Title	Stef Conner The Flood: Early Words to Late Music
Date	Tue 21 Feb
Event	Concert
Time	1:10pm - 2:00pm
Venue	St Gregory's Centre for Music
Contact	artsandculture@canterbury.ac.uk or Tel: 01227 922994
Price	Free

Travel from ancient Mesopotamia to present-day Europe via medieval England. Composer and vocalist Conner conjures ethereal contemporary vocal music with an ancient flavour, employing lyres and loop pedals in settings of the world’s oldest poetry – the account of the Flood, in Sumerian and Babylonian – and in performances of English medieval lyrics and ancient Greek music. Haunting, bravura music that spans the centuries: not to be missed. Concert followed at 2.30pm by a free participatory public workshop: come along and join in! Messing with Manuscripts Workshop: Join inspirational singer and composer Stef Conner to explore creative ways of making new music from medieval source materials. We will begin by delving into some of Britain’s earliest notated repertoire, including the songs of St Godric and the Nuns of Chester, before conjuring up imagined versions of the lost oral traditions the notated music sprang from, and, finally, abandoning notation completely and using our voices and bodies to create imaginative soundscapes inspired by ancient modes and words.

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