Brighton Station, Beach Huts and Buses Make Unlikely Concert Venues
A concert in a beach hut, improvised performances on Brighton station and a string quartet that have worked with Morrissey, Michael Nyman and Blur are all included in this year's Soundwaves Festival.
The annual festival includes professional performers, international acts and students from Worthing High School, Varndean School and the University of Brighton, performing in venues across Brighton and Hove from 13th-29th June.
Events open with a community weekend, which sees performances for commuters on Brighton Station on Friday 13th June. The next day, the organisation Contemporary Music-making for Amateurs brings together amateur performers from across the county who will rehearse for one day before staging a concert at the University of Brighton's Sallis Benney Theatre. And a range of small concerts will take place on a bus in Brighton town centre on Saturday 21st June.
Other events in the Festival include an avant-garde performance by Apartment House, a solo concert by pianist Rolf Hind and an event where a vocal trio and a poet blur the boundaries between spoken word and music. In a family-friendly concert by Talkestra, popular from appearances at arts festivals across Sussex, students from Worthing High School and Varndean School, Brighton will perform alongside professional musicians.
And on Wednesday 25th June, the Festival stages its most unlikely event, with a concert by Brighton-based musician Elizabeth Walling in a beach hut on Hove seafront.
Soundwaves Festival concludes with a performance by The Duke Quartet, a string quartet who have worked with Morrissey, Blur, The Pretenders and The Dixie Chicks. They are also well known in classical circles for recordings of work by Michael Nyman, Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
"We're taking radical new music out of stuffy concert halls," says Soundwaves Festival marketing officer Dan Thompson, "and putting it in the hands of Sussex residents."
A free guide to the Soundwaves Festival is available from venues across Brighton and Hove, and from Revolutionary Music in Worthing. For more information, visit www.soundwaves-festival.org.uk or call the Brighton Dome Ticket Office on 01273 709709.
The annual festival includes professional performers, international acts and students from Worthing High School, Varndean School and the University of Brighton, performing in venues across Brighton and Hove from 13th-29th June.
Events open with a community weekend, which sees performances for commuters on Brighton Station on Friday 13th June. The next day, the organisation Contemporary Music-making for Amateurs brings together amateur performers from across the county who will rehearse for one day before staging a concert at the University of Brighton's Sallis Benney Theatre. And a range of small concerts will take place on a bus in Brighton town centre on Saturday 21st June.
Other events in the Festival include an avant-garde performance by Apartment House, a solo concert by pianist Rolf Hind and an event where a vocal trio and a poet blur the boundaries between spoken word and music. In a family-friendly concert by Talkestra, popular from appearances at arts festivals across Sussex, students from Worthing High School and Varndean School, Brighton will perform alongside professional musicians.
And on Wednesday 25th June, the Festival stages its most unlikely event, with a concert by Brighton-based musician Elizabeth Walling in a beach hut on Hove seafront.
Soundwaves Festival concludes with a performance by The Duke Quartet, a string quartet who have worked with Morrissey, Blur, The Pretenders and The Dixie Chicks. They are also well known in classical circles for recordings of work by Michael Nyman, Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
"We're taking radical new music out of stuffy concert halls," says Soundwaves Festival marketing officer Dan Thompson, "and putting it in the hands of Sussex residents."
A free guide to the Soundwaves Festival is available from venues across Brighton and Hove, and from Revolutionary Music in Worthing. For more information, visit www.soundwaves-festival.org.uk or call the Brighton Dome Ticket Office on 01273 709709.