Music tours
MUSIC groups with the Groups Company appeal to people wanting to combine their interest in music with a taste for travel. Usually there is an interest in listening to and learning about music from other cultures, be this the jazz, blues, bluegrass or country music of the USA; the rhythms of Cuba or Latin America; the music of West Africa or Asia. A music group tour may concentrate on one form of music, or be designed to allow a kaleidoscopic look at he myriad forms of popular and folk music in a particular region. Early in the year the music
Festival sur Le Fleuve in Mali may appeal to our music groups.
Festival sur Le Fleuve in Mali may appeal to our music groups.
Your group may wish to design an itinerary around a music festival, or to tour an area, visiting a different musical performance each evening. Or you may prefer to arrange the itinerary to allow members of the group to perform with local musicians, either with or without tuition involved. The group may prefer to arrange their itinerary around nothing but various musical concerts, or perhaps a more general itinerary is required, with sightseeing during the day and music at night.
The degree to which listening or playing is catered for, and the degree to which sightseeing is included in the programme is up to you. You and your group choose the style of music tour that you want.
We operate Music Tours to the following destinations-
Cuba, The Caribbean, Ghana, India, Italy, Mali, Switzerland, U S A
A typical day...
After a leisurely breakfast your day might start with a visit to a location of interest, such as a famous venue, the home of a musician of interest, or the location or setting of a song. Or, if your group is taking an active, performing role in the holiday, morning might see rehearsals for what is to follow in a few days. After lunch, another visit to a site of interest or more rehearsals may take you through to late afternoon. If your group is travelling on an itinerary involving several changes of location then travel would usually replace the morning activities. The evening, whenever your itinerary allows, might see your group attending a performance at an auditorium of note, or apart of a festival if this has been built into your itinerary.
If your group is intending to perform at the end of the holiday then rehearsals might take up more time during the last days of the tour, before a performance on the last night, perhaps in a spectacular setting arranged through the groups company.
Taking along your friends or family to provide the audience for this performance can add an extra dimension to the holiday, and will also, since costs fall as your group becomes larger, reduce the per person price of your holiday.
For a really memorable end to your holiday you might want to have the performance filmed; the groups company can supply a professional cameraman to facilitate this, leaving you with a permanent record of your group’s overseas performance.
Whether you decide to concentrate on watching and visiting locations of theatrical interest, or to rehearse and perform as a group on a more active version of a theatre holiday, is decided by you at the planning stage. The day inevitably will be influenced by whether your group is focused upon the music of, for example, the USA, where accommodation, communications and the location where performances are given are all well-organised; or whether your group is visiting, for example, the Caribbean or West Africa, where the rural music scene may involve accommodation, travelling conditions and performance settings than are at times more demanding of your understanding and tolerance.
You and your group decide the style of theatre holiday that you want.
Sample itineraries ...
The itineraries below are intended only to give an indication of what might be possible in a particular country, following an itinerary catering for a particular special interest.
No details of meals or accommodation are included in the itineraries as it would be your decision, at the planning stage, as to what is included. You would decide whether your tour included all meals, just Bed and Breakfast, or Bed and Breakfast plus some lunches or dinners at certain points on the itinerary. Similarly you would decide what standard of accommodation you wanted to use.
The itineraries detailed are deliberately short ones. It is intended to give a flavour, an outline, of an itinerary. If you have more time, then extra time can be built into each stop on the itinerary, and additional places of interest and overnight stops can be added. Lengthening the itinerary, to 10 days or two weeks, for example, and adding further night-stops will enrich your journey; shown below is just a brief skeletal itinerary as a basis for discussion and more detailed planning.
Should the itinerary for the country of your choice not be listed above, please contact us for more information...
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