Free Range Open Stage
Your favourite adventurous performance night is back! This unique event is an open mic for all kinds of performance: devise something to one of our themes or bring your music/spoken text/video art/powerpoint presentation/mini drag opera/Nintendo sounds/multimedia mashup/whatever.
FR#311 New Season, details tbc
Free Range will return on October 8th will our new season. Subscribe to mailing list for the all the details when confirmed.
FR#310 Treelines
Treeline is a unique European musical and cycling venture joining countries and communities together on a 2500-mile arboreal journey.
FR#309 Led Bib / Brothers Bula
Free Range are proud to present veteran jazz punksters Led Bib, who are touring to promote their new album, Hotel Pupik.
FR#308 Bill Dixon project featuring Evan Parker
Free Range has invited Gina to curate an evening of live painting, performance and music and she has chosen two of the most extraordinary musicians in the UK: tuba player Hanna Mbuya and the double bassist Neil Charles.
FR#307 Gina Southgate, Hanna Mbuya, Neil Charles
Free Range has invited Gina to curate an evening of live painting, performance and music and she has chosen two of the most extraordinary musicians in the UK: tuba player Hanna Mbuya and the double bassist Neil Charles.
FR#306 The Wickerwork Man: a mumming play / Melinda Bronstein
The Wickerwork Man is Trudgepig Folk Theatre’s take on a cult folk horror classic. The search for a missing child leads The Sergeant on a merry dance through the remote and idyllic Mummerisle.
FR#305 Seaming To (family band) / David Leahy solo
‘Whatever elusive or strange thing Seaming To might be, the experience she offers you is always a thrilling one’ (The Quietus)
FR#304 BENCHES by Sam Loveless with the Free Range Orchestra / FRØffshǒüt
BENCHES is a multi-format, neurodivergent-focussed collaboration between composer Samuel D Loveless and artist Tim Hart, centred around Tim’s longstanding passion for photographing benches.
FR#303 Cracked Glaze by Matt Wright / Sam Bailey’s Unruly Trio
Composer, producer and sound designer Matthew Wright introduces his new project Cracked Glaze, including a Q&A with the composer and an immersive playback of the 46-minute album, released in May on CD/digital by False Walls (Faversham).
FR#302 Phil Minton's Feral Choir / Leon Michener's Klavikon
Since the first Feral Choir about 35 years ago, singer and vocal experimenter Phil Minton, has led them in Japan, Brazil, France, Belgium, Germany, United States, Netherlands and Poland.
FR#301 Piano in the Woods
In May 2013 a piano was left outdoors in private woodland near Canterbury, UK. Each month for a year Sam Bailey played the piano, improvising in response to the instrument’s changing state.
FR#300 Free Range Orchestra
The first half will feature duos, trios and quartets with performers names drawn from a hat by the audience. For the second half, the Free Range Orchestra reach into the coming ice of Winter and slowly thaw frozen Christmas songs..
FR#299 Leon String Quartet / Workshop Jazz Quartet
The Leon String Quartet play at festivals and concert series across the UK with recent performances including quartets by Haydn, Schubert and Prokofiev. They actively promote new music, premiering works by local and international composers and collaborating with songwriters, artists and poets.
The Workshop Jazz Collective was formed by saxophonist Matt Miles to provide a platform for collaboration and experimentation. Some of the region’s best jazz performer-composers meet regularly to workshop each other’s pieces and develop personal approaches to writing for a chamber jazz orchestra.
FR#298 Free Women / Bloody Men
Rage through the Ages is the new show from Free Women exploring rage, and revolt.
FR#297 Ensemble Nist-Nah
Ensemble Nist-Nah is an eight-piece Gamelan/percussion group led by Nantes-based Australian drummer Will Guthrie who take traditional Indonesian music in adventurous new directions.
FR#296 Balladeste / Fran & Flora
String music infused with folk, avant-garde and pop music (Fran & Flora) or drawing from ambient, soulful, and an intimate place (Balladeste).
FR#295 Trondheim Sinfonietta
An exclusive and rare opportunity to experience SiTron (Sinfonietta of Trondheim) in Kent. An internationally established Norwegian chamber ensemble specializing in contemporary music.
FR#294 I think it was a feeling / Bill Hawkes
A performance experiment about self-voyeurism, shame and sensation. It’s also about pissing yourself: what it feels like when you can’t control it, and when you can.
FR#293 Right Here, Right Now / Nutter's Corner
A messy emporium of raw, raucous realness by the quartet Right Here, Right Now led by the gifted trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe.
FR#292 Peter Manson / Rachel Musson
Peter Manson is a contemporary Scottish poet known for his experimental style, his work often explores complex themes and employs innovative forms. Rachel Musson is a saxophonist, composer and improviser renowned for her bold, fluid playing.
FR#291 Guts & Gluts: a harvest gathering
What happens if we put care and community at the centre of our climate crisis response? What small, creative acts of repair can we enact locally and daily? What does food security mean and how do we support its emergence?
FR#290 Safe Operating Space / Gracie Bassie
Safe Operating Space is about the beauty of unrepeatable moments. Composer, electronic musician, improviser and field recordist Tullis Rennie with mixes recorded and live music.
FR#289 Riddley Walker
A cult 70’s sci-fi novel set in a post-apocalyptic East Kent is used to bring together morris troupes, hoddening, puppetry, foraging and primitive music
FR#288 Faversham Motorway Intersection Enthusiasts Club / Casbah
The Faversham Motorway Intersection Enthusiasts Club is a multimedia rhythm band rooted in repetition, drawing from the rhythms of motorway travel and dance music, finding a shared pulse between mechanical monotony and the endless flow of traffic.
FR#287 Spheric Totemic / Sam Bailey
Fusing influences from DJ Premier, Konono No.1 and the UK free improv scene, Spheric Totemic creates a ritual of splintered rhythm, bass, keys and surround sound textures.
FR#286 A performance conversation with Evan Parker, Matt Wright & Phil Gomes
When you’ve lived such a rich musical life as 80-year old saxophone legend Evan Parker the stories pour out. But what happens if you blur the boundary between anecdote and musical improvisation?
FR#285 Trance Map / Yapada
When you’ve lived such a rich musical life as 80-year old saxophone legend Evan Parker the stories pour out. But what happens if you blur the boundary between anecdote and musical improvisation?
FR#284 The Six Tones / Kat Peddie / Evan Parker & Matt Wright
Wintersound is a festival of new music involving Canterbury Christ Church University, North Western University (Illinois) and Free Range.
FR#283 Phil Minton's Feral Choir
A wild, adventurous continuation of Canterbury’s ancient choral tradition, celebrating the approaching Winter Solstice with howls, groans, croaks and laughter. Sing with us?
FR#282 John Zorn's Cobra with Brighton Safehouse Collective and the Free Range Orchestra
Large improvising groups rarely get a chance to collaborate, this will be a night to remember featuring a performance of John Zorn's infamous game piece, 'Cobra'.
FR#281 una presents 'Through the Eyes'
A sensory encounters, a supportive environment, one that recognises beauty in the architecture of every brain!