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LIFT 2018 - A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music: The First Act
Fabulous and fearless, Taylor Mac reframes the social history of America through three decades of song in this no-holds-barred extravaganza of music, art, activism and entertaining mass ritual. Joined onstage by a 24-piece orchestra and a host of special guests drawn from
London’s own performance community, New York’s Taylor Mac has created a Pulitzer Prize-nominated, once-in-a-lifetime performance in a quest to chronicle how communities grow stronger as they are being torn apart.
Charting the years 1776–1806, Mac asks the audience to conspire with him to reimagine rebellions, revolutions, triumphs and tragedies. Pub song sing-alongs and subversive anthems are rearranged as musical mash-ups to take on a chapter of the defining early years of America’s history.
Taylor Mac
Bedazzled shaman, singer-songwriter, searing social critic and performance artist extraordinaire with a politically-knowing, enormous of spirit, and…
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Barbican Centre
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Barbican Centre
- Disabled Booking:
- 020 7638 8891
See all events at Barbican Centre