20/11/2024
Pick n Mix Silent Disco are proud to have provided the headphone technology as part of this immersive arts event last weekend! 🎧🪩✨
Folktastic-the musical extravaganza where local legends took centre stage
Saturday saw us take over the beautiful for our showcase funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund bringing local folklore to life through different music genres.
Thank you so much to all our amazing partners who brought our vision to life. Firstly, thanks to Sean Dudley from Carduelis Content & Historical Research and our heritage trainees for your research and foundations for the music to be created.
The fantastic team at Leicestershire Music for supporting young composer Sam Nutter to create the Black Annis piece with the strings ensemble and bringing their musicians to work with and uncover the Hall Ghosts.
National Youth Jazz Collective and team who only after a few meetings brought Heer and Ranjha to life.
Jafro 's re-telling of Anansi the Spider had us all dancing along under the Yew tree. 🕷
Tom the Tale Teller for welcoming guests and setting the scene for our visitors with his traditional storytelling.
Enter Edem and CURVE theatre, Leicestere YCC actors for bringing us Black Annis and many more of the characters- we loved the child ghosts 👻
Our fantastic performers and musicians, Asa, Lucy, Lexi and Kayley whose versions of Nine O'clock Horses and The Cursed Slippers of the Papillon Hall had you on edge! Thanks to 10AD and Tye for the soundtrack to the silent disco sharing Bel the Giant's journey across the city. Headsets provided by Rose Melba DJ.
Sound set up by Clarence Street Studios and Seamus Wong. Lighting by
Photography by and video by Rendah Films
And finally, thanks to our team for pulling it all together and special thanks to our wonderful Project Development Manager who has worked tirelessly on this project.
But it's not over yet! Join us in the new year for the exhibition at Leicester Stories Gallery at Leicester Museum, film screening at Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre and the Tell Tall Tales vinyl made locally by .
