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SUMMARY:Civil Nights - Leee John Jazz Quartet Opens New Woodbridge Festival
  Event
LOCATION:Woodbridge
DESCRIPTION:Leee John\, platinum-selling singer of Imagination\, is headlin
 ing a new festival in Woodbridge inspired by Thomas and John Clarkson\nLee
 e John\, the chart topping singer of pioneering British black music act Im
 agination and featured Gorillaz vocalist\, is headlining a new festival se
 ries in Woodbridge\, Suffolk\, starting on Friday 22 May. The three week s
 eries celebrates Thomas and John Clarkson\, the renowned anti-slavery camp
 aigners that lived in and near Woodbridge\, and the civil rights movements
  their legacy inspired.\nThe line-up of musical maestros at St Mary's Chur
 ch will see Leee John appear with his new Jazz project\, including Simple 
 Minds drummer Mel Gaynor\, Imagination and Sister Sledge pianist Dr. John 
 Watson\, Soweto Kinch and Jazz Warriors bassist Miles Danso and virtuoso S
 axophonist Dave Mansell.\nThe night launches a campaign to create a perman
 ent space to celebrate the legacy of the Clarksons\, who founded two of th
 e world's first civil rights movements\, campaigning for the abolition of 
 slavery and world peace.\nEvents at St Mary's Church\, where John Clarkson
  is buried\, will book-end the three-week festival series.\nThere will be 
 a further family and music and art events\, as well as a Woodbridge Festiv
 al club night on Saturday 23 May at New Street Market.\nThe opening night 
 on 22 May celebrates the foundation of the Society for the Abolition of th
 e Slave Trade\, co-founded by Thomas Clarkson on 22 May 1787 and will laun
 ch a campaign to create a space in Woodbridge where the Clarkson's contrib
 ution to civil rights movements can be permanently displayed. The closing 
 event\, on Sunday 14 June\, celebrates the 210th anniversary of the founda
 tion of the world's first peace movement\; co-founded by the Clarksons on 
 14 June 1816.\nThomas Clarkson was a founder and leading advocate in the m
 ovement that led to the abolition of the slave trade. His younger brother
 \, John Clarkson\, a naval officer in the British navy\, established Freet
 own in Sierra Leone\, as a home for formerly enslaved African people. On r
 eturning to the UK John settled in Woodbridge\, while Thomas lived in near
 by Playford.\n\nBoletos: https://ra.co/events/2412937
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