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Bristol Beacon, previously Colston Hall, is a concert hall and Grade II listed building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. It is owned by Bristol City Council. Since 2011, it has been managed by Bristol Music Trust. The hall opened as a concert venue in 1867, and became a popular place for classical music and theatre.
The statue of Edward Colston is a bronze statue of Bristol-born merchant and trans-Atlantic slave trader Edward Colston (1636–1721). It was created in 1895 by the Irish sculptor John Cassidy and was formerly situated on a plinth of Portland stone in a public space known as The Centre in Bristol, until it was toppled by anti-racism protestors in 2020.
Bristol Choral Society was founded in 1889 by George Riseley, then organist of Bristol Cathedral.Its first performance was at the Colston Hall on 7 May 1890 – Mendelssohn's St. Paul with a choir exceeding 500 singers – and it has been performing principally at the Colston Hall ever since.
Bristol is home to many live music venues including the 2000-seat Bristol Beacon, formerly Colston Hall, named after Colston Street and the Colston School that once occupied the site, which can attract big names, the Trinity Centre (a community-run converted Church in the Old Market area of Bristol), the O2 Academy which is part of the national ...
An 1873 engraving showing Colston Hall, the port and cathedral of Bristol. The 18th century saw an expansion of Bristol's population (45,000 in 1750) [51] and its role in the Atlantic trade in Africans taken for slavery to the Americas. Bristol and later Liverpool became centres of the Triangular Trade. [52]
Bristol: Colston Hall 20 November 2017 Wolverhampton: Civic 22 November 2017 Llandudno: Venue Cymru 24 November 2017 Newcastle: City Hall 25 November 2017 Liverpool: Olympia 27 November 2017 Glasgow: SEC Armadillo 28 November 2017 Perth: Concert Hall 30 November 2017 Manchester: O2 Apollo 2 December 2017 Belfast: Ulster Hall 3 December 2017 Dublin
The University of Bristol will, however, remove a dolphin emblem of slave trader Edward Colston from its logo Bristol University to keep building names linked to slave traders but Colston emblem ...
Colston Street: 1923: 300: theatre: turned into a bar for the Colston Hall in 1980; has since been re-purposed as a music venue (the Lantern). [28] New Vic: King Street: 1972: 150: theatre, comedy: studio theatre of the Bristol Old Vic; [29] closed and demolished 2016 to make way for a new foyer building [30] Park Street Music Hall: Park Street ...