Just returned from a tour of Flanders with SANS: we were very well looked after, and the venues were part of a well co-ordinated network of cultural centres, all within an hour's drive of each other. So there was…

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SANS had its first trip to Australia this Easter, to play at The National Folk Festival and take part in the Australian Folklore Conference. The band reconvened in England for some July concerts in Liverpool, Cheltenham, and Colchester. More UK…

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Some great SANS gigs in Europe this year: here's a longish bit (at least two cups of teasworth) from our concert at Croatia's EthnoAmbient Festival:

Glyn Phillips has posted a detailed review of our Home Festival gig at Dartington…

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SANS, the new combo with Tigran Aleksanyan, Andrew Cronshaw and Sanna Kurki-Suonio, will be starting this year's European tour on June 23rd with the Home Festival at Dartington Hall in Devon, followed by gigs in Croatia and Norway and…

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Here's the video of that SANS show at St Ethelburga's. I'm relaxing there at the end of the stage, just listening to Sanna finishing the concert with a beautiful Finnish lullaby. Because sometimes it's best to just listen. …Read more

Here's a new venture: SANS is a quartet which came together in Finland at this year's Kaustinen Festival. We liked the results! So we'll be doing some more shows, starting in London on October 23rd. The band includes Tigran Aleksanyan…

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I've just visited Music for Everyone where rehearsals are now under way for a new performance of my music theatre piece for young players: The Gathering of the Animals, directed by Dianna Nixon. Written in 1998, it'll be great…

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More tarogato activity: Nicole Canham has been recording an EP featuring the instrument, and I've just heard that I've now got funding from artsACT to write a piece for tarogato, strings and soundscape.

My music was featured in a recent…

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If you're in Paris next week you can hear twmp: a piece I wrote for Nicole Canham and her tarogato Goldilocks, plus soprano sax, which will be played by Claude Delangle. This is the European premiere: twmp had its…

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Here's The Pocket Score Company — Canberra's most compact fullrange male voice ensemble — rehearsing for a pair of concerts which we're sharing with the women of Polifemy. So we're going to be singing in stereo for some…Read more

One of the nice things about having visitors from overseas is the chance to indulge in some local tourism: the sort of things you always mean to get round to but need that extra prod to actually do. So…

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I've had my recording and producing hat on recently: several projects are emerging from the Blue Bear Studio complex. Humbug will be at the Turning Wave Festival in Gundagai NSW on September 18th to launch their new Robbie Burns…

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