Why Britain Rocked
Book TicketsSchedule
| Friday 11 October 2024 | 6:30pm | Book Now |
VenueStrule Arts Centre |
Price£10 - £12 |
CategoryTalk |
Why Britain Rocked How Rock Became Roll And Took Over The World.
Amazon Best Selling Author Elizabeth Sharkey in conversation, with live music from Chyan Davidson.
From the Celts and the Quakers, to Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson, Why Britain Rocked breaks out of British pop history’s twentieth century confines. Instead, Sharkey starts the story in Celtic Britain and follows the migration of the peoples who carried their music from the British Isles to the southern states, laying the foundations of America’s folk music and ultimately, rock n’ roll.
Chyan is a Shetland fiddle player who started performing from a young age, winning the traditional section of the Shetland Young Fiddler of the year competition in 2014 and performing as part of the ‘Hjaltibonhoga Shetland Fiddlers’ in the Royal Edinburgh Military tattoo.