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THIS WEDNESDAY

Artifacts Trio

Wed 16 Oct - Black Box - 8pm - £15 (£10 conc) BOOK


Artifacts Trio (Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Mike Reed) have long been recognised as torchbearers of Chicago’s renowned jazz scene. The trio consists of members of The Art Ensemble of Chicago and The Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM). Their approach celebrates African American culture while integrating new ideas into the legacy of jazz, experimentalism, and composition. It is a huge honour to welcome this incredible band to the island for the first time and bring a slice of Chicago to Belfast. Not to be missed.


“exceptional”

New York Times


“If we were limited to a one-word description, it would be groove”

All About Jazz


“leaves no listener behind, paying particular attention to cultivating a connection between what currently exists within the art form, and what is yet to come”

I Care If You Listen


THIS FRIDAY

Ela Orleans ‘Night Voyager’ + Son Zept

Fri 18 Oct - Black Box - 8pm - £15 (£10 conc) BOOK


Glasgow and Paris based Polish composer and audio-visual artist, Ela Orleans, performs her mesmerising Night Voyager.  Set to soaring music featuring live synthesiser, theremin, vocals, and violin, Night Voyager features NASA archive footage of the 1969 Apollo moon mission, alongside fragments of Edward Young’s 1742 masterpiece, ‘Night Thoughts’. This is an exploration of mortality, time, and human folly.


Belfast-based experimental electronic composer-producer Liam McCartan, aka Son Zept, began his project in 2018 combining his influences from the rich history of the hardcore continuum. His work has since evolved into a beatless expansive exploration of sonic possibilities fusing sound art, drone, power-ambient, minimalism and maximalism. Focusing on the role of memory in sound, Son Zept will be fusing his influences of power-ambient, electroacoustic music, hauntology, drone metal, Celtic music, and classical minimalism/maximalism.


Expect a visually-stunning night of music, that is quite literally out of this world.

THIS SUNDAY

Väsen

Sun 20 Oct - Sonic Lab - 7.30pm - £15/£12 conc BOOK


Founded in 1989 by duo Olov Johansson and Mikael Marin, Väsen are giants of Swedish folk music. Playful, intense, and full of humour, Väsen make music that delights at every turn. Performing on a variety of stringed instruments, including a nyckelharpa, violoncello da spalla, and a blue electric viola, the Väsen sound is incredibly distinct. Joining Väsen will be SARC based composer, sound engineer and fiddle player Chris Corrigan. Together they will present a new suite exploring sympathetic resonance between the Swedish and Irish folk traditions. In association with SARC.


Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Film)

Wed 23 Oct - Deer’s Head | 8pm start | £10 BOOK

NI PREMIERE. IN ASSOCIATION WITH CQAF/NOW PRESS PLAY. RUN TIME: 2H30M - FILM STARTS 8PM


The year is 1960, the Voice of America Jazz Hour broadcasts the likes of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie behind the Iron Curtain, while a wave of decolonisation movements tear through the African continent and the struggle for civil rights marches on stateside.

Beat by beat, Grimonprez traces Lumumba’s rise from 36-year-old independence leader to Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister—and how corporate and colonial interests, along with machinations at the United Nations, conspired in his assassination.

Deeply researched, the film interweaves archival records, home movies, newly unearthed speeches by Lumumba, and published memoirs by Congolese activists and writers with the story of the Black jazz legends who defined the era in more ways than one. Pulsating with the energy of the period,Soundtrack to a Coup d’État’s chilling indictment of colonial power roars on in the present day.

Supported by Film Hub NI, part of the BFI Film Audience Network, awarding funds from National Lottery.’


Rachael Lavelle

Thu 24 Oct - Ulster Sports Club - 7.30pm - £12.50 BOOK


Dublin-born singer and composer Rachael Lavelle’s debut album ‘Big Dreams’, has quickly seen her become recognised as one of Ireland’s most exciting emerging talents, having toured with Lankum, CMAT, as well as taking part in the Sorcha Richardson curated ‘Imagining Ireland’ at The Barbican in London and National Concert Hall. ‘Big Dreams’ is an existential coming-of-age album that chronicles the journey of a young woman searching for direction and meaning in a very strange world. In association with Strange Victory.


SECOND BELFAST DATE SOLD OUT

RÓIS (The Irish Wake Tour)

Sat 9 Nov - Accidental Theatre - 8pm - £12 - BYO BOOK


RÓIS is a composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and electronic artist from Fermanagh, whose songs breathe new life into a forgotten Ireland. Blending elements of folk, sean-nós, electronics, and jazz harmony, RÓIS’ genre-bending sound transports listeners to a land of the ‘Sidhe’ – the Irish underworld of myth and folklore.

This is a place where the ancient meets the new. A place of earth and wires.

This concert will launch RÓIS’ newest release, ‘MO LÉAN’.


La Tène

Sun 10 Nov - Black Box - 7pm - £15 (£10 conc) BOOK


Swiss-French collective, La Tène make music that lives in the cracks of drone, folk, experimental, electronic, and the ancient language of Occitan. Long, hypnotic pieces are built from traditional folk instrumentation, wild percussion, and subtle electronic embellishments. The result is a sound that feels as ancient and earthy as millennia-old artefacts, pulled from the soil. Performing as a 6-piece, the band features drums, percussions, Indian harmonium, electronics, guitar, bass, cabrette, and bagpipes, and is utterly transcendent.


Julian Lage

Wed 13 Nov - The Empire Music Hall - 7.30pm - £22.50 BOOK


One of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation, Julian Lage’s approach is that of infinite possibility. A child prodigy, Lage picked up the guitar at the age of five and was performing in public a year later. At eight he was playing with Carlos Santana, Pat Metheny, Martin Taylor, David Grisman to name a few, and was even the subject of the Academy Award-nominated 1996 documentary film ‘Jules at Eight’. Today, Lage is signed to the legendary Blue Note label, and along with his world-renowned solo work, he regularly collaborates with the likes of Gary Burton and John Zorn, and has duo projects with Nels Cline, Chris Eldridge and Fred Hersch.

Aisling Agnew & Richard Allen

Fri 22 Nov – Old Church Centre, CUSHENDUN BOOK

Sat 23 Nov – Strule Arts Centre, OMAGH BOOK


Moving On Music is delighted to present two of Northern Ireland’s finest classical musicians for a rare duo outing, flautist Aisling Agnew and harpist Richard Allen.

Aisling and Richard will present a beautiful programme of music from the vast flute and harp repertoire including music by well-known composers such as Hamilton Harty and Rossini, alongside a new arrangement of a piece by local composer Greg Caffrey.

Handmade Music

7 Nov, 5 Dec - Accidental Theatre - 8pm - £5 - BYO BOOK


Handmade Music is an experimental music night in Belfast specially curated by us and The Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC). Taking place on the first Thursday of the month at Accidental Theatre, evenings feature well-known artists, lesser-known artists, and surprise guests – all performing music from the edges of their craft. Sets are short, there is time to chat and space to move around. It’s £5 and BYO.




Junior Brother

Sat 22 Mar - Black Box - £15/£10 conc BOOK


Thoughtfully pushing the boundaries of modern Irish folk, Junior Brother is an idiosyncratic and richly lyrical singer/ songwriter from Co. Kerry.

Born Ronan Kealy, Junior Brother’s debut album “Pull The Right Rope” earned a Choice Music Prize nomination for Irish Album of the Year, and similarly lauded sophomore LP “The Great Irish Famine” claimed another Album of the Year nomination at the RTÉ Folk Music Awards, along with glowing press from The Guardian, MOJO Magazine and The Irish Times to name just a few. Junior is currently at work on album number three, with famed producer John “Spud” Murphy (black midi, Lankum) at the helm, and by all accounts, we are in for a treat.

Known for unmissable live shows, Junior Brother brings together the strange and the familiar, the new and the ancient, the distinct and intangible. With an ever-growing fanbase, and a short but too-long absence from a Belfast performance, we are delighted to welcome back Junior Brother as he plays the Black Box this March.




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