Initiates! Engage in your fertility rites tonight! Celebrate the turning of seasons! Dance in the fire! Become ripe with possibility!
Fertility Festival and Bright Colours bring sound energy and voodoo boogie to the South Island on their summer 2009 tour.
Springing from Wellingtons performance art and music collective Happy, Fertility Festival play ancient modern ritual dance music for the health and happiness of all.
A twelve-creature team of home-made guitars, horns, vocals and percussion, they are more a primitive avant-voodoo happening than a conventional band. Drawing on Afro-Beat, High-life, Haitian Voodoo, Minimalism and Cosmic Jazz in equal measures, Fertility Festival promise a spellbinding good time and performance that goes beyond the stage, garden and into the stratosphere. You can dance to it, and kids will LOVE it.
Led by 2008 Arts Foundation New Generation Award Winner Jeff Henderson, Fertility Festival have recently been in Auckland performing music for a production of Franz Kafkas the trial.
Bright Colours fuse African rhythms with ecstatic DIY performance. Bright colours shows are high energy audio and visual spectacles. Theyhave been intoxicating audiences in Welllington for the past year and recently composed sound tracks for short films by German director Christina Von Greeve at the New Zealand film archive.
More information:
Fertility Festival:
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Bright Colours:
www.myspace.com/brightcoloursmusic
