BBC Proms: Angeline Morrison - The Sorrow Songs - July 2025
(Folk Songs of Black British Experience)

Live at the BBC Proms from the Glasshouse, British folksinger Angeline Morrison with Eliza Carthy, Alex Neilson and The Sorrow Songs Band with untold stories of Black Britain.
The concert features musical tales such as the 19th-century 'Unknown African Boy' telling of an enslaved child whose body was washed up on the Isles of Scilly. And 'Black John' - Britain's first Black horticulturalist; or 'The Beautiful Spotted Black Boy', an enslaved child whose vitiligo provoked a patchy complexion and caused him to be paraded as curiosity. Intimate, haunting and expressive this distinctive musical event from Stage Two of the Glasshouse on the banks of the Tyne in Gateshead sits firmly in a tradition, drawing on the essence of English Folk Song.

The concert is presented from the stage by Angeline Morrison and introduced by Elizabeth Alker.


www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g1gk
available until ~early October 2025