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Review: Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, York Opera, York Guildhall

8:29am Saturday 18th May 2013

Wildly popular at its 1937 première, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana has remained a staple of the choral repertory ever since, a position cemented by its habitual re-appropriation – it currently frequents montages on The X Factor.

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Funmi Olawumi, The Queen of Lagos!, York Theatre Royal, May 17

2:58pm Thursday 16th May 2013

TRADITIONAL and contemporary Yoruba music combine in the soulful voice of Funmi Olawumi, one of the original members of Queens Of Lagos, founder of the Yoruba Women Choir and leading singer in the Nigerian wedding-party music scene.

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Jazz notes

2:57pm Thursday 16th May 2013

NOW IN its 20th year at the Old White Swan, Goodramgate, jazz is settling back into the larger central room of the pub. Tonight is Bejazzled night, starting at 8pm (01904 540911). The food is going down well too, with bar snacks to supplement the new meals menu.

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2013 York Early Music Festival

2:56pm Thursday 16th May 2013

CALL it foresight, call it serendipity, but the decision to focus on Rome in the 2013 York Early Music Festival could not have been more apt.

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Bob Mould, Leeds Cockpit, May 17

2:02pm Thursday 16th May 2013

BOB Mould will combine old and new in his live set when he opens his four-date spring tour at the Leeds Cockpit tomorrow.

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Soon Amore, St Olave’s Church, Marygate, York, May 18

2:02pm Thursday 16th May 2013

A YORK choir which takes its name from the Welsh words for ‘sound of the sea’ will perform a concert of international music on Saturday.

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Fusion, York Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Road, York, May 18

11:44am Wednesday 15th May 2013

FUSION, a multi-instrumentalist band seeking to break new ground in world music, present their blend of jazz, folk, flamenco, Africa and the East at York Cemetery Chapel, Cemetery Road, York, on Saturday night.

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An Evening With Noddy Holder, Harrogate Theatre, May 19

11:43am Wednesday 15th May 2013

NATIONAL treasure, Godfather of Glam and thinking grandmother’s crumpet Noddy Holder, the voice of Slade and television adverts, looks back over his career in conversation with BBC 6Music and Radio 2 presenter Mark Radcliffe at Harrogate Theatre on Sunday at 7.30pm.

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Review: Public Service Broadcasting, Leeds Brudenell Club, May 13

11:45am Tuesday 14th May 2013

LIKE Manchester United without Alex Ferguson, Public Service Broadcasting without videos are a class act missing a vital ingredient.

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Texas, York Barbican Centre, November 9

8:57am Tuesday 14th May 2013

The rock band Texas is due to appear at York’s Barbican Centre on November 9, during its 25th anniversary year.

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Review: The Fall, Fibbers, York, Thursday.

5:55pm Friday 10th May 2013

JOHN Peel once said Of The Fall, “They are always different; they are always the same”.

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Review: University of York Chamber Orchestra, The 24 and Joseph Hoston, York Spring Festival of New Music, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York

4:43pm Thursday 9th May 2013

THE York Spring Festival of New Music got off to a cracking start with a concert of music by Webern, Stravinsky and a new work by James Whittle.

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Treetop Flyers, Fibbers, York, May 11

4:42pm Thursday 9th May 2013

LONDON five-piece Treetop Flyers will promote their newly released first album, The Mountain Moves, when playing Fibbers in York on Saturday Their vintage American West Coast sound makes it fitting that they laid down their country soul debut in the canyons of Southern California, swapping urban England for the beaches and rolling hills of Malibu.

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