Monday, June 02, 2008

Solstice Celebration in a new Festal Culture-Style

I'm Pipe Major of the Seven Pipers Scottish Society Pipe Band. www.sevenpipers.org

We are collaborating with Flam Chen for the second time on a 25-minute piece. That is a big deal wrapped in wool in Tucson, AZ on June 21st. Fortunately it will be at night. This also showcases the pyrotechnics that the dancers bring to the piece. Celebrating a solstice is controversial in the pipe band and one or two felt that the could not do it. I find it fascinating to be part of performance art and taking the pipes & drums to a new audience and contextualizing our traditional music in a different idiom.

The idea comes in part from a unique collective in Tucson: MMOS. You can see us in the earlier collaboration with Flam Chen for a chalk art festival almost a year ago:



This collective is intriguing on many levels and one of the splendid festal experiences they do is the "All Souls Procession" in Tucson every November.
www.allsoulsprocession.org

Here is a picture of some of us at the first one we did two years ago:


So, come out and join us in the celebration of a solstice and of the ever-changing combination of music and dance in a new slant on a ritualistic experience.

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