FIELD NOTES with David McAlmont — What Is This Thing Called Love? An American Songbook

When words are enough, we speak. When they aren’t, we sing.

David McAlmont returns to Circle & Star with a seasonal treat — the Great American Songbook, and the personal story of a lifelong fascination with the country that created it.

Travelling backwards through almost sixty years of American influence, McAlmont sets Songbook classics he has never performed before alongside memories of film, history, music and television. In the year America turns two hundred and fifty, he asks what all of that has meant to someone who grew up watching it from somewhere else.

Part concert, part storytelling, What Is This Thing Called Love? explores what happens when childhood enchantment collides with adult knowledge.

★ The Great American Songbook — classics David has never sung before
★ Part concert, part storytelling — the songs and the life that found them
★ One of Britain’s great voices, in a room of fifty-five
★ One night only, in the run-up to Christmas

About David McAlmont
Singer, writer and art historian, David McAlmont has one of the most distinctive voices in British music. In this room, there is nothing between it and you.

This is Field Notes — the thinking salon. This time the idea is sung as well as spoken. You won’t leave with the answer. You’ll leave still humming it.

Wonder Room presents · hosted at the Circle & Star, Hampstead

🗓 Thursday 10 December 2026 · Doors 7:00pm · Show 7:30pm
📍 28 Heath Street, Hampstead NW3 6TE · Hampstead Station, Northern Line
🪑 55 seats only

STEP IN. COME UP. BE PART OF THE STORY.