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Bev Jones boosted by invitation to sing for the Queen

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:04:53 +0000

RECUPERATING York musical director and producer Bev Jones has received the perfect tonic.

Spaghetti Western Orchestra, Grand Opera House, York, February 15

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:12:47 +0000

SPAGHETTI Western Orchestra are embarking on their debut tour of Britain and Ireland this month with their humorous celebration of the iconic film collaborations between Sergio Leone and Ennio Morricone.

National Centre For Early Music introduces £10 ticket offer

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:09:31 +0000

THE National Centre for Early Music is introducing a new £10 ticket offer for seven of its spring and summer concerts in York.

Babybird, Fruit, Hull, February 6; Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, February 7; Stereo, York, February 9

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:55:36 +0000

NO ONE is more surprised than Stephen Jones that he has made his seventh Babybird long-player, The Pleasures Of Self Destruction.

Straight No Chaser, Grand Opera House, York, February 9

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:42:31 +0000

DAVID Roberts is one banker you can cheer. Make that former banker. He has foregone working in Wall Street to concentrate full time on Straight No Chaser, the American a cappella group he first joined in his student days at Indiana University in Bloomington.

John Peel’s Shed, Harrogate Theatre Studio, February 3 and 4; Selby Town Hall, February 25

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:23:05 +0000

IN 2002, John Osborne won a competition on John Peel’s BBC Radio One show.

Jazz notes

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:08:24 +0000

THE harmonica is not unknown in jazz, but the rare beast surfaces tonight at Wakefield Jazz, blown by Adam Glasser (01977 680542).

Composer flying in for music premiere at York Barbican

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:17:09 +0000

AN UP-AND-COMING composer is flying back to York from Dubai this weekend to hear a world premiere of her latest work at the Barbican.

Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, The Duchess, York, February 2

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:03:13 +0000

IT is not every day that a bona-fide Motown legend comes to York.

Review: Alfie Boe, Harrogate International Centre

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:41:16 +0000

Alfie Boe has performed at the Harrogate International Centre in the past, albeit as a member of the Fron Male Voice Choir, and some lucky York residents saw Mr Boe at Opera in the Park in Leeds a couple of summers ago.