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Fanfara

Fanfara Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Other

    Location Brighton, UK

    Profile Views: 29769

    Last Login: 11/19/2010

    Member Since 10/4/2006

    Website www.fanfara.co.uk

    Record Label sticky - but available if you get in touch

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..We are a group of nine brass players and two percussionists, playing E flat clarinet, A flat clarinet, alto saxophone, two trumpets, soprano saxophone, three baritones, two helicons, zabumba, snare drum, gob-irons and extra percussive bits..... In 2010 we were invited by the British Council in Serbia to perform at the 50th trumpet festival of ..Guca... An amazing experience - see blog for more info... .. We have recently recorded on Polina Skovorada's new album ..Civilisation... CD available from ....www.polinashepherd.co.uk ...... ..Merlin Shepherd.. specialises in Eastern European Jewish instrumental folk music. He has recently returned from the Ukraine, where he recorded Merlin Shepherd’s Kapelye ’..Intimate, Hopes and Terrors..’ with the Former Soviet Union Klezmer Allstars. See friends below. .. Other members of the band have twice visited ..Zece Prajini, Romania.., to learn from members of ..Fanfara Ciocarlia... The whole group has had lessons from King ..Naat Veliov.. and the Original Kocani Orkestar. Other members have visited the ..Amala Summer School.. in Valjevo and ..Belgrade, Nis and Vladicin Han.. to study with Serbian Roma brass players. We arranged a workshop with musicians from the ..Boban Markovic Orkestar.. during their recent tour of the UK. .. Fanfara plays festivals, arts centres, weddings, funerals, parades, parties, clubs and pubs, pretty much anywhere with a bar and a crowd – you might even catch us busking in the North Laine area of Brighton on a sunny day. .. We encourage you throw money while we’re busking – but it is important to wrap the coins in paper money, so that the instruments don’t get scratched. .. ..Get in touch on ....info@fanfara.co.uk.... or +44(0)1273 688 555 to say hello, book us, buy our CD or catch us playing.

  • Members

    ..... we have members from all the planets, but more specifically... .... E flat clarinet, A flat clarinet, alto saxophone & gob-iron – Merlin Shepherd.. Trumpet – Jon Atwood.. Trumpet – Tom Livingstone.. Soprano Saxophone – Jackie Grant.. Baritone – Ann Springford.. Baritone – Mark Hindmarsh.. Baritone – Will Rumfitt.. Helicon – Bruce Stevens.. Helicon – Sean C Davies.. Zabumba, assorted percussion & gob-iron – Pat Power.. Snare Drum – Sam Eden-Green .. We love it when we work with musicians Robin Tyndale-Biscoe (see friends), Aideen Gallagher, Will Fry (see friends) and Simon C Russell (see friends). .. We have great fun collaborating with Barulho (see friends) and Vocal Explosion

  • Influences

    Fanfare Ciocarlia (Romania), Boban Markovic Orchestar (Serbia), Naat Veliov and the Original Kocani Orkestar (Macedonia) and all the other great Eastern European Roma brass bands. .... DO NOT MISS THIS:.. for the first time ever.. ..CIOCARLIA VS MARKOVIC.... Brighton 21 May 2011.. London 22 May 2011.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ....

  • Sounds Like

    We all met in www.adaptatrap.co.uk.. ..LOOKS LIKE:.... Live on B92, Serbia, the morning after playing at Guca!.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Our new song with Polina Shepherd bringing the house down!!!!.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Busking in Brighton Pavilion Gardens... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. More with Polina - this time at the Duke of Yorks in Brighton: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Mark films Fanfara from a new dimension, in Folkestone: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Fanfara playing the Streets of Brighton festival: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. More in the Streets of Brighton: .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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