蜜芽传媒

Live from the 蜜芽传媒 Proms, 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.