North Star
“Jennifer’s process is as innovative as her output. She arrived with a well-researched palette of vocal colours, but left space for discovery in the studio. Her ability to decode a director’s vision, translate it into musical architecture, and iterate swiftly under production pressures was invaluable”
North Star (2024) — A live music spectacular produced by SoLab & Kwame Daniels for Belfast International Arts Festival. Inspired by writer and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass’s historic 1845 visit to Belfast. Douglass, considered a fugitive slave at the time, delivered a landmark speech, declaring, "wherever else I feel myself to be a stranger, I will remember I have a home in Belfast."
The piece blended music, poetry, and visuals and saw an incredible array pf artists all share the one stage including Grammy winning multi-instrumentalist and DJ Kaidi Tatham, Ivor Novello winning composer, Hannah Peel, actor Colin Salmon and rising stars Leo Miyagee and Winnie Ama, the Arco String Quartet, poet, Nandi Jola and vocal arranger, Jennifer John
Performed 24th and 25th October 2024 in The Telegraph Building, Belfast