Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers - European Premier of the complete Suite with Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet, The Ligeti Quartet and Visual Artist Jesse Gilbert

Thursday 21st November 2013
First Collection: Defining Moments in America
Tickets : £18 adv / £22 on the door

Friday 22nd November 2013
Second Collection: What is Democracy?
Tickets : £18 adv / £22 on the door

Saturday 23rd November 2013
Third Collection: Ten Freedom Summers
Tickets : £18 adv / £22 on the door



Door Times : 8pm
Performance start : 8:45pm

Three Day Pass : £50
Wadada Leo Smith presents the European premiere of his phenomenal large-scale masterwork - the complete Ten Freedom Summers suite - More than seven hours of music spread over three nights at Cafe OTO, with his Golden Quartet, a string section and video artist Jesse Gilbert. Ten Freedom Summers is inspired by the story of the civil rights movement, capturing defining moments in the history of the USA from the Niagara Falls Congress in 1905 to Martin Luther King's Memphis speech.

"Hope, anger, abstraction and grand aesthetic ambition come to bear in Smith’s inspirational work, bolstered by the charge of the new." - Josef Woodard, LA Times (review of the Los Angeles premiere of Ten Freedom Summers)