Reg Meuross

presents

12 Silk Handkerchiefs

A song cycle of folk music from Reg Meuross’s 13th album

Reg Meuross’s moving work of social and political history, inspired by Brian W Lavery’s book ‘The Headscarf Revolutionaries’, opens a window on Hull’s Hessle Road fishing community and fighting fishwife Lilian Billoca’s successful campaign for improved trawler safety in the aftermath of the 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster.

Joined on stage by Hull musicians, Mick McGarry and Sam Martyn, Reg’s powerful songs are interwoven with narration from Brian W Lavery and rare archive footage from the time the ships went down.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

‘Meuross has achieved something rare and important… and he has done so with great sincerity and emotional depths’  Folk Radio UK

‘Powerful and moving songwriting’  The Telegraph

Doors open at 7pm

Performance starts at 7.30pm

Performance ends at 9.30pm

Tickets: £12.00

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Box Office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884.

JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE

PART OF THE 2019 JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE SERIES

This performance brings together chamber music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Mozart’s concerto-like Flute Quartet in D major opens the programme, followed by Britten’s Three Divertimenti for String Quartet – three character pieces intended as ‘pleasing entertainment’. To finish is Schubert’s final chamber work, his sublime String Quintet in C, scored for standard string quartet plus cello.

Programme

Mozart            Flute Quartet in D major K285

Britten            Three Divertimenti for String Quartet

Interval

Schubert          String Quintet in C D956

Flute: Duke Dobing

Violin: Kenneth Sillito, Rebecca Scott-Smissen

Viola: Robert Smissen

Cello: Stephen Orton, Michael Hurwitz

A further concert in this series takes place on 28 November 2019

Doors open at 6.30pm

Performance starts at 7pm

Tickets: £15 for each concert

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

The Big Aldeburgh Draw

Free Event

Join us for our Big Draw event on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 September 2019 – a chance to demonstrate your artistic skills and to contribute to a lasting legacy for Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall.

WHAT DOES ALDEBURGH MEAN TO YOU?

We are inviting young and old, families and individuals, professionals and amateurs, groups and societies to join us in creating a collaborative piece of artwork for the hall. Come and design your very own tile, which will form part of a giant montage of work, to be displayed at the hall in the future, and for years to come.

Absolutely no drawing experience required. All materials will be provided free of charge. Just come – draw, explore, get out and about, and share the creative you.

As well as tiles to decorate, we will provide all materials to doodle, sketch, draw and create. Professional artists will be on hand to guide and inspire.

This is YOUR event.

Come and get involved with a community legacy project.

On Friday 27 September we are delighted to be part of the Macmillan Cancer Support World’s Biggest Coffee Morning from 10am to 12 noon. So while you are drawing, enjoy coffee and cake.

All clubs, societies, businesses, organisations and individuals are warmly invited to paint a tile for the montage, to become a lasting legacy for the Town. Please join us between 10am and 4pm on Friday or Saturday 27 and 28 September to take part.

For more information about the event, call Claire, Hall Manager, on 07377 092828

or e-mail manager@aldeburghjubileehall.co.uk

ALISTAIR MCGOWAN – The Piano Show

A unique mix of classic comedy and classical music

In the wake of his Sony album, which reached No 1 in the UK Classical Album charts, comes Alistair McGowan’s new show, combining his talents as master impressionist and comedian with his new-found talent as a classical pianist.

Join Alistair as he talks and plays his way through snatches of classical gems from Philip Glass to Chopin, from Grieg to Debussy to Bill Evans – expect a lot of beautiful music (with the odd mistake) and more than a sprinkling of his trademark impressions.

“Alistair McGowan’s impressions are faultless” – The Sunday Times

“He plays piano splendidly” – The Observer

“Alistair plays an impressive range of pieces with enviable touch and feeling” – Charles Owen, pianist

“Two shows for the price of one: laugh-out-loud comedy and some surprisingly sensitive piano playing” – James Lisney, pianist

“Inspired and inspiring!” – Anthony Hewitt, pianist

Doors open at 7pm

Performance starts at 7.30pm

Tickets: £20

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

GEORGE EGG: Movable Feast

Brand new comedy from the stand-up who cooks on stage. In this show he’s on the road. It’s time for Planes, Trains and Automob-meals (sorry).

George demonstrates how to cook with an engine, procure items from the train buffet trolley and turn unexpected road-works into a picnic. Three plates of gourmet food cooked live in the most unconventional ways and with the opportunity to taste the results at the end, provided you can stop laughing.

“Brilliantly funny” (Jay Rayner – Guardian)

“Trust us, you won’t believe how good the food tastes” (Scotsman)

Doors open from 7pm

Performance starts at 8pm

Tickets: £14

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884.

THE JIM MULLEN ORGAN TRIO

Glasgow born Jim Mullen has his own distinctive playing style, similar to Wes Montgomery before him. He played with the Average White Band for several years before joining up with Dick Morrissey in the 1980s, finding considerable critical acclaim as joint leader of the pioneering British jazz funk band Morrissey-Mullen. Jim has won the ‘best guitar’ section in the British Jazz Awards many times, and is without doubt one of the finest jazz guitarists in the world today.

Completing the band are organist Jim Watson, who has worked with Sting, Guy Barker, the BBC Big Band and Katie Melua amongst others and George Double on drums, former sideman to Dame Shirley Bassey and Grammy Award Winner Jack Jones. Performing a set of standards and originals, you can expect a hard swinging evening of melodic, blues influenced, classic jazz.

“Mullen’s mix of funkily hard-struck notes and soft-toned fluency is always hypnotic” – The Guardian

Friday 11 October 2019 at 7.30pm

Doors open 6.30pm

Tickets £16

Seating at tables on the flat

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Booking Office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884.

PROMETHEUS ORCHESTRA, CONDUCTED by EDMOND FIVET, with JOHN JERMY, TRUMPET

MOZART : EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK
HUMMEL : TRUMPET CONCERTO

ALWYN : TRAGIC INTERLUDE
MOZART : SYMPHONY NO. 40

Two of Mozart’s super-famous compositions will bring sparkle to the autumn evening as the Orchestra returns to its home town and the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall once again.

Both Eine Kleine and the G minor symphony have become universally loved by fans of all types of music and their familiarity is justified by their greatness and is testimony to Mozart’s unfathomable genius. They are Mozart in many different moods but although strictly in the style of the time they transcend their form and take our emotions effortlessly on entrancing musical journeys.

Hummel was Mozart’s pupil and honorary family member for 2 years, Mozart taking in the 8-year-old prodigy to study and live with him and his family.  His trumpet concerto is imbued with the two great influences of Hummel’s musical life: Mozart and the Theatre.

Suffolk composer William Alwyn composed the Tragic Interlude in 1936 on the threshold of terrible conflict and Prometheus Orchestra plays it to mark the 80 years since World War II began.

Doors open at 7pm

Performance starts at 7.30pm

Tickets: Full price £20, under 18 £8

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

COMMON GROUND THEATRE COMPANY

present

A SIDECAR NAMED DESPAIR

A farce by Pat Whymark and Julian Harries

Take a ride up the comedy freeway with a tale of mobsters, missing gems and a mashed-up motorbike.

Dick’s quiet suburban life is shattered when his brother Julian returns suddenly from The States, for “health” reasons. But his shady American “associates” have unfinished business with him, putting both their health at risk. Their Dad’s old bike and sidecar, which Dick has been “doing up”, might come in handy as their getaway vehicle.

A black comedy with original music by Pat Whymark and Julian Harries and starring Julian and Dick Mainwaring – reprising the characters they created for Common Ground’s 2013 comedy, Stuff In The Attic (“Pat Whymark’s latest play is very funny indeed” East Anglian Daily Times, “Good music and plenty of well-judged comic touches” In Suffolk, “Moments of pure farce alternate with real conflict” What’s on Stage). Expect “The Odd Couple” versus the Mob.

Common Ground have since 2008 been bringing their distinctive brand of music theatre – with strong narrative, strong emotion and just a touch of the surreal – to venues across East Anglia.

Doors open from 7pm

Performance starts at 7.30pm

Performance ends at 9.30pm

Tickets: £12 full price  21 and under, and unwaged £7 (evidence may be required)

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

Keith James – The Music of Yusuf-Cat Stevens

The amassed body of music from this hugely popular and sincerely adored singer/songwriter made for a collection of ‘must have’ records across a whole generation. Tea for the Tillerman and Teaser and the Firecat were on everyone’s turntables and on every radio station. Live versions are played in concerts, bars and on the world’s beaches to this day. Songs such as Wild World, Father and Son, Moonshadow and Where Do the Children Play? have been covered by hundreds of artists worldwide.

Keith James, is a well-respected and inventive guitarist singer/songwriter who specialises in performing intimate, carefully researched biographic style concerts. He weaves the story of Cat Stevens’s life from his early pop career, life threatening illness and spiritual journey around a performance of his well- crafted and memorable songs.

This concert will give you far more than just the music itself…

There is a huge amount of insight into the history and the spirit of Cat Stevens; his early pop career, the illness that changed him existentially and spiritually into an incredibly thoughtful and loving singer/songwriter such that his songs are remembered instantly for their uplifting sense of truth, promise and human fragility. 

Much to talk about the background and embryo of each song…… some of which will be performed as all of us remember……

and some, carefully and intuitively re-voiced, respectfully re-interpreted with rich, balanced guitar arrangements and a more personal vocal approach.

Yusuf campaigns on many educational and humanitarian issues. He was awarded the ‘Man of Peace’ award by the Nobel Peace Laureates in 2015 and he received the Lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio 2 and the Ivor Novello Award for outstanding song collection. He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace from two organisations founded by Mikhail Gorbachev. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

‘Some of the most atmospheric and emotive music you will ever hear’ The Independent

‘Keith James has become a pillar of trust. A sublimely intimate and engaging voice’ Sunday Times

‘Certainly the UK’s most celebrated and evocative interpreter of golden music’ The Guardian

‘A sensitive and pleasingly understated delivery, that the songs might all the better speak for themselves’ Acoustic Magazine

Friday 1 November 2019 at 7.30pm

Doors open 7pm

Tickets £15

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Booking Office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

Pearls from the Grit

In the early 1900s Lowestoft’s fishing village – known as The Grit – was home to 2,300 people, schools, churches, shops and 13 pubs. Why did it completely disappear and what made the fishing community so special? Mixing stories and poems, film and song, Suffolk writer Dean Parkin and a professional cast bring everything back to life.

Board up all the windows, empty all the houses
dig up all the roads, scatter all the people
turn the place to rubble, but like the sun, we’ll rise…

Meet no-nonsense fisherman, Ned; Billy, a larger-than-life skipper during the fishing boom; and Ruby (Billy’s daughter), one of the tireless taskforce of women keeping everything afloat.

Following an acclaimed pilot tour last autumn, don’t miss this wonderfully evocative and newly-extended show.

Funny, sad and thought-provoking in equal measure.  East Anglian Daily Times

Powerful, thoughtful and elegantly assembled.  Libby Purves, writer and broadcaster

I laughed, I cried, I sang!  Audience member

A wonderful blend of talents, research, ingenuity, nostalgia and fun! Audience member

Presented by Poetry People

Writer/narrator: Dean ParkinComposer/pianist: Maurice Horhut
Cast: Sally-Ann Burnett, Tim FitzHigham, David Redgrave
Producer: Naomi Jaffa
Director: Alys Kihl

Doors open at 7pm

Performance starts at 7.30pm

Tickets:  Full price £12, concessions (U16, unwaged, disabled plus carer)

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE

PART OF THE 2019 JUBILEE HALL ENSEMBLE SERIES

Mainly French

The final performance of the Series, this programme explores chamber music by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Debussy and Roussel.

The last of Mozart’s three flute quartets, written in C major, is coupled with Saint-Saëns’ single-movement Fantaisie for violin and harp, a virtuoso piece for both players in the first half. After the interval, Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola and harp, written as part of a set of chamber works for ‘diverse ensembles’ is followed by Roussel’s ‘mini symphony’, his Sérénade for flute, violin, viola, cello and harp.

Flute: Duke Dobing

Violin: Kenneth Sillito

Viola: Robert Smissen

Cello: Michael Hurwitz

Harp: Miriam Keogh

A further concert in this series takes place on 26 September 2019

Doors open at 6.30pm

Performance starts at 7pm

Tickets: £15 for each concert

Available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall box office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884

COMMON GROUND THEATRE COMPANY

present

SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE WARLOCK OF WHITECHAPEL

by

Pat Whymark & Julian Harries

Wednesday 1st, Thursday 2nd January – 4pm and 7.30pm

Friday 3rd January – 4pm

 “A glorious piece of Christmas fun” (Andrew Clark, EADT review of Justin & The Argonauts)

“Who’d be interested in this old relic, Holmes?” murmured Watson, one morning at the breakfast table of 221b Baker Street. “Nonsense, Watson. A splash of cologne and a trim of your moustache, and I’m sure someone would have you”. “Be serious, Holmes. Look here – in the Morning Post!”

Thus began the case that Dr Watson dared not share with the public, till now. A case that, were its full facts to be known, would shake the nation to its very core, and beyond.

Ancient artefacts are disappearing from museums and private collections all over Europe, a pre-Christian effigy one day, a shamanic totem the next, a pagan fetish at the weekend. Either someone’s on their own personal antiques road trip, or they’re trying to summon dark forces and gain mystical powers. But to what end…and why?

The ensuing adventure takes Holmes and Watson from the wharfs and alleys of East London, to the icy wastes of the north and the hidden temples of the east (changing at Peterborough), as they pursue “The Warlock of Whitechapel”.

Julian Harries and Dick Mainwaring once again don the deerstalker, plus fours and travelling capes of Holmes and Watson, and are joined by Common Ground regulars Joe Leat & Emily Bennett in this classic Xmas comedy thriller.

Ticket Prices – full: £13   21 and under, and unwaged: £7 (evidence may be required)

Running time 2 hours (incl. interval)

Doors open half an hour before the performance

Suitable for ages 8+

Tickets available from the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Box Office HERE

or in person from Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High Street, Aldeburgh (Monday to Saturday 10am – 1.15pm) or by telephone on 01728 454884