ROOTS: Diverse, Unique, Underexposed Talent - Wednesday Nights at GROW
For 2024, we are accelerating our Wednesday night events, by honing in on what makes them so special. Like all our music events at GROW, our music nights offer the chance to discover and enjoy exceptional musical talent in a socially engaged, community-centred space, whilst enjoying specially selected and in-house food and drinks. We are platforming our Wednesday night events in a new series: ROOTS! The ethos behind this series is creating space for diversity, experimentalism, creativity and community.
ROOTS SERIES
Characterised by distinctiveness, innovation, and originality ROOTS offers a chance to explore music outside the mainstream
Expanding musical horizons and discovering new sounds, ROOTS centres and celebrates diversity and culture and champions underrepresented music
Platforming underexposed artists, ROOTS offers the chance to discover new talent and support young, emerging musicians
WHY ‘ROOTS’?
GROW recognises and celebrates the diverse roots of music and culture, whilst highlighting the interconnected nature of cultural production and exchange. Departing from conventional notions of roots as fixed, stable, or essential in origin, ROOTS is an exploration of the multiplicity of influences, connections, and trajectories that shape music and culture.
WEDNESDAYS ARE THE NEW FRIDAYS!
We all need a midweek escape from the routine and an opportunity to reconnect.
Our ROOTS The series draws in a crowd of music lovers, creatives and locals creating a vibrant social atmosphere. Attendees have the opportunity to mingle, connect, and forge new friendships over shared interests and experiences. Offering a happy hour between 5-7pm and early live music sets, Wednesday nights are a perfect balance between weekday responsibilities and weekend indulgence. Clear your Wednesday night schedules and pencil in ROOTS at GROW and be a part of the new musical community!
FEATURED ARTISTS SO FAR:
Heren - Wolf 14/02 - queer Italian singer-songwriter, challenging identity through cinematic chamber pop
Angata - 13/03 Afro-groove fusion band from Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe and the UK telling stories from West Africa to London with universal messages about life, nature and musicJewari - 13/03 - interdisciplinary collective with an emphasis on the Indian Classical tradition and the global jazz scene
Sound Anthropology - 13/03 A meeting point of spiritual jazz, Japanese Shintō ideologies and global electronic sounds
MTV Trio - 15/04 - International students from Indonesia, India and the UK blend folk music from the Subcontinent and the Malay Archipelago
Montanera - 20/03 Internationally acclaimed Colombian artist, exploring Latin folklore and electronica
Sevde - 17/04 - Young emerging fusion jazz artist Sevde weaving Turkish traditional music and London jazz
Nicholas Mortelmans - 15/05 - Nicolas Mortelmans is a multi-instrumentalist and fusion sitarist and student of Indian classical music from Antwerp, who has trained by world-famous Anoushka Shankar
Trail of Ganoush - 12/06 - multi-instrumentalists Andrin and Sass compose with influences from music cultures around the world, focussing on the Middle East and to Scandinavia
Jamie Dot Earth - 12/06 - Jamie fuses Persian and Turkish traditional melodies, using a bowed guitar
