27 April 2010, 7.15 for 7.30pm
Garnethill Multicultural Centre
21 Rose St, Glasgow G3 6RE

Saturday 8 May 2010, 10.30am to 12.30pm
The Meeting House
7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh

Fong Liu, who sings in our ensemble, will give a talk as well as sing period songs from 20th century China. She will cover Chinese marching music, 1930’s Shanghai jazz, traditional urban folk songs, patriotic songs, Cultural Revolution songs, Madam Mao’s opera, rock and roll, contemporary and pop songs. Some songs will be accompanied by another Harmony Ensemble founder, Eddie McGuire.

This event is organised by the Scotland-China Association for the Glasgow and Edinburgh branch Annual General Meeting. This event is free to Scotland-China Association members and £1.50 (£1.00 concession) to non-members. For information on the Association, please visit http://www.scotchina.org/.

25 April 2010, 7pm
Ricefield Arts and Cultural Centre, Glasgow
Admission FREE (booking recommended)

This multimedia collaboration will draw on Jacobi’s performance and works on paper, and will feature spontaneous improvised vocals and music by the award nominated Harmony Ensemble; made up of the fascinating voice of Fong Liu, the haunting traditional Chinese sounds of Zheng and Percussion (played by Hooi Ling Eng) and bamboo flutes and bawu (played by Eddie McGuire). Liverpool based poets, David Greygoose and Eleanor Rees, will perform accompanied by live music with parallel Chinese translations supplied by Dr. Yupin Chung, Cuator of Chinese Art, Burrell Collection.  The ensemble will round off the evening with a selection of traditional songs and music by the Harmony Ensemble.

9 February 2010
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow

Harmony Ensemble will be performing a selection of Chinese folk songs and tunes to primary school children for the Chinese New Year celebrations organised by the Chinese Community Develoment Partnership.

5 February 2010, 8pm
Craigie Inn, near Kilmarnock

Dave Dewar was the first Scottish folk club organiser to book a Chinese music group back in 2005 for his Monkton club. Now, on Friday night (Feb 5th), he has invited back the Harmony Ensemble to play for his club in the Craigie Folk Club at the Craigie Inn in Craigie village near Kilmarnock. They feature Chinese zither (Zheng), bamboo flute (Dizi), fiddle, moon guitar (Zhongruan), percussion and the singing and martial arts of Liu Fong.  Fong will include a Scots song "The Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon" as a tribute to the current 'Save the Doon' campaign.