Bones Apart

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Bones Apart

| origin = Manchester, England

| genre = Various

| years_active = 1999–present

| website = [http://www.bonesapart.com/ bonesapart.com]

| current_members = Becky Smith
Sarah Williams(musician)
Jayne Murrill
Helen Vollam

| past_members = Carol Jarvis
Becca Harper
Arlene Macfarlane
Lorna McDonald and Camilla Tveit.

}}

Bones Apart is an English all-female trombone quartet. The group formed in 1999 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.{{cite news|url=http://www.siue.edu/news/TheOarchives/TheOArchive052703.shtml| title=Music Department To Present SummerArts Concerts|work=SIUE News |publisher=Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |date=2003-05-27 |access-date=2008-04-06}} As of 2019, the group includes Becky Smith, Sarah Williams, Jayne Murrill, and Helen Vollam.{{cite web|url=http://bonesapart.webs.com/aboutus.htm|title=About us|access-date=2008-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129125859/http://bonesapart.webs.com/aboutus.htm |archive-date=2009-01-29}} Former members include Carol Jarvis, Becca Harper, Lorna McDonald, Camilla Tveit and Arlene Macfarlane.{{cite news |title=All-Female, British Trombone Quartet To Perform At SIUE On June 9 |url=http://www.siue.edu/news/archives/ArchivesJUN2003.shtml |work=SIUE News |publisher=Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |date=2003-06-02 |access-date=2008-04-06 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305221626/http://www.siue.edu/news/archives/ArchivesJUN2003.shtml |archive-date=2008-03-05 }}{{cite web|url=http://caymannetnews.com/2006/02/1033/female.shtml|title=Bones Apart, the all-female tromboners|access-date=2008-02-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203225837/http://caymannetnews.com/2006/02/1033/female.shtml |archive-date=2015-02-03 }}

Tours and performances

The quartet has toured throughout Europe, Japan and in the United States including performances at the International Trombone Festival, the International Women's Brass Conference, the Spanish Brass Festival, and the Edinburgh International Festival, Scandinavian Trombone Festival, Lieksa Brass Week, Vilnius Festival, Bury St Edmunds Festival, Leicester International Music Festival, Sauerland-Herbst Festival, Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington, DC.{{cite web|url=http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/features/2.3058/blowing-in-from-across-the-atlantic-1.351064 |title=Blowing in from across the Atlantic... |access-date=2007-11-16 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203212958/http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/features/2.3058/blowing-in-from-across-the-atlantic-1.351064 |archive-date=2015-02-03 }}{{cite web|url=http://music.rice.edu/featured/bones_apart.html|title=Shepherd School of Music - Houston, TX|access-date=2008-03-31|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070515045514/http://music.rice.edu/featured/bones_apart.html|archive-date=2007-05-15|url-status=dead}}

Awards

The group won the 2001 Royal Over-Seas League Competition and has also won the Philip Jones Award.

Discography

Bones Apart has released four albums.{{cite web |url=https://bonesapart.webs.com/discography |title=Discography |author= |date=n.d. |website=BonesApart.webs.com |access-date=2019-04-02}}

No More Blues (2002)
Enigma (2006)
four4four (2009)
ten (2009) - 10th anniversary CD

References

External links

[http://www.bonesapart.com/ BonesApart.com]

Category:English all-female bands

Category:English instrumental musical groups

Category:English trombonists

Category:Women trombonists

Category:All-female classical bands