Brighton Early Music Festival 2009
BREMF’s opening concert on
Friday 23rd October at 8pm in St George’s Church, Kemptown gets you right into the heart of the 2009
festival’s East Meets West theme.
With Judeo-Arabic dance songs, cantigas
and laude spirituali, Berber rhythms and Moorish romanzas, dynamic group
Joglaresa explore the musical contribution of Iberia's cultural diaspora in
Dancing in
Tetuan.
"carnival-like exuberance...enjoyable and virtuosic"
fRoots Magazine on Dancing
in Tetuan
Intoxicating elements of Spanish, Italian, North African and
Middle Eastern music are celebrated, with oud, darabuka, bendir, harp, fidel
and searing vocals melding together. Sounding more like a street
carnival band than a solemn early music group, there is nothing airy-fairy in
this medieval music - Joglaresa embodies the boldness and improvisatory
chutzpah that gets straight to the heart of medieval music.
Book now:
Tickets: £6-£20 www.bremf.org.uk or 01273 709709
BREMF’s East meets West strand continues till 8th
November:
- extraordinary collaborations across the centuries with music
from China, India, Azerbaijan, the Middle East and Eastern Europe;
- 21 events in venues across Brighton & Hove;
- 3 events to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Find out more and book tickets at
www.bremf.org.uk or call 01273 833746 for a
brochure