TUNNEL OF SOUND
Music lovers will travel by boat down a canal tunnel to witness one of the highlights of this weekend’s Marsden Jazz Festival with cellist Maja Bugge, pictured. The Canal & River Trust is hosting a concert tomorrow in the Standedge tunnel on Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
MUSIC LOVERS will travel by boat down a canal tunnel to witness one of the highlights of this weekend’s Marsden Jazz Festival.
The Canal & River Trust, the charity which cares for the nation’s canals, is hosting a unique concert tomorrow in the historic Standedge canal tunnel on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.
Organisers say cellist and composer Maja Bugge creates “music in dialogue with this unique space and its acoustic”, with the audience travelling by boat partway through the restored tunnel to listen.
Ms Bugge, a Norwegian cellist and composer based in Lancaster, is renowned for “balancing melodic and meditative improvisations with experimental material, as well as playing concerts and recording in unusual sites”.
Artistic director Barney Stevenson said: “We have organised a huge variety of events over the years, but its certainly one of the most unusual and complex to organise in a canal tunnel. I cannot wait to see the audience’s reaction to this very special event and welcome visitors to the picturesque Pennine village of Marsden for some wonderful music over the festival weekend.”