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Glastonbury Festival 2022
The Green Fields Peace Ceremony
I had the great honour and privilege of performing at the 2022 Glastonbury Festival Green Fields Opening Ceremony. The theme this year was Peace. The ceremony was led by the Hiroshima Peace Flame which was originally lit from the atomic fires of Hiroshima in 1945 and was brought to Glastonbury by Hiroki Okano and the Green Fields team in 2004 and has been kept alight in the Peace Dome ever since as a symbol of remembrance, forgiveness and transformation. Hiroki returned to Glastonbury Festival this year to lead the Peace ceremony with the Flame as its focus sending love, forgiveness and reawakening peace throughout the world. Tara led the giant Ohm and directions which was very moving, I sang a brand new operatic piece especially written for the ceremony by Alfie Thomas and myself called Search for the Light. The ceremony included all of the amazing Green Fields Team, the Green Fields Drummers, Choir, Fire Dancers, a beautiful Lantern display and procession with huge white doves of Peace, amazing headdresses by The Green Field Craft team, Julie soft voice, chanting, a flautist, spiritual healers and Hiroki’s Shinto prayer for Peace in Japanese. Finished with a dramatic chant, drumming and Fireworks. Beautifully choreographed and directed by Etty Eliot. With love and thanks to Liz and Toby and all the Green Fields team.
Glastonbury Festival 2020
Louise sung as part of the Green Fields at home experience Glastonbury Festival 2020. Louise sings ‘We’re a Real Force of Nature’ at the Glastonbury Festival Lockdown virtual Opening Ceremony and she is singing the song ‘Amah’ which means Mother in many international languages for the Green Fields Global Healing Meditation 2020.
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What people are saying.
“It took a soprano, ethereal and quivering, to make people stand to attention. The music was not familiar, although the vocalist conjured comparisons to Grace Jones and Kate Bush, but it was commanding.”
— Live review of Louise’s performance at Glastonbury Festival Opening Ceremony 2017 by Alice Vincent in The Telegraph.
“Louise Kleboe beautifully blends the cool of Patricia Kass with the soul of Patty Cathcart to impart an operatic sensation that's at once unnerving yet inviting in its majesty.”
— Tim Cunningham - BBC music online
“Kleboe's warm and intimate tones also have some of the special radiance of Kate Bush. Like Bush her voice puts a slightly eldritch spin on the lyrics, turning them into fairytales and lullabies."
— Penny Black Music