THE LANDFILL HARMONIC ORCHESTRA

The world generates about a billion tons of garbage a year. Those who live with it and from it are the poor – like the people of Cateura, Paraguay. And here they are transforming it into beauty. Landfill Harmonic follows the orchestra as it takes its inspiring spectacle of trash-into-music around the world. Follow the lives of a garbage picker, a music teacher and a group of children from a Paraguayan slum that out of necessity started creating instruments entirely out of garbage. Landfill Harmonic is a beautiful story about the transformative power of music, which also highlights two vital issues of our times: poverty and waste pollution. 

Visit: landfillharmonicmovie.com

Follow them on facebook: facebook.com/landfillharmonicmovie

PAINTED QUARTETS

Cheltenham Music Festival - Painted Quartets

Part of an exhibition to celebrate the bi-centenary year of Haydn's birth.

Alongside a series of concerts featuring eight quartets from around the world, over 20 artists from Gloucestershire and beyond were invited to paint redundant violins, violas and cellos.

Artist in order of image above as as follows:

Peter Swan (my father) - Ruth Crawford,

Cath Kidston - P.J.Crook,

Ana Biachi - Mila Judge-Furstova.