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For Immediate Release
17 June 2012
City of London Festival Golden Piano Roadshow Launch
Date: Monday 18 June
Time: 0800hrs - 1000hrs
Place: Kings Cross St Pancras International Station (Main Concourse)
Tomorrow, Monday 18 June, award winning jazz pianist and Mercury Music Prize nominee, Gwilym Simcock, will serenade passing commuters on the Main Concourse of St Pancras International Station to kick start the Golden Piano Roadshow, forming part of the City of London Festival’s 50th anniversary celebrations.
This summer London’s streets will be resonating to the strains of everything from Chopsticks to Chopin as 50 Golden Street Pianos take up residence across the Square Mile and beyond. The pianos, which are free for anyone to play, will be touring major London commuter hotspots from 18 June – 23 July, in the lead-up to the Festival (24 June – 13 July). It is hoped that the Roadshow will encourage commuters to learn about and engage with the music in the city.
The 50 pianos will all have unique golden designs created by five emerging London street artists, who will each produce 10 variations of their own distinctive styles.
Since its inauguration in 1962 the Festival has been animating the City, bringing the Square Mile’s monumental architecture, wealth of buildings, outdoor spaces, and ancient streets to life with a rich and extraordinary programme of music, performance, events and installations. Ranked among the world’s leading cultural celebrations, City of London Festival is one of the UK’s most significant and highly regarded artistic platforms featuring a dazzling array of luminaries from across the worlds of music, dance, visual art and street performance.
Play Me, I’m Yours, the public piano programme, is devised by artist Luke Jerram.
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Notes to Editors
Golden Street Pianos pre-Festival roadshow (18-24 June)
Monday 18 June – London St Pancras International
Tuesday 19 June – Liverpool Street Station
Wednesday 20 June – Canary Wharf Piazza
Thursday 21 June – London Bridge Station
Friday 22 June – Waterloo Station
Saturday 23 June – Cheapside
Full list of Golden Street Pianos (24 June – 13 July):
City of London
- Barts Hospital Courtyard, EC1
- Broadgate, Finsbury Avenue, EC2
- Broadgate Circle, EC2
- Cleary Garden, EC4
- Devonshire Square Estate, EC2
- Fenchurch Street Station, EC3
- Finsbury Circus Gardens, EC2
- The Gherkin, EC3
- Girdlers Gardens, EC2
- Leadenhall Market, EC3
- Liverpool Street Station, EC2
- Millennium Bridge (north side), EC4
- Museum of London, EC2
- New Street Square, EC4
- Old Billingsgate, EC3
- Paternoster Square, EC4
- Royal Exchange Building, EC3
- St Dunstan in the East, EC3
- St Mary-le-Bow Churchyard, EC2
- St Paul's Cathedral Churchyard, EC4
- The Monument, EC3
Other locations in London
- LSO St Lukes, EC1
- St Katharine Docks Piazza, E1
- Thomas More Square, E1
- Tower Bridge (north side), E1
- Bankside Mix, SE1
- Borough Market, SE1
- EDF Energy London Eye, SE1
- More London Place, SE1
- Potters Fields Park, SE1
- Southwark Cathedral, SE1
- Tate Modern, SE1
- Whitehall Gardens, SW1
- Berkeley Square Gardens, W1
- Carnaby Street, W1
- Cavendish Square Gardens, W1
- Chinatown, Gerrard Street, W1
- Hanover Square, W1
- Marble Arch, W1
- Soho Square Garden, W1
- Victoria Embankment Gardens, WC2
- St Mary's Church Garden, N1
- St Pancras International, N1
- Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf, E14
- Reuters Plaza, Canary Wharf, E14
- Wren Landing, Canary Wharf, E14
- Holland Park, W8
- Portobello Road, Westway, W10
- Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath, NW5
- Gillett Square, The Vortex, N16
About City of London Festival
24 June – 27 July 2012, www.colf.org <http://www.colf.org>
Since its inauguration in 1962 the Festival has been animating the City, bringing the Square Mile’s monumental architecture, wealth of buildings, outdoor spaces, and ancient streets to life with a rich and extraordinary programme of music, performance, events and installations. Ranked among the world’s leading cultural celebrations, City of London Festival is one of the UK’s most significant and highly regarded artistic platforms featuring a dazzling array of luminaries from across the worlds of music, dance, visual art and street performance. Inspired by the history of the City and its communities it has built a reputation for innovative programming, showcasing newly discovered and world-class artists, championing new work and presenting contemporary collaborations in beautiful surroundings.
For half a century the Festival has connected the communities of the City with the world’s most acclaimed musicians and performers, enlivening the City, its inhabitants and visitors through culture.
The alumni of contributing artists over the Festival’s lifetime reads like a Who’s Who of the world’s most accomplished artists. CoLF has also featured the likes of Jacqueline Du Pré, Sir Willard White, Yehudi Menuhin and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf to name only a few. In its 50th year the Festival will continue to add to this outstanding pedigree of performance, as well as building upon its commitment to searching out exceptional emerging talent.
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