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Valerie June, The Band Room, Low Mill, Farndale, May 10

12:20pm Thursday 9th May 2013

Just a Quickie with... Tennessee, singer-songwriter Valerie June, tomorrow’s vintage country, gospel and delta blues act at The Band Room, Low Mill

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Mark E Smith and The Fall, fibbers, York, May 9

11:48am Thursday 9th May 2013

FIBBERS welcomes the irrepressible Mark E Smith and The Fall to York tonight with yet another album heading over the Pennine hills in their wake.

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Marcus Bonfanti, Selby Town Hall, May 25

11:25am Thursday 9th May 2013

LONDON bluesman Marcus Bonfanti visits Selby Town Hall on May 25 for an 8pm gig with his band.

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Big album launch for York folk duo Union Jill

10:10am Thursday 9th May 2013

UNION Jill, the York acoustic duo of Sharon Winfield and Helen Turner, will launch their new album with a home-city gig at the National Centre for Early Music on Saturday at 8pm.

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Candlelit concert heralds Ebor Singers’ new work

9:43am Thursday 9th May 2013

THE Ebor Singers will launch their new album, Mystery And Miracle: Musical Treasures Of York, at a candlelit concert on May 18 at Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York.

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Reef to headline at Galtres Festival

12:23pm Wednesday 8th May 2013

ROCK band Reef will headline the opening night at this year’s Galtres Parklands Festival at Duncombe Park near Helmsley.

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Review: YO1 Festival, Knavesmire, York

1:32pm Monday 6th May 2013

YO1 Festival returned this Bank Holiday weekend, moving to the greener pastures of Knavesmire for its second year.

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New community choir launched

8:40am Saturday 4th May 2013

A NEW community choir has been launched in York.

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Review: Beth Rowley, Pocklington Arts Centre

4:38pm Friday 3rd May 2013

BETH Rowley is on the cusp of releasing her first recording since 2008’s Brit-nominated debut album.

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Review: Opera North in Joshua; Grand Theatre, Leeds

12:12pm Friday 3rd May 2013

Handel’s Joshua is not an opera. It’s an oratorio. With typical haste, he dashed it off in four weeks in 1747. Its biblical subject meant that he was prevented, by law, from staging it.

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York Spring Festival of New Music, May 8 to 12

3:39pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

THE University of York’s Spring Festival of New Music next week will be a celebration of the diversity and vibrancy of contemporary music.

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Jane Siberry, Selby Town Hall, May 18

11:36am Thursday 2nd May 2013

CANADIAN singer-songwriter Jane Siberry will visit Selby Town Hall on May 18 as part of a rare British tour.

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Rosalind Ventris and Lara Dodds-Eden, York Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, May 4

11:18am Thursday 2nd May 2013

VIOLA player Rosalind Ventris and pianist Lara Dodds-Eden will perform new works by David Lancaster, from York St John University, and Peter Byrom-Smith at their York Late Music concert this weekend.

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Lilly Vadaneaux , 11, wins National Centre for Early Music composers award

10:45am Thursday 2nd May 2013

LILLY Vadaneaux has become the youngest ever winner of the NCEM Composers Award 2013 in York at the age of 11.

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YO1 Festival, York Racecourse, May 5

10:38am Thursday 2nd May 2013

The YO1 Festival is back for a second year, and this time it is moving to the York Racecourse, on Knavesmire, for a bigger event on Sunday.

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