Live music and arts venue King’s Place has announced a new series of concerts starting in January 2025, exploring the rich interplay between artists and nature through music and spoken word performances.
Just a stone’s throw from Kings Cross and St Pancras International train stations, Kings Place will play host to a characteristically eclectic mix of artists in events spanning classical, jazz, electronic, choral, and folk.
Artists featured include Mercury Prize nominated singer-songwriter Sam Lee, composer and producer Gazelle Twin and sound artist Jason Singh.
Joining them on the bill for Earth Unwrapped are Aurora Orchestra, BBC Singers, Mary Bevan, Manchester Camerata, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Nicolas Altsataedt, Piatti, Solem, and Sacconi Quartets, and VOCES8.
American folk singer Peggy Seeger, sister of Pete Seeger and wife of the late Ewan McColl, will give her final London performance at King’s Place, closing a career that has spanned more than 60 years.
King’s Place’s distinctive programming is counterbalanced by one of its greatest challenges. There are few venues in London which unapologetically programme such an eclectic range of events – a real tonic for the curious minded looking for something off the beaten track. Yet its relatively hidden location beneath an office block, makes it difficult to attract walk-in audiences.
Raising the profile of the fifteen-year-old KP’s name on London’s cultural map has been one of many triumphs for former Artistic Director Helen Wallace (who joined KP in 2009 and recently took up the Barbican mantle five months ago).
Under the new leadership of Sam McShane, supported by specialist programmers Rosie Chapman, Rebecca Millican, and Rob Farhart, King’s Place is poised to further enrich the cultural landscape of King’s Cross. With the transformation of the area set to complete in 2026, the venue’s continued focus on thought-provoking programming will contribute to making this vibrant district a major destination for culture and the arts.
Earth Unwrapped starts 19th January 2025. Listings below. Book via the King’s Place website.
Classical
Thu 16 Jan | Hall One 7.30pm
SACCONI QUARTET & FESTIVAL VOICES
TERRY RILEY – SUN RINGS
Terry Riley Sun Rings
Sacconi Quartet | Festival Voices | Gregory Batsleer conductor
For the opening performance of Earth Unwrapped, join us on an otherworldly voyage with Terry Riley’s Sun Rings. Celebrating Riley’s 90th birthday across 2025, we begin with this rarely performed work, utilising audio recordings of NASA’s Voyager I & II and questioning humanity’s place in the universe. Sacconi Quartet, renowned for their creativity and energetic approach, join forces with the ever-collaborative Festival Voices for this ten-movement suite that will take you on a journey from Earth, out to space, then back again with the final movement One Earth, One People, One Love.
£22-60, plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 18 Jan | Hall One 3pm
vivaldi’s four seasons
a family concert adventure
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Manchester Camerata | Daniel Pioro violin
A musical nature adventure for all the family. Join virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro and the ever-adventurous Manchester Camerata as they guide you through Vivaldi’s extraordinary The Four Seasons. Bring your raincoat, sunglasses, umbrella, woolly hat, and imagination for a whirlwind adventure through the sun, storm, rain and snow!
Suitable for children aged 4+
£15 children, £20 adults
Sat 18 Jan | Hall One 7pm
PLATOON PRESENTS… vivaldi’s four seasons with daniel pioro, manchester camerata & STEPHEN FRY
Platoon Presents
Caroline Shaw The Evergreen
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Manchester Camerata | Daniel Pioro violin | Stephen Fry narrator
For the first in the series of Platoon Presents at Kings Place, join us for the album launch of Vivaldi’s seminal The Four Seasons, in a never-heard-before interpretation by virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro, Manchester Camerata and newly commissioned poetry written by Sir Michael Morpurgo, narrated by Stephen Fry. Preceding this, Caroline Shaw’s The Evergreen sets the scene, beautifully capturing the essence of an evergreen tree, standing tall and strong throughout the changing seasons.
Suitable for children aged 4+
£20-50, plus Concessions Tickets
Sun 19 Jan | Hall One 11.30am
OAE: BACH, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
SUSTAINABLE SPACE
Gibbons O Clap Your Hands
JS Bach Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen (‘My sighs, my tears’) BWV 13
Orchestra and Choir of the Age of Enlightenment | Steven Devine director | Joanne Wheeler guest speaker
Joanne Wheeler, director of the Earth Space Sustainability Initiative, talks about the urgent work of protecting the surprisingly limited space around our Earth for future generations, with music from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in this Earth Unwrapped edition of Bach, the Universe and Everything.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 31 Jan | Hall One | 8pm
AURORA ORCHESTRA & BBC SINGERS: IN PARADISUM
Kim Porter Your World
Mahler (trans. Gottwald) ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ (from Rückert Lieder)
Britten (arr. Imogen Holst) Rejoice in the Lamb
Fauré Requiem
Aurora Orchestra | BBC Singers | Nicholas Collon conductor
Aurora Orchestra welcomes the BBC Singers for a programme that lifts its eyes to the horizon and glimpses the divine from Earth. Each of the works featured in this collaborative concert takes comfort in the prospect of a world beyond, whether discerned in the beauty of nature, in the power of human imagination, or in paradise after death.
£24 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 8 Feb | Hall Two| 7pm
LIGETI QUARTET PLAYS TERRY RILEY
Terry Riley Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (arr. Richard Jones)
Pauline Oliveros 70 Chords for Terry
Terry Riley Cadenza on The Night Plain
Ligeti Quartet
Ligeti Quartet celebrates minimalist master Terry Riley’s contribution to the string quartet canon with a performance of his seminal work, Cadenza on the Night Plain, and a premiere of a new arrangement of Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (the B-side of Riley’s much-loved 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air). Alongside this, their interpretation of 70 Chords for Terry by one of Riley’s fellow travelers, Pauline Oliveros, whose approach to listening and improvisation revealed radical new ways of communal music-making. This concert will be presented in d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape.
£22 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 28 Feb | Hall One | 7.30pm
THEATRE OF VOICES: THE TREE OF LIFE
Arvo Pärt Missa Syllabica
Julia Wolfe New work (Kings Place commission)
Nigel Osborne The Tree of Life
Theatre of Voices | Paul Hillier conductor | Rihab Azar oud
Embodying ‘undivided devotion to the musical material’, the Grammy Award–winning vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices is a go-to collaborator for many of today’s most visionary composers. In this performance we’ll hear the UK-premiere of a Kings Place commission by the category-defying Julia Wolfe; a UK premiere by Nigel Osborne, inspired by his work in Lebanon with Syrian children in refugee camps as well as one of Arvo Pärt’s earliest examples of tintinnabuli, Missa Syllabica.
£20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 5 Apr | Hall One | 7.30pm
AURORA ORCHESTRA: SONG OF THE EARTH
Lili Boulanger (arr. Farrington) D’un matin du printemps
Jean-Féry Rebel Les Élémens
Mahler (arr. Farrington) Das Lied von der Erde
Aurora Orchestra | Alice Coote mezzo-soprano | Andrew Staples tenor | Nicholas Collon conductor
Described by Leonard Bernstein as ‘Mahler’s greatest symphony’, Das Lied von der Erde is an incomparable musical homage to the natural world, and humanity’s place within it, performed here with two of the greatest singers of our generation, Alice Coote and Andrew Staples. But first, the calm before the storm: Lili Boulanger’s delightful promise of a glorious spring morning before unleashing an explosion of Baroque virtuosity with Jean Rebel’s 1738 depiction of Chaos and the creation.
£24-60 plus Concessions Tickets
Thu 22 May | Hall One | 8pm
PIATTI QUARTET: ALBION REFRACTED
Joseph Phibbs String Quartet No.1
Three Idylls for String Quartet II. Allegretto poco lento
Imogen Holst Phantasy for String Quartet
Turnage Winter’s Edge III
Thomas Adès Arcadiana op.12 V. L’embarquement
Edmund Finnis String Quartet No.1 ‘Aloysius’ IV Hymn (After Byrd)
Britten String Quartet No.1
Interspersed with readings from Alice Oswald, Susanna Harding, Seamas Heaney, Christopher Meredith
Piatti Quartet | Alex Lawther narrator | Sean Mullan visual artist
The Piatti Quartet present a music and words programme taking a contemporary look at our relationship with nature and the English landscape. Centred around the evocative poet, Alice Oswald, and equally compelling composer with whom the Piatti Quartet have built up a close relationship – Joseph Phibbs, the programme begins with the miniature and intimate, then opens out as the poetry and visuals guide you through woodland, waterfalls, the sea, the sky and lastly the moon and stars. The Quartet is joined by The Imitation Game actor Alex Lawther.
£20-30 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 14 – Sun 15 Jun | Hall Two
VALGEIR SIGURÐSSON X DANIEL PIORO INSTALLATION: TENDRILS (WORLD PREMIERE)
Composer and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson is known for his immersive sound world, often blurring the lines between contemporary classical writing and electronic production. This sonic art installation, commissioned by Kings Place and featuring throughout the weekend, is a sanctuary from the world outside. It puts the listener deep within the earth and tells the sonic tale of growing things, of slowed down time, and hidden mysteries.
£9 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 14 Jun | Kings Place Foyers + Hall One
IN A LARGE, OPEN SPACE: MUSIC AND SCULPTURE
James Tenney In a Large, Open Space
Manchester Camerata | Daniel Pioro Violin
In a Large, Open Space by James Tenney has become a classic of modern music where the composer does not focus on himself as a composer or the ensemble as performers, but on the listeners alone. In this spatial performance, throughout the foyers of Kings Place, audiences are invited to be absorbed in this active sound piece, to walk amongst the music and Pangolin London’s group exhibition of artists inspired by Earth. At the end of the spatial performance, the performers will lead the audience to Hall One for a short performance.
£25 plus Concessions Tickets
Sun 15 Jun | Hall Two | 11am
DEEP LISTENING
Daniel Pioro Violin
Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. In this collaborative performer/audience session, join violinist Daniel Pioro for a sonic meditation to begin the second day of our weekend festival.
£18 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 4 Oct | Hall One | 7.30pm
AURORA ORCHESTRA: IN THE ALPS
Richard Ayres No. 42 In the Alps
Mahler (arr. Farrington) Symphony No. 4
Aurora Orchestra | Mary Bevan soprano | Nicholas Collon conductor
Welcome to the Alps! Join Aurora and soprano Mary Bevan on a mountain journey in the third concert of Aurora’s year-long exploration of Mahler’s music. Richard Ayres offers a different perspective on mountain life with his extraordinary No. 42 – In the Alps: an ‘animated concert’ which combines a virtuosic and ravishing score with elements of theatre and projected film. And where else could this journey continue but Mahler’s Fourth Symphony? Aurora performs Iain Farrington’s arrangement for chamber orchestra, which retains the character of Mahler’s original symphony and draws out the composer’s soloistic instrumental lines for a more intimate presentation.
£24 – £60 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 7 Nov | Hall Two | 7pm
THE HOUSE OF BEDLAM: TO VALERIE SOLANAS AND MARILYN MONROE
Larry Goves Crow Rotations
Pauline Oliveros To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation
The House of Bedlam | Juliet Fraser soprano
Enhanced by the use of d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system and performed in-the-round, The House of Bedlam presents two contrasting works by British Composer Larry Goves and American Electronic pioneer, Pauline Oliveros. Crow Rotations, an Ivor Novello 2023 nominated work, is the fruit of long-term collaborators Larry Goves and Matthew Welton, exploring the movements of crows through their connection with air, the earth and people. Alongside this work, we hear Pauline Oliveros’ To Valerie Solanas And Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation written in the aftershock of the political upheavals of 1968.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Wed 19 Nov | Hall One | 8pm
THE LOST BIRDS: VOCES8 & CARDUCCI QUARTET
Christopher Tin The Lost Birds
Carducci Quartet | Voces8 | Christopher Glynn piano
Join Voces8 and friends for an evening paying tribute to bird species driven to extinction by humankind. The Lost Birds is a musical memorial. Sweeping and elegiac, it’s a haunting tribute to those soaring flocks that once filled our skies, but whose songs have since been silenced. It’s a celebration of their feathered beauty: their symbolism as messengers of hope, peace, and renewal. But it’s also a warning about our own tenuous existence on the planet: that the fate that befell these once soaring flocks foreshadows our own extinction.
£20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets
Sunday 23 Nov, Saturday 29 Nov, Saturday 6 Dec | Hall Two 10am, 11am, 12.45pm and 1.45pm
FAR, FAR AWAY: MAHLER AND THE MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE
Aurora Orchestra
Climb every mountain! Join Aurora on its latest Far, Far Away adventure for families.
Paddle in the stream, explore echoes across the valley and meet some friends along the way in Aurora’s latest adventure in the Far, Far Away Early Years series. Featuring the music of Gustav and Alma Mahler in new chamber arrangements by Iain Farrington, and a brand-new story from Aurora’s writer in residence Kate Wakeling, expect to move, sing and join in with the storytelling.
Suitable for 0–5-year-olds and their families.
Children £10, adults £12 + £39 family ticket offer
Sat 29 Nov | Hall Two | 7pm
SOLEM QUARTET: TOWARDS SILENCE
Hildegard von Bingen O quam mirabilis est
Cassandra Miller Warblework
John Metcalf String Quartet, Towards Silence
Nick Martin Queer Tears
Meredith Monk Stringsongs
Max Richter On the Nature of Daylight
Join Solem Quartet for an evening of music which asks us to contemplate, or perhaps mourn Earth’s current condition, whilst reminding us of its natural aural beauty. Works by Hildegard von Bingen and John Metcalf focus on the relationship between humankind and the planet, whilst Cassandra Miller’s Warblework and Meredith Monk’s Stringsongs punctuate the programme with sounds of nature. The sparseness of Nick Martin’s Queer Tears only enhances its expressive sadness, while Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight offers solace in its rarified beauty.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 5 Dec | Hall One | 7pm
ERLAND COOPER’S THE PEREGRINE (WORLD PREMIERE)
Erland Cooper presents the world premiere of his new work The Peregrine for small ensemble, inspired by J.A Baker’s seminal 1967 book of the same name. The evening will also include a special performance of Cooper’s Do Birds Dream? played in darkness, for an all-encompassing sensory experience.
£26 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 6 Dec | Hall Two | 9pm
AURORA ORCHESTRA: MAHLER AND THE MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE (FOR GROWN-UPS)
Climb every mountain! Join Aurora for a grown-up evening out in a special late-night adaptation of its new Far, Far Away show. Featuring new arrangements of Gustav and Alma Mahler’s music, expect to move and sing, join in with the storytelling and possibly even help Aurora tidy up.
See website for ticket details
Sat 13 Dec | Hall One| 7pm
NICOLAS ALTSTAEDT AND CARICE SINGERS: AN ODE TO OUR PLANET
Josephine Stephenson New Work
Raquel García-Tomás New Work
Nicolas Altstaedt Cello | The Carice Singers | George Parris conductor
The climate crisis we are living through demands that we think differently about our place in the world, understand the effect we have on our environment and that it has on us, and recognise our historical context both in terms of what has come before us and what the future is likely to hold. Join the captivating Carice Singers alongside award-winning cellist, Nicolas Altstaedt for an evening of old and new music that questions our relationship with an increasingly threatened environment. Josephine Stephenson’s work has been commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Raquel García-Tomás’s work has been commissioned by Palau de la Musica and the Royal Philharmonic Society. These commissions are generously supported by an anonymous donor.
£20 – £50 plus Concessions Tickets
CONTEMPORARY
Fri 17 Jan| Hall Two | 8pm
JASON SINGH: DRIFTERS (LIVE AV SHOW)
Sound artist, nature beatboxer and composer Jason Singh performs his live soundtrack to John Grierson’s monumental 1929 silent documentary film Drifters, which tells the story of Britain’s North Sea herring fishery. Originally commissioned by the British Film Institute, Jason’s critically acclaimed and unique solo score combines live vocal sound effects, beatboxing techniques and live sampling using d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system to create a thrilling and immersive cinematic experience.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 18 Jan | Kings Place | 6pm
GAZELLE TWIN: WE WAX. WE SHALL NOT WANE + Q&A
Originally commissioned for The Horror Show!, an exhibition curated by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Claire Catterall at Somerset House, British producer and composer Gazelle Twin will repurpose her immersive installation featuring a pre-recorded narration by Maxine Peake for the opening weekend of Earth Unwrapped. We Wax. We Shall Not Wane is an incantation of grief and defiance in lament for women lost to violence through the centuries until the present day. The installation will be followed by a Q&A with Gazelle Twin.
£15 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 1 Feb | Hall Two | 8pm
LAURA CANNELL: THE RITUALS OF HILDEGARD REIMAGINED
The British composer, performer, and improviser presents her newest album, an offering of contemporary minimalism to 12th century polymath Hildegard von Bingen – considered by many to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. Performing on bass recorders, a 12-string knee harp, delay pedal and sparse layering, conjuring a bridge to connect the centuries.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 7 Feb | Hall One | 7pm
HAYDEN THORPE AND ROBERT MACFARLANE: NESS
The release of his third album, Ness, sees Hayden Thorpe (from Wild Beasts) collaborate with best-selling author Robert Macfarlane in adapting his 2019 novella of the same name. The ambition and sonic breadth of Ness comes as a poignant and cinematic response to cultural conversations around the environment. Macfarlane describes the music Thorpe has crafted from his words as ‘an incredible alchemy’. In keeping with Thorpe’s previous work, the music’s intention is singular and its execution refreshingly uncompromised.
£26 plus Concessions Tickets
Sun 16 Mar| Hall Two | 4pm
SOUMIK DATTA: BORDERLANDS
Winner of the Aga Khan Music Award, Soumik Datta reveals an immersive experience in partnership with Loss><Gain led by long-term Sigur Rós manager John Best and veteran Sound Designer David Sheppard. Weaving sarod, personal stories of migration, spoken word volleys and cinematic textures in epic surround-sound, Borderlands bridges Indian music with pioneering spatial audio.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 5 Apr | Hall Two | 7pm
ALICE BOYD: THE SOUNDS OF KING’S CROSS
Immerse yourself in the vibrant soundscapes of King’s Cross’ urban green spaces. This sound installation weaves the natural ambience of the city with the voices of those who care for these cherished spaces. Discover a side of King’s Cross you’ve never heard before, where humans and the natural world meet in the heart of the city.
Please see website for future installation dates.
£10
Sat 5 Apr | Hall Two | 8pm
ALICE BOYD & GUESTS
Singer-songwriter and sound artist Alice Boyd brings folk-inspired harmonies, ambient electronics and field recordings to Hall Two, inviting us to ponder the intersection of human life and the landscapes we call home. In this performance, Alice and her ensemble share her latest music, including songs and sounds inspired by her trip to the Cairngorms retracing the steps of legendary nature writer Nan Shepherd.
£17 plus Concessions Tickets
Sun 17 May | Hall Two| all-day
JASON SINGH: MOONSCALES
Jason Singh presents an immersive large-scale multi-channel sound installation consisting of eight spatialised soundscapes set around a suspended replica of the moon. Representing the eight lunar cycles of the moon, each soundscape has been created using bio data from a ring of ash trees, field recordings of wildlife, aquatic environments, vocal textures, analogue and digital effects. The immersive, deep-listening experience aims to share a holistic awareness of the climate crisis through compositions derived from living organisms, and to explore the life cycles of human movement.
£12 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 30 May| Hall One | 7.30pm
GAZELLE TWIN: BLACK DOG
Earth Unwrapped Artist in Residence Gazelle Twin presents the final London performance of her critically acclaimed album Black Dog – a dark an introspective album about confronting fear, and the expectation that the things that lurked in the darkness when you were a child will disappear as you become an adult.
£25 plus Concessions Tickets
Sun 19 Oct | Hall One | 7pm
JASON SINGH QUARTET
Jason Singh concludes his Earth Unwrapped artist residency with a new audiovisual project that tells the story of the extraordinary polymath Jagadish Bose whose work as a physicist, biophysicist, biologist and botanist changed the world through inventions we now take for granted and make up the very systems through which we work and live. Featuring Tamar Osborn, Giuliano Modarelli, Shri Shriram, and Ranjana Ghatak
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Thu 30 Oct | Hall Two | 8.30pm
GAZELLE TWIN
The adventurous producer/composer Gazelle Twin concludes her residency with a brand new live AV show using d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system in Hall Two, especially created for Kings Place’s Earth Unwrapped programme.
See website for further details.
£20 plus concessions tickets
Nov 2025 | Hall One
TERJE ISUNGSET: ICE QUARTET
Part of November’s EFG London Jazz Festival
The Norwegian drummer returns to Kings Place with his exquisite new quartet featuring voice, ice harp, ice horn, iceophone, ice percussion and ice bass. A tribute to nature, this concert is based on music from his albums Winter Songs and Beauty of Winter, alongside brand new material. The instruments are made during Isungset’s annual Ice Music Festival in Norway, carved and crafted using only natural frozen ice from the lakes.
Check website for event details
Family
Sat 18 Jan | Hall One 3pm
vivaldi’s four seasons
a family concert adventure
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Manchester Camerata | Daniel Pioro violin
A musical nature adventure for all the family. Join virtuoso violinist Daniel Pioro and the ever-adventurous Manchester Camerata as they guide you through Vivaldi’s extraordinary The Four Seasons. Bring your raincoat, sunglasses, umbrella, woolly hat, and imagination for a whirlwind adventure through the sun, storm, rain and snow!
Suitable for children aged 4+
£15 children, £20 adults
Sunday 23 Nov, Saturday 29 Nov, Saturday 6 Dec | Hall Two 10am, 11am, 12.45pm and 1.45pm
FAR, FAR AWAY: MAHLER AND THE MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE
Aurora Orchestra
Climb every mountain! Join Aurora on its latest Far, Far Away adventure for families.
Paddle in the stream, explore echoes across the valley and meet some friends along the way in Aurora’s latest adventure in the Far, Far Away Early Years series. Featuring the music of Gustav and Alma Mahler in new chamber arrangements by Iain Farrington, and a brand-new story from Aurora’s Writer-in-Residence Kate Wakeling, expect to move, sing and join in with the storytelling.
Suitable for 0–5-year-olds
Children £10, adults £12 + £39 family ticket offer
Folk
Fri 17 Jan | Hall One| 7.30pm
OLIVIA CHANEY: MODERN MYTHS & PASTORALES
Olivia Chaney is the author of an unmistakable brand of sensuous music that explores the interplay between tradition and modernity, inherited trauma, and her deep love of nature. In addition to three acclaimed solo albums, Olivia has recorded Grammy-nominated collaborations with The Decemberists and Kronos Quartet. Ever-present in Olivia’s music is the quest for how to live peacefully alongside the Earth. Through new and old material – from ancient pastorale to urban iconoclasm, Chaney promises us a solo show of breathtaking intensity and intimacy.
£22 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 24 Jan | Hall Two | 8pm
MARI KALKUN
A voice that seems to speak to us from the heart of the Estonian forest, Mari Kalkun’s music is at once of a place and deeply personal. Rooted in ancient Estonian and Võru traditions, and played on a variety of instruments including kannel, piano and dronegas, her music resonates deep within us to touch our spirits, our souls, even when the language is strange to us.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 15 Mar | Hall One, Hall Two & St Pancras | From 12pm
SAM LEE: MEETING IS A PLEASANT PLACE
As spring gathers in full force across the land, join singer, writer, nature activist and Kings Place Artist in Residence Sam Lee as he explores the kinship between nature and humans in a special day of events. Delve into this deep-rooted relationship and the stories therein with pioneers in the arts and conservation movement. In partnership with Earth Percent, immerse yourself in a sonic sound bath in Hall Two with d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system, curated by How to Speak Whale author Tom Mustill, witness the magic and reflect on the impermanence of life with the nightingale’s brief song in a special film by Emergence Magazine, hear Sam’s critically-acclaimed album Songdreaming in the elegant acoustics of Hall One, and more!
See website for individual event details.
Fri 25-27 Apr | Hall One, Hall Two & St Pancras | Various times
FOLK WEEKEND – BIRDSONG: YOU’VE NEVER HEARD SO SWEET
Our annual Folk Weekend tunes in to the ornithological world. Song traditions of the British Isles are inspired by the relationships that singers have with their environment and the seasons, and many are infused with the sounds and images of birds. From blackbirds to ravens, they are used symbolically to reflect human experience. But, in turn, birds themselves are the inspiration for many musicians, from larks ascending to crying doves. Akin to unsung folk songs, many bird populations are at risk, with severe declines in numbers, from curlews to turtle doves and swifts to swans. Influential performers from across the contemporary folk scene including Eliza Carthy, Martin Simpson, Chris Wood, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron and The Wilderness Yet celebrate and shine a spotlight on all things avian: from new songwriting to musical dialogues with birds.
See website for individual event details.
Sat 10 May | Hall Two | 8pm
THE RHEINGANS SISTERS
Produced by New York-based Adam Pietrykowski (whose genre-diverse work spans rock and contemporary classical), the visionary duo’s fifth album spans baroque fiddle tunes to heavy metal-inspired arrangements of folk ballads, with apocalyptic songs that contemplate the dystopian modern era in contrast to the natural world and its changing landscapes. This new live show is a sonic and aesthetic development of their live work so far, creating an even more immersive musical journey for their audience.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 6 Jun | Hall One | 7.30pm
PEGGY SEEGER – FINAL FAREWELL TOUR
Folk grande dame, lifelong ‘activist with an attitude’ and eco-feminist Peggy Seeger joins the Earth Unwrapped line up for her last ever live London concert, alongside both her sons Neill and Calum MacColl. Join us as we celebrate illustrious career, as together they present a final album of new songs written with family members, released ahead of the tour.
£26 plus Concessions Tickets
Sat 20 Sept | Hall One | 7.30pm
SAM LEE: THE GREAT HARVEST FEAST
Artist in Residence Sam Lee presents a Great Harvest Feast! we invite audiences to join Sam and the Kings Place team as we celebrate the traditions of harvest time. Sam will present a musical feast on the Kings Place stage, welcoming in the harvest season through song. Before this, sourcing local organic foods, we’ll celebrate the importance of seasonal growing, accompanied by a twist on a traditional wassailing. More details to follow.
See website for Hall One concert information. The daytime harvest events preceding this will be on sale soon.
Jazz
Nov 2025 | Hall One
TERJE ISUNGSET: ICE QUARTET
Part of November’s EFG London Jazz Festival
The Norwegian drummer returns to Kings Place with his exquisite new quartet featuring voice, ice harp, ice horn, iceophone, ice percussion and ice bass. A tribute to nature, this concert is based on music from his albums Winter Songs and Beauty of Winter, alongside brand new material. The instruments are made during Isungset’s annual Ice Music Festival in Norway, carved and crafted using only natural frozen ice from the lakes.
Check website for event details
Words
Sat 25 Jan | Hall One | 7.30pm
CRICK CRACK CLUB: THE THREE SNAKE LEAVES
A father and daughter sit beside a fire in the snow; a bride is bricked up in a tower; marvels gleam in the half-light, and the mysterious snake leaves bring transformation. The dark and unexpected pasts of three dishevelled travellers lost in a forest are untangled in this subtle and beguiling fairytale for grown-ups. Seamlessly interweaving a dozen of Grimm’s lesser-known stories, storytellers Ben Haggarty, Hugh Lupton, and Sally Pomme Clayton, and musician Sheema Mukherjee, embark on an enchanted search for truth.
£20 plus Concessions Tickets
Fri 7 Feb | Hall One | 7pm
WITH HAYDEN THORPE AND ROBERT MACFARLANE: NESS
The release of his third album, Ness, sees Hayden Thorpe (from Wild Beasts) collaborate with best-selling author Robert Macfarlane in adapting his 2019 novella of the same name. The ambition and sonic breadth of Ness comes as a poignant and cinematic response to cultural conversations around the environment. Macfarlane describes the music Thorpe has crafted from his words as ‘an incredible alchemy’. In keeping with Thorpe’s previous work, the music’s intention is singular and its execution refreshingly uncompromised.
£26 plus Concessions Tickets
