Croydon Composers 2018 The Oval Tavern 7pm, 3rd November

Now in it's second year, the musicians on Croydon Composers 2018 have created innovative new pieces of cross-cultural cross genre music led by musical director and legendary producer Shri Sriram. These will be performed at The Oval Tavern on 3rd November.

'Croydon Composers' is about creating cross cultural / genre collaborations between aspiring and established composers in the London borough of Croydon. It’s a project setup by Shirin Sriram of arts organisation Drum The Bass where the participants are musically mentored & produced by award winning composer / producer / musician Shri Sriram and mentored in music business structure & royalties by Michael Fuller.

​Participants are selected from across the community, invited to participate & matched to form collaborative pairs. Each pair creates one composition, to be recorded & performed live.

Croydon Composers 2018 includes: AmeN NoiR - Spoken word/poet Gill Manly - Singer, jazz Rajesh Raman - Singer/indian classical Shri Sriram - Bass/flute/percussion Thomas Thomas - Singer/guitar Unorthodox Kings - Singer/rapper/grime Silvastone - Singer/musician/afro beat Prathap Ramachandra - Indian classical percusion Dédé Davi - singer/pianist Stush - rapper/dancehall Tansay Omar - Drummer/Turkish percussion Katie Rose - Singer/pianist Cyan - rapper/singer, Prachi Ranade - Indian classical singer, Mitra Djalili - Jazz singer.

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