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Blowout Sax Gig Feb - 2006
BLOWIN AWAY THEM WINTER BLUES.
It's that time again, when the Blowout Sax Gig will raise the roof off The Inventions Arts Centre,Lower Borough Walls in Bath on Friday February 24th 2006 .... with the promise of a joyous and fun filled evening guaranteed to blow away those winter blues.
The Blowout Sax school is the home of an easy, fun and original approach to learning. "Anyone who wants to play sax can come along, from age 8 to 88." says Blowout's founder Mark Archer "You don't need a sax, you can just have a go and see if it's for you. We rent you them or sell you them, depending on where you want to go with it, but at least you know it's for you." Over 200 Blowout Sax students have discovered that all you need is the desire to play. The school provides the beautiful Saxophone and experienced, inspirational teachers who teach you to play many of the glorious saxophone tunes which inspired you to learn the dream machine in the first place. The whole Blowout philosophy makes learning fun with no need to learn to read music first! A new and exciting approach developed solely by Mark Archer...
"Students play completely by ear, so straight away we cut out all the rigid stuff that puts people off. We start you off getting the notes to sound beautiful, then learning some really funky tunes like 'Summertime' or 'The Pink Panther', which you can be showing off to your mates in a couple of lessons. Ultimately we get everybody jamming because the whole point is to get people up on stage for the gig. Since we've started, we've started off dozens of people who've gone on to become superb players. Many are now taking degrees in music. The key is that we're enthusiastic, for whatever your ability - it's not about becoming a master, it's about having a laugh and developing skills you never thought you had."
One of the things that sets Blowout apart from other forms of instrumental
tuition is the performance aspect. At every Blowout gig there are in
excess of 40 enthusiastic students showing off their new found skills
in a very professionally organised performance. The backing band is
always made up of top Bath and Bristol session musicians and all of
the Blowout teachers participate.
"Students will be playing pop, jazz, blues, soul and some salsa. It's classic party tunes, basically,from One Step Beyond to Green Onions,Pink Panther to Shotgun it'll all be there " says Mark. "We get a top class band with session musicians from Bristol. We're giving people the experience of playing live; it gives learning a focus, a goal. The last three concerts have been sold out. About 30 of our students will play and we're going to top it with an all star version of Zorba The Greek...'- it'll blow the roof off. It will be ugly! It will be carnage! It will be hilarious! Most of all it will be fun, man, that's always the thing."
View
a video clip of a previous Blowout Gig here
The fun doesn't stop there though! At The Blowout Sax School now,there is an inspirational trumpet teacher Pete Judge and they will be featured too. So if the sax isn't for you then you can still get in on the Blowout experience.
View
a video clip of a previous Blowout Gig featuring trumpets here.
Check all this out at the gig on Friday 24th February 2006 at the Inventions
Art Centre, Lower Borough Walls. Bath. Admission is £8 and the
doors open at 7.30 p.m..
The Blowout sax school is at The South Lodge, North Parade, Bath. BA2
4EU. Tel: 01225 339007 or visit the Blowout web site at: www.blowoutsax.com you can also e-mail them at blowoutsax@blowoutsax.com.
ALL PHOTOS BY STEVE THOMAS
