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Weekly
News
Smugglers Session // Joe Jones Trio // Vula Viel
// Sally Ironmonger
Good afternoon to you all! We bring news from the
revolving doors of The Lighthouse.
Hello one and all ?. and as always, welcome to any new subscribers!
You'll find details here of a really handsome looking selection of
events for this week, starting tomorrow (Thursday) with the return of
The Smugglers Sessions!
Firstly, a reminder about a rather magical one very much on the
horizon ...
Diabel Cissokho (Full Band Show!)
Thursday 23rd April
Tickets ?9 in advance, available behind the bar
and online HERE.
(Tickets ?11 on the door, subject to availability)
Senegalese musician Diabel is part of the great
line of Cissokho griots. Growing up in Dakar, surrounded by a rich
musical heritage and a family of musicians, Diabel began playing a
number of traditional instruments. However, Diabel's affinity with
the kora was clear from an early age.
Some of you may recognize Diabel from performing along side Nuru Kane
in past electric performances in Deal. His band also received a
rapturous reception when headlining the local Smugglers Festival last
year.
Diabel's musical pedigree is exceptional. International tours with
his family's band Bannaya led to a long stint as Baaba Maal's kora
player, as well as accompanying many other world renowned musicians.
Now well established in the UK, his resonant voice and rocking kora
style have been welcomed everywhere from WOMAD and Glastonbury to
London's Barbican, where he performed alongside Femi Kuti, Cheikh Lo
and Manu Dibango.
Diabel's latest album marks a return to his roots. Recorded in the UK
and Dakar and featuring members of his own family, the album draws on
Diabel's rich musical heritage, blending beautiful Mandinkan melodies
with an upbeat West African groove.
BEERS & ALES NOW ON!
ON CASK:
Whitstable - Native
Bitter - 3.7% (Classic copper coloured Kentish
session bitter)
Mad Cat - Special
Relationship - 4.8% (Anglo-American pale ale)
ON KEY
KEG:
Fyne Ales - Hurricane
Jack - 4.4% (Blonde and fruity hopped ale)
Time & Tide - Hop
Tide - 2.8% (Session IPA)
Beavertown - Neck
Oil - 4.3% (A light, crisp, punchy go-to beer)
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You can also find us on Twitter HERE.
Now onto more details of this week's events ...
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Friday 16th April
Smugglers
Session feat. Richard Navarro // Laura Moody
Pub open
from 5pm // Live music from 8:30pm
FREE ENTRY (though donations welcome!)
Join us for the monthly Smugglers Sessions. With at least one
featured act per month plus our local talented musicians. This is a
night of experimentation and surprises, combined with the delicious
locally sourced beers and ales from behind the bar.
Evocative and uplifting, the music of Richard Navarro takes the
folk traditions of melody and storytelling and supercharges them
through live looping and improvisation. Richard will perform with
his full band, with a unique sound that moves from the epic to the
intimate with ease.
Laura Moody is a wildly alternative cellist, vocalist and
avant-singer-songwriter. Fascinated not only with words and
songwriting but also with sounds, noises and textures she eschews
laptops and loop pedals to explore what is possible using only solo
cello and voice. She creates emotive songs that reveal a multitude
of influences and inhabit a unique space between the contemporary
avant garde, classical music, experimental pop and
singer-songwriter tradition.
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Saturday
18th April
Vula Viel
Pub open
from 12pm // Live music from 8:30pm
FREE ENTRY
Vula Viel means Good is Good in Dagaare, the language of the tribe
in Upper West Ghana where Bex Burch lived and played music for 3
years. Now it is the name of Bex's new group featuring some of
London's finest musicians.
The band, based around the Gyil (the Dagaare xylophone made of
sacred lliga wood and buzzing gourd resonators) brings the powerful
ancient Dagaare music to an original and exciting western sound.
Vibes compliment the gyil and bass keys, two drummers hold down and
thrash out the nucleus of rhythm and the wailing sax on top is the
voice of the Dagaare songs.
Vula Viel is part of an intriguing trend to re-investigate and
re-introduce African elements afresh: fascinating, sometimes
entrancing, and (for the adventurous) entirely danceable.
Click HERE
to see a video of the band performing at London's South Bank
Centre.
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Friday 17th April
Joe
Jones Trio
Pub open
from 5pm // Live music from 8:30pm
FREE ENTRY
Featuring David and James from The Lighthouse team as rhythm
section. Plus special guest saxophone player!
Apparently
it came out of nowhere, carried on the invisible wind and was
dumped naked and helpless on these shores.
In reality,
it came from the South. The Deep South. The song proceeded to
travel West on strings strummed by that very same invisible wind
which is known everywhere.
It comes
from the heart, with a playful beat and a deep peace. It is there
to remind us of our condition and to free us from its clutches.
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Sunday 19th April
'Sunday
Service' feat. Sally Ironmonger
Pub open
from 12pm // Music from 4pm
FREE
ENTRY
Sally
Ironmonger
Sally is a singer-songwriter based in Medway, in the South East of
England, who writes and performs in collaboration with her husband,
Brian Carter.
Her songs sit very comfortably within the genres of folk, roots,
poetry and comedy, and have featured on a number of BBC
documentaries.
Plus ?. We are pleased to
announce the inclusion of the Reggae Roast! Delicious
tastes of the Caribbean mixed with the traditional English roast
dinner, at an incredible price of ?7.50! Chef Tyrone will be
serving you from 12pm. Relax and eat while enjoying some reggae
tunes at a volume that is proven to aid digestion and stimulate
taste buds.
This is to be a regular fixture as part of our
weekly ?Sunday Service'. Leave the cooking to Tyrone and join us
here!
Due to
popular demand, booking a table is very much recommended.
Phone: 01304 366031
email:
info_at_thelighthousedeal_dot_co_dot_uk
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