Orchestre Ruffanti

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Ruffanti is a fabulous 12 –piece World Music Cabaret Ensemble (WMCE) With a colourful , eclectic and romantic show that is guaranteed to start a fire in the loins of even the most hardened festival goer. If you’re a lover of Pink Martini, Nouvelle Vague or The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, then you’ll probably be quite keen on Ruffanti too. We do hope so.
But don’t just take our word for it. Listen to what one of the World Music scene’s top- paid critics has to say:-
“ Ruffanti are, without the slightest shred of doubt, Doncaster’s premier World Music Cabaret Ensemble. I humbly prostrate myself before the towering edifice of glittering young world musical talent that confronts me at each and every one of their truly stunning performances. If only people would follow their shining example and bring back a little gaiety and good, old fashioned ‘pizzazz’ to the concert stage, our bleak , chaotic and sometimes terrifying world would be an immeasurably brighter place in which to live…”
Trellis Nook , Snoglines magazine
Ruffanti is glamourous, alluring and musically unique.
Featuring three vocalists , a horn section, latin & african percussion and a deliciously danceable rhythm section, Ruffanti is a veritable musical feast for the ears and eyes.
The band plays a breathtakingly wide range of material
From radical flat–pack Latino and bossa–nova re-workings of 60’s, 70’s and 80’s hits, to full on latin funk and emotional, smoky, torch- song and swing standards. The unique, seductive sound of Orchestre Ruffanti is guaranteed to get you on your feet and reaching for your handkerchief… Viva Ruffanti! Oye Doncasta!!