Name: All Lit Up
Start: 2022-09-24T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-09-24T21:30:00+01:00
Location: Burnley Youth Theatre

All Lit Up

Mid Pennine Arts bringsart,peopleandplacestogether.MPA is the unique arts charity, based in Pennine Lancashire and developing projects across Lancashire and beyond. We commission high quality creative work through a variety of collaborations and in response to the distinctive contexts of our natural, built and social environments. Our projects explore what is unique about our area, our heritage and our communities. We aim to originate exciting creative work that has lasting impact for participants, audiences and our project partners.

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A celebration of Welfare State International in music and song.

Burnley Youth Theatre

Join us for a very special, once only event, as we welcome back to Burnley a glittering cast of former members of the hugely influential Welfare State International. Assembled for the occasion, a 13-piece band led by former WSI Music Director Pete Moser and including WSI’s co-founders will delve into this unique company’s 40 year repertoire.Back in 1972, the embryonic Welfare State arrived in Burnley on an invitation from Mid Pennine Arts. This ramshackle band circled their wagons on the former council tip at Heasandford, and spent the next six years developing an extraordinary series of wildly subversive, community-based, outdoor spectacles. Unsuspecting audiences around Pennine Lancashire were astounded by shows like Parliament in Flames, The Life and Adventures of Lancelot Quail and countless more. These fearless cultural pioneers went on to become hugely influential across the globe.A selection of music and songs from this great living archive will be performed by many of the inspiring players who were there when it was all happening. The 13 piece band will change from funky streetband to jazzy cabaret ensemble, from folkdance band to acapella chorus and will feature saxophone, accordion, fiddle, guitar, banjo, drums, trombone, trumpet and of course drums and percussion!Players include Greg Stephens and Kate Barfield from the Boat Band, Peadar Long on saxophone and flute, Andy Burton on fiddle, Sasha Mitchell on vocals, Dan Fox on trombone, John Fox on melodeon and sax, Amanda Quigley on sax and accordion, Pete Moser on piano and storyteller and MC Gary Bridgens.‘The Welfare State is in many ways the most mind-blowing group of all. It contains many elements… art school, rock culture, music, pagan ritual… all fused into a poetic, Dyonisian vision of man liberated by revolution’Theatre Quarterly, 1973Read more about WSI on the Pendle Radicals website, here:https://www.pendleradicals.org.uk/pendle-radicals/john-fox-and-sue-gill/And celebrated photographer Daniel Meadows shares a tantalising glimpse of the company in 1970s action here:https://www.photobus.co.uk/picture-stories/welfare-state-internationalAll Lit Up is a joint promotion from Pendle Radicals and Counter Culture Burnley, presented by Mid Pennine Arts.

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