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La Banda Europa
Saturday 26th January 2008, 8.00pm
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Auditorium
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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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