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MSL Digital Salon #5: Preview: A Derelict Chorale, hosted by Debbie Warren with Chris Thorpe-Tracey and Julie Gidlow About this Event Musician and composer, Debbie Warren, and historical researcher, Julie Gidlow, open up the suite of songs (A Derelict Chorale) that Chris Thorpe-Tracey composed during his residency in Hastings this year. Chris delved into Hastings’ politics of the early 1800s and has pointed us to a rich seam of material that we’ll be developing further. Debbie has worked in all fields of music during her career from West End theatre to conducting at the Royal Albert Hall. She regularly works as a musical director and has a large catalogue of choral arrangements. Julie has worked as Lead Researcher for MSL since 2014 and worked with Chris on the research for A Derelict Chorale. She has extensive experience of social history, government and politics, as well as local and family history as well as research for publication. Debbie has selected five from the ten songs Chris has written and with Julie will be exploring, through Chris’s words and music, the history and the drama of a time when the America Ground got its name, when Excise Men chased down and killed ‘free traders’, when squatters made homes from half boats or untangled rope along the Ropewalk. Come to the Fair to hear for the first time The Murder of Captain Aldridge, Doin’ the Rope-Walk Tangle, Eight Acres, The Battling Breeds and Eviction. Salons are part of Dot Dash, a six-month season of new digital arts and heritage programmes running from April to September 2020. Dot Dash focuses on the America Ground in Hastings and features work by professional and non-professional creatives. Suggested donation £5 (to enable us to pay the Salon host and guest artists).