PROMINENT percussion group, Ensemble Offspring, who wowed the audiences at the 2024 Craven Creek Music Festival, are returning to Gloucester for one concert only in November.
“At the 2024 Craven Creek concert the ensemble premiered ‘Craven Creek Chants’ featuring the music of Ross Edwards along with a reading by Guy Noble of the great Les Murray’s poem ‘The Bulahdelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle’,” said festival organiser Greg Lindsay.
“The wide range of percussion instrumentation along with flute and clarinet will bring out some of the vibrancy and colour of the Australian landscape and wildlife.
“They are an exciting group to hear.”
The program, titled Songbirds, celebrates the virtuosity of Australian birdsong with an array of chamber works.
“The audience will be transported into the Australian bush by the familiar sounds of nature’s own musicians, with a little help from Australia’s leading composers,” explains a marketing blurb.
“Songbirds captures the magical bird calls of the red centre, virtuosic avian displays, and Indigenous musical perspectives of these beguiling creatures of the sky.”
This one concert, presented by Music in the Regions in partnership with Gloucester Arts and Cultural Council (GACCI), will be performed at the Gloucester Uniting Church on the afternoon of Sunday 9 November at 4pm.
For more information visit https://www.gloucester-arts.com.au.
By John WATTS
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