Grapevine June 2015 by GrapevineLIVE

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Gracing the front of your favourite magazine this month is award winning Essex singer Jo Harman. Jo picked up the Best Female Vocalist accolade at the most recent British Blues Awards. She’ll be headlining the Friday night of the Bures Music Festival and then later this year is back in Suffolk to appear the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich. That’s on Saturday, October 31 and tickets for that and her Bures show are now on sale.

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MUSIC TO YOUR EARS • 24 New releases by Back Porch, The Humdingers and Two Coats Colder

GRAPEVINE QUIZ • 25 Opportunity knocks once more to win one of our recommended CDs ALL THAT JAZZ • 28 Roger Haywood previews this month’s first Ipswich Jazz Festival ENTERTAINING ESSEX • 32 Mira muses on Mods and Coppers

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Follow us on Twitter: @grapevinelive Stephen Foster is BBC Radio Suffolk’s longest serving presenter. Foz presents Drivetime and features an eclectic selection of music with much of it coming from local bands and singer-songwriters. @StephenFoz

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This time round Foz previews some of the great music on offer at Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre.

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always a good one and all the musicians involved in my various shows would have no hesitation in making a return visit. Over the past few years bands like Dr Feelgood, Nine Below Zero and Shakatak along with acts such as Ben Waters, Mike Sanchez and Mud Morganfield have all graced the New Wolsey stage bringing in different audiences to the ones who normally frequent the premises.

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While Ipswich’s New Wolsey has always been and should always be a theatre venue, its impressive stage, great acoustics and the wonderful view from each and every one of the 400 seats all combine to make it a superb place for concerts. The backstage and front of house areas are pretty impressive as well and every single act I’ve promoted at the New Wolsey has been full of praise for the place. The whole experience for visiting musicians (and of course the acting fraternity as well) is

Suffolk Soul Singers

In the autumn season I have the privilege

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Find us on Facebook: “grapevinelive” JUNE 2015 5 of bringing two more great concerts to the Vocalist accolade at the most recent British New Wolsey – Steemy Dan and Jo Harman. Blues Awards and if his career continues to More on that shortly but before those shows grow at the rate it has been then it won’t the Suffolk Soul Singers are back for a third be long before she’s packing out even year as part of the theatre’s Open Season. bigger venues. Jo’s set will be blues-based The 35-strong choir will be supported by but you can also expect large helpings of professional musicians for a night of soul rock and soul. Opening for Jo and her band and gospel inspired songs. With musical on Saturday, October 31 will be Suffolk’s director Andi Hopgood at the helm, the premier acoustic blues act Back Porch. It’s choir combine rich vocal harmonies with always great to see a local band make the soulful grooves and you are guaranteed a step up to a bigger place than they’re used wonderful time. This year Suffolk Soul Singers to playing and I know Mike Rushmore, Jon Youth will make their debut appearance Miller, Steve Graham and Tony Lewis will rise with the seniors. The concert’s on Saturday, to the occasion. Check out this month’s June 13 and believe me it will be a night to Music To Your Ears for details of their latest album. savour. Last year I had the great pleasure of promoting Steemy Dan at DanceEast on the Ipswich waterfront. The place was packed for a superb evening of Steely Dan favourites. The band are back again in September, this time at the New Wolsey. Founded by vocalist and bassist Bob Cushing, Steemy Dan do Walter Becker and Donald Fagen’s songs and complex arrangements proud, so much so that if you shut your eyes you could be forgiven for thinking you’re listening to the real thing. Steemy Dan’s New Wolsey debut is on Wednesday, September 30. A month later, on my birthday in fact, the UK’s top female blues singer, Jo Harman, is at the New Wolsey. She won the Best Female

Another great night of music to flag up for the autumn at the New Wolsey is one being put on by Terry Dash Music. On Sunday, November 8 he brings the tremendous singer Si Cranstoun to town. Si has a big following in rock’n’roll circles and the demand in all things vintage at the moment will ensure a big and colourful crowd for that one. I can’t praise Si highly enough. His voice has all the qualities of Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson so that will give you a good indication of just how good the man is. Long may both theatre and music share the spotlight at the New Wolsey. The venue is a real jewel in Ipswich’s crown.

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Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Blaxhall Boys x free x 2pm Bury x Oakes Barn x Folk Collective - Traditional Unaccompanied Singers Bury x Theatre Royal x Summer Shorts Cambridge x Portland Arms x The Nightingales + Ted Chippington Colchester x Mercury Theatre x Little Shop Of Horrors x til 13th Ipswich x Jerwood Dancehouse x Paradise Lost (Lies Unopened Beside Me) x 7pm Ipswich x Jerwood Dancehouse x Idiot-Syncrasy x £8.50 x 9pm Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Bingo Night x 8pm Norwich x Arts Centre x Michael Chapman & Bridget St John Norwich x Bicycle Shop x Whetherman x £8.00 x 7.30pm Norwich x Brickmakers x The Brickmakers Sessions x 8pm Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x Jaleo Flamenco - ‘A Compas’ Norwich x Puppet Theatre x Tony Stockwell - Psychic Medium Norwich x Theatre Royal x Derren Brown x to 6th Peterborough x Cresset (The) x Young Guns x £14x 7.30pm Sheringham x Little Theatre x Noises Off: Fundraising Special

Tuesday 2nd

Bury x Apex (The) x Heritage Blues Orchestra x £17 x 8pm Bury x Theatre Royal x Absent Friends x til 7th x 7.30pm Chelmsford x Civic Theatre x Chas And Dave - On The Road Colchester x Headgate Theatre x Singdicate Vocal Ensemble Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x The Colchester Institute Gigs 2015 x 8pm Colchester x The Bull x The Bull Jam Night x 9pm Haverhill x Arts Centre x Annie x £13x 7.30pm Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Albert Lee & Hogan’s Heroes Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Open Mic With Spotlight Session Elly Tree

Follow us on Twitter: @grapevinelive Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Quiz Night x teams up to 8, £2 pp Ipswich x Regent Theatre x Joseph x to 6th x 7.30pm Ipswich x Town Hall x Jazz Art And Artifacts x to 27th x Free Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x Legally Blonde: The Musical Norwich x Arts Centre x Eddie Argos Tells You How To Form A Band And Become Famous Norwich x Bicycle Shop x Explosive Nzakomba x £6 x 7.30pm Norwich x Brickmakers x Claire Barker & Paul Hill Duo x 8pm Norwich x Maddermarket Ttre x Marina Laslo In Dietrich Letters Norwich x The Cottage x Karen Sharp x £10 x 7pm Norwich x The Waterfront x Chameleons Vox - ‘What Does Anything Mean? Basically’ Tour Peterborough x Key Theatre x An Audience With Ann Widdecombe Peterborough x Oundle School x Eastern Angles - Oysters Southend x Dixon Studio x The Diary Of Anne Frank x to 6th Southend x Palace Theatre x Tony Stockwell x £24 x 7.30pm

Wednesday 3rd

Bildeston x Kings Head x Open Mic/Buskin’ Night x 8.30pm Bury x Apex (The) x Gisela Joo x 7.30pm Bury x Oakes Barn x Folk Collective - American Roots & Branches Bury x Theatre Royal x Travelling Light x til 6th x 7.30pm Cambridge x Junction x Aru Band Showcase x £7 x 7.30pm Cambridge x Portland Arms x Eddie Argos (Art Brut) - The Spoken Word Tour Chelmsford x Bassment x Jazz Funk Fusion With Vasilis Xenopoulos Chelmsford x Civic Theatre x The Searchers Colchester x Arts Centre x Greg Wohead: The Ted Bundy Project Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x The Colchester Institute Gigs 2015 x 8pm Colchester x The Bull x Open Mic Night x 8.30pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Studio x Fat Man x £8.50 x 8pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Theatre x Be Better x £8.50 x 6.30pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Theatre x Show Off x £8.50 x 9.30pm Ipswich x The County of Suffolk x Harmonix Karaoke With Nicki Norwich x Arts Centre x Menagerie Theatre Pres.Bloominauschwitz Norwich x Brickmakers x Acoustic Open Mic x Free x 8pm Norwich x Garage (the) x Eastern Angles - Oysters x 7pm Norwich x Playhouse Theatre x Ruby Wax: Sane New World Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Open Mic Night x 8.30pm Stowmarket x John Peel Centre x The Mirror Trap x 7.30pm Sudbury x Bay Horse x Acoustic Wednesday With Lincoln Grounds & Friends Wix x Waggon (The) x Jazz x 8.30pm Woolpit x St Marys Church x Woolpit Festival: Gala Night Woolpit x Village Hall x Woolpit Festival: Jazz : The Horn Factory

Thursday 4th

Bungay x Fisher Theatre x FYTG Presents: Fantastic Mr Fox Bury x Apex (The) x Simpson Cutting & Kerr x £16 x 8pm Bury x The Queens Head x Blues & Soul Night x Free x 8pm Cambridge x Portland Arms x Green Mind Pres. Ren Harvieu Chelmsford x Bassment x Bassment Blues Jam x £3 x 8pm Chelmsford x Civic Theatre x Katherine Ryan - Glam Role Model Colchester x Headgate Ttre x Lines & Loops With Steve Bingham Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x The Colchester Institute Gigs 2015 x 8pm Colchester x The Bull x Jazz Project (The): Garza, Webb, Hearn, vd Hoek x free x 8.30pm Holbrook x Royal Hospital School x Evening Serenade x 7pm Ipswich x Black Horse x Rampage Thursday

Find us on Facebook: “grapevinelive” Ipswich x Dove Street Inn x Sing Song In The Green Room with Father Sam Leader & friends. All welcome Ipswich x New Wolsey Studio x Glorilla x £8.50 x 6.30pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Theatre x A Journey Round My Skull x £8.50 x 8pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Studio x The Ted Bundy Project x £8.50 x 9.30pm Ipswich x P J McGintys x Open Mic x 9pm Ipswich x Steamboat x Suffolk Songwriters Session Open mic night Ipswich A14 x Orwell Crossing x Music At Olive’s Bar Kings Lynn x Arts Centre x Tangram Theatre: The Origin Of Species Norwich x Brickmakers x Metal To The Masses Final x 7pm Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x The Searchers x x Norwich x Arts Centre x Folkeast: Peter Knight’s Gigspanner Norwich x The Waterfront x Breaking Sound Launch Party Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Walnut Jazz Night x 8.30pm Southend x Cliffs Pavilion Theatre x Elvis Costello: Detour Waldringfield x Village Hall x Eastern Angles - Oysters x 7.30pm

Friday 5th

Billericay x New Crawdaddy Club x Chris King Robinson Band Braintree x Arts Theatre x Footloose - The Musical x £10 x 7pm Bury x Milkmaid Folk Club x Vicki Swan & Johnny Dyer x £10 Bury x The Queens Head x Acoustic Night’s x 8pm Cambridge x Golden Hind x Lucy Ward x £12 x 7.30pm Cambridge x Junction x Hammer & Tongue Cambridge x 7.30pm Cambridge x Junction x Project Jimmy x £7 x 7.30pm Chelmsford x Bassment x Rowntree Records Pres. Suburban 100 Clacton x Ocean Hotel Bar x Words And Music Clacton x Princes Theatre x Bye Bye Baby x 7.30pm Colchester x Arts Centre x The Laughter Zone Comedy Club Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x Zoo Nights Presents Colchester x The Bull x Live @ 7.30.. Gareth George x 7.30pm Colchester x The Bull x The Lettuceheads x 10pm Diss x Corn Hall x D’Ukes: The Red & Black Tour x £10x 8pm Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Pete Long x 9pm Felixstowe x Trimley Sports & Social Club x The Fretz Halesworth x New Cut Arts Ctre x Ink 2015 - 30 Minutes Or Less Haverhill x Rose and Crown Hotel x Roquefort x 9pm Ipswich x Black Horse x Karaoke Ipswich x Foxhall Community Centre x Variety Show The A-Team Mind Reading Act Chris Hare Mind Boggler Houseshakers. Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Filthy Lucre ( Sex Pistols Tribute) Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Original Friday With Differential Carl Best & Helen Connelly Ipswich x High Street Gallery x Ramps On The Moon: Is It Possible? Ipswich x High Street Gallery x War Crimes For The Home x 4pm Ipswich x High Street Gallery x Can I Start Again Please x 6pm Ipswich x KC’s x High Energy Presents: Old School Legends Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Karaoke/disco with LD Entertainment Ipswich x New Wolsey Theatre x Hardy Animal x £8.50 x 2pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Theatre x Hiraeth x £8.50 x 8.30pm Ipswich x P J McGintys x The Flashbacks x 9pm Ipswich x Selkirk Inn x Pool Challenge x £60 Prize money x 8pm Ipswich x St Peter’s by The Waterfront x Jazz At The Movies Ipswich x Suffolk Punch x Premier No.1 Karaoke x 8.30pm Ipswich x The County of Suffolk x Harmonix Karaoke With Nicki Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Waxie’s Dargle x 9pm Ipswich x The Arboretum x Purple Star Karaoke x 8pm Ipswich A14 x Orwell Crossing x Kevin Barry Kings Lynn x Corn Exchange x Stewart Francis - Pun Gent Lowestoft x Seagull Theatre x The Making Of Petos Lowestoft Norwich x Arts Centre x Young Fathers x £12 x 8pm Norwich x B2 x Truescape + Support x 7pm

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Norwich x Brickmakers x Muffy And The Misfits x 8pm Norwich x Gate House x Vic Salter x x 8.30pm Norwich x Heartseas x Floating Greyhounds (The) x 9pm Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x T.Rextasy x 8pm Norwich x OPEN x Grant Ley + Supports x £6 x 8pm Norwich x The Waterfront x Admiral Fallow + C Duncan x 7pm Norwich x The Waterfront x Tune-Yards x £15 x 6.30pm Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x The Forge x x 9pm Nr. Thetford x Euston Park x Red Rooster Festival Peterborough x Brewery Tap The x Beat Roots x £5 Peterborough x Key Theatre x The Big Chris Barber Band Sizewell x Vulcan Arms x George Jackson Southend x Cliffs Pavilion Theatre x The Overtones x 7pm Southend x Maritime Room Cliffs x Vegas! Live! x 7.30pm Stoke by Nayland x Fleece Jazz x Will Butterworth x 9pm Stowmarket x John Peel Centre x Ceilidh - Valiant Dance Band Stowmarket x Magpie Inn (The) x “Paul & Re-Trios” x 9pm Stowmarket x Pickerel x Renegrade Twelve x Free x 9.30pm Sudbury x Prince of Wales x Rekovered Sudbury x Quay Theatre x Cardy & Coke x £13 x 7.30pm Woodbridge x Community Hall x Eastern Angles - Oysters Woolpit x Woolpit Institute x Woolpit Festival: An Evening Of Poetry & Music x £7 x 7.30pm Wortham x Dolphin x 50/60s Disco x 9pm

Saturday 6th

Ardleigh x Little Rabbit Barn x The Redlands Palomino Company + The Rosellys Banham x Community Centre x 60’S Dance To Bus Stop Billericay x Blues at the Farm x Chris Corcoran Band + Katie Bradley Bradfield x Strangers Home x Timeout Cambridge x Corn Exchange x Stewart Francis x £21 x 8pm

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Steve previews theatre and comedy on BBC Radio Suffolk at 5.50pm every Wednesday and presents the Wednesday Breakfast Show on ICR 105.7 FM. He also crochets coasters for disabled sailors...

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Who doesn’t like a good story? I don’t just mean books and novels but stories in all their forms: films, TV dramas, soaps, news (stories don’t have to be fiction) and even conversations. There’s fair few of us who aren’t interested when someone says “You’ll never guess what happened to me yesterday?” Unless it’s boring Bob from the warehouse who wants to tell you how long it took to download the new season of Storage Hunters to his phone. But generally we all love to hear stories – gossip – tales – rumours, call them what you want, we devour them.

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last year were categorised as ‘children’s’ shows and across the board the standard is now incredibly high. Many of our regions theatres do programme strongly for children but this month things go a step further in Bury St Edmunds with a dedicated Children’s Art Festival running from the 22nd June until July 6th. The Children’s Art Festival Bury St Edmunds, to give it it’s full title, is championed by the Theatre Royal and sponsored by Conservatoire East, but will also including performances at The Apex and several schools in the area. The focus of the festival is on the performing arts and so drama, It does seem that this love is something dance, poetry and music will all feature we’re born with. Children love stories and strongly in over fifty performances for ages I’d guess that most children get read to and 3 – 11, which are spread over the fortnight. taken to the cinema with some regularity. But they don’t seem to get taken to the The enthusiasm of Theatre Royal Director theatre with the same regularity and that Karen Simpson is clear as her vision for the puzzles me a little. You see children have far festival shows “I always imagined it to be better imaginations than most adults plus a like a mini Edinburgh Festival for families but greater ability to suspend disbelief and this is based here in East Anglia.” That may seem exactly what theatre often requires in a way like a high hope but the programming of that cinema does not. the festival looks strong and varied enough to warrant it. Whilst I’m sure that CGI will start to infiltrate productions in the near future, theatrical There are fresh productions of some classic effects cannot currently compete with those tales, including Puss in Boots (30th June) and on offer in even the most low budget movie. a cracking version of The Arabian Nights (3rd Hence the need for imagination. Children & 4th July) from Story Pocket Theatre which understand this in a way which many adults picked up the Primary Times Children’s seem to have forgotten and it is pity that Choice Award at the Edinburgh Fringe last more of them do not get to experience year. Viewers of CBeebies Rhyme Rocket the absolute delight of a real-life, grown-up will be delighted that Dommy B is making person, ‘playing’ in front of them on a stage. not one but two appearances at the festival This is particularly so at the moment when in When Trolls Try to Eat Your Goldfish (23rd theatre aimed at children is so exciting and June) and The Dragon Who Hates Poetry vibrant. Two of the best productions I saw (27th). Winner of various poetry slams,

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opportunities to make younger members of your family cringe as my ten year old daughter who witnessed her father re-visiting his Old school Jungle dance moves will doubtless testify. I thoroughly recommend In addition to the drama there is music. attendance for all dads. An informal concert of new music entitled Crazy Creatures, which is inspired by two Throughout the festival the Theatre Royal will popular children’s books The Duck With No also be encouraging audience members – Luck and A Cat Called Scratch, takes place particularly the children – to share reviews on the 26th & 27th June, with an interactive or drawings of the shows they have seen via introduction to opera courtesy of The English Facebook and Twitter. Pocket Opera Company on the 2nd July. Especially written for children, Opera Blocks Ticket prices are a reasonable £7.50 features a sing-a-long Carmen starring for individual shows but there are deals children and a yet to be written 15 minute available if you are seeing more than one opera improvised around suggestions from show with tickets for three shows costing £19 (a saving of £3.50) and tickets for six shows the audience. £36 (saving £9). If you would like to fire your If that doesn’t suit your musical taste then child’s imagination and doubtless create you might like to try the Baby Disco at The some memories which will last them a lifetime Athenaeum from 11am – 1pm on June 28th. then take a look at the full programme for Whilst in London recently with my family we the festival which can be seen at either stumbled into one of these on the South www.theatreroyal.org/upcoming/childrensBank. These events are unsurpassed as arts-festival or www.theapex.co.uk. Dommy B has written both of these shows and performed The Dragon Who Hates Poetry for a full month at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2013.

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Cambridge x Junction x Boomslang x £20 x 10pm Cambridge x Midsummer Common x Strawberry Fair Chelmsford x Bassment x Icymi Launch Party + Very Special Guests Chelmsford x Civic Theatre x Jackson Live Jackson Live Chelmsford x Cramphorn Theatre x True Colours - Dreams Theatre School Clacton x Princes Theatre x Showaddywaddy x 7.30pm Clacton x West Cliff Theatre x The Searchers Claydon x Community Centre x Live Music - Fake That x £12 Colchester x Headgate Theatre x Colchester Theatre Group - Theatre Workshop x 2pm Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x The Silent Disco Colchester x The Bull x Live @ 7.30… Judith Chalmers Colchester x The Bull x The Earnshaws x10.15pm East Bergholt x Grange Country Park x Quiz Night x 8pm Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Karaoke With Boz x 8.30pm Felixstowe x Falcon Inn (The) x Roquefort x 9pm Frating x Kings Arms x Ramshackled x Free x 9pm Halstead x Public Gardens x Ed Sheeren Tribute (Jack Shepherd) Halstead x Scenarios x Bonjack x Free x 9pm Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Mike Hurst & The Springfields Ipswich x Black Horse x Lucky No 7 Ipswich x Brewers Arms x Soul Survivors x 9pm Ipswich x California Club x Ed Gasket And The Rockers x 7pm Ipswich x Conservative Club (Newton Rd ) x Words And Music x Members Only x 8.30pm Ipswich x Corn Exchange x An Evening With David Sedaris Ipswich x Duke of York x Little Red Kings x Free x 8.30pm Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Stetsons Are Cool x 9pm Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Olaf

Follow us on Twitter: @grapevinelive Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Harmless Insanity x 8.30pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Studio x Easy For You To Say x 1.30pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Studio x Eggs Collective Get A Round x 5pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Studio x Wot? No Fish!! x 9pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Ttre x Now Listen To Me Very Carefully x 3pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Theatre x I Malvolio x £8.50 x 7pm Ipswich x Orwell River Cruises x Motown Magic Disco Ipswich x P J McGintys x Book Launch x In Murphy’s Room Ipswich x P J McGintys x Dance Off x In the Loft x 9pm Ipswich x P J McGintys x Infrasonic x In the Main Bar x 9pm Ipswich x P J McGintys x Northgate Folk Jam x Ronnies Bar Ipswich x Plough (The) x B4 x Free Ipswich x St Augustines Church Hall x Back To The Future With Springfield Follies Ipswich x Steamboat x Scrumpy & Swine Cider Festival x 12pm Ipswich x Suffolk Punch x The Wully Bully Soul Band x 9pm Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Hayden Grigor Band x 9pm Kings Lynn x Corn Exchange x The Manfreds Hits Jazz & Blues Long Melford x George & Dragon x Steve Forward x 8.30pm Manningtree x Mistley Village Hall x Foxyrock Rock ‘n’ Roll Club - The Alley Cats Manningtree x Skinners Arms x All Revved Up!! x 9pm Needham Market x The Ark x Folk: No Strings, Maggie & Stan Norwich x B2 x Auroras Edge + Kodeta + Theiving Icons x 7pm Norwich x Brickmakers x Rawkas x Free x 8pm Norwich x Gate House x Rockin Johnny x 8:30 PM Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x Steemy Dan x 7.30pm Norwich x Arts Centre x Sonic Youths V2.2 x 1pm Norwich x Arts Centre x The Big Alabama : Album Lanch Party Norwich x Norwich City Football Club x Sixties Rhythm Night

Find us on Facebook: “grapevinelive” Norwich x Playhouse Tre x Paul Daniels And Debbie McGee Norwich x The Waterfront x Young Guns + Nothing But Thieves Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Keno Kings x 9pm Peterborough x Brewery Tap The x Saturday Night Groove Peterborough x Key Theatre x Aladdin x £18.50 x 7.30pm Southend x Chinnery’s x The Gift x Tribute to The Jam x £7 Southend x Palace Theatre x Paul Merton ‘Impro Chums’ Stowmarket x John Peel Cre x Classic Album Sunday - Jarvis Cocker Stowmarket x Museum of East Anglian Life x StowBlues x 2pm Stowmarket x Pickerel x Skullduggery x Free x 9.30pm Sudbury x Bay Horse x Freebird Sudbury x Prince of Wales x Bonnet Wix x Waggon (The) x Rushour x 9pm Woolpit x Village Hall x Woolpit Festival: Stowmarket Concert Band

Sunday 7th

Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Martin Mcneill x Free x 2.30pm Bury x Oakes Barn x The Bury Folk Collective - Wired Folk Cambridge x Arts Theatre x BBC Big Band: The Sound Of Cinema Chelmsford x Cramphorn Ttre x Jazz Club - Matt Wates Quartet Chelmsford x Woolpack x GC’s Jazz Club: Andi Hopgood & Ted Beament Colchester x Arts Centre x The Vinyl Sessions - Nick Drake Colchester x Arts Centre x The Sirkis / Bialas International Quartet Colchester x Headgate Theatre x The Lion In Winter x 6.30pm Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Karaoke With Boz x 3pm Felixstowe x Felsto Arms x Terry Lee Travis x 4pm Geldeston x The Locks x Billie No Mates Session x 2pm Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Education Of A Lap Dancer Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Rox Off x 6pm Ipswich x Isaacs x The Downsetters x Free x 3pm Ipswich x Red Lion (The) x Karaoke With Ryan x 3pm

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Ipswich x Steamboat x Scrumpy & Swine Cider Festival x12pm x Wax On The Waterfront x Bring your own vinyl x 4pm Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Mulberry Folk Session x 8pm Kings Lynn x Corn Exchange x CK Gospel Choir - Gospel At The Movies Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x Here We Are Again x £10 x 2pm Lowestoft x Milestones Jazz Club x The Button Band x 8pm Marks Tey x Colchester Jazz Club x George (Kid) Tideman’s New Orleans All Stars Norwich x Brickmakers x Lee Vasey Big Band x 12 - 3pm Norwich x Brickmakers x Big Music Quiz + Karaoke x 8pm Norwich x Arts Centre x Mapped Out Presents Rozi Plain x 8pm Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x The Broadside Boys x 2pm Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Acoustic Country Folk With Roy Hart And Mick Hursey x 5pm Peterborough x Brewery Tap The x Oakham Mic Night Peterborough x Charters x Dave Ellis Blues & Special Guest Peterborough x Cresset (The) x The Leprosy Mission x 7pm Southend x Cliffs Pavilion Theatre x The Proclaimers x 7.30pm Southend x Maritime Room x Afternoon Tea With Dads Army Vicar Frank Williams Southend x Palace Theatre x Chuckles In Oz x 2pm Stowmarket x Magpie Inn x Crazy Karaoke With Malc & Jen Sudbury x Bay Horse x Thomas Robinson Band x Free Food x 4pm Sudbury x Quay Theatre x Bootleg Beegees x £14 x 7.30pm White Colne x Chalkney Meadows x Aldham Old Time Rally Wingfield x Wingfield Barns x Peter Knights Gigspanner Wreningham x Village Hall x Dumplin Country - Johnny Marks

Monday 8th

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It’s with utter joy that I received an email recently, saying that the singer from Alloy Ark had been hard at work on new material and that an EP was coming soon. Alloy Ark are one of my favourite bands we’ve covered on the show, and their single Blue is probably my standout track. They were twee and indie pop, but songs like Blue had a raw grunge feel which really hit home. The music was the perfect accompaniment for Dani Appadoo’s dreamy vocals.

The BBC Introducing Uploader has been as busy as ever, with one artist in particular catching my attention. Kolomo is the stage name of Will Rhys, who says he has finished “the best part of an album” and just wants to get it heard. Listening to songs he’s uploaded, including Stay and Let’s Dance, Fast forward a few years and Dani is back I was instantly reminded of Metronomy, with her Thé EP, which is under the alias Inad. which is never a bad thing. Her voice remains as sweet and delicate as it was with Alloy Ark, and the keyboard that It’s ideal listening for a summer’s day with sounds like a toy also returns. As does a new friends. version of Blue, which this time sounds like it was recorded in India rather than Seattle. That’s something that I can never imagine

Dead Rat Orchestra

Find us on Facebook: “grapevinelive” being said about Dead Rat Orchestra, in the mainstream press at least. A while ago the band came into BBC Radio Suffolk armed with a 6ft log and meat cleavers and went on to perform one of the most outstanding sessions we’ve ever had. They followed this up with a show about centuries-old vigilante songs, and then went on a tour using a canal boat as the mode of transport. For their new tour, titled Tyburnia, Dead Rat Orchestra are once again looking to the past and will be playing at former sites of public executions. They say they’ve created a soundtrack that features songs “that were composed by or for those condemned to dance the Tyburn jig”, Tyburn being a place in London where public executions were held for 700 years. The tour is nationwide but will pass through Ipswich, Norwich, Cambridge and Colchester. Finally, it was good to have Ryan Gallant in the studio recently. Ryan goes under several names - including NVU and Muckaniks - and continually impresses us with his production of hip hop, house and electronica. He’s become well known locally for his work with Richard Osborne and Flexx Tyler, and along with the likes of Kayzee, Deadpoole and Brooches shows there’s a wealth of talented producers in Ipswich. The next stage, hopefully, will be getting more of them on stage at the local venues. Richard

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21st, 22nd & 23rd August 2015 A fresh approach to a timeless tradition with an eclectic mix of contemporary and traditional music, where instrument, song, dance, storytelling, poetry, art, heritage craft skills and knowledge are shared and collaborations born.

The Unthanks Chris Wood & Andy Cutting Ten Strings & A Goat Skin John Spiers • The Wilson Family False Lights • The Young’uns Martin Carthy • Gigspanner Peatbog Faeries • Leveret Neil Innes • Vin Garbutt Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker The Urban Folk Quartet The Hut People • Mawkin Faustus • Inca Steve Tilston • Megson The Sam Kelly Trio Maz O’Connor • Hot Feet Morris folk: Witchmen • Rockingham Rapper Pretty Grim • Golden Star • Barley Brigg Hageneth • Thameside Mummers ... with more from The Get On The Soapbox team and The Imagined Suffolk Food Village

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Cambridge x Portland Arms x Rock Q Queen Tribute x 8pm Gt Yarmouth x St George’s Theatre x Two Suffolk Artists Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Bingo Night x 8pm Kings Lynn x Corn Exchange x Paul Mertons Impro Chums Norwich x Arts Centre x Mahsa And Marjan Vahdat x 8pm Norwich x Brickmakers x The Brickmakers Sessions x 8pm Southend x Cliffs Pavilion Theatre x Seesma x to 12th Woodbridge x Shottisham Sorrel Horse x Proper English

Tuesday 9th

Battisford x Punchbowl x Pub Quiz Bungay x Fisher Theatre x Shawn Cuddy x £15 x 7.30pm Bury x Apex (The) x An Audience With John Humphrys x 2.30pm Bury x Apex (The) x Rod Woodward x 8pm Bury x Theatre Royal x Shrek The Musical x On until 28th Cambridge x Arts Theatre x The Pirates Of Penzance x til 13th Cambridge x Junction x Danny & The Champions Of The World Chelmsford x Civic Theatre x Aida x to 13th x £15 x 7.30pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Fairport Convention x £20 x 7.30pm Colchester x The Bull x The Comedy Club x x 9pm Gt Yarmouth x St George’s Theatre x A Harpsichord Recital Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Quiz Night x teams up to 8 people x 8pm Ipswich x Steamboat x Quiz Night x £2.50pp x 8pm Norwich x Bicycle Shop x The Georgia Shackleton Trio x 7.30pm Norwich x The Cottage x Celebrating Hoagy x £10 x 7pm Norwich x The Owl Sanctuary x Mac Sabbath x £10 x 7.30pm Norwich x Theatre Royal x Shrek The Musical x til 28th x 7.30pm Scole x Crossways Inn x Local Artist Night: Waveney Valley Folk Collective Snape x Peter Pears Recital Room x Festival Masterclasses:

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Wednesday 10th

Bildeston x Kings Head x Open Mic/Buskin’ Night x 8.30pm Bungay x Fisher Theatre x Royal Opera House Live Pres: La Bohme Cambridge x Junction x Black Grape x £23 x 7pm Cambridge x Junction x Cambridge Regional College: The Final Jam Cambridge x Portland Arms x Yusuf Cimen x 8pm Chelmsford x Bassment x Blues In The City: Lexie Green Band + Sheri Kershaw Band x £5 x 8pm Chelmsford x Cramphorn Theatre x La Boheme (Live Screening) Clacton x West Cliff Theatre x Holiday Snap x to 13th x 7.30pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Fairport Convention x 7.30pm Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x Dan Warburton EP Launch Colchester x The Bull x Open Mic Night x 8.30pm Geldeston x The Locks x Shindig - Irish Session x 10.30pm Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Blues Jam Ipswich x St Peter’s by The Waterfront x Shakespeare In Suffolk Ipswich x The County of Suffolk x Harmonix Karaoke With Nicki Norwich x Brickmakers x Acoustic Open Mic x 8pm Norwich x Gate House x Irish Folk x 8.30pm Norwich x Maddermarket Ttre x Elaine Delmar & Todd Gordon Sing ‘Frank & Ella’ Norwich x Arts Centre x Glasshouse Presents Love Dance Norwich x OPEN x Timandra Harkness: Brainsex x £12 x 7pm Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x New Music Wednesdays Peterborough x Cresset (The) x Reginald D Hunter x 8pm Snape x Peter Pears Recital Room x Festival Masterclasses

Thursday 11th

Braintree x Bocking Arts Theatre x Braintree Beer & Real Ale Festival x til 13th Bungay x Fisher Tre x An Evening With The Warhorse Songman Bures x Eight Bells x Acoustic Open Mic x 7.30pm Bury x Apex (The) x An Evening With Peggy Seeger Cambridge x Modern Jazz Club x Harmony In Harlem Big Band Chelmsford x Bassment x Acoustic Underground x £3 x 8pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Conan + Khost + Jotnarr x 7.30pm Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x NSS 88 + Support Colchester x The Bull x Acoustic Bull x 9.15pm Gt Yarmouth x St George’s Theatre x Patrick Monahan + Support Ipswich x Black Horse x Rampage Thursday Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Webbys Jam Ipswich x Ipswich Town Football Club x Ipswich Beer Festival x to 13th Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Folk Jam x 7.30pm Ipswich x P J McGintys x Open Mic x 9pm Ipswich x St Peter’s by The Waterfront x Shakespeare In Suffolk Ipswich A14 x Orwell Crossing x The A-Team x 8.30pm Norwich x B2 x 8 Days Till Summer + Support x 7pm Norwich x Brickmakers x Enigma x 8pm Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x Jacqui Dankworth Norwich x Nick Rayns LCR x You Me At Six + Special Guests Norwich x Arts Centre x Fairport Covention x 8pm Norwich x The Waterfront x Little Barrie + Gil De Ray Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Walnut Jazz Night x 8.30pm Peterborough x Key Theatre x Courtney Pine x 7.30pm Peterborough x Key Theatre x The Three Degrees x 7.30pm Snape x Peter Pears Recital Room x Festival Masterclasses Southend x Palace Ttre x Andy Fairweather Low & The Low Riders

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Aldeburgh x Pumphouse (The) x Deep Throat x £7 x 7pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Rael Jones & Peter Gregson: The Watched Clock x £7 x 5pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Kansas Smitty’s Big Four x £8 x 9pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Madame Galina Presents x £10 x 11pm Aldeburgh x Various places x Aldeburgh Festival Battlesbridge x Lodge Country Inn x Popgun Ultimate 80s Tribute Band Billericay x New Crawdaddy Club x Aynsley Lister x 8pm Bury x Apex (The) x Half Man Half Biscuit x 8pm Bury x Milkmaid Folk Club x Dana & Susan Robinson x £10 Bury x Queens Head x Live Acoustic Nights x Dale Bennett Cambridge x Corn Exchange x John Barrowman’s ‘You Raise Me Up’ Tour Cambridge x Golden Hind x Two Coats Colder x £9 Cambridge x Junction x The Horne Section x £16 x 7pm Cambridge x Portland Arms x Camblast Promotions And Cambridge Rock Society Present x 8pm Chelmsford x Bassment x Fling Festival Last Band Standing Colchester x Arts Centre x Edwin Sanz San Augustin Salsa Orchestra Featuring Alex Wilson x £20 x 7.30pm Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x Even Nine Colchester x The Bull x Live @ 7.30 TBC x Double Barrel x 10pm Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Adam Harrod x 9pm Felixstowe x Trimley Sports & Social Club x The Rock Hudsons Frating x Kings Arms x Martells (The) x Free x 9pm Gt Yarmouth x St George’s Ttre x Edith Cavell:Facing The Silence Guist Norfolk x Sennowe Park x Symmetry Festival Halesworth x New Cut Arts Centre x My Sweet Patootie Halstead x Royal Oak x Words And Music x 9pm Haverhill x Arts Centre x Sherlock Holmes x £14 x 7pm Haverhill x Rose and Crown Hotel x Kickin Up Dust x 9pm Hockley x Community Centre x Total 80’s x £10 x 8pm Hopton On Sea x Potters x The Searchers Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Myths And Mysteries x 7.30pm Ipswich x Black Horse x Karaoke Ipswich x Cock & Pye x Wully Bully Soul Band x 8pm Ipswich x Gainsborough Labour Club x Skad 4 Life Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Voodoo Child x 9pm Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Sax On Fire x £5.00 Ipswich x Jimmy’s Farm x Alive & V-Dubbin x On until 14th.See www. aliveandvdubbin.co.uk for full details Ipswich x Lattice Barn x LD Entertainment karaoke / disco Ipswich x P J McGintys x Podcast Live x 8pm Ipswich x Regent Theatre x The ELO Experience x 7.30pm Ipswich x Selkirk Inn x T.Bone x Reggae, Ska & Soul x 9pm Ipswich x St Peter’s by The Waterfront x Shakespeare In Suffolk Ipswich x Steamboat x Mouthful Of Ashtrays & Support x 9pm Ipswich x The County of Suffolk x Harmonix Karaoke With Nicki Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Mole Machine (Ex Tinkers Shack) Ipswich x The Arboretum x Purple Star Karaoke x 8pm Ipswich A14 x Orwell Crossing x Pat James Kelvedon x Live At The Institute x The Jigantics: Paul Hand, Fern Teather Leiston x Sizewell Sports & Social Club x Kevin Barry (C&W) Long Melford x Cock & Bell x Long Melford Folk & Acoustic Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x Roy Orbison & Friends Lowestoft x Seagull Ttre x Love Labour Lost (Peines Damour Perdues) Newmarket x The Bull x All Revved Up Unplugged x 9pm Norwich x B2 x Jamie Johnson + Support x 7pm Norwich x Bawburgh Golf Club x Alzheimer’s Charity Dinner Dance

JUNE 2015

Norwich x Brickmakers x Nightlife x 8pm Norwich x Maddermarket Ttre x Lonnie Donegan Jnr’s Skiffle Party Norwich x Arts Centre x Gossamer Thread’S Kubla Khan Cabaret Norwich x Playhouse Theatre x Tim Fitzhigham: In The Bath Norwich x The Waterfront x Lotte Mullan: Hometown Tour Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Danny And The Seniors x 9pm Peterborough x Cresset (The) x Ladies Night x £11.50 x 8pm Sheringham x Little Theatre x The Ultimate Cliff Richard Experience Sizewell x Vulcan Arms x Handle With Care Snape x Britten Studio x The Corridor & The Cure x 7.30pm Southend x Palace Theatre x Tim Vine x £22 x 8pm St Neots x The Priory Centre x St Neots Folk Festival Stoke by Nayland x Fleece Jazz x The John East Project x (proceeds to Edwardstone Church) x £15 x 7.30pm Stowmarket x John Peel Centre x Rozi Plain x £5 x 7.30pm Stowmarket x Pickerel x Flashbacks x Free x 9.30pm Sudbury x Bay Horse x Gentleman Sudbury x Prince of Wales x Psychodehlia Sudbury x Quay Theatre x Robin Ince: Blooming Buzzing Confusion Wortham x Dolphin x Backtrackin’ x 9pm

Saturday 13th

Aldeburgh x Blythburgh Church x Andreas Scholl x 3pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x The Vanishing Man x £10 x 5pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Liam Williams: Capitalism x £10 x 7pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Madame Galina Presents x £10.x 9pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Hot Rocs x £10x 11pm Billericay x Blues at the Farm x Luke Doherty Band x 2pm Bradfield x Strangers Home x Voodoo Child

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Braintree x Arts Theatre x Simon & Garfunkel Through The Years Braintree x Orange Tree (the) x The Beaten Track x 8pm Bury x Apex (The) x 60S Hits & Laughter Show x 7.30pm Cambridge x Junction x Fiver Unplugged x £6 x 7pm Cambridge x Junction x Myles Sanko x £11 x 8pm Chelmsford x Bassment x Country & Blues With East Lonesome Drifters + Flying Vees + Guests x 8pm Clacton x Princes Theatre x Ultimate Elton John & The Rocket Band Colchester x Brewers Arms x All Revved Up!! x 9pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Barking Dog Theatre: Teddy’s Birthday Colchester x Arts Centre x D’Ukes: The Red & Black Tour Colchester x Soundhouse@Bull x Keep Colchester Cool Pres.. Colchester x The Bull x Live @ 7.30... Pete Brame Colchester x The Bull x Stone Shuffle Jones x 10.15pm E.Bergholt x Grange Country Park x The Martells x 8pm Elmswell x Railway Tavern x Snatch x 9pm Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Karaoke With Boz x 8.30pm Felixstowe x Trimley S & SClub x Quiz & Curry Night Geldeston x The Locks x Lockstock: x £7 x 1pm Gt Yarmouth x St George’s Ttre x One Way Or Another-A Blondie Tribute Hadleigh x Royal British Legion x Ritchie Monroa x 8.30pm Halesworth x New Cut Arts Centre x The Siege x 7.30pm Halstead x Empire Theatre x Rod Stewart Tribute x 7.30pm Haverhill x Arts Centre x The Secret Garden x 4pm Holbrook x Royal Hospital School x The Royal Connection Ipswich x Black Horse x Edge Of Darkness Ipswich x Conservative Club (Newton Rd ) x The A-Team Ipswich x Duke of York x The Makeshifts x Free x 8.30pm Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x The Most (Mod Band) x 9pm

Follow us on Twitter: @grapevinelive Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Skad 4 Life Ipswich x Manor Social Club x Dexy’s Bootleg Runners x £10 Ipswich x Margaret Catchpole x Purple Star Karaoke x 7pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Theatre x Suffolk Soul Singers x 7.30pm Ipswich x P J McGintys x Thom Worth x 9pm Ipswich x Plough (The) x Rock Dinosaurs x Free Ipswich x Red Lion (The) x Roxoff x 9pm Ipswich x Regent Theatre x The Moody Blues ‘Timeless Flight’ Ipswich x Steamboat x Folk At The Boat Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Counterfeit 9pm Kings Lynn x Corn Exchange x Octonauts And The Deep Sea Volcano Adventure Leiston x White Horse Hotel x East Coast Blues Band x9pm Long Melford x George &Dragon x The Topless Barmaids Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x Talon: The Best Of The Eagles Lowestoft x Seagull Theatre x An Evening Of African Celebration Martlesham x Douglas Bader x Words And Music x 9pm Norwich x B2 x Power Promotions Present… x MammothFest Warm Up Show - All Dayer Norwich x Brickmakers x Avi80Rs x Free x 8pm Norwich x Gate House x Vic Salter x x 8.30pm Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x The Nook Variety Show Norwich x Arts Centre x Jolie Holland x £10 x 8pm Norwich x OPEN x Marla Horse Party Happy Coloured Marbles & Perfect Mistakes x £6 x 8pm Norwich x Playhouse Theatre x Aliens Love Underpants x 1.30pm Norwich x Playhouse Theatre x Robin Ince:Blooming Buzzing Confusion Peterborough x Brewery Tap The x Saturday Night Groove Peterborough x Key Theatre x Time Team And Archaeology: Peterborough x Key Theatre x Oasis Uk x £16 x 7.30pm Sheringham x Little Theatre x Second Soprano Theatre Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Quatuor Mosaiques I x 11am Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Mahler Chamber Orchestra I Southend x Cliffs Pavilion Theatre x West End Men x 8pm Southend x Maritime Room x Viva Santana Live! x 8pm Stowmarket x Pickerel x Ninjas Of Rock x Free x 9.30pm Sudbury x Bay Horse x The Occupants Sudbury x Prince of Wales x Was 3000 Sudbury x Quay Theatre x The Blues Brothers Experience Welbourne x Welbourne Village x Welborne Arts Festival Wix x Waggon (The) x Jukebox Fury x 9pm Woolpit x Various Locations x Woolpit Festival: Festival Day

Sunday 14th

Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Greg McDonald x 2.30pm Bury x Apex (The) x Fat Cat Comedy Club x 8pm Bury x Oakes Barn x The Bury Folk Collective - Unplugged Chelmsford x Cramphorn Ttre x Ivan The Terrible Ivan The Terrible Clacton x West Cliff Theatre x Broadway & Disney Spectacular Colchester x Arts Centre x Berta Rojas x £17 x 7.30pm Diss x Park Hotel x Silver Dollar CMC - Ian Highland Band Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Karaoke With Boz x 3pm Geldeston x The Locks x The Vagaband x 2.30pm Gt Yarmouth x St George’s Theatre x Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain Ipswich x Briarbank Brewery x Above & Beyond x 5pm Ipswich x Corn Exchange x Glee-Tastic! x £9 x 7pm Ipswich x Corn Exchange x Princesses On Parade x 4.30pm Ipswich x Duke of York x Kolin Durier x Free x 3pm Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x The Martells x 6pm Ipswich x Isaacs x Ashton Jones And Innerheart x Free x 3pm

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Monday 15th

Aldeburgh x Jubilee Hall x Julia Blackburn: On John Craske Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Blaxhall Boys x Free x 2pm Bury x Theatre Royal x Aladdin x til 16thx 7.30pm Cambridge x Arts Theatre x Richard Alston Dance Company Cambridge x Portland Arms x Dave White & Shakey Horse Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Bingo Night Leiston x Sizewell Sports & Social Club x Quiz Night x 7pm Norwich x Brickmakers x The Brickmakers Sessions x 8pm Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x Norwich Jazz Club Snape x Britten Studio x The Corridor & The Cure x 5pm Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Quatuor Mosaiques II

Tuesday 16th

Battisford x Punchbowl x Acoustic Night Clacton x Princes Theatre x The Carpenters Story x 7.30pm Clacton x Princes Theatre x When You’re Smiling x 2pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Danny & The Champions Of The World Colchester x The Bull x Bandstand x 9pm Felixstowe x Trimley S&S Club x Clairvoyant Evening: Stephanie Carr Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Open Mic Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Quiz Night Kings Lynn x Corn Exchange x Avenue Q - The Musical Norwich x Bicycle Shop x Worry Dolls x £5 x 7.30pm Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x A French Cafe Evening Norwich x Arts Centre x Figs And Wigs : Show Off Norwich x OPEN x The Godfathers x £12.50 x 7.30pm Norwich x The Cottage x Jan Messeder x £10 x 7pm Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Mahler Chamber Orchestra Soloists

Wednesday 17th

Bildeston x Kings Head x Open Mic/Buskin’ Night x 8.30pm Bungay x Fisher Theatre x The Tramps x 7.30pm Bury x Apex (The) x Jackson Live In Concert x 7.30pm Bury x Oakes Barn x Folk Collective - Folk From The Tradition Chelmsford x Bassment x Adproject + Guests x 8pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Amy & Rosana Cade: Sister Colchester x Mercury Theatre x Come Fly With Us x to 20th Colchester x The Bull x Open Mic Night x 9.30pm Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Morecambe & Wise Rebooted

JUNE 2015

Ipswich x New Wolsey Theatre x Hercules: A Dance Cabaret Ipswich x The County of Suffolk x Harmonix Karaoke With Nicki Norwich x Brickmakers x Acoustic Open Mic x Free x 8pm Norwich x Gate House x Irish Folk x 8.30pm Norwich x Arts Centre x Tony Visconti & Woody Woodmansey Norwich x Owl Sanctuary x Andrew Jackson Jihad +more Norwich x The Waterfront x Danny & The Champions Of The World Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x New Music Wednesdays x 8pm Peterborough x Key Theatre x The Lady Boys Of Bangkok Sheringham x Little Theatre x Sheringham Players: Flying Feathers Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x A Pierre Dream: A Portrait Of Pierre Boulez Southend x Dixon Studio x Clothes Encounters x to 20th Sudbury x Quay Theatre x The Quay Quiz x £1.50 x 7.30pm Wix x Waggon (The) x Blackwater Band x 8.30pm Woodbridge x The Table x Concertina Cantina, Tallulah Goodtimes & Gypsy Dynamite

Thursday 18th

Bungay x Fisher Theatre x NT Live: Man And Superman Bury x Theatre Royal x A Chorus Of Disapproval x to 20th Cambridge x Arts Theatre x The Importance Of Being Earnest Cambridge x Corn Exchange x Elvis Costello x 7.30pm Cambridge x Portland Arms x Andrew Jackson Jihad x 7.30pm Castle Hedingham x Bell Inn x Acoustic Open Mic x 7.30pm Chelmsford x Bassment x Bitterscene Present Piney Gir Colchester x Institute x A Rockschool Summer x £3 x 7.30pm Colchester x The Bull x The Phil Jackson Band x 9.15pm Geldeston x The Locks x Tales n Ales x 8.30pm Haverhill x Arts Centre x Judie Tzuke Songs And Stories x 8pm Ipswich x Black Horse x Rampage Thursday

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1 JULY & 8 JULY Open Air Theatre Christchurch Park/ Holywells Park 3 JULY Picnic in the Park Concert

4 JULY Open Air Cinema at ITFC • Frozen Sing Along • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang • Avengers Assemble • The Bodyguard

5 JULY Ipswich Music Day 11 JULY Global Rhythm 12 JULY Indian Summer Mela

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Follow us on Twitter: @grapevinelive Conductor, musical director, accompanist, organist - is there no end to David’s musical talents? Members of Sudbury Choral Society, the singers of vocal groups Musicology and The Accidentals as well as the good parishioners of various Suffolk churches would argue that there most certainly is. Undaunted, David enjoys all of the above and more away from the day job at BBC Radio Suffolk.

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The other Ip-Art event worthy of note is the return to Ipswich of violinist Jennifer Pike, whose star is shining brighter than ever following trips to New York and the Far East. Jennifer teams up once again with the Ipswich Orchestral Society for a concert on the 27th June and conductor Adam Gatehouse is thrilled that

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June sees the Ip-Art Festival dust itself down and open the doors of various Ipswich venues for a wide range of arts events. Classical music has always had its place at Ip-Art, albeit that place is not as extensive as you’ll find at the festivals in Bury and Norwich. The main event, as it were, is the Picnic in the Park where Britain’s Got Talent runner up Lucy Kay joins the Heart of England Strings for a fun and varied programme of music from Handel and Bach to Coldplay and Lady Gaga. As you might imagine, this is a selection of traditional favourites mixed with a classical take on chart topping songs. Following her BGT success, Lucy Kay was immediately signed by Sony Classical and has set about her mission to introduce classical music to a wider audience with her fresh and approachable style. Christchurch Park should be the perfect venue and Ip-Art

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Find us on Facebook: “grapevinelive” an artist of this calibre still very obviously enjoys coming back to Suffolk. On the bill are two vibrant virtuoso pieces for violin, by Saint-Saens and Rozsa, in a programme which also includes the Easter Festival Overture by Rimsky-Korsakov and one of Tchaikovsky’s best loved symphonies, his fourth. History was never my strong point and I had no idea that there was a Battle of Lowestoft or indeed that this year sees the 350th anniversary of said naval encounter. Apparently, the result was an English victory over the Dutch, so the perfect excuse for a jolly nautical musical celebration ! Step up the Royal Philharmonic to their regular haunt of the town’s Marina Theatre, throw in a goodly variety of tunes with a connection to the sea and the job’s a good’un. In fact, anniversary or not, the programme really is excellent with tunes that have become ingrained in the national consciousness ... Mendelssohn Hebrides, Sailing By from the shipping forecast, Khachaturian’s Spartacus (who remembers the Onedin Line ?), the theme to Desert Island Discs and Elgar’s Sea Pictures. The whole she-bang is topped off with the Henry Wood British Sea Songs Fantasia so things don’t get easier on the ear than this. The only problem is the date - the 3rd July unfortunately means a clash with the Ip-Art picnic. Finally - and staying with Britain’s most easterly town - do you know what it means when an orchestra plays on original, ‘period’ instruments ? If not, you can hear three musicians from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment explain how and why old instruments differ, and why they choose them over their modern counterparts. Suitable for ages 14 and up, this is at 6pm on the 26th June, again at the Lowestoft Marina Theatre.

JUNE 2015

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Ipswich x P J McGintys x Open Mic x 9pm Ipswich x Swan x Release The Bats DJ Night: Ipswich A14 x Orwell Crossing x Music At Olive’s Bar Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x Killer Queen x 7.30pm Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x The Dreamboys x 8pm Norwich x B2 x Let Go The Sky + Support x 7pm Norwich x Brickmakers x Stealer x Free x 8pm Norwich x Arts Centre x Mark Grist & Mc Mixy:Dead Poet’s Death Match Norwich x The Waterfront x Larry Miller x £12.50 x 7.30pm Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Walnut Jazz Night x 8.30pm Peterborough x Key Theatre x The Searchers Snape x Britten Studio x Boulez Exploration x £15 x 11.30am Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Alice Coote & Christian Blackshaw Southend x Cliffs Pavilion Ttre x Shawn Klush - Elvis World Tour Southend x Palace Theatre x Now Thats What We Call Music Sudbury x Quay Theatre x Lettice & Lovage x to 20th Wivenhoe x Cricket Club x Wivenhoe Funny Farm x 8pm

Friday 19th

Aldeburgh x Jubilee Hall x Britten-Pears Young Artists Alumni I Aldeburgh x Jubilee Hall x Hesse Students Concert I x 5pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Le Gateau Chocolat: Black x 5pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Severed Limb x 7pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Kate Dimbleby: You’ve Got A Friend Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Denims x 11pm Billericay x New Crawdaddy Club x Malaya Blue Band x 8pm Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Midsummer Festival Of Folk Begins Braintree x Arts Theatre x Funhouse Comedy Nights x 8pm Bungay x Fisher Theatre x The Tim Thornton Quartet x 7.30pm Bury x Milkmaid Folk Club x Tom McConville x £10 Bury x Queens Head x Acoustic Night x Free x 8pm

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Saturday 20th

Aldeburgh x Church x Quatuor Diotima & Mark Simpson Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Craig Brown And Friends x 5pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Jack Warshaw: Ballads Blues & Fire Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Super Best Friends Club x 9pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Hot Border Special x 11pm Billericay x Blues at the Farm x Bad Influence x £7.00 x 2pm Bradfield x Strangers Home x Up To Eleven Braintree x Arts Theatre x Peter Howarth: Unplugged Braintree x Cressing Temple Barns x Cressing Temple Country Fair Bungay x Fisher Theatre x Oye Santana x 7.30pm Bury x Apex (The) x The Carpenters Story Bury x Culford Hall x Opera In The Park Cambridge x Corn Exchange x Jimmy Carr x 8pm Cambridge x Junction x When The Beat Drops Out Chelmsford x Bassment x The Franklys + The Vendettas + Guests Chelmsford x Civic Theatre x Stage Door x to 21st x 7pm Clacton x Princes Theatre x Catch A Rising Star x 7.30pm Clacton x West Cliff Theatre x Big Girls Dont Cry x 7.30pm Colchester x Charter Hall x Beer Festival x £12x 5pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Mods & Coppers x £10 x 7.30pm Colchester x Soundhouse@Bull x Pioneer Music Presents… Colchester x The Bull x Live @ 7.30.. Shooty & The Bang Bang Colchester x The Bull x The Strides x 10.15pm Earls Colne x Village Hall x Halstead Choral Soc: I Dreamed A Dream E Bergholt x Grange Country Park x Disco Night With Stevie B Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Karaoke With Boz x 8.30pm Frating x Kings Arms x Mid Life Crisis x Free x 9pm Halesworth x New Cut Arts Centre x The Tramps x 7.30pm Hitchin x Hitchin Priory x Rhythms Of The World Horsford x Social Club x The Floating Greyhounds x 9pm Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Purple Zeppelin x 7.30pm Ipswich x Black Horse x Pure DC Ipswich x California Club x Andy Betts Roadshow x 7pm Ipswich x Christchurch Mansion x Shakespeare In Suffolk Ipswich x Corn Exchange x Jaleo Flamenco 2015 Uk Tour Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Stipe (R.E.M Tribute) x 9pm Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Shoot The Glass Ipswich x Jerwood Dancehouse x Belonging(s) x 3pm & 6pm Ipswich x Orwell River Cruises x Club Classic Disco Ipswich x P J McGintys x Fifty Kwid x 9pm Ipswich x Plough (The) x Shut Up Shirley x Free Ipswich x Regent Theatre x Stars Of The Stage x £16 x 7pm Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Soap Your Aunty x 9pm Ipswich x Town Hall x Learn How To Sing Jazz Songs x £12 x 1pm Ipswich x Woolpack (The) x Jazz Arrivals x Free x 9pm Kelvedon x Live At The Institute x Jonathan Byrd, Dan Raza Leiston x White Horse Hotel x B4 x Free x 8.30pm Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x Blake: In Harmony x 7.30pm Lowestoft x Seagull Theatre x Dirty Lookz x £5 x 7.30pm Norwich x Brickmakers x Pure Passion x Free x 8pm Norwich x Epic Studios x Wolfgang Flr (Ex-Kraftwerk) x 8pm Norwich x Gate House x Pete Kiwi Keegan x 8.30pm Norwich x Maddermarket Theatre x Intellectual Hooligans

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Norwich x OPEN x The Plugg Present Trevor Nelson x 9pm Norwich x Playhouse Theatre x The Horne Section x 8pm Norwich x The Waterfront x Mark Morriss (The Bluetones) x 7pm Offton x Limeburners x Boneshakers x 9pm Peterborough x Brewery Tap The x Saturday Night Groove Peterborough x Key Theatre x Magna Carta And Us x 7.30pm Peterborough x Key Ttre x Voodoo Room - A Night Of Hendrix & Cream Peterborough x Various Locations x Heritage Festival Saxmundham x White Horse Rendham x 3 Blind Mice Snape x Britten Studio x Aimard Benjamin & Friends x 9pm Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Monteverdi Choir: Bach I x 4pm Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Monteverdi Choir: Bach II x 6pm Southend x Cliffs Pavilion Theatre x The Magic Of Motown x 8pm Stowmarket x John Peel Centre x Banned - Guides Showcase Stowmarket x Pickerel x Shattered x Free x 9.30pm Sudbury x Bay Horse x Mr Spankey & The Hipthrusters Sudbury x Prince of Wales x To The Last Wix x Waggon (The) x The Racketeers x 9pm Wreningham x Village Hall x Live Music 50s 60s & Jive - The Motives

Sunday 21st

Aldeburgh x Cinema x Britten On Film x £8 x 11am Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Poetry At The Pumphouse x 4pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Eleanor Bron: Enoch Arden x 6pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Vagabond Trills x 8pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Mammal Hands x 10pm Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Midsummer Festival Of Folk Ends x 11am Blythburgh x Church x Quartet For The End Of Time x £22 x 2.30pm Blythburgh x Church x Ensemble A Cumpagnia x £22 x 3pm Bungay x Fisher Ttre x Lheure Espagnole & Lenfant Et Les Sortilges

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TWO COATS COLDER – UNSEEN HIGHWAY

JUNE 2015

Two Coats Colder are a quirky progressive acoustic folk band performing a mix of self-penned traditional & contemporary songs. It’s hard to believe that Two Coats Colder have only been playing together since 2011, but it is true. These musican/singers, each with their own extensive individual careers going back over decades, came together at High Barn, the renowned beautiful period venue in Great Bardfield. This roots quartet band has been rapidly making a lasting impression amongst the folk clubs, music venues and folk festivals around the country including Swanage, Shrewsbury, Moira Furnace, Boar’s Bridge, Wimborne, Ely, Folkstock, Banbury, Oxjam, Milkmaid, Cambridge, Royston, Bournemouth, Wessex, and Colchester. Tracks: Six Thousand Miles/Sailor’s Tale/Truth And Lies/ King Of Birds/The King’s Navy/The Devil Rode By/ Mirage/Reasonable Doubt/All Inside/So Alive/Never Let Go/The Garden Line-up: David Baird, Anna Bass, Chris Bullen and Ray Taylor with guest Paul Bullen

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1. Which band have bowed out with an album called Curse Of The Flying Swamp Beasts!? 2. Name the BBC Radio 2 presenter who’ll be opening the Ipswich Jazz Festival. 3. Where on the Suffolk/Essex border will our cover star be performing early next month? 4. At which Essex venue will Jason Frederick will celebrating music from the movies? 5. Which instrument does Jennifer Pike play?

Enter at www.grapevinelive.co.uk or send them on a postcard to the address on the inside cover. Two winner’s of this month’s quiz will get a CD from those featured in Music to Your Ears, so if you have a preference don’t forget to mark it on your entry.

Closing date for entries is 10th April 2015

Would you like the chance to have your CD featured in Music To Your Ears? Then send a professionally recorded and packaged physical copy, along with a little background info to: Music To Your Ears, 20 Wharfedale Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 4JP Please be aware that as we receive tens of CDs a week, there is no guarantee that your CD will be featured and we also cannot post it back to you.

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Bury x Apex (The) x Pasadena Roof Orchestra x 7.30pm Clacton x West Cliff Theatre x To My Dear Father x £7 x 3pm Colchester x Headgate Theatre x Sondheim:An 85th Birthday Celebration x 2.30pm Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Karaoke With Boz x 3pm Felixstowe x Trimley S & Social Club x Fathers Day Carvery Geldeston x The Locks x Shedlode x Free x 2.30pm Haverhill x Arts Centre x Monkey Nuts Comedy Club x £9.00 x 8pm Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Richard Digance x 7.30pm Ipswich x Briarbank Brewery x John Parker Emma-Jane Vinyard And Special Guest Rex Odell x Father’s Day x 1:30 PM Ipswich x California Club x Zoe Francis Jim Mullen & The Chris Ingham Trio x £13 x 8pm Ipswich x Christchurch Mansion x Shakespeare In Suffolk Ipswich x Conservative Club Clapgate Lane x Terry Lee Travis Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Walkway x 6pm Ipswich x Ipswich Jazz Club x Zoe Francis & Jim Mullen x 8pm Ipswich x Isaacs x Live Music - Popgun x 12pm Ipswich x Isaacs x Live Music - Body And Soul Jazz Band x 3pm Ipswich x Kingfisher (The) x Words And Music x 2pm Ipswich x Red Lion (The) x Karaoke With Ryan x 3pm Ipswich x Regent Theatre x That’ll Be The Day x 7.30pm Ipswich x Selkirk Inn x Purple Star Karaoke x Free x 2pm Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Back Porch x 5pm Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Mulberry Folk Session x 8pm Ipswich x The Old Rep x Father’s Day Lunch x Free x 12pm Kesgrave x Social Club x Foxyrock Rock n Roll Record Hop Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x The Simon & Garfunkel Story Marks Tey x Colchester Jazz Club x Muskrat Ramblers Norwich x Brickmakers x Lee Vasey Big Band x 12 - 3pm.

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Monday 22nd

Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Blaxhall Boys x Free x 2pm Bury x Theatre Royal x Childrens Arts Festival x to 6th July Chelmsford x Civic Theatre x That’ll Be The Day x 7.30pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Prolapse + So Called Humans + Foreign Muck Ipswich x Jerwood Dancehouse x Hop x £5 x 1.30pm Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Bingo Lowestoft x Marina Theatre x Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap x to 27th Norwich x Bicycle Shop x Gaz Brookfield + Jake Martin x 7.30pm Norwich x Brickmakers x The Brickmakers Sessions x 8pm Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Louis Lortie x 7.30pm Southend x Palace Theatre x Dead Simple x to 28th

Tuesday 23rd

Aldeburgh x Jubilee Hall x Hesse Lecture: Can We Ever Escape Modernism? Battisford x Punchbowl x Vinyl Night Blythburgh x Church x The Hidden Face Of The Renaissance Colchester x The Bull x The Big Jam Night x 9pm Geldeston x The Locks x Rumburgh Morris x 7pm Ipswich x Film Theatre x The Man With The Jazz Guitar x til 25th x 7.30pm Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Quiz Night x Quiz teams up to 8 people x 8pm Ipswich x Steamboat x Quiz Night x Prizes galore x £2.50 Norwich x Bicycle Shop x Ygn Festival - Songwriters Evening Norwich x The Cottage x Martin Eaton x £10 x 7pm Norwich x The Waterfront x Kobra And The Lotus x 7.30pm Scole x Crossways Inn x Local Artist Night: Waveney Valley Folk Collective Southend x Cliffs Pavilion Ttre x Lord Of The Dance x til 28th

Wednesday 24th

Bildeston x Kings Head x Open Mic/Buskin’ Night x 8.30pm Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Shipshape x Free x 8.30pm Chelmsford x Bassment x Ethno Jam Latin Jazz Funk Folk Fusion Colchester x Arts Centre x United Bible Studies + Provincials Colchester x The Bull x Open Mic Night x 8.30pm Haverhill x Arts Centre x The Kast Off Kinks x £20 x 7.30pm Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Blues Jam

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Thursday 25th

Bildeston x Kings Head x Charity Quiz Night x £3 x 8pm Cambridge x Modern Jazz Club x Jazz At The Movies x 8pm Chelmsford x Bassment x Club Static Presents Lazy Day + Guests Chelmsford x Cramphorn Theatre x Ed Gamble: Gambletron Coggeshall x West Street Vineyard x Sarah Jane Scouten Colchester x Headgate Theatre x And This One’s For You... Colchester x Mercury Theatre x Christine The Musical x to 26th Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x The Student Services Colchester x The Bull x The Kopy Katz x 9.15pm Felixstowe x Half Moon x Folk & Roots Open Night x Free x 7.30pm Geldeston x The Locks x Murphy’S Lore Session x 8.30pm Gt Yarmouth x St George’s Theatre x Treasure Island x 7.30pm Ipswich x Black Horse x Rampage Thursday Ipswich x Film Theatre x Mo’Better Blues x til 27th x £7 x 7.30pm Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Webbys Jam Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Folk Jam x 7.30pm Ipswich x P J McGintys x Open Mic x 9pm Ipswich x Regent Theatre x An Evening With The Overtones Ipswich x Steamboat x Folk At The Boat x 8pm Ipswich A14 x Orwell Crossing x Music At Olive’s Bar Leigh-on-Sea x Various Locations x Leigh Folk Festival x to 28th Norwich x Brickmakers x Blind Tiger x Free x 8pm Norwich x Maddermarket Ttre x What The Butler Saw x to 4th July Norwich x Norwich City Football Club x Red Card Comedy Club Norwich x OPEN x Norwich School Charities Committee Fashion Show Norwich x The Waterfront x Ygn Festival Feat The Gazelles Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Walnut Jazz Night x 8.30pm Snape x Britten Studio x London Sinfonietta x £24 x 7.30pm Southend x Maritime Room x The Great British Bump Off Sudbury x Quay Theatre x La Showcase x £5 x 7.30pm

Friday 26th

Aldeburgh x Jubilee Hall x Britten-Pears Young Artists Alumni II Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Hesse Students’ Concert II x 5pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Adam Double x 7pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Daniel Hay-Gordon:Songs Of Britten Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Idem Aslan x 11pm Bury x Milkmaid Folk Club x A Touch Of Class (By Something Happened) Bury x The Queens Head x Acoustic Night x 8pm Cambridge x Arts Theatre x The Siege Of Calais x 7.30pm Cambridge x Golden Hind x Mentes Maskent Trio x £10 Castle Hedingham x Bell Inn x Flaming Llamas x 8.30pm Chelmsford x Bassment x Invasion Of The Boogie Snatchers Clacton x West Cliff Theatre x Clacton Comedy Nights x 8pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Limehouse Lizzy x £16 x 7pm Colchester x Headgate Theatre x And This Ones’ For You… Colchester x Soundhouse@Bull x The Friday Night House Of Blues Colchester x Bull x Live @ 7.30... x Bouncing Off Concrete x 10pm Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Paul Pryce x 9pm

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Felixstowe x Trimley Sports & Social Club x Remedy Frating x Kings Arms x The Inturns x Free x 9pm Halesworth x New Cut Arts Centre x Story Books x 7.30pm Haverhill x Arts Centre x The All That Jazz Club x £10 x 8pm Haverhill x Rose & Crown Hotel x Robbie Gladwell x 9pm Ipswich x Arlingtons x Morphology x £20 x 7pm Ipswich x Black Horse x Karaoke Ipswich x Cock & Pye x Ashton Jones & Innerheart Band Ipswich x Duke of York x South Of The Border x 8.30pm Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Hurricane Alley x 9pm Ipswich x Golf Hotel x The Martells x free x 9pm Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Beautiful Dangerous Ipswich x Jerwood Dancehouse x 4X4 x £12 x 7.30pm Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Karaoke x 8.30pm Ipswich x New Wolsey Studio x Bothered And Bewildered Ipswich x Regent Theatre x The Chicago Blues Brothers x 7.30pm Ipswich x Selkirk Inn x Louis Two Tone x 9pm Ipswich x Steamboat x John Ward Band x Free x 9pm Ipswich x The County of Suffolk x Harmonix Karaoke With Nicki Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x Colourblind Hedgehogs x 9pm Ipswich A14 x Orwell Crossing x Words And Music x 9pm Kings Lynn x Corn Exchange x Klfm Pres. Big School Disco Lowestoft x Marina Ttre x Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment Lowestoft x Seagull Theatre x An Evening With Cameron Taylor Newmarket x Newmarket Racecourses x Madness Norwich x Brickmakers x Buster James Band x Free x 8pm Norwich x Epic Studios x Roy Ayers x 8pm Norwich x Arts Centre x Bootleg Swing x 8pm Norwich x OPEN x Gin Festival x £7.00 x 6.30pm Norwich x Playhouse Theatre x Orchestra Of Norwich School Norwich x The Waterfront x Ygn Festival Feat Lobster x 6pm Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Kansas City Flyers x 9:pm

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Radio will be running a jazz preview at the Velvet Jazz Lounge, featuring Althea Browne : this will also be broadcast live by the station on 105.7fm.

If you love your jazz, you must get over to the first ever Ipswich Jazz Festival . This runs for ten talent-packed days, including leading jazz performers, as well as the finest Suffolk musicians. An attractive variety of gigs run form Friday 19 to Sunday 28 June. Some imaginative thinking by the organisers backed by a sound knowledge of contemporary jazz has produced probably the finest jazz feast that we have ever seen in our region. This event is running in partnership with the Ipswich Arts Festival which, yet again, confirms the fact that our kind of music is amongst the most creative arts ever developed A mix of live performances, films, art and workshops, the ten day festival has something for everyone who enjoys jazz or who wants to learn more about this great music. Many events are free and there are also live gigs by some of the top names in British jazz.

With some 16 different performances across a dozen venues, this is an ambitious event. For fuller details look on the website, www. ipswichjazzfestival.org.uk, where you can also buy your tickets. For players in our region, this will be not just a great opportunity to see some fine jazz but also in some sets an invitation for players to join in. There are so many attractive offers that this note can only touch on a few. The programme starts with a jazz masterclass run by Clare Teal’s impressive band - Jason Rebello on piano, Simon Little, bass, and Matt Skelton, drums. Fans who are players will be invited to join the group on stage and will also get helpful feedback. That evening, also at the New Wolsey Theatre, the award winning lady, herself, takes to the stage. Our first lady of jazz not only sings in supreme style but supports this with her irreverent story telling. On Thursday 18 and 25 June, Ipswich Community

In an interesting innovation, in the afternoon workshop on Saturday 20, bolder souls will be invited to “Learn to sing jazz”! The first half of this will be a workshop session, including vocal technique, an introduction to vocal improvisation and scat singing, style and phrasing and advice on working with a band. The second half will be a masterclass session where participants can perform a song of their choice and get feedback, ideas and advice. This workshop will be led by Andi Hopgood who is currently a vocal coach at Anglia Ruskin University and sings with the London Vocal Project. The venue shifts on Saturday evening to that celebrated jazz pub, The Woolpack, where Jazz Arrivals play a mixture of swingy-jazz-soul-funkyblues with a jaunty nod toward the organ sound of the 50’s and 60’s. At lunchtime on the Sunday The Old Rep in Tower Street will be hosting four popular local bands, including, Phoenix Jazz and Steam on my clothes. The free afternoon session with the Body and Soul Jazz Band at Isaacs on the Quay, will feature a popular mix of jazz including standards from the great American songbook, funk, Latin, blues and also some unusual treatments of modern pop songs. The evening gig at the California Club features Zoe Francis and Jim Mullen backed by the celebrated Chris Ingham trio. It was whilst working in Manhattan as a nanny that Zoe first enrolled at the famous Lincoln Centre in New York for a jazz workshop run by that master jazz pianist Barry Harris. This led to dates with such musicians as Harry Allen and Warren Vache. Zoe is joined by that accomplished guitarist and bandleader in his own right Jim Mullen who has

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If that is not enough variety, how many of us have been to a jazz dinner? That is what will be happening on Friday 26 June at Arlingtons Brasserie. There will be live music by the creative jazz quartet Morphology. They draw on cool sounds of 1950s West Coast America and some melodic compositions from the avant-garde scene, adding original pieces by members of the band. All jazz fans will love the musical commendation the band pays to great jazz names such as Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Art Pepper and Lee Konitz. The band has what it calls a fresh acoustic sound, unusually with the absence of drums.

On Saturday 27 June, the afternoon session will be a masterclass in jazz drumming for absolute beginners. This will be led by Ipswich jazz drummer and bandleader Bob Airzee. Bob says that the workshop does not intend to turn everyone into a jazz drummer but it will give an insight into how to play this style and how it crosses over into other genres. It is aimed at drummers who have little or no experience of swing or jazz and would like to expand their knowledge. Bob is the drummer and musical director for Swing Machine Big Band and the percussionist and musical director for Horn Factory Big Band. In addition he is also a member of several small jazz groups in Ipswich, runs the Ipswich Jazz Collective and is a full time drum teacher. A further highlight of the festival will be the impeccable Noemi Nuti on the evening of Saturday 27 June. She will be accompanied

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by her celebrated band led by probably the UK’s outstanding trumpeter, Quentin Collins, with Andrew McCormack, piano, Tim Thornton, bass, and Ernesto Simpson, drums, in a set that mixes the best Brazilian and British jazz. Noemi’s compositions echo the Latin American and folk song writing tradition. She will be supported by a short performance by the South Suffolk Youth Jazz Ensemble.

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played with just about everybody in British Jazz. Also accompanying her will be East Anglia’s premier jazz trio: Chris Ingham on keyboards, Mick Hutton on bass and George Double on drums.

Back at Isaacs on the Quay on the Sunday afternoon is the unique Ipswich modern jazz trio, the aggressively-named, Weird Rare Animal, who play a selection of modern jazz classics from the jazz masters, but often in a startlingly new way. Charlie Parker as reggae… or funk… Johann Sebastian Bach playing swing. Running throughout the festival are three supporting shows that will certainly be worth a visit. From Tuesday 23 through to Saturday 27 June there will be a showing of classic jazz films at the Ipswich Film Theatre. Also you should visit the jazz photography exhibition at the Subterranean Boulevard gallery. This is an acclaimed display of the work of awardnominated photographer John Watson, featuring some of the greatest stars of jazz across the world. His photography book The Power of Jazz has had rave reviews. In parallel with this display, will be the free Jazz Art and Artefacts Exhibition including live jazz by The Parker Project, a three piece band formed in early 2014. The band plays a selection of Charlie Parker’s well known repertoire with a modern twist. The band consists of Tamas Farkas on guitar, Jack Patching on double bass and Bob Airzee on drums.

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Peterborough x Key Theatre x City Academy Of Ballet x 7.30pm Sizewell x Vulcan Arms x Carls’ Country Snape x Jerwood Kiln Studio x Gamelan Workshop x 5.30pm Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Doric Quartet I x 7.30pm Stowmarket x John Peel Centre x Soapbox Quarterly - Folkeast Preview With Music Poetry & Art. x £10 x 7.30pm Stowmarket x Magpie Inn (The) x Live Music 23X x 9pm Stowmarket x Pickerel x Cherry Bomb x Free x 9.30pm Stradebroke (Nr Eye) x Queens Head x Purple Star Karaoke Sudbury x Prince of Wales x Gorillah Radio Sudbury x Quay Ttre x Alan Bonner + Guest Michael John McGlone Wortham x Dolphin x Mad As A Box Of Frogs x 9pm

Saturday 27th

Aldeburgh x Aldeburgh Church x Doric Quartet II x 11am Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x The Only Way Is Downton x 5pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Kadialy Kouyate & Fred Thomas x 7pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Michael Price With Peter Gregson x 9pm Aldeburgh x Pumphouse x Perhaps Contraption x 11pm Assington x Shoulder of Mutton x Valdez x 9pm Battisford x Punchbowl x Live Music - T.B.A Bildeston x Kings Head x Hipidi x Free x 9pm Billericay x Blues at the Farm x ‘A Bluesy Day At The Farm’ x 2pm Bradfield x Strangers Home x Angry Beaver Bungay x Fisher Theatre x Fytg Pres: The Crucible x 7.30pm Bury x Apex x Suffolk Sinfonia Summer Concert x 7.30pm Cambridge x Arts Theatre x ETO: The Wildman Of The West Indies Cambridge x Junction x Fusion Theatre Festival x £10 x 10am Chelmsford x Bassment x B-Side Disco x 8pm Chelmsford x Civic Theatre x These Days x At 12pm & 5pm Chelmsford x Great Waltham Primary School x Walthamstock Clacton x Princes Theatre x The World’s Most Popular Musicals

Follow us on Twitter: @grapevinelive Colchester x Arts Centre x Chris Mayne’s World Of Magic (Show) Colchester x Charter Hall x King Of Pop The Legend Continues Colchester x Headgate Theatre x And This One’S For You… Colchester x Mercury Theatre x Emortuus - The Fallen x 7pm Colchester x Soundhouse@The Bull x T.B.C x 9.30pm Colchester x Bull x Live @ 7.30… The Landed x Total 80’s x 10.15pm E Bergholt x Grange Country Park x A Night With Wildwood Ely x Maltings x RSC : The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Karaoke With Boz x 8.30pm Felixstowe x Falcon Inn (The) x Camelfoot Raiders x 9pm Gt Yarmouth x Broad Farm Holiday Ctre x Floating Greyhounds Gt Yarmouth x St George’s Ttre x Bella Berserk’s Leading Ladies Show Hadleigh x Royal British Legion x Kenny Lee & The Hustler Halesworth x New Cut Arts Centre x Cut-Loose Poets x 10am Halesworth x New Cut Arts Ctre x Gilbert & Sullivans The Mikado Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Good Guys Orchestra Ipswich x Black Horse x Maniac Blackout Ipswich x California Club x Lyra’s Daughter x 7pm Ipswich x Corn Exchange x Ipswich Orchestral Society Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Soul Lounge (Soul DJ Night) Ipswich x Grinning Rat x DeVide x (Barneys Birthday) Ipswich x Margaret Catchpole x Purple Star Karaoke x 7pm Ipswich x P J McGintys x Space Cake x 9pm Ipswich x Plough (The) x The Outlines x Free Ipswich x Regent Theatre x Stars Of The Stage x 7pm Ipswich x St Peter’s by The Waterfront x Bleach x 8pm Ipswich x Steamboat x Fisti Kuffs & Support x Free x 9pm Ipswich x The Mulberry Tree x The Kicks x 9pm Ipswich x Town Hall x Jazz Drumming For Absolute Beginners x £12 x 2pm Ipswich x Town Hall x Noemi Nuti x £16.00 x 7.30pm Kings Lynn x Arts Centre x The Best Years Of Our Lives! x £7.50 x 7.30pm Kings Lynn x Corn Exchange x The Bohemians Live Queen Greatest Hits Leiston x Sizewell Sports and Social Club x Mike Solo x 8pm Norwich x Brickmakers x Raw Edge x Free x 8pm Norwich x Gate House x Vic Salter x 8.30pm Norwich x Nick Rayns LCR (UEA) x Pams House & Tidy Summer Ball Norwich x The Waterfront x Room 94 + Lost? x £25 x 6.30pm Norwich x Walnut Tree Shades x Egypt x 9pm Peterborough x Brewery Tap The x Saturday Night Groove x 10.30pm Peterborough x Cresset x Wildcats Live - ‘Let It Be Wildcats’ x 3.30pm Peterborough x Key Theatre x City Academy Of Ballet x £11 x 7.30pm Scole x Crossways Inn x Waveney Valley Folk Collective - Showcase Sheringham x Little Theatre x Mark Dolan Live + Support Live Comedy Snape x Jerwood Kiln Studio x Gamelan Workshop x £6.00 x 2.30pm Snape x Maltings Concert Hall x Pierre-Laurent Aimard x 7.30pm Stowmarket x Pickerel x Kicking Up Dust x 9.30pm Sudbury x Bay Horse x Voodoo Child x Free Food x 4pm Sudbury x Prince of Wales x Contraband Sudbury x Quay Theatre x Germaine Greer: The Disappearing Woman Wix x Waggon (The) x Legend x 9pm

Sunday 28th

Bildeston x Kings Head x Kevin Nightingale x 1pm Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Steve Boyce x Free x 2.30pm Colchester x Arts Centre x The Vinyl Sessions - The Who: Quadrophenia Colchester x Arts Centre x Tony Visconti & Woody Woodmansey +more Colchester x Mercury Theatre x Peter Pan The Musical x £14 x 5pm Diss x Park Hotel x The Silver Dollar CMC - Bonnie Diamond And Coe Felixstowe x Dolphin Hotel x Karaoke With Boz x 3pm Geldeston x The Locks x Something Happened x 2.30pm Gt Yarmouth x Suspension Bridge x The Floating Greyhounds x 4.30pm Haverhill x Arts Centre x A Midsummer Night’S Dream x £15 x 3pm Hunstanton x Princess Theatre x Only Men Aloud On The Road Tour Ipswich x Duke of York x Reb Capper x Free x 3pm Ipswich x Gardeners Arms x Not Quite Quo x (Quo Tribute Duo) x 6pm

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Monday 29th

Blaxhall x Ship Inn x Blaxhall Boys x Free x 2pm Bury x Apex (The) x Me And My Cat? x £7.50 x 1.30pm Colchester x Arts Centre x Trembling Bells + Nathaniel Mann + May Queen Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Bingo Norwich x Brickmakers x The Brickmakers Sessions x Free x 8pm

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Tickets on Sale for the Robbie Gladwell & Friends Concert at Boxted Hall on 4th July 2015 Tickets are now on sale for the Robbie Gladwell & Friends Concert featuring some very special talented Divas who will be joining the band in Boxted Hall, Boxted (near Long Melford). The concert is taking place on Saturday 4th July at 7.30pm to help raise funds for Age UK Suffolk and Age UK Essex. The event is being hosted by Toby and Jennie WellerPoley whose ancestors have lived in the glorious moated manor house since the 14th century and who are delighted to be able to offer their home and host the concert to support Age UK Suffolk and Age UK Essex. The Robbie Gladwell and Friends concerts bring together many local musicians and singers of very different backgrounds and styles and gives them the chance to showcase their talent. The concert will feature some very talented ‘Divas’ who will be joining Robbie and his band of brilliant musicians. Tickets are available priced at £20.00 (including a light buffet) – contact Maggie James on 01473 359911. Bar refreshments. Free parking within the grounds. Accommodation is also available at the Hall contact: 01787 280226. Book now to avoid disappointment as numbers will be limited.

Tuesday 30th

Bungay x Fisher Theatre x Globe On Screen 2015: Julius Caesar x 7.30pm Chelmsford x Hylands Park x The 3Foot People Festival Colchester x Arts Centre x Untold Theatre: The Scar Test x 7.30pm Colchester x The Bull x The Big Jam Night x 9pm Halesworth x New Cut Arts Centre x Do Our Genes Prescribe Our Lives Ipswich x Grinning Rat x Open Mic Ipswich x Lattice Barn x Quiz Night x Quiz teams up to 8 people x 8pm Norwich x Bicycle Shop x Julie Dexter x £10 x 7.30pm Norwich x The Cottage x Mark Bassey x £10 x 7pm Norwich x Theatre Royal x Classic Rock Show

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June, it rhymes with moon. That’s your sort of been the foundation – there’s fact of the day. Like Harry Hill’s TV been elements of that late sixties / early Highlight of the Week. Only worse. seventies approach in lots of what I’ve been involved in since”. I’m focusing on one special event this issue as I think it is going to be absolutely Mods And Coppers is an evening of brilliant. I had a great chat with a lovely music from action and detective movies composer, Jason Frederick, recently. and TV shows from the best era, the We bonded sixties / seventies. over our love of I’ve been to a few movie scores, ‘music from the and specifically movies’ events but Goldfinger, a never something Bond classic that so focused on a led a nine year specific genre old Jason into this or era. And I’ve extraordinary world always had to go of film and music. to London for it! Some years on Performed by the Jason is bringing Jason Frederick this special world Cinematic Sound, to Essex as Mods Jason, who and Coppers now lives in East which comes to Anglia, brings his Colchester Arts Jason Frederick experience from Centre this month. working for over a decade in Los “It’s always been the music that Angeles on projects like 101 Dalmatians I feel I grew up with, and it feels 2 and Disney’s The Replacements. so comfortable”, said Jason. “The combination of the incredibly strong “There are a few orchestras playing film material and the great sounds and the music nights in the UK at the moment, great musicianship. I’ve gone on to be but most of the funk and groove based exposed to a really wide spectrum of music tends to be overlooked, so I music in the years since, but it’s always was interested in an evening of the

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really exciting music from that era that doesn’t get heard: Bullitt, Get Carter, The Professionals, Starsky And Hutch, Dirty Harry, The Italian Job, Mission: Impossible, and much more. “We’ve a got a band of rhythm section with guitar and keyboards, and horn section and flute, playing the tracks in the style faithful to the original recordings.” Obviously you won’t just sit there listening, as there’s going to be a visual element as well. Being a massive fan of John Williams musical scores myself, we spoke about the greats. “I really thought it’d be great to cast an album the way someone like Henry Mancini or John Barry would have. I got really lucky with it, because everyone I approached, my very short list of who I thought would be particularly good and who understood the feel of this music, all said yes. Trying to sort of honour the music by reinterpreting it but retaining what makes it so fantastic... that was the challenge. It’s a pretty good challenge as far as challenges go! I remember listening to Pin Ups by David Bowie as a teenager, and thinking that even though it was a cover album, it was completely of a piece with Aladdin Sane and Ziggy Stardust – that was one of the first times I thought that you could do material by others and still have it sound like you. But then, of course, you can go too far in the other direction and deconstruct something to the point that it really isn’t recognisable anymore – what made it so interesting in the first place is no longer there. It’s a balancing act”. Mods and Coppers is on at Colchester Arts Centre on June 20th. I can’t wait!

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As I write this the news of the passing of BB King was just announced. A blues legend that I am so glad I made the effort to go and see play live some years ago. In our online age it is just too easy to click a link and play a clip from… well, just about anyone you care to think of. How many times have you seen a video or listened to a recording and thought: “Oh, I’d love to see them play live” and never actually done anything about it? Never miss an opportunity; you never know what is going to happen in life. Live entertainment is what Grapevine magazine has been about for twenty four years now, listing over 1,000 events a month many of which are free, most won’t break the bank.

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