Saturday 20th April 2024, 9.30am – 1.00pm

Free entry

Come to our Spring Farmers Market, for fine Suffolk food and artisan produce.

Discover all kinds of local food and drink makers who come to sell their produce direct to you. This is a friendly market offering an excellent range of high-quality local produce.

Stall holders

If you are interested in booking a stall, please contact manager@aldeburghjubileehall.co.uk.

We are open to producers who operate within a 25-mile radius of Aldeburgh.

No re-sellers please, only primary producers.

Spaces will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, and producers may be put on a waiting list dependant on other confirmed stall holders and what they offer.

Sunday 21st April 2024 at 7.00pm

Doors & bar open at 6.30pm

Tickets: £21

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Based in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall yet reaching out to the wider world, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people over a period of almost 2000 years. Songs range from themes of freedom, nature and venturing out into the world after times of darkness, to a Roman inscription with links to Libya and Syria magnetically pulled into the 21st century with glorious vocal harmonies and the wildest of piping. 

Kathryn Tickell is the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes; a composer, performer, educator and successful recording artist “No one has evoked the landscape and traditions of Northumbria more affectingly than Kathryn Tickell” wrote The Observer…”she is steeped in the songs and mythology of the north-east.”  

Named after the old Northumbrian word for twilight, The Darkening is made up of four North-East England-based members: Kathryn (Northumbrian smallpipes, fiddle, vocals), Amy Thatcher (accordion, synth, clogs, vocals), Kieran Szifris (octave mandolin), Joe Truswell (drums, percussion);  with Josie Duncan from the Isle of Lewis (vocals, clarsach).  

www.kathryntickell.com
Twixxer: @kathryntickell
Instagram: kathryntickell
Facebook: kathryntickell
Youtube: @TheKathrynTickell

Saturday 11th May 2023 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £22

Tickets are available HERE

** Tickets are on sale from 29th September 2023

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

If there is one musician who embodies the dynamism and vitality of the English folk scene, it’s Eliza Carthy MBE.  Beloved of staunch traditionalists and iconoclasts alike, Eliza’s music effortlessly crosses boundaries of genre and style. Whether solo or fronting a big band, performing a centuries-old ballad or a self-written song, have influenced a whole generation of young musicians. 

The daughter of folk legends Martin Carthy & Norma Waterson, Eliza was championed from an early age by John Peel, Andy Kershaw and Billy Bragg. Twice nominated for the Mercury Prize, and winner of innumerable other accolades over her thirty-year career, Eliza has performed and recorded around the world with a diverse array of artists including, Paul Weller, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Patrick Wolf, and Jarvis Cocker. 

Tonight she goes solo, showcasing her powerful, nuanced voice, fiercely beautiful fiddle-playing and effervescent on-stage presence.  Describing herself simply as a modern English musician, she is one of the most impressive, engaging, and important performers of her generation. 

‘Unarguably the queen of English Folk’
The Observer 

‘Not the Messiah, but a very naughty girl’
Stewart Lee 

The event ends approx. 9.30pm (inc. interval)

Friday 17th May 2024 at 7.30pm

Doors open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £15

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Poet, novelist, songwriter, instrumentalist and singer, Louis de Bernieres has always combined words and music.  In a special evening he performs his own songs alongside his poems.  A natural story-teller, his poems and song lyrics are packed with the same memorable turns of phrase and whimsical flights of imagination as his fiction –  “every [song] a novella in its own right” as described in a Folk/Tumble review.  Playing a variety of instruments – as he says, “making sense of anything with frets and strings, including of course the mandolin” – it promises an evening of richly evocative music-making. 

“…a double album made with relish and passion. Bernières’ voice cuts through darkly arresting vignettes full of evocative lyrics. Powerful stuff…” Mojo Magazine 

The event finishes at approx. 9.45pm, including one interval

Saturday 18th May 2024

7.30pm

Tickets: £18

Tickets available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Marie Jones writer
Jake Smith director 

Venture across the Irish Sea to County Kerry. Local lads Jake and Charlie are working as extras on a Hollywood epic movie that has taken over their small village in rural Ireland. Switching from plucky Irish extra to know-it-all American movie star with a flick of the wrist, Jake and Charlie take on all fifteen characters to tell the story of the impact this movie has on their local community. The result is a sad, hilarious and irresistible play that pushes the boundaries of storytelling.

Inspired by the cinematic stylings of Wes Anderson, Eastern Angles are also adding newly composed music and video projection to the multi-award winning play. A hit in Dublin, Edinburgh and London’s West End, Stones In His Pockets is a chance for audiences to laugh, cry and revel in the power of theatricality.

“Marie Jones pulls off an ingenious theatrical trick that has political kick” Time Out 

Age Guidance 14+

The performance ends approx. 2hr and 20 mins including an interval. 

Saturday 25th May 2023 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £22

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Multi award-winning jazz vocalist and BBC Radio presenter, Claire Martin OBE presents a celebration of some of the greatest jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. 

Arranged and curated by Claire, this concert celebrates the music of the twentieth century’s quintessential jazz vocalists – whose legacy and influence continues to define a classic era of music.  She packs the evening with stylish reworkings of Great American Songbook  classics from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae and more, as well as sneak previews from her forthcoming album Almost in Your Arms. 

Versatile, charismatic and a passionate advocate for jazz in all its forms, Claire Martin is a tour de force on the UK jazz scene gaining many awards, including winning the British Jazz Awards eight times during her career. A professional singer since the age of 19, she has since released 18 CDs with on the prestigious Linn label, collaborating with musical luminaries including Martin Taylor, John Martyn, Stephane Grappelli, Kenny Barron, Richard Rodney Bennett and Jim Mullen. 

Claire co-presented BBC Radio 3’s flagship jazz program Jazz Line Up from 2000 to 2017 and interviewed many of her musical heroes such as Pat Metheny and the late Michael Brecker.  She was awarded an OBE for her services to jazz in 2011. 

She ranks amongst the four or five finest female jazz vocalists on the planet Jazz Times USA 

A consummate jazz singer with old-school virtues … she wins plaudits everywhere she works 

The Guardian 

The performance ends approx. 9.30pm including an interval. 

Thursday 30th May 2024 at 3.00pm

Doors open at 2.30pm

Tickets: £12 / £10 (18 and under)

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

WiFi Wars is the live comedy family gaming show where you all play along.  Log in with your smartphone or tablet and compete in a range of games, puzzles and quizzes to win the show, and prizes! 

Hosted by comedian Steve McNeil (team captain on UK TV’s hit comedy/gaming show Dara Ó’Briain’s Go 8 Bit) and aided by Guinness World-Record-Breaking tech whizz, the award-winning Rob Sedgebeer. 

As featured in Time Out’s Critic’s Choice, The Times’ Hot List and Metro’s Top Ten London Geek Nights Out. 

Watch the YouTube trailer here  

Recommended for ages 6+ (matinee)

Website: www.wifiwars.co.uk 

Twitter: @WiFiWarsUK 

The event lasts approximately 90 minutes including an interval

Thursday 30th May 2024 at 7.00pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Tickets: £12 / £10 (18 and under)

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

WiFi Wars is the live comedy family gaming show where you all play along.  Log in with your smartphone or tablet and compete in a range of games, puzzles and quizzes to win the show, and prizes! 

Hosted by comedian Steve McNeil (team captain on UK TV’s hit comedy/gaming show Dara Ó’Briain’s Go 8 Bit) and aided by Guinness World-Record-Breaking tech whizz, the award-winning Rob Sedgebeer. 

As featured in Time Out’s Critic’s Choice, The Times’ Hot List and Metro’s Top Ten London Geek Nights Out. 

Watch the YouTube trailer here  

Recommended for ages 12+ (evening performance)

Website: www.wifiwars.co.uk 

Twitter: @WiFiWarsUK 

The event lasts approximately 90 minutes including an interval

Sunday 2nd June 2023 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 6.45pm

Tickets: £18 (plus booking fee)

Tickets are available HERE

Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith – the team behind Awake Arise! – present a show in development – a new show that is an essential incantation to the summertime and all that it holds. 

On the longest day of the year, anything can happen… Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith invite you into their next alchemic collaboration!  

Having bewitched and galvanised audiences through many cold Decembers with their much loved wintertime tour ‘Awake Arise’, which twice sold out St George’s in Bristol and filled  venues around the country, “two of the most engaging and inventive acts on the current folk scene” (FRUK) return with a brand new show for the summer! 

With more folk songs historically collected about May than about any other time apart from Christmas, the charismatic 5-piece embark on a journey to mark this season in song. And being the kind of artists they are, ‘as I walked out…’ is just the beginning. There is of course morris, mayday, migration and magic. There is also ritual, rave and cider with Rosie. There are countryside hares and city foxes. There is the fear for our warming planet alongside the promise of ripening fruit. There is class struggle, cuckoo calls, beaches and barbecues. As with their celebrated winter work, the Awake Arise show is an essential incantation to the summertime and all that it holds. 

Award winning trio Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans and Hazel Askew) have for nearly a decade produced some of the most exquisite, thrilling vocal harmony work in the English folk scene (The Guardian) 

The beguiling musical partnership of Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith complete the powerful line-up, bringing the outstanding vocals, sensitive instrumentation and powerful social conscience that has won them widespread critical acclaim.  Rousing stuff The Observer. 

Presented by FolkEast 

www.ladymaisery.com
www.jimmyandsidduo.com
www.alanbearmanmusic.co.uk

The performance ends approx. 9.45pm including an interval. 

Friday 28th June 2024 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £10

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Featuring ‘three bad-ass old bags and a callow youth’, a new comedy show with music offering a fresh perspective on aging.  It looks at love in later-life,  loneliness, dementia and the frailty and foibles of female old age with humour and sensitivity. 

This witty, poignant take on later life in all its baffling glory is a collaboration between Field Theatre Group and Cliff-Edge Theatre Company.  Join the cast and creative team afterwards for an informal discussion – or a celebration of –  growing old disgracefully. 

www.fieldtheatregroup.co.uk
Facebook Field Theatre Group 

The performance lasts 80 minutes.  There is no interval.  Bar open after the performance. 

Saturday 29th June 2023 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £18

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

From Vancouver, a folk-roots collective with a reputation for their scintillating live shows.  “They bring enough energy to the stage to light up a small city… writes their home-town paper “the quartet conjures up a sound that’s like the missing link between Leonard Cohen and the Pogues”  

Songwriters Adrian Glynn and Brendan McLeod, joined by banjo player Chris Suen (Viper Central) and violinist Carly Frey (The Coal Porters), create a sound that’s a beguiling bedrock of traditional roots and Americana with lyrics that are unafraid to tackle the biggest issues of today.  Nowhere more so than in their latest album No Help Coming.  A quirky, compelling collection of songs about the complexities of the everyday – of families, partners and friendships – it is set against the ever-present clarion call of climate change  “There’s still a tendency to create in a vacuum,” they say, “to write a love song as if our province wasn’t engulfed in smoke”.   

Their previous album Trench Songs was nominated for a prestigious JUNO Award for Traditional Roots Album of the Year and they’ve spread their alluring blend of complex harmonies, captivating story-telling and top-notch musicianship across the globe, from Western Europe to North America’s West Coast, British Columbia to Britain. 

Catch them on their only East Anglian date on an extensive UK tour. 

Listen to excerpts from the new album here 

The performance ends approx. 9.30pm including an interval. 

Saturday 6th July 2024 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £20

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Soulful charismatic singing star Polly has been nominated twice as Best Jazz Vocalist by JAZZ FM and the BBC Jazz Awards. Fully embracing the expansiveness of American jazz, blues and R&B, she has an innate blues sensibility and a warm, rich vocal style.  She signed to acclaimed US label Resonance Records, with whom she’s recorded three albums in the US, though her latest release, last year’s As It Is was recorded in her home county of Suffolk.  

She has been compared to many jazz and soul greats, but her own narrative style, deep and direct emotional engagement with the music, together with her quirky humour make her a true original.  

She is joined for a special performance by the trio Jim Watson (organ), Al Cherry (guitar) and George Double (drums). 

“Polly Gibbons is unmistakably a class act, getting classier fast.” 
★★★★ The Guardian 

“Gibbons is a jazz talent whose voice is also steeped in vintage R&B with shades of Aretha Franklin.”  The Sunday Times 

The performance ends at approximately 9.45pm including an interval. 

Saturday 14th September 2024 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £20

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

‘A bouncy, bubbly stand-up star is born’ The Telegraph of Laura’s Edinburgh Festival stand-up debut five years ago – she was subsequently voted Best Performer in the Comedians’ Choice Awards at two consecutive editions of that biggest and most prestigious of comedy gatherings.  And with her shrewd sideswipes, wry observations and heartfelt honesty combined with a winning, lovable personality it’s easy to see why.  She has since gone on to appear in Live At the Apollo, Dave’s Hypothetical, Radio 4’s The Now Show and scored a viral hit with a Twitter thread imagining married life with the unlikely heartthrob Jurgen Klopp, which she later turned into a book.  This is real life in technicolour, affectionate, from the heart, irresistibly upbeat and very, very funny. 

The performance ends approx. 9.45pm (including interval).

Friday 1st November 2024 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £15 (21 and under £10)

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

The year is 1900 – the dawn of a new century. Young Jack Grimes arrives to take up his post as assistant to the keeper of the Toll Point Light, off the coast of East Anglia. 

Isaac Troop has been keeper at Toll Point for 20 years, without the need of an assistant. His self-imposed solitude is threatened by the new arrival – is he there to assist or to replace him? 

Guessing that his bosses at Trinity House have doubts about his mental fitness, he hesitates to tell Grimes about the other inhabitant of the lighthouse, as that would likely mean the end of his career.  But Isaac is not the only one disturbed by the newcomer… 

Ghost of The Toll Point Light, in the context of a good old-fashioned ghost story, also explores questions around why people seek seclusion, as a means of escape or of atonement, or as a way of finding peace or achieving enlightenment. 

A play with music in two acts.

The performance ends at approximately 9.45pm including an interval