Experience the powerful, high-energy, earthy sounds of the South Coast’s Stonewave Taiko drummers on Saturday, January 20 at the Narooma Kinema.
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Stonewave Taiko have been thrilling audiences throughout the region now for more than three years, including performing at the 2017 National Folk Festival. Their performances also feature the sublime sounds of the Shakuhachi flute played by David Dixon.
Their unique and powerful performances have developed under the artistic leadership of Bega Valley local, and highly acclaimed percussionist, David Hewitt, as well as through regular opportunities to train with taiko teachers from Japan, Taikoz and YuNiOn.
The players have gained valuable skills and expression in a range of Taiko styles from the powerful Odaiko and Miyake forms to the more sensitive expression of Hatchijo.
The recently renovated boutique Narooma Kinema provides an exciting venue for the Summer Drum concert to take place.
There are two shows only - 3.30pm and 7pm both on Saturday, January 20.
Bookings can be made at www.stonewavetaiko.com or by calling 0413 390 819 or at the Narooma Kinema Box Office. Suitable for six years and older.
Stonewave Taiko, along with Narooma’s Djaadjawan Dancers, meanwhile were recently announced as two of the 13 recipients to receive funding through the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund (RAF).
The RAF will make available $316,550 to support 13 new projects in regional, rural and remote New South Wales in 2018. The list of successful projects encompasses a broad spectrum of art forms including music, theatre, screen, circus, visual arts and ephemeral, digital and public art.
The funding will see Stonewave Taiko and the Djaadjawan Dancers working together to produce Four Echoes of the Heartbeat, a collaborative artistic development between two ancient, yet contemporary, art forms - the Taiko drumming of Stonewave and the Indigenous dance of Djaadjawan.
Through a partnership of sharing story, culture, country and spirit, powerful rhythms and evocative music will meet entrancing enigmatic movement to create a unique experience for our local community. Read more