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Internationally acclaimed BackBeat Percussion Quartet, with local percussionist and composer Damien Harron from Victoria Bridge, will perform a family concert on Thursday 21 June at Strule Arts Centre.
Thursday 21 June 2007
Thursday 21 June 2007
6.30pm
9.00pm
Strule Arts Centre
£3 children- £5 Adult- £10 Family
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BackBeat percussion quartet will perform a series of highly entertaining theatrical and visual concerts featuring a variety of percussion instruments from all parts of the globe. They will also be providing a series of workshops for local schools.
Backbeat was founded 12 years ago and since then has played to audiences all over the world and have appeared regularly on both local and national television.
The group blends many styles of percussion music with influences from a great many global styles alongside their own compositions. Their performances have been inspired by their many trips abroad to places such as Japan, Zimbabwe and the Caribbean. The group will make their fifth concert tour of Japan this autumn where they have already appeared in live television performances.
The group has also performed regularly in Southern Ireland, particularly at the renowned Annual Kilkenny Arts Festival but it has always been Damien’s dream to perform in and around his home town and the recent opening of the Strule Arts Centre has now provided that opportunity.
Coming from Victoria Bridge, Damien’s interest in music began in the local primary school and continued through his years at St Colman’s High School where he played, for many years, both in the school Brass Band, the Western Education and Library Board’s Youth Orchestra and Strabane Concert Brass.
During his university years, Damien played in and toured with many of the UK’s leading brass bands including Black Dyke Brass Band and also Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band when they won the National Brass Bands Championship before they disbanded, a story which was later to become the subject of the very successful movie, ‘BRASSED OFF ‘.
Strule Art Centre’s performance commences on Thursday at 6.30pm and tickets priced at £3 children, £5 adult, £10 family (2 adults, 2 children) are available at the Tourist Information Centre, 1 Market Street, Omagh. Telephone 028 8224 7831 for further details.
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