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The Great Siege : A new Project

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Skorba's second album is a narrative musical suite about the the siege of Malta in 1565.  A time when Malta was under the charge of the Knights Hospitalier of St John.  Malta was invaded by the Ottoman Turkish empire ruled by Sulyman the Magnificent.  And the pirates known as the Corsairs controlled much of the Mediterranean.
So as you could imagine, a great many musical influences come to mind.
It's a big project, exploring many kinds of music from Maltese Ghana to 16th century renaissance music and Turkish folk and military music.   Enlisting the talents of many fine musicians along the way, including Tunji Beier, Llew Kiek, and Linsey Pollak, this is sure to be a rich album quite different to the first one, but still maintaining something of our signature sound.


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National Folk Festival
We are delighted to be performing at the National Folk Festival in Canberra on the Easter weekend March this year. The National has always been a good friend of ours and and we love coming to Australia's premier folk music festival.
We will be introducing music from our upcoming album, as well as tunes from our first album.
Also performing will be The Bridge Project, an international project with members of Skorba and musicians from Israel and France, and Equus another group featuring Mongolian Throat Singer and Horse Fiddle master Bukhu and Andy and John from Skorba as well as Tunji Beier on South indian percussion. So it will be a busy time but so much fun sharing this music with you all.


http://www.folkfestival.org.au/

http://www.bridgeprojecttrio.com/TBP/About_TBP.html

http://www.horsefiddle.com/


http://www.facebook.com/equusensemble


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