Bloomsbury Festival, Friday 13th October 2023
The Dragon Café Singer are performing at The Bloomsbury Festival, from 12:30-13:00 on Friday 13th October, in a food and flower street fair as part of the Festival. We will be performing in Alfred Place Gardens, singing a selection of our own songs, supported by backing tracks. We will be amplified. If it is raining, there is an alternative indoor location. Bad weather will not stop the show!
https://bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/
TIME:
Please be there by 12:15. Vivien will be there from 12:00.
LOCATION:
Alfred Place Gardens (one of London's newest parks! - between Store Street and Chenies Street), between the two grass areas, in front of the empty building with a DFS sign on it. You will be able to see a pop up tent and speakers as you approach. Large Silk banners will also be in place against the railings there from around 12:15.
GETTING THERE:
BUS - 188, 24, 29, 390, 73
STOPS - Russell Square (E); Tottenham Court Road Station (YB); Tottenham Court Road Station (X); Tottenham Ct Rd Stn / New Oxford St (Y); New Oxford Street (Z); Tottenham Court Road; Capper Street (N); Tottenham Ct Rd Stn / Gt Russell St; Warren Street.
NEAREST TUBE STATIONS: Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road, Goodge Street, Warren Street and Euston Square are all a short walk away.
LYRICS: Vivien will provide lyrics on the day.
2-3.30pm: Ballads Of St Giles Workshop:
After the Dragon Cafe Singers performance Vivien will be leading a Singing Workshop 2-3.30pm, Friday 13th October at St-Giles-in-the-Fields Church, 60 St Giles High St, London WC2H 8LG
We'll hear stories and sing ballads about this fascinating area, including a song about Jack Sheppard, infamous criminal and poor people's hero. He famously escaped from prison 4 times, and stopped to drink a bowl of ale at the pub next to St Giles Church on his way to the gallows at Tyburn in 1724. We'll hear the story of the origins of this beautiful church as a hospital for lepers, founded by Queen Matilda in 1101, and how she defied her critics to offer in-person care. We'll learn a epic English folk song, Dives and Lazarus, telling the biblical story of the rich man and the leper.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!