Here are three snapshots from the hour long performance at Bonn Square Baptist Church in January. The music is entirely acoustic. The idea is to create a continuous mesh of sound: background radiation, or ‘cosmic hum’. Every so often, something happens briefly and then moves on. Imagine, for example, a star-studded night sky, with the […]
Thoughts from the Cockroach The cockroach is a hero of evolution who has survived several ice ages and all the mass extinctions since the Carboniferous era. Compare the cockroach success story with the somewhat (from an invertebrate viewpoint) dismal one of human evolution – in a mere two hundred thousand years humans have invaded, poisoned […]
UNMISSABLE DOUBLE BILL! Sunday December 7th, 3pm with the Wandering Jew aka Mike Layward, and the Cockroach aka Camilla Cancantata, featuring The History of Palestine told through balloon modelling Life on Earth, from an arthropod’s perspective There will be an interval with tea and cake etc and time afterwards for questions, comments and lively debate […]
June 25th 2025 An evening of fusion with instrumentalists from Iraqi, Greek and Western backgrounds. Listen to an excerpt here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcBpw7AEWE0
I wrote this song a couple of months ago because I was horrified to discover that the UK government is working on a ‘Roadmap’ to conclude a bi-lateral trade deal with Israel. This was initiated by Rishi Sunak’s government and the current government was, until a few days ago, still committed to its implementation. Finally, […]
First performed December 2024. Specially composed for Austin Allen https://youtu.be/iOcfPGFJhzU
Our first performance of the year was at the Festival of Tomorrow, in the great hall of the Steam Museum, Swindon, February 18th 11- 4pm The Spider was, appropriately, next door to the Gaia installation. We had lots of audience, including many families with fascinated children. The Spider hibernated a bit until August when she […]
Knighton School singing Song of Children’s Rights Children from Years 3 – 6, accompanied by adult backing singers and intrumentalists
Next workshops September 30th Gladestry Village Hall, Gladestry, 10.30am – 1pm Final workshop this year will be on October 14th, all day from 10.30am, at St Edward’s Church Hall Experiment with making music and sounds for opera, theatre and film All levels welcome, acoustic instruments only Check flyer for details
Finally – the song book is published! See below for a sneak preview and details of how to obtain it either as a hard copy delivered by post or pdf. You can listen to the songs at: camillacancantata.bandcamp.com/album/the-bug-lovers-song-book What people have to say about the song book: ‘The Bug Lover’s Songbook is a delightfully varied […]