Welcome
Common and Kind was born in 2016. We use music to inspire collaboration and enhance cohesion between individuals and communities across the UK and worldwide.
Our workshops facilitate partnerships and connections between groups and individuals of all ages and backgrounds, creating unique massed choirs for inspiring collaborative concerts.
Our concerts bring together schools, refugees, asylum seekers, adult choirs, individuals from all walks of life with leading international solo artists from across the musical spectrum.
Through our workshops and concerts, we
- Provide arts and humanities education to participants of all ages across the UK, combining music and social education through collaborative singing and creative educational activities in partnership workshops and concerts.
- Work to overcome the root causes of prejudice, fostering understanding between people and communities from a range of demographic backgrounds including schools, adults and asylum seekers.
- Promote engagement in the arts through concerts which facilitate collaboration and represent a diverse range of musical traditions, developing new audiences for and participation in the arts.
Common & Kind 2021 – Fifth Anniversary Concert, 15th July
We are delighted to be able to celebrate a safe return to live events and our FIFTH ANNIVERSARY! This will be a spectacular collaborative multi-genre concert at the Round Chapel on Thursday 15th July 2021 and the culmination of a series of workshops with adults, schools, refugee and asylum seekers.
Common and Kind concerts and workshops unite an exceptional range of world-leading solo artists from across the musical spectrum with a massed choir comprising adults and schools, refugees & people from a huge range of backgrounds in unique and inspiring collaboration. This very special concert will combine live and recorded elements to create a uniquely powerful event. It features a very special reduced-size choir, including many who joined C & K online in 2020.
Solo artists include BERNHARD SCHIMPELSBERGER (Percussion/drums/konnakol), CASSIDY JANSON (Olivier Award-Winning West End star), J. HOARD (US soul sensation, live streaming from NYC), SAIDA TANI (Bengali folk-pop icon) and THOMAS GOULD (Violin, leader of Britten Sinfonia).
As well as six sensational solo artists, the concert features the premiere of the new C & K single, Mo Li Hua, in support of the UNHCR, as well as a special new arrangement of You’ve Got a Friend. The choir also combines with all the solo artists at the end of the concert in a live fifth anniversary performance of our founding single, Human Kind.
We are acutely conscious of how difficult this period has been and continues to be for so many, and how many have lost loved ones. We ourselves lost a cherished member of the C & K family, the rapper Ty (Ben Chijioke) who joined us in 2018 for an unforgettable set. We are choosing to dedicate this concert to Ty’s memory, giving thanks for his extraordinary impact on the musical world, and his exceptional and generous support for young people and music.
Date and time
Thu, 15 July 2021
19:30 – 22:30 BST
Location