http://www.musicofarmenia.com/Andrew Cronshaw & Tigran Aleksanyan's duduk.

Multi-instrumentalist and musical explorer, Andrew Cronshaw,

joined by the poignant sound of Tigran Aleksanyan's duduk.

Cronshaw is one of only two artists ever to have been nominated in both the BBC Folk Awards and BBC Awards For World Music, for his last album Ochre.

For this show he will be playing deep-chiming electrified chord zither (an instrument of which he’s almost certainly the world’s sole professional player), marovantele (his unique hybrid of Finnish kantele and Madagascan marovany), the huge, breathy Slovak flute fujara, the seductive-toned Chinese metal-reeded ba-wu, and more, in a mesmerising duo with Tigran Aleksanyan, Armenian master of his country’s exquisitely soft-toned reed instrument, the duduk.

Their dramatic, spacious music is strongly rooted in Cronshaw’s long involvement with the traditional musics of England, the Scottish Highlands, Finland and Northern Iberia, with hints of recent forays into the musics of Serbia, Croatia and Poland's Tatra mountains, and Aleksanyan’s Armenian traditions.

http://www.andrewcronshaw.com

http://www.myspace.com/andrewcronshaw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUbeGZWPxKk

St Ethelburga's Centre, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG

Doors open: 6.45,

music: 7.30. Admission: £12.

(To be sure of seats, book by emailing music@stethelburgas.org and pay when you arrive)