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AT COAL DROPS YARD, An electrifying live music KING’S CROSS festival featuring classical WED 11 AUG – SUN 22 AUG music, world music, jazz, FREE ADMISSION street culture and opera. #cubittsessions kingscross.co.uk/whats-on WELCOME TO CUBITT SESSIONS, THE FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL AT KING’S CROSS Cubitt Sessions is an annual open-air music festival of free concerts in the heart of King’s Cross. Now held in Coal Drops Yard, Cubitt Sessions bring together the world’s finest folk, jazz, classical and experimental musicians to present a diverse and exciting mix of live music over 12 days. The completely free festival makes it possible for everyone to share performances of the highest quality. Opening on Wednesday 11 August this year’s line-up features the prize-winning klezmer and Balkan band, She’Koyokh; the truthful, soul-bearing love songs of MarthaGunn; and winner of album of the year at the 2020 Parliamentary Jazz Awards, the Kate Williams Quintet. With live concerts every evening from 6.30pm to 8.30pm, and from 1.00pm to 6.00pm on Sundays, Cubitt Sessions are the most inclusive offer of free music available in London. From Afro-Latin percussion and brass duets to the sounds of contemporary Trinidad, interspersed with evenings of opera, musical theatre and song, the broad range of musical styles promises something for every age and every taste. ‘In a year when sharing music together has been largely off the agenda, Cubitt Sessions 2021 promises to be something really special. Our partners Lafayette, Tête à Tête, Kings Place, Anthony Whitworth-Jones and the English Folk Dance and Song Society have selected a fantastically broad spread of UK based artists representing just a fraction of the multitude of cultures which make London so vibrantly unique. For generations King’s Cross has been one of the main gateways to London, and Cubitt Sessions, together with the many cultural initiatives resident at King’s Cross, is our contribution to the welcoming spirit of the area.’ – Anthea Harries, Head of Assets, King’s Cross COAL DROPS YARD is a new shopping and restaurant district in London’s King’s Cross. Originally established in 1850 to handle the eight million tonnes of coal delivered to the capital each year, Coal Drops Yard was latterly the location of nightclubs Bagley’s and The Cross. The area reopened in October 2018, reinvented by the acclaimed Heatherwick Studio, which has interwoven a contemporary design with the surviving structures and rich ironwork of the original Victorian coal drops. Located within a reimagined set of historic buildings and arches directly adjacent to Granary Square and Regent’s Canal, Coal Drops Yard houses over fifty stores from a unique mix of established and emerging brands, along with cafés, bars, top independent restaurants and new public spaces. This year Cubitt Sessions will take place in Coal Drops Yard. Throughout the year, Coal Drops Yard programmes a wide range of activities including events, markets, installations and workshops. For more information visit: coaldropsyard.com/whats-on @coaldropsyard PARTNERS Cubitt Sessions is funded by KINGS PLACE TÊTE À TÊTE SMALL GREEN SHOOTS the King’s Cross Central Limited Kings Place is an arts centre with a Tête à Tête is a charity making extraordinary Small Green Shoots is a youth-led charity Partnership and curated critically-acclaimed music and spoken word performances often in extraordinary places, offering an alternative to the conventional programme, the base for a family of ensembles and helping others to do the same. We’ve system for education, training and entry alongside partners, without and arts charities, and the home of live produced over 100 new operas, and supported into the jobs market. We help young whom, we would not be able podcasting in the UK. Developed from an act thousands of artists to create hundreds more people facing difficult life circumstances to deliver such diversity and of philanthropy in 2009, it has become a venue in Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. Tête à Tête gain access to the entertainment and world class quality music for loved by a diverse range of audiences. We offer led the sector throughout 2020, staging the creative industries through paid free. This year we have our captivating, intimate experiences in our halls, only opera in the government’s programme of classroom learning, vocational training, returning partners from Kings no one is lost in the crowd and people find each pilots for the return to indoor performance in internships and access to creative grants. other in our communal spaces, used freely for July with The Cockpit, and hosting a further ↪ smallgreenshoots.co.uk | @smallgreenshoots Place, Tête à Tête, and Anthony meetings, homework, or at the canal-side 31 productions in our festival in September. Whitworth-Jones who inspire us Rotunda Bar and Restaurant. This year’s festival continues to push the with their classical and world ↪ kingsplace.co.uk | @KingsPlace boundaries until October, with everything CUBITT SESSIONS IS FUNDED programming. Joining them this from sword-fighting sopranos to the operatic BY THE KING’S CROSS CENTRAL year we welcome Lafayette and dating app Singlr. LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AND English Folk Dance and Song LAFAYETTE ↪ tete-a-tete.org.uk | @teteateteopera CURATED ALONGSIDE PARTNERS Lafayette is a new music venue in King’s Cross, Society who bring a new flavour London. Housed within Goods Way, a new of UK emerging and traditional food, drink and socialising hub that not only ANTHONY WHITWORTH-JONES talent. For the first time ever we contains the 600-capacity music venue Anthony has been working alongside are also working with the local Lafayette, but Sweetwater, a New Orleans- Cubitt Sessions from the inception 8 years charity Small Green Shoots, inspired bar with dimly lit booths and expertly ago. He worked with the Glyndebourne where we were able to provide crafted cocktails. The Courtyard at Goods opera during the 1980s and 1990s and Way also houses five different food traders served as its General Director for ten PARTNERS apprenticeship opportunities serving everything from Sushi to Tacos. years from 1989 until 1998. He was the to 3 young adults entering the ↪ lafayettelondon.com | @LafayetteLondon General Director of the Dallas Opera from creative industries. 2000 to 2002, and the Garsington Opera from 2005 until 2012. He has served on the ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY board of the English National Opera since EFDSS is the national development agency 2012. He was invited to become Artistic for the folk arts with a mission to preserve, Director of Casa da Musica, Porto, to open CUBITT SESSIONS TEAM promote and develop. It does this through in 2005 its new concert hall designed by education and performance programmes, Rem Koolhaas. PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: Martin Collins artists support and through its library and PRODUCTION MANAGER: David Salter archive, engaging with people of all ages and STAGE MANAGER: Pete Ayres abilities at its home Cecil Sharp House in SOUND ENGINEER: John Green Camden and at events across the country. LIGHTING TECHNICIAN: Nick McGee ↪ efdss.org | @EFDSS ‘I’m delighted that Kings Place’s vibrant programme is represented in Cubitt Sessions this year with exciting bands: South London-based Endurance Steel Orchestra is part of our London Unwrapped, sounds of a migrant city series, a celebration of the capital’s diverse music scene, as is the pioneering 12 Ensemble, featuring London’s most creative young string players: I’ve no doubt they’ll be a hit with Cubitt audiences.’ — Helen Wallace, Kings Place Artistic Director WED 11 AUG ANTHONY WHITWORTH-JONES THUR 12 AUG TÊTE À TÊTE PRESENTS: LADIES 6:30PM 6:30PM PRESENTS: SHE’KOYOKH OF MIDNIGHT BLUE & GUESTS RUNNING TIME: Six exceptional musicians, celebrating their 20th anniversary RUNNING TIME: Ladies of Midnight Blue are an Afro-Latin percussion and 1HR 50 MINS year and their show is an impressive mix of vocals, violin, 1HR 50 MINS brass duet comprised of Hannabiell Sanders and Yilis del INCL. INTERVAL guitar, accordion, double bass and percussion. Their members INCL. INTERVAL Carmen Suriel. They create a powerful and upbeat fusion hail from Turkey, the Balkans and the UK and their repertoire of rhythms, weaving combinations of melodic percussion, is rooted in traditional music from Jewish weddings, Greek brass, vocal chants, and mbira. tavernas, Serbian villages, Bulgarian festivals and Turkish mountains. Their music will make you dance and cry at the Ladies of Midnight Blue have performed and facilitated same time – in a good way! workshops and residencies all over the world. They believe in everyday activism, which they see as a commitment to Awarded first prize in the 2008 International Jewish Music work towards equality and justice in all aspects of their Festival in Amsterdam and shortlisted twice for Best Group lives and for their communities. in the Songlines World Music Awards. Having received 5-star reviews for their albums from Songlines and fROOTS, the Hannabiell & Yilis are the co-founders and Directors of Evening Standard and the Guardian and performed in venues Harambee Pasadia CIC. Harambee in Swahili means ‘let’s from the Concertgebouw and the Queen Elizabeth Hall to pull together’ and Pasadia in Spanish means ‘to spend the Glastonbury and WOMAD festivals. She’Koyokh are regulars day.’ They produce Harambee Pasadia: Afro Fusion Arts She’Koyokh is to BBC Radio 3 and in 2019 composed and performed a festival, a 4-day family camping extravaganza which hosts a prize-winning prelude to Mahler’s 1st Symphony with the BBC Scottish world renowned artists, practitioners, and foods of fusions klezmer and Balkan Symphony Orchestra. found in the African diaspora. band, described by The Guardian as CIĞDEM ASLAN: Vocals MEG HAMILTON: Violin ‘one of the finest JOSH MIDDLETON: Accordion British-based MATT BACON: Guitars exponents of PAUL MOYLAN: Double bass global music’.

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