Jurassic to Jazz is Mardi Brass's unique fun and informative children's workshop which gives children the opportunity to see, hear, touch and play a variety of instruments and introduces them to a wide range of musical styles.

With the help of the special Time Travel music and crash helmet, we travel through history to find out how brass instruments evolved. The children meet a variety of colourful characters along the way: Uoggghh!, who introduces the special calls of the conch shell in the Stone Age; Herodorus, an Olympic trumpet contestant in Ancient Greece; Orlando, from Elizabethan England, who demonstrates the cornetto; Gervase, a baroque trumpeter from Georgian England; Wolfgang, a Viennese natural horn player and finally Franklin, a jazz musician from America in the 1950s, who explains the art of improvisation. Finally we arrive back in the present day, where some interesting effects and mutes are demonstrated in a contemporary composition.

The show is finishes with 'Tale Ender', a story about the adventures of a boy called Paul, illustrated by over a dozen remarkable sound effects produced entirely with brass instruments. To hear an extract from 'Tale Ender' click here.