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20.01.22 We’re buzzing to announce that Contra Pop Festival will return to Ramsgate Beach on 20th-21st August 2022. Check back here for the line-up announcement and ticket link on 9th June.
Letitia Pleiades and Ashanti Sharda at Contra Pop 2019. Photo by Sam Alldridge. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evan Parker. Photo by Caroline Forbes. While he has worked extensively in both large and small ensembles, Evan Parker is perhaps best known for his solo soprano saxophone music, a singular body of work that, in recent years, has centred around his continuing exploration of techniques such as circular breathing, split tonguing, overblowing, multiphonics and cross-pattern fingering. These are technical devices, yet Parker’s use of them is, he says, less analytical than intuitive; he has likened performing his