Skins & Songs
Posted: August 1st, 2011 | Author: laneshe | Filed under: Events, World Music | No Comments »
Skins & Songs : Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra meets Phillip Hamilton’s Voices to deliver an evening of original works.
Thurs-Sat, May 10-12 | 8pm
$25 in advance, $30 day off show
20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. Program members/Crush Card Holders CLICK HERE to SIGN IN and get the appropriate price. You will be directed back to this page for purchase.
The 14 drummers of Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra and the 8 vocalists of Phillip Hamilton’s “Voices” have worked together to create a new collaborative work that pushes artistic boundaries while challenging cultural ones. An innovative and powerful model for creating new work, this process has been one of exploration, discovery and creation. Voice and drums are at the base of all cultural traditions as the most primal and expressive musical instruments. They are quite unique when joined, especially with these ensembles. Spoken Hand represents four different cultural traditions; each represented by a batterie, not a single instrument. Voices, has a similar uniqueness, in the range of elements they cover.
Spoken Hand: Since its inception fifteen years ago, this uniquely robust orchestra of percussionists has traveled the road on a journey to explore the new compositional possibilities in world music by fusing four percussion batteries into one distinct voice: North Indian tabla, Afro Cuban bata, Brazilian samba and West African djembe. Known for its high-energy live performances, audiences are literally swept up and away from their seats to travel to four corners of the globe. The sheer sonic force has shaken the foundation of countless houses and concert halls, leaving audiences in awe each time.
Voices: “Voices” is an original, a cappella performance group conceived by composer/vocalist Philip Hamilton. Hamilton created this group to take audiences on a vocal journey merging cultures, time periods and vocal styles.
Check out Phillip Hamilton’s “Voices” in action:
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Skins & Songs has also been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.
