The Kanneh-Mason family.
Photo: Decca Classics/Stuart McIntyre
June 9, 2020
By Elizabeth Davis
The Kanneh-Mason family, which includes cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, has become famous the world over for
their incredible musical talent.
During the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in the UK, the Kanneh-Mason
family have been recording regular Facebook Lives on Sheku’s Facebook
page. The videos have included a chamber performance of Beethoven’s
Third Piano Concerto as well as chamber music and solo performances.
The seventeenth Live from the Kanneh-Mason family however, strikes a
different tone. The video opens with a statement from the Kanneh-Mason
parents, Dr Kadiatu Kanneh and Stuart Mason.
Dr Kadiatu Kanneh said: “Today we wanted to say something at the
start of this Live stream to mark the devastating effects the events in
Minneapolis have had on our family. George Floyd’s death, as the result
of racist police brutality is not a new or isolated phenomenon. It is
the fact that is was filmed, in such unrelenting detail and therefore
witnessed by so many globally, that has, we hope, started a renewed call
for change.
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