Grass Roots starring Anna Chai (Live Jazz)

Grass Roots is a monthly live music event which is fully dedicated to supporting young and emerging London-based jazz artists. It takes place at The CLF Art Lounge's Pop Up space in Peckham, South London on the first Thursday of the month.

For the month of September, we're hugely honoured to host multigenre saxophonist and flautist Anna Chai.

Anna puts together an excellent line-up to bring her original musical concepts to life, taking inspiration from some of her biggest influences which include Charles Lloyd, Wayne Shorter, Jorge Pardo and Carles Benavent.

Her project addresses a yearning for unmasked, fully present music that amalgamates elements of the sounds she most connects with. The cross rhythms and expressive interpretations of melodies in flamenco, rhythmic cycles heard on the tabla in Indian classical music, American hard bop and modal jazz, all feed into a largely experimental approach across compositions, arrangements and improvised elements.

For every performance, Anna and her superlative band aim to deliver moments of reflection, curiosity, excitement, movement and pain in the most authentic way.

You'll find the venue inside Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (or Mountview for short) on the ground floor and next to the main entrance. It is also behind Peckham Library and a 10-minute walk from Peckham Rye station.

Doors open at 8pm and the live music starts at 9pm.

For more about Grass Roots, visit the event's official page.

For more about The CLF Art Lounge Pop Up, visit the venue's official page.