Avant Garden Gig

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Welcome to our second Avant Garden Gig at the Greenhouses! Avant Garden hosts eclectic and accessible music and performance once a month on a Sunday. For our second gig, we are delighted to have:


Laura Hills and Ruth Marshall
Electric piano and violin
Ruth plays violin and studied ‘search and reflect’ with John Stevens in the ’80s. She has played in political and feminist bands, Fallout Marching Band, In Your Own Time, Did We Dream It and has explored free improvisation.
Laura is a composer and keyboard player who has played with various jazz and improvisation groups including The Beast with Three Backs, Swing Sister Swing and the Lapeko Trio.
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Milana Saruhanyan (voice) & John Bisset (lapsteel guitar)
Improvisations rooted in Ukranian folk songs
Milana Sarukhanyan is a London-based Ukrainian classical singer, improviser and a vocal coach. Her speciality is Bel Canto opera, Classical and contemporary vocal chamber repertoire and free improvisation. Milana began singing as a young child in the Ukraine and, after two years at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire in St. Petersburg, Russia, relocated to London where she studied at the Royal Academy of Music.
John Bisset is a musician and visual artist based in London. His work ranges between free improvisation and composition. He is currently improvising on the lapsteel guitar, using preparations and moving in an increasingly abstract sound world. Recent music includes the release, in October 2022, of O||o an album of solo lapsteel improvisations.
Listen here:

Iris Garrelfs & Tansy Spinks
Voice, sampling and violin
With a training in voice and violin playing between them, Iris Garrelfs and Tansy Spinks combine a playful interest in how materials sound and how timbres on voice and instrument can interact and be explored. They make use of anything site-related if possible; utilising charity shop instruments, toys, lamps, plastic bottles, kitchen equipment, sticks and stones.

Glider
Live Video and Sound Improvisation
Rob Flint (live image & sound manipulation) and Adam Brett (Lapsteel guitar and sampling)
Fragments of field-recording sound and image combine with composed elements to produce fluid visual and aural landscapes.

https://www.youtube.com/@flomotopia
https://soundcloud.com/adam-brett

INFORMATION

Tickets
Music: Pay What You Can  – £15/£10/£5 (Children under 12 free)
Food: £8 – Hot Veggie Food
Drink: Bring your own Bottle BYOB

Book your food with your ticket to avoid disappointment and let us know if you have any allergies.

Times
Doors open 5.30pm
Performances 6pm to 9pm

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We put on our Gigs at the Greenhouses to let people hear brilliant music, enjoy our lovely gardens and to raise money so that the community can benefit from BPCG seven days a week.

PAY WHAT YOU CAN

We are offering a Pay What You Can Scheme for these workshops to make them accessible to everyone. We know that ticket price is a huge barrier for some, and the Pay What You Can model offers people who can afford to pay a bit more the chance to support others who can’t.

Getting to us

BPCG is in the middle of Brockwell Park, between the tennis courts and the walled gardens. Follow the signs.
If you are driving to the gig, we recommend parking your car on Dulwich Road or near Dulwich Road.
Entrance and exit from the Park should be via the Park’s Lido Gates on Dulwich Road.
The park will be dark when you leave the gig so everyone must leave in groups with torches.

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