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HIRAM RING & NII TAGOE “LIVE”
| Date: |
24 to 27 January 2011, Monday to Thursday |
| Time: |
From 7pm onwards |
| Venue: |
Timbre @ The Arts House (24/01),
Timbre @ The Substation (25 & 26/01),
Timbre @ Old School (27/01) |
| Admission: |
Free (min. 1 drink purchase) |
| Tickets from: |
N.A. |
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This series of gigs is a collaboration between Nii Tagoe’s traditional African percussion beats to Hiram Ring’s acoustic folk sounds.
Hiram Ring is born and raised in Ghana, West Africa, where he learned music by ear - singing around the table with his family and at church with African choirs and drums. His music is grounded in the rhythms of Ghanaian culture and based around the acoustic guitar. "He is a great songwriter/wordsmith," says Robert Boynton of The Phantom Tollbooth, "[his album 'Breathe Deep'] is poetic, musical, and honest." Played on radio in the USA (WJTL/Lancaster, WXPN/Philadelphia), and impressing crowds from Norway and Spain to Richmond and Philadelphia.
Nii Tagoe is also born in Ghana, Accra, into a royal family made up of master drummers and dancers, from whom he inherited his talent for drumming, dancing and singing. He went to Britain in 1990 as a principal dancer, drummer and teacher in the Adzido Dance Company and has since choreographed many dances, including Peter Gabriel's floor show at the London Millennium Dome. After leaving Adzido, Nii went on to self-fund the start of his own drumming and dance company Frititi in 1993, which was created to explore, develop and pass on to future generations artistic expressions through music, dance and rituals.
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