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Throat-singers of Sacred Altai - AltaiKAI - Workshop

Event: Throat-singers of Sacred Altai - AltaiKAI - Workshop
Venue: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Date: 24 Jul 2008 - 19:00
Event details: The music of Altai Kai exudes the energy and mystery of a snow-capped mountainous homeland in which powerful spirits need to be brought on side in order for herders and hunters to survive. By combining kai ('throat-singing' whereby a single performer creates a melody fattened by spectral overtones) and traditional instruments (horse-hair fiddles, lutes, jaw's harps, end-blown pipes and shamanic drum) with their own song-writing, this prize-winning six-piece group evokes the mythology, beliefs and everyday ambience of the sacred 'golden' Altai Mountains of southern Siberia.
The 6 musicians of Altai Kai will be playing at WOMAD and the Royal Opera House as well as providing this workshop in Cambridge.

Laura Veirs (an american singer/song-writer)

Event: Laura Veirs (an american singer/song-writer)
Venue: Junction 2, The
Date: 17 Jul 2008 - 19:00
Event details:
An American singer-songwriter, Veirs performs music distinguished as much by its emotional urgency as by its often astonishing musical inventiveness.

http://www.lauraveirs.com/

 

FIRES IN PARIS - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Music from mid-16th-century France

Event: FIRES IN PARIS - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Music from mid-16th-century France
Venue: St Edwards Church
Date: 13 Sep 2008 - 19:30
Event details: Three members of Fires of Love, a versatile and unusual combination of voices and instruments, attended CEMSS courses, and now they are one of Scotland's leading ensembles specialising in Renaissance and early Baroque music. This concert focuses on the virtuoso musician, teacher, composer, arranger, and music publisher Adrian Le Roy. His amazing career coincided with the horrors of the French Wars of Religion, in which perhaps four million people were killed. The programme includes a group of songs with Renaissance guitar accompaniment, which are believed to be the first guitar songs published anywhere - a very distant forerunner of rock and roll.

Rinascimento - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Philip Thorby and Friends

Event: Rinascimento - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Philip Thorby and Friends
Venue: Emmanuel United Reformed Church
Date: 6 Aug 2008 - 20:00
Event details: In the 16th century a performer's expertise could be measured by his ability to improvise on a popular song of the day. The tradition is revived by Philip Thorby and friends, who will perform variations old and new on madrigals, chansons and motets by Renaissance masters including Willaert, Rore and Lassus.

'Francesco del Liuto' - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Works for solo lute by Francesco da Milano

Event: 'Francesco del Liuto' - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Works for solo lute by Francesco da Milano
Venue: Little St. Mary's Church
Date: 3 Aug 2008 - 16:00
Event details: "The sweet resonance of the harmony which is borne of the lute touched by the divine fingers of Francesco Milanese, by making itself heard in the soul, robs the senses of those who hear it" - Francesco Marcolini, 1536. Francesco Canova da Milano was one of the foremost Italian composers of the early 16th century; his contemporaries called him "Il Divino" and his name became synonymous with the lute. Jacob Heringman presents a recital of Francesco's works, taken chiefly from the Siena Lute Book.

Sonatas for Trumpet and Oboe - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Crispian Steele-Perkins and Gail Hennessy

Event: Sonatas for Trumpet and Oboe - Cambridge Early Music Concert Series 2008 - Crispian Steele-Perkins and Gail Hennessy
Venue: Trinity College Chapel
Date: 27 Jul 2008 - 16:00
Event details: Highlights of the Baroque repertoire played by members of The Parley of Instruments with Crispian Steele-Perkins and Gail Hennessy. Includes the Act V Symphony from Purcell's King Arthur; Finger's C major sonatas for trumpet and violin, and for trumpet, violin and oboe; Corbett's G major sonata for trumpet and oboe; Purcell's G minor sonata for violin and gamba; and Handel's C major sonata for trumpet and violin.

Trinity College Chapel

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Cambridge Chorale - GLORIA - John Rutter

Event: Cambridge Chorale - GLORIA - John Rutter
Venue: St Mary's Church, Saffron Walden
Date: 12 Jul 2008 - 19:30
Event details: The stunning setting of St Mary's Church, Saffron Walden will ring out with the irresistible combination of choir, organ and brass, as the award-winning Cambridge Chorale and the exceptional Prime Brass join forces to perform Rutter's exuberant Gloria.

Ceremonial music is also featured in this wonderful programme, including Walton's stirring Coronation Te Deum and Purcell's poignant Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. Choral classics by Biebl, Gabrieli, and Rachmaninov are topped-off with a good dollop of gospel pizzazz brass-style from Hazell's The Gospel Hall.

St Mary's Church, Saffron Walden

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Peterborough Community Gospel Choir in partnership with Errol Ballantyne School of Singing - Concert 2008

Event: Peterborough Community Gospel Choir in partnership with Errol Ballantyne School of Singing - Concert 2008
Venue: St Luke's Church
Date: 12 Jul 2008 - 18:30
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The (PCGC) Peterborough Community Gospel Choir, has been running since 2002. It was formed by Errol Ballantyne the Choir Director. Its main purpose is to give people the opportunity to sing in a gospel choir and to entertain the community by singing at various events. The choir has sung at Nursing Homes, the East of England Showground, Cathedral Square, Queensgate shopping centre, Thorpe Hall Cancer research, and on the BBC3 spendaholic TV show. They can also be heard on one of the Songs of Paul Copestake, recorded at the Eye Studio, Peterborough. This year we have been asked to back the Rock Band 'Scream Blue Murder' at the BMF British motorbike Federation at the Showground on the (16th May 08).

Errol Ballantyne started teaching in January 2002 when he founded the Peterborough Community Gospel Choir.  Prior to 2002 he sang in a number of Gospel Choirs and has played keyboards for others.  He has performed at weddings and different functions and on the night ushering in the Millenium sang and played with a Gospel Choir before approximately 25,000 people.  In 2003 he was part of the Praise Project that organised singing workshop and sang in Humberside. 

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