Great video of Firefly Burning who will be turning your #bbccofolksong lyrics into a song to be performed on 7 May at Southbank Centre. https://youtube/watch?v=8TOjchrBmRY Start writing your lyrics and send them to us at #bbccofolksong - more info below! James Redwood and his folk collective Firefly Burning will compose a folk-influenced song using a selection of lyrics sent to #bbccofolksong. The song will be performed on Wednesday 7 May between 6.15pm-7pm during a pre-concert gig with the band at The Front Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, ahead of Edge of Sound: BBC Concert Orchestra with a Hawk and a Hacksaw at the Queen Elizabeth Hall later the same evening. - Tweet or Facebook your lyrics using #bbccofolksong up until 2 May 1200 GMT - The band are looking for #bbccofolksong lyrics based around ideas and images inspired by A Hawk and A Hacksaw and the theme of Other World - The band will select the #bbccofolksong lyrics they think work well together Get your creative juices flowing. Here’s a translation of Hungarian folk song Marikam Marikam that A Hawk and A Hacksaw will be performing at the QEH on 7 May: My Marika, my mothers very pretty little girl. Forgive me little Marika, if I have sinned, or not taken care of you well. My God, you took away my pretty little girl, my Marika Oh Marika, my mothers very pretty little pearly girl. Happy song writing!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Firefly Burning The Front Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall Wednesday 7 May, 6.15pm-7pm Edge of Sound: BBC Concert Orchestra with A Hawk and A Hacksaw Southbank Centre Queen Elizabeth Hall Wednesday 7 May, 7.30pm More information: bbc.co.uk/events/erdwrz
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:00:00 +0000
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