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The Music Is Black on BBC Radio 2
- Live at the Hackney Empire
- Presented by Trevor Nelson and DJ Spoony, featuring the Chineke! Orchestra
BBC Radio 2 and Hackney’s very own Trevor Nelson and DJ Spoony will host a very special show ‘The Music is Black on BBC Radio 2’. Live at the Hackney Empire, this unique music experience stars Chineke! Orchestra alongside the LJ Singers, directed by Chris Cameron. Our musical mix explores the sounds and irresistible grooves of Funk, Soul, Lover’s Rock, 2-Tone, Jazz and UK Garage. Joining Chineke! on stage are a lineup of legendary British singers including Alison Limerick, Elisabeth Troy, Rhoda Dakar and saxophone legend Courtney Pine.
Their playlist will be packed full of classics from the past 5 decades including Back to Life, Crazy Love, Flowers, Children of the Ghetto, Can You Feel The Force, Where Love Lives, Let’s Do Rocksteady and You to Me Are Everything, spanning the best loved sounds for successive generations of Black British music lovers.
Presented by BBC Music in partnership with V&A East’s opening exhibition, The Music Is Black: A British Story.
The Music is Black on BBC Radio 2 will be available on BBC Sounds from 22 June, and broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 28 June (8–10pm).
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