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Free Events
Southbank Centre regularly hosts free events, performances and exhibitions across the site. Wind down at the end of the working week and enjoy live music on Friday evenings from leading musicians performing everything from jazz and blues to folk. Alternatively drop in for free lunchtime music in the Central Bar of the Royal Festival Hall on Fridays and Sundays.
Events in this series
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Friday 9 March 2012 - Friday 25 May 2012
See five double-sided prints (shown recto and verso) in response to work by Gertrude Stein, HD, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emmy Hennings and Valerie Solanas.
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Wednesday 28 March 2012 - Sunday 3 June 2012
See a free exhibition by Nicki Rolls, an artist who is interested in how film and video can convey an experience of a particular moment in time.
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The Front Room at QEH
Sounds From A Room: Amadou & Mariam
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Having performed together for over 30 years, the celebrated Malian duo Amadou and Mariam play a one-off gig in A Room for London.
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The Front Room at QEH
Friday 25 May 2012
The charismatic nine-piece jazz orchestra presents new music by award-winning composer and bassist Yuriy Galkin, to coincide with the release of 'Nine of a Kind'.
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Purcell Room
Philharmonia Orchestra: Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
Tuesday 29 May 2012
A recital by a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 31 May 2012
One of 20th century's greatest musical innovators, Gérard Grisey created his own visionary universe by exploring thoroughly the nature of musical time, perception and sound.
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Central Bar Foyer
Friday 1 June 2012
One of the most unusual groups on the current scene, Respectable Groove work on the interface between jazz and baroque music and were described on Radio 3 as 'the future of early music'.
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The Clore Ballroom
Paul Holgate & The Sinatra '62 Sextet
Friday 1 June 2012
This homage to Frank Sinatra's world tour line-up of 1962 coincides with the exact date of his televised Royal Festival Hall show as part of that tour.
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Saturday 2 June 2012
Spend the afternoon with two legends of the UK music world as they take a look at the 60 years of the Queen's reign through the lens of popular music, and play some of its defining songs from their
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The Clore Ballroom
Monday 4 June 2012
Join Nicky Miles and the Ross Mitchell combo as they celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in style with live musicans and a DJ.Dress in red, white and blue.
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Poetry Library
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Some of London's finest poets and musicians share some city tales as London Literature Lounge explores where literature can integrate with other artforms.
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Martin Musical Scholarship Fund
Thursday 7 June 2012
A recital by a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.
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Central Bar Foyer
Friday 8 June 2012
Burton Bradstock is the stylistic alter ego of the multi-instrument musician and composer Jimmy Cannon, and was born to present his newest creation, 'All Upon A Lovely Summer's Day' in which he mar
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The Front Room at QEH
Cecilia Stalin's Step Like A Giant
Friday 8 June 2012
Swedish jazz artist Cecilia Stalin's new album project explores her love of John Coltrane.
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Jubilee Gardens
End of Chelsea Fringe Picnic with Charles Hazelwood
Sunday 10 June 2012
Evoking the music of the 18th-century pleasure garden, BBC TV's pin-up conductor and creator of Somerset festival Orchestra in a Field (a modern, musical 'fete champetre'), Charles Hazlewood presen
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Central Bar Foyer
Friday 15 June 2012
Peru has a strong oral tradition, meaning that much of its history is passed on through people telling each other stories, and Peru's capital Lima and its coastal region is a land brimming with cap
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The Front Room at QEH
Friday 15 June 2012
Virtuoso trombonist Dennis Rollins has played at the forefront of UK jazz, funk and pop for 25 years, performing with such stars as Maceo Parker, Courtney Pine and The Brand New Heavies.
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The Clore Ballroom
Sounds From A Room: Imogen Heap
Friday 22 June 2012
The Grammy and Ivor Novello Award-winning British singer and songwriter Imogen Heap is incrementally releasing her fourth solo album 'Heapsongs' with bi-monthly new songs on her website - the resul
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Central Bar Foyer
Friday 22 June 2012
The Rob Terry Trio features the music of pianist Rob Terry, whose compositions are a fresh and exciting weave of modern jazz, with harmonies reminiscent of the classical world.
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The Front Room at QEH
Friday 22 June 2012
For their atmospheric second album 'Welcome to Bat Country', out on Basho Records this autumn, the regular trio of James Allsopp (reeds), Kit Downes (organ and keyboards) and Tim Giles (drums and e
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