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IN TRANSIT
Commissioned by the British Council for the 'BT River of Music' and to be staged in Battersea Park, London, one week before the start of the Olympics, Musicians Inc. is proud to be co-producing the collaborative project, with a warm-up having just debuted in Dubai. Artists involved have been drawn from the UK and Gulf states of UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen.
AFRICA EXPRESS SOUND SYSTEM
Hot on the heals of an epic Africa Express Sound System headline performance at Brighton's The Great Escape, comes an unprecedented artistic journey from the full AE collective. As part of the Cultural Olympiad's Festival 2012, September 2-9 will see a customised train travel the length and breadth of the UK with up to 100 artists and crew on board. Stopping at an estimated ten or so cities, audiences will witness irrepressibly spontateous pop-up performances on platforms, in venues, schools and factories. Watch out!
16 UK dates with one day off in May isn't bad for a band who's about to celebrate their 48th anniversary since inception! Coinciding with new album 'All Roads', to be released in May, the seminal Jamaican ska band 'The Skatalites' accredited for such hits as 'Guns of Navarone' , 'Eastern Standard Time' etc. look as if they've several decades ahead of them yet...
Having spent the first three months of the year in the US writing his next album due for release in the spring of 2013, British folk legend Roy is now both recording new tracks and preparing for his first UK festival shows in some years. This cricketer will be knocking audiences for six at Cambridge Folk, Moseley Folk and End of the Road Festivals.
Having spent twelve months away from the UK, working in Bamako, Mali, on her Foundation Passerelle, an organisation providing vocational training for those wishing to enter the music industry, Rokia returns to London in June for three sensational and entirely different shows at The Barbican, Wiltons Music Hall and the Village Underground.
