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CIFD presents St Patrick¹s Day at the Roundhouse – 2pm. And from 6pm: Camille O¹Sullivan, Damien O¹Kane, Hot Sprockets, London Lasses (late night ceili)

Press Contact:
Debbie Dickinson 07774 153896 d.j.dickinson@city.ac.uk
Grace Bryan grace_bryan91@hotmail.com

CIFD presents with John Patrick Griffin

St Patrick’s Day at the Roundhouse
A Celebration of Irish Music and Culture
Saturday 17 March 2012

Evening from 6pm
Camille O’Sullivan
plus
Damien O’Kane, Hot Sprockets, London Lasses (late night ceili)

St Patrick’s Day alldayer from 2pm

This celebration of Irish music and culture takes the traditional and gives it a contemporary twist. It’s headlined by Cork’s dynamic chanteuse, Camille O’Sullivan - “a cross between Patti Smith, Sally Bowles and PJ Harvey” (The Scotsman). Playing a full set with herband “this princess of darkness, mirth, merriment and soul baring” (EdinburghHerald) has built her award winning reputation with red hot torch song interpretationsof the work of Jacques Brel, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Kurt Weill.

Her gifts as a performer have created a veritable blizzard of awards ranging from an ‘Olivier Award’, 2009 and ‘Spirit of The Edinburgh Fringe’, 2007 to ‘Best Music Brighton Festival’, 2005 to ‘Irish Tatler’s Woman of the Year’, 2011. She has been nominated for the Time Out Cabaret Awards 2012.

Her reviews speak for themselves -

“She is at her best – which is ravishing – when the star is her singing voice: a deep, sultry instrument that might have been created to express desolate love”, Guardian.

“Intense… emotional… hypnotic… such an outpouring of passion you can’t resist being drawn into her web (5 stars)”, The Independent.

“When she sings it’s as though her breath is soaked in paraffin; one spark, and the whole room would ignite”, Daily Telegraph.

“Raunchy, dangerously fragile… a vocal talent and stage presence like no other singer today”, Edinburgh Evening News.

www.camilleosullivan.com

From Coleraine in Co. Derry, banjo player and singer Damien O’Kane is probably best known for his cracking contribution to Anglo-Irish folk super group Flook, but he is now making a considerable name for himself in his own right – “relaxed, assured and recorded with loving care O’Kane effortlessly adds his name to the proud history of outstanding Ulster singers”, fRoots.

The Hot Sprockets hail from the delta blues mecca that is, South Dublin. Their video ‘Cruzin’ was nominated for best video and best group at the recent Irish Music Television Awards, where they also headlined the show. The Hot Sprockets have previously supported the likes of The Zutons, Divine Comedy, The View, Peter Hook and Ida Maria.

“The best female group in Irish music” according to the Irish American News, the London Lasses and Pete Quinn will be ending the celebrations with a late night céilí open to all, with dance caller Jocelyn Armitage. Over the past decade they have brought their unique sound to some of the world’s most prestigious festivals and concert halls, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Philadelphia Irish Festival and the Royal Albert Hall, where the band performed the first ever BBC Proms céilí in 2008.

St. Patrick’s Day All dayer!

Immerse yourself in a day of Irish Culture and Music throughout the Roundhouse. With Jaquelyn Hynes & Friends, followed by Orlaith and the Lemons traditional Irish music sessions. Tad Sargent leads a Bodhran workshop (beginners – drum provided). The Long Notes Camden’s favourites, welcome in the evening with a distinctive folk, roots and Celtic sound..

Paint your own Blarney stone, listen in wonder to our Irish storyteller’s magical tales of legend, and hunt for gold at the end of the rainbow. Explore a selection of stalls whilst feasting on homemade Irish stew. Whet your cultural appetite with a day of visual and performance art.

The studio theatre features an array of stunning Irish folk musicians. Headliner Kal Lavelle, will charm you with her beautiful song-craft, having supported the likes of James Brown and Ed Sheeran. Oh Ruin merges Irish tones with the sounds of Bon Iver and Bill Callahan. Maria Byrne and the Broken String creates a unique blend of folk pop and country. Treat your ears to the captivating fiddle player Alastair Caplin plus Rhob Cunningham and Jenny Lindfors, two of Ireland’s most promising singer songwriters at our St. Patrick’s Day Hootenanny.

LISTINGS
St Patrick’s Day Alldayer
Date: Saturday 17 March 2012
Time: 14:00 – 18:00
Price: £2
Booking: www.roundhouse.org.uk / 0844 482 8008

St Patricks Day at the Roundhouse: Camille O’Sullivan, Damien O’Kane, Hot Sprockets, London Lasses with Pete Quinn
Date: Saturday 17 March 2012
Time: 18:00 till late
Price: £17.50
Booking: www.roundhouse.org.uk / 0844 482 8008

Press Contact:
Debbie Dickinson 07774 153896 d.j.dickinson@city.ac.uk
Grace Bryan grace_bryan91@hotmail.com

ABOUT CIFD presents
A chance meeting and a shared passion for Irish music has brought together the well respected Return to Camden Town festival, the new generation of event producers from City University’s first Creative Industries Undergraduate programme – CIFD presents – and the local Irish businessman John Patrick Griffin to produce this Irish music and culture St Patrick’s Day extravaganza in the iconic setting of the Roundhouse.

A Moment of Mishearing by Amit Chaudhuri – Touring February/March 2012

ART & ADVENTURE in collaboration with TARA present

A Moment of Mishearing
by Amit Chaudhuri

An all-new, 90 minute stage show marrying the musical and literary ideas of the acclaimed Indian writer and musician Amit Chaudhuri.
Touring throughout February/March 2012

‘We’re used to intellectual, arty Westerners like David Byrne, Paul Simon or Brian Eno doing fusion; here’s a Calcutta-born equivalent, and as good as any of them.’ Songlines

Amit Chaudhuri has written and published five novels, three works of non-fiction, a volume of poetry and he is the editor of the Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. His literary work has won major awards in Britain, the USA and India. He has released three albums of Hindustani classical music in India and two acclaimed albums on the Babel Label in the UK with The Amit Chaudhuri Band – ‘This is Not Fusion’ and ‘Found Music’ which he has toured in the UK, India, Germany, France, China, Denmark, Dubai and the USA

‘Upsettingly multi-talented.’ Martha Kearney, The Review Show BBC 2

‘A real 360 degree renaissance geezer.’ Bobby Friction BBC Asian Network

‘Captivating and deeply idiosyncratic… a quirky, one-of-a-kind, little piece of magic.’ allaboutjazz.com

A Moment of Mishearing is a fully staged production based on Amit Chaudhuri’s ‘A Moment of Mishearing’, a ‘Between The Ears’ for BBC Radio 3, broadcast in November 2010 and again at Christmas 2011.

‘Inspirational’ The Sunday Times
‘Beautifully written’ The Financial Times
‘Strange, enticing confluences’ The Independent

Press enquiries: gerry@glpr.co.uk / 020 7095 8146 / www.gerrylyseight.co.uk

Indian novelist, critic and Professor of Contemporary Literature at UEA, Amit Chaudhuri, is also a classically trained singer of Hindustani music.

"I could hear certain Indian ragas in what Hendrix was playing – like Dhani, Jog, Malkauns – not because I’d gone looking for them, but in a way that one becomes aware, one day, of another dimension to an outline: like, for instance, the duck-rabbit, Wittgenstein’s famous mutant."

He explores his own musical education and the common root in both eastern and western traditions, weaving in references to Tagore, Magritte and Frankie Goes to Hollywood – "an excellent song; but, to my ears, noise, and noise I still wouldn’t have any idea what to do with" – and tells how chance mishearings of popular western tunes led him into the world of MySpace and YouTube and a second career as a successful recording and performing artist.

A Moment of Mishearing UK Tour

Mon. 27 Feb. Tara Arts
Tara Arts, 356 Garratt Lane, London, SW18 4ES,
Box office: 020 8333 4457 / www.tara-arts.com

Wed. 29 Feb. Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road, LONDON E1 6LA
Box Office 020 7613 7498 – £12, £10 adv or student/concs
http://www.richmix.org.uk

Fri. 2 March. London School of Economics
Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/home.aspx

Sat. 3 March. Georgian Theatre Royal
Victoria Road, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 4DW
Box Office: 01748825252 -Tickets: £7 – £20
http://www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk/

Sun. 4 March. Rose Theatre
24-26 High Street, Kingston, KT1 1HL
Box Office: 08444 821 556/www.rosetheatrekingston.org

Wed. 7 March. Ashcroft Arts Centre
Osborn Road, Fareham, Hampshire PO16 7DX
Box office: 01329 223100/www3.hants.gov.uk/ashcroft

Sat. 10 March. Key Theatre
Embankment Road, Peterborough, PE1 1EF
Box office: 01733 207239/www.vivacity-peterborough.com/venues/key-theatre/

Fri. 16 March. Arena
Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 1SE
Box Office: 01902 321 321/www.arena.wlv.ac.uk/

Sat. 17 March. The Drum
144 Potters Lane, Aston, Birmingham, B6 4UU
Box Office: 0121 333 2444/www.the-drum.org.uk/

www.amom2012.co.uk

University of Gnawa ft. Aziz Sahmaoui live in session on BBC Radio 3�s �World On 3� – 13/1/12 at 23:00

University of Gnawa ft. Aziz Sahmaoui

NB. University of Gnawa ft. Aziz Sahmaoui live in session on BBC Radio 3’s ‘World On 3’ presented by Lopa Kothari on 13/1/12 at 23:00

Out Now
General Pattern

“There’s not only passion aplenty but a lifetime of curiosity and learning on this debut album. The erudite Sahmaoui has mixed together his own Gnawa culture, his passion for all things rootsy and West African, his love of jazz and a penchant for the gutsy pile-driving rhythms that were ONB’s (Orchestre National de Barbès) signature, into an intelligent coherent whole.” Songlines ****
Daily Telegraph ****
FT ****
“… a thrilling debut.” The Observer
Album of the Week The Independent
“Warmly recommended”. fRoots
“The album is an intoxicating affair, visceral and groove-centric yet also nuanced and multilayered.” Allaboutjazz.com
Echoes ****
Jazzwise****
Evening Standard ****
Mojo ****

The University of Gnawa is probably the best band you’ve never heard of, although that situation will change on 10th October when they release their debut album produced by Martin Meissonnier who has a CV boasting credits of the stature of Don Cherry, Khaled, Manu Dibango, King Sunny Ade, Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Seun Kuti.

The main man, multi-instrumentalist and lead vocalist Aziz Sahmaoui, featured on the first two albums from Orchestre National de Barbès as well as alongside the undeniably great Joe Zawinul in the Zawinul Syndicate for 6 years (Zawinul’s previous includes a stint with Miles Davis recording In A Silent Way and Bitches Brew; and as a founder member of Weather Report). Please check out University of Gnawa’s version of Weather Report’s “Black Market”.

Aziz grew up in Marrakesh at the centre of the cultural melting pot of different tribes of Morocco. There he absorbed the traditional music and emerging sounds from the new scene Morocco: Nass el Ghiwane, amaziria music, chaabi and especially the music of the healing Gnawa masters.

With several African musicians in the band, Sahmaoui is taking Gnawa music back to its roots in Guinea or Ghana although most of the musicians in the band are from Senegal most notably guitarist Hervé Samb, Alioune Wade – long-standing bass player for Ismaël Lo, and Cheikh Diallo – keyboards and kora.
University of Gnawa is a great CD as well as a stunning live experience.

For more information please contact:
Gerry Lyseight – gerry@glpr.co.uk / 020 7095 8146 / www.gerrylyseight.co.uk

IBRAHIM MAALOUF’s new CD “DIAGNOSTIC” will be reviewed on �World Routes� on Sunday 8/1/12, 22:00 on BBC Radio 3

IBRAHIM MAALOUF

DIAGNOSTIC

Released 23/1/12

NB. ‘Diagnostic’ will be reviewed on ‘World Routes’, presented by Lucy Duran, on Sunday 8/1/12 at 22:00 on BBC Radio 3.

Friday 3rd February
(with Omar Sosa)
Celtic Connections
9.30pm
Old Fruitmarket
Candleriggs,
Glasgow
G1 1NQ
Information: 0141 353 8000/www.glasgowconcerthalls.com

Sunday 5th February
Purcell Room
Southbank Centre
London, SE1 8XX
Information: 0844 847 9910/www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Lebanese/French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf is the go-to guy for everyone from Amadou & Mariam to Vanessa Paradis to Sting.

Diagnostic is Ibrahim Maalouf’s third album, and it forms the final chapter in a triptych which began with his albums Diasporas and Diachronism. Diagnostic is a magnificent conclusion to a cycle based on the search for an original aesthetic, one dominated by the four-valve trumpet and in which he traces his path through many universes: jazz, classical, world, rock, electro… and even rap, as shown here by the presence of Mali-born, French rapper Oxmo Puccino. This album completes an artist’s search for independence from genre constraints, in answer to a desire for unity and harmony. It also allows the musician to bring together all the sounds which have fed his imagination since childhood – whatever their origins: whether a nurturing orient or an emancipated west.

The closing Beirut pays a moving tribute to his country of origin, Lebanon, itself a torn extension of Maalouf’s family. An open, instinctive musician for whom technique necessarily serves feeling, Ibrahim Maalouf establishes himself here as a composer who, over time and through experience, has acquired mastery and assurance, both of which offer different kinds of freedom. "Nothing forbidden" was the golden rule which governed the recording of Diagnostic – meticulously orchestrated and feverishly ‘alive’. You can hear Ibrahim for the first time on piano, the instrument with which he began his musical career, and he also sings.

If the geographical epicentre of this record lies in the Balkans, whose exuberant, brass-band style the trumpeter borrows here, his travels also take him to Cuba, Latin America and even China… a nomad’s logic which also leads him to a piano introduction reminiscent of Chopin, an improvisation over a Michael Jackson theme in We’ll Always Care About You, or a stripped-down, ‘no complexes’ passion for heavy metal which Maalouf has preserved since adolescence. Inside this great whirlpool entwining his whole life in its vortex, Maalouf’s trumpet dispenses a thousand intimate emotions: anger, nostalgia, despair, euphoria… Blowing with rare intensity and exceptional depth, his horn articulates the pain and tenderness of the past, while bearing witness to the vast ambitions of a creator who has become a master of his discourse.

“Diasporas” reviews:
www.allaboutjazz.com “… ultimately uncategorizable but compelling music.”
Jazz Journal “… impressive debut set …”
Jazzwise “… in the lineage of the great Don Cherry though his debt to anybody from Oum Kalthoum to Massive Attack should also be recognised.“
Songlines ****
www.ukvibe.org.uk 4/5

for more information please contact Gerry Lyseight:
gerry@glpr.co.uk / 020 7095 8146 / www.gerrylyseight.com