Category: Past Perfomances

Richie Ros

Richie Ros

Friday 24 October 2025, 7:30pm Richie Ros is a West Coast of Ireland-born singer-songwriter whose soulful voice and heartfelt storytelling have captivated audiences across Europe. Blending influences from James Taylor and Van Morrison with the raw spirit of Irish folk, he carries the musical soul of Ireland to stages far and wide.

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Howlin’ Mat

Howlin’ Mat

Fri 17 Oct 2025, 7:30PM An evening with Howlin’ Mat – cigar box guitar, hill country rhythms and tales from the road’  Howlin’ Mat is every inch the blues man and one of the hardest working solo acts around both in the UK and abroad with gigs in Norway, Morocco, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Poland. …

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ESTHER SWIFT – Scottish Harpist

ESTHER SWIFT – Scottish Harpist

Sunday 12 Oct 2025, 7:30pm

Esther Swift explores ritual, connection, isolation, and the natural world in her performance with pedal harp and voice. A prolific, boldly innovative harpist, composer and singer, Esther works across genres as diverse as classical chamber music and free improvisation, and writes for ensembles large and small. Having studied at Edinburgh’s St Mary’s Music School and the Royal Northern College of Music, as well as with harp pioneer Catriona McKay, she has received numerous prestigious commissions and featured in many international collaborations. She has travelled to Vietnam, New Zealand, Malaysia, Mongolia, and beyond with her music, and shared international music lead collaborations with musicians and other artists around the world. She has recently been commissioned by Celtic Connections, Chamber Music Scotland, Manchester Jazz festival and The Edwin Morgan Trust and performed internationally with her band Emerge

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Chopped Liver & Unions

Chopped Liver & Unions

Thu 2nd October 2025

Blur Fire Theatre Company present
Chopped Liver & Unions
by J.J. Leppink
The East End of London has burned with the fires of rebellion for centuries. Most recently, from the Matchgirls of 1888 to the “Made in Dagenham” workers at Ford’s in Dagenham in 1968, its women have fought for change. Sara Wesker fought harder than most. Forty years after the Matchgirls and forty years before the Ford Workers, in 1928 Sara led a 12 week ground breaking strike in the garment industry. An ardent trade unionist and prominent Communist Party activist, Sara sang on the picket lines, galvanised a traditionally compliant workforce and in 1936 fought at the Battle of Cable Street. This is her story.

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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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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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