Friday Night Jazz with The Andi Hopgood Trio
Fri 1st April 2022 7:30pm
Join popular local jazz singer Andi Hopgood and her band for a cool night of jazz
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Albion Mills Performs Pink Floyd Music
Sat
2 April 2022 19:30
Cuppa presents – Albion Mills performing the music of Pink Floyd fromThe Piper at the Gates of Dawn to The Wall.
As usual this is a charity event and this time it is in aid of The Basic Life Charity.
Read More Albion Mills Performs Pink Floyd MusicThree Men in a Boat
Thu 7th April 2022 7:30PM
GSP productions present the Jerome K Jerome classic Three Men in a Boat, a rip-roaring barrel of fun with Giles Shenton’s one-man show
Join Jerome as he recounts the hilarious story of his boating holiday along the magnificent River Thames with his two companions and Montmorency the dog. Giles Shenton expertly takes the helm and pilots you through the ridiculous tale of men behaving badly while messing about in boats!
“There are a few seriously funny books that remain great for all time. Three Men in a Boat is one of these” The Guardian
Folk Night – ELLY Tree supported by Misery Gutz
Sun 10 Apr 2022, 7:30PM
ELLY TREE
Straddling the borders of art-folk, pop and world music with a touch of ska, EllY Tree, are EllY (aka Helen Woodbridge) songwriter on vocals, ukulele, banjo and guitar, percussionist extraordinaire Merlyn Bruce and the sublime bass of Andy Heasman who also adds backing vocals.
MISERY GUTZ aka Charlie Law plays songs to help when he’s in a bad mood. By writing songs exploring the parts of the mind we so often keep hidden, his music is like therapy for the modern age. Hailing from Suffolk, UK he plays music inspired by alt-rock influences from across the pond like Wilco and Phoebe Bridgers whilst drawing influence from British 60s/70s folk acts like Nick Drake and John Martyn.
Read More Folk Night – ELLY Tree supported by Misery GutzFrench & Breton Dance Workshop & Concert with BOF!
Sat 23rd April 2022
3.30pm – 5.30pm
COME AND JOIN THE DANCE – French & Breton dance workshop for beginners
7:30pm -10pm
French ‘bal’ Evening with BOF!
An established East Anglian band with considerable experience in playing traditional French and Breton dance music. and song
James Hyland – A Lesson From Auschwitz
Thursday 28 April 2022, 7:30pm
Award winning actor James Hyland commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) with a powerful drama performed with Michael Shon
Based upon real events, ‘A Lesson from Auschwitz’ explores how and why the Nazis did what they did, shedding light on the mentality of the perpetrators and the disturbing reality of life in a death camp.
Recommended for: Ages 14+
This is an immersive theatre play which involves direct audience address as well as scenes of violence which some audience members may find disturbing. The age recommendation is therefore classified as 14+
Proceeds will be donated to charity
Read More James Hyland – A Lesson From AuschwitzFilm Night – THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
Fri 29 Apr 2022, 7:30PM
OUR SECOND EVENT TO COMMEMORATE Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Day )
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2008 British film written and directed by Mark Herman. It is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by John Boyne. Set in World War II, the Holocaust drama relates the horror of a Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two eight-year-old boys: Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of the camp’s Nazi commander, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish prisoner.
A Brief History of Jazz with The Paul Higgs Quartet
Friday 6 May 2022, 7:30PM
A Brief History of Jazz with trumpet suprendo Paul Higgs and his band
An entertaining, enlightening musical tour of jazz history presented by one of the UK’s top trumpeters with a live band. Featuring music by the legends Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker and Miles Davis featuring New Orleans, swing and bebop, through to cool jazz, modal and Latin.
The Muse of Newmarket
Thu 12th May 2022 – Sun 22nd May 2022
(performance times & locations vary)
England has been under severe restrictions for 16 years – with entertainment banned by Cromwell’s Puritans and the theatre driven underground. Now with the monarchy restored King Charles II revives leisure pursuits – and where better to start than the home of the sport of kings. Charles demands entertainment – but can The Players step up to the mark? Where will they find the right play? And a famous actor to star in the show? In Four Weeks!
Telling the story of Aphra Behn, the first female playwright and Robert Palmer’s Newmarket Players in song and humour
Choice Grenfell
Friday 20th May 2022 7:30pm
To mark 40 years since her loss – celebrate the incomparable humour of comedienne Joyce Grenfell
Choice Grenfell features some of the best of Joyce’s delightful songs and monologues from ‘Stately as a Galleon’ and ‘School Nativity Play’ to “A Terrible Worrier” and “First Flight”. Joyce is our guide for a delightful delve into some of her most delightful characters, ably accompanied by her trusted pianist.