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AMELIA ROBINSON + Handsome Jim's extravaganza @ The Way Station

8:30pm
AMELIA ROBINSON www.ameliarobinson.co.uk

Amelia has a spectacular knack for turning anything into a tune.  Founder of Give Music (a personalized songwriting company), this young musician ventured to London to seek inspiration where she wrote the hit satirical song "Swine Flu". 

 

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Pursuing a professional career in composition in London & NYC, Amelia teamed up with British composer Michael Nyman (The Piano) and the London Symphony Orchestra and wrote The Cycle Symphony, an interactive composition featuring hundreds of bicycle bells for the East End Film Festival in London on Bank Holiday Monday, 2 May, 2011 at Spitalfields.  

Classically trained in piano and voice, Amelia has performed at Carnegie Hall, St. John the Divine and on Broadway.  In 2009, Amelia graced the Middle East with her ukulele, playing for the wealthiest people in the world on an artificial island, The Pearl Qatar. 

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Amelia now splits her time between the UK & US, developing her original children’s music series, Mil’s Trills, and engaging urban communities in large scale interactive compositions.

10pm Handsome Jim's extravaganza

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