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Award winning trumpeter Tomos Williams leads the Welsh jazz/folk band Burum Burum (meaning 'yeast' in Welsh) play Welsh traditional music, adapted and re- imagined for a modern jazz sextet. Burum's music fuses a deep respect for the original folk melodies themselves with the flexibility and dynamics of jazz improvisation. Beautiful, melancholic melodies are performed alongside fiery solos and deep grooves. Burum are an experienced band having toured India twice (2014, 2015), and played at major festivals in France (Festival Interceltique de Lorient) and the USA (Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington DC, 2009) as well as the Goa and Kolkata Jazz Festivals. Burum have headlined Wales's premiere jazz festival the Brecon International Jazz Festival (2009, 2014) have performed at Teignmouth Jazz Festival (2014), and other festivals. Tomos leads the band with his brother Daniel Williams on tenor sax, both arranging all the music which aims to discover a sound and form of expression within jazz that is more rooted to their own experiences and landscape

About Tomos Williams

Instrument: Trumpet

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Tomos Williams

Tomos, from Aberystwyth, is a unique trumpeter in Wales who straddles both the folk and jazz worlds. He has played internationally with the widely respected and ground breaking Welsh folk band 'fernhill' for the past 15 years.

As well as leading Khamira he also leads the Welsh jazz/folk band Burum which uses Welsh traditional melodies in a modern jazz context, which has played and toured in the US, India and France.

He also leads his own jazz quartet 7Steps which focuses on the music of {{m: Miles Davis = 6144}}, which has toured Ireland with the Irish rhythm section of Kevin Lawler (drums) and Andrew Csibi (bass).

Tomos masterminded, played on and produced a trio recording with the eminent Welsh triple harpist Llio Rhydderch and Mark O'Connor on drums, called 'Carn Ingli' which was released in 2012.

He studied Jazz at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff as a Post-graduate student and is a recipient of a prestigious Creative Wales Award (2012-13) from the Arts Council of Wales.

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