MusicMatters Festival: Main Concert

*Dan Weiss is a New York based drummer/percussionist whose style combines modern jazz and Indian classical music. He has recorded and toured extensively with musicians such as David Binney, Lee Konitz, Rudresh Mahantthapa, Miguel Zenon, Kenny Werner and many others. Dan will be presenting his solo drumset project which includes a combination of improvisations and tabla repertoire adapted on the drums.

*Tyson Smith, an exceptional guitarist/singer/songwriter from New Zealand is back at Musicmatters Festival 2014, following up his blazing performance at last year’s festival which received much acclaim. Tyson will be performing material from his new album “The Hollow Tree”.

*Percussion duo Darren Moore (Singapore based UK musician) and Suresh Vaidyanathan from India will present a unique collaboration between drumset and Ghatam.

*’The Humouresque Icons’ from New Zealand, an energetic free improvising trio consisting of Jeff Henderson – saxophones, Hermione Johnson – prepared piano, Jonny Marks – vocals, featured in the Big Ears Experimental music night will also take to the stage at the main concert.

The local groups featured in the main concert include Musicmatters affiliated groups’ Serendib Sorceres, Baliphonics and Thriloka.

In addition, this year’s local line up will be enhanced with the Chamber Music Society of Colombo directed by Lakshman J de Saram featuring Asvajit Boyle, presenting Terry Riley’s “In C”, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the world’s first masterpiece of music minimalism.