C5 Red Dirt Hymns
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Thursday, 2 May 2024
7:30 pm
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National Museum of Australia
Lawson Cres, Acton ACT 2601
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General Admission $60,
Concession $55
In the midst of the pandemic Andrew Ford found himself creating simple songs in order to connect people in simple ways, be it as a community choir, or as a stranded soloist. Ford turned to the idea of hymns for any type of singer, trained or untrained, in group or as a solo. Over a period of time an entire collection of Red Dirt Hymns emerged, using new texts by Australian poets.
Over the last two years Luminescence Chamber Singers has generously dipped into this collection and then wanted to do more. In collaboration with two versatile musicians, Luminescence now brings the entire cycle to life as a living songbook grounded in the red dirt of Australia.
PROGRAM
Andrew Ford, Red Dirt Hymns
ARTISTS
Luminescence Chamber Singers
With Freya Schack-Arnott, cello and Hilary Geddes, guitar
This concert is supported by Peronelle and Jim Windeyer
Luminescence Chamber Singers are supported by Peronelle and Jim Windeyer
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Thursday, 2 May 2024
7:30 pm
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National Museum of Australia
Lawson Cres, Acton ACT 2601
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General Admission $60,
Concession $55
ARTIST Learn more about the artist
Artist Luminescence Chamber Singers
Luminescence gives voice to human experiences of all kinds.
Luminescence Chamber Singers is a vocal ensemble based on Ngunnawal country [Canberra, Australia], and the umbrella organisation for the Luminescence Children’s Choir. Performing music from all times and places, Luminescence champions the unbound expressive potential of our original instrument – the human voice. Both ensembles deliver artistic and educational programs that ignite the imagination of audiences, and give voice to human experiences of all kinds.
Artist Hilary Geddes, guitar
Hilary Geddes is a guitarist, improviser and composer based in Eora/Sydney on Gadigal Land.She is the 2021 Freedman Jazz Fellow, a 2021 ABC Jazz Scholarship recipient, and the 2019 recipient of the Jann Rutherford Memorial Award. Hilary is the bandleader of the Hilary Geddes Quartet,and released her debut album ‘Parkside’ (ABC Jazz) with the band in 2021.Hilary works as an in-demand guitarist in the Australian jazz and improvised music scenes, performing alongside jazz luminaries such as Mike Nock, Lakecia Benjamin (USA), Jonathan Zwartz and Laurence Pike. She holds the guitar chair in the large ensemble Pharos, is a member of Ellen Kirkwood’s Underwards, and Jeremy Rose’s Earshift Orchestra for the project ‘Disruption! The Voice of Drums’, which won an APRA Art Music Award in 2022.
Photo credit – April Josie Photography
Artist Andrew Ford, composer - writer - broadcaster
Andrew Ford OAM is a composer, writer and broadcaster who has won awards in each of those capacities, including the Paul Lowin Prize for his song cycle Learning to Howl, a Green Room Award for his opera Rembrandt’s Wife and the Albert H Maggs Prize for his large ensemble piece, Rauha. He has been composer-in-residence for the Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. In 2014 he was Poynter Fellow and visiting composer at Yale University, in 2015 visiting lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory, and in 2018 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Ford has written widely on all manner of music and published ten books, most recently The Song Remains the Same with Anni Heino (La Trobe University Press, 2019). He has written, presented and co-produced five radio series for the ABC and, since 1995, presented The Music Show each weekend on Radio National. He was awarded an OAM in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Artist Freya Schack-Arnott, cello
Freya Schack-Arnott is an Australian/Danish cellist dedicated to pursuing a unique language of cello playing, encompassing improvisation and original composition, combined with informed and creative interpretation of classical and contemporary works within solo, chamber and cross-disciplinary art forms.