Live music returns today
The Jazz Cafe, Camden
As of this morning, live performances are now permitted for the first time in five months as England reaches step three in its reopening roadmap.
Theatres, bars, pubs, arcades, museums, concert halls, and all indoor hospitality can reopen, with the rule of six implemented to restrict the number of individuals that can sit together in a given space.
We’re delighted at through the noise HQ: lockdown three has been the longest period without live entertainment since the pandemic began. We’re itching to get out and enjoy some music and a drink, sheltered away from the spring showers.
The lifting of restrictions also means that our weekly recommendations will resume. Here are our favourites this week:
Tuesday 18 May, 3.30pm
The London Symphony Orchestra’s long-awaited return to the Barbican, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Wednesday 19 May, 7pm
Roam around Borough Market’s Southwark Cathedral as City of London Sinfonia perform music by Mendelssohn, Wagner and Britten
Friday 21 May, 7pm
Bach, Britten and Beethoven in the most incredible venue in East London - a converted Victoria school next to the canal
Friday 21 May, 9pm
Beethoven’s Spring Sonata and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in the amazing loft space above the Ragged School Museum
Saturday 22 May, 6.30pm
Brahms and Shostakovich performed by the world’s best chamber musicians in one of London’s most unusual and magical venues
Saturday 22 May, 8.30pm
Bach’s iconic Goldberg Variations performed by one of the world’s leading pianists in the loft space above the Ragged School Museum
Sunday 23 May, 6.30pm
Schumann and Brahms in the unique converted loft space of the Ragged School Museum, next to Mile End park
Sunday 23 May, 8.30pm
Schumann’s set of songs about a ‘winter journey’ performed by star duo Pavel Kolesnikov and Mark Padmore
a bit further ahead…
Friday 9 July, 6.30pm + 8.30pm
Laura van der Heijden and Max Baillie play Kodály’s Duo and a selection of folk music in Hoxton as part of through the noise’s noisenights series
Saturday 28 August, 6pm + 8pm
Sarah Daramy-Williams and Natalia Senior-Brown feature in the second instalment of our noisenights series at Hoxton Underbelly
