Barbados Slaves Work Song (c1780)
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Across August 2024, opera singer and vocal coach Abigail Kelly led a series of workshops in Caribbean Folk Singing for our TURNING POINT programme.
The workshops were inspired by rare Caribbean songs featured in our period drama TURNING POINT and Abigail’s extensive knowledge of African and Caribbean song heritage. TURNING POINT’s sound design features our own original interpretation of the unique, scarcely-known and deeply poignant “”Barbados Slaves’ Work Song”” (c. 1780).
Abigail is one the UK’s foremost experts in Caribbean folk singing heritage, and classical music of African heritage in Britain since the 18th century. The workshops culminated in a beautiful performance by participants for friends and family at MAC Birmingham in August 2024. You can watch the documentary film of this sharing day by Trevor Price below:
You can listen to snippets of Abigail’s workshops and listen to the two versions of “”Barbados Slaves’ Work Song”” (c. 1780) that we created on our Resources Pages.
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