Radio Days developed and delivered a programme of workshops in the chapel of Brompton Cemetery, Kensington, between April and July 2018 on the history of the protest song, 1381 (i.e. the Peasants’ Revolt) to the present. We’re following up with […]
I’m unsure what specifically, following our recent workshop series and commemorative event at Brompton Cemetery, would have brought to mind, as a coda, the following song. Maybe the fact that I was also recently thinking I should write a future […]
In pictures … A few photos from the magnificent performance on Thursday evening of our amazing suffragists and suffragettes. The history … A fuller version of the timeline narrated during the procession. How the procession went to plan Further reading […]
A musical feast for you today! Our ‘protest song’ workshop has latterly been rehearsing a new song, Si Kahn‘s They All Sang ‘Bread and Roses’, first recorded in 1990 by American folk singer and political activist Ronnie Gilbert (1926-2015), one […]
Yesterday late afternoon, following six weeks of workshops and last Friday a banner-making workshop, we had our first rehearsal in Brompton Cemetery for our processional performance on 21st June of Rise Up, Women! commemorating the centenary of partial suffrage for […]
OK, so I found a protest song, apparently first published in 16291, a begging appeal from a crippled soldier and veteran of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) that I’d rather like to write into the learning pack of our ‘Protest […]
Maria and I had a great time last Thursday morning presenting our first Protest Songs workshop at Brompton Cemetery Chapel in Fulham Rd, Kensington, covering the period from 1381 to the end of the 19th century. A bit rushed, trying […]
Protest Songs. A free 6-week workshop programme open to all who would like to sing with us, no matter what your singing experience. All the music will be taught by ear by our facilitator has wide experience in leading community […]
A first video from our 21st May concert at the Museo del Romanticismo, Madrid: “Riding on Top of the Car”, first performed and recorded by George Lashwood, 1905.
Little by little, week by week, we’ve been adding new topics and new content to our education programme, with 12 topics now offered. One of the new topics has taken me joyously back to an optional course I took while […]
Since I missed a ‘Song of the Week’ last week when I was busy with other things, I think you deserve a double treat this week! In the course of yesterday’s event at East Sheen Library I was sidelined into […]
Radio Days Music had the pleasure and privilege of participating in the excellent commemorative event, ‘The Last Day of Peace’ at Hinchingbrooke House, Huntingdon on Sunday 3 August, under the auspices of Cambridgeshire County Council. As part of a full […]