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EVENING EVENTS & CONCERTS 2008
Friday 29 August – The Lamb: High Street: New on the Festival list of venues, the Lamb is hosting the Ragged Company with Chris Chambers on Guitar, Mandolin, Dobro and vocals; Tickets: Free Entry but buy the beer and wine.
Friday 29 August – Public Hall: Derby Road: A local 10-piece musical performing band, Old Time Music Hall, will put on their well-known stage show of life in the old days of live entertainment. More details to follow. Tickets: TBA Friday 29 August & Sunday 31 August – The Grange: Packhorse Road: This is a return of the successful Poetry Evenings run in 2006. Poetry, read by local actors with musical interludes in the lovely home of Alan and Mair Aitkenhead. This year, readings are invited from those attending. You are welcome to come and enjoy the performances or bring your favourite poetry and join the "cast". John Blunt, who goes so far to put his poetry on stiles across his land around Staunton Harold Hall, has naturally volunteered. Popular local Poet Gregory Heath will also be reading his own work. Tickets: TBA Thursday 4 September – Thomas Cook Memorial Hall: High Street: As part of the National Year of Reading we have an evening for booklovers and members of reading group on the theme of “You are what you Read”. Priscilla and Claire, from “Between the Cover”, will entertain you with an evening of “Wine and Words” featuring readings from their favourite books; those which have inspired and made a lasting impression at different times in their lives. Join us and hear some old favourites and pick up some new ideas for your winter reading! Tickets: £5 Thursday 4 September – Pumpkins: Derby Road: A 2-piece acoustic duet, Afternoon Workshop. This is a relatively new band with plenty of promise. Come and discover a gem. Tickets: TBA Friday 5 September – The Royal British Legion: Derby Road: Those who have been to Derby's Funhouse Comedy Club will be delighted. The Comedy Club is coming to Melbourne. Brian Damage and Krystall (www.briandamage.net) will headline three comedians and compere Spikey Mike will ensure you have a cracking night out. The rating is 15+ as the language may be strong; good entertainment without being over the top. More details to follow. Tickets: £5 From the Festival Booking Office 07962 430450 or Frank Hughes 01332 862243 Saturday 6 September – Bill Shone Leisure Centre: High Street: Those of you who took part in last year's Come & Sing Choral Workshop should get their booking in now. 100 people worked hard to sing Mendlessohn's Elijah and those of us in the audience for the evening performance enjoyed a terrific wall of sound. This year, led once again by Peter Williams, a vastly experienced musician, organist and teacher, you will sing Haydn's Nelson Mass. Peter Williams was the conductor of the Sitwell singers and a teacher and chapel organist at Repton School. He has conducted and played all over Europe, so any would be singers will be in the safest pair of hands at this exciting day of music making. The workshop will start in the early afternoon with tea at the Melbourne Tea Rooms, (£5 on top of ticket price), with an informal concert around 7 pm friend and family; finish by 8 pm. Sponsored by: East Midlands Self Storage www.em-storage.co.uk Tickets: £10 from the Festival Booking Office 07962 430450 Saturday 6 September – Public Hall: Derby Road: The fantastic tribute band all weller is coming to Melbourne. all weller authentically recreates the sound and energy of a live Paul Weller performance covering every phase of his 30-year career with songs from The Jam, The Style Council and his adventures as a solo artist. all weller aim to create the most authentic and accurate representation of his unique vocal style and sound, backed with detailed and painstakingly worked arrangements that offer a perfect balance between the studio and live sound. all weller developed out of 10 years of The Paul Weller Experience, which toured extensively all over the UK and Europe ending in 2006. During those 10 years, The Paul Weller Experience was recognised as delivering the best vocal, musical and stage representation of Weller, and all weller has moved this to another level. Tickets: TBA Saturday 6 September – The Royal British Legion: Derby Road: British Legion Bargain Hunt. Your fortune is assured. An antiques valuation day is being held from 11.00am to 3.00pm, managed by Charles Hanson of Hansons Auctioneers as seen on BBC's ‘Bargain Hunt’. Valuations will cost £2 per item, with a maximum of 3 items per person. Items will be valued on the day including ‘works of art’, ‘jewellery’, ‘china’, ‘objet d'art’ or almost anything. Charles and his team will also be available to advise people if they are thinking of selling their items at auction at a later date. You do not have to be a British Legion member to come to this event. All are welcome. Tickets: Entrance Free. Sunday 7 September – Thomas Cook Memorial Hall: High Street: Last year a highly appreciative audience came to hear classical guitarist James Rippingale in this lovely small hall. It was fabulous, so we have invited him back in the expectation of a sell-out. He plays music in a wide variety of styles, encompassing pieces by Bach, Scarlatti, Dowland and contemporary works by York, Henze and Harrison. Sponsored by: Executive Linen Hire Ltd. Melbourne DE73 8GP 01332 694333 Tickets: £5 from the Festival Booking Office 07962 430450 Tuesday 9 September - Leisure Centre: HighStreet: Rainbows through the Rain (A Message of Hope) Afternoon 2.00pm with Afternoon tea: Evening 7.30pm with Cheese and biscuits and Bar. Organised by the Melbourne Churches Together, Fiona Castle is the widow of Roy Castle, the popular TV entertainer. She is author of Give Us this Day, No Flowers…Just Lots of Joy and Cancer's a Word not a Sentence and compiler of Rainbows through the Rain and What a Wonderful World. She is involved with the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation and is coming to Melbourne to talk about her life, her faith and her writings. Tickets: Free Entry Thursday September 11 - Melbourne Parish Church: Returning by popular demand to this year's Festival, Fiori Musicali present JS Bach's jubilant cantata for soprano, trumpet and strings, Jauchzet Gott, with young soprano Grace Davidson. The programme also includes Bach's famous Brandenburg Concerto no.2. Grace Davidson soprano, Kerstin Linder-Dewan / Malu Lin Swayne violins, Pamela Thorby / Katy Bircher recorders, Adrian Woodward trumpet, Gail Hennessy oboe, Fiori Musicali Chamber Orchestra, Penelope Rapson director. www.fiori-musicali.com The programme will be:Bach - Jauchzet Gott; Bach - Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut; Vivaldi - Concerto for two violins op.3 no.8; Bach - Brandenburg Concerto no.2. Tickets: Nave and Balcony - £17; Side Aisles - £10 Thursday September 11 – Public Hall: Derby Road: The latin jazz singer Sally Doherty Quartet. Sally has performed as a guest vocalist with Peter King, Neil Yates and with Alan Barnes, and has opened for Cleo Laine and Alex Wilson. Her latest album (Second Time Around) is her second latin jazz release (the first being Foolish Heart) but her ninth album release. Her work has been distributed worldwide. She has also been involved in many collaborations including with Italian dance outfit Planet Funk and she recently sang with the Mercury music prize nominee Richard Hawley on his new album, Lady’s Bridge. Press comment on her new album: “This new album of mainly latin jazz from Sally Doherty features an inspired choice of material, an excellent band and faultless intonation and taste from Sally herself, sounding equally at home in Portuguese, Spanish and English. All the tracks are superbly arranged and produced and the sound quality is exceptional. The singing is not only technically accomplished, but very beautiful, and Sally manages to make these songs her own. This release will appeal to a wide spectrum of listeners well beyond the usual jazz fans.” Sally is accompanied by Piero Tucci on piano and accordion, Colin Elliot on double bass and Phil Johnson on drums. www.sallydoherty.com. Tickets: TBA Thursday September 11 – Senior Citizens Centre: Church Street: 6.30 – 7.30. All children are welcome to join Bright Lights for an hour of Magical Mayhem with magician Paul Brown. Prepare to be amazed – Paul is a Christian magician who always leaves his audience wanting more! This event has been arranged by Bright Lights, a local Christian group for children which meets every Thursday. Tickets: £1 payable on the door. Friday September 12 - Melbourne Parish Church: 7.30 pm. Lord Roy Hattersley, one time Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, journalist and author will be in Melbourne to talk about his new book Borrowed Time – Britain Between the Wars. This talk is sponsored by The Friends of Melbourne Parish Church and is follows their tradition of getting eminent speakers; at last year's Festival we welcomed Kate Adie, the eminent BBC war reporter. This should be equally entertaining. Tickets: All are welcome and entrance is free. Anyone who is not a 'Friend' will be invited to join for the ludicrously low annual subscription of £10.
Friday September 12 – Public Hall: Derby Road: There is now a tradition of a Local Band Night at the Festival. This year, there will be five local bands, KOD, Second Hand, Poison Lipnick, Element 104 and headliners The Raw. The Raw recently won the UK BODOG Battle of the Bands. Tickets: £4 From the Festival Booking Office 07962 430450 or Frank Hughes 862243 or Pete Nightingale 864384
Tickets: TBA Saturday September 13 – Methodist Chapel: Church Street: 7.30 pm. Apollodorus is a sextet formed by local violin teacher Paul O'Conner who founded the City of Bradford Chamber Orchestra. The other members are, Eleanor Cooke: Violin; Carmen Flores: Viola; Graham Gillham: Viola; Nick Parry: Cello;Sean Gilde: Cello. They will be performing the two string sextets by Brahms: the B flat sextet op.18 and the G major sextet op36. www.apollodorusensemble.com "To realise that we are one with the Creator...is a wonderful and awe-inspiring experience. Very few human beings ever come into that realization and that is why there are so few great composers or creative geniuses in any line of human endeavour. I always contemplate all this before commencing to compose. the first step. When I feel the urge I begin by appealing directly to my Maker and I first ask Him the three most important questions pertaining to our life here in this world - whence, wherefore, whither." Johannes Brahms 1896. Tickets: £10 from the Festival Booking Office 07962 430450 or e-mail music@apollodrus.com Sunday September 14 – The Blue Bell : Church Street : 6.30pm A chance to see Second Chances? a feature film directed by Steven Dunhill and filmed in Melbourne. A modern day love story with a twist! Tickets: Free Entry but buy the beer and wine. |
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