With the very best from the world of free improvisation our February concert highlights both new and established collaborations from a broad spectrum of backgrounds and approaches. Olie Brice (bass) / Neil Metcalfe (flute) Growing out of out of quartet concerts in 2009 with drummer Tony Marsh and saxophonist Mark Hanslip, and then with Tony Marsh and Evan Parker, this duo greatly enjoyed playing together, and shared a desire to explore the possibilities of operating as an acoustic duo, allowing them to explore dynamic areas made impossible by amplification and free jazz drumming!

• Rodrigo Montoya, Thomas Rohrer, Michelle Agnes & Marcio Mattos
• Chefa Alonso, Albert Kaul & Barbara Meyer
• Claudia Binder, John Butcher & John Edwards
• Gianni Mimmo & Gianni Lenoci

• Yoko Arai
• Max Eastley
• Satoko Fukuda
• Dominic Lash
• Henry Lowther
• Hannah Marshall
• Phil Minton
• John Russell
• Hideaki Shimada
• Roger Turner

• Stefano Giust, Noel Taylor & Steve Beresford
• Lisa Ullen
• Dave Solomon & Garry Todd
• Pascal Marzan & John Russell

Third and final day of Fete Quaqua 2010. Sets in order of preformance.

Second day of Fete Quaqua 2010

First day of John Russell’s annual Fete Quaqua which took place on the 15th, 16th and 17th of August 2010. Originally used as a name for a weekly club for improvised music, the first Quaqua groups performed in the early 1980’s under the heading ‘Fete Quaqua’ at the now defunct London Musicians’ Collective building in Camden Town. The basic idea behind all Quaqua projects being to extend existing collaborations in juxtaposition with new groupings and thus provide a fertile ground for free improvisation.

• Josef Klammer & Seppo Gründler
• Dave Tucker, Dave Solomon, Sonia Paco Rocchia, Ricardo Tejero & Pat Thomas
• Satoko Fukuda & John Russell

• Gus Garside & Dan Powell
• Guillaume Viltard
• Kay Grant & Alex Ward
• Luo Chao yun & John Russell

• Angel Faraldo, Yolanda Uriz, Ricardo Tejero & Will Connor
• Elisabeth Harnik
• Nicola Guazzaloca, Hannah Marshall & Gianni Mimmo
• Tony Marsh & John Russell

• Viv Corringham & Dave Tucker
• Heddy Boubaker
• Chefa Alonso, Eugene Martynec & Barbara Meyer
• Henry Lowther & John Russell

• Steve Beresford & Ute Kanngieser
• Pascal Marzan
• The Alan Wilkinson, Alan Wilkinson, Pat Thomas & Mark Sanders
• John Russell & Paul G Smyth