Music News

Stowmarket Chorale

Stowmarket Chorale are thrilled to be back with two upcoming concerts at the United Reform Church, Stowmarket. On November 6th they are performing the Faure Requiem and John Ireland’s Greater Love Hath No Man while on November 27th, concertgoers can enjoy a performance of Handel’s Messiah. Tickets are £15 per concert, although if you’d like to attend both concerts there will be a £5 reduction with an overall cost of £25. www.stowmarketchorale.org.uk

Folk, Blues and Americana come to Bury

Joachim Cooder, known for his collaborations with his father Ry Cooder, joins Sam Amidon for a warm and uplifting evening of folk, blues and Americana at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds on November 13th. Cooder has been a sought-after percussionist for two decades, on now-legendary recordings with his father, such as the landmark Buena Vista Social Club sessions, and with artists including Ali Farka Touré, who inspired Cooder to take up the mbira (a variation on an African thumb piano). His new album Over That Road I’m Bound puts family at the heart of the project as Cooder enlists family members to join him as he explores and expands upon tunes that his father had played for him and that Cooder now sings to his young children. www.theapex.co.uk

Fascinating Aïda

They’re back at last! Following a smash-hit season in London, Dillie Keane, Adèle Anderson and Liza Pulman begin an extensive UK tour in the autumn of 2021 coming to the Alive Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn on November 3rd. For nearly four decades - from their first album entitled Sweet FA (1984), through the late 90’s show It, Wit, Don’t Give a Shit Girls to the 2012 smash-hit tour Cheap Flights, Fascinating Aïda have captured the political and social fixations of our times. Their brand-new show will feature a selection of old favourites, songs you haven’t heard before and some you wish you’d never heard in the first place. But the songs are mostly topical and the glamour remains unstoppable. With three Olivier Award nominations and over 25 million YouTube and Facebook hits for Cheap Flights and their incredibly rude Christmas songs how can you possibly miss them? www.alivewestnorfolk.co.uk