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Wednesday 2 October  2024, 19:00 - 21:00, St Bartholomew's Church
£10, £8 concessions (plus booking fee)
The Blake Society and St Bartholomew’s present an evening of music and talks focussing on Blake’s timeless poems and pictures, with Katy Carr and Stephen Pritchard.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Wednesday 2 October, 19:00-21:00
St Bartholomew the Great, 57 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9DS
£10, £8 concessions (plus Eventbrite booking fee)
Please choose Concession if you are a member of the Blake Society

Internationally acclaimed singer and musician, Katy Carr joins with the Secretary of the Blake Society, Stephen Pritchard, to explore Blake’s deceptively simple poems and exquisite artwork, some copies of which were hand-coloured by Catherine Blake. These unique works of art will be projected, sung  and their beauty and profundity celebrated in words and song. Whether you know the poems well, or they are entirely new to you, this combined musical and analytical exploration of text and image will offer a unique opportunity to experience a work still completely relevant to our times- and to what it means to be human.​

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Katy Carr is an award-winning, independent British singer songwriter with Polish roots. She is an aviator and multi-instrumentalist: ukulele, banjolele, piano and vintage keyboard. Katy has released six albums of songs, inspired by untold stories from history and has performed to audiences across the UK, US and Europe. She is delighted to be debuting her self-penned vocal melodies of William Blake’s collection of Songs of Innocence and of Experience in partnership with the Blake Society. Katy is currently planning a double album of Blake’s works.

www.katycarr.com 

Stephen Pritchard is Secretary of the Blake Society. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford, and whilst researching for a DPhil on William Blake, taught and ran classes for graduates and undergraduates. Stephen co-founded the WOMAD Festival in 1982 with Peter Gabriel: ‘Stephen became a major creative architect of the WOMAD festival as it developed’, Thomas Brooman, (WOMAD Artistic Director 1982-2008). He has recently created and directed a new multimedia play, Albion, Awake! about William and Catherine’s Blake’s life and work.