The Queen's Hall Charges a £1 Transaction Fee on All Telephone, Online and Postal Purchases Using Our Ticketing System
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139227 QUE HAL COVER.indd 1 23/08/2016 15:47 All About Us Booking Tickets www.thequeenshall.net 0131 668 2019 Box Office Standard Opening Times 10am - 5.15pm, Monday - Saturday On concert nights we close 15 minutes after showtime. Phone lines close at 5pm, except on concert evenings when they are open until one hour before the show. Transaction Charge The Queen's Hall charges a £1 transaction fee on all telephone, online and postal purchases using our ticketing system. Booking Fees For certain performances, the ticket price is listed as being "+ booking fee". This is because the event's promoter is selling tickets through a variety of different outlets (eg Ticketmaster, Ticketweb, etc) and each of those may charge a different fee. Please note that the booking The Queen’s Hall fee is charged on each ticket on all transaction 85 - 89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9JG types (ie postal, telephone, internet, in person). www.thequeenshall.net • 0131 668 2019 We are obliged to show these charges as separate fees and apologise for any confusion that this causes. Postage Your tickets can be posted to you up to seven days in advance of the event for a cost of 80p. Starting Times For the majority of events at The Queen's Hall, the time listed in this brochure is when the artist will begin the performance. When we don't have that information (eg for touring artists with variable schedules) we will list the 'Doors Open' time instead. Please contact us or check our website on the afternoon of the concert for a confirmed schedule. 2 Autumn Winter 2016 Brochure.indd 2 16/08/2016 14:29 Hello and welcome to The Queen’s Hall Autumn/Winter Season Keeping in touch with After a brief, post-festival pause we launch The Queen’s Hall straight into a packed and diverse pro- gramme of live music. Full as our diary is, As nice as this brochure is, it isn’t there is always the possibility that we may the final word on what happens sneak in extra concerts after this brochure at The Queen’s Hall. We put new goes to press so we strongly advise you shows on sale throughout the to check our website www.thequeenshall. year so if you want to know what's net on a regular basis for any new concert happening first, join us on any of announcements. Better still we can deliver a the services below: fortnightly programme update straight into your inbox with details of any new additions to the programme. You can sign up for the email bulletin on our website. Our brochure sleeves this season are Our twice monthly email update designed by young illustrator Julia Chang, Sign up at www.thequeenshall.net currently studying at Edinburgh College of Art. Julia also designed the wall panels in our bar, which we think bring colour to the whole area and hope you like them too. I hope you find lots to excite you in the pro- I Tweet, You Tweet, They Tweet gramme and look forward to welcoming you www.twitter.com/queens_hall to the Hall in the months ahead. See you soon. Like us. We're very likeable. www.facebook.com/queenshall Adrian Harris Chief Executive 3 Autumn Winter 2016 Brochure.indd 3 16/08/2016 14:29 The Big Project DHM Concerts Big Songs: A Celebration of Song Jane Siberry Fri 2 September, 7pm Fri 16 September, 7.30pm Join us for a family-friendly, heartwarming More than thirty years after her first musical evening of uplifting songs from The BIG release, Toronto native Jane Siberry is Project Youth Choir! Sing along with hits from renowned as one of contemporary music's the likes of Katy Perry, Bruno Mars and Gary most creative, innovative artists - with eleven Barlow, and hear beautiful self-penned songs major recordings, her own independent label, from the talented children and young people and the acclaim of fans and peers alike. at The BIG Project - a youth and children’s The Edinburgh Press said she “fills the hall charity based in Edinburgh. The have sung with astonishing, spiritually-charged music” Flower Of Scotland for the London 2012 and “had the audience breathless, in simple Olympic Opening Ceremony, and performed awe”. The London Times said Siberry is live on BBC Children In Need with Gareth “Spellbinding” and Melody Maker a “Genius”. Malone! The concert will also feature songs Jane’s current album Ulysses’ Purse has written by and performed with award-winner been released to rapturous acclaim and she Karine Polwart, 2016 SAY Award Nominee will be performing tracks from this alongside Rachel Sermanni and Music Director, her classics. With special guest Carol Laula. songwriter Kim Edgar. They’ll also be joined by Love Music Community Choir, the UK’s Tickets £17.50 + £2 booking fee per ticket largest community choir. It’s going to be (+ £1 transaction fee for entire booking if really special - don’t miss it! purchased via telephone, post or online) Tickets £8 (£6 concessions ) (+ £1 Website www.janesiberry.com transaction fee for entire booking if Twitter @janesiberry purchased via telephone, post or online) 4 Autumn Winter 2016 Brochure.indd 4 16/08/2016 14:29 DF Concerts Scottish National Jazz Orchestra Richard Hawley Jazz Legacy of Solo Acoustic Charlie Mingus Thu 22 September, doors 7pm Fri 23 September, 7.30pm Richard Hawley performs music from his The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, eighth album, which meditates on ageing, directed by Tommy Smith, is joined by fallibility and relationships. Hollow Meadows master Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen returns to the sophisticated songwriting to celebrate the life and work of a truly and wistful mood of Late Night Final and extraordinary jazz musician: the visionary Lowedges. Plus support. bass player, bandleader and composer, Charles Mingus. The repertoire and Tickets £20 + £2 booking fee per ticket reputation of Mingus exemplify one man’s (+ £1 transaction fee for entire booking if forceful vision for orchestral jazz, and his purchased via telephone, post or online) powerful challenge to orthodoxy. He is vindicated by a musical legacy that remains Website www.richardhawley.co.uk relevant, inspiring and influential to this day. Twitter @RichardHawley Over 14s only | U16s accompanied by an Pre-concert talk 6.45pm (free to ticket adult holders) Tickets £22.50/£21 (£19 concessions, £5 SNJO Youth Card/U16s free with adult ) (+ £1 transaction fee for entire booking if purchased via telephone, post or online) Website www.snjo.co.uk Twitter @SNJO2 5 Autumn Winter 2016 Brochure.indd 5 16/08/2016 14:29 DHM Concerts Testimony The Shee / Sarah Why People Love The Queen’s Hall Hayes James Bay Sat 24 September, 7.30pm “Beautiful venue, beautiful The Shee are an all-female band boasting some of folk music's cutting- people” edge instrumentalists and singers in an adventurous brew of Scottish folk, Gaelic song, and bluegrass. Their new album Continuum features commissions from six of their favourite composers. James Bay April 2015 Sarah Hayes is a singer, musician and composer of dazzling versatility known as a multi-instrumentalist with Admiral Fallow but is fast developing a reputation as an artist in her own right. Full band performance tonight of her debut album Woven. Tickets £16 (£12 conc, £8 schoolchildren) + £2 booking fee per ticket (+ £1 transaction fee for entire booking if purchased via telephone, post or online) You can support The Queen’s Hall today: www.thequeenshall.net/about/support-us Websites www.theshee.com | www. sarahhayes.net 6 Autumn Winter 2016 Brochure.indd 6 16/08/2016 14:29 Zenith Media Perfect DID YOU Sun 25 September, doors 6pm KNOW? Perfect is a Polish rock band founded in 1977 by drummer Wojciech Morawski, bass guitar player Zdzisław Zawadzki and lead guitar player Zbigniew Hołdys. They are one of the all-time most popular rock bands in Poland. The band's most popular songs are: Autobiografia (Autobiography), Nie płacz Ewka (Don't Cry, Eve), Kołysanka dla nieznajomej (A Lullaby for a Stranger) and Chcemy byc soba (We Want to be Ourselves). Tickets £32 + £2 booking fee per ticket (+ £1 transaction fee for entire booking if purchased via telephone, post or online) Website www.perfect.art.pl 7 Autumn Winter 2016 Brochure.indd 7 16/08/2016 14:29 Tina May & Enrico Pieranunzi Thu 29 September, 8pm One of Europe’s finest jazz singers, Tina gigs with jazz legends Chet Baker and Lee May, and Italy’s outstanding, internationally Konitz among his experiences. Together, acclaimed pianist Enrico Pieranunzi bring they present familiar songs from the jazz their 2015 album, Home is Where the Heart and chanson canons - May is a fluent French Is, to the stage in this evening of warm, speaker - and original compositions in those intimate entertainment. Recognised for her same traditions, and with May’s natural and abilities as a musician as much as she is engaging onstage personality and witty for being a classy interpreter of lyrics and between-song chat, they transport, delight melody, Tina May is the consummate jazz and above all completely involve their performer and her partnership with Enrico audience. Pieranunzi places her with a supremely sensitive accompanist and a brilliantly creative improviser. Tickets £16 (+ £1 transaction fee for entire booking if purchased via telephone, post or May has worked with a kaleidoscope of online) talents including the great American jazz players Nat Adderley, Joe Henderson and Websites www.tinamay.com | www. Ray Bryant, French bassist extraordinaire enricopieranunzi.eu Renaud Garcia-Fons and comedian Rory Bremner and Pieranunzi, as well as winning France’s coveted Django d’Or award, counts 8 Autumn Winter 2016 Brochure.indd 8 16/08/2016 14:29 DHM Concerts Heidi Talbot DID YOU Fri 30 September, 7.30pm KNOW? That we send Heidi Talbot's new album Here We Go I, 2, twice-monthly email 3 is released on 23 September followed by an extensive national tour.