Nigel Kennedy News

It takes a great musician to be able to hold a large audience's attention with one acoustic instrument and nothing else, but that's what Nigel Kennedy does, effortlessly.

Jim Morrison may be spinning in his Parisian grave at the thought of setting songs like Light My Fire and Roadhouse Blues to symphonic strings, but the idea of the Florida Orchestra playing music of the Doors is not so farfetched.

NIGEL Kennedy has travelled a long musical road since he first emerged as Yehudi Menuhin's young protg performing the Elgar concerto.

Bach and Fats Waller may initially appear to be strange bedfellows but when have music's rules or conformity ever caused Nigel Kennedy a sleepless night? In fact, it could be argued that the enfant terrible's entire working life has been taken up with questioning boundaries.

IT WAS billed as Nigel Kennedy presents Bach plus Fats Waller but the spiky-haired violinist isn't one to play by the rules, even when he has set them himself.