Frontiers: Quilt Song

Produced by Selfmademusic and The Old Rep Theatre Birmingham
Conductor Susie Self
Director White Raven
Selfmademusic Singers and Orchestra

Sopranos Maureen Brathwaite and Elizabeth Cragg
The Alma Guitar Trio: Hannah Woollacott, Jonnie Cumming, Rowan McConkey 
Chris Brannick percussion
Young singers from Birmingham Ormiston Academy

Susie Self Quilt Song the opera

Quilt Song is a new upbeat opera composed for the Birmingham community. It celebrates social inclusivity using quilting as a metaphor. Its première is exactly 100 years after John Drinkwater’s play Abraham Lincoln opened at the same theatre.