Hackney Colliery Band

at Cheese & Grain, Frome
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Since 2009, east London musical pioneers Hackney Colliery Band have pushed the boundaries of brass band conventions, building a steadfast fanbase with their joyous live shows and slew of heralded releases. Now fifteen years deep into their collective journey, and with some incredible career highlights to note (such as performing to 80,000 people at the opening of the 2012 Olympic Games in London), the 9 piece outfit prepare to announce their 6th full-length offering, the hotly anticipated ‘Collaborations : Volume Two’. Whereas their fifth album ‘Collaborations: Volume One featured a range of World Music legends including Grammy-winning Beninese vocalist Angélique Kidjo and godfather of Ethiopian jazz Mulatu Astatke, ‘Volume Two’ sees HCB focus on songs and singers, alongside a sprinkling of instrumentals featuring harp, guitar, cello, and even conch shells.

As anyone who has attempted any degree of social organisation will attest, it is no mean feat to gather nine people in one place, at the same time, on a semi-regular basis, never mind taking this group of people all over the world to play instrumental music. Add into the mix an industry where artists are encouraged to find a genre niche and stick to it – advice HCB have joyously ignored for their fifteen year career – and the community and kinship that HCB have built up over this time seems even more remarkable.

Frontman/composer Steve Pretty and composers Olly Blackman and Luke Christie say of this release: ‘It’s

Hackney Colliery Band

A 9 piece brass, Funk, Hip-Hop marching-band, to rival The Young Blood Brass Band and blow your mind. East London’s Hackney Colliery Band are leading the charge in a groundswell of new groups reinventing the all-acoustic brass band for the 21st century. Mining musical nuggets from an array of genres, their setlist is as diverse as the London borough that gave them their name. Their highly acclaimed 2012 debut Common Decency received worldwide airplay including an almost full house at the BBC with plays across BBC Radio 1, 2, 3 and 6Music. Live, they’ve taken their unique collision of styles everywhere from Kosovo to the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics where they performed to a global audience of 1 billion! Constantly striving to explore new musical horizons, the Hackney Colliery Band have yielded some truly special moments with collaborations with artists as diverse as Amy Winehouse, Eliza Doolittle, the Urban Voices Collective gospel choir, and hip hop band Lazy Habits.

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Frome
BA11 1BE

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Cheese & Grain

Market Yard
Justice Lane
Frome
BA11 1BE

Website:
cheeseandgrain.com
Disabled Booking:
01373 455420

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