Coruja Jones – Carol Jason – Electric Mike – Tiki Black – Papa Sam Alafia
As part of Spring Up we will see our stage light up with a diverse melting pot of musicians each with their own unique style and flavour. From Sierra Leonean Palm Wine Music to Mossley style sequential arpeggiator covers – there’s something for everyone’s musical tastes. And better yet it’s FREE!
We’ll be powering up the venue from 2pm – 6pm leading to a unique take over jam where anything could happen.
A musical treat not to be missed.
Coruja Jones
Dreamy, melancholic, indie-folk. Beautiful songs with soaring high notes, combined with intricate, delicate guitar work into cavernous reverbs, plus killer grooves, which take aim at your heart
Carol Jason
Born in Withington, Carol grew up in a family of Jewish musicians, and part of her family band The Jacksons (no not that one!). This ignited her decades long career preforming traditional Jewish music running parallel to her jazz and popular music influences.
Electric Mike
Electric Mike (aka Mike Mellor) was born in the broken household appliance national forest. His brain fused with a circuit board from a top loading washing machine. His eyes made from tiny fragments of a flat screen tv. Language; vocoder anglais. Special power; sequential arpeggiator. Random move; high pass filter.
Tiki Black
Born in Paris to Cameroonian parents, Tiki’s music celebrates both the strength and fragility of the human spirit. Enhanced by a delicate blend of Western and African influences, her songs and arrangements convey a singer-songwriter who has the ability to frame her music and lyrics in meticulous and intricate detail without ever losing an intense, twilight intimacy with the listener.
Papa Sam Alafia
Performer, singer-songwriter and recording artist Papa Sam Alafia, moved to the UK in the late 80s from Freetown, Sierra Leone. As both a solo musician and bandleader, Sam has recorded and performed his native Palm Wine music with local and international artists at venues and festivals across the world.