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What was
it ?
This event was created to celebrate the years or work done by the project
team and partners
What happned?
The Fireworks
There was 4 tons of fireworks at the "Sea of Lights," with
a combined weight - pyrotechnics and launch equipment - of sixteen and
a half tons. It took two pyrotechnicians working for three weeks to
fuse them altogether for the "Sea of Lights". The synchronising
of the display to Jez Lowe's specially commissioned music started on
14 August and continued almost up to the night itself. The offshore
display from the ships at sea was complemented by land-based displays
on the coast.
Jez Lowe - Music
Man
International musician Jez Lowe, hails from Grantshouses, just outside
Easington Colliery. A professional music man since 1979, his group,
The Bad Pennies, perform acoustic and folk music to enthusiastic audiences
of all age groups, as far away as America and Japan.
He draws inspiration
for his music from his native North East, but admits to being influenced
by his heroes Martin Carthy, Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie.
Jez was specially
commissioned to write for the "Sea of Lights" by the District
of Easington, having already written an anthem for the local children's
Millennium event.
This work is entirely
instrumental, choreographed as a "Son et Lumiére" exposition
for the fireworks at the event, with crucial timings and synchronised
visual/audio requirements.
Jez is now spending even more time abroad as he has now formed his own
recording company in Los Angeles - Tantobie Records - in partnership
with his manager.
He spends half the
year touring with the band and the other half touring solo.
As the event unfolds along the Durham coast, Jez himself performed with
The Bad Pennies in Hong Kong.
Click
here to find out what some of the partners got up to
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