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Stories from the Singing Gourd
Saturday 8th October 2011 - 7.30 pm
Internationally-renowned master storyteller TUUP
and virtuoso sitar player Sheema Mukherjee, both
regulars in Transglobal Underground, give you an unforgettable
evening of African and Caribbean Tales. Guaranteed to make you
smile. Suitable for all the family.
Venue: Settle Victoria Hall
Tickets: £12 (concessions £10)
Early Bird online discount price: £10 / £8 (until 15 Sept)
Click here to Buy Tickets online
TUUP
Godfrey Duncan (who prefers to be know as Tuup) was born in West
London, of Guyanese parents. From the age of about 20 he took the
name Tuup, a name born out of a vision he had one night.
TUUP joined the West London Storytelling Unit, run by Ben Haggarty
and Georgiana, a challenging Innovative Arts group looking at
Performance Storytelling for Adults. In the late 80s he formed a
storytelling group along with Indian dancer Flora Devi called
“Tellers of Time” (Indian tales & dance & Afro-Caribbean tales &
rhythm.)
TUUP has been retelling traditional stories for many years. He is
recognised as one of the most inspirational storytellers from the
African-Caribbean community, as well as the wider International
Storytelling community.
Sheema Mukherjee
Sheema
Mukherjee absorbed North Indian classical music and the western
tradition side-by-side, studying sitar and Indian classical music
under the tutelage of her uncle, the Late Pandit Nikhil Banerjee,
and then with the Late Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Brought up between
Britain and India, she has a rich background. Sheema works across
many styles and genres from eastern and western classical music to
jazz, pop and dance music.
Sheema is evolving both as a composer and as a collaborator. Recent
work has included an Indian Classical performance for Elton John's
Black Tie & Tiara Ball, an improvisation with Australian recorder
virtuoso Genevieve Lacey in Westminster Abbey for The Queen on
Commonwealth Day, and a creative development role in composition and
song writing in Beijing, Hong Kong and Gateshead as part of the PRS
Foundation and Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong Creative
Exchange Project. Larger scale work has included composition for
full orchestra, for theatre, including Wuthering Heights (Tamasha),
The Cornershop Project (Black Country Touring & Foursight), and West
Yorkshire Playhouse (Northern Exposure).