Kettle 2010

Brewing Up - Bringing it to the Boil

"Bringing it to the Boil" is the first part of Festive Road's show stopping new  project called "Brewing Up", this unique three year exploration sets out to discover, through carnival arts, the specific qualities and conditions needed to make and enjoy the perfect cup of tea.

‘Bringing it to the Boil' will be a musical and visual experiment that brings together performers and young musicians from the South East region. It will fuse Dhol drumming, Samba drumming, and Brass, to celebrate our tea drinking nation and make new and exciting ‘tea time' sounds, the likes of which have never been heard before!

Brewing Up has been awarded the prestigious Inspire Mark in recognition of it being an outstanding and innovative project.

Kettle Band & High Tea Performance

The Music will focus around a gigantic mobile Kettle, all whistling and steaming. At intervals the audience will be invited to be seated and served ‘High Tea' by performers dressed as tea cups, butlers and much more...

We will be providing people with opportunities to take time out of their busy lives and ‘have a cup of tea'. These tea drinking sessions will provide us with opportunities to engage people in our question "If making tea was an Olympic sport, what qualities are needed to make the perfect cup?"

We are interested to find out why people drink tea? What conditions make a good ‘cuppa'? How tea can be used to bring people together?

Opportunities for Young Musicians! 

Festive Road are inviting young musicians, especially brass players, to join the Kettle Band. The band will be an experimental new collaboration between Samba,Dhol drumming and Brass that will develop its own unique tea inspired sound. The Project will be facilitated by Mat Fox from Kinetika's Bloco and lead by professional percussionist Matt Green.

If you would like to be part of this tea-tastic project that will be touring at four high profile carnivals across the South East in 2010 including IF:Milton Keynes International Festival then email carnival@festiveroad.org.uk or call 07980339844.

 

Take a glimpse at the Kettle Band's first workshop lead by Kinetika Bloco.