Sunday, 2 March 2008

The Go Global International Music Festival


Tickets £3

we enter at 8:00 , and what welcomes us? Hans Zimmerman's Pirates of the Carribean Performed by an obviously accomplished Orchestra!!!

WOW! My first thought!! A totally right choice to come here!!

The Music was good, the setting ok, the crowd varied, (not really a crowd really , the Great Hall filled up gradually , and by then the best pieces were over.

Obvously the first group were the most talented, churning really nice pieces . They were followed by a Jazz Group, Really soothing to hear the instruments wash over ...

The Ambience was a little dull, bland, No! i agree the pictures belies that ,
No complaints on the technical side, the lights , the sound, the resonance , echo was exquisitely controlled and there was this guy in curls who kept walking out from the techie corner to gauge what was working and how well, [reminded me very strongly of my old parthi days and the AVC boys there],

The African Acapella (i hope i got that right?) were as usual, lively and so very ... umm...
well.. african, catchy warm tunes and syllables... u can almost sway t the music , a sway of its own accord, (and then there was this violently blobde greek (part of the organizers i presume) who was doing the little jiggy jiggy steps, quite entertaining to watch.

the layout of the hall was simple (and effective?) round tables(arranged out in 3 rows , and small cup candles set in the middle (damn, i should have clicked one of those) giving it a very culturally intellectual feel (whatever that means!!)

and there was this minibar at one end of the hall!!

and a group came and sat at our table (our? did i forget to mention , i was there with Lone :) )
and soon were too interested in fiddling with the helium filled balloons than the music obviously.

Me and Lone had got some Victuals for ourselves and promptly settled down on them.
the Show was ok , though it sort of faded in performance , in between.

Cheers
Have Fun Always

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