Monster Music Improv 2016 Tour
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About this event
The Ark and Improvised Music Company
“plenty of humour, rhythmic participation by all and first-rate improvised music and art” - Ian Patterson – allaboutjazz.com
A music performance and visual adventure for ages 5+.
Join outstanding guitarist and technology whizz Shane Latimer, acclaimed vocalist and improviser Lauren Kinsella and inventive cartoonist Patrick Sanders for a music performance with a difference. The musicians will instantly create funky jazzy melodies on-the-spot, while Patrick draws cool cartoons of the music that are projected live! Expect lots of spontaneous music fun, some well-known tunes, fantastic cartoons and strange spooky sounds thrown in for good measure. A musical improvisation and visual adventure for all the family!
Monster Music Improv is an innovative musical experience, and is essential quality music programming for venues, festivals and other events catering to families and children. The show is also ideal for school programming (senior infants upwards), and touches on many aspects of the Primary Level music curriculum.
Lauren Kinsella is a contemporary vocalist, composer, bandleader. Winner of the 2013 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize, her work has been reviewed in several countries including the USA, Germany, the UK, France, Norway, Switzerland and Ireland and she regularly appears on many international radio stations.
Belfast-based performer and illustrator, Patrick Sanders specialises in using cartoons and live drawing in performance as well as to document conferences, discussions and events. Most of his performance work has been devised for young audiences and involves elements of interactivity and improvisation.
Shane Latimer is a guitarist, composer and teacher based in Dublin. He plays 6 and 8 string guitars using not only conventional techniques but also preparations/manipulations and other extended techniques. He also works with sampling, analogue and digital synthesis and electronic processing and is a keen
percussionist.
Funded by an Arts Council Touring Award
Location
Railway St, Navan, Co. Meath
Venue details
Solstice Arts Centre is Meath's only multi-disciplinary arts centre. Through its programme, Solstice aims to inspire, entertain, enthral, challenge and connect. Located in the County Capital, the Centre provides a hub for cultural and arts activity. As well as presenting theatre, opera, music, dance, comedy and visual art, Solstice facilitates workshops and lectures to cater for all interests. The Box Cafe - located on the ground-floor Foyer, provides a welcoming, vibrant space for informal socialising and dining. Solstice Arts Centre is a non-profit organisation, supporting the arts.
