Big Team Open Mic Sessions: Showcase

Big Team are bringing their Open Mic Sessions Showcase to Kings House on Saturday 14 November, from 7:00pm to 9:30pm. It's a night of original music from emerging local talent, and for some of the performers, it'll be their first time playing live in Gloucester. They'll be joined by a special guest, too.

The showcase is the culmination of the Open Mic Sessions, a talent development programme for emerging original music creators across Bristol and Gloucestershire who've faced barriers to accessing live performance opportunities. The night brings together the artists from that programme, with several of them stepping onto a Gloucester stage for the first time to play their own material. It's also part of Creative Futures Week, so it sits within a wider run of events that week.

Big Team itself started in 2019, set up by Team Love Productions as a response to the lack of representation they saw in their own workforce and across the festival industry. Since then it's grown into its own entity, driven by the communities it serves. This showcase is one of the ways that work comes together in a live setting.

You'll find the night at The Music Works, inside the Gloucester Hub on the second floor of Kings House, 27 St Aldate Street, GL1 1RP. It runs from 7:00pm to 9:30pm, and entry is free.