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It will be a new experience for music lovers in Sri Lanka when the Dave O'Higgins Jazz Quintet with the JazzCotech Dancers from London perform in Sri Lanka for five dates with workshops included.
The quintet comprises Dave on saxes, Mike Outram - guitar, Tom Cawley - keyboards, Sam Burgess - bass and Simon Lea - drums. The JazzCotech Dancers specialise in the untapped art form of the Old Skool Street - Fusion Jazz Dance, a dance style which developed in the UK clubs in and around the 70s and 80s. It is unique to UK and JazzCotech is the only dance group currently teaching this style, both to adults and children. So if you are interested in learning this new dance craze be sure you catch their workshops.
The workshops are for young musicians and dancers, and some of them will get an opportunity to perform with the band and the dancers during their gigs in Sri Lanka. For more details contact the British Council, in the meantime catch the group's perform today at the BooM. |
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Their tour is presented by the British Council. The Quintet opened
their tour yesterday - the first of their two performances - at the BooM,
Galadari Hotel. They will perform today as well at the BooM from 9.30 p.m.
onwards. One of Britain's leading saxophonist Dave O'Higgins and his Jazz
Quintet play a mix of rock, funk, soul, Latin, O'Higgins originals and
jazz.
Besides the BooM dates, the other performances by the Dave O'Higgins
Quintet with the JazzCotech dancers will be in Galle on Tuesday, January
13 at the Light House Hotel - Galle from 8.30 p.m. onwards, on Friday,
January 16 at the Suisse Hotel, Kandy from 8.30 p.m. onwards. The group's
final performance will be on Sunday, January 18 from 5.00 p.m. onwards at
the British Council Garden, Colombo.
