events

Sunday Concerts

Sunday May 23rd at 3pm

SONGS FROM LATIN AMERICA

Diego Laverde: Colombian Harp
Carlos Barcenas: Voice

Diego is from Bogotá, Colombia and has been playing ‘El Arpa Llanera’ (the lowland harp) since 1982. Carlos was born in Mexico City and began his career as a member of the Coro de Valores as soloist tenor. They have been performing individually and together all over the UK for a number of years.

Sunday June 13th at 3pm

Neyire Ashworth presents

STOLEN VOICES

Written & Performed by Neyire Ashworth

Co-devised & Directed by Kath Burlinson

How do you live with the mysteries a loved one leaves behind? A Turkish mother’s passionate beliefs force her into exile. A daughter explores her identity through music, secrets and song. Neyire Ashworth’s one-woman, instrumental music theatre piece conjures up a true story of mystery and intrigue surrounding her Anglo-Turkish upbringing. Featuring 10 characters and a clarinet.

Winner BEST PERFORMER AWARD Buxton Fringe Festival 2009

Nominated Best New Writing & Best Production

Neyire Ashworth is one of the UK’s most versatile clarinetists. Through her passion for music and theatre she creates innovative, entertaining performances.

Kath Burlinson is a Suffolk-based artist who has performed and directed at the New Wolsey Theatre, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and Mercury Colchester.

Sunday July 4th at 6pm

AN EVENING WITH DELICATESSEN

A universal theme with deep roots in every human soul, that of the growing child both in attachment to and in the need to escape from maternal power expressed in poetry and songs from Yiddish, Greek Arabic, Hungarian and English cultures. Musical and poetic moods from anguish to comedy from nostalgia to first love.

• Muzmee (violin)
• Jeremy Halliwell (guitar)
• Patricia de Mayo (oud, bass, vocals)
• Patrick Wendel (percussion)
• Emilie Coulette (violin)
• Paressa Daniilidou (accordion, vocals)
• Duygu Camurcuoglu (percussion)

Delicatessen are a London based group playing instrumental music and songs from the balkans, mediterranean and beyond. The seven piece band's members come from diverse backgrounds in Greece, Japan, Turkey, Germany, France and the UK. From Klezmer to Sephardic, Rebetiko to Rai, they aim to delight their audiences with musical delicacies from East and West.