Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
The Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra present a concert with great songs and some of the best tunes of the ‘Palm Court Era’ performed in style by this joyful ensemble consisting of a string quartet, piano, flute and oboe.
Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Photographs and paintings featuring a documentary by Jackie Hopfinger who used photos of her friends when young, took up-to-date portraits and interviewed them about their lives. Plus an Ethiopian artist’s paintings and a range of photographs including London scenes and angelic birds.
Private View open to all: Tue 27 May from 7.30 to 9.30pm
Entrance Hall & Lower Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Bloodaxe Books launch their new anthology with Neil Astley, David Constantine, Imtiaz Dharker, The Right Honourable Mark Fisher, Sarah Maguire, Sir Andrew Motion, Stephen Watts and guests. They reflect on one hundred years of war with works by poets writing as combatants, as victims or anguished witnesses. The evening will transport you from the trenches of the Somme, to the horrors of the Second World War through to the current conflict across the world.
Photographs and paintings featuring a documentary by Jackie Hopfinger who used photos of her friends when young, took up-to-date portraits and interviewed them about their lives. Plus an Ethiopian artist’s paintings and a range of photographs including London scenes and angelic birds.
Private View open to all: Tue 27 May from 7.30 to 9.30pm
Entrance Hall & Lower Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Don Weller is a true giant of the British scene. A pioneer of jazz/rock with his band Major Surgery, Don’s work over the years with musicians like Stan Tracey, Art Themen,and Bryan Spring has cemented his position as the UK’s most exciting and inventive post bop saxophonists. Those who saw him deputise at the 1981 Bracknell Festival for the legendary Michael Brecker, with Gil Evans’s team of New York heavyweights, will count it as one of the most thrilling moments in the whole history of post-war British Jazz. Don’t miss this chance to hear a living legend.
Now in its third year, an inspirational selling exhibition showcasing a wide variety of craftsmen, displaying a selection of ceramics, jewellery, leatherwear, textiles, clothing and metalwork.
Open Sat 31 May and Sun 1 June, 11am-5pm. Admission £2 only.
Photographs and paintings featuring a documentary by Jackie Hopfinger who used photos of her friends when young, took up-to-date portraits and interviewed them about their lives. Plus an Ethiopian artist’s paintings and a range of photographs including London scenes and angelic birds.
Private View open to all: Tue 27 May from 7.30 to 9.30pm
Entrance Hall & Lower Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
Do You Feel Like you Need a Good Tune Up?
This is just what your voice, heart, lungs and confidence need. If you think improving your singing or speaking voice could help your career or personal life, then Tune up Fridays are for you.
Are you a professional singer, in a choir or band, or someone who doesn’t sing but wishes you could? Then come along to our new friendly, recharging and uplifting singing experience.
Tune Up Fridays are led by choir master and vocal coach Norman Bailey. He has helped West End performers, media people and total beginners feel more confident about what they can achieve with their voices.
No songs just beautiful harmonies and your chance to improve your voice and boost your confidence.
When: Friday May 30 2014, 7.15 to 8.30
Where: Highgate Society, Highgate, N6 6BS
Fee: £10 and a smile
Or book online and save 10% http://www.storybookers.co.uk/tune-up-fridays.php
Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Now in its third year, an inspirational selling exhibition showcasing a wide variety of craftsmen, displaying a selection of ceramics, jewellery, leatherwear, textiles, clothing and metalwork.
Open Sat 31 May and Sun 1 June, 11am-5pm. Admission £2 only.
This is a heart-warming tale that brings together two lonely, homeless clowns in an extra-ordinary journey. Watch their silent comedy unravel to musical soundtracks as they join forces to hunt for food and love. This rare visit from the Swedish/Spanish clowns will surprise, inspire and entertain you.
Ages 2 to 5
Tickets are also available on the doors,
There are two 45 minute shows.
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Photographs and paintings featuring a documentary by Jackie Hopfinger who used photos of her friends when young, took up-to-date portraits and interviewed them about their lives. Plus an Ethiopian artist’s paintings and a range of photographs including London scenes and angelic birds.
Private View open to all: Tue 27 May from 7.30 to 9.30pm
Entrance Hall & Lower Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
Intermediate Adult Ballet classes to further your technique. A fun & fast-paced class, also suitable for re-starters. A class to improve flexibility and musicality, we dance classical variations and original exercises.
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
Our resident string quartet The Billroth Quartet (Thomas Leate and Christian Halstead, violins, Simon Ballard, viola, James Greenfield, cello) perform free monthly concerts with a wide-ranging programme. This month they perform music by Dimitri Shostakovich, together with contemporary works by modern composers.
Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Sparkysongs is a lively, fun packed weekly music show designed to entertain and educate children aged between six months and five years.
The shows include counting songs, songs with actions and songs involving costume, puppets, props and characters. Some are well-known traditional children’s favourites and some are new and exclusive to Sparkysongs. The songs are linked by rhymes and comic routines and children have lots to join in with from start to finish.
No booking required.
Photographs and paintings featuring a documentary by Jackie Hopfinger who used photos of her friends when young, took up-to-date portraits and interviewed them about their lives. Plus an Ethiopian artist’s paintings and a range of photographs including London scenes and angelic birds.
Private View open to all: Tue 27 May from 7.30 to 9.30pm
Entrance Hall & Lower Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
Director – John Plews
Musical Director – Angharad Sanders
It’s 1943 and Betty’s female swing band urgently needs new recruts after losing them to the amorous attentions of nylon tooting GIs.
Featuring songs from Glenn Miller, Fats Waller and the Andrews Sisters including Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Tuxedo Junction andT’aint What Cha Do (it’s the way that you do it).
Inspired by Ivy Benson’s all girl dance band. Adapted from the television film Last of the Blonde Bombshells.
Sing something new or an old favourite – Lieder to Gilbert and Sullivan, jazz to folk, opera to musical comedy. There’s something for everyone! Don’t forget your music!
Photographs and paintings featuring a documentary by Jackie Hopfinger who used photos of her friends when young, took up-to-date portraits and interviewed them about their lives. Plus an Ethiopian artist’s paintings and a range of photographs including London scenes and angelic birds.
Private View open to all: Tue 27 May from 7.30 to 9.30pm
Entrance Hall & Lower Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm
A stimulating variety of work by local amateur and professional artists. This year’s diverse mix of landscape, still life and portrait painting is well worth a visit.
Upper Gallery & Long Gallery
Opening hours are Wed to Fri: 11am to 4pm and Sun: 10am to 5pm