Tag: live music

Steve Gifford

Steve Gifford

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

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Blake Morrison & The Hosepipe Band

Blake Morrison & The Hosepipe Band

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.

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Song Sung Blue – The Music of Neil Diamond

Song Sung Blue – The Music of Neil Diamond

Sat 11th March 2023

‘Song Sung Blue’ is a brand-new show which pays tribute to the music and career of Neil Diamond.
Stephen Amer makes a welcome return to Two Sisters (previously bringing the Story of RocknRoll with the Testosta Tones and shantys with The Rogue Shanty Bouys) , with a  homage to Neil Diamond’s vocal range, guitar playing and heartfelt stage presence in a fast-paced show, jam-packed with timeless songs and ballads from Diamond’s solo releases and as a songwriter for some of the world’s biggest artists and groups.

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Jazz – THE SIMON BROWN TRIO

Jazz – THE SIMON BROWN TRIO

Friday 2nd December 7.30 pm

In a programme that pays homage to his jazz heroes, pianist Simon Brown is pleased to be joined by industry veteran Dave Olney on bass and multi-talented drummer Tom Jiggins. Their sophisticated but accessible programme will also include the trio’s own arrangements of the great jazz standards and punctuated as ever with anecdotes about the songs and their composers.

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COCKTAILS & LAUGHTER – A Night With Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence

COCKTAILS & LAUGHTER – A Night With Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence

Saturday 3rd December 7.30pm

From the same company who toured their show Choice Grenfell, this witty and moving show tells the story of the professional and personal relationship between two of this century’s greatest stage personalities: Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward. Together they epitomised an era of high style and elegance. The songs, sketches and snippets of scenes pieced together have the entrancing effect of accurately portraying this remarkable duo and the era they helped to define.

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BlackSheepLad with poet Mike Garry

BlackSheepLad with poet Mike Garry

Fri 28th October 2022 7:30pm

Phil Mellen is BlackSheepLad, a Cheshire-based singer-songwriter who plays live indie-folk solo or as a duo with a wonderful Stockport guitarist. His songs have been described as follows: ”I can’t get over how creative/original and good this is!
It’s beautiful and funny and the instrumentation is awesome’ Blue Doll Music. ‘Great lyrics, wonderful rhymes
Mike Garry is a former librarian whose gritty poetry has won the admiration far and wide and his collaboration with Joe Duddell and New Order in New Yorks Carnegie Hall in 2014 received five star reviews.

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