New Music New Venues
July 17 & 18, From 3pm
Crescent Gardens, Harrogate
A weekend of laid back world and contemporary music in a PapaKåta style tent in Crescent Gardens.
As John Lennon once said to a crowd – those in the cheap seats clap, the rest of you, “just rattle your jewellery”. As well as the Fringe breaking down barriers, the mainstream Festival took music away from the civilised seats of the theatre into a very big tent in a field (in Crescent Gardens). We clapped, rattled and rolled the weekend of Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 July away, with laid back acoustic world music in the air, and artists playing into the evening for that authentic festival experience.
Acts included:
Rafiki Jazz
Rafiki Jazz
The UK’s fast-rising world music collective and as a big & diverse family of star African & Latin diaspora musicians and outstanding local singers & music-makers, they stretch out together in an inspired fusion playing gloriously ambitious contemporary global dance music.
www.myspace.com/rafikijazz
With thanks to Konimusic, the international roots music specialists. www.konimusic.co.uk
Mim Suleiman (Zanzibar), swahili vocals
Rosie Brown (UK), jazz & bossa vocals
Vanessa Rani Chutturghoon (Mauritius-UK), creole vocals
Kadialy Kouyate (Senegal), kora, mandinka & wolof vocals
Catherine Carr (UK), steel pans & guitar
Kudaushe Matimbah (Zimbabwe), tenor marimba & vocals
Tony ‘tk’ Koni (UK), bass guitar, arrangements
John Ball (UK), tabla, derbouka
Guery Tibirica (Brazil), berimbau & percussions
UNome (UK), human beatboxer
Muntu Valdo
Muntu Valdo
Muntu Valdo’s music is rooted in the blues, mixing African traditions (he was brought up in Cameroon and then France) with striking modernity and technical mastery, building up layers of sounds with loops and samples. Muntu Valdo is appearing as part of the Black Routes tour.
Hassan Erraji
Hassan Erraji the internationally acclaimed blind veteran master-musician & singer/songwriter from Marrakech. Consummate multi-instrumentalist the always charismatic Erraji embraces a thoroughly current and very danceable contemporary global sound.
With thanks to Konimusic, the international roots music specialists. www.konimusic.co.uk
Rachel Goodwin
Rachel Goodwin – acoustic singer/songwriter whose influences include Emmylou Harris, Maria McKee and Ricky Lee Jones. Co-founder member of national female supergroup Waking The Witch, this weekend sees Rachel with her guitar performing her own material.
Heartships
Heart-Ships are a genre defying Leeds based band formed in 2009, blending elements of post-rock, East Asian chants and nu-folk to create a stirring, sometimes euphoric sound.
Ryan Cooke, Vocals, Guitar, Saw
Dave Hill, Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Cello
James Nuttall, Lead Guitar, Glockenspiel
Matt Stephenson, Clarinet, Backing Vocals
Alex Papaioannou, Bass, Backing Vocals
Warren Timmis, Drums, Glockenspiel, Violin, Lead Guitar
Angeline Bjerregaard, Piano, Violin, Backing Vocals
www.myspace.com/heartships
Samantha Smith
Harrogate’s own singer/songwriter Samantha Smith with her established soulful and acoustic sound will be playing a live set of her unique material which is featured on her latest EP, along with her percussionist.
The Full progamme for New Music New Venues:
3-3.45pm Satnam Singh and the Noise Blasters
4.15 – 5pm Rachel Goodwin
5.30 – 6.15pm Heartships
7.30 – 8.50pm Muntu Valdo
3-3.45pm Hassan Erraji
4.15 – 5pm Samantha Smith
5.30 – 6.15pm Honeydrum World Music
7.30 – 8.50pm Rafiki Jazz
Photos from 2010
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