Music Status Quo
+ support acts to be announced When: 22 June 2013 Where: The Venue 2013 Rock legends, Status Quo, return to the city to play a massive rock event at The Venue 2013 on Saturday 22 June. With record sales exceeding 118 million units, QUO now hold the record for more hit singles than any other band, both international and British, in UK chart history. Quo has had more hit albums (32) in the British Albums Chart than any other band apart from The Rolling Stones. 1991 also saw Quo presented with the most prestigious award in British music when they were awarded the Brit Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the British Music Industry’. This event programmed in association with Rockers Reunion and imarocker.com. The event will also feature some of Derry~Londonderry’s finest rock acts. Tickets: £29.50 incl. booking fee on sale now at The Millennium Forum Box Office and online at www.millenniumforum.co.uk
featuring Eliades Ochoa & Omara Portuondo When: 21 June 2013 Where: The Venue 2013 An unmissable finale event at ‘Music City!’ with the Derry~ Londonderry debut of Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club. Over the course of the 1990s, Buena Vista Social Club revived a forgotten repertoire (son, bolero, danzón and guajiro) that is now world famous. The Buena Vista Social Club was the somewhat accidental project of American slide guitarist Ry Cooder. Cooder travelled to Cuba in 1996 to record some Mali musicians, but when these didn’t show up because of Visa issues, he decided to assemble a super group of old Cuban son musicians and record them instead. They called themselves The Buena Vista Social Club after a private club and dance venue from prerevolutionary times, a place where the rich would hang out and hire the Cuban big bands of the 40s and 50s to play for them. Most of these guys had been retired for years. Lead singer Ibrahim Ferrer was shining shoes for extra money. Many thought pianist Ruben Gonzalez was already dead. The rest of the band was comprised of 95-year-old guitarist Compay Segundo, tres player Eliades Ochoa, singer Omara Portoundo, and many others. The line-up includes new musicians to take up the Buena Vista baton, such as the incredible singers Idania Valdes and Carlos Calunga, trumpeter Guajirito Mirabal and pianist Rolando Luna, in addition to veterans such as the great trumpeter Guajiro Mirabal. Together with Aguaje Ramos they have collaborated on many of the subsequent ‘Buena Vista Social Club Presents’ albums and tours over the past thirteen years. Tickets £15 plus booking fee on sale at The Millennium Forum Box Office / online at www.millenniumforum.co.uk
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Resonance FM When: Summer 2013 London-based Resonance FM, ‘the world’s first radio art station’ will build a mobile performance space, train individuals within communities and broadcast live throughout three months of the year. At various locations throughout the city Resonance FM will have live performances consisting of a newly written account of local history accompanied by a live orchestral performance by the Resonance Radio Orchestra composed of new members from the city. There will also be a series of broadcasts which will imagine the world without the people of the city. The series will chart the lives of the great women and men of Derry~Londonderry to include the artists, the peacemakers, musicians, thinkers, writers and its citizens. Co-curated by Ed Baxter & Declan Sheehan.