Photo credit: Mohsen Zoltany Sand
The Mara! Big Band is a 12-piece ensemble that straddles the Eastern European gypsy brass band and jazz big band traditions. It is a kaleidoscope of musical colours including brass, piano accordion, percussion and voice.
Find out more »The Mara! Big Band is a 12-piece ensemble that straddles the Eastern European gypsy brass band and jazz big band traditions. It is a kaleidoscope of musical colours including brass, piano accordion, percussion and voice.
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Created and directed by Sandy Evans 150 years after Gandhi’s birth, Ahimsa fuses jazz, Hindustani and Carnatic chant with contemporary electronic sounds. Each of the movements is a musical response to a fundamental idea from Gandhi’s writings on Ahimsa (non-violence), translated into Sanskrit by Chris Whiteman and Vasudevacharya, and sung by the charismatic Sriranganathan.
Find out more »The Mara! Big Band is a 12-piece ensemble that straddles the Eastern European gypsy brass band and jazz big band traditions. It is a kaleidoscope of musical colours including brass, piano accordion, percussion and voice.
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For Episode 3, Live At The Village Creative Director, Gary Daley, chats with Sandy Evans about her Ahimsa Quintet performance at The Live At The Village Music Festival on Saturday 27 August 2022.
This wonderful film Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow is in cinemas in March 2022. “In 2004, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, artists at
Jessica Cunniffe reviews the premiere of ‘Zashto?’ performed by the Mara! Big Band at the Riverside Theatre in Parramatta on 3 March 2022. “Steely concentration was palpable
austraLYSIS has been busy during Covid, even if not out performing live. The main result has been a series of 5 open access videos, made in conjunction with the MARCS Institute where Roger Dean researches: The Music of Science, the Science of Music, which last about 3hours in total.