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Date: 04/05/2010
SharpeWorld Music Ensemble - World Music with Orchestral Background
by Administrator
WHO: SharpeWorld Music Ensemble www.sharpeworldmusic.com
WHAT: Concert event presented by Charlotte’s Web for the Performing Arts
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday April 10, 2010
WHERE: Spring Creek United Church of Christ, 4500 Spring Creek Rd., Rockford, IL
WHY: Tom Sharpe is an internationally recognized, award-winning composer, performer, and recording artist; a sought out clinician and performer of his own works, and the artistic director and principal performer of the SharpeWorld Music Ensemble www.sharpeworldmusic.com . An alumnus of the Interlochen Arts Academy, with a Bachelors and Masters of Music from DePaul University in Chicago, he has spent years developing his unique style of visually stimulating performance and lyrical composition. Blending his orchestral background with world music instrumentation and cinematic imagery Sharpe creates an experience that invites the listener into the heart of the musical moment – wildly emotional and technically precise, with a gutsy edge of percussive frenzy and tribal ritual.
Tom Sharpe's music is a percussive symphony - a sonic and visual feast for the senses. A classically trained musician, Tom has dramatically blended his orchestral background with world music instrumentation and cinematic imagery to create an experience that invites the listener into the heart of the musical moment - wildly emotional and technically precise, with a gutsy edge of percussive frenzy and tribal ritual. Weaving together powerful elements of sound and rhythm, Tom is equally proficient on a vast array of percussion and keyboard instruments. Seamlessly blending genres from Middle Eastern, African, orchestral, and rock music, Tom moves between traditional instrumentation and electronics with ease and precision.
Drummer for the popular artists Mannheim Steamroller and Dennis DeYoung, Tom is an internationally recognized, critically acclaimed artist. His compositions have won many awards, including the John Lennon Songwriting Contest and the Broadjam World Music Contest. He is alumni of the Interlochen Arts Academy and holds the degrees Bachelor of Music and Master of Music from DePaul University. With a fresh approach to world music, Tom's high energy, passion, and emotion, combined with superb musicality, leave audiences amazed and inspired!
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ATTENDEE INFO: Tickets are $12, advance, $15, door
Advance tickets available at the Rockford Area Arts Council, 713 E. State 815 963-6765; both of The Postal Shoppe locations, in the Edgebrook Center, 815 397-7301 and 2205 S. Perryville, 815 484-0940 and JustGoods, 201 7th St, 815 965-8903. Tickets can also be ordered with credit card via PayPal, ($1/ticket service charge), at www.charlotteswebofrockford.org. Print your receipt and present it at the door; we'll have your tickets for you.
***Tickets for this show also available at Spring Creek UCC, 4500 Spring Creek Rd., 815 877-2576***
INFO: Call 815 964-2238 or visit www.charlotteswebofrockford.org
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Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center
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