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ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..

FAMILY WORKSHOP Sun 19 Feb, 2.30–4.30pm | £8.50 Children (along with their parents and carers) can have lots of fun making all kinds of things inspired by the House. Parade around the gallery in your own Tudor ruff, make a Good Luck Chicken inspired by the good luck charms found bricked into our chimney, and bring to life to our historic characters by making stick puppets of Nell Gwynn and King Charles – lots of fun for all!

CABARET AT TEA TIME: KIERAN BROWN supported by Francesca Benton-Stace Sun 19 Feb, 3.30pm | £28.50 – £14  In homage to our glorious past as a Victorian Tea Room, the new Cabaret at Tea Time series combines two of our favourite things: afternoon tea and cabaret! Today’s star is the magnificent Keiran Brown who has recently performed in The Phantom Of the Opera as well as Les Miserables and Wicked.

Philip Lawrence Mon 20 Feb A PINK TRIANGLE follows two men in a complacent, loveless civil partnership in post-Brexit London.

STEPHEN HOSE, PIANO Tue 21 Feb, 1.15pm | Free Stephen Hose trained at the Royal Academy of Music and enjoys an international career as a pianist, musical director and conductor. He’ll perform sonatas by Mozart and Liszt.

EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING   Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.

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ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..

EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING   Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.

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ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..

THE MOERAN QUARTET Thu 23 Feb, 7.30pm | £12/£10 With pieces by Beethoven, Bach, Elgar, Mascagni, Mozart, and Borodin, as well as 20th century works by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter.

EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING   Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.

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ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..

changing of the seasons

1st Half: Bruno Heinen Solo

2nd Half: Bruno Heinen/Camerata Alma Viva

The dynamic ensemble Camerata Alma Viva and renowned jazz pianist/composer Bruno Heinen has embarked on a daring new collaboration. They have recorded theit take on one of the most recognisable and oft performed works in all classical music. Heinen’s Four Seasons is a completely new composition. Rather than an arrangement of the Vivaldi, Heinen to answer the question posed to him by the Camerata. If Vivaldi were alive today, what might a new Four Seasons sound like? Heinen explores a written and improvised language somewhere between jazz and impressionism to attempt to answer. With influences from the historically informed performance practice (emphasising the baroque spirit of freedom and transparency) and the language of of modern jazz improvisation.

They will be launching their album with a solo set from Heinen in the first half and their Changing of the Seasons in the second.

Time: 20.00 to 22.30

Price band:

Standard: – £15.00

Concessions: – £10.00

EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING   Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.

LGBT

ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..

EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING   Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.

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ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..

JOHN ETHERIDGE & VIMALA ROWE Sun 26 Feb, 7.30pm | £15/£12 Guitar legend John Etheridge and sensational new vocal star Vimala Rowe weave a magical spell, taking you on a musical voyage from India to Africa, the Middle East and the USA.

karen lane presents the music of nancy wilson & cannonball adderley

thursday 4 may

With Martin Hathaway | alto, Steve Fishwick | trumpet

Graham Harvey |piano, Simon Woolf | bass,  Matt Fishwick | drums

Arriving from Australia in 2000 after performing at many of the big Asian Festivals, Karen has released five albums to critical acclaim.  She’s worked with some of our finest musicians including Tom Cawley, Andy Hamill and Robin Aspland and has found herself performing in exotic places she’d never imagined she’d see including Sicily, Portafino, Nice, Monte Carlo, Berlin, Cape Town and Bucharest.

Her visit to Lauderdale House will be a unique date on the London scene when she recreates the music of Nancy Wilson. Had she not coincided with the advent of rock and soul, Nancy Wilson would have been considered one of the greatest female jazz singers of them all.  Luckily she did record a number of albums with one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Cannonball Adderley and Karen thinks it’s high time Nancy’s music was reassessed.  This is going to be a concert you should not miss!

“.. a fine and distinctive singer” Dave Gelly, The Observer

“.. as accomplished.. as I have heard this year” Peter Quinn, Jazzwise

Time: 20:30

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With Robin Aspland | piano, Simon Thorpe | bass

Milo Fell | drums

Roger was a late starter as a musician playing his first concert aged 28. He was one of the founding members of the Chevalier Brothers in the 1980s and played about 1,000 gigs all over the world with them. He then signed to Acid Jazz Records and started releasing highly regarded solo albums under the name of The Beaujolais Band & Vibraphonic. With Vibraphonic he had a number one hit on the US jazz charts and as a result he was signed to Disney’s Hollywood Records in LA and released two albums for them. Since 2000 Roger has concentrated on more acoustic jazz. Roger has played with most of the top jazz musicians in the UK along with Slim Gaillard, Pee Wee Ellis and others. Roger has also been prolific in the studio working on albums for many pop artists including Robert Plant, Paul Weller, Roni Size, Kirsty MacColl, Morrissey, Fairground Attraction, Rumer, Duffy, Alison Limerick, Alexander O’Neal, Omara Portuondo, Ed Motta, Shola Ama and many others.

In a blindfold test the main man of vibes Gary Burton thought that Beaujolais was ‘one of the top vibes players of the USA’. Favouring the music of 70s New York and writers like Bobby Hutcherson. McCoy Tyner, Joe Henderson and Wayne Shorter, as well as his own material with dryly humourous titles like Joe Beam and Mr Non PC, this is a near perfect band of great players whose sole aim is to give us ‘a couple of hours of seriously inventive improvisation’ based on great tunes, understated grooves and swing

carol grimes band

thursday 18 may

With Annie Whitehead | trombone, Richard Bundy | piano

Neville Malcolm | bass, Winston Clifford | drums

From her earliest beginnings busking on the streets of London to her appearance at the first ever Glastonbury Festival and her two solo albumms recorded in Memphis alongside greats like the Brecker Brothers and her appearances with contemporary ‘classical’ choir The Shout, Carol Grimes is a true artist and unique presence on the British scene. Her performances of jazz, blues, the occasional standard and maybe a poem ensure that she is always one of our most popular artists; someone who inspirese real affection. With its subtle grooves laid down by Malcolm and Clifford and the declamatory shouts of the wonderful trombonist Annie Whitehead this is one of the most genuine and human attractions to be seen anywhere.

Cabaret at Tea Time

In homage to our glorious past – after the House was restored in 1893 it served as the Waterlow Park tearoom for 70 years- we’re introducing Cabaret at Tea Time with a ticket offer that combines a high tea plus cabaret ticket. What better way to spend a Sunday than with a drink, food, and amazing cabaret!

Cabaret Tea A – £28.50

Glass of Prosecco

Hot smoked salmon with cream cheese and chive bridge roll

Free-range egg mayonnaise and mustard cress bridge roll

Rich chocolate brownie square

Cabaret Tea B – £25.50

Luscombe Wild Bubbly Elderflower Presse

Hot smoked salmon with cream cheese and chive bridge roll

Free-egg mayonnaise and mustard cress bridge roll

Rich chocolate brownie square

If you just want to join us for Cabaret then you can purchase a full price ticket for £16.00 / £14.00 concession for students, unwaged & Equity members only.

Host: Tim McArthur

Headline: Nadim Naaman

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alec dankworth’s world spirit

thursday 25 may

Alec Dankworth | bass guitar, Emily Dankworth | vocals

Julian Siegel | sax, Winston Clifford | percussion

Formed out of Alec’s love of music from the Iberian peninsula, World Spirit crosses the Straits of Gibraltar into Africa and beyond. Alec has joined forces with daughter Emily Dankworth, leading tenorist Julian Siegel and drummer Winston Clifford to explore melodies from Africa, South America and other continents from a jazz perspective. With tunes by Duke Ellington, Bela Fleck, Antonio-Carlos Jobim, Abdullah Ibrahim and WC Handy originating from Ireland, Venezuela, Bulgaria, South Africa, Mali and Brazil, World Spirit offers an evening of global song and improvisation.

Alec Dankworth has worked with artists as diverse as Stephane Grappelli, Abdullah Ibrahim and Van Morrison. After studying at Berklee College of Music, Alec became a member of various groups, notably Clark Tracey, Julian Joseph and Nigel Kennedy. During a period of residency in New York he played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and joined the Dave Brubeck Quartet. As well as running his own bands, he is a member of Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion.

Emily Dankworth’s voice is forged from the DNA of Jazz royalty. She has sung in choirs all her life, and in 2011 studied jazz vocals at the Guildhall School of Music. She now sings in the acapella group Vive and has performed in the UK and Europe. She also sings with Alec’s Spanish Accents and works with her own group.

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.

kofi/barnes aggregation

thursday 1 june

With John Turville | piano, Adam King | bass

Rod Youngs |drums

Now here’s a mouth watering prospect, two of the most accomplished and exciting saxophone players anywhere, coming together from very different backgrounds. This exiting new band showcases the contrasting alto saxophone talents of the co-leaders. Kofi is a heavier toned, blues drenched wailer of the Jackie McLean School, whilst Barnes has taken the lighter, crisply articulated phrasing of Art Pepper as his guiding light. Put the two different approaches together and the chemistry is instantly explosive, producing some of the most committed, yet accessible, hard swinging music around.

Barnes, arguably the UK’s most popular jazz musician, has had a career which has taken in every aspect of mainstream jazz from Humphrey Lytelton to composing musical theatre with the late Alan P. Plater and innumerable commisions for all kinds of Big Bands. Kofi, after studying at Berklee’s famous jazz conservatory, has played with many of the world’s leading jazz musicians such as Donald Byrd and Eddie Henderson. His own groups have won BBC and Parliamentary Jazz Awards…..and he is one of the few jazz players to have been nominated for a MOBO Award. The rhythm section is ‘new generation’ sparky and it should be an evening of genuine surprises.

ed jones quartet

thursday 8 june

With Ross Stanley | piano/keyboard

Riaan Vosloo | bass,  Tim Giles | drums

At the end of 2016, London Jazz News commended tenor saxophonist Jones for outstanding performances heard in the course of the year. Over the years he could have been heard with avantists in Finland, Herbie Hancock’s bass player Paul Jackson in Japan, a major voice in Incognito and Geoff Wilkinson’s US3. Even in the 90’s he was writing for electronica and strings and you might still catch him in some small venue playing standards and blues as well as anyone.

The rest of the band are equally versatile. Stanley must be in more bands than any pianist, while Giles, who juggles all kinds of groups, has recently been made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. This is jazz not to miss!

cabaret at tea time

In homage to our glorious past – after the House was restored in 1893 it served as the Waterlow Park tearoom for 70 years- we’re introducing Cabaret at Tea Time with a ticket offer that combines a high tea plus cabaret ticket. What better way to spend a Sunday than with a drink, food, and amazing cabaret!

Cabaret Tea A – £28.50

Glass of Prosecco

Hot smoked salmon with cream cheese and chive bridge roll

Free-range egg mayonnaise and mustard cress bridge roll

Rich chocolate brownie square

Cabaret Tea B – £25.50

Luscombe Wild Bubbly Elderflower Presse

Hot smoked salmon with cream cheese and chive bridge roll

Free-egg mayonnaise and mustard cress bridge roll

Rich chocolate brownie square

Host: Tim McArthur

Headline: Shona White

Shona White is an experienced Scottish actress and singer, who gained her post graduate qualification in Musical Theatre from the Royal Academy of Music in 1998. Just some of her numerous theatre credits include Florence Vassy in ‘Chess’ (Prince of Wales Theatre, Toronto), Rita in ‘All the Fun of the Fair’ (Garrick Theatre), Betty in ‘Shout’ (UK Tour), Elphaba/ Standby in ‘Wicked’ (Apollo Victoria Theatre), and Magenta/ Usherette in ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ (Playhouse Theatre). She has also performed many solo cabarets at venues including The Pheasantry, appeared in concerts including ‘An Evening with Elton John’ at The Royal Albert Hall, and has recently released a debut album, ‘I’ll Bring You A Song’, which is available on iTunes.

Support: TBC

the rose and the bulbul

a promenade performance

TWO PERFORMANCES AT MIDDAY AND 3PM

Coke Studio artist Arieb Azhar joins dancers and musicians to celebrate the unity amidst diversity expressed through the symbols of the rose and the bulbul (nightingale).  The performance will take place on the Tea Lawn at Lauderdale House and Waterlow Park. The Rose and the Bulbul is co-produced by Kadam/Pulse and Luton Culture with the support of Grants for the Arts, Amal and Cockayne and London Communities Foundation.

The Rose and the Bulbul is a family-friendly performance with professional and community-based performers that taps into the love affair that humans have with creating gardens. It will be dedicated to the memory of MP Jo Cox: “We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us”.

The performance of dance, music and spoken word was inspired by the ideas that shaped the gardens at Stockwood Park, Luton. The title ‘Rose and Bulbul’ is derived from the significance of the rose as the symbol of beauty and perfection both in Persian literature and equally important in the English heritage as a Tudor emblem. The bulbul is the Indian equivalent of the nightingale which represents the woods and wilderness beyond the cultivated garden.

Storytellers, dancers and musicians will create an experience to bring alive the space of the garden and the audience will meet the Rose and the Bulbul, who come truly to understand their present only through a journey into each other’s past. Statues become dancers as the audiences are led in succession through a Mughal garden, a European walled garden and finally into open grounds, celebrating the synthesis of Islamic, Christian, Pagan and Hindu traditions. The Rose and the Bulbul is above all a story of love and acceptance.

The performance brings together the talent of outstanding young actor-writer Kamal Kaan (‘While the Water Weeps Next to the Water’, BBC Radio ‘Headline Ballads’ 2016); director Sita Thomas (Shakespearean scholar, Milkshake presenter and Bollywood dancer) and the popular choreographer-dancer Kali Chandrasegaram.

theatre on the tea lawn

twelfth night by william shakespeare

After the great success of The Importance of Being Earnest in 2016, the award-winning Shooting Stars Theatre Company return to Lauderdale House with a fresh and modern interpretation of Twelfth Night.

Shooting Stars was formed in 2006 by Helen Crosse and quickly gained a reputation for producing high quality professional theatre.  They produce classic Shakespeare but bring it up to date and make it relevant to a modern audience with modern dress and in updated settings and ‘worlds’. Definately theatre for the whole family!

Shooting Star’s productions are always accessible, so even those not versed in the Bard’s comic play will be rolling with laughter. This is a play of mistaken identity and love triangles and takes its rightful place as one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays. Confused identity, cross-dressing and cross-garters are sure to make this an evening to remember!

Tips for our audience:

If it rains the ‘show will go on’ – we will only cancel in very extreme circumstances

There are no refunds but if we do have to abandon the show before the interval you will be offered a ticket for another night subject to availability

Bring something warm as even on a hot day the evenings can get chilly

The Café will be open for you to purchase food and drink on the evening but you are welcome to bring a picnic along with a blanket or chair to sit on. Chairs will be seated at the back of the Tea Lawn.

theatre on the tea lawn

twelfth night by william shakespeare

After the great success of The Importance of Being Earnest in 2016, the award-winning Shooting Stars Theatre Company return to Lauderdale House with a fresh and modern interpretation of Twelfth Night.

Shooting Stars was formed in 2006 by Helen Crosse and quickly gained a reputation for producing high quality professional theatre.  They produce classic Shakespeare but bring it up to date and make it relevant to a modern audience with modern dress and in updated settings and ‘worlds’. Definately theatre for the whole family!

Shooting Star’s productions are always accessible, so even those not versed in the Bard’s comic play will be rolling with laughter. This is a play of mistaken identity and love triangles and takes its rightful place as one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays. Confused identity, cross-dressing and cross-garters are sure to make this an evening to remember!

Tips for our audience:

If it rains the ‘show will go on’ – we will only cancel in very extreme circumstances

There are no refunds but if we do have to abandon the show before the interval you will be offered a ticket for another night subject to availability

Bring something warm as even on a hot day the evenings can get chilly

The Café will be open for you to purchase food and drink on the evening but you are welcome to bring a picnic along with a blanket or chair to sit on. Chairs will be seated at the back of the Tea Lawn.

theatre on the tea lawn

twelfth night by william shakespeare

After the great success of The Importance of Being Earnest in 2016, the award-winning Shooting Stars Theatre Company return to Lauderdale House with a fresh and modern interpretation of Twelfth Night.

Shooting Stars was formed in 2006 by Helen Crosse and quickly gained a reputation for producing high quality professional theatre.  They produce classic Shakespeare but bring it up to date and make it relevant to a modern audience with modern dress and in updated settings and ‘worlds’. Definately theatre for the whole family!

Shooting Star’s productions are always accessible, so even those not versed in the Bard’s comic play will be rolling with laughter. This is a play of mistaken identity and love triangles and takes its rightful place as one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays. Confused identity, cross-dressing and cross-garters are sure to make this an evening to remember!

Tips for our audience:

If it rains the ‘show will go on’ – we will only cancel in very extreme circumstances

There are no refunds but if we do have to abandon the show before the interval you will be offered a ticket for another night subject to availability

Bring something warm as even on a hot day the evenings can get chilly

The Café will be open for you to purchase food and drink on the evening but you are welcome to bring a picnic along with a blanket or chair to sit on. Chairs will be seated at the back of the Tea Lawn.

theatre on the tea lawn

twelfth night by william shakespeare

After the great success of The Importance of Being Earnest in 2016, the award-winning Shooting Stars Theatre Company return to Lauderdale House with a fresh and modern interpretation of Twelfth Night.

Shooting Stars was formed in 2006 by Helen Crosse and quickly gained a reputation for producing high quality professional theatre.  They produce classic Shakespeare but bring it up to date and make it relevant to a modern audience with modern dress and in updated settings and ‘worlds’. Definately theatre for the whole family!

Shooting Star’s productions are always accessible, so even those not versed in the Bard’s comic play will be rolling with laughter. This is a play of mistaken identity and love triangles and takes its rightful place as one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays. Confused identity, cross-dressing and cross-garters are sure to make this an evening to remember!

Tips for our audience:

If it rains the ‘show will go on’ – we will only cancel in very extreme circumstances

There are no refunds but if we do have to abandon the show before the interval you will be offered a ticket for another night subject to availability

Bring something warm as even on a hot day the evenings can get chilly

The Café will be open for you to purchase food and drink on the evening but you are welcome to bring a picnic along with a blanket or chair to sit on. Chairs will be seated at the back of the Tea Lawn.