Music Halls Presents Making Tracks

4 Greenleaf Road, London
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This event ended on Thursday 11th of November 2021
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£11
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4 Greenleaf Road, London

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Walthamstow Central 0.33 miles

Making Tracks Shortened Bios

Iona Fyfe (Scotland, UK)
Rooted in the singing traditions of Aberdeenshire, Iona Fyfe has quickly become one of Scotland’s most celebrated young folk singers. Having spent her early years learning from local singers of bothy ballads (songs traditionally sung by farm labourers in the northeast region of Scotland), Iona became the youngest ever winner of Scots Singer of the Year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards in 2018, and has become a fierce advocate for the Scots Language and a fine exponent of the Doric dialect.

Simon Leleux (Belgium)
Simon Leleux is a Belgium-based percussionist specialising in doholla, darbuka and other Arab and Middle Eastern percussion instruments and styles. Shaped like a tumbler, the darbuka provided the starting point for Simon’s percussion journey and his interest in many other instruments, including frame drums, tombak, riqq, and drum kits. Simon has focused on studying the doholla (bass darbuka) since 2014 with the musician who broke new ground with this instrument, Levent Yildirim.

Azin Zahedi (Iran / Germany)
Born in the Iranian capital Tehran, Azin Zahedi began playing flute at the age of seven, and took up the santour (Persian dulcimer) four years later, winning first prize at Iran's National Festival of Youth Music in 2007. She moved to Germany in 2010 to continue her music education - first at the Folkwang University of Arts and later at Berlin University of the Arts.

Robert Bisha (Albania / Italy)
Robert Bisha, originally from Shkodra in northern Albania, is a pianist, improviser and composer who plays an array of other instruments including accordion, çifteli (a stringed instrument found in Albania and some surrounding countries), frame drums and guitar. While much of his music is improvisatory, with avant-garde and jazz leanings, Robert is also heavily influenced by traditional Albanian and Balkan music.

Thamires Tannous (Brazil / Austria)
Thamires Tannous is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. She hails originally from the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the central area of Brazil, home to the world's largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal. Her style blends the musical heritage of her home state with contemporary Brazilian music, as well as occassionally paying subtle homage to the heritage of her Lebanese family, who settled in Brazil two generations ago.

Liz Hanks (UK)
Liz Hanks is a cellist, composer and collaborator based in Sheffield. While she has worked with an impressive array of high-profile artists across many different genres, she is particularly drawn to folk, Indian classical, and other music traditions. In recent years Liz has performed and collaborated with, among others, Martin Simpson, Jasdeep Singh Degun, and South Asian Arts UK.

Ahmet Ozan Baysal (Turkey / UK)
Ahmet Ozan Baysal is a Turkish bağlama (saz) player, composer and performer, specialising in şelpe - an Anatolian bağlama performance technique that dispenses with a plectrum. Having played the instrument from a very early age, much of his music is a synthesis of traditional bağlama şelpe performance practices and harmonic practices in tonal and jazz music.

Pheobe riley Law (UK)
Pheobe riley Law is a soundscapes, sound and multidisciplinary artist currently based in Newcastle and Hull. Her work often explores the documentation and transformation of materials including sound, text, fabric, movement, film and reformatted objects.

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