Audacity (Live)
Shane Shanahan
FOR YOUR
GRAMMY® CONSIDERATION
Best Global Music Album
Best Global Music Performance
Best Instrumental Composition
Heavy Heart (Live) by Shane Shanahan
Audacity is a conversation…between the musicians on stage, between the musicians and the audience…all unique voices exchanging ideas and emotions.
— Celtic Life International
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Shane Shanahan’s Audacity (Live) is a celebration of the distinct power of cross-cultural collaboration and the transcendent beauty of collective creation. These compositions provided a generous platform for the artists to craft a dynamic new sound that weaves together Indian, Middle Eastern, Japanese, jazz, rock, and minimalist traditions. Each track is an individual journey that draws us into its search for hope, humanity, and connection across difference, at a time when so many forces are striving to divide us.
ABOUT SHANE SHANAHAN:
“Shane’s creativity comes from his ability to draw from the energy of the universe.”
- Yo-Yo Ma
“By the time he finished in a virtuosic jester’s dance, limbs flying as he whirled back and forth between doumbek, cymbals and body parts, the audience roared with delight.”
- New York TimesKnown for his innovative melding of musical styles and traditions, Grammy winning percussionist and composer Shane Shanahan has fused his studies of Middle-Eastern, Indian and African drumming traditions with his background in jazz, rock and Western classical music to create his own distinctive style. For 20 years he has toured around the globe performing with Yo-Yo Ma as a founding member of the genre defying Silkroad Ensemble. Shane has also performed and/or recorded with such artists as: Bobby McFerrin, Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, Philip Glass, Chaka Khan, Bill Frisell, Amjad Ali Khan, Alison Krauss, and Glen Velez, among others. A strong believer in the transformative power of education, Shane frequently presents workshops and clinics at the world’s leading universities and conservatories, including Eastman, New England Conservatory, Princeton, Harvard, and Cornell.
