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Join Doncaster’s newest choir: Doncaster Voices and a massed children’s choir from Doncaster Schools, as they sing Alexander L’Estrange’s Zimbe! alongside an incredible jazz quintet in the fabulous backdrop of Doncaster Minster.
Zimbe! is a sequence of choral arrangements of traditional songs from all over Africa in a jazz style. This is a work which forges links between adult choirs and massed children’s choirs, placing singing at the heart of the community as it always has been in Africa. And, since jazz grew out of blues which itself sprang from the mouths of African people, what better accompaniment for these songs than a jazz quintet? Zimbe! is at times touching and moving, at other times funky and grooving and all of the time incredibly uplifting both for performers and audiences alike.
“A profoundly moving work… The combination of swing, gospel and a cappella has an immediate impact.”
Conductor: Matt Beckingham
Saxophone: Alex Clarke – “One of the UK’s finest young jazz talents” – The Jazz Rag. “As a finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2020, winner of the Rising Star category in the 2019 British Jazz Awards and nominee in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2021 & 2022, Alex is known to be one of the most in-demand and versatile young saxophonists to have emerged on the British jazz scene.”
Piano: Richard Wetherall – “one of the finest piano players on the Northern scene and has played with some of the best Jazz musicians in the country.”
Bass: Richard Hammond – Richard Hammond is a prominent British double and electric bassist. He has performed with artists such as Gary Barlow, Josh Groban, Sister Sledge, Leo Sayer, Tony Hadley, Mica Paris, Omar, Alexander O’Neil, ’The Sessions Live’, JP Cooper, Imelda May, Jane McDonald and many more.
Kit: Dave Walsh – Dave has played with many national and international jazz artist including Stan Sulzmann, Conrad Herwig, Don Weller, Ben Castle, Alan Barnes, and many more
Percussion: Lea Mullin – “Lea has played/toured with George Michael, Vanessa Mae, Alan Leach, Paul Ryders ‘Big Arm’, ‘Rebel MC’, ‘Rachael McFarlane’ and many others”
Saturday 15 July, 6pm
Doncaster Minster, DN1 1RD
