Page 407 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024

Horace Andy
Village Underground, London, 21 June
Falsetto-singing reggae great Horace Andy performs a rare headline show at London’s
cavernous Village Underground. Expect gems that span the variety of his five-decade
long catalogue, including sound system favourite Skylarking, his 90s trip-hop
collaborations with Massive Attack and recent late-career explorations in dark, heavy
dub with producer Adrian Sherwood. Ammar Kalia

Enji
Band on the Wall, Manchester, 20 May
Born in Mongolia and trained in throat singing, Enji has pioneered a new form of jazz
vocal, setting her Mongolian lyrics against a backdrop of dramatic plucked double bass
and cinematic woodwinds. Accompanied here by just guitar and bass, this promises to
be a gorgeous showcase of a formidable and fresh voice. AK

Curlew River
Blythburgh Church, Halesworth, 21 and 22 June
Sixty years after Aldeburgh festival presented its premiere, one of Benjamin Britten’s
most original works is revived in this year’s festival. Ian Bostridge and Willard White
head the cast for Claire van Kampen’s staging of Curlew River, the first of the “parables
for church performance”, which was based on a 15th-century Japanese Noh
play. Andrew Clements

Chaka Khan’s Meltdown
Southbank Centre, London, 14 to 23 June
Now in its 29th year, Meltdown is the UK’s longest-running artist-curated musical