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May20Sun
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The Ancient Mariner3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s gripping and compelling story is retold through a sequence of songs and musical scenes that are sung by a solo singer accompanied by piano. One man retells his sad story; how he and his crew-mates set sail in good weather, but were soon beset by storm and then ice. In a callous act he shoots from the sky an albatross, and then watches as one after one his crew mates die. But he cannot die; he has been cursed for his crime against nature to be abandoned on the wide, wide sea.
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Jun3Sun
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52 Skidoo plus support8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
52 Skidoo are an unlikely collection of drunks, gamblers, misfits and outlaws performing Harlem Swing, a music born out of the 1920’s stride piano style made famous by James P. Johnson and Fats Waller.The band’s pianist, Henry ‘J.J.’ Botham, (A.K.A. ‘Double J’) is known for his stunning segue skills, tickling and hollering.
Howard ‘Dancing Bear’ Jacobs is Skidoo’s percussionist, clarinetist and chief noise expert.
Tommy Valentine joined the band as vocalist and guitarist primarily to help clear his gambling debts.
Other Skidoo performers come and go from gig to gig and are chosen based upon sobriety, high speed driving skills, choice of hat and terms of probation.
The band are happy to hire themselves out for any occasion. They have an album of songs and music from the 20’s and 30’s available to purchase and perform their own shows as well as providing live music for ‘Cotton Club Burlesque’, a dance show featuring ‘The Bombshells’.
In the words of Fats Waller, “Mercy, that’s a whole lotta’ meat and potato mama!”
“52 Skidoo transformed our Manchester jazz club into a prohibition era speakeasy with the greatest of ease. Everything from their authentic swinging tunes to their dapper suits made 52 Skidoo the finest purveyors of jazz and swing. 52 played to our demanding weekend crowd with a fantastic flair end eye for detail that made their show a truly memorable performance!
We can’t wait to have them back with their truly individual style and sound: watch this space!”
Jonny Shire, Matt n Phreds Jazz Club
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Jun17Sun
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Enkelit plus Ensemble Norma3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Enkelit are a small, upper-voice choir formed in 2003 primarily to sing the beautiful a cappella music of Finland. The group take their name from the choral piece which inspired their creation; Enkelit (Finnish for ‘angels’) by Tellu Turkka. Their repertoire is very contemporary, mostly written in the last twenty years, reflecting the renaissance in Finnish choral music. Although the group primarily perform Finnish work, they include pieces from Estonia, Iceland and Sweden.
The group was founded in 2003 by Richard Pomfret, who first encountered Finnish choral music while working with his youth choir, Pongos. The attraction of this haunting music led to two Pongos tours to Finland, and a number of personal visits to the Tampere Vocal Music Festival. There, in 2001, he heard the piece Enkelit performed by Fiori, an ensemble of seven singers for whom it was originally written. Inspired by this, Richard became determined to form a group in Britain to perform both this piece and the wealth of a cappella upper-voice choral music currently being written in Finland.A visit of Fiori to York in 2003 provided an opportunity to recruit interested singers from the audience, and together with a handful of singers from the Newcastle area, the group Enkelit was born, performing their first concert in Penrith in 2004. The group has since performed at The Lyons Concert Hall, York, The Sage Gateshead and Square Chapel Arts centre in Halifax amongst others. In June 2005 they made a pilgrimage to their spiritual home of Tampere Music Festival to sing in the Chorus Review. They have also toured the Czech Republic, and also found time to record their first CD.
Ensemble Norma, consisting of five young female singers, was founded in 2004. The songs they sing, composed and arranged by members of the group, tell powerful stories which taste of life. Their music, straddling folk, pop and jazz, is coloured by improvisation and a rich sonic world. Ensemble Norma has given concerts at e.g.Helsinki Music Centre, the Stoa Cultural Centre, Kanneltalo, the Järvenpää Culture House, the Gyllenberg Hall and the Helsinki Pop and Jazz Conservatory.
In 2010 Ensemble Norma won the first prize in the ensemble singing category in a competition organized by SULASOL (The Finnish Amateur Musicians’ Association). In the previous year, the group made their way to the final round of a similar competition organized by Tampereen Sävel (The Tampere Vocal Music Festival). Ensemble Norma has attended a number of Nordic a cappella festivals and their master classes during the past few years. Most recently, they participated in the VokaLarm event in Trondheim in October 2010. Their long-awaited EP Hei lempi! (‘Hello, love!’) was released on 11 April 2011.
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