Category: Past Perfomances

EXPERIENCE BECK – a tribute to The Yardbird’s JEFF BECK

EXPERIENCE BECK – a tribute to The Yardbird’s JEFF BECK

Fri 26th September 2025 7:30pm

A Five piece Tribute Act to iconic master guitarist Jeff Beck.
The Band plays classic Beck tracks, from Jeff’s albums with the Yardbirds through his Fusion period all the way to his latest output.
The show also features guest vocalist O.J. Jennings who performs tracks from Beck’s collaborations with artists such as Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder and Paul Rodgers.
Al Dutton (Jeff Beck’s former personal manager) said ” I really enjoyed you
guys doing it your way for Jeff. I would come again.”
The show features tracks from many of his famous albums, including Wired and Blow by Blow. Other classic tracks played include Stratus, Freeway Jam, Big Block & Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. The musicians featured in the band have performed at many great venues, including O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, the Barbican concert Hall, The Stables Theatre, the Robin 2, Ronnie Scotts jazz club & Sidmouth jazz and Blues Festival.

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Operation: RADAR

Operation: RADAR

Tue 2nd September 2025 & Wed 3rd September 2025
Tickets £15/£13

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE/VJ Day with Bawdsey RADAR Trust
Black & White Productions revisit how RDF (or RADAR as it came to be known) was developed at Orfordness & Bawdsey with a new play – OPERATION:RADAR
It’s a race against time as Boffins Robert Watson Watt and Skip Wilkins try to come up with solutions to the impossible problems of detecting aircraft and IFF (identifying friend or foe) before they succumb to the bleak conditions of Orfordness or Hitler unleashes the might of the Luftwaffe and wipes out the RAF before the flying boys have got their socks on!.But as they re establish operations at Bawdsey Manor and Churchill piles on the pressure, will Air Marshall Dowding retain his sanity long enough to be any help? And even if they do find answers – who will operate the new Chain Home Stations now all the men are being called up?
With live music and a mixture of new songs and old favorites from the period this is a chance on this 80th Anniversary year of VE/VJ Day to celebrate the amazing achievements of a small group of men and women who saved the day and were a vital part of the victory.

with live music and new songs

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Eb and Flo on the Beach

Eb and Flo on the Beach

Friday 5 Sep 2025, 7:30pm

Ebenezer and Florence in: Eb and Flo on the Beach.

A poetry reading/performance with sound and music. Eb and Flo meet on The Beach of Infinite Possibilities. Two somewhat Becketian characters waiting for the tide. To come in? To go out? They’re not sure and neither are we. As they wait they gather up the poems
and songs that wash up from the unpath’d waters to the undream’d shore and try to fashion something out of them, their poetic exchanges ebbing and flowing, overlapping and tangential, cohering and refracted. Poetry in flux, rippling with magic, mythology and fable.
A musician bobbing by stops to lend a hand.

With Roger West, Lynne Nesbit, Paul Gunn

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Claude Bourbon

Claude Bourbon

Thursday 4 Sep 2025, 7:30PM

Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Claude Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish, and classical stylings into uncharted territories.

Claude’s inimitable style incorporates all five digits on each hand dancing independently but in unison, plucking, picking and strumming at such speed and precision that his fingers often seem to melt into a blur. Thousands of people in the UK, Europe and USA have enjoyed listening to this virtuoso and for the majority of his audience it is an experience that compels them to return again and again to hear and watch him play, as his fingers lightly dance over the strings of his guitar and create a unique sound that is ’Claude’.

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Lady J’s Autumn Marvels

Lady J’s Autumn Marvels

Friday 19 Sep 2025, 7:30pm

Lady J’s Autumn Marvels – a fabulous night of East Anglian Entertainment!

Come along and join us for a curated night of some of the most entertaining local music and spoken word acts.

Expect an eclectic night of entertainment that will leave you feeling all warm inside from an evening well spent in the company of some of our region’s finest!
Lady J will be back once a quarter with a new selection of local talent! Get Friday 19th September in your diaries now for Lady J’s Autumn Ma

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Earl Okin

Earl Okin

Friday 25 July 2025, 7:30pm

Earl Okin brings his own blend of jazz/bossa nova and ‘lounge lizard’ cabaret 
“You are quite a genius you are – you have managed to find a niche in Cabaret I have never seen nor heard before – you are simply brilliant. Hard to categorize – musician/comedian or what – I guess you a

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The Moondancers

The Moondancers

Friday 18th July 2025, 7:30pm

John Parker brings his own distinct jazz style with The Moondancers.
Natasha Hodge (vocals) has been singing on the jazz scene and has the perfect voice for a raunchy “Hard Hearted Hannah” or a heartfelt “Alfie” so we can look forward to a wide variety of jazz to .
Vernon Leyton (Bass)J will’ll be providing the bedrock for our performance he’s played in a variety of bands over the years and has proved to be a reliable member for the ensemble. ”
Tony Radford (sax)John say’s “. One of my oldest and dearest friends in the business Tony will be the icing on the cake having and won’t disappoint with lyrical solos and support for the rest of us. ”

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CHRIS INGHAM/JOANNA EDEN – 1970’s Songbook

CHRIS INGHAM/JOANNA EDEN – 1970’s Songbook

Friday 4th July 2025

1970’s SONGBOOK
A cherry-picked selection of the more subtle, refined and surprising examples of the songwriter’s art from a much misunderstood musical decade.
Songs by Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Jeff Lynne, Al Green, Labi Siffre, 10cc, Alan Hull, Janis Ian, Stevie Wonder and many more.
Featuring Joanna Eden (vocals/piano), recently filmed memorably duetting with pop superstar Sam
Smith at the Royal Albert Hall Proms, and Chris Ingham (piano/guitar/vocals).

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