From: "Rachel
Chapman" <rachel.chapman_at_stables_dot_org>
Date: 4 April 2011 12:59:50 GMT+01:00
Subject: The Stables' listings
THE STABLES, MILTON
KEYNES
Friday 15 April, 8pm
Expresion Cubana
Tickets £15
If you love salsa, or
if you love jazz, this one’s for you! An amazing 10-piece Cuban band, with
lovely haunting tunes, great arrangements, and the sort of feel that gets a
whole street dancing! With Kiko Cowan & Elisa Jimenez on vocals,
ex-National Youth Jazz Orchestra members Pablo Mendelssohn and Joe Auckland
on trumpet and Perrier Jazz Award winner Sam Mayne on alto sax plus piano,
electric bass, drums and percussion. You’ll want to take advantage of the
dancefloor that will be specially created for this event.
For an additional £13
per person you can enjoy at taste of Cuba (vegetarian options available)
served in Café in2. Please go to www.stables.org
for menu details. Book in advance through the Box Office to reserve your
table.
Tuesday 19 April, 8pm
Feast of Fiddles
Tickets £17
Feast of Fiddles is a musical extravaganza – six of the UK’s finest fiddle
players in a band of 11 which includes Dave Mattacks, the grandfather of folk
rock drumming, Peter Knight of Steeleye Span, Chris Leslie of Fairport Convention,
Brian McNeill, Ian Cutler, Tom Leary and Garry Blakeley, all bringing their
individual styles together to cover pretty much every musical genre in a
performance that’ll have you dancing in the aisles and perhaps shedding a
tear. The 2011 tour marks the 18th year they’ve got together and the critical
acclaim gets louder every year.
Wednesday 27 April, 8.45pm
Odi
Tickets £10 in
advance, £12 on the door
Odi is an Irish singer-songwriter whose music combines folk, acoustic, pop,
rock and indie. Odi played her first gig four years ago, since that time she
has supported Eleanor McEvoy, Brian Kennedy and Seth Lakeman. She was tipped
as one of the top five artists to watch in 2010 by MySpace/Vodafone and her
debut album Maslow’s Songbook was playlisted on Irish national radio station
RTE1 to great critical acclaim.
"Bursting with top quality vocals and strong songs. One listen will
never be quite enough". Maverick
Sunday 1 May, 8pm
Dervish
Tickets £16
County Sligo's finest export, Dervish have been at the forefront of
Irish traditional music for two decades. One of the best-loved Irish bands,
they won a huge swell of new fans last summer with acclaimed performances at
a string of major UK folk festivals. Fronted by the entrancing Cathy Jordan on
vocals - still regarded by many as the most distinctive voice in Irish music
today - the band create a richly complex sound, full of energy, intricacy and
subtlety.
"This is true craftsmanship." Tonder Festival, Denmark
Wednesday 4 May, 8pm
Martin Simpson
Tickets £16.50
In the last few years, guitarist Martin Simpson has been busier, more
successful and more visible than ever before in his long career. His 2007
release Prodigal Son was nominated for 5 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, winning
Album of the Year. 2009 saw the release of a new CD, True Stories, to wide
critical acclaim. Simpson's songs are beautifully written and at times most
unusual in form, telling true stories and dealing with themes of love, loss,
home and much more.
“One of the national treasures of English traditional music." BBC Radio
2 Folk & Acoustic Reviews
Sunday 8 May, 8.45pm
Gigspanner
Tickets £10 in
advance, £12 on the door
Joined by guitarist Roger Flack and percussionist Vincent Salzfaas, legendary
violinist Peter Knight’s latest project combines beautifully crafted folk,
classical, baroque and swing with life-enriching versions of British
traditional music and song. This musical melting pot saw the Trio’s first
album Lipreading The Poet named as one of the best 15 CDs of 2009 by The
Wire, a distinction that is indicative of the outstanding musicianship and
commitment to originality that is the hallmark of their live performances.
“Peter Knight can spin the world on his bow.” Sir Terry Pratchett
Wednesday 11 May,
8.45pm
Jonny Kearney &
Lucy Farrell
Tickets £10 in
advance, £12 on the door
Jonny Kearney is a songwriter from Hexham and Lucy Farrell is his Kentish
accomplice, both blessed with a quality of songwriting that belongs to the
Dylan/Thompson/Waits school. They met while studying in Newcastle and were
spotted by The Unthanks, opening for them on their UK autumn 2009 tour.
Kitchen sink dramas and tales of the heart are played out by Jonny and Lucy
with tender, quiet reserve on guitar, piano, fiddle, viola and saw, while Lucy's
pure and graceful voice is the perfect foil to Jonny's melancholic tones.
“Their songwriting is heartbreaking and magical, enthralling and
unexpected." Rachel Unthank
Thursday 12 May, 8pm
Iona
Supported by Yvonne
Lyon
Tickets £17.50
Formed in 1989, Iona take their name from the small island off the west coast
of Scotland. From the beginning, their aim has been to write spiritual,
atmospheric, yet uplifting music that would stir the emotions. Uniquely
combining rock, folk, progressive, ethnic and ambient elements with the
crystalline voice of Joanne Hogg as their focus, Iona create a blaze of
colours and textures, all the sounds fusing into a single, yearning,
heartfelt cry.
“... An exhilarating contemporary folk act... rarely has the new age Celtic
thing been given so many welcome twists, or played with such conviction.” Q
magazine
Friday 20 May, 8.45pm
Horses Brawl
Tickets £10 in
advance, £12 on the door
The feisty and experimental duo draw listeners into a world where driving
folk rhythms collide with the high and low musical cultures of ancient Europe
and beyond. Between them, Horses Brawl play fiddle, recorders, crumhorn and
guitar. They have performed at festivals and concerts across the UK and
broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Horses Brawl gather tunes and fragments of
tunes from over nine centuries from England, France, Spain, Wales, Bulgaria
and Sweden and weave them together with their own compositions into
spellbinding new pieces.
Saturday 21 May, 8pm
Grupo Lokito
Tickets £12.50, students
£9.50, family of 4 £38
Grupo Lokito fuses Congolese and Latin music and the resulting hybrid has a
unique and captivating sound. The natural links between Cuban and Congolese
styles is well documented, but Grupo Lokito have their own unique approach to
the music; there’s a charming sweetness to their sound, one that’s infused
with Lokito’s international take on Latin music but which will appeal to
admirers of acoustic rumba veterans Kekele and Kanda Bongo Man alike. By
combining Congolese dance performing tradition with the energy of salsa, this
show is sure to be a visual and audio spectacle – and you’ll want to take
advantage of the specially created dancefloor!
For an additional £13
per person you can sample A Taste of Congo (vegetarian options available)
served in Café in2. Please go to www.stables.org
for menu details. Book in advance through the Box Office to reserve your
table.
Tuesday 24 May,
8.45pm
Chris Wood
Tickets £12.50
Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals his love for the
unofficial history of the English speaking people. With gentle intelligence
he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables. Chris’s latest
projects include the new album Handmade Life, which saw him touring
late in 2009 and he is also part of Simon Emmerson’s project The Imagined
Village which features artists such as Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy and Johnny
Kalsi.
“The finest and most original singer-songwriter to have emerged from the
British folk scene since Richard Thompson." The Guardian
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