Small Island Big Song
Our Island
Pittsburgh Playhouse
350 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Mar 29, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
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Small Island Big Song is a multi-platform project uniting the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans through songs, a contemporary and relevant musical statement from a region at the frontline of the Climate Crisis.
Drawing on a roster of renowned first nation artists from across the Pacific and Indian Oceans, combining music, spoken word, and AV projections, this performance features footage collected during a 3-year film trip across 16 countries.
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Small Island Big Song Biography
We are a collective of artists from islands across the Pacific & Indian oceans, uniting our islands musical voice, our love for our ocean & islands to create uplifting & heart-braking genre defying music for eco-justice.
featuring PUTAD (Amis/Taiwan) | Emlyn (Creole/Mauritius) | SAULJALJUI (Paiwan/Taiwan) | OLIVA FOA'I (Tokelau) | SAMMY (Madagascar) | YOYO TUKI (Rapa Nui) | RICHARD MOGU (Papua New Guinea) | BaoBao Chen (Taiwan) | Tim Cole (Australia)
Toured to 17 countries across four continents, 200K+ audiences have seen it live since its premiere at SXSW 2018. It has become a feature of SIBS concerts for encore to spontaneously erupt into a shared celebration, with instruments, voices and dancing bodies rising from the seats. Moving beyond the concert experience, Small Island Big Song offers a variety of opportunities for students and audiences to investigate the environmental, political, social and cultural contexts on our oceans’ islands.
“Impassioned choruses are joined with polyrhythmic beats, meditative passages cool the pace between songs tailor-made for dancing,
indigenous instruments support modern sensibilities and vice versa, sounding like one very big, very happy family doing what they do best
while helping get the word out on a most serious issue." - Tom Orr, Roots World, USA
“Simply brilliant” ★★★★★ - Seth Jordan, Songlines, UK
“For too long the term ‘world music’ has applied overwhelmingly to music from Africa, the Indian subcontinent and South America. Asia and the Pacific have been the Cinderellas at the party. Not anymore!” ★★★★★ - Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald, AUSTRALIA
'Our Island' - Our current touring concert
Framed in a theatrical narrative amongst panoramic visuals of the artist’s homelands, the audience experiences a musical journey across the breadth and into the soul of island nations of Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean, meeting an ancient seafaring ancestry and confronting the impacts of climate change head on, as the performers and youth ambassadors share their island's voice supported through the cinematic sequences.
Drawing on a roster of respected first nation artists, the concert features musicians performing irresistible oceanic grooves to soulful island ballads engaging audiences from huge festival stages to intimate theatres. Combining music, spoken word and live cinema with AV projections featuring footage collected during a 3-year film trip across 16 countries guided by the artists on their homelands.
Read Morefeaturing PUTAD (Amis/Taiwan) | Emlyn (Creole/Mauritius) | SAULJALJUI (Paiwan/Taiwan) | OLIVA FOA'I (Tokelau) | SAMMY (Madagascar) | YOYO TUKI (Rapa Nui) | RICHARD MOGU (Papua New Guinea) | BaoBao Chen (Taiwan) | Tim Cole (Australia)
Toured to 17 countries across four continents, 200K+ audiences have seen it live since its premiere at SXSW 2018. It has become a feature of SIBS concerts for encore to spontaneously erupt into a shared celebration, with instruments, voices and dancing bodies rising from the seats. Moving beyond the concert experience, Small Island Big Song offers a variety of opportunities for students and audiences to investigate the environmental, political, social and cultural contexts on our oceans’ islands.
“Impassioned choruses are joined with polyrhythmic beats, meditative passages cool the pace between songs tailor-made for dancing,
indigenous instruments support modern sensibilities and vice versa, sounding like one very big, very happy family doing what they do best
while helping get the word out on a most serious issue." - Tom Orr, Roots World, USA
“Simply brilliant” ★★★★★ - Seth Jordan, Songlines, UK
“For too long the term ‘world music’ has applied overwhelmingly to music from Africa, the Indian subcontinent and South America. Asia and the Pacific have been the Cinderellas at the party. Not anymore!” ★★★★★ - Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald, AUSTRALIA
'Our Island' - Our current touring concert
Framed in a theatrical narrative amongst panoramic visuals of the artist’s homelands, the audience experiences a musical journey across the breadth and into the soul of island nations of Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean, meeting an ancient seafaring ancestry and confronting the impacts of climate change head on, as the performers and youth ambassadors share their island's voice supported through the cinematic sequences.
Drawing on a roster of respected first nation artists, the concert features musicians performing irresistible oceanic grooves to soulful island ballads engaging audiences from huge festival stages to intimate theatres. Combining music, spoken word and live cinema with AV projections featuring footage collected during a 3-year film trip across 16 countries guided by the artists on their homelands.
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