Southbank Centre (sponsored by the Observer)

past events

• 21 June 2009 FREE EVENT: Leafcutter John Leafcutter John and friends present a selection of his recent animated graphic score pieces. Projected large for audience and players ali...
• 21 June 2009 FREE FILM EVENT: Who's Crazy A Dick Fontaine film featuring the Ornette Coleman trio recording the soundtrack of Who’s Crazy in Paris, 1966.
• 21 June 2009 FREE FILM EVENT: Made in America A special portrait of Ornette Coleman by the acclaimed independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke. Courtesy of Synergetic Press and Oc...
• 21 June 2009 Ornette Coleman Reflections of This is Our Music with Charlie Haden plus guest Flea This year’s Meltdown director Ornette Coleman plays a special concert celebrating his landmark album This is Our Music, which helpe...
• 20 June 2009 FREE EVENT: The Blessing Award-winning, Bristol based Get The Blessing (formerly The Blessing) are made up of bassist Jim Barr, drummer Clive Deamer, trumpeter Pe...
• 20 June 2009 FREE EVENT: The People's Chorus Sings Songs of Protest Southbank Centre's Voicelab unearth and perform a range of songs featured in and inspired by the Liberation Music Orchestra's back catalo...
• 20 June 2009 FREE EVENT: School of Harmolodics in Performance The culmination of a week-long School that has been exploring Ornette Coleman's musical philosophy. The participating group of adventurou...
• 20 June 2009 Red Bull Music Academy presents... Kieran Hebden AKA Four Tet & Steve Reid with Mats Gustafsson plus support from Dorian Concept With DJ sets from Andy Votel and Mooken Tooken Alakazam! Following the release of their fourth collaborative record, NYC, at the end of 2...
• 20 June 2009 Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra + The Bad Plus Bassist and bandleader Charlie Haden, one of the original members of Ornette Coleman’s Quartet of the late 1950s, brings a special ...
• 19 June 2009 FREE FILM EVENT: Who's Crazy & Made in America Meltdown double bill featuring films Who's Crazy - a Dick Fontaine film featuring the Ornette Coleman trio recording the soundtr...
• 19 June 2009 FREE EVENT: Led Bib Relentlessly dodging definition, Led Bib are both a maverick jazz band and an unlikely rock quintet. Taking their name from a protective ...
• 19 June 2009 Ornette Coleman Reflections of The Shape of Jazz to Come+ Master Musicians of Jajouka Royal Festival Hall Ornette Coleman Reflections of The Shape of Jazz to Come+ Master Musicians of Jajouka Friday 19 June 2009 In this ...
• 18 June 2009 FREE FILM EVENT: Patti Smith's Dream of Life Directed by Steven Sebring, Dream of Life is a critically acclaimed documentary portrait of the legendary Patti Smith, which won the Cine...
• 18 June 2009 FREE EVENT: School of Harmolodics Presentation An informal sharing of ideas explored and work created so far from participants in the School of Harmolodics, four days into thi...
• 18 June 2009 Mike Patton and Fred Frith From Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Fantomas and Tomahawk to collaborations with Bjork and John Zorn, Mike Patton has been acclaimed for a wea...
• 18 June 2009 Patti Smith and The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Former Meltdown Director Patti Smith returns to Southbank Centre for a special collaboration with The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra....
• 17 June 2009 Bobby McFerrin Royal Festival Hall Bobby McFerrin Wednesday 17 June 2009 The Grammy Award-winning Bobby McFerrin comes to London for a rare concert a...
• 16 June 2009 James Blood Ulmer Jazz and blues guitarist and singer James Blood Ulmer is a former collaborator of Ornette Coleman’s, and was the first electric gui...
• 16 June 2009 Moby Royal Festival Hall Moby Tuesday 16 June 2009 Moby has sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide and has produced and remixed scores of o...
• 15 June 2009 - 21 June 2009 FREE FILM EVENT: Made in America A special portrait of Ornette Coleman by the acclaimed independent filmmaker Shirley Clarke.Courtesy of Synergetic Press and October Gall...
• 15 June 2009 The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo Queen Elizabeth Hall The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo Monday 15 June 2009 20.00 A rare opportunity to see this ever-surprising band in a s...
• 15 June 2009 Baaba Maal Royal Festival Hall Baaba Maal Monday 15 June 2009 19.30 The hugely celebrated Senegalese musician Baaba Maal performs a special conce...
• 14 June 2009 FREE EVENT: The Voicelab Bobby McFerrin Choir Open Rehearsal Watch and listen in on this fascinating rehearsal as internationally acclaimed singer Ian Shaw puts a choir of specially auditioned Voice...
• 14 June 2009 - 20 June 2009 FREE EVENT: School of Harmolodics In partnership with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.An intensive week-long course for adventurous musicians, plus dancers ...
• 14 June 2009 Improvisations With Marc Ribot, Evan Parker and Han Bennink Guitarist and composer Marc Ribot collaborates with free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Han Bennink in this unique improvised p...
• 14 June 2009 FREE EVENT: Acoustic Ladyland Bonding over a mutual distaste for musical sterility and an inclination toward the more exciting and dangerous end of modern music, Acous...
• 14 June 2009 Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band featuring Antony Hegarty, Sean Lennon, Cornelius & special guests Royal Festival Hall Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band featuring Sean Lennon, Cornelius & special guests Sunday 14 June 2009 19.30 First ev...
• 13 June 2009 - 21 June 2009 FREE FILM EVENT: 1959 - The Year That Changed Jazz Forever In 1959 four major jazz albums were made, each a high water mark for the artists and a powerful reflection of the times. Each op...
• 13 June 2009 FREE EVENT: Post Show Jam Session featuring David Murray and more David Murray hosts a special post-show jam session featuring festival artists.
• 13 June 2009 - 20 June 2009 FREE EVENT: Bachir Attar & The Master Musicians of Jajouka The legendary Bachir Attar & The Master Musicians of Jajouka perform a series of special free gigs. Sat 13, Clore Ballroom - Royal F...
• 13 June 2009 - 20 June 2009 FREE FILM EVENT: The Hand of Fatima The Master Musicians of Jajouka are a hereditary Moroccan brotherhood who play music older than history, but have also jammed with Ornett...
• 13 June 2009 FREE EVENT:Speakers Corner Quartet & Guests This innovative and fast-rising four-piece built notoriety after a series of packed out improvised performances at the monthly cult hip-h...
• 13 June 2009 The Roots with guest David Murray & more Produced in association with Jill Newman Productions. Philadelphia hip-hop outfit The Roots return to London to open Ornette Coleman&rsqu...
• 13 June 2009 David Murray & Gwo-Ka Masters Saxophonist and clarinet virtuoso David Murray performs with Guadeloupian percussionists Gwo Kan Masters and free jazz bassist and Colema...
• 12 June 2009 MELTDOWN LAUNCH PARTY with Tony Allen Tony Allen, long acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer, is one of the continent’s most influential musicians, and one o...