Matthew O’Keeffe and Brixton Chamber Orchestra in motion at Love Clapham Park Enjoyable Day

Brixton Chamber Orchestra, musical director Matthew O’Keeffe is coming to the tip of its 2024 Summer season Estates tour, showing in neighborhood venues across the borough. On Saturday 27 July 2024 they popped up within the afternoon on the Love Clapham Park Enjoyable Day at Clapham Park Dice, the place folks took a break from shopping the stalls, sampling the wonderful meals and watching the carnival to hearken to an eclectic set from O’Keeffe and the 30-piece orchestra which managed to get everybody dancing and ended with an open mic session. 

Love Clapham Park Enjoyable Day

The music moved simply between classical and modern, together with jazz, dance and rap (performing kinds similar to rap and dirt with orchestral backing is without doubt one of the orchestra’s specialities). The sound system was fairly spectacular too, and there was no sense of lack of high quality as a result of we have been outdoor, while the carnival attendees made a eager viewers.

The set combined Respighi, Lully, Beethoven, Walton, the overture to Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Offenbach’s can can from Orpheus within the Underworld, with Donald Grant’s The Means House, jazz requirements, rap, The Particular’s Ghost City, a dance medley and Abba’s Dancing Queen. The vocals have been share between two visitor vocalists and rapper, Samson, while music director Matthew O’Keeffe helped out as effectively. For The Killers’ Mr Brightside, the viewers needed to get singing. On the finish there was an open mic session with a pair fairly spectacular soloists.

The Mayor of Lambeth, John-Paul Ennis, at Love Clapham Park Enjoyable Day

The orchestra’s tour finishes this weekend with a gig tonight at St Matthew’s Church, however they will be again.