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FolkLoops

Wednesday 3rd December 2008 at 7.00pm
Lincoln Drill Hall
Tickets: £5
Box Office: 01522 873894
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The ViVA Education project Journeys in full swing - photo credit John Thompson

Following the success of Journeys in 2007 sinfonia ViVA return to the Drill Hall for another collaborative creative music project FolkLoops. The project which is taking place throughout November and December involves approximately 90 young people from Monks Abbey Primary School, St Faith and St Martin C of E Junior School and the Priory Academy LSST working closely with a team of ViVA musicians led by workshop leader and composer James Redwood to create new music.

The young musicians are taking the orchestral repertoire featured in the final performance as their starting point for creating new music. They are exploring how Aaron Copland used the shaker tune Simple Gifts in Appalachian Spring and are taking a Lincolnshire folk song as a starting point for creating their own music. The two elements will be performed together in the second half of this concert, taking the audience from America to Lincolnshire and back throughout the pieces.

Before this, the first half features John Adams' Shaker Loops. At the start of the project the participants will listen to the piece and make a series of graphic scores to represent the music. During the creative music workshops they will devise new music in response to those graphic scores. The performance involves a dialogue between Shaker Loops in its original form and the new pieces created during the workshop sessions.

The whole event promises be a dramatic collaborative spectacular. Come and be thrilled by the energy, talent and sheer optimism of FolkLoops!

Supported by Rolls-Royce plc, Orchestras Live, Lincoln City Council, Lincolnshire County Council, Lincoln Drill Hall, Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank Foundation, sinfonia ViVA and Arts Council England