Highgate Calendar – Public events in Highgate, London

Walking a thin line between hilarity and horror, Hitch! was created by a troupe of international circus and cabaret artists, veterans of NoFit State Circus and the underground live art scene of London.

The audience is terrorised and tantalised as bizarre acts delve into the extraordinary mind of ‘The Master of Suspense’.

Basically, we’re seeing off the festival with a huge, peculiar, slightly terrifying but definitely awesome circus cabaret. Hang around afterwards for a late bar, cocktail concoctions and some post-show performances to die for…

Click here to see the full programme of Postcards 2015.

Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Jacksons Lane Tags: Alfred Hitchcock cabaret circus Cocktails comedy festival film noir horror late bar master of suspense NoFit State postcards 2015

Oct

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SPOOKS! A Halloween Cabaret @ Jacksons Lane

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Oct 31 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Jacksons Lane summons you to a ghoulish feast of blood-curdling burlesque, macabre music, spectral circus and eerie illusion with some horrifically talented artists in this frighteningly fantastic night.

Overseen by the dark lord of comedy magic Christian Lee, expect vampires on ropes, tantalising terrors of tease, ghouls on your lap and gothic glamour all around, including the queen of erotic neo-burlesque, the sensational MisSa Blue.

The ticket includes a chiller cocktail on arrival, with a late bar and special medicinal concoctions to get your fangs into. Book early!

We encourage attendees to dress to distress.

18+ adult content and nudity

Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Jacksons Lane Tags: burlesque cabaret Christian Lee circus cocktail comedy contemporary circus fancy dress halloween jacksons lane late bar macabre Magic missa blue vampires

May

Mon

aspidistra drawing room orchestra @ Lauderdale House

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May 29 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

A concert of popular music from the beginning of the last century. Performed in style by this authentic ensemble consisting of string quartet, piano flute and oboe, praised for their lively interpretation of the genre.

The Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra is an orchestra that specialises in the type of light classical music that is usually referred to as “Palm Court Music” or “Salon Music”. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was an enormous appetite for light music. The Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra started, from very small beginnings: a group of friends and a folder of music. However, since the mid 1990s, they have steadily expanded their repertoire, continually hunting for new material.

Aspidistra made their Radio debut when the BBC used some tracks from the Best of Palm Court as background music for the radio play Tears of War on Remembrance Day 2002. Since then their recordings have been heard regularly on Brian Kay’s light programme and as background music for other radio plays. Their music was also used for The Producer Prince, a TV documentary based on interviews with Prince Alessandro Tasca di Cuto, the son of an illustrious Sicilian family. Sadly his father squandered the family fortunes and died penniless in 1927.

Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Lauderdale House Tags: "Salon Music" concert

Jan

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Carola Darwin and Nicholas Baumgartner: voice and piano recital @ St Michael's Church

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Jan 12 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Carola Darwin and Nicholas Baumgartner will perform a voice and piano recital at 6:00 pm on Saturday, 12 January 2019, at St Michael’s Church, Highgate Village (South Grove, N6 6BJ). The program will comprise Ariettes Oubliées by Debussy, and Kinderszenen Op. 15 and the “Eichendorff” Liederkreis Op. 39, both by Schumann.

Carola Darwin combines a career as an opera and concert singer with research and writing about music. She trained at Royal Northern College of Music, and holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield. She is now an Academic Professor at the Royal College of Music, where she teaches music history.

Nicholas Baumgartner is general counsel of Citigroup’s equity capital markets business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Born in Michigan, USA, Nicholas studied piano at Interlochen Arts Academy and holds a B.Mus. in Piano Performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a B.A. in German Literature from Oberlin College and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School.

Categories: Buzz Highgate Events Tags: FREE concert St Michaels Church Voice and Piano

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