"Fantastic job. You bring a whole different way of improvisation as a result of the immense presence of the ancient nay. This project demonstrates the incredible musical era of exchange we are presently living through when anything can happen....No more rules!” Dave Liebman, jazz saxophonist
'Tara’s harp has something of the otherness of the sea, while her voice captures its untrammelled power and depth. Please, for love, do not ignore this mermaid' - Tom Nancollas
'Tara’s harp has something of the otherness of the sea, while her voice captures its untrammelled power and depth. Please, for love, do not ignore this mermaid' - Tom Nancollas
Contemporary Global Flute and Harp
The Nay flute dates back to 5000 B.C to Ancient Egypt. Faris Ishaq is a world-renowned Palestinian Nay Master, global jazz flautist and composer. Faris has a unique instrumental setting in which he plays the Nay flute, while accompanying himself on leg percussion and frame drum. He has published three albums and performed at the London, Monterey and Panama Jazz festivals festivals. Faris expands the Nay flute's musical expressions from melodic to percussive and harmonic sounds that cross over Jazz, Indian Classical Music and many other world music traditions
Faris appears at our festival in a new collaboration with harpist Tara Minton. Tara hails from Melbourne and she’s crisscrossed Europe and the Antipodes, playing to audiences old and young, large and small. Her repertoire on these jaunts is similarly eclectic: jazz, Gypsy jazz, classical, soaring pop, even, on occasion, dance music. No one who hears Tara Minton perform walks away untouched. She has that strikingly rare entwinement of harp and voice, but in Tara’s case there’s something more at work: a talent made to plumb depths and scale heights.
Find out more about Faris here and Tara here
Faris appears at our festival in a new collaboration with harpist Tara Minton. Tara hails from Melbourne and she’s crisscrossed Europe and the Antipodes, playing to audiences old and young, large and small. Her repertoire on these jaunts is similarly eclectic: jazz, Gypsy jazz, classical, soaring pop, even, on occasion, dance music. No one who hears Tara Minton perform walks away untouched. She has that strikingly rare entwinement of harp and voice, but in Tara’s case there’s something more at work: a talent made to plumb depths and scale heights.
Find out more about Faris here and Tara here