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URL:https://bob.guide/events/reg-meuross-stolen-from-god-kitchen-garden-ca
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SUMMARY:Reg Meuross: Stolen From God - Kitchen Garden Cafe\, Birmingham
DESCRIPTION:REG MEUROSS TAKES STOLEN FROM GOD ON OCTOBER TOUR FOR BLACK HIS
 TORY MONTH\n\nAcclaimed songwriter's deeply researched live song cycle exp
 loring England's role in the transatlantic trade in enslaved people visits
  five venues across England\, bringing together folk song\, live narration
 \, concertina and West African kora.\n\nAcclaimed singer-songwriter Reg Me
 uross takes Stolen From God back on the road this October\, touring the po
 werful live song cycle for the fourth consecutive Black History Month.\n\n
 Stolen From God grew from more than four years of research into England's 
 involvement in the transatlantic trade in enslaved people and the ways tha
 t history remains embedded in churches\, country estates\, ports\, family 
 trees\, parish records and inherited wealth.\n\nThrough original songs\, l
 ive narration and the distinctive meeting of English folk instrumentation 
 with West African kora\, the performance brings those histories into the c
 oncert hall through the stories of sailors and merchants\, vicars and poli
 ticians\, enslaved people\, abolitionists and resistance.\n\nThe songs ran
 ge across figures including John Hawkins\, Edward Colston and Olaudah Equi
 ano\, while asking broader questions about Empire\, wealth\, faith\, explo
 itation and the stories Britain chooses to remember.\n\n"Years of writing 
 and research have revealed to me some remarkable stories of defiance and b
 ravery\, courage and endurance\," says Meuross. "As my research for Stolen
  From God progressed\, I realised how little I knew about Black History in
  Britain\; how little I'd been taught growing up\; how little I knew of Em
 pire and how it was made.\n\n"I hope with my songs and this project to mak
 e a useful contribution by bringing some light to a complex issue\, and an
 other way of hearing these stories."\n\nThe work has already attracted str
 iking reviews. The Guardian called the album "ambitious\, often unsettling
 "\, Americana UK described it as "one of the best folk albums I've heard i
 n a long time"\, and BBC Radio Scotland's Iain Anderson said Meuross had "
 never made a more important or more deeply considered and researched album
 ".\n\nAcross five performances in Bridgwater\, Aldershot\, Birmingham\, Hu
 ll and Todmorden\, Meuross is joined by concertina virtuoso Cohen Braithwa
 ite-Kilcoyne and kora player and griot Modou Ndiaye Cissokho. Selected dat
 es also feature guest narrators\, including acclaimed author and broadcast
 er Jeffrey Boakye in Hull.\n\nStolen From God was first released as an alb
 um in 2023 after Meuross began researching the project in 2018. The live p
 roduction has since developed into a concert experience built around the s
 ongs\, musicianship and narration\, with the combination of concertina and
  kora giving the work a musical language that reaches between English folk
  traditions and West African musical heritage.\n\nOCTOBER 2026 TOUR DATES\
 nOct 2\, 2026 - Bridgwater Arts Centre - narrator Karen Gledhill\nOct 3\, 
 2026 - West End Centre\, Aldershot\nOct 7\, 2026 - Kitchen Garden Cafe\, B
 irmingham - narrator Tim Walker\nOct 8\, 2026 - Middleton Hall\, Universit
 y of Hull - narrator Jeffrey Boakye\nOct 9\, 2026 - St Mary's Church\, Tod
 morden\, West Yorkshire\n\nTickets and full tour information: www.regmeuro
 ss.com\n\nURLs:\nTickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3861444-0?pid=6462\nYouTube
 : https://go.evvnt.com/3861444-2?pid=6462\n\nDate and Time: Wednesday\, 07
  October 2026 at 19:00 - 23:00\n\nVenue details: Kitchen Garden Cafe\, 17 
 York Road\, Birmingham\, England\, B14 7SA\, United Kingdom\n\nCategory: L
 ive Music\n\nPrice:\nGeneral Admission: GBP 20.00\n\nArtists: Reg Meuross\
 , Mamadou Ndiaye Cissokho\, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne
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LOCATION:Kitchen Garden Cafe\, 17 York Road\, Birmingham\, England\, B14 7S
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