Percussion
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Nina Virdee Urban Love and Tab
Sunday 5 April 2009
Sunday 5 April 2009
Electronic | India | Music | Percussion | Sitar | Tabla | World | Music | Folk & World | Darbar Festival
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Nina Virdee presents new high-energy music that crosses boundaries in the mould of Nitin Sawhney and Tablature! brings together east and west percussion.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Taal Shringar
Thursday 30 April 2009
Thursday 30 April 2009
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Celebrating the ninth anniversary of the AllaRakha Foundation, renowned Indian artists come together to pay homage to the tabla legend Ustad AllaRakha.
The Front Room at QEH
Asaf Sirkis Trio
Friday 8 May 2009
Friday 8 May 2009
Free | Music | Percussion | World | Music | Folk & World | Friday Tonic
13124
One of the UK jazz scene's most creative drummers and in-demand collaborators, Israeli-born Asaf Sirkis' new trio generates a compelling intensity and beautiful interplay.
Royal Festival Hall
Kodo
Saturday 6 June 2009
Sunday 7 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Dance & Performance | Drums | Japan | Music | Percussion | World | Music | Folk & World
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Kodo returns to London, direct from Sado Island, with a performance never seen outside Japan.
The Front Room at QEH
Tony Allen
Friday 12 June 2009
Friday 12 June 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | Jazz | Members | Music | Percussion | World | Music | Folk & World | Meltdown
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Tony Allen, long acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer, is one of the continent’s most influential musicians, and one of the creators of afrobeat.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
African Jazz Allstars + 4Seasons Band
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Africa | Jazz | Jazz & Blues | Music | Percussion | World | Music | Folk & World
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Africa's finest jazz orchestra returns with their blistering big band funk, imaginative jazz solos and irresistible African rhythms.
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Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday 24 October 2009
Saturday 24 October 2009
Advanced Booking | Music | Orchestral | Percussion | Resident Artists | Music | Bruckner, Anton | Rautavaara, Einojuhani | LPO 09/10
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Advanced Booking
The world premiere of Rautavaara's Incantations Percussion Concerto with soloist Colin Currie, followed by the magical solemnity of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony
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Purcell Room
Lukas Ligeti
Monday 16 November 2009
Monday 16 November 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | EFG London Jazz Festival | Electronic | Jazz | Music | Percussion | Serious | Jazz & Blues | Music
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Viennese percussionist Ligeti has absorbed the rhythmic language of the Ivory Coast, Egypt and Zimbabwe, as well as collaborating with left-field US jazz men Elliott Sharp, Roy Nathanson and George Lewis.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Reich Drumming
Tuesday 16 February 2010
Tuesday 16 February 2010
Advanced Booking | Modern Classical | Music | Percussion | Chamber | Music | Reich, Steve | ICMS 09/10
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Advanced Booking
Universally hailed as one of the great composers of our time, Steve Reich has transformed the world of contemporary music with his innovative approach to harmony, rhythm and form
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Foyer Bar - level 2
Dave Danford & The Fusion Percussion Ensemble
Friday 25 June 2010
Friday 25 June 2010
Brazil | Free | Music | Percussion | World | Music | Folk & World | Festival Brazil | Friday Lunch
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Free
Hailing from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Ney Rosauro is widely regarded as the most popular living composer of music for solo percussion and for percussion ensemble.
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The Clore Ballroom
The AfroReggae Explosion: Day Three
Sunday 25 July 2010
Sunday 25 July 2010
AfroReggae | Children & Family | Circus | Family | Free | Percussion | Workshops | Music | Folk & World | Festival Brazil | Festival Brazil Free Events
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Free
Grupo Cultural AfroReggae was set up to transform the reality of young people in Rio de Janeiro's favelas using education, art and culture as instruments of social inclusion.
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Purcell Room
Sounds of Asia: Folk Music from Rajasthan & Taiko Drumming
Thursday 29 July 2010
Thursday 29 July 2010
Drums | India | Percussion | South Asian | World | Music | Folk & World | Sounds of Asia
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Showcasing Asian Music Circuit's Sounds of Asia Summer School teacher Liz Walters and her Tamashii Daiko, plus a folk group from Rajasthan, this high-energy concert emphasises traditional music festival music and drums.
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The Clore Ballroom
Samba Celebration with Paraiso School of Samba
Saturday 21 August 2010
Saturday 21 August 2010
Brazil | Children & Family | Dance & Performance | Family | Folk & World | Free | Join In | Percussion | Workshops | Contemporary Dance | Festival Brazil | Festival Brazil Free Events
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Free
Spend the day with the Paraiso School of Samba as they take you through the rhythms, percussions and dance styles of the Rio Carnival.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Steve Reich Drumming
Friday 8 April 2011
Saturday 9 April 2011
Electronic | Percussion | Chamber | Music | Ether
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Universally hailed as one of the great composers of our time and heralded by bands such as Radiohead and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Steve Reich has transformed the world of contemporary music with his innovative approach to harmony, rhythm and form.
Southbank Centre Square
Sticks and Tones
Monday 23 May 2011
Monday 23 May 2011
20742
Free
James Bower and Ross Garrod combine to make the percussion duo Sticks and Tones.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Master Drummers of Africa
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Africa | Drums | Percussion | Music | Folk & World
19187
Master Drummers of Africa in full flow is one of the most thrilling and unforgettable spectacles in world music today.
The Clore Ballroom
Carnival Party with Paraiso School of Samba
Saturday 27 August 2011
Saturday 27 August 2011
Brazil | Free | Percussion | Music | Performance
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Free
Join Paraiso School of Samba for a pre-Notting Hill samba party! Hosted by Rio-born Ramon, start the night with a lively hour of Axé dance and music, where you are encouraged to join in with the easy choreography.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
John Cage Night
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Tuesday 13 September 2011
Percussion | Piano | Strings | Chamber | Music | Cage, John | ICMS 11/12
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Pioneering ensemble Apartment House presents an evening of music by one of the true iconoclasts of 20th-century music, John Cage, coinciding with the Hayward Gallery's touring Cage exhibition Every Day is a Good Day.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Trilok Gurtu and Tigran Hamasyan
Saturday 24 September 2011
Saturday 24 September 2011
Jazz & Blues | Percussion | World | Jazz & Blues | Music | Folk & World
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With his burning sense of rhythm, percussion wizard Trilok Gurtu connects with trailblazing Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan.
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Royal Festival Hall
Zakir Hussain
Friday 11 November 2011
Friday 11 November 2011
EFG London Jazz Festival | Jazz | Percussion | Tabla | Jazz & Blues | Music
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Prepare for a night of mesmerising percussion mastery, led by the world's greatest living tabla player Zakir Hussain.
