Salvador Ferreras and Bis : ns Co ad } ; oe ier
Beverley Johnston, North ° ‘tie Be ; oo ; ee . ; Ce, 3 ue Bau
Shore Community Concert va : ee: Ce oy MA feat
series, Monday, Oct. 25, 8 oN om i Be y

p.m, at Centennial Theatre,

Tickets: $25 at the box

office, 984-4484.

Layne Christensen
News Reporter

SAL Ferreras is helping
define a new category
_of solo performer: per-
cussion virtuoso.

Described as an “obsessive:
compulsive world-shythn
nomad,” the Vancouver-based
perlorming artist has collabo-
rated on film scores and miade
solo recordings. He tours with
the international percussion
group. Musaic and performs
with the CBC Vancouver
Orchestra and Vancouver New
Music Ensemble.

‘In the late 20th century,
percussion. has come into its

_ OWN as a performance genre
embraced - by sophisticated

-» audiences ‘around the world,
says Ferreras.

“On Monday in concert with
‘Toronto-based © percussionist
Beverley Jolinston at
Centennial Theatre he'll be
hoping to _cotivince a local’
‘audience of the same’ — that
percussion © is not merely
“noise ora rock ° W roll back © Oe, 7 woe
bear. : INTERNATIONALLY renownet musicians Beverley Jo: read salvador Ferreras, show North Van band students that percussion is not

“Avs ‘a full range “of sounds - merely drums. It's marimbas, gongs, birimbaus, cays i véndehimes, throat singing and (both pictured) xylophone and vibraphone.
‘that gocs from the ‘most subtle: —_ ;

_cand. beautiful, lyrical music alt That message was conveyed = students with “rhe ‘opnecia noe : vias asked the Ferreras told the teens. Kebagliati. “They've chosen
_the way to. loud drums,” says to North Van-band. students to learn trom the very bo i) Rew many of them Technique and training are rock as their main ‘focus but
the: artist, who employs’ Inuit attending a’ master class led ‘by. ~-the-industry, says Handsworti. vers comidering a careerins behind the success of'a rock "n’ ~~ they can play jazz, they can play

throat singing, body percussion. Ferreras and Johnston Tuesday music. . “instructor. Bob — muste,a dozen hands shot up. roll drummer. ° | ; ‘| Afro-Cuban .... and that cakes
and West African hand drums. ° at Handsworth Secondary. " Rebagliati. It also gave them a “How do you get there? Yous. “Those guys on stage have — hours in a’ practice room. to
in his performances. ~The class presented band-.” reality cheek, get there “by practising,” spent” the | hours,” "- said) “make that happen.”

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