ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Are you an early career or emerging musician, artist, music-maker, singer, songwriter, rapper, producer or multi-media artist?
Do you want to be part of a free programme to test and create new work, get professional support and mentoring, develop your skills and confidence and perform to music industry representatives?
Camberwell Fair is looking for twelve emerging artists who want to take part in an exciting new Artists in Residence programme where you’ll work with professional artists on creative music-making, mentoring and collaboration to perform new music at an event in September 2021. The programme will run from May to September and is delivered with industry partners, Earth Agency, First Word Records, School Ground Sounds and The Midi Music Company.
You’ll get the opportunity to work with
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
K.O.G.
Multi-instrumentalist and Afro-fusion pioneer Kweku Sackey, aka K.O.G (Kweku of Ghana), frontman of afro-funk outfit K.O.G and the Zongo Brigade and acclaimed Onipa project with Nubiyan Twist’s Tom Excell.
SHIRLEY TETTEH
Guitarist Shirley Tetteh began her journey into jazz with Tomorrow’s Warriors and was Jazz FM Awards nominee for Breakthrough Act of the Year. Tetteh has publishing and record deals with Lucky Number Music and explores ways of combining jazz and left field pop, while forging ahead with bands Nerija and Maisha, who present high-quality original improvised music to a younger, wider audience.
TAWIAH
Tawiah has a well earned reputation as a trailblazer in the world of alt-soul as one of the UKs finest singer / songwriters and as an exciting live performer. Over the last decade, Tawiah self-released award winning EP In Jodi’s Bedroom (Bush Girl Records) and Recreate (Lima Limo Records). In 2019 she released her debut album Starts Again (First Word Records). She secured support tours for Moses Sumney and Michael Kiwanuka.
Tawiah has also worked in collaboration with artists including; Blood Orange, Kindness, Mark Ronson, Cee-Lo, Kano, Wiley, Ghostpoet, Zed Bias and Eric Lau. Most recently co-writing and performing the Cinematic Orchestra’s latest single Wait for Now. Her work has received acclaim and coverage from The Fader, Afropunk, The Guardian, iD, Stylist, and Time Out, to name a few, and personal accolades from Quincy Jones to Adele, Jeff Goldblum and Queen Latifah.
GAIKA
Born out of his travels through the many global currents of contemporary London, Gaika’s music is dark yet melodic, experimental yet catchy. While drawing strongly from his Brixton upbringing and his Jamaican and Grenadian heritage, Gaika’s sound is ultimately expansive, seamlessly weaving musical motifs, vocal flows and slangs of UK, US and Caribbean music.
As both a vocalist and producer, Gaika is as uncompromising in his politics as his sonics, intent on expanding and exploding the ideas of what contemporary black british music is. From his debut mixtape Machine in 2015 all the way to his debut LP on Warp Records Basic Volume, Gaika is channelling the unique synthesis of the UK’s musical make-up, firmly at the forefront of a new London.
The programme includes:
Creative mentoring sessions x 3 between June-August 2021
Create and collaborate on new work
Meet and network with other emerging artists
Bespoke digital content created about you and your work
Live performance on Saturday 4 September on Camberwell Green with industry representatives from Earth Agency and First Word Records
Get your application in today.
To apply complete our short application by Friday 30 April, 5pm.
Shortlisted artists will be invited to an online showcase on Wednesday 12 May to a panel including the resident artists.