December 6th – 29th 2018
Dialektikon at The Park Theatre, London – Composer and Performer with Drummer Stanley Ohios – https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dialektikon
November 14th 2018
Osun’s Story featuring Storyteller Pyn Stockman
Pyn Stockman is a professional storyteller. She draws freely on tales from the oral tradition – folktales, wonder tales, epics and myths and gives them a contemporary twist.
Osun Story, is a collaboration with The Kate Luxmoore Group produced through The Ifa Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust. It is a wonderful journey exploring Yoruba culture, it’s Icons and traditions placed in an international context.
October 2018
Ifa Yoruba wish to research and develop a performance and educational resources about the African and African Diaspora musical journey reflected in the cultural make up of North Birmingham.
Starting in Africa and journeying into the new world, the music will travel to the UK referring to present day genres of Grime, Hip-hop and afro-pop.
December 6th – 29th 2018
Dialektikon at The Park Theatre, London – Composer and Performer with Drummer Stanley Ohios – https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/dialektikon
July 27th – 28th 2018
The Birchfield Jazz Festival is a celebratory weekend of free live music based at St Mary’s Church in Handsworth Birmingham in the month of July. Following a successful launch in 2017, the festival returns in 2018, and hopes to become a permanent fixture for many years to come.
24th and 25th November 2017
African Weekender seeks to re-imagine Africa through the Arts. Along with Kate Luxmoore, this series featured Steve Ajao and the Blues Giants, Lekan Babalola’s Sacred Funk Fourtet, Adebayo Bolaji, Ray Prince, Usifu Jalloh, Kizomba Dance Workshop, African Roots Fusion Band and DJ Stoneboy
July 28th – 30th 2017
Founded by acclaimed and award-winning musicians Lekan Babalola and Kate Luxmoore through the Ifa Yoruba Contemporary Arts Trust, this jazz inspired weekend aims to showcase established national and international artists, as well as Birmingham based musicians and the diversity they represent.
10 October 2014
A re-working of songs c ollected in Somerset in the 1900’s by The Rev Charles Marson and Cecil Sharp.
‘For me it’s all about finding the sound that you want. There’s nothing purist about it. It’s all about intuition and creativity.’
When you hear Kate play you quickly realise that it comes from the heart. It’s an instinctive, emotional response to music making, grounded in years of practice and performance, which gives her the fluidity and suppleness of her sound – and the depth of feeling. She continues, ‘As a clarinettist, I love jazz and klezmer – but I didn’t grow up surrounded by it. Perhaps I needed to explore something that felt a bit more personal… For me it’s been a long musical journey and in many ways ‘Somerset Songbook’ has brought me back to the place I began” Interview by Helen Frame.
2014
A re-working of songs c ollected in Somerset in the 1900’s by The Rev Charles Marson and Cecil Sharp.
‘For me it’s all about finding the sound that you want. There’s nothing purist about it. It’s all about intuition and creativity.’
When you hear Kate play you quickly realise that it comes from the heart. It’s an instinctive, emotional response to music making, grounded in years of practice and performance, which gives her the fluidity and suppleness of her sound – and the depth of feeling. She continues, ‘As a clarinettist, I love jazz and klezmer – but I didn’t grow up surrounded by it. Perhaps I needed to explore something that felt a bit more personal… For me it’s been a long musical journey and in many ways ‘Somerset Songbook’ has brought me back to the place I began” Interview by Helen Frame.
June 2015
Kate Luxmoore Group at Glastonbury
November 14th 2018
Kate Luxmoore Group at Chapel Arts Centre
October 2015
Celebration Workshops for Frome/FFRAW AT 50
2014
Kate Luxmoore Group Album
2014
Tales of The Diaspora Album with Lekan Babalola
2013
The Grove Album is Released