August/Sept 2020
Equator festival - World in a garden
Promoting musicians and performers - new date added!
Dear supporters and friends - We are inviting you to an outdoor live music event
in a country garden in Tenterden on
Sat 29th August at 5pm - highly acclaimed Kora musician Sura Susso from Gambia
Sat 5th Sept at 5pm - Craig Ogden - Classic FM featured guitarist + Seren - a vibrant folk/classical flute and guitar duo
Sat 12th Sept at 5pm - Whereness - featuring Paul Chenour (flutes), Indian percussionist Ansuman Biswas, Maureen Wolloshin (oboe andcor anglais) and Alistair Zaldua (violin)
Please email us if you are interested in attending. We will send you venue details and address.
The last 4 events with U'zambezi, Javajam, Romany Diamonds and Kasai Masai were brillant in the open-air!
Further information on the performers below.
Donations welcome at https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/equatorfestival
Donations also to our Paypal account: shivanova@aol.com
Private event
We are inviting some of our loyal members, friends and supporters to a live music event in a private garden in Kent on the weekends in August and September.
If you are interested you will need to email us back as there will be a maximum of 30 people socially distanced by 2ms.
You are welcome to bring your own picnic mats, chairs, umbrellas, blankets, and sanitising gel.
Antibacterial wipes, sanitising spray and an outside toilet will be available to use.
Please bring your own masks or scarves.
Your are welcome to bring your own picnic and drinks. We can provide tea, coffee, water. Please bring your own glasses or mugs.
All donations will go to the performers and can be made when reserving a place.
Performances will be recorded for live streaming at a later date.
Sat 29th August, 5pm
( if it is due to rain it will be postponed to the Sunday)
Sura Susso - acclaimed Kora musician
Sura Susso is a creative, versatile and talented Kora player & Percussionist, who hails from a Traditional Griot family in Gambia West Africa.
He is the son of Mamudou Susso and Fatou Binta Cissokho, well-respected musicians in there own right and the younger brother of Seckou Keita who is also a accomplished and successful Kora player.
Griots are historians, orators who hold family and village records. Praise musicians and singers pass this information down through the generations from father to son. Sura’s first initiation to the Kora was at the age of four.
The Kora is a 21 stringed traditional instrument, which is able to transfer beautiful twined melodic & rhythmic tones.
At the age of seventeen, Seckou Keita invited his younger brother to join him on tour, sharing his talent as a percussionist. Performing in many countries around the world, this gave Sura the opportunity to shape his skills and experience as a performing artist.
Sura’s impressive debut album merges original compositions with various musical influences as well as incorporating rearranged traditional songs.
Exhibiting his talent in an assortment of countries, venues and festivals, Sura was invited to perform at an opening ceremony at Manchester City Hospital playing for her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II in 2012; he has also partaken in a number of joint ventures, collaborating with a variation of skillful musicians. In 2009 Sura and his Sister Binta Susso, had the privilege of performing at Glastonbury festival with the legendary Baaba Maal.
Sura’s musical gift, once heard, is not easy to forget. His melodic style resonates deep within, transporting you far away to a harmonic place of sheer delight.
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Sat Sept 5th, 5pm
Craig Ogden - classical summertime favourites on guitar
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Seren - a vibrant flute/guitar playing folk and classical pieces
Craig Ogden – classical guitar
"A worthy successor to Julian Bream" BBC Music Magazine
Australian born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the most exciting artists of his generation. He studied guitar from the age of seven and percussion from the age of thirteen. In 2004, he became the youngest instrumentalist to receive a Fellowship Award from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
One of the UK’s most recorded guitarists, his recordings for Virgin/EMI, Chandos, Nimbus, Hyperion, Sony and Classic FM have received wide acclaim.
Craig Ogden has performed concertos with many of the world’s leading orchestras. In recent seasons he has performed with the Hallé, BBC Concert Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra (Spain), Spanish Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Dublin), London Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. In 2015, Craig was asked at short notice to step in for the indisposed Miloš Karadaglić to perform a series of concerts with the Royal Northern Sinfonia at major UK concert halls and again in 2016 with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the English Chamber Orchestra, both tours receiving critical acclaim. This season Craig performs concertos with orchestras including the Hallé, London Mozart Players, Manchester Camerata, English String Orchestra and the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, Australia. Craig enjoys performing new works for guitar and gave the world premiere of a concerto written for him by Andy Scott with the Northern Chamber Orchestra in Manchester in November 2017, followed by the Australian premiere in Perth in September 2018. He gave the world premiere of ‘Il Filo’, a double concerto for guitar and accordion by David Gordon with Miloš Milivojević in summer 2019 and composer David Knotts is currently writing a concerto for Craig.
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Seren - a flute/guitar duo
Rebecca and Helen first met in 1999 where they were both studying at the Royal College of Music in London.
They briefly performed together during their time at the RCM, and after nearly 20 years, have formed a new and exciting partnership.
Rebecca and Helen have gained wide experience as professional musicians, taking pleasure in performing as soloists, chamber musicians and orchestral players as well as being keen teachers, most notably at Benenden School and the Junior Department at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Their performing careers have taken them all over the UK, Europe and beyond.
They have performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church,
and St. David’s Hall, Cardiff.
Rebecca and Helen have collaborated with many different ensembles for projects such as recordings,
such as the Appassionata Trio and Naiades Ensemble, and for education projects with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Please email us to reserve a place and make a donation if you want.
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