Dreamers’ Circus
Plus Special Guests Flook
DREAMERS’ CIRCUS
Plus Special Guests FLOOK
UNION CHAPEL
Friday 1st November
Doors 7.00pm
Curfew 10.30pm
TICKETS
Is there a more ambitiously inventive acoustic band in the Nordic musical sphere than Dreamers’ Circus? Formed following a live jam session in Copenhagen more than ten years ago, this talented trio’s sound is based on virtuosic and incendiary musical ability across a range of instruments that includes fiddle, accordion, piano and cittern.
Endlessly exploring new challenges, for themselves and for audiences, Dreamers’ Circus mine their solid backgrounds in traditional and roots music to present a genre-bending amalgam of folk sensitivity, jazz improvisation and classical complexity distilled through an openness to popular music influences. The outcome is a music that is resolutely contemporary and rhythmically and melodically engrossing.
Piano and accordion player, Nikolaj Busk, has a background in folk music but his performance and arranging skills have seen him in great demand in the pop music and jazz world also. Violinist, Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen, while reared in a folk-music loving family emerged as a prodigiously talented classical player and by his early twenties was leader of the Copenhagen Philharmonic orchestra. The Swedish born, Ale Carr, is also from a folk music family and his rhythmic cittern playing underpins the bands overall sound.
Since their inception they have established themselves as among one of Denmark’s leading musical ensembles as evidenced by their recent recognition from the Danish Arts Foundation as a “Special Ensemble.” A busy touring schedule in Europe, the USA and Japan has seen Dreamers’ Circus emerge as international musical ambassadors for Nordic and Danish music.
This is your chance to catch a band whose live concerts reflect elements that their band name suggests – magic, playfulness, acrobatic inventiveness, fun, skill and imagination.
“They’re world class. Now the world needs to hear them.” – Chris Nickson, SingOut!
“Dreamers’ Circus does for Nordic folk music, what Astor Piazolla and the tango nuevo did for Argentinian folk music.”- Kim Skotte, Politiken (Denmark)
“Charisma, talent and a powerful performance onstage.” – Songlines
Flook
Taking inspiration from their roots in the Irish and English traditions, Flook have an enviable trademark sound, weaving and spinning traditionally rooted tunes over precise acoustic grooves, with a rare blend of fiery technical brilliance, delicate ensemble interaction and a bold, adventurous musical imagination. There is certainly no shortage of virtuosity amongst the members of Flook, but the unique impact of this band stems from the wholly intuitive, almost symbiotic, exchange between the various flutes, frets and skins.
Brian Finnegan – whistles and flutes
Sarah Allen – flutes and accordion
Ed Boyd – guitar
John Joe Kelly – bodhrán
‘Nothing short of transcendent… No other band sound like Flook and the new material has pushed them to new, exhilarating heights’ Songlines, July 2019
‘An absolute powerhouse, a flute and whistle-led, eight-legged jig machine. Jigs, reels and waltzes whirl by. Each as glorious as the last, the musicianship as extraordinary, the mood never any less than euphoric’ FATEA Live Review, November 2023
‘Iconic, ground-breaking, progressive and all-round brilliant’ Lynette Fay, BBC Radio Ulster
“Four brilliant musicians. Four times as much brilliant music” Time Out
“Virtuoso playing abounds … the most creative bodhran player on the planet … superb technique plus a genuine feel and some stonking tunes is a powerful recipe” MOJO
