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Steve Reid Innovation Award announces showcase

Lady Vendredi and Moses Boyd are among the artists lined up to perform the Steve Reid Innovation Award Showcase.

Jim Ottewill
  • By Jim Ottewill
  • 21 Oct 2015
  • min read
Lady Vendredi and Moses Boyd are among the artists lined up to perform the Steve Reid Innovation Award Showcase.

Taking place at the Forge in Camden on 26 November, the pair will be joined by Hector Plimmer and Sarathy Korwar on the night.

Lady Vendredi combines traditional Haitian rhythms with global bass while Moses is a jazz drummer and composer to have worked with Kwabs and Jimmy Napes.

Hector Plimmer blends a mixture of samples, recordings and synthesisers in his music while Sarathy is a percussionist/composer born in the US, raised in India and now based in London.

The award is a partnership between PRS for Music Foundation and the Steve Reid Foundation offering support to unsigned artists pushing musical boundaries.

The winners each received talent development bursaries and mentoring from Steve Reid Foundation trustees including artists and DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Four Tet, Theo Parrish, Floating Points, RocketnumberNine, Emanative and Charlie Dark.

Visit the Forge website to find out more and get tickets for the event.