Events
Since the mid 2000s, Cassandre has been organising and curating musical and cultural events.
Here is a selection of her more recent work.
Here is a selection of her more recent work.
The Guild SessionsCreated in 2017, The Guild Sessions invite local and national world and folk music acts to perform in an intimate setting every third Monday of the month at St Mary's Guildhall, one of Lincoln's oldest medieval buildings. Together, architect James Irvine and ethnomusicologist Cassandre Balosso-Bardin bring unusual, diverse and beautiful music to the city of Lincoln. Each month, a local and national act as well as a spoken word artist are invited to perform to a warm audience of 70 people who discover the line-up on the night.
James and Cassandre are currently working with the local council and the local communities towards the creation of the Guild Festival, Lincoln's only world and folk music festival. Website: www.theguildsessions.weebly.com Social Media: www.facebook.com/TheGuildSessions/ |
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Global Sound SessionsCreated for the 2017/18 season, the Global Sound Sessions are the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre's first world music series, bringing to Lincoln music from around the world. Cassandre Balosso-Bardin curates the series, organised in partnership with Making Tracks who brings international artists to the UK.
Concerts have included collaborations with Making Tracks as well as independently booked acts. These have included Saz'iso (Albania), Kadialy Kouyate Sound Archive (Senegal/London), Chouk Bwa from Haiti, Toko Telo (Madagascar), Moishe's Bagel (Klezmer), Leo Power and Pablo Dominguez (Flamenco), Namlo (Nepal/Fusion) and Amaraterra (Puglia/London). More information: Global Sound Sessions |
Hidden GemsHidden Gems is an annual event celebrating local communities' music and culture in Lincoln and Lincolnshire. Launched in 2017, it first featured Eastern European music and culture and in January 2019 worked with the local Arabic and Anatolian communities.
The events feature craft workshops for children and adults, an interactive exhibition with artefacts loaned by local communities food and drinks from the cultural area and a performance mixing professional and amateur musicians, theatre, spoken word and more. In 2017, the event was supported by Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, the Lincolnshire Polish Society - LPS, the Boston Lithuanian Community UK, Cultural Solutions UK, the Outspoken Poets, the Lincoln School of Fine & Performing Arts Centre and Music at University of Lincoln as well as members of the Lithuanian, Polish and Latvian communities in Lincolnshire. In 2019, the project was supported by Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, the Arabic School for All, the Outspoken Poets, the Lincoln School of Fine & Performing Arts Centre and Music at University of Lincoln. |
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The International Bagpipe ConferencesSince 2012, Cassandre has been organising the biennal International Bagpipe Conferences, a venture that she started when imagining with Andy Letcher from the Bagpipe Society what an International Bagpipe Day would look like. She has since organised four conferences successfully, with the next one happening in the US in Spring 2020. On the off years, she has been promoting International Bagpipe Day on 10 March, which has been taken up and celebrated all over the world.
More information: International Bagpipe Organisation |
London BalfolkOriginally called the SOAS French Folk Dance Society, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin and David Heath partnered up in 2010 to organise grand folk dances in London venues, inviting national and international acts to play for over 150 dancers four times a year. Entirely self-funded, the folk dances were extremely popular and became known throughout Europe as London's main folk dance event. Although Cassandre stopped organising them in 2015, the dances continue thanks to a thriving dance community, attracting many dancers from all over the UK at each event.
More information: London Balfolk |
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