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Big Bamboo

Wed 15 Oct 2025, 6.00pm

Seven Arts

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Old school hot dance music from the Caribbean islands

Doors: 6.00pm Music: 6.00pm

Big Bamboo play Rumba, Choro, Mento, Beguine and Merengue – in an acoustic and improvised style reminiscent of New Orleans jazz. Clarinettist Richard Ormrod grew up with the rich, lyrical sound of early Caribbean music and has been playing in this style for thirty five years. Trombonist Will Osborne is passionate about early calypso and beguine and, together, they lead Big Bamboo on a tour through the first half of the 20th Century, across several seas, and through multiple musical traditions rooted in early jazz and hot dance.

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Richard Ormrod

Clarinet, bell, guiro

Will Osborne

Trombone

Jonny Flockton

Guitar

Sam Bell

Congas

Adrian Knowles

Double bass

Matthew Shallcross

Maracas, guiro, bells, triangle