Category: Past Perfomances

The Matt Carter Octet

Suzanne Hawkes 1 March 20235 April 2023

Friday 2 June 7:30pm
The Matt Carter Octet is one of the most exciting young bands on today’s jazz scene. They’re on an album launch tour of the UK, and will be bringing music from their new album Read Between the Lines to Two Sisters Arts Centre for one night only! The album was recorded at Livingstone Studios in north London in 2022, after a successful UK wide tour last summer. Now completed, they’ll play all ten tracks in their entirety as well as other material from their expanding repertoire.

Albion Mills plays THE BEATLES

Suzanne Hawkes 9 February 20236 April 2023

Saturday 27 May 2023, 7:30pm

Albion Mills (Pink Floyd ) return with their take on The Beatles best album sounds

Giles Shenton – MY DOG’S GOT NO NOSE

Suzanne Hawkes 8 February 20236 April 2023

Saturday 20 May 2023, 7:30pm

My Dog’s Got No Nose
A one-man play by Ron Aldridge
Produced by GSP
Starring Giles Shenton Directed by Simon Downing

Giles Shenton (Old Herbaceous, Three Men in a Boat) returns with a “thought provoking” and “cleverly constructed, wonderful piece of theatre” about a man preparing to fulfil his lifelong ambition to be a stand-up comedian, “…puts one in mind of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads”
You join the man as he prepares backstage for his first ever stand-up comedy gig. Something he has waited over 30 years for. Find out how he got to this point in his life……but be warned……the man and the performance are not quite what they seem!

Bearfoot Soul & A Light Left On

Suzanne Hawkes 8 February 20238 March 2023

Friday 12 May 2023, 7:30pm

Bearfoot Soul is Matt White
A World-Class Vocalist, Acoustic Guitarist & Showman, Matt White, a singer-songwriter and performer with 25+ years live music performance and entertainment industry experience.
He will be showcasing his new album Gravity & Time

A Light Left On are a folk band comprising Singer-Songwriter David J Brown & full time gorilla absurdist Simon Smith Daye.

King Lear

Suzanne Hawkes 8 February 20238 March 2023

Thursday 11 May 2023, 7:30pm

Oddbodies present an adapted version of KING LEAR
An inventive, irreverent, and highly accessible solo adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays… Armed with only a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, the tragic trajectory of Lear’s demise is presented to you from the point of view of his long suffering and ever-loyal fool. The bastard Edmund, haughty Goneril, poor deluded Gloucester, oily Oswald, sweet Cordelia, mad Tom – all the characters from this sad and sorry tale are brought to glorious life before your very eyes. Blindness, betrayal, delusion, deceit, love, loyalty, lust and greed – it’s all here in this fast paced, funny, poignant and ultimately heartbreaking production.

Jazz – The Moondancers

Suzanne Hawkes 8 February 202316 March 2023

Friday 5 May 2023, 7:30pm

Legendary guitarist John Parker is back with a new line up – The Moondancers

Natasha Hodge (vocals)

Vernon Leyton (Bass)

Tony Radford (sax)

John Parker (Gtr)

Steve Gifford

Suzanne Hawkes 8 February 20238 March 2023

Saturday 29 April 2023, 7:30pm

Steve Gifford is a highly regarded and prolific country blues and folk singer songwriter.
He recently moved to Ramsgate and is currently touring with a series of gigs along the South coast.
Previously this journeyman was regularly playing in America and Canada but his travels have been curtailed due to the lockdown.

He currently plays solo and brings his unique guitar picking style of acoustic

The Klinker Club

Suzanne Hawkes 8 February 20238 March 2023

Friday 28 April 2023, 7:30pm

An evening of alternative music and comedy from the legendary Hughie Metcalf and friends.
Expect adult content and loud drumming!!

Blake Morrison & The Hosepipe Band

Suzanne Hawkes 7 February 20238 March 2023

Friday 21st April 2023 7:30pm

THE BALLAD OF SHINGLE STREET & OTHER POEMS
Blake Morrison is perhaps best known for his memoirs And when did you last see your father? and Things my mother never told me, but he started his career as a poet and his collection Shingle Street is the starting point for this collaboration with The Hosepipe Band whose original music accompanies Blake’s reading.

THOMAS WOLSEY – THE RISE & FALL

Suzanne Hawkes 7 February 202325 April 2023

Wed 12th April 2023 – Fri 14th April 2023 7:30pm
Performaces also in Aldeburgh, Old Felixstowe, Ipswich and Bucklesham.

Thomas Wolsey – born in Ipswich from humble beginnings – rose to become Henry VIII’s right hand man and the most powerful force in England. But swept up in the storm of Reformation his career followed a dramatic course to a bitter end.
This play looks at his life through the eyes of George Cavendish of Glemsford, his servant and biographer during his glorious rise and his subsequent battle to survive the turbulence of King Henry’s determination to turn the world upside down in his pursuit of love and an heir.
With live music.