We are delighted to announce that we already have some fantastic speakers confirmed for our Street Music conference, being held in Norwich on 14-15 May 2019. We are also very excited to be hosting Pete Moser as our conference musician-in-residence. You can read more about Pete’s one-man-band work here.
Dr David Atkinson, Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute Aberdeen, author of The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (2014), and co-editor of Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century: Producers, Sellers, Consumers (2017)
Chester Bingley, Director, Keep Streets Live
Nick Broad, CEO and founder, Busk.co
Mark Denbigh, Head of Production & Programme, Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Alex Gibson, Music and Creative Arts Regional Specialist (Bishop’s Stortford), Salvation Army
Prof Trevor Herbert, Emeritus Professor in Music at the Open University, author of Music and the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century (2013), and editor of The British Brass Band: a Musical and Social History (2000)
Kate Jones, Programme Director, Busk in London
Stefano Montes, Researcher in Culture and Society at the University of Palermo, convener of People and Cultures of the World (2019)
Marcus Patteson, Executive Director of Norca and Sistema, Co-founder of Norwich Samba
Mykaell Riley, Senior Lecturer at Westminster School of Arts, Programme Director of the Black Music Research Unit and Principal Investigator for Bass Culture Research
Veronica Stephens, Executive Director, Seachange Arts
Dr Lucy Wright, Research Fellow at University of Leeds in School of Performance and Cultural Industries, artistic-researcher.co.uk
Gina Arnold, Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco
Andrew Green, School of Culture & Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
Samuel Horlor, Music Department, Durham University
Jaime Rollins, author of Lullabies and Battle Cries: Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland.
Kelvin Mason, Campaign Choirs Initiative and Campaign Choirs Writing Collective, who have recently published Singing for Our Lives: stories from the street choirs
Lotte Reimer, Campaign Choirs Initiative and Natural Voice Network
