Big World Festival
Big World Festival at Kollectiv Folkestone
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Big World Festival: Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyan, Suntou Susso
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About the show
7:30pm-8:30pm: Andrew Cronshaw (multi instrumentalist) with Tigran Aleksanyan (duduk)
Andrew Cronshaw’s main instruments are his spacious-sounding 74-stringed electrified zither, chiming 44-stringed marovantele (his own invention, a double-sided Finnish kantele/Malagasy marovany hybrid), the soft-toned brass-reeded Chinese ba-wu, and the rippling harmonics of a huge Slovak fujara whistle.
Tigran Aleksanyan is one of the world’s leading masters of Armenia’s exquisitely soft-toned reed instrument, the duduk, an instrument made famous on Hans Zimmer’s score for Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.
9:00pm-10:00pm: Suntou Susso
Suntou Susso is a multi-instrumentalist - kora player, percussionist, singer and composer from The Gambia who is a 72nd generation Griot. His primary instrument, the kora is a harp-lute with 22 strings and is unique to the Griots of the Mandinka people.
Featuring - Andrew Cronshaw
Electric zither supremo and world music collaborator specialising in traditional and modern Finnish folk music.
Tigran Aleksanyan
Playing a range of wind instruments, including the Armenian Apricot flute.
Suntou Susso
Suntou Susso is a multi-instrumentalist: Kora player, percussionist, singer and composer from The Gambia. Born a Griot in a 700-year old tradition, the Kora - harp-lute with 22 strings - is unique to the Griots of the Mandinka people. Griots have a unique societal role as oral historians, transmitting and preserving a people's culture through the generations in song, music and poetry. Suntou's family includes some of the world's most well-respected West African musicians, including Seckou Keita, Solo Cissokho and Sura and Mamudou Susso.