Artist: SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA Featuring MUGENKYO TAIKO DRUMMERS
Presents: THE WORLD OF GODS
Directed by: Tommy Smith
Tour Dates: 8th/9th/10th/11th April 2010
East meets west as thrillingly theatrical Japanese percussion combines with jazz creativity in this spectacular collaboration by the hugely acclaimed Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers and the internationally lauded Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.
As the UK’s first and only professional Taiko group, over the past fifteen years Mugenkyo has become synonymous with stunningly visual performances that range from industrially powerful rhythms to delicately expressive bamboo flute sequences and have wowed audiences at Glastonbury, Cork Jazz Festival, Canterbury Festival, The Brit Awards, BBC Last Night of the Proms and concert halls throughout the UK.
Featuring music specially researched and composed by SNJO director Tommy Smith, depicting the forces of nature in graphic dimensions, the World of the Gods presents a unique musical adventure by true masters of their respective arts.
SNJO line up: Guitar Soloist: GRAEME SCOTT; Trumpets: RYAN QUIGLEY, RICHARD ILES, TOM MACNIVEN, CAMERON JAY; Trombones: CHRIS GREIVE, PHIL O'MALLEY, KEVIN GARRITY, LORNA MCDONALD; Reeds: MARTIN KERSHAW, PAUL TOWNDROW, KONRAD WISZNIEWSKI, BILL FLEMING; Piano: STEVE HAMILTON; Bass: CALUM GOURLAY; Drums: ALYN COSKER; and Saxophonist and Director: TOMMY SMITH
Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers; Neil Mackie, Miyuki Williams, Teresa Brookes
Tour Dates:
Thursday 8th April Byre Theatre St Andrews 8.00pm Box Office 01334 475000 www.byretheatre.com
Friday 9th April Queens Hall Edinburgh 8.30pm Box Office 01316682019 www.thequeenshall.net
Saturday 10th April RSAMD Concert Hall, Glasgow 7.30pm Box Office 01413325057 www.rsamd.ac.uk
Sunday 11th April MacRobert Centre, Stirling, 8.00pm box Office 01786466666 www.macrobert.org
For further information please contact
Paul Gillon [email protected]
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