22 May 2026, Bedfordshire
YOUR GUEST MUSICIAN, HOST & NIGHTINGALE
Jessica Kerr is a cellist with a nature connected creative practice. Happiest when sharing music amongst the trees, Jessica’s work focuses on creating and performing music that explores and communicates our relationship with the more-than-human world, and draws audiences out into nature by musical invitation.
The Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos) is a small, brown, unremarkable-looking bird, but they possess one of nature’s finest singing voices. The English population winters in Sub-Saharan Africa in the western countries like Sierra Leon and Senegal, returning to the very same thicket they were born in arriving in early to mid-April. They spend April to the end of May mating and nesting where we can encounter the extraordinary display of the males’ courtship song, famous for his all-night broadcast.
Nadia is a naturalist and ornithologist with 16 years of experience in nature conservation. She is currently the director of the Right to Roam Campaign and is passionate about people reconnecting to nature and how access to nature is systemically unequal. She is a columnist for TGO magazine and chair of the Raven Network, a network for people of colour who work in nature and conservation.