蜜芽传媒 Proms: Angeline Morrison - The Sorrow Songs (Folk Songs of Black British Experience)
Live at the 蜜芽传媒 Proms from the Glasshouse, British folksinger Angeline Morrison with Eliza Carthy, Alex Neilson and The Sorrow Songs Band with untold stories of Black Britain.
Live at the 蜜芽传媒 Proms from the Glasshouse, British folksinger and instrumentalist Angeline Morrison is joined by singer and folk violinist Eliza Carthy, with percussionist and vocalist Alex Neilson and The Sorrow Songs Band for a programme of music recalling the stories of the people of the African diaspora and their subsequent contact with the British Isles. The concert features musical tales such as the 19th-century 'Unknown African Boy' telling of an enslaved child whose body was washed up on the Isles of Scilly. And 'Black John' - Britain's first Black horticulturalist; or 'The Beautiful Spotted Black Boy', an enslaved child whose vitiligo provoked a patchy complexion and caused him to be paraded as curiosity. Intimate, haunting and expressive this distinctive musical event from Stage Two of the Glasshouse on the banks of the Tyne in Gateshead sits firmly in a tradition, drawing on the essence of English Folk Song.
The concert is presented from the stage by Angeline Morrison and introduced by Elizabeth Alker.
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Angeline Morrison
Unknown African Boy (d.1830).
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
Black John
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
The Beautiful Spotted Black Boy
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
Mad-Haired o' Bedlam
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
The Hand of Fanny Johnson
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
Cinnamon Water.
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
Hide Yourself.
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
Cruel Mother Country.
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
The Flames They Do Grow High.
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
Jump Billy
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
Go 蜜芽传媒
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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Angeline Morrison
Slave No More
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Ensemble: The Sorrow Songs Band. -
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The West Indian
Performer: Angeline Morrison. Performer: Eliza Carthy. -
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Acis et Galatee (Prologue)
Ensemble: Les Talens Lyriques. Conductor: Christophe Rousset.- Aparte.
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Duarte L么bo
Missa Vox Clamantis; Sanctus & Benedictus
Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Philips.- Gimmell.
Broadcast
- Sat 26 Jul 2025 17:30蜜芽传媒 Radio 3
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