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The Front Room at QEH
Tony Allen
Friday 12 June 2009
Friday 12 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | Jazz | Members | Music | Percussion | World | Music | Folk & World | Meltdown
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Tony Allen, long acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer, is one of the continent’s most influential musicians, and one of the creators of afrobeat.
Royal Festival Hall
The Roots with support from An
Saturday 13 June 2009
Saturday 13 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Music | Urban | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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This is event is produced in association with Jill Newman Productions.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
David Murray & Gwo-Ka Masters
Saturday 13 June 2009
Saturday 13 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Avant Jazz | Free Jazz | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music | Meltdown
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Saxophonist and clarinet virtuoso David Murray performs with Guadeloupian percussionists Gwo Kan Masters.
Royal Festival Hall
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Sunday 14 June 2009
Sunday 14 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Experimental | Music | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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First ever UK appearance from this conceptual supergroup formed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 before the dissolution of The Beatles.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Improvisations With Marc Ribot
Sunday 14 June 2009
Sunday 14 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Experimental | Free Jazz | Music | Saxophone | Jazz & Blues | Music | Meltdown
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Guitarist and composer Marc Ribot collaborates with free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Han Bennink in this unique improvised performance.
Royal Festival Hall
Baaba Maal
Monday 15 June 2009
Monday 15 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | Music | Senegal | World | Music | Folk & World | Meltdown
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The hugely celebrated Senegalese musician Baaba Maal performs a special concert at Royal Festival Hall.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo T
Monday 15 June 2009
Monday 15 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Indie | Music | Rock | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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A rare opportunity to see this ever-surprising band in a setting more intimate and interactive than any other tour they've undertaken in their 23-year career.
Royal Festival Hall
Moby
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Electronic | Music | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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Moby has sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide and has produced and remixed scores of other artists from David Bowie through to the Beastie Boys and Public Enemy.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
James Blood Ulmer
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Blues | Guitar | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music | Meltdown
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Jazz and blues guitarist and singer James Blood Ulmer is a former collaborator of Ornette Coleman’s, and was the first electric guitarist to record and tour extensively with him.
Royal Festival Hall
Bobby McFerrin
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Jazz | Jazz & Blues | Music | Vocal | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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The ten-time Grammy Award-winning Bobby McFerrin is one of the world’s best known vocal innovators and his recordings have sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
Royal Festival Hall
Patti Smith + The Silver Mt. Z
Thursday 18 June 2009
Thursday 18 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Experimental | Music | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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Former Meltdown Director Patti Smith returns to Southbank Centre for a special collaboration with The Silver Mt.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Mike Patton and Fred Frith
Thursday 18 June 2009
Thursday 18 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Experimental | Music | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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From Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Fantomas and Tomahawk to collaborations with Bjork and John Zorn, Mike Patton has been acclaimed for a wealth of projects.
The Clore Ballroom
Trinity Presents: Martin Speak
Friday 19 June 2009
Friday 19 June 2009
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Specially for Meltdown, Trinity College of Music presents a genre-hopping double bill, exploring improvisation from contrasting perspectives with an amazing line-up of artists.
Royal Festival Hall
Ornette Coleman
Friday 19 June 2009
Friday 19 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Avant Jazz | Free Jazz | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music | Meltdown
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Hailed as one of the first avant-garde jazz albums ever recorded and acclaimed as a crucial moment in 20th-century music The Shape of Jazz to Come has influenced jazz and rock artists from John Coltrane through to Sonic Youth.
Royal Festival Hall
Charlie Haden Liberation Music
Saturday 20 June 2009
Saturday 20 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Avant Jazz | Free Jazz | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music | Meltdown
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Bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden, one of the original members of Ornette Coleman’s Quartet of the late 1950s, brings a special Anglo-American version of his excellent Liberation Music Orchestra, with the great composer/arranger Carla Bley, to play music from the recording Not in Our Name with a very rare live appearance by Robert Wyatt, and Ornette Coleman playing on Skies of America.
The Front Room at QEH
Kieran Hebden AKA Four Tet & S
Saturday 20 June 2009
Saturday 20 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Experimental | Jazz & Blues | Music | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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Following the release of their fourth collaborative record, NYC, at the end of 2008, Kieran Hebden AKA Four Tet and jazz drummer Steve Reid, perform a special gig with saxophonist Mats Gustafsson.
Royal Festival Hall
Ornette Coleman
Sunday 21 June 2009
Sunday 21 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Avant Jazz | Free Jazz | Jazz | Music | Jazz & Blues | Music | Meltdown
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This year’s Meltdown director Ornette Coleman plays a special concert celebrating his landmark album This is Our Music, which helped to define jazz for generations to come, as well as influencing artists across all genres.
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Royal Festival Hall
Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls
Friday 11 June 2010
Friday 11 June 2010
Comedy | Folk | Folk & World | Music Theatre | Music | Rock & Pop | Meltdown
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Advanced Booking
With a score written by Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson and staring Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Spinal Tap), Cabaret of Souls is a musical chronicle set in Hell.
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The Clore Ballroom
Shifting Sands
Friday 11 June 2010
Friday 11 June 2010
Folk | Free | World | Music | Folk & World | Friday Tonic | Meltdown
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Free
Led by Andy Mellon and featuring fellow Bellowhead musicians Brendan Kelly and Pete Flood, as well as UK folk's rising star Sam Carter and Middle East music specialist Giles Lewin, Shifting Sands is a new project that explores the musical roots both of the UK and the Middle East.
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The Clore Ballroom
Shifting Sands
Friday 11 June 2010
Friday 11 June 2010
Folk | Free | World | Music | Folk & World | Friday Tonic | Meltdown | Meltdown Free Events
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Free
Led by Andy Mellon and featuring fellow Bellowhead musicians Brendan Kelly and Pete Flood, as well as UK folk's rising star Sam Carter and Middle East music specialist Giles Lewin, Shifting Sands is a new project that explores the musical roots both of the UK and the Middle East.
