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Reach for the Ska

The Melbourne Ska Orchestra return to the Northern Lights Festival Boreal after a performance that reverberated many months after last year's performance.
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The Melbourne Ska Orchestra will headline the opening night of the Northern Lights Festival Boreal tonight. Supplied photo.
The Melbourne Ska Orchestra return to the Northern Lights Festival Boreal after a performance that reverberated many months after last year's performance.

Drawing on the vast amount of musical legends that have shaped the genre from the Jamaican movement through to UK two tone and the present day latino ska, MSO demonstrate a unique Australian vision with the exuberance and freewheeling colour of contemporary ska.

The outfit have crafted their sound with unexpected arrangements and seductive harmonies, of powerful horns and foot-stomping drums. Each song is like a vignette from a ska-infused storybook, full of cinematic colour and characters bursting to life from every verse.

The mighty Melbourne Ska Orchestra continue their feat for world wide ska domination with a recent ARIA nomination for Best Live Act, an upcoming AWME showcase and plans to continue touring internationally.


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