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Derek Gripper / Peace of Eden: One Night on Earth: Ten Years After

Sun Jun 27, 16:00 - Sun Jun 27, 18:00

Rivendel Church, Riverdeck, Buffalo Bay Road

ABOUT

In collaboration with Peace of Eden https://www.peaceofeden.co.za/studio/


Ten years ago Howard Butcher and I set up a mobile studio in a small church near Knysna. We recorded all night until the birds started singing. I called the album One Night on Earth. It contained translations of music from the kora of Toumani Diabate, played for the first time on solo guitar.


It has been ten years since this recording session and Howard and I have decided to commemorate this with a gig in the very same church we recorded the album in.


Rivendel Church, Riverdeck, Buffalo Bay Road

(left side of road, go under bridge and it's on the right side at end)


Limited to 50 people.

150 rand ticket price.

Sunday the 27th of June 2021

4 pm

Wine will be on sale from 3h30pm


reviews at the time, when One Night on Earth was released:



“Five stars… Gripper has brilliantly transferred [the kora] repertoire onto a regular six string guitar. He sees [Toumani] Diabaté as the Segovia, or indeed John Williams, of the kora, championing it as a solo instrument. And Gripper brilliantly takes it back to the guitar. He’s opening a whole new repertoire of classical guitar music… bringing African guitar into the classical mainstream.”

— SIMON BROUGHTON


“Gripper has cracked it… his playing has a depthless beauty, which does full justice to the complexity of Toumani’s compositions. To do so without any hint of the music being dumbed down is a staggering achievement on solo guitar.”

— NIGEL WILLIAMSON, SONGLINES MAGAZINE


“More than a labour of love, Gripper has brought a new purity to the dream-like improvisatory nature of these compositions. My recording of the year, so far!”

— TIM PANTING, CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE

DIRECTIONS

Derek Gripper / Peace of Eden: One Night on Earth: Ten Years After
Rivendel Church, Riverdeck, Buffalo Bay Road
N2 National, Knysna, 6570
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