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La Banda Europa

Saturday 26th January 2008, 8.00pm

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Auditorium

 Please Note: This is a past event event.

Premiered in 2006 to rapturous acclaim, La Banda Europa is a 35-strong pan-European ensemble, created by the renowned Scottish producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jim Sutherland, forging brand-new music from a panoply of different instruments and traditions.

A founder member of groundbreaking Scottish folk band The Easy Club, Sutherland won a Creative Scotland Award in 2006 to develop the project, which builds on his widely-acclaimed soundtrack to Festival, the BAFTA-winning movie starring Daniela Nardini.

La Banda Europa was first heard as part of the outdoor theatrical extravaganza Before the Wolf – the title referring to the ‘wolf notes’ sounded by traditional instruments, which lie outwith the tempered classical scale.

Imagine a trans-Continental Unusual Suspects, uniting French hurdy-gurdies, Swedish nyckelharpas, Armenian duduks and Spanish bugles with bagpipes from Serbia, Slovakia, Galicia, Asturias, Ireland and Scotland, plus brass, strings and an international battery of percussion – and you’ll maybe be halfway there: La Banda Europa must truly be heard to be believed.

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Tickets:  £18, £16

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Featuring:

La Banda Europa

Alistair Anderson

András Vigh

Dick Lee

Ditte Andersson

Edelmiro Fernández Parada

Erik Rydvall

Finlay MacDonald

Guillermo Pérez Iglesias

James Mackintosh

Jenny Hoy

John Kenny

Juraj Dufek

Keith Sharples

Lothar Lässer

Louise Martin

Magnus Holmström

Markus Svensson

Maria Gavieiro Alvarez

Michael Foster

Natalia Nuño

Oscar Kamstra

Paco Blasco

Pascal Lefeuvre

Patrice Villaumé

Rory Campbell

Sandy Smith

Simon McKerrell

Slobodan Trkulja

Thierry Nouat

Tigran Aleksanyan

Torbjörn Hultmark

Vahé Hovanesian

Alan Purves

Goran Milosevic

Jim Sutherland

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