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This year’s Children’s Book Fair on Saturday 28th February at HLSI welcomes special guest Clara Vulliamy (Martha & the Bunny Brothers, Small, Tom & Small, Lucky Wish Mouse, Dixie O’Day), following in the footsteps of previous guests including Alex T. Smith, Anthony Browne, Michael Rosen, Allan Ahlberg, Helen Oxenbury and, of course, Clara’s mother, Shirley Hughes.
There will be secondhand books for sale, children’s activities, home-made cakes and biscuits and Clara’s books will be sold by Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop. Clara will be on stage at 11 to read from her books and to draw for us, and she’ll stay to sign copies of her books.
The Fair runs from 10 until 1 at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, Pond Square, N6 6BS.

christine tobin

jazz in the house

Christine Tobin (vocals), Phil Robson (guitar), Dave Whitford (bass)

Now living in New York, with her partner Phil Robson, this is the first date of an extensive tour for the UK’s most individual and moving singer. Winner of the 2014 original singers Jazz Award for Best Jazz Singer, Christine will present a rich mix from her extremely successful Leonard Cohen show, through songs from the Great American Songbook and Milton Nascimento, as well as some of her own material which was rewarded with a British Composer Award in 2012.

“One of the most gifted and original singers in today’s jazz world”  BBC Music Magazine

Programme

Haydn: Piano Trio No.39 in G, Hob XV:25, ‘Gypsy’

Arensky: String Quartet No.2 in A minor Op.35

Dvorak: String Sextet in A, Op.48

Artists

Evgenia Epshtein, Benjamin Gilmore & Natalie Klouda – violin

Ruth Gibson & Alexandros Koustas – viola

Matthijs Broersma & Ashok Klouda – cello

Irina Botan – piano

Programme

Fibich: String Quartet No.1 in A

Chopin: Introduction & Polonaise Brilliante in C for cello & piano Op.3

Brahms: Hungarian Dances WoO 1 No.1 & No.7 for piano 4 hands

Dvorak: Selection of Slavonic Dances for piano 4 hands

Mark-Anthony Turnage: ‘Six Pint Sized Pieces’ for violin & piano, UK PREMIERE

Brahms: Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, Op.25

Artists

Benjamin Gilmore & Vlad Maistorovici – violin

Alexandros Koustas – viola

Rowena Calvert & Ashok Klouda – cello

Irina Botan & Diana Ionescu – piano

Programme

Dvorak: Piano Trio No.4 in E minor, Op.90

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Artists

Bukolika Piano Trio

Roma Tic – violin

Joanna Gutowska – cello

Anna Szałucka – piano

Programme

Bartok: Selection from the 44 Duos for 2 violins SZ. 98 BB 104

Schumann: 5 Pieces in Folk Style  for cello & piano, Op.102

Bartok Rhapsody: No.1 BB 94a for violin & piano

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op.50

Artists

Barnabas Kelemen & Katalin Kokas – violin

Ashok Klouda – cello

Katya Apekisheva – piano

Programme

Brahms: Hungarian Dances WoO 1, No. 5 for clarinet & piano

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115

​Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango: Café 1930 & Nightclub 1960

Beethoven: String Quartet No.8 in E minor, Op.59 No.2 ‘Razumovsky’

Artists

Julian Bliss – clarinet

Barnabas Kelemen & Natalie Klouda – violin

Katalin Kokas – viola

Ashok Klouda – cello

Irina Botan – piano

Programme

Glazunov: ‘Alla Spagnuola’ & ‘All’ Ungherese’ from 5 Novelettes for String Quartet, Op.15

Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.2 in E minor, Op.67

Dvorak: ‘Songs my Mother Taught Me’ from ‘Gypsy Songs’, B.104, Op.55, transcribed for violin & piano by F. Kreisler

Coleridge-Taylor: Gypsy Dance for violin & piano, Op.20 No.3

Brahms: String Quintet No.2 in G, Op.111

Artists

Natalie Klouda & Francesco Sica – violin

Juan-Miguel Hernandez & Benjamin Roskams – viola

Robert Cohen & Ashok Klouda – cello

Irina Botan – piano

8.30pm (doors open 8pm)

£15 / £12 concession / £7 student

concessions limited to disability, people on benefits (not over 60’s)

The Tina May Quintet

Tina May (voice), Karen Sharp (saxes), Robin Aspland (piano), Arnie Somogyi (d. bass) & Winston Clifford (drums)

This very swinging quintet is led by the incredibly versatile and talented Tina May who was breathtakingly exciting on the Swanage Festival main stage last year.  Tonight her jazz soul is the guiding force and one glance at her line up tells you that this will be a very special evening.  It’s the first appearance at Lauderdale by British Jazz Award winner Karen Sharp who first worked with Tina when they were both with the Humphrey Lyttelton Band.  Since then they have collaborated and recorded together extensively.

Expect some straight ahead jazz and ….always some forgotten gems alongside standards – but swung and sung in Tina’s inimitable style.

Our programmer Brian Blain compares her appearance at Swanage to Anita O’Day’s sensational contribution to that classic 1960 documentary Jazz On a Summer’s Day and tell us that ‘we could not start our Spring season in any better way’.

‘that great rarity…a singer who enhances a song.’ Dave Gelly, the Observer.

http://www.tinamay.com/

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Every second Saturday of the month we host our popular Saturdays at Six concert series. Programmes range from organ recitals to chamber groups to soloists and choirs. Concerts run from 6-7pm and there is a retiring collection.

Every second Saturday of the month we host our popular Saturdays at Six concert series. Programmes range from organ recitals to chamber groups to soloists and choirs. Concerts run from 6-7pm and there is a retiring collection.

Voxcetera chamber choir sings Gabriel Fauré’s much-loved, moving masterpiece, with soloists Ellie and Jamie Sperling, accompanied by violin, cello, harp and organ.

The concert will also feature Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine; a selection from Gustav Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, a collection of ancient Indian sacred texts; and Henry Balfour Gardiner’s dramatic Evening Hymn.

And you’ll hear beautiful music from contemporary composers: the hypnotic Northern Lights by Ola Gjeilo; and Paul Aryes’ sun-drenched love song Quanto sei bella.

Voxcetera is a north London-based chamber choir, directed  by its founding conductor Jane Hopkins. Recent activity includes concerts at St Martin-in-the-fields, East Finchley Arts Festival, overseas tours and recording work.

Following their sell-out, award-winning show Enter The Dragons, A&E Comedy (Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards, “a brilliant comedy coupling” Total Theatre) return with a spell-binding, surreal and darkly hilarious tale, directed by Cal McCrystal.

“I think they are amazing!!” Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Witch Hunt weaves a cautionary fairytale for our time. It celebrates the wisdom of the witch, unpacks the notion of predator and conjures a world of coven-ready weird sisters.

“Watch out, there are wild women about.  Knicker-Wettingly funny” Total Theatre

A ritualistic voodoo brouhaha designed to enchant and hex the pricks and predators; imagine Vic and Bob doing The Crucible.

Using buffoon, puppetry and magic and armed with a ‘wiccan’ sense of humour, A&E Comedy ask “can we use witchcraft to take down the Patriarchy?” Yes we can!

Following their sell-out, award-winning show Enter The Dragons, A&E Comedy (Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards, “a brilliant comedy coupling” Total Theatre) return with a spell-binding, surreal and darkly hilarious tale, directed by Cal McCrystal.

“I think they are amazing!!” Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Witch Hunt weaves a cautionary fairytale for our time. It celebrates the wisdom of the witch, unpacks the notion of predator and conjures a world of coven-ready weird sisters.

“Watch out, there are wild women about.  Knicker-Wettingly funny” Total Theatre

A ritualistic voodoo brouhaha designed to enchant and hex the pricks and predators; imagine Vic and Bob doing The Crucible.

Using buffoon, puppetry and magic and armed with a ‘wiccan’ sense of humour, A&E Comedy ask “can we use witchcraft to take down the Patriarchy?” Yes we can!