A unique path for discovering music and London’s hidden spaces, The Nest Collective’s summer series includes Campfire Club, weekly from May through to September, and UnampliFire Festival, on Saturday 9th June, taking you on a worldwide musical journey through the city with carefully curated, unplugged concerts, into those rare hideaways where we can have a big old campfire AND a whole lot of live music.
The Nest Collective, founded by Mercury nominated artist Sam Lee, welcomes small audiences to gather around the fire for summertime evenings of unamplified intimate performances from world-renowned artists creating new music rooted in global movements. These unique sonorous experiences connect communities with each other, with nature, with music, and with oral traditions, “tending the flame [of tradition], not worshipping the ashes” (Gustav Mahler).
Campfire Club takes place weekly, celebrating London’s wild sanctuaries away from the hustle and bustle; a quiet place to come together and listen in one of the carefully mapped green spaces across the city, covering all four corners of the map, including; Bethnal Green, Bow, Shoreditch, Islington, Kings Cross, Queens Park, Stockwell, Peckham, and Brockley.
Meanwhile, for UnampliFire on June 9th, The Master Shipwright’s House, the oldest upstanding building of the historical Deptford Royal Dockyard, home and office of the Master Shipwright since 1513, with its spectacular gardens & river frontage – “Hidden London at its delightful best” (The Telegraph) – will host four eclectic stages, indoors and out, including campfire sing-a-longs.
Locally produced fresh and affordable food will be available. Tickets are £9-£16 for Campfire Club, £28 for UnampliFire, and can be found along with more info, at www.thenestcollective.co.uk
“Camping out under the stars sounds like an impossibility in London… Still, it can be done” – London Evening Standard on Campfire Club
“…the best way to experience music live” – Made In Shoreditch on Campfire Club
Campfire Club Dates
Every Friday, and some Thursdays & Saturdays, May 4th – Sep 28th, 7.30-10pm
Bethnal Green, Bow, Shoreditch, Islington, Kings Cross, Queens Park, Stockwell, Peckham, Brockley
4 May: Alice Zawadzki Miranda Mulholland | Tara Minton | Secret Location, Bow
11 May: Eli West | Josh Savage | Lumpy Hill, Islington
18 May: Piers Faccini | Jim Ghedi | Glengall Wharf Garden, Peckham
1 Jun: Seckou Keita | Secret Location, Bow
15 Jun: Gwyneth Herbert | Noemie Ducimetiere | Spitalfields City Farm
21 Jun: The Embers Collective | Brockley Garden
21 Jun: Dizraeli & James Riley | Kindred Studios, Queens Park
22 Jun: London Contemporary Voices | Glengall Wharf Garden, Peckham
29 Jun: Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith | Sophie Janna | Spitalfields City Farm
6 Jul: Chris Wood | Lumpy Hill, Islington
13 Jul: Ewan McLennan | Twelve Dead In Everett | Secret Location, Bow
20 Jul: London Bulgarian Choir | Harbottle & Jonas | Oasis Nature Garden, Stockwell
26 Jul: Abatwa (the pygmy) | Koral Society | Kindred Studios, Queens Park
27 Jul: The Young’uns | Glengall Wharf Garden, Peckham
3 Aug: Cath & Phil Tyler | Marisa Jack & Davy | Secret Location, Bow
3 Aug: Kaia Kater | William Crighton | Spitalfields City Farm
9 Aug: Get Cape Wear Cape Fly (solo unplugged) | Felix MB | Calthorpe Project, Kings Cross
10 Aug: Fellow Pynins | Jack & The Arrows | Oasis Nature Garden, Stockwell
17 Aug: Åkervinda | Night | Lumpy Hill, Islington
17 Aug: Gasper Nali | Ellie Ford | Phytology, Bethnal Green
24 Aug: London Contemporary Voices | Glengall Wharf Garden, Peckham
31 Aug: Alabaster dePlume | Luna Silva | Spitalfields City Farm
6 Sep: Curly Strings | Fran & Flora | Kindred Studios, Queens Park
7 Sep: She’Koyokh | Farafi | Secret Location, Bow
14 Sep: Alasdair Roberts | Counter’s Creek | Glengall Wharf Garden, Peckham
15 Sep: Jim Causley | Saskia Maxwell | Phytology, Bethnal Green
21 Sep: The Hut People | Danny Pedler & Rosie Butler-Hall | Lumpy Hill, Islington
29 Sep: Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow | Jake Morley | Oasis Nature Garden, Stockwell
Find out more
Web page: http://thenestcollective.co.uk/show-category/campfire-club/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thenestcollective
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NestFolk
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Photo Credit © Owen Tetley


