Cheltenham Festival for Kenny

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This year's renowned Cheltenham Festival will feature the unique talents of John Kenny in a late night concert of trombone and carnyx. Other brass performers at the festival include:

  • Markus Stockhausen, contemporary trumpet
  • Black Dyke Band
  • Neil Roberts, Arutiunian trumpet concerto

John Kenny carnyx and tromboneJohn Kenny Ancient Voices: plainchants from C7th-C12th century Scotland, Ran Na Madadh-Allaidh, The Voice of the Carynx / 47???Etienne Rolin - Quick Sands / 6???

A splendid late-night setting for the intriguing and ethereal sounds of the carnyx ??? a six foot Celtic war trumpet. In this hour-long concert John Kenny brings together contemporary compositions, multi-tracking layered sounds and material that includes plainchants from the Holy Island of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth, Aboriginal and Polynesian melodies. An atmospheric event full of spiritual and spacious sounds.

1st July 2006, 10pm St. Matthew's Church, Clarence Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3PL ??10, concessions available Further info here

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