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Key to fringe venues: 1. Royal Hall 2. Festival Tent 3. Harrogate Theatre 4. Rehab 5. Monteys 6. Blues Bar 7. St Peters Church & Crabtrees 8. The Club Principle Partner
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Welcome by Graham Chalmers Artistic Director, Harrogate International Festival Fringe
By doing something different, The Fringe hopes to create something exceptional. Join us in an exciting exploration of modern ideas in some of this Victorian town’s most traditional spaces and venues in the company of a welter of famous names and local talent.
Welcome by Sharon Canavar Chief Executive, Harrogate International Festivals
We’ve built our reputation on bringing quality classical and world music to the region since 1966. This year, the Fringe is here to break down boundaries and embrace the creative energy and exciting crossover between music, literature and art. We hope 2010 offers something for everyone to get involved and shake things up!
Date: Wednesday, July 14 Time: 7.30pm Location: Harrogate Theatre
Ticket price: ÂŁ17.50
Event: Bob Harris Presents plus special guests The Magic Numbers + singer-songwriter Rob Reynolds Music broadcasting legend Bob Harris talks about his distinguished career from the Old Grey Whistle Test to Radio 2 and presents special guests hit band The Magic Numbers plus soulful singer-songwriter Rob Reynolds. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Friday, July 16 Time: 7.30pm Location: St Peter’s Church
Ticket price: £12/£10 concessions
Event: Kula Productions presents: Robin Williamson (ex-Incredible String Band) + Karl Culley A magic night of acoustic music inside a beautiful church with legendary folk pioneer and poet Robin Williamson + support from Harrogate’s leading folk-blues singer-songwriter Karl Culley. No alcohol is allowed in the venue. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Saturday, July 17 Ticket price: ÂŁ3 payable on door Time: Noon-1.15pm Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue
Event: Harrogate Lunar Society The Uses of Daftness: A lecture in science by Ryan Smee Come discover the uses of daftness - in an exclusive Victorian club where writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was once a member.
Date: Saturday, July 17 Ticket price: £4 Time: 8pm Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue
Event: Modern Jazz & more Guy Hatton’s ‘Pantechnicon’ Mixing post-bop, rock, funk, free jazz and soundscapes with live musicians.
www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Saturday, July 17 Time: 8pm Location: Harrogate Theatre
Ticket price:
dress circle & stalls £16 balcony £11, box £16
Event: Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
A sell-out success at the Edinburgh Festival for the last two years, Showstopper! is musical theatre Whose Line is it Anyway style as the audience dictates the show. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Saturday, July 17 Time: 2pm-5pm Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue
Ticket price: £4 advance £6 on door
Event: Poems, Prose & Pints present A creative writing workshop Experienced tutors and published writers Oz Hardwick, Becky Cherriman and Robert King offer a selection of inspiration exercises and writers’ surgeries. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Wednesday, July 21 Ticket price: £2.50 Time: 7.30pm-10.30pm £2 if you read your own work Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue pay on door
Event: Poems, Prose & Pints Featuring guest artist Andy Humphrey Poems, Prose & Pints featuring Andy Humphrey. An invitation to enjoy an evening of spoken words, and even get up and read your own work!
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Including: Christopher Brookmyre Jeffery Deaver, Joanne Harris Jeff Lindsay, Stuart MacBride Val McDermid, Ian Rankin Karin Slaughter and
6th Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
Weekend Break Packages Make The Perfect Getaway! Join us at the crime scene no-one wants to miss by booking an exclusive accommodation and ticket package, staying at the Festival hotel and including entry to all main Festival events.
Booking Hotline: 01423 562303 Email: crime@harrogate-festival.org.uk www.harrogate-festival.org.uk/crime
Date: Thursday, July 22 Time: 11am Location: Harrogate Theatre
Ticket price: ÂŁ3
Leeds Met Little Read Doing it for the kids, author Eoin Colfer makes a special appearance to talk about his hit series Artemis Fowl, described as Die Hard with fairies, he’s sold over 18 million books worldwide. Individual Tickets 0845 130 8840 | Group Bookings 01423 562 303 www.harrogate-festival.org.uk
Date: Friday, July 23 Time: 8pm Location: Royal Hall
Ticket price: £25/£19/£15 Under 25s £5
Event: Alex Wilson and Salsatak
Alex Wilson, the Latin legend and world-wide hit on the salsa scene, invites you to uncover your own ‘sabor’ at this sizzling salsa night! Sponsored by
www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Friday, July 23 Free entry Time: 7pm Location: 108 Fine Art Gallery, 1 Crown Place
Event: RedHouse Originals present Music to my Eyes: A rock n roll-inspired exhibition featuring artwork by Storm Thorgeson, Richard Evans, Aubrey Powell (Led Zeppelin) and ‘Godfather of Pop Art’ Sir Peter Blake. Runs until Sunday, July 25. www.108fineart.com
Date: Friday, July 23 Ticket price: ÂŁ8 Time: 7.30pm Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue
Event: DMB presents Acoustic Heaven with Josefina Sanner + The Signals A night with songstress Josefina Sanner - one of Sweden’s most prolific singer-songwriters in an exclusive Victorian venue where writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was once a member. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Friday, July 23 Time: 8pm Location: Harrogate Theatre
Ticket price:
circle & stalls £10 balcony £8
Event: Kamamica presents ‘S Wonderful’ script by Roy Saul This revue tells the life of George Gershwin through words and music with well-loved songs including I’ve Got Rhythm and Love Walked In with a piano performance of Rhapsody in Blue. www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk | Theatre Box Office 01423 502 116
Date: Saturday, July 24 Ticket price: ÂŁ3 Time: 1pm Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue
Event: modernmusicreview.com presents Fear of Music with writer David Stubbs and David Procter, Senior Lecturer in Music at Leeds University David Stubbs, former Melody Maker staff writer, has been published in everything from The Guardian to The Wire and Uncut magazines. He talks about his new polemic book on avant-garde music, Fear of Music published by Zero Books. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Saturday, July 24 Ticket price: ÂŁ3 Time: 7.30pm Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue
Event: Radical Djs presents The Rest is Noise, classical music as a club night Inspired by Alex Ross’s bestselling The Rest is Noise, Radical Djs presents a club night with visuals by VJ Quadrod featuring modern classical music from Stockhausen to Philip Glass. Fancy dress advised. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk www.harrogate-festival.org.uk || Ticket TicketHotline Hotline0845 0845130 1308840 8840
Date: Sunday, July 25 Time: 10am Location: Secret
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Event: Almias by Phil Legard Phil Legard will celebrate a famous Harrogate landmark by collaborating with artists, producing a psycho-geographic toolkit to re-enchant our local landscape. Keep an eye on: phil@almias.org.uk or visit www.almias.org.uk With contributions from oral historian Simon Bradley, photographer Layla Smith and visual artist Iona Smith.
Date: Sunday, July 25 Ticket price: ÂŁ8 Time: 1pm-4pm Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue
Event: Music and Word literary double bill with John Otway and Chris Simpson (Magna Carta) Hit-maker John Otway presents Making Success Out of Failure lecture with words and slides. Chris Simpson of folk-prog legends Magna Carta reads his epic poem Fields of Eden and performs acoustically. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Tuesday, July 27 Time: 8pm Location: Royal Hall
Ticket price: £30/£22/£15/£12 U25s £5 boxes £66/£44
Event: Peter Cincotti
Protégé of Harry Connick Jr, US singer Peter Cincotti blends pop, rock, blues, funk and jazz with songs from his album East of Angel Town.
www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Wednesday, July 28 Ticket price: £7 Time: 8pm Location: The Club, Victoria Avenue
Event: modernmusicreview.com presents Esoteric electronica with Primate Engineer (Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra) + You’ll Learn With ten years’ experience in various outfits from post-rock to Scandanavian folksong, to improvisational avant-garde classical troupe the Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra, nothing the electronic duo Primate Engineer do is ordinary. Support comes from equally experimental Leeds-based fourpiece electronic rock band, You’ll Learn. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Thursday, July 29 Time: 7.30pm Location: Harrogate Theatre
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Event: Field Music
Ticket price: £12
Event: modernmusicreview.com presents An Evening with Field Music + support from The Weeknights + Simon Wainwright (Hope & Social) and more Currently the UK’s favourite ‘indie’ band with the nation’s critics, Field Music are renowned for their subtle and clever blending of everything from Led Zeppelin to 10CC to folk to modern classical influences. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Saturday, July 31 Time: noon - 4am Location: Monteys Rock Café, Rehab, Blues Bar,
Crabtrees, St Peter’s Church
The Fringe takes over Harrogate town centre on its final day to present 60 live music acts from Harrogate, Leeds, York and beyond from noon until 4am. Featuring six different stages in five venues with a wide variety of musical styles. Venues include Monteys Rock Cafe, the Blues Bar, Rehab, Crabtrees and St Peter’s Church. Events include an acoustic stage, two indie stages, a punk stage plus two closing parties: Bottom of the Bottle rock/metal event with DJ Trev plus FIRE dance event mixing live instruments and DJs. Not to forget the cup cake stall at St Peter’s Church! Luva Gunk Honour Before Glory Youcef Preston Karl Culley Oscilanterns Alvin Purple Arthur Rigby and the Baskervylles Dan Cope James Tait Maybe I Might Explode Sharon Colgan, Pete Oliver and Paul Federenco New Youth The Transmitters
Fran Rodgers Adam Westerman John Davey Kasiuss (acoustic) Samantha Smith Owen James and Guests Jed Thomas Dan Burnett Faces of Dorian … and much more! Check out facebook and myspace for full listings.
Terms and Conditions: No alcohol is allowed at St. Peters. Under 18’s are to be only allowed in the following venues – St Peters and The Blues Bar before 7pm. Concession tickets are available to students and under 18s for above venues only. Appropriate identification must be shown. Subject to availability.
Event: Fringe Crawl Day
Ticket price:
wrist bands £15/£12 concessions pay on door £5/£4
Event: Fringe Crawl Day from punk to acoustic to dance: six stages, 60 live acts One wristband will get music fans access to six different stages in five venues in the heart of Harrogate with 60 live indie/rock acts from Harrogate, Leeds and London. The wristband exchange point is St Peter’s Church www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: Saturday, July 31 Time: 7.30pm Location: Harrogate Theatre
Event: Ralph McTell
Ticket price: £18/£16 concessions
Event: Kula Productions presents Ralph McTell live
Leading local promoters Kula, famed for sell-out shows by the likes of Kiki Dee and the Quire Boys, proudly presents a rare Harrogate appearance by the man behind the Streets of London, one of the most successful British folk acts of the last 30 years: Ralph McTell. Described by Billy Connolly as Britain’s best singersongwriter, Ralph is one of the UK’s most consumate entertainers. You, the audience, will travel with Ralph on a ninety-minute journey along the musical path he has followed for over four decades in what promises to be a very special evening.
www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk | Ticket Box Office 01423 502 116
Date: Sunday, July 18 Time: From 12 noon Location: Valley Gardens Harrogate
FREE
The Big Picnic Bring your friends, family and a picnic and come and join us! The Big Picnic is a day for Harrogate families to come together, enjoy the lovely Valley Gardens and have fun …. for free! It is also an opportunity to raise some money for our local community. This year, the Big Picnic is raising money for the Woodlands Children’s Ward at the Harrogate District Hospital. Everyone is welcome at The Big Picnic! There will be lots of activities that will especially appeal to children… St Aidan’s High School Band & JTB Brass Band! Circus Skills Drumming Workshop Hat Making Workshop Punch & Judy Harrogate International Festival
Face Painting Children’s fair ground rides Bouncy Castle Stalls Classic Cars and much more
If you would like further details about The Big Picnic, please contact us: Kirsty Minshall 07823 537 332 Fiona Watson (for Stall details) 01423 853487 P.S. Don’t forget to bring your picnic! www.harrogate-festival.org.uk | Ticket Hotline 0845 130 8840
Date: July 16 - August 1 Location: Royal Hall
Bold as Brass
If you’ve ever blown away a few bad guys in Starship Troopers or gone on an adventure with Headhunter you’ll be familiar with the action-pumped soundtracks of SEGA games composer Richard Jacques. The classically-trained composer for games, film and TV will be leading a troupe of brass bands throughout the festival, with a specially commissioned fanfare to launch festivities. A brass ensemble will then play at the same time, every evening from the rooftop of the Royal Hall as a call to arms to Harrogate to join in the Festival spirit. Get ready to be blown away by brass as it bounces off the rooftops of Harrogate!
Date: July 17 &18 Time: From 3pm Location: Crescent Gardens
New Music New Venues
As John Lennon once said to a crowd – those in the cheap seats clap, the rest of you “just rattle your jewellery”. As well as the Fringe breaking down barriers, the Summer Festival is taking music away from the civilised seats of the theatre into a very big tent in a field (in Crescent Gardens). So feel free to clap, rattle and roll away the weekend of the 17 and 18 July, when laid back acoustic world music will be in the air. Artists will be playing into the evening for an authentic festival experience. Keep an eye on the website for more details. www.harrogate-festival.org.uk
Venues The Royal Hall Ripon Road, Harrogate, HG1 2RD 01423 500 500
Blues Bar 4 Montpellier Parade, Harrogate, HG1 2TJ 01423 566 881
Monteys Rock CafĂŠ 3 The Ginnel, Harrogate, HG1 2RB 01423 526 652
Crabtrees Thomas Crabtree, Nidderdale House, Cambridge Road, Harrogate, HG1 1NS 01423 521512
Rehab 18-20 Parliament Street, Harrogate, HG1 2QZ 01423 528 321 St Peter’s Church 19-21 Cambridge Street Harrogate, HG1 1RW 01423 568 218 Harrogate Theatre Oxford Street, Harrogate, HG1 1QF 01423 502 116
The Club 36 Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, HG1 5PR 01423 502 344 The Fringe is always growing, with new acts joining all the time. Keep your eyes peeled on the newest additions online: www.harrogate-festival.org.uk Just click on the image of the bloke with the erm, fringe...
Booking Fees Bookings are managed by the Harrogate International Centre Box Office on behalf of the Festival. Please note Harrogate International Centre charges 10% booking fee on tickets bought by cheque and credit/debit card for a single event and on ALL online purchases The booking fee is reduced to 5% if tickets for more than one event are purchased in a single transaction by phone or in person.
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