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'... a stunning night full of variety, humour and joy. Singing, music and dancing performed with exuberance and love of the tradition. JigJaw is much more than the sum of its parts.' Jenny Scott, Bacca Pipes Folk Club Keighley, Yorkshire |
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JigJaw is Janet Russell, Rosie Davis, Kerry Fletcher and Frances Watt.
JigJaw combines the percussion and passion of dance traditions with vocal harmonies in a tight, scintillating quartet of singing and dancing talents!
Whenever people have got together to entertain one another there have been occasions when nobody played an instrument, or people could not afford instruments, or certain instruments were banned – the devil was often involved! People did not always sit around doing crosswords instead of dancing. They sang for the dancing, and they danced for the singing, and that’s what JigJaw does.
Drawing on European couple dances, mouth music, nonsense rhyme and songs from Britain and beyond for a highly distinctive performance.
Singing for dancing traditions can be found practically everywhere in the world, bringing happiness, fun and socialising to those lucky enough to take part. JigJaw is about rekindling the links between dancers and singers, songs and dances, performers and audiences. JigJaw aims to do this through concert performances, dances and a full range of singing and dancing workshops.
The group is dedicated to researching and arranging mouth music which fits specific social or percussive dance in performance, and also to choreographing dances to fit rhythmic vocal pieces that they like.