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 Lucie Skeaping |
Exuberant night of Yiddish songs
PREVIEW - LUCIE SKEAPING AND THE BURNING BUSH
Red Hedgehog
KLEZMER music, Hassidic melodies and Yiddish songs will fill the Red Hedgehog in Archway on Sunday when Lucie Skeaping and ensemble the Burning Bush perform.
Ms Skeaping (right), based in Kentish Town, trained at the Royal College of Music and previously appeared in these pages in her guise as a singer and performer of bawdy 17th-century song following the publication of her collection of street songs Broadside Ballads.
Then it was songs about prostitutes, country bumpkins and gossipy tales about milkmaids.
She is also presenter of Radio Three’s Early Music Programme
But now she appears in her guise as a violinist and singer alongside the Burning Bush, vital and exuberant interpreters of Klezmer and Arab-infused dance music.
The ensemble is completed with Ben Harlan on clarinets, Roderick Skeaping on violin, Robin Jeffrey on oud, laouto, daradukka and guitar, Jon Banks on kanun, cimbalom and accordion and Robert Levy on double bass.
The Red Hedgehog, which has been running now for several months, has quickly established itself as premiere music venue, attracting some of the best musicians in the world to perform there.
The Burning Bush should be fantastically entertaining and the venue’s programme should be watched too as future performers include the pianists Piers Lane and Tessa Uys.
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