Oxjam at the Winning Post

Oxjam at the Winning Post

A great line-up of World Music, Celtic Song, Drumming, & Poetry awaits York live entertainment fans at the Winning Post, York on Friday 5th October 2007 and its all for a really good cause. Entry donation minimum £5.00 or £3.00 (conc). Doors Open 20.00 - Late Bar. As part of Oxjam... Oxfam's biggest ever music festival, York-based world music choir Chechelele, Celtic singer-songwriter Paula Ryan, and drumming group Abelungu are getting together for an exciting, exotic and thoroughly entertaining evening of live roots music, with well-known York performance poet, Adrian Spendlow providing poetic introductions for each of the acts. Chechelele will take you round the world in song - from the pounding rhythms of Africa, to the exciting sound of the Balkans via the gentle melodies of the Pacific islands. Paula Ryan introduces insightful and powerful compositions which combine the lyricism and passion of her Gaelic roots with the funky rhythms and 'wacky' instruments of the music of other cultures. And if you're not already out of your seats, Abelungu play rhythms collected from around the world, on African drums. You'll hear rhythms from Africa, South America, Cuba, North Africa/the Middle East, India and Japanese Taiko. The MC for the evening, Adrian Spendlow, promises to entertain and leave you spellbound with his poems and stories. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy a funky evening of rhyme, rhythm, songs, drumming & dancing while raising money and helping to end poverty at the same time!

Friday 5th October, The Winning Post, 127 Bishopthorpe Road, York YO23 1NZ

Entry by donation: minimum £5.00 or £3.00 (concessions)

Please give more if you can - all ticket income to Oxfam

Doors Open 8 pm - Late Bar

Contact details and tickets from chechelele@hotmail.co.uk

or phone 01904 345458

Friday 5th October 2007

The Winning Post - York

Event line: 01904 345458

Info line: 01904 345458

Web site: web link

Email: prsingersongwriter@yahoo.co.uk

Chechelele - All About Us
Chechelele are an acapella choir from York, England, specialising in world folk music. We're interested in collecting, singing, performing and recording traditional music from just about everywhere outside of England: mostly Africa and the Balkans at present, but we also have songs from just about every continent except Antartica (we’re negotiating with a penguin to run a workshop for us). We sing songs about harvesting and famine, love and death, sickness and war, slavery and emancipation, and women fighting about fish.
We have performed in concert halls, streets, shops, churches, cinemas, cathedrals, ampitheatres, tents, car parks, medieval halls, barns, ruined abbeys, campsites and a hairdressing salon. We've sung at several major folk festivals in this country (including Bromyard, Beverley, Warwick and Towersey, Otley and Off the Tracks) and at Plozovet Festival in Brittany.

We are mostly people who love music but have little formal training, which we think makes us uniquely qualified to sing music from the folk traditions of the world.
We were founded in 1994 by John Low, and have now grown to around 24 members.

Some of us are in other bands as well, performing similar or different types of music, currently we share members with:
Percussion Cafe: Five-piece world music group, specialising in percussion and songs from around the world
Women@No13: All women a capella group
Soundsphere: Four women world music a cappela group
Voice of the Drum: Up to 50-strong drumming group.
Soon Amore: Mixed Voice Choir with a more classical repertoire
and we're happy to do joint gigs.

We operate on a non-profit basis, with all fees and proceeds from recordings sales being used to cover the choirs transport and other costs, with the remainder being donated to charities operating in the areas of the world from where our songs originate.
Our fees are negotiable, and for some charitable gigs we may not charge at all, other than for our transport expenses.