Come and hear Nola Stockley launch our Unmute mini-gigs
Welcome back!
The White Swan was once a place to discover new music. But right now, it’s sitting silent. So we’re pressing "Unmute".
While we work to bring the pub into community ownership, "Unmute" is our new gig series bringing live music into unexpected spaces - giving emerging artists somewhere to play, and young people more chances to hear them.
We're launching this month with an exciting performance by singer-songwriter Nola Stockley at Diet Cola Records. You can listen to her here on Instagram demonstrating her fabulous voice. The young jazz, pop and soul musician studied at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in Greenwich and has performed across London.
Until we have a platform for young talent at the White Swan we're going to be hosting pop-ups - if you have any suggestions please send them to info@whiteswanmusicandarts.org.
The venue this month is Josh Thornton's independent pre-loved-vinyl shop off Woolwich Church Street. He opened it about four months ago as he side-stepped corporate life and is determined to give young and experimental talent a stage rather than, as he says, them "become trapped in a narrow, boring life".
It's a compact, unconventional stage surrounded by vinyl music of all types from all eras. Classic sleeves - remember the screaming 'In the court of the Crimson King'? - jostle with fascinating musical postcards that actually work on a record player.
Forget Glastonbury and the mud. Here at Nola's gig you'll get the vibrancy of live music in a really intimate performance arena - "Tiny Desk" showed the magic of big music in small spaces and we can do the same.
Josh himself played in a band in his early days. Asked what kind of music they played, he says "bad music" - but it was fun, and Diet Cola is too.
He loves that White Swan Music and Arts and Diet Cola Records have so much in common, working to develop community spaces and foster emerging talent,.
Find the shop tucked incongruously behind a funeral parlour, and don't miss the chance to come and hear Nola sing on Saturday 28 November.
Watch out for news of future gigs and buy your ticket to join us on 28 November for an evening showcasing Nola, before Christmas takes over everything.
If you're a young person who would like to attend, or someone held back by lack of funds, drop us an email on events@whiteswanmusicandarts.org and we'll try to sort something out.
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