentalist: ukulele, banjolele, piano and vintage keyboard. Katy has released six albums of songs, inspired by untold stories from history and has performed to audiences across the UK, US and Europe. She is delighted to be debuting her self-penned vocal melodies of William Blake’s collection of Songs of Innocence and of Experience in partnership with the Blake Society. Katy is currently planning a double album of Blake’s works.
Stephen Pritchard is Secretary of the Blake Society. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford, and whilst researching for a DPhil on William Blake, taught and ran classes for graduates and undergraduates. Stephen co-founded the WOMAD Festival in 1982 with Peter Gabriel: ‘Stephen became a major creative architect of the WOMAD festival as it developed’, Thomas Brooman, (WOMAD Artistic Director 1982-2008). He has recently created and directed a new multimedia play, Albion, Awake! about William and Catherine’s Blake’s life and work.
Event name: Katy Carr performs William and Catherine Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Date: 2nd Oct 2024
Time: 7- 9PM
Location (full address): St Bartholomew the Great 57 West Smithfield London EC1A 9DS
Price: £10, £8 concessions (plus Eventbrite booking fee – Please choose Concession if you are a member of the Blake Society)
Website : https://blakesociety.org/product/songs-of-innocence-and-experience/
How to book : Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-and-catherine-blakes-songs-of-innocence-and-of-experience-tickets-980004278177
Who the event is for : Lovers of William Blake poetry all welcome 🙏