Archive for January, 2009

Martha and Shlomo rehearsing Martha’s new song, “So Hard” at the Roundhouse in London. from Martha Wainwright on Vimeo.

This is the song that Martha wrote on board our expedition to the Arctic last October. You can hear it in full in the Babelbox Podcast Arctic special!!

Come check out a free event tomorrow evening – Uummannaq Day
Friday 9 January 2009, 8pm.
Ballroom Floor, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

“I feel like I could live in Uummannaq, it feels like a good town with good people in it.”
KT Tunstall, 1 Oct 2008

The most northerly settlement we visited during the Disko Bay 2008 expedition was Uummannaq, hometown of our Greenlandic guide Ludvig and home to 1400 people and 3000 howling dogs. This town will inspire Uummannaq evening at the Southbank Centre. Join Arctic voyagers Lemn Sissay, Quentin Cooper and myslef for an evening of Arctic stories and performances at Southbank Centre, guided by Ludvig. It’s worth it just to see Ludvig, the guy is a legend!

Uummannaq Day – Cape Farewell – The cultural response to climate change.

Happy new year!
It’s 2009 and it’s all kicking off…
Lost and Found Orchestra was mind blowing… you should go if you are around between now and Sunday, it is something else.

Yesterday I went up to Upton, Cambridgeshire to jam with Dame Evelyn Glennie the famous percussionist and DJ Yoda.

I can’t stop drumming on everything!!!