Cape Breton '08 - 'Year of the classics'

By Chris Barnes
published

Organisers of the Cape Breton International Drum Festival have named the 2008 event the 'Year Of The Classics'.

The full line-up for the 8th annual festival, due to be staged at the Membertou Trade & Convention Centre in Membertou, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada on Saturday 26 April and Sunday 27 April, 2008, was announced at a previously reported Gala event and shapes up as follows:

-Larnell Lewis
-Aldo Mazza (the founder and artistic director of the KoSA International Percussion Workshops and Festivals)
-Alan White (Yes, John Lennon, George Harrison)
-Ed Mann (Frank Zappa)
-Billy Nuku
-William F. Ludwig III
-David Langguth (Nelly Furtado)
-Pamela Lynn
-Michael Shrieve (Mick Jagger, George Harrison, Pete Townsend, Stevie Winwood, Carlos Santana)
-David Jones
-Danny Seraphine (Chicago)
-Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogert & Appice, Cactus, King Kobra, Rod Stewart)
Stephan Chamberland
-Dom Famularo


Chris Barnes
Chris Barnes

I'm MusicRadar's eCommerce Editor. It's my job to manage the buyer's guides on MusicRadar and help musicians find the right gear and the best prices. I'm a guitarist and a drummer and I've worked in the music gear industry for 18 years, including 7 years as Editor of the UK's best-selling drum magazine Rhythm, and 5 years as a freelance writer working with many of the world's biggest musical instrument brands including the likes of Roland, Boss, MusicRadar and Natal.