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Brighton Festival concert, Brighton UK
May 8, 2022 @ 17:30 - 19:00 UTC+0
Brighton Festival, Sunday 8 May, Riwaq on Hove seafront
Read more on Best Foot Music Brighton Festival page
All events are FREE, and during daytime hours (12.00 – 7.00) ALL WELCOME.
The festival is a major cultural event, highly regarded both locally and internationally. This year’s themes are Rediscover, Reimagine and Rebuild – the themes that are just right for us!
VENUE: The Brighton Festival Riwaq will be a temporary Festival venue on Hove seafront. Riwaq is an Arabic word for colonnade. Architecturally a Riwaq is a semi-open space. Read about the venue here.
BRIGHTON FESTIVAL PARTNER BestFoot Music brings together a unique programme of international and local acts by musicians & communities who have moved to the UK from around the World.
OUR SET – 17.30 – 19.00 Sunday 8 May.
- Sklamberg & The Shepherds
- The Brighton & Hove Yiddish Choir
- The Brighton & Hove and the London Russian choirs
- a joint set of all the above!
We will present a few songs from our programme and CD 150 Voices, recorded with support from Best Foot Music:
Russian and Yiddish folk and art songs and newly composed originals sung by five choirs in the UK and USA and a duo of two international cultural activists: Siberian-born singer, composer and choir leader Polina Shepherd and the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics Lorin Sklamberg.
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Brighton Festival concert, Brighton UK