{"id":2082,"date":"2008-10-06T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T12:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2012-08-21T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:27:06","slug":"locws-international-press-release-061008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"LOCWS INTERNATIONAL: PRESS RELEASE 06.10.08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canine Choir Draws an Enthusiastic Crowd<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOver 250 people turned up to Swansea yesterday to experience a live concert from the world\u2019s first-ever canine Choir. The dogs were performing to a packed crowd in a marquee outside The National Waterfront Museum.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo kick-off proceedings the artist behind the project Richard Higlett introduced the audience to the furry crooners before launching straight into \u2018A Song for Jack\u2019, a melody written by the artist in dedication to Swansea Jack, a black retriever who saved 27 people from drowning in Swansea docks in the 1930\u2019s.<br \/>\n<br \/><!--more Read more .... --><br \/>\nThe seven-piece outfit howled and whined their way through the five-minute tune, with accompaniment from two violinists, a cellist and a pianist from West Glamorgan Music Service.<br \/>\nEdward the basset hound provided a wonderful bass baritone to the choir, whilst shih-tzus Benji and Buster and Bishon Frise Hollywood supplied the higher soprano tones. Eva the German Shepherd\u2019s howls offered an excellent alto-tone to the choir. With his tuxedo, complete with a red bow tie, Bruno the cross-terrier certainly looked the part and joined in the cacophony of sounds. Angus, the Jack Russell despite initially getting distracted and escaping into the crowd soon settled into the swing of things and joined in with the music.<br \/>\nThe song was received to wild applause and whistles. Next Richard introduced a somewhat shy Border collie called Zac who joined the canine choristers. This weekend marked his birthday and he showed off his dulcet tones when the audience sang Happy Birthday to him.<br \/>\nThe concert was wrapped up with a sing-a-long version of \u2018All you Need\u2019s a Dog\u2019 to the tune of the Beatles\u2019 \u2018All you Need is Love\u2019.<br \/>\nArtist Richard Higlett said \u201cThe concert went well and brought out some interesting sounds and frequencies. Thanks must go to the dogs and their owners for being such stars.\u201d<br \/>\nRobert Brown, a member of the audience commented, \u201cIt was a fantastic event. It brought together lots of elements that speak of Swansea \u2013 singing, music and dog lovers, as well as slightly quirky mayhem! It was a great way to get people involved in a creative process.\u201d<br \/>\nThere is an exhibition documenting the whole process from the auditions, to the recording studio sessions and a film of the concert available to see in the National Waterfront Museum until the 18th October.<br \/>\nThe project was commissioned and organized by Locws International as part of Locws Projects \u201908. It is run to coincide with Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. A special \u2018Art and Pasta\u2019 tour of all exhibitions within the Festival will take place on Tuesday 14 October at 6pm. For more details please see the Swansea Festival website www.swanseafestival.org<br \/>\nFor further information visit www.artacrossthecity.com.<br \/>\nLocws International works with international and Welsh contemporary artists to create new visual artworks and projects that respond to the culture and heritage of the city of Swansea. With Support from The Arts Council of Wales, The Esm\u00e9e Fairbairn Foundation and The City &#038; County of Swansea.<br \/>\n\/Ends<br \/>\nNotes to Editors:<br \/>\nFor further information contact Grace Davies, Project Manager on 01792 468979 or grace@locwsinternational.com\/old for images or further information<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canine Choir Draws an Enthusiastic Crowd Over 250 people turned up to Swansea yesterday to experience a live concert from the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,10,11],"tags":[58,83],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-heritage","category-news","category-performance","tag-locws-projects-2008","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4460,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/4460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locwsinternational.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}