Music Concerts in Suffolk
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Suffolk offers a wide range of music festivals and open air concerts throughout the year, so it's a great place to come for music lovers. Music In Suffolk is always varied and lively.
This Guide to Music In Suffolk is being constantly expanded so please keep an eye out for new events being posted.
If you would like your musical event to be listed here, please email us at suffolkguides.admin@suffolktouristguide.com
Please click on a month below for Music In Suffolk that month
September, October, November, December, January, February
For Aldeburgh Music Events this month please see Aldeburgh Music
01 September - Gill Wilson (soprano) Songs by Mozart and Handel
MELfORD MUSIC - WEDNESDAY RECITALS 1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
Retiring Collection in aid of Restoration Work
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
4th September - Australia’s ‘Best Live Act’ Chloe Hall plays The Cut, Halesworth!
Chloe: I grew up naked. My parents were hippies, so it was common to find at least one of us gallivanting around without clothes, at least through Spring and Summer.
When I first hit the road as a teenage troubadour, my regular new year's eve gig was a clothing-optional festival. Audiences would strip off and dance! Can you imagine playing to hundreds of naked people? I looked forward to it every year.
Now, so many years down the track, I still play my guitar naked. And songwriting? Yup. Sometimes, if I can get away with it, I like to do my encores naked. The trio might need a bit of encouragement, but I’m sure they’ll come around!
I think of my music as naked. Listening to my songs is as close as you can get to me. I don’t dress them up. My innermost thoughts are naked before you.
It’s funny that some people still make a fuss about nudity… I wonder if it’s shocking for them, at the end of the day, when they take off their clothes and discover themselves – again – in the nude!
As Sam the American Eagle from the Muppets so memorably said “Did you know that underneath their clothing, the entire population of the world is walking around completely naked?”
Over the past four years Chloe’s Neverending Tour has stretched from her native Oz across Canada and Europe consolidating an army of fans already turned on by her first three album releases.
Chloe Hall is an engaging, intriguing and charismatic performer – but it’s the simple, undeniable quality of her songs that leave the listener with such an overwhelming emotion.
08 September - George Strickland oboe and his music will include 'Morceaux de Salon' by Kalliwoda
MELfORD MUSIC - WEDNESDAY RECITALS 1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
Retiring Collection in aid of Restoration Work
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.
THURSDAY 9 September, 1.10pm
ZEFFIRETTI - Members of Zeffiretti - a wind and harpsichord ensemble - play a mainly baroque programme which will include sonatas by Telemann, Handel and CPE Bach
Please click on the Theatre Royal's link above to book your tickets by telephone or via their website.
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES at The Fisher Theatre, Bungay
Wednesday 15 September, 1.15pm
ORLANDO JOPLING, cello, with Dominic Harlan, piano
Well known around the country for his stunning performances of the Bach Unaccompanied Suites, this programme will include popular works for cello and piano including the Beethoven Sonata in A major and Rachmaninov Cello Sonata, together with lighter fun pieces.
Tickets from 01986 897130 or book online: www.fishertheatre.org
15 September - CHAMPAGNE FINALE with BRYONY ENSEMBLE to include Season's Quiz Prize Draw Bottle of Champagne
MELfORD MUSIC - WEDNESDAY RECITALS 1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
Retiring Collection in aid of Restoration Work
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
Saturday 18th September 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... An Evening With Richard Digance
The St Nicholas Centre, 4 Cutler Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1UQ
Doors 7.30pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Seated concert. No support act.
Richard Digance is an evergreen performer who appeals to all ages, making him still one of Britain's top comedy and music attractions. He is a rare performer in that he is respected by fellow comedians for his original material and by musicians for being one of Britain's top acoustic guitarists. He has appeared to an audience of 8 in The Falklands, half a million at Knebworth Festival and done thousands of shows in between as well as finding 9 letter words on Countdown.
He gained a BAFTA Nomination for TV Entertainer Of The Year in the late 1980s and in 2003 received the Gold Award from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters for his services to live music.
However, Richard Digance does not rest on his immense reputation. In the last two years he has broadened his appeal, firstly by proving to be one of Britain's most sought after cruise entertainers and secondly by returning to his musical roots through major festival appearances. His book Footynotes, written with Sky's Chris Kamara, reached the top 10 in WH Smith's best-sellers list in November 2008. This year sees the release of two books of rhyme and the completion of his new novel Greedy.
He has worked with a multitude of world-class artists; Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Roy Orbison, The Beach Boys, Elton John, Steeleye Span, David Essex, Jim Davidson, Supertramp, Elkie Brooks and Tom Jones. His TV specials for ITV ran for a record 11 years and on these shows he played guitar with Brian May, Status Quo, The Moody Blues, Buffy St Marie, Juan Martin, Marc Cohn who wrote Walking in Memphis and Chris de Burgh.
Tickets: £15 pounds all tickets.
Tickets from Ipswich Tourist Information Centre 01473 258070
or online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/72455
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_richarddigance.htm
Website - www.richarddigance.com
Sunday 19 September - Clive Wilson's New Orleans Serenaders
The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth IP19 8BY at 7.30pm
Tickets £13, £12 concessions. Box office 0845 673 2123
From Bourbon Street to the Mississippi River, from the old French Quarter of New Orleans, the Serenaders bring to life the magical sounds of jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory and Jelly Roll Morton.
Direct from their success at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, they will perform classics such as West End Blues, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, King Porter Stomp, Maple Leaf Rag, Panama Rag, and more.
With over 40 years experience in New Orleans, trumpeter Clive Wilson’s credits include playing at Louis Armstrong’s 70th birthday concert, and appearing in All the King’s Men with Sean Penn and Kate Winslet.
This all-star band, including ex-Chris Barber drummer Norman Emberson and bassist Vic Pitt, as well as famed Jelly Roll Morton stylist Butch Thompson from the USA at the piano, promises an evening of exciting and inspired jazz, true to the spirit of the Crescent City. The music of the Dance Halls, the Funerals, The Streets and the Churches and Chapels . The music of the people of New Orleans Louisiana.
‘Breathtaking! One will seldom hear this music performed as well.’
The Mississippi Rag
‘They gave enormous pleasure to packed houses. What an all star cast — very much in the style of the masters. Brilliant.’
Just Jazz Magazine
Monday 20 September - In Peascod Time at Holy Trinity Church (Lady Chapel), Long Melford, Suffolk
16th and 17th Century Music, Words and Song for Summer and the Harvest.
Programme includes works by Wilbye, Morley, Monteverdi, Purcell and Greene
Performed by Passamezzo - www.passamezzo.co.uk
Eleanor Cramer: Soprano, Viols
Christopher Goodwin: Lute, Theorbo, Bass
Peter Luke Kenny: Baritone, Actor
Alison Kinder: Viols, Recorders
Tamsin Lewis: Violin, Viols, Alto
21-25 September - Fressingfield Music Festival nr Eye - please see Fressingfield Music Festival - Suffolk Festivals for more information.
22 September - Max Smith piano
1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
In aid of church funds
Saturday 25 September - Musical Melford
50th anniversary concert with the Kirbye Voices at Melford Hall, Long Melford, 7pm. Please click on the link for FULL DETAILS.
Saturday, 25 September 7.00 pm Las Guitarras: Classical guitar duo, Nicholas Edwards and Angus Scott, perform a wide repertoire of duets and solos that range through early music, baroque, classical and Latin styles.
St Mary’s Church, Harkstead, IP9 4DL
Tickets £8.00.
Further information from Sally Wilden (01473-327140, Eleanor Soar (01473-328291)
Sunday 26 September - East Anglian Academy Concerts 2010 Programme
- Consort music of the English Renaissance : Dowland and his contemporaries
St Batholomew’s Church, Orford, at 3.00 p.m
Galliada Viol Consort
Jon Hutchings, Organ
Tickets available on the door: £8, students £4 or from Orford Supply Stores and Framlingham Stationers
The East Anglian Academy promotes concerts and workshops encouraging interest in organs and other keyboard instruments of historical and musical note, as well as providing bursaries for the education of students in organ playing.
Its Musical Director is Jon Hutchings, a very talented organist and Deputy Head of Music at Framlingham College.
29 September - Joseph Cooper tenor
1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
In aid of church funds
Saturday 2nd October - Come & Sing Karl Jenkins 'The Armed Man' a Mass for Peace at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD
Registration @ 9.30am
Rehearse @ 10.00am
Free Public Performance @ 4.00pm
The Conductor is Leslie Olive and accompanist Ian Le Grice,
Singers £10 Participating Schoolchildren £1
Bring your Music and Lunch we will provide Hot drinks and scores for those who do not have them
Tickets available from Landers Bookshop in Long Melford or Compact Music in Sudbury or from Jilly Cooper Tel: 281836
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: TUESDAY 5 October, 1.10pm at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
SAM PIHA, classical guitar - An exciting programme, including music from the
classical guitar repertoire through to Spanish gypsy pieces, Brazilian
classics and Celtic folk melodies, together with Sam's own compositions.
Tickets available from the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds by telephone and via the website.
On Tuesday 12th October the Suffolk Constabulary Male Voice Choir will give a concert in aid of the East Anglia's Children's Hospices Treehouse Appeal at St Andrew's Church, Rushmere St Andrew. They will be joined by the Ministry of Interior Male Voice Choir Sakalas from Lithuania who are in Suffolk or a ten-day tour.
The concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets priced £6.00 are available from the Choir Secretary on 01449 672600 or email scmvc@scwade.eclipse.co.uk or can be purchased on the door.
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: Wednesday 13 October, 1.15pm, The Fisher Theatre, Bungay
SAM PIHA, classical guitar - An exciting programme, including music from the
classical guitar repertoire through to Spanish gypsy pieces, Brazilian
classics and Celtic folk melodies, together with Sam's own compositions.
Tickets from 01986 897130 or book online: www.fishertheatre.org
Saturday 23rd October 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents...The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Ipswich Regent Theatre, 3 St Helen's Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 1HE
Doors 7.30pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Seated concert. No support act.
Ticket Price: ranging from £21 pounds to £25 pounds
Tickets from 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_uogb.htm
A group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players (the clue is in the name), using instruments bought with loose change, which holds that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele.
A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, twanging, awesome, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the "bonsai guitar" and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies.
Sunday 31 October - East Anglian Academy Concerts 2010 Programme
- The French Connection: Handel and Rameau
Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh, at 3.00 p.m.
Sue Williams
The Eisenach Ensemble, director Christine Giffen
Tickets £12.50
The East Anglian Academy promotes concerts and workshops encouraging interest in organs and other keyboard instruments of historical and musical note, as well as providing bursaries for the education of students in organ playing.
Its Musical Director is Jon Hutchings, a very talented organist and Deputy Head of Music at Framlingham College.
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: TUESDAY 9 November, 1.10pm at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
KAY DAWSON, French horn, with JOHN STAFFORD, piano - Renowned as one of the most difficult instruments, performer and teacher Kay Dawson will make the
French horn sound easy and entertaining in this programme, including works by Franz Strauss, Schumann.
Tickets available from the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds by telephone and via the website.
Friday 12th November 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... Martyn Joseph
The St Nicholas Centre, 4 Cutler Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1UQ
Doors 7pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Seated concert. No support act.
Ticket Price: £15 pounds all tickets.
From from Ipswich Tourist Information Centre 01473 258070
or online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86942
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_martynjoseph.html
Saturday 13th November, 7.30 pm - Sudbury Symphony Orchestra Autumn Concert
at St Peter's, Market Hill, Sudbury, CO10 1TL
Conductor: Matthew Andrews
Leader: Maggie Hughes
Beethoven Egmont Overture
Mozart Concerto for Clarinet, K.622 A major - soloist Emily Sutcliffe
Haydn Symphony No 101, D major (The Clock)
Tickets £10 (children £2) through website - www.sudburysymphonyorchestra.com or from
Compact Music, North Street, Sudbury, 3 Beaconsfield Close, Sudbury CO10 1JR (send cheque and SAE)
A limited number of tickets will be available on the door
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: Wednesday 17 November, 1.15pm, The Fisher Theatre, Bungay
ZEFFIRETTI - Members of Zeffiretti - a wind and harpsichord ensemble - play a mainly baroque programme which will include sonatas by Telemann, Handel and CPE Bach
Tickets from 01986 897130 or book online: www.fishertheatre.org
Friday 26th November 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... Show of Hands + support
The Corn Exchange, King Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1DH
Doors 7.30pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Support TBC. Seated concert.
Ticket Price: £18 pounds all tickets.
Tickets from 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_showofhands2010.html
After a summer of festival appearances, hot property band Show of Hands - 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards double winners - come to the Corn Exchange Ipswich showing why they have been showered with accolades. Singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer won Best Duo, and Best Original Song for the title track of their album Arrogance Ignorance and Greed, a no-holds- barred track about bankers bonuses and MPs expenses, featured on BBC1’s Breakfast TV. Accompanied by striking double bass player/ vocalist Miranda Sykes, England’s finest acoustic roots act will be showcasing the AIG album and delving into their rich back catalogue of original material.
"One of the great English bands” – Peter Gabriel
“This is a band performing at its passionate peak” – The Independent
“Steve Knightley is one of England’s greatest singer songwriters” – Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2
“Phil Beer can play virtually every stringed instrument known to man” – The Scotsman
Sunday 28th November 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... Bellowhead + support
The Corn Exchange, King Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1DH
Doors 7.30pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Support TBC. This is a standing concert although balcony seating will be available.
Ticket Price: £15 pounds (students and concessions), £18 pounds (standing), £21.50 pounds (seating).
Tickets from 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_bellowhead.htm
"With the exception of the Who, Bellowhead are surely the best live act in the country" - The Independent
The mighty, 11 piece BELLOWHEAD have been described as 'The biggest, rowdiest and quite probably best thing to have happened to English Folk' by Q Magazine. Merging folk, jazz, soul and world music influences with a twist of English Music Hall, Bellowhead play more than 20 instruments in a unique mix that defies easy categorisation. They are winners of an unparalled 4 BBC Radio 2 Awards for BEST LIVE BAND, are Artists-in-Residence at the Southbank in London and recently recorded their 3rd album at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
Friday 3rd December 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... LAU + support
The St Nicholas Centre, 4 Cutler Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1UQ
Doors 7pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Support TBC. Seated concert.
Ticket price: £14 pounds all tickets
Tickets from Ipswich Tourist Information Centre 01473 258070
or online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86943
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_lau.html
Ipswich Gilbert & Sullivan Society present: Musical Highlights for all Tastes!
An evening with an accomplished group of soloists and chorus singing everything from Bach to the Beatles!
Saturday 11th December at 7:30pm
St Mary & St Botolph’s Church, Whitton Church Lane, IPSWICH, IP1 6LT
in aid of Church Funds.
Tickets: Tel. Angela Marjoram, 01473 743385
Friday 18th February 2011 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... Nine Below Zero
The Manor Ballroom, 4 St. Margaret's Green, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 2BP
Doors 8pm. Performance starts at 8.30pm. Standing concert. No support act.
Ticket Price: £13 pounds advance / £15 pounds door.
Tickets from Ipswich Tourist Information Centre 01473 258070
or online at www.wegottickets.com
For more information - www.bpa-live.com/movers_nbz.htm
If you are arranging a musical event in Suffolk and would like to publicise it, please email us at suffolkguides.admin@suffolktouristguide.com with full details and we will add it to this article.
This Guide to Music In Suffolk is being constantly expanded so please keep an eye out for new events being posted.
If you would like your musical event to be listed here, please email us at suffolkguides.admin@suffolktouristguide.com
Please click on a month below for Music In Suffolk that month
September, October, November, December, January, February
For Aldeburgh Music Events this month please see Aldeburgh Music
Suffolk Music Concerts September
01 September - Gill Wilson (soprano) Songs by Mozart and Handel
MELfORD MUSIC - WEDNESDAY RECITALS 1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
Retiring Collection in aid of Restoration Work
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
4th September - Australia’s ‘Best Live Act’ Chloe Hall plays The Cut, Halesworth!
Chloe: I grew up naked. My parents were hippies, so it was common to find at least one of us gallivanting around without clothes, at least through Spring and Summer.
When I first hit the road as a teenage troubadour, my regular new year's eve gig was a clothing-optional festival. Audiences would strip off and dance! Can you imagine playing to hundreds of naked people? I looked forward to it every year.
Now, so many years down the track, I still play my guitar naked. And songwriting? Yup. Sometimes, if I can get away with it, I like to do my encores naked. The trio might need a bit of encouragement, but I’m sure they’ll come around!
I think of my music as naked. Listening to my songs is as close as you can get to me. I don’t dress them up. My innermost thoughts are naked before you.
It’s funny that some people still make a fuss about nudity… I wonder if it’s shocking for them, at the end of the day, when they take off their clothes and discover themselves – again – in the nude!
As Sam the American Eagle from the Muppets so memorably said “Did you know that underneath their clothing, the entire population of the world is walking around completely naked?”
Over the past four years Chloe’s Neverending Tour has stretched from her native Oz across Canada and Europe consolidating an army of fans already turned on by her first three album releases.
Chloe Hall is an engaging, intriguing and charismatic performer – but it’s the simple, undeniable quality of her songs that leave the listener with such an overwhelming emotion.
08 September - George Strickland oboe and his music will include 'Morceaux de Salon' by Kalliwoda
MELfORD MUSIC - WEDNESDAY RECITALS 1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
Retiring Collection in aid of Restoration Work
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds.
THURSDAY 9 September, 1.10pm
ZEFFIRETTI - Members of Zeffiretti - a wind and harpsichord ensemble - play a mainly baroque programme which will include sonatas by Telemann, Handel and CPE Bach
Please click on the Theatre Royal's link above to book your tickets by telephone or via their website.
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES at The Fisher Theatre, Bungay
Wednesday 15 September, 1.15pm
ORLANDO JOPLING, cello, with Dominic Harlan, piano
Well known around the country for his stunning performances of the Bach Unaccompanied Suites, this programme will include popular works for cello and piano including the Beethoven Sonata in A major and Rachmaninov Cello Sonata, together with lighter fun pieces.
Tickets from 01986 897130 or book online: www.fishertheatre.org
15 September - CHAMPAGNE FINALE with BRYONY ENSEMBLE to include Season's Quiz Prize Draw Bottle of Champagne
MELfORD MUSIC - WEDNESDAY RECITALS 1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
Retiring Collection in aid of Restoration Work
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE
Saturday 18th September 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... An Evening With Richard Digance
The St Nicholas Centre, 4 Cutler Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1UQ
Doors 7.30pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Seated concert. No support act.
Richard Digance is an evergreen performer who appeals to all ages, making him still one of Britain's top comedy and music attractions. He is a rare performer in that he is respected by fellow comedians for his original material and by musicians for being one of Britain's top acoustic guitarists. He has appeared to an audience of 8 in The Falklands, half a million at Knebworth Festival and done thousands of shows in between as well as finding 9 letter words on Countdown.
He gained a BAFTA Nomination for TV Entertainer Of The Year in the late 1980s and in 2003 received the Gold Award from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters for his services to live music.
However, Richard Digance does not rest on his immense reputation. In the last two years he has broadened his appeal, firstly by proving to be one of Britain's most sought after cruise entertainers and secondly by returning to his musical roots through major festival appearances. His book Footynotes, written with Sky's Chris Kamara, reached the top 10 in WH Smith's best-sellers list in November 2008. This year sees the release of two books of rhyme and the completion of his new novel Greedy.
He has worked with a multitude of world-class artists; Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Roy Orbison, The Beach Boys, Elton John, Steeleye Span, David Essex, Jim Davidson, Supertramp, Elkie Brooks and Tom Jones. His TV specials for ITV ran for a record 11 years and on these shows he played guitar with Brian May, Status Quo, The Moody Blues, Buffy St Marie, Juan Martin, Marc Cohn who wrote Walking in Memphis and Chris de Burgh.
Tickets: £15 pounds all tickets.
Tickets from Ipswich Tourist Information Centre 01473 258070
or online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/72455
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_richarddigance.htm
Website - www.richarddigance.com
Sunday 19 September - Clive Wilson's New Orleans Serenaders
The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth IP19 8BY at 7.30pm
Tickets £13, £12 concessions. Box office 0845 673 2123
From Bourbon Street to the Mississippi River, from the old French Quarter of New Orleans, the Serenaders bring to life the magical sounds of jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory and Jelly Roll Morton.
Direct from their success at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, they will perform classics such as West End Blues, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, King Porter Stomp, Maple Leaf Rag, Panama Rag, and more.
With over 40 years experience in New Orleans, trumpeter Clive Wilson’s credits include playing at Louis Armstrong’s 70th birthday concert, and appearing in All the King’s Men with Sean Penn and Kate Winslet.
This all-star band, including ex-Chris Barber drummer Norman Emberson and bassist Vic Pitt, as well as famed Jelly Roll Morton stylist Butch Thompson from the USA at the piano, promises an evening of exciting and inspired jazz, true to the spirit of the Crescent City. The music of the Dance Halls, the Funerals, The Streets and the Churches and Chapels . The music of the people of New Orleans Louisiana.
‘Breathtaking! One will seldom hear this music performed as well.’
The Mississippi Rag
‘They gave enormous pleasure to packed houses. What an all star cast — very much in the style of the masters. Brilliant.’
Just Jazz Magazine
Monday 20 September - In Peascod Time at Holy Trinity Church (Lady Chapel), Long Melford, Suffolk
16th and 17th Century Music, Words and Song for Summer and the Harvest.
Programme includes works by Wilbye, Morley, Monteverdi, Purcell and Greene
Performed by Passamezzo - www.passamezzo.co.uk
Eleanor Cramer: Soprano, Viols
Christopher Goodwin: Lute, Theorbo, Bass
Peter Luke Kenny: Baritone, Actor
Alison Kinder: Viols, Recorders
Tamsin Lewis: Violin, Viols, Alto
21-25 September - Fressingfield Music Festival nr Eye - please see Fressingfield Music Festival - Suffolk Festivals for more information.
22 September - Max Smith piano
1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
In aid of church funds
Saturday 25 September - Musical Melford
50th anniversary concert with the Kirbye Voices at Melford Hall, Long Melford, 7pm. Please click on the link for FULL DETAILS.
Saturday, 25 September 7.00 pm Las Guitarras: Classical guitar duo, Nicholas Edwards and Angus Scott, perform a wide repertoire of duets and solos that range through early music, baroque, classical and Latin styles.
St Mary’s Church, Harkstead, IP9 4DL
Tickets £8.00.
Further information from Sally Wilden (01473-327140, Eleanor Soar (01473-328291)
Sunday 26 September - East Anglian Academy Concerts 2010 Programme
- Consort music of the English Renaissance : Dowland and his contemporaries
St Batholomew’s Church, Orford, at 3.00 p.m
Galliada Viol Consort
Jon Hutchings, Organ
Tickets available on the door: £8, students £4 or from Orford Supply Stores and Framlingham Stationers
The East Anglian Academy promotes concerts and workshops encouraging interest in organs and other keyboard instruments of historical and musical note, as well as providing bursaries for the education of students in organ playing.
Its Musical Director is Jon Hutchings, a very talented organist and Deputy Head of Music at Framlingham College.
29 September - Joseph Cooper tenor
1.10pm at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD - ADMISSION FREE
In aid of church funds
Suffolk Music Concerts October
Saturday 2nd October - Come & Sing Karl Jenkins 'The Armed Man' a Mass for Peace at HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, LONG MELFORD
Registration @ 9.30am
Rehearse @ 10.00am
Free Public Performance @ 4.00pm
The Conductor is Leslie Olive and accompanist Ian Le Grice,
Singers £10 Participating Schoolchildren £1
Bring your Music and Lunch we will provide Hot drinks and scores for those who do not have them
Tickets available from Landers Bookshop in Long Melford or Compact Music in Sudbury or from Jilly Cooper Tel: 281836
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: TUESDAY 5 October, 1.10pm at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
SAM PIHA, classical guitar - An exciting programme, including music from the
classical guitar repertoire through to Spanish gypsy pieces, Brazilian
classics and Celtic folk melodies, together with Sam's own compositions.
Tickets available from the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds by telephone and via the website.
On Tuesday 12th October the Suffolk Constabulary Male Voice Choir will give a concert in aid of the East Anglia's Children's Hospices Treehouse Appeal at St Andrew's Church, Rushmere St Andrew. They will be joined by the Ministry of Interior Male Voice Choir Sakalas from Lithuania who are in Suffolk or a ten-day tour.
The concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets priced £6.00 are available from the Choir Secretary on 01449 672600 or email scmvc@scwade.eclipse.co.uk or can be purchased on the door.
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: Wednesday 13 October, 1.15pm, The Fisher Theatre, Bungay
SAM PIHA, classical guitar - An exciting programme, including music from the
classical guitar repertoire through to Spanish gypsy pieces, Brazilian
classics and Celtic folk melodies, together with Sam's own compositions.
Tickets from 01986 897130 or book online: www.fishertheatre.org
Saturday 23rd October 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents...The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Ipswich Regent Theatre, 3 St Helen's Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 1HE
Doors 7.30pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Seated concert. No support act.
Ticket Price: ranging from £21 pounds to £25 pounds
Tickets from 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_uogb.htm
A group of all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele players (the clue is in the name), using instruments bought with loose change, which holds that all genres of music are available for reinterpretation, as long as they are played on the Ukulele.
A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, twanging, awesome, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the "bonsai guitar" and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies.
Sunday 31 October - East Anglian Academy Concerts 2010 Programme
- The French Connection: Handel and Rameau
Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh, at 3.00 p.m.
Sue Williams
The Eisenach Ensemble, director Christine Giffen
Tickets £12.50
The East Anglian Academy promotes concerts and workshops encouraging interest in organs and other keyboard instruments of historical and musical note, as well as providing bursaries for the education of students in organ playing.
Its Musical Director is Jon Hutchings, a very talented organist and Deputy Head of Music at Framlingham College.
Suffolk Music Concerts November
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: TUESDAY 9 November, 1.10pm at The Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds
KAY DAWSON, French horn, with JOHN STAFFORD, piano - Renowned as one of the most difficult instruments, performer and teacher Kay Dawson will make the
French horn sound easy and entertaining in this programme, including works by Franz Strauss, Schumann.
Tickets available from the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds by telephone and via the website.
Friday 12th November 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... Martyn Joseph
The St Nicholas Centre, 4 Cutler Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1UQ
Doors 7pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Seated concert. No support act.
Ticket Price: £15 pounds all tickets.
From from Ipswich Tourist Information Centre 01473 258070
or online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86942
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_martynjoseph.html
Saturday 13th November, 7.30 pm - Sudbury Symphony Orchestra Autumn Concert
at St Peter's, Market Hill, Sudbury, CO10 1TL
Conductor: Matthew Andrews
Leader: Maggie Hughes
Beethoven Egmont Overture
Mozart Concerto for Clarinet, K.622 A major - soloist Emily Sutcliffe
Haydn Symphony No 101, D major (The Clock)
Tickets £10 (children £2) through website - www.sudburysymphonyorchestra.com or from
Compact Music, North Street, Sudbury, 3 Beaconsfield Close, Sudbury CO10 1JR (send cheque and SAE)
A limited number of tickets will be available on the door
AUTUMN LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES: Wednesday 17 November, 1.15pm, The Fisher Theatre, Bungay
ZEFFIRETTI - Members of Zeffiretti - a wind and harpsichord ensemble - play a mainly baroque programme which will include sonatas by Telemann, Handel and CPE Bach
Tickets from 01986 897130 or book online: www.fishertheatre.org
Friday 26th November 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... Show of Hands + support
The Corn Exchange, King Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1DH
Doors 7.30pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Support TBC. Seated concert.
Ticket Price: £18 pounds all tickets.
Tickets from 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_showofhands2010.html
After a summer of festival appearances, hot property band Show of Hands - 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards double winners - come to the Corn Exchange Ipswich showing why they have been showered with accolades. Singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer won Best Duo, and Best Original Song for the title track of their album Arrogance Ignorance and Greed, a no-holds- barred track about bankers bonuses and MPs expenses, featured on BBC1’s Breakfast TV. Accompanied by striking double bass player/ vocalist Miranda Sykes, England’s finest acoustic roots act will be showcasing the AIG album and delving into their rich back catalogue of original material.
"One of the great English bands” – Peter Gabriel
“This is a band performing at its passionate peak” – The Independent
“Steve Knightley is one of England’s greatest singer songwriters” – Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2
“Phil Beer can play virtually every stringed instrument known to man” – The Scotsman
Sunday 28th November 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... Bellowhead + support
The Corn Exchange, King Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1DH
Doors 7.30pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Support TBC. This is a standing concert although balcony seating will be available.
Ticket Price: £15 pounds (students and concessions), £18 pounds (standing), £21.50 pounds (seating).
Tickets from 01473 433100 or www.ipswichregent.com
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_bellowhead.htm
"With the exception of the Who, Bellowhead are surely the best live act in the country" - The Independent
The mighty, 11 piece BELLOWHEAD have been described as 'The biggest, rowdiest and quite probably best thing to have happened to English Folk' by Q Magazine. Merging folk, jazz, soul and world music influences with a twist of English Music Hall, Bellowhead play more than 20 instruments in a unique mix that defies easy categorisation. They are winners of an unparalled 4 BBC Radio 2 Awards for BEST LIVE BAND, are Artists-in-Residence at the Southbank in London and recently recorded their 3rd album at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
Suffolk Music Concerts December
Friday 3rd December 2010 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... LAU + support
The St Nicholas Centre, 4 Cutler Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 1UQ
Doors 7pm. Performance starts at 8pm. Support TBC. Seated concert.
Ticket price: £14 pounds all tickets
Tickets from Ipswich Tourist Information Centre 01473 258070
or online at http://www.wegottickets.com/event/86943
More details - www.bpa-live.com/movers_lau.html
Ipswich Gilbert & Sullivan Society present: Musical Highlights for all Tastes!
An evening with an accomplished group of soloists and chorus singing everything from Bach to the Beatles!
Saturday 11th December at 7:30pm
St Mary & St Botolph’s Church, Whitton Church Lane, IPSWICH, IP1 6LT
in aid of Church Funds.
Tickets: Tel. Angela Marjoram, 01473 743385
Suffolk Music Concerts January
Suffolk Music Concerts February
Friday 18th February 2011 - Movers & Shakers promotions presents... Nine Below Zero
The Manor Ballroom, 4 St. Margaret's Green, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 2BP
Doors 8pm. Performance starts at 8.30pm. Standing concert. No support act.
Ticket Price: £13 pounds advance / £15 pounds door.
Tickets from Ipswich Tourist Information Centre 01473 258070
or online at www.wegottickets.com
For more information - www.bpa-live.com/movers_nbz.htm
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