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Richard Egarr

Richard Egarr is a British keyboard performer and conductor. He received his musical training as a choirboy at York Minster, at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. His study with Gustav Leonhardt further inspired his work in the field of historical performance. Egarr has worked with all types of keyboards and performed repertoire ranging from fifteenth-century organ intabulations to Dussek and Chopin on early pianos, to Berg and Maxwell Davies on modern piano.

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academy of ancient music

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Ottavio Dantone

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The Summertides

The Summertides hail from Exmouth. A quaint coastal town in Devon, England,
Exmouth has imbued their unique music with all the sex, love and carnal debauchery of the traditional British seaside.
Echo at the Carnival is a truly personal and intriguing biography of songwriter Simon Richardson, who takes you on a musical journey of all the highs and lows that come with a few nights well spent.

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Myoptik

For 10 years myoptik has been a radio presenter, dj, music journalist, producer and event promoter based in not-so-sunny Leicester. Live performance is Myoptik's natural home with appearances in all sorts of places, under all sorts of musical guises and monikers at events such as the Sonic Arts Network, Summer Sundae, Monastery Of Sound and Delia Derbyshire's old home. Myoptik is also known for his vibrant Leicester based PVC club nights which pioneered his trademark live Funkatronix sound.

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Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods, a leading composer in the England of his day. Born in Oxford, between 1596 and 1598 he sang in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, then he entered the university in 1598 and achieved the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1606. James I appointed him a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, where he served as an organist from at least 1615 until his death. In 1625 he became senior organist at the Chapel Royal, with Thomas Tomkins as junior organist.

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Perkie

Perkie has been a solo singer, songwriter and musician for some years. Born into this troubled world in the Midlands on the day Sadam Hussain invaded Kuwait, the inspiration for her lyrics come from her experiences of life. She enjoys performing live and has been lucky, and talented enough, to perform with many of the artists she admires.
During 2009 she was a member of resolution 242. Having performed with the band at Rebelion in 2009 she is delighted to have been invited back as a solo artist in 2010.

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Make Me

Hailing from New Brunswick, New Jersey, Make Me combined the quiet and upbeat melodies of mid/late 90's emo like American Football with harsh, screamed vocals to create a fun and original take on the "screamo" genre. Existed from 2004 to 2006.

Omar Sosa

Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today: composer, arranger, producer, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. He fuses a wide range of world music and electronic elements with his native Afro-Cuban roots to create a fresh and original urban sound

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ethnic and world fusion

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Chooka Parker

Chooka Parker is a self-taught pianist, who featured on Australia's Got Talent in 2011.
He composes his own music, and does variations on others. He has a unique gift of
communicating through his music. He will go down to the level where people are at,
then lift them to a higher level. His music is described as ecclectic with a classical base.
He has been described as a 'genius, prodigy and freak.'
He recently won the 'People's Choice Award' at the Musicoz Awards at only 18. He has
just returned to Australia's Got Talent as a special guest where he made up another

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) - more commonly known as C.P.E. Bach - was a German musician and composer of the early Classical period. The second of eleven sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, C.P.E. Bach was born in Weimar on 8th March 1714. He was one of the founders of the Classical style, composing in the rococo and classical periods. Through the latter half of the eighteenth century, his reputation was very high. This was mainly because of his clavier sonatas, which marked an important development in the history of musical form.