Snowboy & The Latin Section will offer one of the highlights of the Rye Jazz & Blues Festival with an intimate afternoon concert at St Mary's Church on Saturday, August 26 from 3-5pm.
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00:00 Good afternoon, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor with Sussex Newspapers. Fantastic
00:05 to be speaking to Snowboy from Snowboy and the Latin Section. Now, Mark, you are Mark
00:11 in real life, Snowboy backstage. Mark, you're coming to the Rye International Jazz and Blues
00:16 Festival on Saturday, August 26th, and it sounds like a fun set you've got coming for
00:22 us. It's going to be Afro-Cuban jazz as ever. That's your thing, isn't it?
00:27 It is my thing, and we're quite lively, if I may say so. We don't take any prisoners,
00:34 that's for sure.
00:41 Yeah, and part of the formula is the fact you're saying you've been with these musicians
00:45 for 30 odd years. That's quite something, isn't it?
00:48 Yeah, most of them have. And it's been hard to keep them because they are, for instance,
00:54 my trumpet player also plays with Incognito, so he's always on tour with them. So I do
00:59 have some, what they call depths, to cover them. And most of them are artists in their
01:06 own right. My keyboard player, Neil Anguilli, he's got six critically acclaimed CDs out
01:15 in his own right. So it's great that over the years they've all progressed into their
01:21 own kind of thing, and as artists and so on. I'm very fortunate to have them.
01:28 And it sounds like you've had a good summer then with a number of festivals. You were
01:31 at Love Supreme. How did that go?
01:34 Yeah, yeah. Love Supreme was just incredible. We were fortunate enough to be on the main
01:41 stage on Sunday, just before Tower of Power. So with a band like Tower of Power, we were
01:50 guaranteed a big audience. I estimate there was probably 15,000 there when we were on.
01:57 And later on, for Grace Jones, it would have been double that, I would say. So yeah, it's
02:03 quite incredible. That festival has just grown in, it always was immense, but I think what
02:09 it's become now is just something quite incredible, really.
02:13 And you were saying you know you've hooked the audience when you hear silence when you're
02:16 talking. Did you manage that at Love Supreme?
02:20 Yes, yes.
02:21 15,000 people, that's quite something.
02:23 It is, you know, because what people don't realise when you're in the audience, if you're
02:30 talking, when the artist is like myself, you know, when I'm talking to the audience, if
02:37 you see people having a bit of a chat quite near to you, or there's a bit of a noise going
02:43 on, it's actually quite off-putting. And you would expect that, of course, in such a big
02:50 place. But it's really quite... and because it's off-putting, sometimes you lose the thread
02:59 of what you're trying to say over the mic once in a while. But yeah, so something I
03:06 love Supreme. It was amazing to hear almost silence while I was talking between each song.
03:12 And that shows that...
03:13 That you had them hooked, didn't you?
03:15 That you had them, yeah, exactly, exactly. It's a beautiful thing, you know, it's a beautiful
03:22 thing really.
03:23 Fantastic, good. Well, really lovely to speak to you and have a fantastic time at Rye on
03:28 Saturday August the 26th.
03:30 Thank you. It's going to be amazing. Thank you very much.
03:34 Brilliant, lovely to talk to you. Thank you.
03:37 Thank you.
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