Grand Union Orchestra

Tony Haynes's exciting 10-piece fuse jazz, Oriental and Indian musics with an uplifting carnival spirit and a mind-boggling array of musicians. Along the way, they pick up Chinese poetry, Indian and Pakistani classical and jazz soloists and a host of international players including trumpeter Paul Jayasinha, tenorist/flautist Louise Elliott, sitarist Baluji Shrivastav, tabla player Yousuf Ali Khan, singer Lucy Rahman plus dazzling Chinese harp – or gu zheng – master Zhu Xiao Meng.