Keyboard Festival 2022
Epic sound forged by hammers on strings, air through metal, and electrons through copper
The keyboard has shown a genius for evolution. It’s the harpsichord to Handel, the grand piano to Clara Schumann, the upright piano to Scott Joplin or Mary Lou Williams, the E-mu Emulator to Depeche Mode, and the Novation Ultranova to Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.
It’s this rich variety and deep impact on music that we want to capture in Keyboard Festival. This year we aim to encompass jazz and improv, folk, western classical, post‑classical, some accordion, some pipe organ, and Tom Rogerson from Three Trapped Tigers with his truly wonderful solo piano and voice project (Retreat to Bliss). We’re only just scratching the surface. The keyboard will always be close to the heart of music. It deserves its own festival. We hope you enjoy this one.