Welcome to our Electronic Press Kit! Presenters (and prospective presenters), here you’ll find everything you need for promoting our event together, including:
– Bios: long (275 words); medium (100 words) and tweet-sized
– video links
– downloadable media package with photos and poster blanks
– tech rider
Contact Us if there is anything else you need.
Long Bio (275 wds)
Using nothing but their voices and innovative live-looping techniques, international vocal sensation FreePlay takes you from the concert halls of Europe, to the jazz clubs of Manhattan, to the temples of India, and back to their native Canada… all without you leaving your seat. From Bach to Bird to the Beatles to Bollywood, Dylan and Suba effortlessly cross musical boundaries, continually combining and recombining sounds to create a concert of endless variety, with the intimate delivery of two people. Imagine Simon and Garfunkel crossed with a Bach 2-part invention… or an acrobatic jazz melody combined with ancient Indian beats… or an 8-part vocal arrangement created before your eyes and ears with just two singers… and you’ll get a glimpse of what FreePlay has to offer.
Dylan and Suba first met in Toronto in 1993, singing in a jazz choir at York University called “Wibijazz’n’”: soon after, they started directing the choir together. At their year-end concert, Dylan and Suba performed an a cappella “director’s duet”, and FreePlay was born. What started as a typical voice-and-piano jazz duo began to evolve: more instruments were added, and more musical styles explored, to create a duo unique in its musical depth and variety. In 2007, FreePlay created the uniquely innovative, all-a cappella live looping performance style that has earned them international recognition.
FreePlay’s diverse concert program has taken them across Canada and around the world, with performances at major music festivals spanning over twenty-five countries across six continents. They have three albums: FreePlay (2009), Go Back Forward (2018), and Talk To Me (2022).
Partners offstage as well as onstage, Dylan and Suba delight in exploring music together, bringing this joy to audiences worldwide.
‘Beyond Incredible!’ (Mark Kibble, Take 6)
‘Brilliant!’ (Janis Siegel, The Manhattan Transfer)
‘Mesmerizing’ (Lauren Kinhan, New York Voices)
Medium Bio (100 wds)
Using only their voices and innovative live looping techniques, international vocal sensation FreePlay sings you around the world without leaving your seat. New York jazz, UK pop, European classical, Indian ragas, Brazilian samba… FreePlay does it all, a cappella. Partners in music and in life, Canadians Dylan Bell and Suba Sankaran delight in sharing their unique and virtuosic a cappella style around the world, with performances in over 25 countries across 6 continents in support of their latest album, Talk To Me.
‘Beyond Incredible!’ (Mark Kibble, Take 6)
‘Brilliant!’ (Janis Siegel, The Manhattan Transfer)
‘Mesmerizing’ (Lauren Kinhan, New York Voices)
Short Bio (tweet-sized)
Using nothing but two voices and innovative live-looping techniques, FreePlay’s virtuosic and genre-bending a cappella performance takes you around the world…all without leaving your seat.
Video
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Social Links
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/freeplayduo
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/freeplayduo
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/freeplayduo
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/freeplayduo
Photos and Poster Blanks
Tech Rider