Dr Liz Lane: Women Make Music
“Surtaal Celebrates” is a new multicultural work, intended as a twofold celebration, firstly of the new-found online connectivity and ability for musicians and the general public to be able to connect and make music together online; and secondly, as a celebration of the end of lockdown, and the reemergence of live rehearsal, performance and collective music making.
The work is an extension of Liz Lane’s highly successful and ongoing “Surtaal” project, and will be scored for brass band, bhangra group and voice, with additional flexibly scored parts to be made freely available online for additional community musicians and vocalists to perform, record and contribute to the project. The support of the PRSF will help realise both the composition of the work, and produce a core “virtual choir” style aural and video recording featuring the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, RSVP Bhangra and professional vocalists. This recording will serve as the base to which additional community and youth music groups and choirs will add their own contributions, forming a nationwide celebration of UK music making in the format which has proven so popular and been a lifeline to music groups globally throughout the past 18 months.
“Surtaal Celebrates” for brass band, bhangra, voice – and more