Little people playing big people's music (see thumbnail images below). Following their success on The Mound last year, The Thundering Herd, Farleigh School's Big Band, is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at the end of August.

Featuring 16 current and six former pupils with an average age of 12, they will once again fly the flag for English youth music at the Festival. The band will certainly be one of the youngest acts on the Fringe, as well as featuring amongst an ever-dwindling number of musical acts. Richard Demarco CBE, a well-known impresario who has attended every single Edinburgh Festival, last year placed them among the top ten musical acts he had ever seen on the Fringe.

The Thundering Herd can be heard at 12.00 noon on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th August at Pleasance One in The Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) as well as outdoors at 8.00pm on The Mound (Tuesday 23rd August) and in West Parliament Square (Wednesday 24th August). The band's repertoire stems from the classic era of 1940s Swing up to the present day including numbers by Basie, Ellington, Gerswhin, and Miller.

The Thundering Herd is a talented outfit not to be missed. Purchase tickets on line or in person at the Edinburgh Fringe Box Office or at the Pleasance Theatre.

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12th July 2011