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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 26 JUNE 2022 4 CULTURE Rock The Fort, featuring The Classic Rock Show, is back... bigger and louder THE wait is over! Rock the Fort is back - bigger, better and loud- er - celebrating the very best-of- the-best of classic rock. For the first time ever, UK's finest band - The Classic Rock Show - will be performing live in Malta on 2 September 2022, at the Grand Harbour Marina Vit- toriosa, in the shadow of Malta's most imposing fortification, Fort St Angelo. Considered as the ultimate live rock jukebox, The Classic Rock Show's eight multi-talented mu- sicians power through legendary performances from the likes of Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, AC/ DC, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, The Who and many more. Described by the Chicago Trib- une as "a real gem of a rock show - sore throat guaranteed!", each song is performed with note- for-note precision, bringing the original iconic and era defining recordings back to life on stage, with a huge light show to match. Anthem after anthem, riff after riff and solo after solo, culmi- nating in a show-stopping guitar duel that is definitely not to be missed. This event is being organised in aid of ALS Malta and Dar Bjorn. Early bird tickets have already been sold out, and tickets are now available from https://www. showshappening.com/rtf/the- classicrockshow LEGENDARY British star Ashley Wass is set to perform a piano recital at Teatru Manoel as part of the Malta International Music Festival. Presented by the Eu- ropean Foundation for Support of Culture and Teatru Manoel, Ashley Wass will take to the Ma- noel stage for his one-off recital on June 26 at 8pm. Ashley Wass's musi- cal career began at the age of five, later study- ing through a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, London. After winning the London International Piano Competition in 1997, he went on to become the first solo art- ist to sign an exclusive record- ing contract with major label, Naxos. As well as recording an extensive discography, Ashley Wass is also the co-founder of Mash Productions, was Ar- tistic Director of the Lincoln- shire International Chamber Music Festival and is currently the Director of Music at both the Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK and its sister school in Qingdao. Meanwhile, his work as so- loist and chamber musician has seen Ashley Wass per- form as part of international festivals and in many of the world's finest concert halls with distinguished orchestras. He appeared as part of a Gala concert at Buckingham Palace to mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and has joined the cast of BBC Proms on several occasions. His most recent career highlights have included a debut at the Melbourne Recital Centre, acclaimed performances with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC NOW, a tour to South America, as well as a solo recital tour. At Teatru Manoel, his re- cital's varied programme in- cludes Bach's Partita No.1 in B flat major, Shor-Pletnev's Piano Sonata, Schumann's Kinderszenen and both Shos- takovich's Prelude and Fugue in E Minor and Prelude and Fugue in D Minor. "Teatru Manoel is de- lighted to present Ashley Wass, for what promis- es to be an unforgettable evening of extraordinary music," says Teatru Ma- noel CEO, Massimo Zam- mit. "In collaboration with the European Foundation for Support of Culture, we are proud to welcome such a distinguished musi- cal star to Malta, perform- ing live at the national the- atre for the local audience to experience." The recital is part of the Malta International Music Festival, presented by the Eu- ropean Foundation for Sup- port of Culture between June 15 and July 13. This annual event celebrates world-class classical music performances, in prestigious venues across the Maltese is- lands. Piano Recital – Legendary British Star Ashley Wass will take place on 26 June 2022 at 8pm. Tickets are available via email to bookings@tea- trumanoel.mt, by telephone to (+356) 21246389 or online at www.teatrumanoel.mt or www.eufsc.eu. AN exhibition presenting the re- sults of a scientific investigation of materials and techniques used in pottery making during Maltese pre- history is now open at the National Museum of Archaeology. The investigation was conducted as part of the 'Maltapot' project, with the aim of shedding further light on the networks and transfer of techniques between the Maltese Is- lands and overseas during the Għar Dalam, Skorba and Żebbuġ phases of prehistory. The research was carried out by the Department of Classics and Ar- chaeology of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta, with the support of the National Museum of Archaeology and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under a Ma- rie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agree- ment. The objectives of the project in- cluded determining the nature of materials used in Maltese prehistoric pottery and identifying their source, in order to answer the research question: Were the pots from this period of Maltese prehistory fabri- cated locally, or were they brought to the islands by the immigrants who settled here? Several material char- acterisation and analytical methods were employed by researchers to find answers to this question. The exhibition, which runs until the end of August, was inaugurat- ed by Owen Bonnici, Minister for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government. Dr Bonnici said that such exhibitions fulfil a very im- portant function: that of interpreting our rich history and communicating it to visitors. The prehistoric period attracts considerable interest and this pro- vides added value to all those visiting our islands. Legendary pianist Ashley Wass to give Manoel recital Materials and techniques of prehistoric pottery making