Performances
Join us in Room 8 at the heart of Tate Britain for jazzy, musical and joyful responses to the new collection rehang. This afternoon coincides with the London Jazz Festival and will offer the chance to listen to a selection of songs from some of the most exciting young jazz musicians on the scene and view the collection.
Line up
14.00 - Amy Gadiaga
15.00 - Bonita House Band
16.00 - David Kayode presented by Tomorrow's Warriors
Activities for Families
Meanwhile, Play Studio and Story Space will be open for families of all ages to creatively respond to the themes of joy and jazz together through reading, making, performance, sound and sand-play.
Story Space will pop up in Room 6 with a selection of children’s books about finding joy, centring LGBT children and families, as well as dress-up and props inspired by new Tate Children’s publication, Millie’s Big Decision. Artist Rita Evans will lead a Play Studio Pop-up for families to explore jazzy sound and instrument-making in the galleries.
Bonita House Band
The Bonita House band has been called one of the most interesting and unique up and coming Latin/fusion bands in London. With a combination of Salsa, Latin Jazz, Cumbia, Folklore and Psychedelia, the band is comprised by some of the best and most unique musicians in the music scene in London. This is perhaps one of the most unique features, that the musicians that comprise the band are not all strictly from a Latin background but the fusion of styles and influences create a unique approach and flavor; a Latin / London sound.
Rita Evans
British-Canadian artist Rita Evans creates sculptures, performances, workshops, drawings and films exploring notions of presence, momentum and becoming. Evans' process involves collective inquiry and feedback, composing and improvising - while developing spaces of multiplicity and communality. The sculptures become both actors and mediators of touch and movement, exploring a deep materiality of sound that responds to the people and locations they are created for.
David Kayode 5TET
Mentored and taught by Tomorrow’s Warriors alum Camilla George and mentored by Warriors co-founder Gary Crosby OBE, David Kayode is a rising talent on the UK jazz scene.
Growing up in West London, David’s first musical memory is hearing the music of Bob Marley. His household mixed the sounds of reggae with Ghanaian high-life music and the joy, love and power of music became a major part of his childhood.
David has gone on to perform regularly with the Gary Crosby Sextet, Nii Maxine, the Mingus Moves concert series, afro-beat pioneers Osibisa and is about to travel to Hong Kong with MOBO winner and Mercury Prize nominee Moses Boyd.
Tomorrow's Warriors
Pioneering talent development organisation and charity Tomorrow’s Warriors have proved crucial in nurturing the nascent talent and early careers of so many artists currently tearing up the international jazz scene, including Femi Koleoso and the Mercury Prize-winning Ezra Collective, Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Sheila Maurice-Grey, Cassie Kinoshi, Binker Golding, Shabaka Hutchings and Sons of Kemet, ESKA, Denys Baptiste, Soweto Kinch, Camilla George, Blue Lab Beats, Dave Okumu, CHERISE, Jason Yarde, Byron Wallen…the list goes on.
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