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Venue: Aviva Studios: The Undercroft

Young Pilgrims

Aviva Studios: The Undercroft

Aaron Diaz, Sean Gibbs, Sam Wooster trumpets / Richard Foote, Kieran McLeod trombones / Chris Maddock baritone saxophone / Michael Owers sousaphone / Euan Palmer, Jonathan Silk drums 

Young Pilgrims are an addictive young brass band brimming with jazz-rock energy and rhythmic groove. 

Growing out of the thriving Birmingham jazz scene, Young Pilgrims have drawn fans from across Europe and beyond with their intense live performances – from beer-soaked dance floors to London’s South Bank, the Paris Jazz Festival to Love Supreme Festival.  

The Pilgrims’ adventurous, brass-heavy, rock-influenced sound is brought together by their explosive nine-strong line-up, with improvising invention set against infectious melodies, inspired by renegades, Scottish cities, skateboarding and even a brief and murky incursion into a local canal… 

Date: sunday 25 may

Time: 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm

Time: 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Price: Free

Lou Barnell + Neighbourhood Voices

Aviva Studios: The Undercroft

Lou Barnell creative director / Neighbourhood Voices vocals / Hazel Thompson collaborator 

Lou is an award-winning vocalist, sound and performance artist, one of Sound and Music UK’s New Voices 2022 composers, and an mjf hothouse 2023 artist alumnus. She was also a 2021 Oram Award-winner, in recognition of innovation in sound and technology.  

In collaboration with the 25-strong Neighbourhood Voices inclusive choir from Sheffield, Lou will immerse the audience in a ‘Live Dream’ using embodied deep listening to bathe listeners in sound, inviting people to luxuriate in the here-and-now as music and sound from the city merge. 

Lou’s music communicates her synaesthetic experience of sound, hyperfocus and sensory overload, celebrating her qualities as a neurodivergent woman. She creates constellations of materials, wearable music technology, voice and movement. 

She is currently working with the concept of ‘Live Dreaming’, which explores how musical performance and dreaming have the same functions: to help us know ourselves and find our way. Lou’s work is inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros, Neuroqueer materialities, feminisms, quantum futures and imaginings

Photography Credit: Hannah Lovell 

Date: sunday 25 may

Time: 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

Price: Free