Friday after our final English Composers class I stayed at the London Centre for a while to finish up some work and then was planning on heading over to the Southbank Centre for a quick free performance organized by The Magpie's Nest , a folk club I've fallen in love with here. They had organized a few sets before and after the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, so since the awards were sold out I figured I'd stop at the first free set on my way home from the London Centre.
While I was there, I saw Sam Lee, one of the people in charge of The Magpie's Nest, who conducted our workshop at the Cecil Sharp House for English Composers. I mentioned that I'd decided to stop by on my way home even though I wasn't going to the awards, and after the performances he found me and mentioned he had asked about getting more tickets - what a nice guy! He ended up finding out that there were actually a lot of tickets that had been returned, but still, I wouldn't have found that out if he hadn't checked on them. I ended up going to the awards show, which was great. There were so many talented young people, some of whom just exuded amazing potential, and others who were more seasoned already. I think my favorite performance was from the winners of last year's award, Jeana Leslie and Siobhan Miller.
You can listen to their performance from last year's awards here. Or I'd highly recommend watching the following two YouTube videos:
Saints and Sinners
Bedlam Boys
This year's contestants and winners were great as well, but I left wanting to find more of last year's winners' music.
Oh, and here are some photos from the walk over there:
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