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From the Casbah to the Wine Bar
Lucie Skeaping and the Burning Bush
Wednesday 17 November 2004 6.15pm
One of a series of four concerts to accompany the Daniel Libeskind
Exhibition
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out about the other concerts taking place
Sophisticated Jewish music from old Baghdad via Spain and the Middle East to
Eastern Europe
Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2
Entrance free
'Burning Bush offers the original World Music where Europe, Africa and the Orient freely mingle' The Independent
Combining exotic Arab-influenced dance music from the old Ottoman world, mystical ballads of the Jewish Spain, and foot-tapping Klezmer, The Burning Bush cross cultural boundaries with their music and song both timeless and topical.
Featuring the haunting voice and violin of Lucie Skeaping and
the unbridled clarinet of Ben Harlan, the mesmerizing
Arabic lute ('oud) of Robin Jeffrey, the soaring fiddle
of Roddy Skeaping, the twanging qanoun of Jon
Banks and the pounding bass of Rob Levy as
well as a host of other exotic instruments, this multi-talented, sextet
presents music that is impossible to resist whatever your background
- as audiences from war-torn Sarajevo to rural Wiltshire will confirm.
A magical journey into nostalgia, hope and joy. They have filled concert
halls across the UK and Europe and appeared in many films including Roman
Polanski's The Pianist and on BBC Radio and Television, most recently
with the BBC concert Orchestra. They have made a number of CDs, which
are available from Jewish
Music Distribution
T: 0800 7811 686, Email: orders [at] jewishmusic-jmd.co.uk
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