Oregano Percussion - Michelle Colton and Alejandro Céspedes - and pianist Emily Chiang.
Oregano Percussion is a Toronto-based group that performs music from around the world. With a vast array of percussion instruments, they combine different styles from Latin to Caribbean music, songwriting pop, percussion chamber music, and world/jazz. Their spicy touch focuses on new and traditional tunes from various cultures. Alejandro Céspedes and Michelle Colton are artists and endorsers of Pearl Percussion & Adams Musical Instruments; Dream Cymbals & Gongs; Humes & Berg and The Steelpan Store. They both have an active freelance and teaching career in Toronto. Oregano Percussion performs throughout North America and recently presented clinics at schools in the U.S. and Cuba. They were Artists-in-Residence, presenting clinics and performances, at MusicFest Canada in 2015. This August, they will be guest artists with the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band. www.oreganopercussion.com
Program
To Love is to Require Love
Michelle Colton
Poets of Andalucia
Paul Elwood
For My Mom
Michelle Colton
Emily Chiang, piano
Four Sketches for Sam
Ben Whalund
i. Little Yellow Flowers
Gymnopédie No. 1
Erik Satie
Tango en Skai
Roland Dyens
Pair Up
Myles Wright
River Rock
Michelle Colton
Emily Chiang, piano
African Sun Walk
Dan Moore
Emily Chiang, piano
Walter Hall
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