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Cosmo Sheldrake

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Cosmo Sheldrake is a 25 year-old multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and producer.



He regularly performs on banjo, loop station, keyboards, double bass, drums, penny whistle, sousaphone, accordion and many more. He is an inspirational singer and improviser, and much of his work is concerned with play, nonsense and the sonorous environment.



Cosmo composes music for film and theatre and tours internationally, performing solo and with several bands including Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit and the Gentle Mystics. He ran a community choir until 2013, teaches privately and in schools, and has facilitated music workshops and youth empowerment and nature awareness camps in both Europe and North America.



He performed at a TEDx event in 2013 (watch here) and recently returned from New York, where he studied vocal improvisation with Bobby Mcferrin. Based in London, he is currently composing the music for a series of Beckett plays at the Young Vic, and writing music for children’s hospitals and hospices. He released his debut single on Transgressive Records in April 2014.



“He perceives the daily world around him… definitely with a child-like curiosity and wonder but also with a fair measure of genius.” –** The Guardian**



“Genuinely Great British Eccentric” – **Dots And Dashes**



“Cosmo mongers everything from hedgerow pastorals to high-grade, rusted thrump” – **Ernest Plimsole**



“In a landscape of ubiquitous folky bands making reasonably jovial sounds stands Cosmo, a man with ideas, creativity and vision. His music extends deep into the veins of old traditions, while tingling with the thrust of modernity. Cosmo is a musician, producer, thinker and artist who is redefining assumptions of how folk music can sound. Keep a close eye on him, and an even closer ear.” - **Sam Lee, The Nest Collective**



http://www.cosmosheldrake.com/



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