Folk duo Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith have partnered with Kings Place to put on a one-day festival next year exploring the role folk music can play in highlighting environmental issues.
Called Common Ground: Songs of a Changing Landscape the festival takes place on 28 November 2020 next year. They shared the following message on Facebook:
As many of you will know, we are both deeply passionate about environmental issues and have committed much of our non-music lives to working to protect the natural world. It is such a privilege to be able to bring together an event like this that gives a platform to other musicians and writers who are driven by the same cause.
We have managed to book some of our absolute favourite artists and thinkers.
Karine Polwart will headline the day with a show that speaks to the urgency of environmental crisis and the contested use of land via song, spoken word, story and myth. She will also lead a communal singing workshop in the daytime.
George Monbiot will be in conversation with Peggy Seeger, discussing the role of music and musicians in environmental, and other social, movements.
And we will be premiering a new show (‘Songs of a Changing Landscape’) that we are developing with Edgelarks – Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin and Hazel Askew. It will unearth the voices within traditional music of those who have experienced previous environmental change. There will be songs of nature and of seasonal transitions, tales of protest, and ballads set within the rise and fall of Britain’s lost industries.
Tickets and more details here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/common-ground-songs-of-a-changing-landscape/