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Welcome

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to the new-look What’s On Guide setting out Liverpool Philharmonic’s concerts and live events programme taking place across the City.

Although the majority of events detailed are at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, which includes events in the Rodewald Suite, you will also find details of our excellent chamber music series and some great folk concerts at St George’s Hall Concert Room, as well as performances at The Epstein Theatre on Hanover Street and The Blade Factory, the latest development of the Camp and Furnace site in the Baltic Triangle.

We are also delighted to be involved in the new Liverpool International Music Festival with events in Sefton Park.

Americana Weekend Page 08 After 8 Pages 09 – 10 Family, Dance & Variety Page 11 Learning Pages 12 – 13 Classical Music Pages 14 – 18 Summer Pops Pages 17 – 18 Film Pages 19 – 20 Comedy & Spoken Word Page 21 Coming Soon Page 22 Venue & Booking info Pages 23 – 30 Diary Pages 30 – 31

We have a phenomenal line-up of great music, fine comedy and film screenings: the listings speak for themselves! With space to mention just a few highlights, my personal picks are the third appearance at Liverpool Philharmonic of Pink Martini, the polyglot lounge jazz giants from Portland, Oregon, this time performing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; the Americana Weekend in July where we are combining with our neighbours at the Caledonia pub

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Liverpool International Music Festival 23 – 26 August

As part of the new Liverpool International Music Festival the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko take to a brand new stage in Sefton Park for an evening of live music in the stunning surroundings of one of the city’s most popular green spaces.

Concerts in the park will continue across four days. Vasily Petrenko, Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, said ‘We are delighted to be part of this exciting new approach to staging a festival that celebrates every kind of music in one of the world’s great music cities, set in two of its most beautiful locations, the Pier Head and Sefton Park.’

Visit www.dalestreetnews.com for further announcements about festival.

to bring you concerts featuring the giants of Cajun music, surrounded by bluegrass and other Americana sessions; and the return of the musically brilliant and utterly hilarious Spooky Men’s Chorale from Australia.

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support Ottersgear

Saturday 20 April 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £16.50

‘This incredibly moving album is also, hands down, the most uplifting guitarpop album of the year’ The Telegraph

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Having sold over 30 million records so far, Ocean is the biggest selling black recording artist Britain has ever produced.

He has become a worldwide star, his fame perhaps accelerated by his performance in the American leg of Live Aid in 1985 which is estimated to have reached a global audience of 1.9 billion.

Monday 15 April 7.30pm £24.50, £29.50, £34.50

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Friday 19 April 7.30pm £17.50, £19.50, £25.50

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Billy Ocean

Brown goes from strength to strength. His ‘Very Best Of’ album went Gold with 100,000 sales, he recently received MOJO Magazine’s coveted Outstanding Contribution To Music Award and he has been honoured with an MBE. A terrific live talent, Brown and his band pack their show with timeless classics, rockabilly, gospel, country, folk, and rock ‘n’ roll, all interwoven with his effervescent delivery and humorous reminiscences.

This eclectic show of musical skill is as unique as the man himself.

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Joe Brown

In A Time Lapse, his new album was released earlier this year with Classic FM saying ‘The Italian composer strikes gold once more with a haunting combination of dreamlike piano tunes’. Einaudi has become one of the UK’s most popular composers.

Lau are one of contemporary folk music’s most innovative bands.

In January this year, for the fourth time in six years, they won Best Group at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. On vocals and guitar Kris Drever, who has worked with Kate Rusby, Roddy Woomble, John McCusker and Eddi Reader.

On fiddle is Aidan O’Rourke, a founding member of Blazin’ Fiddles and folk supergroup Kan. Martin Green, the fearless techno curious accordion innovator who has worked with Eliza Carthy, Joan Baez and Linda Thompson, completes the trio. In front of an audience the band are renowned for pushing their compositions and each other to new heights. With seemingly telepathic musical communication, ten minute epics are infused with a spectrum of emotion: the perfect foil for Drever’s poignant songs and some eminently quotable stage banter.

‘One of the most exciting live acts in any genre, Lau are to be cherished’ The Arts Desk

Ocean’s numerous UK and US hit singles include Love on Delivery, Stop Me, Red Light Spells Danger, Caribbean Queen for which he won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal, Loverboy and Suddenly, which became the first of Ocean’s killer ballads, followed by When the Going gets Tough (the tough get going), There’ll be Sad Songs (to make you cry) and the now iconic Get Outta my Dreams, Get into my Car.

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Edwyn Collins plus support

Saturday 20 April 8pm £17.50, £23.50 Just over two weeks after Collins releases his eighth solo album, Understated, through his own label AED, Collins returns to Liverpool for this show, following a sell out gig at Liverpool Cathedral in 2010.

Best known as front man of the Scottish pop revivalists Orange Juice and for his international solo hit A Girl Like You this key figure of UK music, and Ivor Novello Award winner, began work last year on a film about his life and music titled In Your Voice, In Your Heart. His new album is his first since Losing Sleep was released to widespread acclaim in September 2010.

‘One of the best British albums of the year’ NME

The Solid Silver 60s Show

Wednesday 24 April 7.30pm £23.50, £25.50, £30.50

Marti Pellow with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Monday 22 April 8pm £32.50, £37.50, £42.50

Having achieved huge success with Wet Wet Wet, one of the most successful bands in UK pop - the

Nigel Kennedy

presents Bach plus Fats Waller

Monday 29 April 7.30pm £22.50, £24.50, £29.50, £34.50, £39.50, £42.50

Relive the 60s with original artists singing their greatest hits.

Now in its 28th year, the show features the unforgettable talents of Mike Pender – the original voice of The Searchers, Dave Berry and Wayne Fontana, all backed by New Amen Corner, plus very special guests The Merseybeats. Hear the classic hits performed by the original hit-makers.

The world’s best selling classical violinist with a typically maverick musical programme celebrates the music of Bach and Fats Waller.

Kennedy begins the concert with Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. He is then joined on stage by acoustic guitarist

group hold the record for the longest No.1 in UK chart history - Pellow is now a highly successful solo artist and one of the world’s leading musical theatre stars with leading roles in Chess, Blood Brothers, Chicago and War Of The Worlds. For this special show Pellow is joined by the world-class Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for an evening of music from the West End and Broadway as well as Jarek Smietana, Yaron Stavi on double bass and Krzysztof Dziedzic on drums to perform Kennedy’s own arrangements of the music of the legendary jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer Fats Waller.

‘Playing Bach and Fats Waller on one show is a dream for me two amazing keyboard players, both masters of harmony and melody.’ Nigel Kennedy

some Marti favourites, which are all given the fabulous symphony orchestra treatment. His new album Hope was out on 18 March.

It maps Pellow’s journey into the world of musical theatre with some of the greatest songs ever written. For this concert he performs the new album along with a hand-picked collection of personal gems from both his own catalogue and his favourite singer-songwriters.

Loudon Wainwright III Tuesday 7 May 7.30pm £22.50, £28.50

As his new album’s title relates, Loudon Wainwright III is Older Than My Old Man Now. These new songs are characteristically wry musings on the stage of life the cult singer songwriter finds himself in. With a recording career that spans a mind-boggling 25 albums, Wainwright’s songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs and his son Rufus Wainwright, among others.

His songs are poetic, honest and humorous and having worked with many of folk’s greats, perhaps it’s time to refer to him as an institution in his own right.

‘Riveting stuff’ Rolling Stone on Older Than My Old Man Now

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Sunday 12 May 7.30pm £24.50, £26.50, £31.50

Though this event has now sold out, we have announced Genesis Revisited Part II on Tuesday 29 October. See page 22 for full details.

Pink Martini with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Wednesday 8 May 7:30pm £26.50, £30, £32.50, £35, £42.50 Part language lesson and part Hollywood musical, led by classically trained pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale, Pink

Martini are somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brazilian marching street band and Japanese film noir. The band’s 2011 show at Liverpool Philharmonic sold-out, and with a new album for 2013, they collaborate with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for this very special concert which also sees the return of front-woman China Forbes.

‘We’re kind of like musical archaeologists, bringing melodies

and rhythms from different parts of the world together to create something which is modern,’ says founder and pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. ‘It’s like an urban musical travelogue....One of our goals is to make music which has broad appeal to people, no matter who they are or where they come from. We play the same set of music wherever we go, whether it’s in a small farming community in Oregon or in France or Turkey or with a symphony orchestra’.

Up Close & Personal

Curtis Stigers

Tuesday 14 May 7.30pm £22.50, £27.50

Thea Gilmore With strings and special guests

Friday 10 May 8pm £15, £19.50, £24.50 The British singer-songwriter performs tracks from her brand new album, as well as classic material with her band and orchestra. Her last eight singles have been A listed on Radio 2, including London which was frequently used by the BBC in their Olympics coverage.

Gilmore’s fans include Bruce Springsteen, Martha Wainwright, and legendary folk singer Joan Baez, with whom she went on to record. Gilmore’s 2011 album Don’t Stop Singing brought to life the previously unfinished songs of the late Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention. She also starred in the hugely successful concert and tour, The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny.

Influenced by the music of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and of course

Curtis Stigers shot to international fame with his worldwide hits I Wonder Why and You’re All That Matters To Me. Up Close & Personal is a rare opportunity to see and hear Stigers performing his songs in a stripped-down intimate acoustic setting. With one of the most distinctive voices in music, Stigers performs songs from all of his albums including his pop/soul recordings and some of the melodic jazz music that he’s become celebrated for over the past decade. The show also features guitar virtuoso James Scholfield. This is a special treat, Curtis Stigers in concert as you’ve never seen him before.

Fairport Convention, Gilmore’s style is a combination of folk, rock, jazz and Americana. Add to this her beautiful, crystalline and

self-possessed voice, it’s easy to see why Gilmore is one of the UK’s most accomplished singerssongwriters of her generation.

‘An exuberant combination of artistry and raw emotion.’

The Times

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Chris Wood

Tuesday 21 May 7.30pm St. George’s Hall Concert Room £15 Chris Wood has been nominated for a BBC Folk Award 12 times and received six awards from just three albums. He kept bumping into Joan Armatrading, at the Folk Awards, then at Glastonbury, she was so taken with Wood’s writing she invited him to be her special guest on her UK tour (he opened for her at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in November last year).

During the Armatrading tour, Wood travelled the country, eavesdropping on conversations

from pound shops to tea rooms, army recruiting centres to hotel saunas collecting ‘the poetry of recession’. His response is, None The Wiser, a fourth solo album. Justin Mitchell (keyboards/trumpet) and Felix Krish (bass) join the singer, guitarist and fiddle player as he sings humble hymns and sweeping statements. From Alzheimers to William Blake, Wood lovingly takes the pulse of his homeland and this might be his best album yet...

‘Gentle, powerful and classy’ The Guardian ‘Highly charged observations on life, love and country’ Mojo

Elvis Costello & The Imposters!

Hodgson has been recognised as one of the most gifted composers, songwriters and lyricists of our time. As the famed voice of Supertramp and composer of many of the band’s greatest hits, he gave us Give a Little Bit, The Logical Song, Dreamer, Take the Long Way Home, Breakfast in America, It’s Raining Again, School, Fools Overture and so many others that have become the soundtrack of our lives.

Monday 10 June 8pm £37.50, £42.50, £47.50

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Roger Hodgson

Wednesday 29 May 7.30pm £29.50, £34.50

Rabble-rousing godfather of the alt country scene, Steve Earle, brings his highly celebrated electric live band The Dukes to Liverpool Philharmonic. Earle is a master storyteller, his songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, The Pretenders, Joan Baez and countless others. His debut record, Guitar Town, shot to No. 1 on the country charts and immediately established the term

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Sunday 9 June 8pm £39.50, £45.50

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‘No one sings like this anymore, and maybe no one can.’

The New York Times

Friday 31 May 7.30pm £26, £34

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The double Grammy-winning easy listening giant has been described by Frank Sinatra as ‘one of the major singers of our time’. Jones and his remarkable talent have been admired by among others Mel Torme and legendary composers Sammy Cahn and Michel Legrand. His swinging renditions of contemporary pop and rock, as well as classic standards have packed out concert halls time and time again and this fabulous show will feature all the big hits including Wives and Lovers, Love Boat, Impossible Dream and The Race Is On, to name only a few.

Steve Earle & The Dukes

‘New Country’. What followed was an extremely exciting and varied array of releases including the politically charged masterpiece, Jerusalem (2002) and the award winning albums The Revolution Starts…Now (2004), Washington Square Serenade (2007) and Townes (2009) which all scooped the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

In addition to three Grammy awards, he was also given the Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting at BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2004, other recipients include John Prine and Tom Paxton. His newest album, The Low Highway is released 16 April.

Guitarist/vocalist Justin Hayward, bassist/vocalist John Lodge and drummer Graeme Edge are The Moody Blues, one of the most important rock acts to ever come out of the UK. Their incredible roster of hits includes: Nights In White Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, Ride My See Saw, The Story In Your Eyes, Isn’t Life Strange, Your Wildest Dreams and I Know You’re Out There Somewhere to name a few.

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Jack Jones

2013 Revolvers Tour

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Farewell UK Tour

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Tuesday 28 May 8pm £34.50, £36.50, £41

Costello brings the Spectacular Spinning Songbook to Liverpool Philharmonic where the evening’s songs are decided by the spin of a wheel.

Joe Satriani

Plus special guest

Tuesday 11 June 7.30pm £33.50, £37.50, £42.50

Satriani has been a worldwide guitar hero since his 1987 breakthrough album, Surfing with the Alien. Over 10 million albums sales and 14 Grammy Award nominations later, he continues to push the envelope of modern rock guitar playing.

Originally he started his career by teaching some of the top rock guitar players of the 80s and 90s like Metallica’s Kirk Hammet and virtuoso Steve Vai, now, Satriani is universally hailed as one of the most technically accomplished and respected guitar players and performers in rock.

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Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald

Saturday 15 June 8pm The Blade Factory at Camp & Furnace £10 Skip McDonald has played on records by Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaata, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, James Brown, Robert Plant, Mark Stewart & The Mafia, Sinead O’Connor and Megadeth.

He made his name as an integral part of the Sugar Hill house band playing on the most influential early rap classics like Rapper’s Delight, The Message and White Lines. Little Axe is the project

Tubular Bells For Two

The Born Free Tour

Kerry Ellis & Brian May

40th Anniversary Concert Tour

Saturday 2o July 7.30pm £21, £27

Sunday 23 June 8pm £39, £44

An Intimate Evening with

Lucinda Williams

featuring Doug Pettibone Thursday 27 June 7.30pm £19.50, £24.50, £29.50

Rock and West End vocalist Kerry Ellis teams up with Queen guitarist Brian May for this candlelit, acoustic show. The Born Free Tour fuses Ellis’s beautiful voice with May’s awe-inspiring guitar performance – all in support of the world famous Born Free Foundation.This concert follows a series of acclaimed performances

by Ellis and May together over the past few years. After the success of their Anthems show here at Liverpool Philharmonic in 2011, stealing the show with their performance at the Royal Variety, and the release of their single Defying Gravity (the lead track from the musical Wicked) Kerry and Brian return with this majestic brand new acoustic show.

McDonald started to reconnect himself with the blues of his childhood. Little Axe mixes blues, gospel, reggae, dub and funk with modern technology. The ideas and techniques of his early album The Wolf That House Built was as John Clarke of The Times noted, ‘copied by Beck and Moby.’ For this gig Skip works on the vocals and guitar loop while Matt Smyth features on laptop/ electronics bringing a dynamic new element to Little Axe. Smyth controls the beats, the bass and adds layers of reverb and delay to the tracks. Little Axe mainlines the old Delta blues and plugs it into the 21st century.

Described by Time Magazine as ‘America’s greatest songwriter’ Lucinda Williams is one of rock’s most uncompromising and consistently fascinating writers and performers. Over the course of a 40 year recording career, the Louisiana-born singer and threetime Grammy Award winner has

navigated terrain as varied as the dust-bowl starkness of her 1978 debut Ramblin’ (recorded on the fly with a mere $250 budget), the stately elegance of 2007’s West which Vanity Fair called ‘the record of a lifetime’ and the emotional spectrum of her most recent release, Blessed, which features Elvis Costello on guitar. With reports of a new album possibly in spring 2013, this show reunites Williams with her longtime collaborator, and friend, the guitarist Doug Pettibone.

Rufus Wainwright Monday 1 July 7.30pm £29.50, £35, £45, £50

As singer, songwriter, author, composer, and even screen actor (Scorsese’s The Aviator), Rufus Wainwright has carved out his own singular place in the worlds of rock, opera, theatre, dance, and film. But he is possibly best known as the man Elton John referred to as ‘the greatest songwriter on the planet’. Wainwright brings his incomparable voice back to Liverpool for the first time since 2007, when he also performed at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Since then he has written an opera, picked up a Grammy Award and won a BRIT Award for Best International Male Artist.

The original 1973 album shot to No. 1 around the world, throwing its young composer into the international spotlight and kickstarting Richard Branson’s Virgin empire. Now forty years later, two Australian multiinstrumentalists race from instrument to instrument juggling pianos, organs, guitars, mandolin, drums, glockenspiel, loop pedals, synthesizers and, of course, Tubular Bells. Tubular Bells for Two burst onto the international scene at the Sydney Festival and was the smash-hit show of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe - winning a Herald Angel Award.

Witness this herculean feat as Daniel Holdsworth and Aidan Roberts recreate the beauty and playful lunacy of one of the most important albums of the 20th Century with just four hands and four feet.

‘Triumphant’ The Times

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featuring Gilson Lavis and guest vocalists Ruby Turner & Louise Marshall Saturday 27 July 7.30pm £37.50, £43.50

The UK’s most popular purveyor of boogie-woogie Jools Holland OBE and his 20-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.

Spooky Men’s Chorale

Wednesday 31 July 7.30pm £16.50, £23.50 Sounding as sacred as a high church choir one minute and wickedly off the wall the next this unique choir will regale Spooky veterans and virgins alike with

rib-tickling (sometimes heartrending) original compositions and eloquent arrangements.

Compellingly comic they may be but make no mistake, this is a class act. Pitch perfect harmonies, theatrical delivery, savvy lyrics, imaginations that run riot and men who really can multi-task.

Their repertoire ranges from Georgian style chants to a capella ballads, spiky political jabs, Cole Porter’s Every Time We Say Goodbye, hilarious spoofs of Queen’s Flash and Earth, Wind & Fire’s Boogie Wonderland and the funniest version of ABBA’s Dancing Queen your ears are likely to hear.

Black Dyke Brass Band

Saturday 31 August 7.30pm £19.50, £25.50

International Beatleweek The Cavern Liverpool presents the annual International Beatleweek Festival celebrating the music of the most famous pop group the world has ever known.

The Cavern Club Beatles Friday 23 August 7.30pm £20

A quartet put together after an extensive world wide search that included auditions hosted by legendary Grammy Award winning Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick. The band debuted at Beatleweek 2012 and went down a storm. This year they present their remarkable full theatre show that spans the whole of the Beatles repertoire.

My Sweet George Saturday 24 August 7.30pm £20

This tribute to George Harrison has it all! The Hare Krishna Temple, Indian musicians, the best George Harrison bands and tribute acts, ukuleles, orchestration and appearances from people who knew Harrison well including ‘Legs’ Larry Smith and Joey Molland from Badfinger who performed at The Concert for Bangladesh and on All Things Must Pass. A unique tribute to ‘The Quiet One’.

The Cavern Legacy Show with The Overtures Monday 26 August 7.30pm £20

The Overtures have consistently been one of the favourite bands ever to appear at International Beatleweek over the last 20 years.

This show features all of the great bands that have emerged from the Cavern Club over the past fifty years. Obviously The Beatles themselves and Sir Paul McCartney’s return gig loom very large in the presentation but so too do the Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Bo Diddley, Donovan, Rod Stewart, Queen, Adele and much, much more. An inspiring audio visual spectacular...

One of the world’s oldest and most famous bands. In 2010, the band won the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain for a record 22nd time.

They have also won the European Championships a record twelve times, most recently in 2012. Sir Elton John called them ‘the SAS of musicians’ saying ‘you get the job done and you do it so well’ when he asked them to take part in the tour An Evening With Elton John. With over 150 years of rich musical history the band is extremely proud of its heritage.

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Americana Weekend 26 to 28 July

£30 weekend ticket see both Liverpool Philharmonic shows for £30 (£40 f0r box seats)

Americana Weekend returns for a second year South Louisiana’s Cajun culture has survived for 300 years and its music has been a fountain of joy and a focus of identity for its people. A blend of accordions and fiddles, black and white, sorrow and celebration, backporch reverie and Saturday night release, this music has inspired Cajuns and anyone else who hears it to lay down their troubles for a while and celebrate. After the success of last year, Americana Weekend returns. This year, with the Caledonia pub - a stone’s throw from Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’s Stage Door - we bring you this weekend featuring concerts by two giants of Cajun music, perhaps the two best Cajun bands performing in the UK, surrounded by bluegrass and other Americana sessions, aftershows and workshops.

Come celebrate Americana!

Allen Toussaint says BeauSoleil make ‘music that’s honest to the bone!’

They are one of a few groups performing traditional Louisiana music to win a Grammy Award, have made numerous TV and film soundtrack appearances, as well as captivating listeners from the Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, to Carnegie Hall, and at Meltdown festival 2010 at the invitation of Richard Thompson.

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet

support Chris Moreton Friday 26 July 7.30pm £20, £26 Weekend ticket from £30

Guitar Workshop with Chris Moreton

‘My kind of music!’ Bob Dylan once declared of this group. They make some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the

The award-winning guitarist, described by The Independent as ‘the best bluegrass guitarist in the country’ leads a hands on workshop for intermediate players (some experience required). He will draw on his more-than 40 years of playing experience covering bluegrass, flat picking, fingerstyle and touching on banjo techniques.

Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys

Saturday 27 July 2-4pm £20

planet, driven by bandleader Michael Doucet’s spellbinding fiddle playing and soulful vocals. BeauSoleil’s distinctive performances of traditional and original music rooted in the folk tunes of the creole and Cajun people is the distillation of the spirits of New Orleans jazz, blues, swamp pop, Zydeco, country and bluegrass.

‘Cajun music purists admire the fiddler Michael Doucet’s informed command of traditional Cajun music, while those who just want to party surrender to BeauSoleil and boogie to classic Cajun twosteps, reels and a host of other rhythmic influences that have made this Grammy-winning Crescent City outfit one of the most colorful roots bands on the scene. Bon temps, every time they play.’

The New York Times

Sunday 28 July 7.30pm £20, £26 Weekend ticket from £30

Their stunningly clean and cohesive performance of Cajun French music from the backwaters of Southwest Louisiana has propelled them into the world music limelight.

Never before in Cajun music has a comparable wealth of skills been brought to the same table.

When all that heart and all that skill focus on the revelry of a hot two-step, then turn on a dime and deliver an a cappella ballad, then play something that sounds

like Howlin’ Wolf fell in lust with a Creole girl, you’ve found the most Cajun music you can find in any one spot. You’ve found Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys.

‘One of the finest Cajun bands in history’ Washington Post ‘Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys are kind of like a Cajun Beatles’ The Independent Weekly

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AFTER 8

in association with

Wednesday 15 May 8.30pm £12

A series of select folk, roots, and unplugged gigs in the Rodewald Suite, a delightfully intimate space with its own entrance in Sugnall Street, with informal cabaret seating, an in-house bar and rooftop terrace.

Coope, Boyes and Simpson

James Grant

Wednesday 24 April 8.30pm £12

Friday 5 April 8.30pm £12 Since their first appearance in 1993 Coope, Boyes and Simpson’s powerful and distinctive unaccompanied singing and songwriting have taken English roots into new realms. Describing them as ‘quite simply the best purveyors of a cappella song on these Islands’, Q Magazine named the trio’s first record, Funny Old World, Roots Album of the Year. The BBC Folk website simply lists all their albums as recommended listening.

Friday 12 (sold out) & Saturday 13 April 8.30pm £12

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Nasher

Liverpool guitarist Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash is a founding member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

He has released several solo albums featuring his guitar driven pop sound and last year launched his autobiography Nasher Says Relax. This After 8 event opens with Nasher in conversation about his book and his career with Dr Stuart Borthwick who is Principal Lecturer in Popular Music Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. This is followed by a full Nasher gig, in which he is joined by Mark Ord on piano.

Tinlin

Grant is a critically acclaimed solo artist and singer/songwriter.

He was a founder member and front man for the 80s Scottish pop/rock band Love and Money. Described by Q Magazine as ‘elegant and seductive’ his song writing style has in the past been compared to Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits, and his guitar playing compared to Eric Clapton!

He collaborates regularly with Capercaillie’s Karen Matheson, performing live

O’Hooley & Tidow Friday 26 April 8.30pm £12

Belinda O’Hooley (The Unthanks) and Heidi Tidow are the chamberfolk duo behind The Fragile, their genre-defying new album.

Their debut Silent June was one of MOJO Magazine’s Top 10 Folk Albums of 2010 and they were also nominated for Best Duo at the 2013 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Their shows are an irresistible blend of thought-provoking song, striking arrangements, sublime harmonies and cheeky Yorkshire banter.

‘Best Act of Cambridge Folk Festival 2012’ The Guardian

Alex and Rolf Tinlin are brothers who write original, honest and well-crafted acoustic pop. Their sound ranges from the raw simplicity of folk-influenced mandolin and guitar, to bigger, bolder productions complemented by hits of funky electric piano and inventive percussion by Jack Carrack. They have become known for the striking vocal harmonies which lie at the heart of their music.

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VAMM

Thursday 16 May 8.30pm £12

and writing songs for her solo records, as well as playing with Ewan Vernall from Deacon Blue.

He is a regular at the Celtic Connections folk festival.

‘Real depth and a certain sombre grandeur’ Paul du Noyer

Lizzie Nunnery

Saturday 11 May 8.30pm £12 Liverpool-based Nunnery has stories to tell and a voice to make you listen. Her reputation as a captivating new voice in British folk continues to grow. BBC Radio 2’s Mike Harding listed her debut album in his top 10 albums of 2010.

And her brilliant new release, with multi-instrumentalist Vidar Norheim, called Black Hound Howling prompted Folk North West to say ‘It’s hard to imagine a record more original from any emerging artists’. Bido Lito music magazine describes it as ‘A stunning collection of anti-capitalist anthems and beat poetry... the album is a perfect reflection of early 21st Century affairs’.

‘Every song feels like a work of poetry’ Folk Radio UK

This thrilling string trio weave melody and harmony together creating a rich sound bursting with texture and moments of intimate quietness that will take your breath away. Inflecting the sound with their own musical traditions, fiddlers Catriona Macdonald (Shetland), Patsy Reid (Perth) and Mandola player Marit Fält (Norway) relish the unlimited possibilities that great melodies possess, and play them in a fun and exuberant fashion.

VAMM is Shetland dialect meaning to bewitch or enchant.

Lulo Reinhardt

Thursday 30 May 8.30pm £15 Reinhardt is the authentic and most distinctive musical voice in Gypsy music today. Critics and fans agree that it is not solely because he is the greatnephew of world-famous musician extraordinaire Django Reinhardt: it’s about his unique musical skill, and his ability to make it all appear so utterly effortless. In his performance he explores a fusion of styles, including flamenco, Latin, and Brazilian jazz combining these with a nod to his Gypsy influences for a spellbinding show.

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Bruce Molsky

Dead Belgian

Friday 31 May 8.30pm £12

Friday 14 June 8.30pm £12

One of the most influential old-time fiddle players around, Molsky is also a remarkable guitarist, banjo player and singer. His high-spirited music melds the archaic mountain sounds of Appalachia, the power of blues and the rhythmic intricacies of traditional African music. The Washington Post says Bruce’s music ‘set[s] into motion melodies that radiate enormous spirit and momentum’, and Sing Out! says his fiddling ‘combines precision and abandon so perfectly that it raises the hairs on the back

of your neck’. His 2001 album Poor Man’s Troubles was named by America’s Association for Independent Music as Traditional Folk winner in their annual album awards.

Alasdair Roberts

Woody Mann

Saturday 1 June 8.30pm £12

Among guitarists and critics, Mann is considered a modern master. While the blues are his touchstone, he draws inspiration from every direction, blending a myriad of influences with ease and grace. Pioneering guitar legend John Fahey said it well: ‘You can hear classical, jazz and blues approaches somehow converging into a single sparkling sound – a sound completely his own’. Mann’s fresh approach to American acoustic blues and his own compositions means that if you want to experience a guitarist and bluesman at the peak of their art, then look no further.

See page 13 for details of Woody Mann’s Guitar Masterclass.

‘Don’t miss a chance to see him; you are unlikely to hear anything – or anyone better’ The Times

Thursday 20 June 8.30pm £12

Hailing from Prince Edward Island, a Canadian island province north of Nova Scotia, this award-winning band serve up old-time roots music and are known for their high energy performances. Gordie ‘Crazy Legs’ MacKeeman deserves his moniker for his thrilling dance style. Add to the mix great bluegrass vocals, Peter Cann’s blistering guitar solos, and the lively multi-instrumental talents of Thomas Webb and Mark Geddes, the quartet are the complete entertainment package.

Dead Belgian play the music of Jacques Brel. The band have developed a playful and inventive sound that meshes dense melodic patterns, demonic waves of intensity and passages of sparse frailty with vocals from Fionnuala Dorrity that have drawn comparison to Edith Piaf, Anthony Hegarty and Nico. It is a sound unique to themselves while still capturing the beauty, passion and often dark humour of the original work, a rousing and rowdy back-porch reinvention of Jacques Brel’s honest and poetic stories.

‘These lads have taken their great musical skill and love for the repertoire and added engaging, sometimes jawdropping, stagecraft and showmanship. Man for man there may not be a better roots band playing in Canada today’ Montreal’s Folk Festival on the Canal

‘Dead Belgian’s deliciously ramshackle approach deconstructs Brel the myth and icon to reclaim him as a street musician, chanson, maestro and people’s champion’ Mojo

With the final date on Ian Prowse’s long-awaited first-ever solo tour sold out, we’ve added an extra date on Friday. Prowse (and accompanying musicians) play these acoustic shows which draw upon his 21 year career of songs, and to road test the tunes written for the new album which is being recorded early this year.

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TE DA A ED T R DD EX A

Alasdair Roberts is a musician/ artist based in Glasgow. Primarily a singer and acoustic fingerstyle guitarist, his work consists of the interpretation and arrangement of traditional ballads as well as the writing and composition of new songs which draw extensively on the traditional musical and folkloric stock of Scotland and beyond. In 2011 he worked with the puppeteer Shane Connolly of Sokobauno Puppet Theatre on a new version of the Scottish folk play Galoshins. He has also compiled and annotated the LP Whaur the Pig Gaed on the Spree which features recordings of traditional music and song made by the American folklorist Alan Lomax in Scotland in the 1950’s. Roberts’ new album is called A Wonder Working Stone.

Saturday 8 June 8.30pm £12

Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys

Friday 12 July & Saturday 13 (sold out) 8.30pm £12

SANS

Thursday 4 July 8.30pm £12 SANS is the dazzling quartet of multi-instrumentalist Andrew Cronshaw (zither, fujara, ba-wu, marovantele, kantele), the great Finnish singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio, multi-instrumental reeds player Ian Blake (bass clarinet, soprano sax), and Tigran Aleksanyan, Armenian master of his country’s heart-rendingly voice-like reed pipe, the duduk. This instrumental combination is not found in any other band in the world, drawing deeply on their different but

remarkably compatible traditions; Finland’s Kalevala folklore, the sweeping melodies of Armenia and English folk song. They combine to make a genuinely new music of extraordinary beauty and fluidity.

‘Delicate, haunting… glacial’ Robin Denselow, The Guardian ‘Stunningly beautiful’ Fiona Talkington BBC Radio 3 Late Junction

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The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines 70th Anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic Saturday 25 May 7.30pm £10, £12, £15

Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic with the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines plus local artists.

This will be the very last time that the Battle of the Atlantic will be celebrated – do not miss this special and superb concert.

Raymond Gubbay Presents

We’ll Meet Again Thursday 30 May 7.30pm £21, £32.50, £36.50 Image: Shaolin Warriors

Family Concert

Shaolin Warriors: Teddy Bear’s Picnic… of the Master We’re going on a Bear Hunt Return Monday 13 May 7.30pm Sunday 14 April 2.30pm £10, £14 £6 children Suggested age 4-10 Alasdair Malloy conductor Dave Benson Phillips presenter with special guest Big Bear Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Bring your favourite teddy in his or her Sunday best for a lovely afternoon of music around the theme of a teddy bear’s picnic, including the return of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to music by Ian Stephens.

£22.50, £28.50

This breathtaking theatrical Kung Fu show is the story of a warrior, 22 professionally trained Kung Fu Masters reveal their rarely-seen feats of agility strength and skill, using Buddhist Meditation and their rigorous martial arts training. The show is an extravaganza of gorgeous scenery, atmospheric music, beautiful lights and hundreds of costumes. This show is now a huge hit over three continents, and has been seen by over 750,000 people of all ages, from family audiences to martial arts enthusiasts, they’ve all been astounded by the Shaolin Warriors.

‘Jaw dropping! A perfect family show, something for everyone!’

Edinburgh Evening News

Presented by star of TV, stage and screen Jean Boht, this is a spectacular 60th Anniversary Coronation tribute, featuring timeless classics, including We’ll Meet Again, In the Mood, Sing, Sing, Sing, Begin the Beguine, Pack Up Your Troubles, The White Cliffs of Dover, It’s a Long Way to Tipperary and Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree. Enjoy a traditional singalong to favourites that include Calling all Workers, Knightsbridge March, Underneath the Arches, Run Rabbit Run and Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line, plus a special tribute to the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation, with songs such as Jerusalem, There’ll Always Be An England, Nimrod, Rule, Britannia!, Hornpipe and Land of Hope and Glory.

League Of Welldoers Images From The Past

Monday 3 June 2pm £9.95 (group discounts available)

Join the Welldoers as they celebrate their 120th year with a special concert featuring eight top class entertainers, from the X Factor to Stars in Your Eyes it’s a variety show with something for everyone. All proceeds will go to The League of Welldoers, one of Liverpool’s oldest independent charities.

Family Concert

The Firebird: Magical Music, Curious Creatures and Fabled Beasts Prodijig present Footstorm Monday 6 May 7.30pm £17.50, £25, £35, £40

Seven of the world’s best modern Irish Dancers have combined forces to ‘break boundaries’ and ‘move away from tradition’ with this new show Footstorm. Prodijig, the group led by Alan Kenefick who holds the world record for tapping speed at 36

taps per second (one faster than Michael Flatley), fuse Irish dancing with more modern moves in a breath-taking show. The seven members of Prodijig are world class dancers, between them they have played the lead in shows including Lord of the Dance, Rhythm of the Dance, Riverdance and Celtic Tiger, as well as winning every major Irish Dance Championship in the world.

This awe-inspiring new show is packed full of powerful, heart-stopping moves and magnificent energy.

Sunday 16 June 2.30pm £10, £14 £6 children

See the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Summer Pops 2013 programme on page 17 for full details.

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LEARNING

London Philharmonic Orchestra

An HD Odyssey

Saturday 22 June 7.30pm £15 Sponsored by

John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Holst The Planets Lawrence Renes conductor Huddersfield Choral Society London Philharmonic Orchestra The London Philharmonic Orchestra presents a spectacular multimedia evening featuring Duncan Copp’s award-winning high definition films The Earth and The Planets. Breathtaking footage from NASA’s exploration of the solar system is projected on a giant screen and accompanied by evocative cosmically-inspired scores including The Planets by Holst and Strauss’ epic tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra (the opening to 2001: A Space Odyssey).

Music and science join forces for this audiovisual bombardment of the senses, a oncein-a-lifetime virtual trip to space.

‘It’s like a grown up Fantasia, with extra scientific accuracy thrown in.’

The Independent

Sing Live: Stage and Screen

Sunday 7 July 7.30pm £12.50, £15.50, £17.50, £19.50 £9 children under 16

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Discover the Classics Classic FM’s Creative Director and Presenter, Tim Lihoreau, leads these relaxed, enjoyable learning sessions on Saturday mornings.

Discover the musical, social and historical stories behind some of the superb music and composers from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2012/13 season.

Lihoreau’s commentary is animated with short musical extracts performed by musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and there are opportunities for questions, discussion and lively debate.

A great way to spend your Saturday mornings!

Tea and coffee is also provided.

Saturday 13 April 2pm Liverpool Philharmonic at the Friary (Everton) Final performance at SuperConcert!

Saturday 15 June 4:30pm Participation fee: £50 (£25 claimants)

Discover the Classics

25 out of 27: A great score Saturday 13 April 11am Rodewald Suite £15 per session (£10 claimants/students)

Mozart’s 27 piano concertos are often called the backbone of his output. One of Mozart’s longest concertos is No. 25; look into its expansive and symphonic opening movements and discover more about its frequently compared sister symphony, the Prague Symphony.

Discover the Classics

From Bodmin to Bayreuth with Crazy Dick!

Indulge yourself in an evening dedicated to the best of music from the Stage and Screen - think of your favourite song from any film and stage show and it’s bound to be there!

Enjoy the fantastic wall of sound created

by Sing Live. The show features songs from Mamma Mia, A Chorus Line, Mary Poppins, The Rose, Titanic and many more.

SuperSing!

Saturday 1 June 11am Rodewald Suite £15 per session (£10 claimants/students)

A look at Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, one of history’s most enduring love stories in a tale which starts in Cornwall and ends in a purpose built opera house in Bavaria.

Your chance to be part of a massed choir on stage at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

For singers and non-singers alike. Previous singing experience is not required, but energy and enthusiasm are essential! Led once again

by Ian Chesworth, highly skilled choral conductor and judge from the 2009 Manchester Amateur Choral Competition, this event will give you the opportunity to learn and perform some of the greatest Classical choruses ever written including Mozart’s Dies Irae and Lacrimosa from Requiem, Handel’s See the conquering hero comes, Handel’s Ombra mai fu from Serse, Verdi’s Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore and Mendelssohn’s And then shall your light break forth from Elijah.

Scores will be provided, however you will not be required to read music in order to participate, and additional resources will be provided to help you learn your part.

For the final performance you’ll be joined by an accompanying ensemble of professional musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. For full details see www.liverpoolphil.com/supersing.

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Spring Series

Workshop for Children

Lunchtime Learning

Lunchtime Learning

Music Makers

Concerto for Orchestra: Rehearsal Visit

Wednesday 29 May 3-4.30pm Strings Thursday 30 May 3-4.30pm Woodwind £9 per child with one accompanying adult free, additional adults £9

Wednesday 17 April 1pm Rodewald Suite £15 per session

Suggested age range 8-11 years (Grades 1-3)

Mozart Piano Concerto No.25 in C K503 Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Paul Lewis piano

Your chance to perform with musicians from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra!

Woody Mann Guitar Masterclass

Lunchtime Learning Whether you are new to classical music or a regular concertgoer, join composer and lecturer Ian Stephens for a daytime series of inspiring music and relaxed learning.

Ballet for Brass: Lunchtime concert

Acoustic, Blues and Roots Technique and Repertoire

Thursday 16 May 12pm Rodewald Suite £15 per session

Saturday 8 June 2-4pm £30

Each series includes a mixture of Lunchtime Concerts performed by musicians of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and opportunities to experience full orchestra rehearsals. Each event also includes a 45-minute interactive workshop in the Rodewald Suite at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, exploring the music to be featured in the concert/rehearsal.

Workshops include discussion, music activities and opportunities to socialise.

Tea and coffee is provided.

Ballet music by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

Workshop for Children

Workshop for Children Wednesday 29 May 1.15-2.15pm Rodewald Suite £7 per child with one accompanying adult free, additional adults £7 Suggested age 3-5 years Your child will explore pitch and rhythm through songs and activities, develop their creativity through exploration and performance with percussion instruments, and learn more about instruments of the orchestra.

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Songs and games to help your young child develop his or her musicianship and creativity including ways to ‘tune in’ to your child using child-led music making. Word sheets and suggestions on how to make music at home with your young child will be provided.

Thursday 30 May 1.15-2.15pm Rodewald Suite £7 per child with one accompanying adult free, additional adults £7

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Thursday 6 June 1pm Rodewald Suite £15 per session

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Lunchtime Learning

Suggested age 5-7 years Compose and perform your own musical story with help from Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra musicians.

Starting from the basics of fingerpicking, Woody teaches practical ways to improve your blues guitar technique, develop a swinging picking style and de-mystifies the process of creating your own variations in a song. These ideas will be illustrated as you learn tunes from the repertoire of the master blues and ragtime artists including Blind Blake, Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson, Skip James, Reverend Gary Davis and others. Mann also shows how the techniques of traditional country blues form the basis for playing other styles including ragtime, swing, early jazz, and contemporary sounds. This is a hands on, practical session for people who want to take alternating picking to the next level and learn some great tunes. See page 10 for Woody Mann in concert.

SuperOrchestra!

Saturday 15 June 9.30am

Places in the year’s SuperOrchestra! are sold out now. SuperOrchestra! is your chance to rehearse and perform with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. See www.liverpoolphil. com/superorchestra for full details.

Chris Moreton Guitar Workshop Saturday 27 July 2-4pm £20

See Americana Weekend on page 08 for full details.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC

Image: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Chief Conductor Vasily Petrenko

Gorgeous Gershwin Friday 5 & Saturday 6 April 7.30pm £16, £21, £28, £33, £40

Petrenko’s Rachmaninov

Wednesday 10 & Thursday 11 April 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

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Beethoven Violin Concerto Rachmaninov Symphony No.1 Vasily Petrenko conductor Viviane Hagner violin Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Mahler Piano Quartet in one movement Schumann Piano Quartet, Op.47 Thelma Handy violin Fiona Winning viola Jonathan Aasgaard cello Ian Buckle piano

Thursday 18 April 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 Sponsored by

Chopin, orch. Stravinsky Grand Valse Brillante, Op.18 Nocturne, Op.32 No.2 Mozart Piano Concerto No.25 in C,K503 Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Chamber Music

Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Paul Lewis piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Pražák Quartet

For over forty years since they came together in Prague, the Pražák Quartet has carried the flag for the great Czech tradition of string quartet playing. It goes without saying that they bring a uniquely personal insight to the music of Dvořák and Janáček.

But in this concert they also play one of Mozart’s gloriously inspired late quartets.

Thursday 11 April 1.05pm £6

Concerto for Orchestra

John Wilson conductor Artur Pizarro piano* Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Mozart String Quartet No.22 in B flat major, K589 Dvořák String Quartet No.13 in G major, Op.106 Janáček String Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’

Piano Quartets

Henry E Rensburg Series

All-Gershwin programme: Cuban Overture Piano Concerto in F* Girl Crazy Overture Lullaby for string orchestra Variations on I Got Rhythm* An American in Paris

Tuesday 9 April 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

Lunchtime Concert

Grand, dark, and blazing with unrequited passion, Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.1 is a real gothic melodrama – and if you’ve heard Petrenko’s acclaimed recording of the Third Symphony, you’ll already know how he makes this music catch fire. He’s beginning the concert with the exact opposite: the soaring melodies, radiant sunshine and deep serenity of Beethoven’s sublime Violin Concerto.

‘Petrenko packs a powerful emotional wallop, and I have no doubt that he and his dazzlingly accomplished band set new standards in this music’ The Classical Review on the Orchestra’s recording of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.3

Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra begins in darkness, and ends with a shout of joy.

In between comes the ultimate work-out for orchestra: 40 minutes of zingy tunes, fabulous colours and raw feeling. Though Bartók was dying when he wrote it, this is simply one of the most life-affirming experiences in 20th century music, and a glorious showcase for the orchestra under the brilliant young conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. Another guest makes a welcome return: no-one plays Mozart with more style than Liverpool-born Paul Lewis.

And no-one gives Chopin a spicier twist than Igor Stravinsky, as two romantic favourites get a magical Ballets Russes makeover.

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Friday 19 April 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

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Bruckner’s Sixth Shostakovich’s Masterpiece: Symphony Saturday 11 May 7.30pm Symphony No.14 Henry E Rensburg Series

Thursday 2 May 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

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Paul Lewis performs Mozart Sunday 21 April 2.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

Sponsored by

Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Bruckner Symphony No.6 Thomas Dausgaard conductor Nelson Freire piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Chopin, orch. Stravinsky Grand Valse Brillante, Op.18 Nocturne, Op.32 No.2 Mozart Piano Concerto No.25 in C, K503 Liadov Baba Yaga and The Enchanted Lake Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’

Classic Intro 6.15pm Stephen Johnson, Broadcaster for BBC Radio 3, 4 and the World Service, talks about Bruckner’s Symphony No.6, one of the composer’s least-performed and most enigmatic works. Johnson is the author of the book Bruckner Remembered.

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Tine Thing Helseth

Britten Symphony for Cello and Orchestra Shostakovich Symphony No.14

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Rossini’s Mass

Vasily Petrenko conductor Daniel Müller-Schott cello Olga Mykytenko soprano Alexander Vinogradov bass Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle

Ensemble 10/10

Ryan Wigglesworth conductor Paul Lewis piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Saturday 27 April 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 Ottavio Dantone conductor Marina Bucciarelli soprano Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Yijie Shi tenor Riccardo Novaro bass Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Gioachino Rossini was a good Catholic boy, but he was also a showman. ‘Oh Lord’ he prayed, ‘you know as well as I do that I was born to write comic opera’. So when he came to write his ‘Little Solemn Mass’, he just couldn’t help filling it with cheerful rhythms, brilliant operatic solos and tune after irresistibly hummable tune. Sacred music just doesn’t get any more entertaining than this, and conductor Ottavio Dantone simply adores it. He’s brought with him a hand-picked team of star soloists who share his love for Rossini; and with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, the result should be sparkling!

Kathryn Stott Tuesday 14 May 7.30pm St George’s Hall Concert Room £25

The Soldier’s Tale

Wednesday 8 May 7.30pm The Epstein Theatre £10

Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale* Emily Howard Settle** *Anthony Marwood director *Walter Van Dyk narrator **Dane Lam conductor Returning from war, a soldier meets a sinister stranger. He offers him a bargain: the soldier’s violin in return for a book of untold riches.

It seems like an easy choice – but this, after all, is a world in which the devil really does have all the best tunes. In troubled times, Stravinsky’s musical folk-tale remains as fresh, entertaining and unsettling as ever.

First, though, enter a very different world: Liverpool-born Emily Howard has emerged as one of the UK’s most compelling musical voices, and in Settle – written for Ensemble 10/10 in 2010 – she evokes a deeply-felt landscape of outer beauty and inward sorrow.

Works by de Falla, Kurt Weill, Hindemith, Sibelius, Graham Fitkin and others Liverpool audiences have already heard how Tine Thing Helseth can dazzle; tonight, she shows how the trumpet can sing. Hindemith’s powerful 20th century showpiece and a striking new work by Graham Fitkin complement lyrical romantic miniatures by Sibelius, Enescu, Falla and Ravel, as well as some magical folkflavoured discoveries from Helseth’s native Norway. Expect to be charmed, entertained and – yes – moved by this wonderfully imaginative recital.

‘Helseth’s musicality is a joy.’ The Arts Desk

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Enigma Variations

Wednesday 15 & Thursday 16 May 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Youth Choir

Sunday 19 May 7.30pm £9 adults / £6 under 25s £2 Liverpool Young Musician Pass holders Mussorgsky Night on a Bare Mountain Vaughan Williams Prologue, Spring, Summer & Autumn from Folk Songs of the Four Seasons Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 Dane Lam conductor Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir Simon Emery director

Henry E Rensburg Series

The Rite of Spring

Thursday 23 & Friday 24 May 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36 Sponsored by

Richard Strauss Don Juan Brahms Double Concerto Elgar Enigma Variations Alexander Shelley conductor Mari Samuelsen violin Håkon Samuelsen cello Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Lunchtime Concert

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Brass Thursday 16 May 1.05pm £6

A programme featuring major new arrangements by Principal Horn Tim Jackson of suites taken from two centrepieces of the ballet repertoire: Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1920) and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

Falla Suite, The Three Cornered Hat Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Borodin Polovtsian Dances* Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Vasily Petrenko conductor Richard Berkeley-Steele (tenor) Tristan Michelle DeYoung (soprano) Isolde Phillip Joll (baritone) Kurwenal Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

An HD Odyssey

Saturday 22 June 7.30pm £15 Sponsored by

John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra Holst The Planets See page 12 for full details.

Classic Intro Friday 24 May 6.15pm

Sunday 30 June 2:30pm £15, £18 (£10, £12 students and children)

Paul Griffiths discusses Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Paul worked for thirty years as a music critic in London and New York.

Particularly known for his book Modern Music and After, he also wrote the volume on Stravinsky for the Master Musicians series and has been commissioned by the Sacher Foundation to contribute to a centenary volume on The Rite of Spring.

Russian Masterpieces

Helping to fundraise for local charities Crosby Symphony Orchestra returns for its annual concert, at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, this year featuring some of the grandest Russian music ever written.

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) is paired with Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No.2 and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, surely one of the most popular pieces in the classical repertoire.

The Emperor

Sunday 2 June 2.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

Saturday 18 May 7.30pm £12, £17, £23, £25

Andrew Manze conductor Steven Osborne piano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

As it states on the Christopher Columbus statue in Sefton Park, ‘The discoverer of America was the maker of Liverpool’.

Come and celebrate the city’s numerous historical links with the USA. The show includes music from a variety of styles including jazz, barbershop and spirituals, plus cheerleaders.

All-Wagner programme Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (Das Rheingold) Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre) Forest Murmurs (Siegfried) Siegfried’s Funeral March (Götterdämmerung) Tristan und Isolde, Act III

Crosby Symphony Orchestra 70th Anniversary Concert

All-Beethoven programme Leonore Overture No.3 Piano Concerto No.5 ‘Emperor’ Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’

Keith Orrell conductor Deborah Norman soprano Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Saturday 8 June 7.30pm £16, £21, £28, £33, £40

Vasily Petrenko conductor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir* Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Liverpool Welsh Choral

Uncle Sam presents Hooray for the USA!

Entry of the Gods

‘With Manze around, musical life is not going to be dull…The man is a total energizer.’ The Herald Scotland Classic Intro 1pm Conductor Andrew Manze talks about the works in this afternoon’s concert.

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James Bond Night Wednesday 12 June 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

Sponsored by Carl Davis conductor Mark Moraghan vocalist and presenter Hannah Levane vocalist A powerful cocktail of Bond favourites awaits you at this 007 event, with music from Goldfinger, Dr No, From Russia with Love, Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.

Featuring Celebrity Masterchef finalist Mark Moraghan, currently appearing in the national tour of 9 to 5.

Family Concert

The Firebird: Magical Music, Curious Creatures and Fabled Beasts Sunday 16 June 2.30pm £10, £14 £6 children

Recommended for children aged 4 – 10 and their families.

Michael Seal conductor Alasdair Malloy presenter

Learn about magical beasts in fable and fantasy. Find out about the Firebird with its wings of flame. Hear about notable Gnomes and troublesome Trolls in the hall of the Mountain King. Encounter enterprising Elves, a distant Dragon, a crowing Cockerel, a wicked Witch, a heroic Hobbit and even a Pink Panther!

Music includes excerpts from The Firebird (Stravinsky), In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt (Grieg), Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky), as well as music from the films Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Three Phantoms Thursday 11 July 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

Earl Carpenter vocalist Matthew Cammelle vocalist Stephen John Davis vocalist Rebecca Caine vocalist Anthony Gabriele musical director

Last Night of the Summer Pops Tuesday 25 June 7.30pm £16, £21, £28, £33, £40

Carl Davis CBE conductor Amore: Monica McGhee soprano Victoria Gray mezzo-soprano David Webb tenor Peter Brathwaite baritone

Carl Davis returns to the helm for another fabulous Last Night of the Summer Pops.

He is joined by Amore, the fantastic new vocal group that took the nation by storm during their performance in the Queen’s Jubilee pageant. Amore will star in Bizet’s Duet from The Pearl Fishers, and excerpts from Carmen, as well as other operatic favourites. And of course, what Last Night celebrations would be complete without the much-loved classics Jerusalem and Pomp and Circumstance?

Returning after their 2011 show at Liverpool Philharmonic are Earl Carpenter (currently starring as the Phantom in Cameron Mackintosh’s UK tour), and Matthew Cammelle, and this year they are joined by tenor Stephen John Davis. They perform excerpts from Phantom of the Opera as well as Les Misérables, West Side Story, Spamalot, Kiss Me Kate, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Rock Of Ages and Wicked.

‘Imagine musical theatre-meets-the-Rat Pack’ Liverpool Echo

White Nights

Sunday 14 July 7.30pm £16, £21, £28, £33, £40 Rachmaninov Prince Rostislav Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.2 Shostakovich Suite, Cheryomushki

Journey through Bohemia Saturday 29 June 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

Smetana Overture, The Bartered Bride Sarasate Zigeunerweisen Fibich At Twilight Sarasate Fantasy on themes from Bizet’s opera Carmen Smetana Excerpts from Ma Vlast with photo accompaniment:Vysehrad, Vltava and From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields Libor Pešek KBE conductor Pavel Šporcl violin

The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan Saturday 6 July 7.30pm £13, £18, £24, £29, £36

Pavel Šporcl has been called ‘the kind of talent that is born perhaps once in a hundred years’. Here he joins Conductor Laureate Pešek, former Music Director of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as they take us on a journey through some of the world’s most evocative violin music. This concert celebrates Libor Pešek’s 80th birthday. Excerpts from Ma Vlast are accompanied by stunning specially-commissioned images by artists James Westwater and Nicholas Bardonnay of the dramatic landscape and cultural heritage which inspired Smetana’s music.

Programme includes Overture to The Gondoliers, Is Life a Boon from Yeomen of the Guard, Minerva and O Goddess Wise from Princess Ida, Overture to Iolanthe, As Someday it May Happen from Mikado, When I was a Lad from H.M.S Pinafore and a complete performance of Trial by Jury.

John Wilson conductor Simon Butteriss The Learned Judge Sarah Fox The Plaintiff Ben Johnson The Defendant Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir

Vasily Petrenko conductor Alexandra Dariescu piano Vasily Petrenko and pianist Alexandra Dariescu in an evening of stirring Russian classics. Shostakovich’s exuberant Second Piano Concerto shows the composer’s more cheerful side. And one of Rachmaninov’s earliest symphonic works, Prince Rostislav, based upon a ballad written by A.K. Tolstoy, complements Tchaikovsky’s tuneful Capriccio Italien, written after a trip the composer took to Rome, and reflective of the Italian folk songs and dances he studied while there.

‘Could this be the best Russian orchestra outside Russia?’ Financial Times Following on from the success of Yeomen of the Guard, John Wilson presents another entertaining evening of Gilbert and Sullivan favourites, including the one-act comic opera Trial by Jury, dubbed ‘the most successful British one-act operetta of all time’, by theatre scholar Kurt Gänzl. The work is a delicious spoof of a breach of promise trial, a now-forgotten procedure where a man could be sued by a woman for withdrawing a proposal of marriage.

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FILM

Watching a film at Liverpool Philharmonic is a unique experience, the antidote to the muiltiplex. Rising out of the stage, accompanied by resident organist Dave Nicholas, the only working Walturdaw Cinema screen in the world.

Les Misérables

12A

Tuesday 9 April 7.30pm Seating is reserved for this screening (you may book specific seats).

Advanced booking is advised. £6, £7 Three time 2013 Oscar winner: Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound Mixing and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Hitchcock

12A

Wednesday 17 April 7.30pm £6, £7 Contains moderate horror, threat and sex references Director Sacha Gervasi 2013 99mins Starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Toni Collette

Lurking behind Alfred Hitchcock, cinema’s ‘master of suspense’, was a hidden side: his creatively explosive romance with his steadfast wife and filmmaking collaborator, Alma Reville. This captivating and complex love story is told through the sly, shadowy lens of their most daring filmmaking adventure: the making of the spine-tingling 1960 thriller, Psycho.

Director Tom Hooper 2013 158mins Starring Hugh Jackman, Helena Bonham Carter, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway

Argo A star-studded adaptation of the phenomenal stage musical based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a prisoner named Jean Valjean creates a new life for himself while evading the grip of the persistent Inspector Javert. The story reaches resolution against the background of the June Rebellion.

Thursday 9 May 7.30pm £6, £7 Three time 2013 Oscar winner: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing Contains strong language Director Ben Affleck 2012 120mins Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, Tate Donovan

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On November 4, 1979 militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 52 hostages.

But, in the midst of the chaos, six manage to slip away and find refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador where a CIA exfiltration specialist named Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck, who also directs) comes up with an incredible plan to get them safely out of the country. The Guardian says ‘No big prizes for working out why Argo won the Oscar for best picture.... It is a superb movie – clever, witty, beautifully paced, brilliantly acted, exciting, suspenseful, characterful’.

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Lincoln

The Great Gatsby

12A

TBC

Tuesday 23 July 7.30pm £6, £7

Monday 3 June 7.30pm £6, £7 Two time 2013 Oscar winner: Best Actor and Best Production Design

Director Baz Luhrmann 2012 TBCmins 2D version Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Isla Fisher

Contains infrequent moderate war violence, gore and strong language Director Steven Spielberg 2013 150mins Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come. The New Statesman is among the tides of praise for Day-Lewis’s Oscar winning performance saying he ‘is genuinely mesmerising...His charisma is quietly dazzling’.

A Late Quartet

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Friday 28 June 7.30pm £6, £7

Contains strong language and sex references Director Yaron Zilberman 2013 106mins Starring Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Imogen Poots, Madhur Jaffrey

Summertime

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Thursday 4 July 7.30pm £6, £7 Contains underage smoking and very mild sex references Director David Lean 1955 99mins Starring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Andre Morell

A sumptuous adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) is lured into the lavish world of his neighbour, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio). Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby’s nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

The City That Rocked The World

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Liverpool VIP Screening & Concert

Thursday 1 August 7.30pm £12 screening only £20 screening & concert (includes coach between venues)

After a classical string quartet’s 25 years of success, Peter (Christopher Walken), the cellist and oldest member, decides that he must retire when he learns he has Parkinson’s disease. For the others, that announcement proves a catalyst for letting their hidden resentments come to the surface while the married members’ daughter has disruptive desires of her own.

Jane Hudson (Katharine Hepburn), a jaunty, attractive go it alone middle-aged secretary has finally made it to Venice for her longawaited dream holiday. She soon discovers that going it alone can leave one feeling terribly lonely. All that changes when Jane draws the attention of a handsome antiques-shop owner named Renato de Rossi (Rossano Brazzi). From the director of Brief Encounter, Lawrence Of Arabia, Great Expectations, Bridge On The River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago and Oliver Twist it is Summertime that is reputed to be Lean’s own favourite.

The Merseybeat music revolution didn’t begin or end with the Beatles! Liverpool went on to produce more artists and chart hits than any other city in the world – earning the title World City of Pop. Now, this new feature documentary packed with rare archive, photos and exclusive interviews, charts 60 years of music heritage, from skiffle to Merseybeat, the Casbah, the Cavern, the Beatles, to Eric’s, Cream, Echo & The Bunnymen, OMD and many more.

Join the cast, crew, artists and VIPs for this double event; the screening at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, followed by the concert party at Camp & Furnace.

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COMEDY & SPOKEN WORD

Brand New Show for 2013

Lee Nelson

Tuesday 21 May 7.30pm £22.50, £28.50

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Not suitable for under 16s

Russell Kane Posturing Delivery Friday 3 May 8pm £17.50, £23.50

A brand new show, brand new jokes, same old Jimmy Carr.

A show packed with one-liners, stories and jokes. Some clever, some rude and a few totally unacceptable. Everybody’s welcome. Just leave your conscience, sense of common decency and moral compass at home. Carr has sold over a million DVDs and hosted countless TV shows but live comedy is what he does best, come and see for yourself.

The Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner in his most outrageous show yet, ‘What if I’m one of the guys who never has a baby? Why is this not a ‘male subject’? I plan to give birth, live on stage, then raise it - in front of you. Come along!’

The Times’ four star review describes Posturing Delivery as ‘Invigorating comedy… Kane is too busy and too bright to slow down and be boring’. A regular on both radio and TV panel shows, the multi-talented writer and performer won two of comedy’s most prestigious awards in 2011, establishing himself as one the best comics in the UK today.

Extremely funny, poignant and fuelled by real intelligence and passion’ Time Out

An East End boy done good, Micky Flanagan has risen to the very top of the stand up world in the past year. With his show stealing performance at The Royal Variety, for which he was nominated for the Best Breakthrough act at the British Comedy Awards, to unforgettable appearances on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Live At The Apollo Flanagan has built his reputation as one of the best comics in the UK. His tour last year was the fastest selling stand up show on the West End since Eddie Izzard, he performed to over 250,000 people in total. Catch his brilliant new show now.

He’s hosted Live at the Apollo, sold out his three-times extended Lee Nelson Live tour, had over two million people watching Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, and there’s a brand new series, Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People, on BBC Three. So get yourselves along to the brand new show for a night of qwaliteeee jokes, games and banter. Strap yourself in for a night of unmissable entertainment with the irrepressible Nelsy who presents his unique take on the world including his legendary audience interaction.

Plus he’ll be bringing Dr Bob, Jason Bent and a few others.

Reginald D Hunter In the Midst of Crackers Friday 14 June 8pm £23, £29

Writing On The Wall

Flash: In the Dark Wednesday 8 May 7.30pm Rodewald Suite £4

Ramsey Campbell, Merseyside’s own harbinger of horrors, judges the final of Writing On The Wall festival’s 2013 flash fiction competition and reads from his own bloodcurdling books. Come and listen to this year’s terrifying tales. To enter the competition visit www.writingonthewall.org.uk

Following two previous sell-out tours of the UK and the release of his debut stand up DVD, Reginald D Hunter Live, comedian Reginald D Hunter – who is a popular guest on many of the UK’s best-loved TV shows including Live At The Apollo and Have I Got News For You – returns to Liverpool Philharmonic with his own unique blend of humour in a brand new show.

‘His presence and intelligence make him one of the most brilliantly unpredictable comics in the country’ The Sunday Times

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COMING SOON

Bill Bailey: Qualmpeddler

Friday 4 & Saturday 5 October 8pm £25, £31 Following his recent sell-out tour of Australia and New Zealand, Bill Bailey returns to Liverpool Philharmonic for two nights with his brand new live show.

The gig will have all the classic Bill Bailey elements; trademark musical mash-ups, multi-lingual riffs, films, songs, philosophising and silliness on a grand scale…

Plus one amazing owl.

An Evening with

Ray Mears

Tuesday 8 October 7.30pm £22.50, £25, £31

A taste of things to come...

In addition to these shows we have many more very exciting yet to be announced gigs and events coming in the autumn. Follow us on twitter @liverpoolphil, or Facebook at fb.com/LiverpoolPhilharmonic to be the first to hear. Don’t forget members of our priority booking scheme have up to 48 hours to book their tickets before new shows go on general sale, see liverpoolphil.com/priority for how to join.

Alison Moyet

Friday 25 October 7.30pm £29.50, £33.50, £39.50

A fascinating and entertaining evening with the worldwide authority on bushcraft and survival. Mears acquired his unique skills through his work in some of the world’s most uninhabitable and harshest environments. This compelling show finds Mears sharing some of his favourite moments and stories from over thirty years of surviving the wilderness and its wildlife.

The electro-pop icon releases her first studio album in six years in May: the minutes finds Moyet’s

Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited Part II Tuesday 29 October 7.30pm £24.50, £26.50, £31.50

The Hollies

Friday 11 October 7.30pm £23.50, £29.50 A 50th anniversary show in which The Hollies perform their classic hits including The Air That I Breathe, Carrie Anne, Stop! Stop! Stop!, Long Cool Woman, Look Through Any Window, Bus Stop, I’m Alive, Just One Look, On A Carousel and of course the recent Justice Collective hit He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.

Following the success of the Genesis Revisited II album, which is enjoying great sales after entering the UK charts at 24 on its release, the May concert has sold out and Hackett has announced this extra date, part II. There’ll be some set changes between the two shows but both feature tons of classic favourites including Supper’s Ready, Dancing with the Moonlit Knight and Musical Box.

voice strong and seductive on a collection of exceptional songs.

Experimental, captivating and entirely cohesive, it clearly indicates a new artistic lease of life and is arguably her most creatively-brimming album ever.

Moyet’s new music has subtle parallels to her synth-pop past, but is also bang up-todate, taking in elements of R&B, modern club sounds and electronic experimentation.

This concert places the minutes centre stage and also focuses on the significant electronic material in her back catalogue.

An Evening with

Barbara Dickson Thursday 31 October 8pm £25, £30

Barbara Dickson OBE has firmly established herself as one of the most enduring and popular entertainers in Britain today and a Liverpool Philharmonic favourite. Globally known for hits which include Caravans, Another Suitcase in Another Hall, Answer Me and her charttopping duet with Elaine Paige, I Know Him So Well, Dickson is also a two-time Olivier Award-winning actress with roles including Anita Braithwaite in TV’s Band of Gold and the original Mrs Johnstone in Willy Russell’s long-running musical Blood Brothers. For this show she performs her classic hits, as well as other material in her own inimitable style.

Image: Michael Nyman

Ardal O’Hanlon

Saturday 2 November 8pm £20, £26 Best known for his starring roles in the sitcoms, Father Ted (for which he won a British Comedy Award and a BAFTA nomination) and My Hero, Ardal O’Hanlon makes his Liverpool Philharmonic debut with his brand new stand-up show. The style is observational, the subject matter is Life itself, and the default expression is one of utter disbelief!

The Michael Nyman Band Monday 4 November 7.30pm £22.50, £29.50, £35

Nyman is one of Britain’s most innovative composers. His works encompass opera and string quartets, film soundtracks and orchestral concertos. This performance features music from The Greenway soundtracks, and films directed and scored

by Michael Nyman (This is first time in the UK that the films will be played with a live soundtrack!) as well as music from The Draughtman’s Contract, The Cook, The Thief, his Wife and her Lover, A Zed and Two Noughts, and Prospero’s Books amongst other soundtracks.

The show also includes a special 20th anniversary performance of music from The Piano. The concert is Nyman’s first appearance at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall since 2005.

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Sun 14 2.30pm Family Concert: Teddy Bear’s Picnic

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Mon 15 7.30pm Ludovico Einaudi

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Lunchtime Learning: Concerto for Orchestra... P13

Thu 18 7.30pm RLPO: Concerto for Orchestra

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League of Welldoers

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Skip ‘Little Axe’ McDonald

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Roger Hodgson

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Baby Voices

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Music Makers Baby Voices

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