17 May 2012
Voice in a Million-CANCELLED
7:30 PM
500 members of The Voice in a Million Choir, in an evening of awe inspiring entertainment..
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25 May 2012
BBC NOW-Debussy & Shostakovich
7:30 PM
DUE TO THE ARRIVAL OF THE OLYMPIC TORCH OUTSIDE THE HALL PLEASE ALLOW EXTRA TIME WHEN TRAVELLING TO THIS CONCERT. The vibrant orchestral colours of Debussy’s Images conjure the heat, dancing crowds, and intoxicating fragrance of Spain, including the atmospheric sun-drenched Iberia. Shostakovich’s troubled and searingly urgent First Violin Concerto is one of his greatest works..
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Ramin-In Concert
7:30 PM
Ramin received global acclaim starring in The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary concert; performed at the Royal Albert Hall and broadcast around the world; and is one of Sony’s most exciting new signings, with a much anticipated new album released in March 2012..
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Roots Unearthed-Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas
8:00 PM
The musical partnership between Alasdair Fraser, long regarded as Scotland’s premier fiddle ambassador, and the sizzlingly talented young California cellist Natalie Haas may not seem an obvious one. Fraser, acclaimed by the San Francisco Examiner as “the Michael Jordan of Scottish fiddling,” has a concert and recording career spanning 30 years..
More InfoBook NowLunchtime Concert-Mavron Quartet
1:00 PM
To mark the Mavron Quartet’s Tenth anniversary, the Hall’s Ensemble in Residence have commissioned a work from Welsh composer Rhian Samuel with a Women Make Music award from the PRS for Music Foundation. The work will premier at this Lunchtime concert, a real treat for all..
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Gentlemen of the Road presents Mumford & Sons SOLD OUT
7:30 PM
Sold Out Winners of Brit Award for Best Album in 2010 come to Cardiff as part of limited UK tour with a vibe falling somewhere between 'travelling Victorian circus' and 'Victorian travelling circus'.
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Brian Finnegan and Aidan O'Rourke, front men with two of the most revered bands ever to have thrilled the folk scene, BBC Award winning Flook and Lau, join forces with Ian Stephenson on guitar and Jim Goodwin on drums to create an enthralling and beautiful new sound.
Brian and Aidan are an irresistible partnership, both men with a style that is fiercely unique; Brian's grounded in the Irish tradition, Aidan's in both the Irish and Scottish, both highly accomplished improvisers and celebrated composers with a brace of solo CDs each, and neither afraid to take risks and explore new sonic frontiers.
Yorkshire guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Ian Stephenson, no stranger to BBC awards himself, with his band 422 and work with Kathryn Tickell and Chris Stout, is at the forefront of the new wave of rhythm accompanists, but it is his willingness to experiment and hone his own bass/funk style of play that makes this sonic whiz kid such an exciting player. His teaming up with rhythm master Jim Goodwin, drummer and percussionist with the Halle and Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, has forged a formidable rhythm department, full of drive and imagination.
Together, all four have a largely intuitive ability to journey into the heart and soul of a melody, to take it somewhere fresh and new... however old... and to take the listener with them.
As is often the way, the boys from KAN have been mates for years, meeting in the early days through their love for traditional music in its most natural of settings, the session - and then later, collaborating on various cross genre projects at home and abroad and guesting on one another's records, never far off the radar of one another. No surprise that gravity would eventually draw them together and they would make their move as a band.
"Terrifically tight... intensely lyrical... heavyweight rhythmic attack" -The Scotsman
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