SINGER-SONGWRITER and melodeon player, Luke Daniels brings his all-new ‘coin operated’ Revolve and Rotate tour to The Convent, South Woodchester, on Sunday, April 3.
The show combines his abilities as a songwriter, guitarist, pianist and melodeon player with an authentic Polyphon machine from the 19th Century.
The Polyphon is a disc-playing music box invented in 1870 and first manufactured in Germany.
Daniels painstakingly restored the Victorian machine, reverse engineering the technology to arrange well-known folk tunes, Cumberland Reel and Canadee IO for polyphon, while syncing to an external computer where 21st Century technology allows sections of each disc to be looped and layered.
Originally from London, Daniels has written and performed both within and outside the folk music world, collaborating and performing alongside fellow melodeon star Andy Cutting and working with composer Howard Shore as a soloist on both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit soundtracks.
- Luke Daniels Revolve and Rotate Tour visits The Convent on Sunday, April 3. Doors open at 8pm. Tickets £10 available from theconvent.net
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