{"title": "ALBA ENSEMBLE PRESENTS: LES FLEURS", "start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "from £20 per person", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ra.co/events/2498463", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral"], "description": "An evening of live orchestral music, where a thirty-piece string orchestra with a rhythm section and vocalists performs new arrangements of songs by artists such as Minnie Riperton, D'Angelo, Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Lianne La Havas and RAYE, followed by DJs until 1am. Alba Ensemble, a London-based collective of musicians who play contemporary classical, baroque, folk, jazz and beyond, presents Les Fleurs as its biggest show to date, built around collaboration between old friends.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/alba-ensemble-presents-les-fleurs-42959/", "official_url": "https://bigpennysocial.co.uk/whats-on/alba-ensemble-les-fleurs", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e222578e4a589c933d3e5a2be17b2bae0a76761ea207109cc77f49daa9e78cad-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Classical Kate Bush (2026) – Cloudbusting", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "£55.50, £47.50, £40.50", "price_from": "40.50", "price_to": "55.50", "tickets_url": "http://cadoganhall.com/your-visit/booking-information/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/crossover"], "description": "Classical Kate Bush is an orchestral concert celebrating the music of Kate Bush, billed as a symphony of This Woman's Work. 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The lineup spans flutes, harp, clarinets, saxophone, trombone, strings, live effects processing, piano, double bass and percussion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-ambient-orchestra-presents-an-evening-of-improvised-m-40188/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/london-ambient-orchestra-presents-an-evening-of-improvised-music-and-sonic-exploration/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ff7dd774fd07f9a912ce91247bf9524b4484602c6148fafde9574c4ea80816a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "WIMF - FRENCH IMPRESSIONS for Flute, Voice & Harp", "start": "2026-11-09T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St John the Baptist", "address": "Spencer Hill, SW19 4NZ London", "price": "£25/£15 and £10 students", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk/wimf2026-programme/french-impressions-for-flute-voice-and-harp/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A concert by the Erda Ensemble, a trio of mezzo-soprano, flute and harp formed by Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Chloë Vincent and Olivia Jageurs. 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Thirty musicians perform the album in full, with pieces like Danse Macabre, Clair de Lune and Nessun Dorma scored where strings become screaming trumpets and the line between classical and jazz blurs. It also marks Louis' last UK solo appearance for the foreseeable future, promising a once-in-a-lifetime concert from one of the world's most original brass voices.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/louis-dowdeswell-out-of-print-album-launch-35202/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/out-of-print-louis-dowdeswell/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7fc034899e9beaa959c306f7c887b9c1b068b358d1fe6bc7c57b6ba40e3fe25-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Flowers For The Dead + What Jen Wants", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T22:30:00Z", "place": "The Shacklewell Arms", "address": "Shacklewell Lane 71, E8 2EB London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/rock/indie/indie-rock"], "description": "Flowers For The Dead + What Jen Wants is a live gig at The Shacklewell Arms, 71 Shacklewell Lane, E8 2EB London. 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For this performance they are joined by guest artists Fred Thomas, Tullis Rennie, Debasmita Bhattacharya and Lucine Musaelian, and the night opens with a set from composer, producer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev, founder of Nonclassical.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/balladeste-65385/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d169a8e5e725ec388ce5286b5dc6e1b72c939cfcfbda27ddcaa3ba22dddd1e9c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "New Wave Arab: Celebrating the Next Generation of Arab Artists", "start": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Grand Junction", "address": "St Mary Magdalene Church, Rowington Cl, W2 5TF London", "price": "£18 (£12 Conc) + bf", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://grandjunction.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173691573", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world/arabic"], "description": "An evening of live music celebrating a new generation of Arab artists blending contemporary genres with live Arabic instrumentation. It is presented by SWANA Records and Marsm UK in collaboration with Grand Junction, as part of the Right Here, Right Now programme. Performing artists include Isadora, Vincent J, Layal, Awadh and Rhea Kattan. The event is supported by the DCMS and Arts Council England.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-wave-arab-celebrating-the-next-generation-of-arab-artist-36293/", "official_url": "https://grandjunction.org.uk/events/new-wave-arab/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d8f2f2bd1948cf2fa879cc32afdddcbda4df1fbb5d9a715c51823dba8ca8499-600.webp"}, {"title": "Classical Coffee Mornings at the Royal Albert Hall: Emme Hensel", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Albert", "address": "New Cross Road 460, SE14 6TJ London", "price": "£14 (including booking fee)", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/boxoffice/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A chamber music recital held in the Elgar Room of the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Classical Coffee Mornings series. It features Royal College of Music musician Emme Hensel on flute, performing a varied programme spanning Romantic, Baroque and 20th-century works by Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, Bach and Morlacchi, ending with the showpiece The Swiss Shepherd. A hot drink and a pastry are included in the ticket price.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/classical-coffee-mornings-at-the-royal-albert-hall-emme-hens-38300/", "official_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3872277", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f613d7fb1bdc26d42878af9450a46f118f723a31c620200304b374cbf2d56bc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Samling Showcase — Serenade: To Music", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£40 £37 £33 £27 £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/vocal"], "description": "A recital evening at Wigmore Hall celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Samling Institute, which trains young voices and pianists. The programme of Schubert, Purcell, Monteverdi, Schumann, Dvořák, Granados and Vaughan Williams, including 'Serenade to Music', is performed by Samling alumni such as Nardus Williams, Cláudia Ribas, Euan McDonald, Felix Gygli with pianists Jonathan Ware and Alfred Fardell, clarinettist Eliott Berdugo, the Samling Academy Quartet and speaker Adrian Lester. It lasts about two hours including an interval. Under-35 discounted and free tickets for young people are available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samling-showcase-serenade-to-music-65994/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611061930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1b079f3a7800cf9a53cbb2b4fb4d3abb72b33fc540ef821e9b79103bb2dbd927-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Twickenham Jazz Club - Dominic Howles’ Big Birthday Septet", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cabbage Patch", "address": "London Road 67, TW1 3SZ Twickenham", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dominic-howles-big-birthday-septet-tickets-2002936244224", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Twickenham Jazz Club presents Dominic Howles’ Big Birthday Septet, a jazz concert at The Cabbage Patch. It stars Dominic Howles, a highly respected and much-loved Bristolian double bass player who has performed with many of the greats and released three critically acclaimed albums. The evening features beautiful arrangements of well-known classics and pieces from Bristolian Thoroughfare, centred on Dominic’s passion for the music of Duke Pearson and Oliver Nelson, whose compositions and arrangements will be celebrated. Among the musicians honoured, Pearson was a pianist and arranger who composed ‘Jeannine’, while Nelson was a saxophonist, arranger and composer whose album The Blues and the Abstract Truth is regarded as one of the most significant recordings of its era.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/twickenham-jazz-club-dominic-howles-big-birthday-septet-70536/", "official_url": "https://www.cabbagepatch.co.uk/whats-on/twickenham-jazz-club-dominic", "image": "https://noky.io/images/afb887be6d38de6b1a1d98e7270adf6f19cc182e5c35724d88ab856769527031-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lovemusic", "start": "2026-11-01T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£15, conc. £13, student £5", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7109158.TcsSection_1931314", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/contemporary-classical", "art/mixed-media"], "description": "Lovemusic is a concert evening where music, theatre, dance, video, light and technology blend into one experience, with six short and very different works. It is performed by lovemusic, a Strasbourg-based ensemble, and continues the WACK x lovemusic project supported by the Diaphonique fund. The programme includes a bass flute in dialogue with sign language, violin and cello as extensions of the performers' bodies, an abstract city portrait, a piece for flute, screens and ASMR, an audience participation work using the public's own phones, and an excerpt from Neil Luck's Respect for Reality. No expertise is needed to enjoy it, just curiosity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lovemusic-74175/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/lovemusic/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4d30ac15be2f90ed2c6b770c5e497857ba9b6104dc185e27a68ba1b92e9b4209-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Flanders Symphony Orchestra with Alexandra Soumm, violin", "start": "2026-11-03T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "From £22.50 (including a £4.50 transaction fee per booking)", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/zios-flanders-symphony-orchestra/book/1316434", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral"], "description": "An evening of orchestral music built around nature, played by the Flanders Symphony Orchestra under conductor Duncan Ward, with violinist Alexandra Soumm as soloist. The programme pairs George Butterworth's 'A Shropshire Lad' rhapsody and Vaughan Williams' 'The Lark Ascending', both inspired by English poetry, with Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto and Dvořák's genial Eighth Symphony. The concert runs for about two hours including an interval and forms part of the Zurich International Orchestra Series 2026-27 at the hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flanders-symphony-orchestra-with-alexandra-soumm-violin-35203/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/zios-2026-27-flanders-symphony-orchestra-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c0a270e867c454dea27365b6233b53216ad39c10775df76a357fbf331b1d385-1200.webp"}, {"title": "City of London Sinfonia – These Memories May Be True", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wilton's Music Hall", "address": "Graces Alley 1, E1 8JB London", "price": "£13.50 – £28.00 full price | £11.00 – £25.50 concession", "price_from": "9.50", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/flat-and-the-curves-rose-tinted/#Tickets_in", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/orchestral", "society/migration"], "description": "City of London Sinfonia – These Memories May Be True is a 75-minute evening of orchestral music, words and stories at Wilton's Music Hall, with no interval. The concert was born from a year of conversations in a community kitchen between musicians and people seeking asylum in the UK, and explores what home means, how we hold onto it and how we carry it with us when we have to leave. The programme moves across continents and centuries with music by Reena Esmail, Bushra el-Turk, Lembit Beecher, Piazzolla, Vaughan Williams and Copland, and forms part of City of London Sinfonia's wider season exploring asylum and migration in the UK. The orchestra was founded in 1971 by Richard Hickox, and the evening features Alexandra Wood, CLS Creative Director and Leader, with projection design by visual artist Majid Adin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/city-of-london-sinfonia-these-memories-may-be-true-40343/", "official_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/city-of-london-sinfonia-these-memories-may-be-true/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c928c52d2c79db515bf1118b6cba39d2f5366d85b79017f2b3e131976c57fcd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "A Lunch Gig With Ewan Bleach & The Fleeting Paradise Orchestra", "start": "2026-11-01T12:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Jamboree", "address": "St Chad's Place 6, London", "price": "£14 / £11 (earlybird) £9 advance", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://wegottickets.com/f/27255", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz/big-band"], "description": "A Sunday lunchtime concert of live jazz and swing at Jamboree, a Kings Cross venue for jazz, world music and European folk. It features clarinettist and bandleader Ewan Bleach with his big band, The Fleeting Paradise Orchestra. The ten-piece-style ensemble plays arrangements of popular songs and original blues and jazz numbers from the 'territory' bands of late 1920s and early 1930s America, such as Benny Moten, Charlie Johnson, Fess Williams and Duke Ellington. They also perform material from Canadian and British dance bands like Guy Lombardo and Bert Ambrose, alongside Ewan Bleach's own compositions and arrangements, with Middle Eastern fusion food available from the venue's 'Zer' kitchen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-lunch-gig-with-ewan-bleach-the-fleeting-paradise-orchestra-49157/", "official_url": "https://www.jamboreevenue.co.uk/events/live-afternoon-jazz-and-swing-in-london-17/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1a5c5d15a426b89d18cd29eb1da5fe9bc0b80df35438e91def0fb70e6f7658b-600.webp"}]}