A Song For Kent
A celebration of lives and communities through music
A Song for Us celebrates our communities and the power of music to bring us together. As part of a national music project marking this historic time, Tania Holland Williams is creating a new song Walking Each Other Home inspired by the people of Kent. This will be available online at asongforus.org and performed live aboard LV21 during the Gravesham Waterfront Weekend on Saturday 7 August 2021.
Be part of A Song for Kent!
Walking Each Other Home is a walking and singing project that spans the Kent Coast from Hythe to Gravesend. It also brings musicians into conversation with the public through telephone conversations while walking.
- Anna Braithwaite - Sat 1 May | Hythe to Folkestone
- Lunatraktors (Clair Le Couteur and Carli Jefferson - Sun 23 May | Broadstairs to Margate
- Heledd Francis Wright - Sat 26 June | Herne Bay to Whitstable
- Gavin Alexander - 24 July | Cooling to Gravesend
Also, to help Tania create a new song celebrating friendship and kindness, please fill in this short online questionnaire to share your thoughts and ideas.
A Song for Us celebrates creativity in everyone; whether performing, composing, or listening, and asks for your help to create a music map of the country. Budding songsmiths are invited to upload their own songs to the website. Or anyone can simply share a favourite song that holds special meaning at this time.
Walking Each Other Home is part of the nationwide A Song For Us project. Conceived and produced by Sound UK in partnership with LV21. Supported by Arts Council England, RVW Trust, Gravesham Borough Council and Kent County Council.
About Tania Holland Williams
Deviser, opera director, song-writer, Artistic Director of Fat Lady Opera and all round Renaissance woman.
Tania trained as a clown and went on to become an opera singer in Germany.
Since returning to the UK she has been involved in devising, writing, producing and directing a wealth of operas, sound installations and staged choral works.
These have included site responsive community operas at Chatham Historic Dockyard; Folkestone Harbour and Rochester Cathedral. Commissions for Cheriton Light Festival; Turner Contemporary and The Beaney. She created the world’s first escape room opera experience and the world’s first live-Zoomed Chorus as part of Persephone’s Dream which premiered at the TaT2020 festival during the first year of Covid.
