This Summer in Glasgow, we are staging BEAUTIFUL BONES, a massed outdoor street theatre and music spectacle to be performed as part of Surge Festival in August. 

Surge Festival is part of the cultural programme for the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow.

We have an exciting opportunity for trombonists of all ages and experience.

Playing alongside internationally renowned trombonist, John Kenny with original music, from award winning composer, Stephen Deazley, BEAUTIFUL BONES is a large-scale street spectacle and musical pandemonium that reframes the rituals of death as a celebration of life. In BEAUTIFUL BONES a theme of general celebration, comedic irreverence and blissful acceptance challenges our own dour and often miserable rituals.  The performance and music draws inspiration from Mardi Gras, 1990’s rave culture and Mexico’s Day of the Dead.

Who can take part

BEAUTIFUL BONES is a flexible musical score written for wide levels of skill and…