The Cabot Circus Cantata is a collaborative project developed by Neville Gabie, Bristol Alliance’s Artist-in-Residence and Bristol composer and conductor David Ogden. With fifty-nine nationalities represented on site, construction workers from the Cabot Circus development, including builders, secretaries, foremen, security guards, and canteen staff have been invited to contribute traditional songs from their native countries. The songs are combined into one set, and performed either by the contributor from the construction site or the City of Bristol Choir. If you missed the performance on 14th Oct there is now a video available online.

These songs were arranged for both soloists and the extended City of Bristol Choir to form the Cabot Circus Cantata - an hour-long musical celebration of this unique global community in the heart of Bristol.

The free performance took place at St James Priory, Haymarket, Bristol, Sunday 14th October at 4pm. If you missed that, there is now a video available online on the BBC Bristol website. A DVD will also be made of the event.

 

More details can be found here:

http://www.bristolcitycentre.com/events.asp?pageid=117&MediaID=66