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May
29
Mon
aspidistra drawing room orchestra @ Lauderdale House
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.

Jun
18
Tue
Playreading: Control, a new play by Tim McArthur @ Lauderdale House
Jun 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Join us in the Lower Gallery for a play reading of a new gay thriller by local director and writer Tim McArthur. Garnering 4 and 5 star reviews at the Hen&Chickens last year as a one act play, this revised two act version will be read by professional actors including Adam Lilley and Jo Wickham, Joe Leather, Madeleine MacMahon, Julie Ross and Bryan Moriarty.

Tickets £3

Ages 16+

Past reviews of the play:
***** https://www.westendwilma.com/review-control-hen-chickens/
****   http://boyz.co.uk/control-press-night-review-by-stephen-vowles/

Apr
15
Sat
Coffee, Tea and Neighbourly Tidy @ Hillcrest Commons
Apr 15 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Coffee, Tea and Neighbourly Tidy @ Hillcrest Commons

Get your sturdy footwear ready for 

10:30 – 12:30 on Saturday, 15 April

Rain or shine, together we’ll enhance our shared open Hillcrest spaces …  no matter if litter picking isn’t your speed,  join in at the E.T. Event Tent at the Hillcrest Commons cul-de-sac for freshly brewed coffee or tea & biscuits … or bring some of your own favourite Saturday morning treats to share.

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