Archive for March, 2011
Yorkshire based international musician, Claudio Kron, is enlisting the help of local school children to bring a percussion extravaganza and Red Nose Fun to Dewsbury town centre.
On Friday 18th March, Red Nose Day, Claudio and his team will be in Dewsbury Market Place and will provide instruments for those children attending. The plan is to hold a warm up session and then stage a fun, lively and loud performance for all to see whilst collecting money for this amazing charity.
“We know through running our school drumming workshops at Drumming 4 Education that children love this kind of activity” said Claudio, “Red Nose Day is great fun and we wanted to contribute in some way, its ambitious but we would like to get over 100 school children down to the town centre on the day” he went on to say.
There has been great interest from local schools but there is still time for others to take part. If you are interested please contact the Drumming 4 Education team on info@drumming4business.com.
Drumming 4 Education also supports leading charities Samaritans, Macmillan Cancer care, Hollybank trust and are also helping to arrange a fundraising concert for victims of the Brazilian floods in the near future plus they also support other international charities.
For further details please contact Pam on 01924 437096 or pam@drumming4business.com
Pascoal (b 1936) Brazilian musician and multi instrumentalist. As well as being a record producer, he is one of Brazil’s most loved composers.
From being a small boy, he was fascinated by the sounds of nature and played to the birds from with a fife he made from a pumpkin mammon pipe. He also used to make music with the scraps of metal he found in his Grandfather’s blacksmith workshop, but tying them up with bits of rope to produce musical sounds. By the age of 7 he picked up his father’s 8-bass accordion, and never stopped. He also played tambourine with his brother at parties and wedding receptions. He went onto play piano and the next the flute and by 1961 when he moved to São Paulo he is playing at many nightclubs with various bands, alternating the different instruments he has learned over the years. In 1966, with his group, Quarteto Novo, they used to ride in Television to take part in the television festivals, representing the best of Brazilian music of that time. They won one of the Brazilian Music Festivals with the song “Ponteio” and Pascoal goes on to win many other prizes as a talented music arranger with folk music of Brazil being an important influence in his work. Please check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WBGsBNL54
Brazilian born drummer, singer, songwriter
Vinicius Cantuaria (b 1951) known in the genre of Brazilian Jazz and Bossa Nova which is a blend of Samba and modern Jazz that emerged from Rio in the late 1950’s. Having spent most of his career as a drummer in his rock band, O Terco in the 1970’s he still continues to play percussion, they was a point in 2000 at Arto Linday’s Jazz Café where he used his guitar to perform acoustic and maintained direct eye contact with the drummer until the song would eventually resort itself to a natural end.
He moved to New York in the mid 90’ and with six sold album releases under his belt, he is now more well know on the down town New York Jazz scene.