22/7/2010 [About Yamaha]
Take a break from the hustle and bustle of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a very special show. One of South Africa’s top musicians, pioneering electric cellist Carol Thorns, brings her production Red Cello Electrified to the UK for the first time.
Together with her VJ (visual jockey), Thorns transforms the traditional cello, taking it to a new level with an aurally and visually arresting multimedia performance. Audiences are carried through a series of surreal musical landscapes that incorporate aspects of world music and ambient electronica whilst retaining the richness of the cello's classical origins.
Red Cello Electrified is based on Carol’s album Fireflies in the Rain, which received a 2010 South African Music Award nomination for Best Instrumental Album and has been met with rave reviews locally and internationally. This fresh and captivating performance has been well-received in India, the Middle East and in her native South Africa, where she is renowned as a pioneer in the genre of electric strings.
A cum laude Bachelor of Music graduate from Rhodes University in South Africa, Thorns has been performing for over a decade: solo, together with singer/songwriter Louise Carver and in her own band CODA, which blends electric strings with jazz sax, African vocals and a house DJ. She has shared the stage with many of South Africa’s top musicians including Arno Carstens and the Soweto String Quartet.
Thorns has also appeared at many of South Africa’s top events, including numerous charity celebrity galas (Elton John Charity Ball), fashion shows (SA Fashion Week) and major concerts (Kirstenbosch Summer Concert Series), and comes to the festival fresh from a stage appearance with America’s Got Talent finalists, Nuttin’ but Stringz.
Yamaha’s Silent Cellos blend an expressive and beautiful tone with the ability to create innovative performances. By combining traditional sounds with technology, these instruments can be used for practice wherever and whenever by using the Silent function. For more information about Silent Cellos please visit
http://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical-instruments/strings/silentcellos/.
For further details about Red Cello Electrified please visit -
http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/music/red-cello-electrified
