Taunton and Taunton Preparatory School Summer Concert featuring Zimbe!

Welcome to our Summer Concert!
The first half of this concert will feature ensembles from Taunton Preparatory School. The second half features Zimbe! which is a massed-choir item with students from Y3-Y13 and members of our Community Choir singing as part of this exciting work.
Zimbe! is a sequence of choral arrangements of traditional songs from all over Africa in a jazz style. This is a work which forges links between adult choirs and massed childrens choirs, placing singing at the heart of the community as it always has been in Africa. And, since jazz grew out of blues which itself sprang from the mouths of African people, what better accompaniment for these songs than a jazz quintet? Zimbe! is at times touching and moving, at other times funky and grooving and all of the time incredibly uplifting both for performers and audiences alike.Tickets have a suggested donation of 5