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Name
  
James Poke

Role
  
11th U.S. President


Succeeded by
  
Zachary Taylor

Party
  
Democratic Party

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Died
  
June 15, 1849, Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Presidential term
  
March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849

Vice president
  
George M. Dallas (1845–1849)

Similar People
  
Zachary Taylor, John Tyler, James Buchanan, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison

James Poke (born 1963 in Dorking, England) is a musician, primarily known as artistic director and co-founder of the ensemble Icebreaker.

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Poke studied music at the University of York and composition with Erich Urbanner at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. With John Godfrey he founded Icebreaker in 1989. As well as running the group, he also plays flutes, pan-pipes, keyboards and WX11 wind synthesiser in the ensemble. He has arranged many pieces for Icebreaker and produced or co-produced several of Icebreaker's albums. He also works as a music copyist.

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He also has a strong interest in politics and is currently treasurer of the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, and chair of the West Surrey branch of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign.

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Discography

Playing flutes, pan-pipes, wind synthesiser and keyboards:

  • Icebreaker, Official Bootleg (ICC, 1991, live album, cassette only)
  • Graham Fitkin, Hook, Mesh, Stub, Cud (Argo, 1993) (with Icebreaker)
  • Short Cuts – Breaking the sound Barrier – An Argo Sampler (Argo, 1994) (with Icebreaker)
  • Icebreaker, Terminal Velocity (Argo, 1994)
  • Icebreaker, Trance (Argo, 1996)
  • Century XXI UK A–M (New Tone, 1996) (with Icebreaker)
  • Bang on a Can, Industry (Sony Classical, 1995)
  • Icebreaker, Rogue's Gallery (New Tone, 1997)
  • Icebreaker, Diderik Wagenaar (Composers' Voice / Donemus, 2001) (also co-producer)
  • Icebreaker, Extraction (between the lines, 2001) (also producer)
  • Bang on a Can, Louis Andriessen: Gigantic Dancing Human Machine (Cantaloupe, 2003)
  • Icebreaker, Trance (Cantaloupe Music, 2004) (also producer)
  • Icebreaker, Cranial Pavement (Cantaloupe Music, 2005) (also co-producer)
  • Icebreaker, Terminal Velocity (Cantaloupe Music, 2005) (also producer)
  • Icebreaker, Music with Changing Parts (Orange Mountain Music, 2007) (also producer)

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