through the noise have announced a return to Leeds for a series of shows this autumn, after presenting Sheku Kanneh-Mason at The Wardrobe last December.
This autumn’s newly announced line-up features Fatma Said, Manchester Collective, Abel Selaocoe & The Bantu Ensemble, Alexandra Whittingham, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Thibaut Garcia, Lodestar Trio, Junyan Chen, Braimah Kanneh-Mason and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason.
Among the Leeds venues hosting classical shows are Belgrave Music Hall and Stylus.
In November:
through the noise will present trailblazing South-African cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe with an all star band featuring Dudu Kouate, Fred Thomas and Alan Keary (aka Shunya) at Stylus in the students’ union. Later in the month, they will head to Belgrave Music Hall for the first time with virtuoso pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. A grand piano will be lifted into the venue specially for the evening.
This is a significant milestone for the community-led organisation, which began less than two years ago in grassroots venues around London. Building on the success of their sold-out tour last year with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Harry Baker, through the noise are now launching regular noisenights in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Newcastle, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Brighton and London. Between October and December through the noise will take no fewer than five projects on tour around the UK, and by the end of the year it is expected that over 25,000 people will have been to a noisenight following demand from a young fanbase.
noisenights platform international classical musicians in local venues around the country using a unique crowdfunding model, which puts concert plans to local communities for support in return for tickets. Each event is confirmed once it reaches its crowdfunding target. Tapping into the pre-existing audiences of the UK’s thriving gig venues, noisenights aim to reach audiences that might otherwise not have access to high-calibre live classical performers. So far 42 of the 44 noisenight sets have sold-out.
through the noise Co-founder and Artistic Director Jack Bazalgette: “Today is an exciting turning point for us: after two years of steadily growing demand for our grassroots classical gigs in London and our first sold-out tours, we’ve decided to take the plunge and bring regular noisenights to audiences from Brighton to Edinburgh. We’re so grateful for the committed support of our community of classical fans, who continue to allow us to take international names to community venues around the country, and we can’t wait to present this awe-inspiring line up of musicians. Every single performer we’re hosting has the rare power to move and inspire people, and I can’t wait to give Leeds audiences the chance to experience them up close”
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Cover photograph: Stylus.
