| Performance Notes | Formed by jazz and world music cellist Shirley Smart on returning from 10 years in Jerusalem playing and studying the musics of the region, Melange seamlessly blend popular North African rai and chaabi songs, Gnawa music of the South Moroccan desert, exotic Middle Eastern and Turkish melodies and improvisations, Central Asian folk melodies, and across to the fiery Tango of Argentina and the street Choro of Brazil with jazz-influenced improvisation into their own unique sound and take on traditional repertoire.
Recent performances include the National Theatre Foyer, Vortex Jazz Club, the Forge, Green Note, Rich Mix, QuecumBar, Hackney Attic, Jamboree, SOAS and Notre Dame and Oxford Universities.
They also host the popular Gypsy Nights - a world music jam session held monthly at the Green note in Camden, one of the most cosmopolitan in London, attracting many of the top musicians on the world music scene as well as visiting musicians to the UK. |