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Simon Emmerson (12 March 1956 – 13 March 2023) was an English musician and record producer. He founded the bands Working Week , Weekend , and Afro Celt Sound System . Early life and education
The Imagined Village is a folk music project founded by Simon Emmerson of Afro Celt Sound System.It is intended to produce modern folk music that represented modern multiculturalism in the United Kingdom and as such, featured musicians from a wide variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
The divided grouping of the band into two versions, both operating under the name Afro Celt Sound System, began in January 2016 and was resolved in December 2016 after McNally and Russell agreed to work under a different name from Emmerson. Simon Emmerson who died on 13 March 2023 after falling ill. [1] N'Faly Kouyate; Johnny Kalsi; Moussa Sissokho
Simon Emmerson is an electroacoustic music composer working mostly with live electronics. He was born in Wolverhampton, UK, on 15 September 1950.. Simon Emmerson studied at Cambridge and at City University, London where he founded the electroacoustic music studio in 1975, remaining until 2004 when he joined De Montfort University, Leicester as Professor in Music, Technology and Innovation, and ...
Les Emmerson (1944–2021), Canadian vocalist and guitarist; Louis Lincoln Emmerson (1863–1941), American politician, Governor of Illinois from 1929 to 1933; Ralph Emmerson (1913–2007), English clergyman; Scott Emmerson (born 1982), English professional footballer; Simon Emmerson, British record producer, guitarist, and disc jockey
Simon Emmerson – guitars, bouzouki, mandolin, drum programming James McNally – high and low whistles, accordion, harmonium, piano, keyboards, bodhran, drum & keyboard programming Iarla Ó Lionáird – vocals
Witness is the twelfth studio album by British folk duo Show of Hands.The album was recorded in January 2006 at Presshouse Studio, Colyton, Devon, and was produced by Simon Emmerson and Simon ‘Mass’ Massey from the Afro Celts, who helped to incorporate elements of traditional African, ambient and electronic dance music with the duo's characteristic folk style.
Weekend were a Welsh band formed by Alison Statton in 1981, following the split of Young Marble Giants. [1] The band was a merger between two projects. Statton began writing with Spike of Z Block Records and Reptile Ranch in Cardiff, Wales in the summer of 1981, before moving to London where she teamed up with Simon Emmerson (at that time using the name Simon Booth) of Methodishca Tune. [1]