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Beats & Pieces Big Band at Turner Sims
Courtesy of Jo Roberts | Posted on May 26, 2017
Where
Turner Sims
Highfield Campus, University Of Southampton
Southampton
Map
+44 (0)2380595151
When
Sat, January 20, 2018
20:00
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Musicians
Beats & Pieces Big Band
band / ensemble / orchestraAbout
Beats & Pieces are a band that happens to be big, rather than your average ‘big band’. Led by composer and conductor Ben Cottrell, they’re an extremely tight-knit bunch, growing up and developing musically individually and collectively within Manchester’s exciting scene. First playing together as Beats & Pieces in 2008, today these fourteen musicians know each other inside out socially and musically, and this familiarity is part of what sets them aside from a lot of other big bands today. Feeling at home on stages in small clubs as well as at big festivals all across Europe, they are celebrating their 10th anniversary and the release of their third album with a UK tour in January 2018....