Music festivals at Southbank Centre


Chaka Khan: A Celebration of 50 Years in Music Friday 14 June 2024

Fri 14 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
The incomparable curator of this year’s Meltdown festival celebrates 50 years of a pioneering
... Grammy wins, a 2023 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and music sales and downloads in excess
Tell Me Something Good with Habibti Nation Friday 14 June 2024

Fri 14 Jun 2024, 18:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Dance along to remixed SWANA and traditional Arabic music and high-energy anthems from emerging
... Arabic music and high-energy anthems from emerging Arab women, non-binary and trans DJs.
Expect high... -energy house and disco sounds mixed with darbuka drums, mahraganat and raï and your favourite music from... .
Habibti Nation is a community, collective and club night showcasing underground electronic music

Saturday 15 June 2024:
London Queer Soundsystem Day Saturday 15 June 2024

Sat 15 Jun 2024, 14:00 - Southbank Centre, London
collective hats to the mighty Chaka Khan and explore her musical influence in our rich and vibrant London
... Henderson who have performed at Glastonbury, Green Man and End of the Road festivals, with regular... is also co-founder, director and booker of Block9’s festival nightlife institutions NYC Downlow... the R&B and dance music landscape since the 1970s. She is the younger sister of the legendary Chaka

Saturday 22 June 2024:
Big Joanie Saturday 22 June 2024

Sat 22 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
Southbank Centre was for a sold-out performance at Grace Jones’s Meltdown festival in 2022.
Not ones to
... alternative music earned them a nomination for Best Alternative Music Act at the 2022 MOBO Awards.

Friday 5 July 2024:
London Sinfonietta: Carrillo & Revueltas Friday 5 July 2024

Fri 5 Jul 2024, 19:00 - Southbank Centre, London
book Sound Within Sound that inspired this festival, as a 'confounding mix of absolutist
... , traditionalist, visionary and shameless revisionist’, Carrillo never ceases to surprise, in his music as well as... another avant-garde provocateur of Central American new music that didn’t quite fit the mould. 'Revueltas was committed to representing the poor in his music... street people, fishermen, factory workers

Sunday 29 September 2024:
Santtu Conducts Sibelius & Nielsen Sunday 29 September 2024

Sun 29 Sep 2024, 15:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Greek mythology.
Bomsori Kim, called 'one of the most exciting young violinists around’ by BBC Music
... fascinating aquatic wildlife up close on the Royal Festival Hall’s huge screen.
Sibelius has the last word

Wednesday 2 October 2024:
James McVinnie: Fantasias Wednesday 2 October 2024

Wed 2 Oct 2024, 19:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Vinnie continues his year as a Southbank Centre Resident Artist in this, the first of two recitals.
Built
... around musical fantasias and showing myriad facets of the Royal Festival Hall’s historic organ, it begins... Continuing his residency, James McVinnie offers a programme that celebrates music of flair and... fantasy on the Royal Festival Hall’s historic organ.
Read, watch and listen more Celebrated for his

Sunday 3 November 2024:
María Dueñas Plays Sibelius Sunday 3 November 2024

Sun 3 Nov 2024, 15:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Nordic coast, shown on the Royal Festival Hall’s huge screen.
Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony is a striking
... example of his inventive - some would say irreverent - attitude to traditional musical forms.
It has... claimed this was music 'about’ the First World War, Nielsen spoke of a battle between the forces of evil

Wednesday 6 November 2024:
Víkingur Ólafsson Plays Brahms Wednesday 6 November 2024

Wed 6 Nov 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
Víkingur Ólafsson played at the Royal Festival Hall last year, and if you’ve heard him in action, you

Friday 15 November 2024:
EFG London Jazz Festival: Jazz Voice 2024 Friday 15 November 2024

Fri 15 Nov 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
The spectacular festival opening gala features a dazzling line-up of soloists, joined by EFG London
... Jazz Festival Orchestra, conductor Guy Barker and special guest Peter Edwards.
Read, watch and... listen more This year, the star-studded Jazz Voice event celebrates the music of iconic tastemaker labels... the scene.
Showcasing soul music, jazz-infused contemporary R&B, epic jazz songs and funk, there






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