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(Review: Amanda Rodgers, Club Promoter)
www.strangerthanparadise.net, www.myspace.com/gypsymadness)
Ta Mere exploded off the radar at Stranger Than Paradise on
October 6th, 07 with their unique renditions of old style
vaudeville gypsy romany and swing from the early 20th century,
captivatingly cool , sleek and sexy, this string trio care
well equipped to play sophisticated tea parties to dusty dance
halls and transform you into another world... stranger than
paradise.
(Review: The World Observer)
“Ta Mère - 3 guys-about-town, on the town,
getting down and swinging hard. A creation by special request
of the BBC for the 2007 Glasgow Film Festival, they’ve
catapulted from these auspicious beginnings directly onto
the London scene. Embrace the sultry evening, suffused with
the hint of yesteryear and awash with a fresh undercurrent
crackling and sparkling away. Champagne flutes fully charged,
and the ice cubes clinking happily in their tumblers, dance
those troubles away to the latest sensation. Spanning all
from the slow grind, through jump jive and touching on the
jazzy boogie and eclectic points in between, allow Ta Mère
to escort you away from the mundane and sweep you up into
a state of bubbling hilarity and joy as the joint gets jumpin'.
Laissez les beaux temps rouler...”

SEAN
MacGLOIN
(Vocals, Violin, Harmonica,
Bagpipes - Bronx New York)
Born and raised in the Bronx, Sean MacGloin is a first generation
Irish American fiddler and Highland bagpiper. Sean began playing
the bagpipes at the ripe age of 4 under the tutelage of his
father, an Irish music composer. He took up classical violin
at age 7 and expanded into different genres of music including
blugrass, swing, jazz, rock and folk, taking a particular
interest in Irish traditional music and Latino music drawing
from his Cuban heritage. He has competed on bagpipes with
the Royal Scots Guards Association Pipe Band for four seasons
and presently competes with Luton University Pipe Band, England’s
premier pipe band. Sean, now based in London, is very involved
with the UK music scene where he has played and recorded with
the chart-topping pop group Madness, Nashville recording artist
Bap Kennedy and Rockabilly legend Boz Boorer. He has worked
with Morrissey on his previous album and toured internationally
with Alabama 3 and Gaz Mayall's celtic ska band the Trojans.
BENOIT
VIELLEFON
(Vocals, Guitar - Paris France)
Born in France, Benoit started to play music whilst in his
teens. Adept on various forms of guitar, electric bass and
drums, music has inevitably forged the way for this youthful
and energetic musician. The muse has followed Benoit throughout
Europe, the Americas and Africa, where he has joined all manner
of projects ranging from african/arabic music, French ball
musette, gypsy swing, rock n’ roll to ska and the burlesque.
Lately, Benoit has taken up a management and musical position
with Gaz Mayall's Trojans Celtic Ska project, the Skamonics
and other endeavours. Recent collaborations with the BBC and
Channel 4 in the way of film festivals and film soundtracks
have added further feathers to his beret. As Chief Executive
Officer of “quality first” JohnJohn record label,
Benoit employs his natural charm and extensive connections,
to ensure that any project he comes in contact with has the
assurance of professionalism and quality. His original compositions
and arrangements are legion, and fast becoming legendary!
VIKTOR
OBSUST
(Double Bass, Backing Vocals
- Bratislava Slovak Republik)
While in Slovakia, Viktor played in the State Chamber Opera
of the Slovak National Theatre (Bratislava) and was the principal
bass in the musical Fiddler on the Roof. He worked in Czech
Republic in Alternative Theatre Ha-Divadlo in Brno and played
jazz standards in countless restaurants and clubs in and around
Prague. Viktor was Head of the Double Bass Course at the Oxford
`Cello and `Bass School in 1999, and coached double bass at
the Wycombe Music Summer School for the third time in summer
2002. The self produced first international jazz workshop
in his native Novi Sad has paved the way for hosting jazz
courses and workshops on the global scene. Viktor has a jazz
function group in the UK, but is also active as a classical
soloist and chamber musician playing from baroque to contemporary
music including improvisation. Of late, Viktor has been actively
engaged in jazz, improvisation and world music scene. Viktor
has performed in this country at Dartington, Glastonbury,
Big Green Gathering, Brighton Komedia, Royal Albert Hall,
Wigmore Hall, Queen Elisabeth Hall and Royal Festival Hall
etc.
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