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And the videos are online!

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Thanks everyone who was there for making it such a great day, from our audience to our speakers and the staff of the Manchester Museum.

A playlist of the videos on Youtube is here.

We hope to see you at a next event!

Provisional running order

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4.00 Walk-in at Manchester Museum
4.30 Shahbaz Hussain
4.55 Clive Agnew
5.20 TED talk 1
5.45 Julian Dodd
6.10 dinner
7.20 Nancy Elizabeth
7.45 Terry Jones
8.10 TED Talk 2
8.35 Elliot Woods
9.00 Bar
The idea of a TEDx event is to interact during the breaks. In this case, over dinner and then over a drink.

Final Speaker: Nancy Elizabeth

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Nancy Elizabeth releases her third album for The Leaf Label in May, lifting off the lid of her piano and finding new emotion in her transfixing songs. Always one to do things in her own time Nancy closed the doors to temptations and travel and tours and stayed in her small, cold flat in Manchester, with a little piano, a computer and the occasional guest to help out. In small places epic things are dreamt up. You can hear all this in her new suite of songs.

 

Before the album is released, Nancy will make two UK live appearances. One with her new live band – at the Vortex in London and the other solo as part of a TEDxUniversityofManchester.

 

Nancy’s two previous albums are much loved by admirers of sensitive, playful, open-hearted songwriters, as well hip hop mavericks that adore her natural gait and style. She has collaborated with artists such as Paul White, James Yorkston and James Blackshaw and does things her own way. Her albums have drawn on travels (to the Faroe Islands and rural Spain) and was as much influenced by the minimalism of Arvo Pärt and Steve Reich as by the choral harmonies of Judee Sill and the bare expression of Leonard Cohen’s early records.

For us, Nancy will be performing her new single and a few other songs, but she’ll also talk about the process of songwriting and what inspires her.