A Classical Twist…
Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensmble and young Tinderbox musicians and composers collaborated for a performance in the Reid Concert Hall, giving Tinderbox more of a classical twist than usual! [...]
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What Is Tinderbox?
What do you get if you cross a classical orchestra, a jazz band and a rock group? If you put professional musicians next to scarily talented teens? If you enlist some of the coolest, hippest bands Edinburgh has to offer and then stick a thoroughly nervous me in the middle? [...]
4*s for Tinderbox Fest!
As Tinderbox Fest made its yuletide debut, hopes for its innovative programme - a melange of film, art, stalls, workshops and an eclectic evening of music - were high. The event marked the two-year anniversary of the Tinderbox Project, a youth music initiative encouraging musical experimentation and creation. [...]
Tinderbox Fest!
Summerhall - Sat 15th Dec - midday til late - Market, Music and more! [...]
Pen, Projector & Imagination!
To carry on from group improvisation exercises from previous weeks, the entire orchestra came together to improvise as one, under the guidance of a projection screen, a marker pen and the imagination of our composer. [...]
Supporting Jazz Jamaica, Urban Soul Orchestra and Brinsley Forde
On Friday November 2nd, the Tinderbox Orchestra was invited by Jazz Jamaica, Urban Soul Orchestra and Brinsley Forde (Aswad) to perform in their final show of the tour. An orchestra member describes the experience... [...]
Tinderbox Sessions with Mike Kearney Katet
10.00pm doors- The Jazz Bar, Chambers Street, Edinburgh [...]
Tinderbox play for the Dalai Lama!
Back in June the Tinderbox Frontiers project held the premier of their cross-arts work Red & Black for none other than His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Usher Hall. The work featured in the closing event of the Edinburgh Lectures’ 20th anniversary series, coinciding with his Holiness’s UK tour. [...]
Tootle Round the Shops
In a welcome change from the piped muzak which fills most malls, shoppers at the city's St James Centre were treated to a "flash mob orchestral procession" when members of the Edinburgh-based Tinderbox Orchestra burst into action. [...]
Edinburgh’s Experimental Youth Orchestra is Evolving May 2011
Jack Nissan reports as the young people are starting to take ownership of Tinderbox ahead of their first festival show. [...]
