Come to the biggest musical party of Auckland Festival 2009. An afternoon of free music and a market village in Queen Street culminates in the first New Zealand performance of Sing Sing – a celebration in dance, colour and song.
Programme of Events
10am – 10pm Market village with crafts and international cuisine
10.30am Dota und die Stadtpiraten - Singer/songwriter Dota (The Busker Princess) and the City Pirates bring their fresh bossanova and pocket-swing sound from their hometown Berlin to Aotearoa.
4pm Opening: Ngati Whatua O Orakei – Te Puru O Tamaki (20 min)
4.40pm Batucada Sound Machine (50 min) - Batucada is percussive samba jam. Auckland-based Batucada Sound Machine (BSM) fuses batucada with rich Pacific soul, reggae and funk flavours and influences – and incorporates more than a smidgen of Brazilian, Cuban and Afro-beat rhythms with a hip-hop front.
6pm Celenod (50min) - Celenod, from Mare Island (Nengone), is one of the most renowned kaneka bands, performing music based on the traditional dance rhythms of the Kanak people. Their diverse mix of dance music includes bamboo, leaves and wood percussion, acoustic guitar, polyphonic vocals derived from religious choirs, along with electronic instrumentation.
7.30pm Sing Sing (90 min)
Parking will be limited. We advise that you use public transport - visit www.maxx.co.nz for timetables. There will be disabled parking on Lorne Street outside the Library.
Route diversions will take place to accomodate Sing Sing. Full information on timetable changes for Saturday 7 March is available on the Auckland Festival, Queen Street Sing Sing page on the maxx website.
Sing Sing honours the songlines of Oceania. It celebrates the links between diverse yet connected nations as "one saltwater people" and brings together the region's most significant singers, musicians and dancers. Sing Sing is a concert that interweaves a dynamic mix of traditional and contemporary musical forms from downbeat acoustic soul to tear-jerking ballads.
International Sing Sing performers are joined for this event by Maori and Pacific Island artists for a journey through the landscape and texture of urban and village life. Accompanying projections and aural soundscapes add to the spectacle and capture a sense of place. The concert is an exhilarating wall of sound with pulsating slit log drumming, dynamic walls of choral vocals and sublime world fusion grooves.
MUSIC DIRECTOR
David Bridie
FEATURING
George Telek, Airi Ingram, Te Aratoi, Djakapurra Munyarryun, Hein Arumisore, Georgia Corowa
“Sing Sing is a unique state of the art concert performance, presenting traditional, contemporary, choral and stringband music with accompanying visuals and aural soundscapes to capture a sense of place, to take the audience on a journey through the landscape and texture of both urban and grass roots village life.”
— David Bridie
website: www.wantokmusik.org
Sing Sing Workshop
This
open workshop focuses on the music of Melanesia. Hosted by Sing Sing
music director David Bridie and artists Airi Ingram, Jeanette Fabila,
George Telek and Albert David, the workshop runs through some of the
rhythms, melodies, instruments and songs from Papua New Guinea and the
Torres Strait Islands, and explores instruments such as kundu, mambu
and garamut and dances from that region.
When Thu 5 March, 2pm – 4pm
Where Mau Theatre, Corban Estate,246 Great North Road, Henderson
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Bookings essential. Email: workshops@aucklandfestival.co.nz