Full Programme Announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown

The complete programme has been announced for Ornette Coleman's Meltdown festival, which runs at London's Southbank from June 13th to 21st. As well as the headline acts that had already been announced--and for which tickets are selling fast-- the full programme now includes all the support acts, the free events, and the opportunity for a limited number of musicians to join a tuition week of Harmolodics, in partnership with Trinity Laban.

The new additions increase the British contingent at the festival, with interesting names including one-time Henry Cow guitarist/composer Fred Frith with vocalist Mike Patton , saxophonist Evan Parker, eclectic tuba player Oren Marshall, saxophone legend Andy Hamilton plus free performances by London regulars Led Bib and Acoustic Ladyland.

Full listings for Meltdown:

THE ROOTS with guest DAVID MURRAY & more
+ ANDY HAMILTON
Saturday 13 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
The legendary hip-hop outfit open the festival.
Support from the 91-year-old Birmingham-based saxophonist Andy Hamilton MBE.

DAVID MURRAY & GWO-KA MASTERS
Saturday 13 June, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Saxophonist and clarinet virtuoso David Murray teams up with Guadeloupian percussionist Gwo-Ka Masters.

YOKO ONO PLASTIC ONO BAND
Featuring SEAN LENNON, CORNELIUS & ANTONY HEGARTY
Sunday 14 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
The first ever UK performance by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

IMPROVISATIONS WITH MARC RIBOT, EVAN PARKER AND HAN BENNINK
Sunday 14 June, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Time 7.30pm
Guitarist and composer Marc Ribot collaborates with free jazz saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Han Bennink in this unique improvised performance.

SCHOOL OF HARMOLODICS
Sunday 14 - Saturday 20 June, Spirit Level, From 11am daily
Intensive week long course, created by Southbank Centre in partnership with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, School of Harmolodics is open to any interested and serious artists 18 and over, whether in full-time study, recently graduated, emerging or established artists.

ACOUSTIC LADYLAND
Sunday 14 June, The Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, 5.30pm,
Admission Free
Bonding over a mutual distaste for musical sterility and an inclination toward the more exciting and dangerous end of modern music, Acoustic Ladyland have been blowing minds since their inception in 2001.

BAABA MAAL+ support
Monday 15 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
The Senegalese superstar returns to the Royal Festival Hall.

The Freewheeling YO LA TENGO
Monday 15 June, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Yo La Tengo perform as part of their intimate and interactive Freewheeling Tour.

MOBY
+ OREN MARSHALL
Tuesday 16 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Moby performs on the eve of the release of his new album Wait For Me.

JAMES BLOOD ULMER
+ support
Tuesday 16 June, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Another former Coleman collaborator joins Meltdown. Jazz and blues guitarist and singer James Blood Ulmer was the first electric guitarist to record and tour extensively with Coleman. A rare London show from Ulmer.

BOBBY MCFERRIN
Wednesday 17 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Top of Ornettes dream list, Bobby McFerrin, one of the worlds best known vocal innovators and improvisers, performs in the Royal Festival Hall.

PATTI SMITH & THE SILVER MOUNT ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA
+ SOAP AND SKIN
Thursday 18 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
The director of Meltdown 2005 appears for the first time in the UK in collaboration with inspired Canadian collective A Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra.

MIKE PATTON & FRED FRITH
Thursday 18 June, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
From Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Fantomas and Tomahawk to collaborations with Bjork and John Zorn, Mike Patton has been acclaimed for a wealth of projects. He performs a special show with Fred Frith.

ORNETTE COLEMAN with guest artist BILL FRISELL
Reflections of The Shape of Jazz to Come
+ BACHIR ATTAR & THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA
Friday 19 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Ornette performs reflections of The Shape of Jazz to Come

LED BIB
Friday 19 June, The Clore Ballroom, 5.30pm
Admission Free
Relentlessly dodging definition, Led Bib are both a maverick jazz band and an unlikely rock quintet. Taking their name from a protective garment used on patients during dental treatment, this East London based five-piece pride themselves on side-stepping convention, with incendiary results.

CHARLIE HADENS LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA
With guests CARLA BLEY and ROBERT WYATT
+ THE BAD PLUS
Saturday 20 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Bassist and band leader Charlie Haden, one of the original members of Ornettes quartet from the late 1950s, with his excellent Liberation Music Orchestra.

KIERAN HEBDEN AKA FOUR TET & STEVE REID WITH MATS GUSTAFSSON
Saturday 20 June, The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm
Following the release of their fourth collaborative record, NYC at the end of 2008, Kieran Hebden AKA Four Tet and jazz drummer Steve Reid, perform with stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene, saxophone player Mats Gustafsson.

VOICELAB PEOPLES CHOIR
Saturday 20 June, The Clore Ballroom, 5.30pm
Admission Free

THE BLESSING
Saturday 20 June, The Clore Ballroom, post-show
Admission Free

ORNETTE COLEMAN with guests CHARLIE HADEN & FLEA
Reflections of This is Our Music
+ BACHIR ATTAR & THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA
Sunday 21 June, Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm
Ornette closes the festival with reflections of This is Our Music