Tour fun facts

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• To transport all of BBC NOW’s equipment and instruments 45 large boxes are filled. It takes six boxes alone to transport the concert dress!
• BBC NOW will transports over 260 instruments when they go on tour
• Combined the equipment and instruments weighs 3.5 tonnes – that’s the equivalent of 3,500 bags of sugar!
• Across the three week tour, the orchestra will be travelling for 80 hours to make sure they get to each concert and workshop on time - that’s over three days!
• Across three weeks BBC NOW will travel 17, 171 miles – the same as walking Wales’ Coastal Path 19 times
• This all means one very big headache for BBC NOW’s Operations & Logistics Manager, Andy!

• They will work with 29 schools providing music tuition to over 1000 children
• Work across six different towns Patagonia - Trevelin, Esquel, Trelew, Gaiman, Rawson and Puerto Madryn
• BBC NOW musicians will work with five youth and community orchestras
• BBC NOW’s chorus manager, Osian, will work with six choirs (including National Youth Choir of Wales)
• Andy Pidcock and BBC NOW musicians will lead 14 workshops for pupils in special schools
• Grant Llewellyn will give conducting masterclasses
• Catrin Finch will provide harp masterclasses
• BBC NOW musicians will perform six times which includes three informal performances, a Noson Lawen event, and two Gala concerts
• Catrin Finch will perform on La Trochita (the Patagonia Express train)
• The whole orchestra will perform two gala concerts