The theme for this week is world music. To start, meet father and son jazz guitarists Ulf & Eric Wakenius. Father Ulf needs no introduction. A former member of the Oscar Peterson, he was also a member of the Ray Brown trio in addition to playing with his own band. As part of the Jazz World Live Series, this father & son duo will perform one show only on 29 April at Youth Square, tickets from URBTIX.
More jazz awaits us with Eric Legnini Trio feat. Hugh Coltman. A French May presentation, this is more than a concert. This is a journey with the sorcerer’s apprentice on the keyboard – Eric Legnini, the famous French-based Belgium artist. With his two old sidekicks, Thomas Bramerie on double bass and Franck Agulhon on drums, he revisits his last album, “The Vox”. Joined by the most Parisian of all British blues singers, Hugh Coltman, 2013 sees the release of a new album: ‘‘Sing Twice’’. Afrobeat, jazz, soul, folk, pop – in every song these different worlds coexist in a perfect and harmonious alchemy. 4 May at City Hall, tickets from URBTIX.
And last but not least, we have an ensemble from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia. Meet the Horqin Ensemble, a group made up of ethnic Mongolians who were born and raised in nomad families on the grassland of Inner Mongolia. They learned to play folk music instruments such as the morin kuur (horsehead fiddle) from their parents or folk artists when they were young, and later enrolled in professional music institutes to receive formal and systematic training to improve their techniques. Each member is able to play the bowed-string and plucked-string instruments as well as tackle the unique ‘throat singing’ of khoomi. 29 April at Kwai Tsing Theatre, 30 April at Sheung Wan Civic Centre, tickets from URBTIX.
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