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Hailsham Arts Festival September 17th with Lyra Dancers

'Chalk' Harting Down September 24th/25th with Red Earth

Brighton Early Music Festival October 1st with Lyra Dancers

'Chalk' Wolstonbury Hill October 8th/9th with Red Earth

Brighton White Night October 30th with Red Earth

Dirk Campbell lectures on Music in Remote Antiquity

Brighton Early Music Festival October 31st

Candlelit Concert December 13th Stanmer Church with Vocal Explosion

Amnesty International benefit December 18th St John Sub Castro Lewes

Solstice Ceremony Firle Beacon December 2nd 7am

Kalamus digs deep into the past and the unfamiliar, bringing forth strange material to present in new ways.

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Dirk Campbell, Paul Johnson, Adam Bushell

Kalamus at Glyndebourne November 2010 Photo Lilliana Gibbs

Instruments in order of appearance: fujaras, duduk, cornemuse, tabor, zampogna, davul, zurna, dudy

Video Dahlan Lassalle

Kalamus is from the Greek for 'reed'. Most wind instruments either derive from it or use it in some form. The earliest musicians discovered the principles of wind music from the reed cane and applied them to wood, clay, bone and other materials. These earliest instruments are still played today all over the world — flutes, reedpipes, shawms, bagpipes — we love them!