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Latin Music Workshop Thursday 19th October at HEART Added: September 23rd, 2023
Sue Miller and vocal coach and creative facilitator Em Whitfield Brooks lead a Latin music workshop at HEART in Headingley on Thursaday 19th October 2-4pm £10. Tickets from Eventbrite.
Workshop is designed for singers to learn to sing coro with a clave feel in a band context and for instrumentalists to improvise in the Latin style (clave feel and stylistic vocabulary. The workshop is also open to instrumentalists (bass, piano, brass, woodwind, guitar, strings and percussion)
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Charanga del Norte Tour Dates 2023 Added: August 2nd, 2023
Next dates: South: Club 85 Letchworth Sunday 1 October North: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds Saturday 7 October
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Charanga del Norte perform at London’s CLF on Saturday 15 July Added: June 19th, 2023
Charanga del Norte perform at London’s CLF (Chronic Love Foundation) on Saturday afternoon 15th July.
IT’S CHARANGA TIME (LIVE) UP ON THE ROOF! Sat Jul 15 (1pm-6pm / £10 Entry) – LATIN JAZZ BRUNCH LIVE host DJ JOHN ARMSTRONG welcomes the one and only charanga and pachanga band in the land, live up on the roof. Get ready for the brilliant 12 piece live band CHARANGA DEL NORTE who are here to guarantee an exquisite good time live audio session up on the roof, all afternoon long at The CLF Art Lounge & Roof Garden.
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Charanga del Norte perform at Roundhay Park Festival Saturday 17th June 2pm Added: June 12th, 2023
Charanga del Norte perform at Roundhay Park Festival Saturday 17th June 2pm – FREE World Music and World Food Festival
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Charanga del Norte Tour Dates Added: May 11th, 2023
Charanga del Norte Gigs and Workshops 2023 UK wide.
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Inaugural Professorial Lecture by Professor Sue Miller Added: March 21st, 2023
Hiding in plain sight, Latin influence is everywhere in jazz and popular music forms today and often goes unacknowledged. In her Inaugural lecture Professor Sue Miller demonstrates how these Latin styles evolved historically and shows, through musical examples, how many aspects of these performance practices are embedded in a variety of vernacular dance music forms past and present.
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Charanga del Norte live performance Wednesday 29 March Leeds Added: March 21st, 2023
Charanga del Norte live performance at Leeds School of Arts Theatre Wednesday 29 March 6.30pm until 9pm
Tickets
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charanga-del-norte-performance-tickets-541115851077
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New Charanga del Norte Animation ‘Atilana’ Added: September 2nd, 2022
Animation by Ged Haney of Charanga del Norte’s track ‘Los Problemas de Atilana’ based on research by Prof. Sue Miller, Dr Sarah Bowen and Cuban dancer Guillermo Davis on the televised version of ‘Los Problemas de Atilana’ by Orquesta Aragón in 1965. The flute solo by Sue Miller is a development of the solo by flute player Richard Egües which was danced by Rafael Bacallao. The animated Rafael here reflects the dance moves and musical gestures of Egües and Bacallao with a few new references and dance moves included for good measure!
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Journal Article on Richard Egues and Rafael Bacallao in Ethnomusicology Forum Journal Added: June 10th, 2022
An article co-authored by Professor Sue Miller, Guillermo Davis and Dr Sarah Bowen is published in a special issue of the journal Ethnomusicology Forum (June 2022). In it the flute solo of Richard Egües together with the dancing of Rafael Bacallao in Orquesta Aragon are analysed and the article is open access available here online […]
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Free Workshop on Latin Music in York Monday 30 May Added: May 28th, 2022
Members of Charanga del Norte Sue Miller (bandleader and flute), Nick Willimas (violin) and Matty Shallcross (percussion) are giving a free Latin music Workshop for Streetlife on Coney Street York Monday 30 May at 2pm. The workshop is free and you only need to register online here https://streetlifeyork.uk/events/latin-music-workshop-day-instrumentalists-vocalists-percussionists