International folk music quartet SANS will be on tour this summer. SANS is the four musicians who played on The Unbroken Surface of Snow. That was an Andrew Cronshaw album, but SANS did some shows together at Kaustinen Festival in July 2011 and all four musicians contribute equally.
The group includes Andrew Cronshaw (UK) on zither, marovantele, fujara, ba-wu and other instruments; Sanna Kurki-Suonio (Finland) on vocals; Tigran Aleksanyan (Armenia) on duduk; and Ian Blake (UK/Australia) on bass clarinet, soprano sax. etc. Confirmed shows for 2012, all of them in rather beautiful places, are:
June 23rd
Home Festival
Dartington Hall, nr. Totnes, Devon, UK
July 20th
EthnoAmbient Festival
Solin, nr. Split, Croatia
August 4th
Special ‘secret’ show, Northamptonshire, UK
August 5th
Goldmark Art, Uppingham, Rutland, UK
September 26th
Riksscenen
Oslo, Norway
September 27th
Hellviktangen Kulturhus
Nesodden, Norway
Here’s some video from SANS’s October 2011 London showcase:
Author: World Music Central News Room
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