Looking forward to performing at the Crown House in Hastings as a part of the Sounds-St.Leonards - Alt Strings night - alongside our friend and beautiful composer/violinist Ruby Colley.
Come spend an afternoon with us @ Wardown Museum in the stunning Drawing Room, surrounded by the museum's unique art collection and with spectacular views overlooking Wardown Park. 2 -4 PM
https://www.culturetrust.com/whats-on/music-museum-balladeste
An extraordinary elegy to the power of story and human connection created by composer Emily Levy and Writer-Director Mella Faye. Me Without You celebrates those we’ve lost and those of us who are still here, through music, dance and recorded intervews, richly layered by an ensemble of musicians, dancers and actors.
Joining Emily Levy’s new work ‘Me Without You’ in a creation period over the months of May and June that will be presented across the UK.
Joining Emily Levy’s new work ‘Me Without You’ in a creation period over the months of May and June that will be presented across the UK.
Joining Emily Levy’s new work ‘Me Without You’ in a creation period over the months of May and June that will be presented across the UK.
Composer Emily Levy and Writer-Director Mella Faye present an unflinching, heartfelt and uplifting exploration of love, loss and survival.
Music, dance and recorded interviews from conversations across the UK are richly layered by a world class ensemble of musicians, dancers and actors to create an extraordinary elegy to the power of story and human connection. Me Without You celebrates those we’ve lost and those of us who are still here.
So thrilled to perform in Newcastle for the first time as a part of GemArts Masala Festival.
Come join us on a lovely Saturday afternoon!
https://gemarts.org/whatson/events/640/gemarts-masala-festival-balladeste
Thrilled to be back at this fabulous night in Hoxton, started by Samuel Sharp and Jay Chakravorty to showcase post-classical acts, redefining chamber music, encompassing neoclassical, electronic, melodic, soundtrack, minimalist and ambient music.
We are really chuffed to have been invited to perform at a very special new festival in the Peak District. The arts space and pub has a wonderful ethos and are launching their gigs across the year. We will be playing at their first full festival date.
Friends in the North, come and join us at this intimate and special venue for an evening of improvised music mixed with tunes from both our albums.
We are really thrilled to finally be playing at this gorgeous venue. Help us spread the word!
London friends and beyond please SAVE THIS DATE!! This will be a special gig.
We are so excited to be launching & celebrating the release of our third album ‘ Conversations in Ritual’ - this one is a culmination of our collaboration to date, a musical conversation, fully improvised and recorded live at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh.
The concert will not only celebrate the release of this next album by us playing an intimate improvised set in the first half, we will then be joined in the 2nd half by the wonderful Flora Curzon and Laura Moody for a debut performance of our ‘Beyond Breath’ tracks with string quartet.
Hope you’ll come and join us in this secret and very special Byzantine venue.
We will be back at the Bright Foundation this year, playing at the Family Festival alongside a collective of musicians and theatre makers. All the music has been curated by Tara.
We are playing on Sunday and there will be loads of amazing music and events across the weekend in the beautiful space just on the edge of Hastings.
We are very excited to be doing a double bill, special gig with our dear friends and collaborators Ana Silvera & Saied Silbak. They will be presenting a new duo project ‘ Songs We Carry’. We will be playing tunes from out albums and improvising as well as performing a few new tunes created with Ana Silvera.
Come and join us at the lovely Vortex Jazz Club!
This years festival is curated by the wonderful Nabihah Iqbal, we are really excited to have been invited to join the line up of inspiring artists as part of this year’s Brighton Festival.
We are delighted to have been invited to perform as part of the Free Range series in Canterbury
We are looking forward to playing as part of the Oxford Folk weekender. We will be doing a double bill gig with our dear friends and wonderful string duo Fran & Flora - at the lovely theatre space - NorthWall Oxford.
Another special moment for us, to play in the iconic El Museo del Chopo in Mexico city. More details soon!
https://www.chopo.unam.mx/01ESPECIAL/artesvivas/balladeste.html
So exciting to venture overseas to perform in Mexico. Our first gig straight from Scotland to the Yucatan Peninsula- more details soon:)
https://lacitaizamal.com/concierto-desde-la-india-e-inglaterra-con-balladeste/
We are really excited to have been invited to perform at the beautiful Ardkinglas Estate as part of their Friday evening concert series. Anyone in that neck of the woods come and join us these beautiful surroundings! Contact info@ardkinglas.com to join the mailing list and receive more info about the gig.
Come and join us in the beautiful Old Town of Hastings for a double bill gig with gorgeous vocal duo Ben & Dom.
To kick off our 2023 tour and gigs we are really looking forward to joining Bristol based duo Jow for the launch of an exciting new gig series in Bath and Bristol @ The Orchard - Post Classical Assembly
To kick off our 2023 tour and gigs we are really looking forward to joining Bristol based duo Jow for the launch of an exciting new gig series in Bath and Bristol - Post Classical Assembly.
Come and join us in Bath on the 2nd February or Bristol at The Orchard on 3rd Feb.
Thrilled to be joining Blow the Fuse Collective to play a support set at their EFG London Jazz Festival Night at St Matthias Church N16, London
Improvised set with electronic musician Tullis Runnie at 1 pm as a part of Sonics Festival. Come join us!
We are thrilled to spend a week at the renowned arts centre Snape Maltings developing our work and sharing the new creation as a part of Festival of the New.
A candlelit performance at Dartington Hall couldn’t be more magical, as a part of the second week of the summer school and festival:)
Pleased to be playing alongside experimental artist and researcher Dina Amro Bint Mbareh at this small, iconic East London venue.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/balladeste-dina-amro-bint-mbareh/
Looking forward to being back at this local wonderful festival again:)
Thrilled to have a performance in London coming up! Come join us for this beautiful summer evening in Highgate:
We are performing in Bristol for the first time, at the cool venue Wardrobe Theatre and also supporting Bristol-based artist/musician and friend Tamsin Elliot. Tamsin made a film for our album release last Autumn and she is truly multi-talented. Come join us if you’re in town!
Bringing our tunes to this lovely family festival in Hastings, along with our dear musician friends Saied Silbak and Alice Zawadzki. Music curated by our very own Tara.
https://www.visit1066country.com/whats-on/the-bright-foundation-launch-family-festival-p2036281
We are thrilled to be taking part in Thrive - a bank holiday weekend festival in the stunning surroundings on Dartington. We will be running a creative composition workshop for young people and adults as well as performing a set of our tunes new and old.
More info below about the whole weekend and its celebration of emerging back out into the natural world.
A new regular post-classical night in a club in Hoxton put on by Samuel Sharp and Jay Chakravorty. We are excited to be a part of the kickoff night alongside sets from Heather Roche and Samuel Sharp.
https://www.facebook.com/counterchamber
New Roots presents a series of intimate filmed shows for The Harrison and Decentraland.org, featuring the finest UK roots, alt-folk, blues, jazz, contemporary classical and Americana acts. Shows are one hour long, and limited to 20 capacity only.
We will be performing an hour long set at 9pm - come and watch live. The gig will also be recorded and replayed on Decentraland.org
Thanks to the support of Arts Council England and Hawkwood College we are spending a week creating, exploring, sharing, improvising with a group of cross-over composer - performer string players to generate some new ideas and create extended string arrangements of our repertoire.
A new woman’s string collective in the making- watch this space for more!
We thought we would start they year with something new - a live improv set!
We improvise to write, to co-create and have developed a language over the years as a duo, so we were thrilled to be selected to be part of Non-Classical’s Battle of Bands to try out a fully improvised set - away from our usual co-created repertoire yet keeping our duo sound present :-)
Come and join us! Guaranteed to be a great night of varied, experimental music
We are very excited to be curating an evening of music at stunning Grand Junction, Paddington, London.
This special evening will celebrate the launch of the new album Beyond Breath, described as “an extraordinary and beautiful listening experience” by Folk Radio UK, as well as performances from friends, and internationally renowned artists; vocalist and violinist Alice Zawadzki and oud-master Saied Silbak.
