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SPARKLING ARTS EVENTS IN THE HEART OF SHOREHAM JAN – MAY 2015 JEREMY HARDY SOWETO KINCH THE LAMBRETTAS KING CREOSOTE SOUTH COAST JAZZ FESTIVAL EDDI READER OYSTERBAND THE BLOCKHEADS THE YARDBIRDS ROPETACKLECENTRE.CO.UK JAN 2015 ropetacklecentre.co.uk BOX OFFICE: 01273 464440 JAN 2015 WELCOME TO From January 2015 our café will re-opening as the Ropetackle Café, serving teas, coffees, soft drinks, and a wonderful menu of freshly made paninis, sandwiches, soups, pizzas and scrumptious cakes. The café will open from 10am – 4.30pm, daily from From music, comedy, theatre, talks, family events, exhibitions, and much Monday to Saturday – our large, light and airy foyer more, we’ve something for everybody to enjoy this spring. We’re also is the perfect place to enjoy a relaxing coffee, or excited to be re-launching our Ropetackle Café which will be serving meals meet with friends for a light lunch. before events on Thursday to Saturday. As a charitable trust staffed almost We are also expanding our pre-show dining entirely by volunteers, nothing comes close to the friendly atmosphere, experience and from January 2015 we are delighted intimate performance space, and first-class programming that has to be working with Lesley’s Kitchen to offer established Ropetackle as one of the South Coast’s most prominent and delicious pre-show suppers before our events celebrated arts venues. We believe engagement with the arts is of vital taking place on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. importance to the wellbeing of both individuals and the community, and Lesley Ward, who runs Lesley’s Kitchen, has lived with such an exciting and eclectic programme ahead of us, we’ll let the in Shoreham for over 30 years and has lots of events speak for themselves. See you at the bar! experience in catering for local businesses and community events including five years running the Beach Dreams Café. She believes in quality locally BOX OFFICE: 01273 464440 sourced ingredients and regular, good, home cooked food. ROPETACKLECENTRE.CO.UK Our pre-show supper menu will include meat and vegetarian options including lasagne, chilli, and fish pie, all served with either salad or vegetables, plus a range of desserts including trifles, meringues, brownies and more! Main meals cost just £7, desserts £3, or the 2-course meal for £9.50. No booking necessary, food will be served from 6pm. With support from Programme design by Door 22 Creative www.door22.co.uk @ropetackleart Ropetackle Arts Centre Opera Rock Folk Family Blues Spoken Word Jazz 2 JAN 2015 ropetacklecentre.co.uk BOX OFFICE: 01273 464440 JAN 2015 Ropetackle Film Club Presents: City Books Present: DJANGO UNCHAINED MEET THE AUTHOR: 2012 American Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and TESS GERRITSEN starring Jamie Foxx, Christolph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Samuel L International bestselling crime author Tess Jackson. A highly stylized version of the spaghetti Western taking place in Gerritsen launches her eagerly anticipated new America’s pre-Civil War in the South. Tarantino’s highest grossing theatrical heart-pounding Rizzoli & Isles thriller. release to date. Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Open to Film Club members and guests only. Duration 165 mins. Certificate 18. Maura Isles are back – and they’re going into the Thursday 8th January | 7.30pm | Members Only wild to find a killer. Join bestselling author Tess Gerritsen as she launches her new book Die Again at Ropetackle. SOUTH DOWNS MAGICIANS Gerritsen, who is also a physician, brings to her They’re back! Following their sell-out show in January 2014 the South Downs novels first-hand knowledge of emergency and Magicians return with another evening of stunning magic and amazing autopsy rooms. Her thrillers starring homicide surprises. Fun for all the family, expect a jam packed show filled with detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner wonder, comedy, and amazing magical feats. Before the performance and Maura Isles inspired the hit TV series Rizzoli & during the interval the magicians will also be performing close-up magic Isles which averages 6.5 million viewers every right before your very eyes, so make sure you arrive early! week in the US and was launched in the UK by Saturday 10th January | 7.30pm | £6 Alibi TV. Her books have sold over 40 million copies worldwide and her last thriller Last To Die was a top 10 Sunday Times bestseller in the UK. WANT TO SAVE MONEY, SUPPORT THE CENTRE, This fascinating ‘Meet The Author’ event will feature AND STAY IN TOUCH WITH ROPETACKLE? a reading, talk, Q&A session, plus the chance to purchase signed first edition copies of Die Again at Why not become one of our lovely Friends for just discount. £15 a year individual or £25 joint! As well as giving some much needed financial support to Ropetackle, Monday 12th January | 7pm | £8 JOIN UP! a registered charity, by joining as a Friend receive TODAY numerous benefits. See page 62 for more details. 3 Music Film Magic Comedy World Music Theatre Opera Rock Folk Family Blues Spoken Word Jazz 4 JAN 2015 ropetacklecentre.co.uk BOX OFFICE: 01273 464440 JAN 2015 SHADY GROVE MARK THOMAS: BRAVO FIGARO! Shady Grove was formed by local Shoreham Touching but brilliantly funny ~ The Times musician Steve Bell in 2011. The present line-up Mark Thomas is doing just six performances in the UK before he takes his consists of Debs Stacey (percussion, vocals), much acclaimed five star award-winning show Bravo Figaro to Australia and Oliver Clarke (bass), Matt Szul (guitar, vocals), New Zealand in early 2015. Re-visiting his 2012 hit show which won a ‘Fringe Mervyn Wallis (fiddle, vocals), and Steve Bell First’ and ‘Herald Angel’ when it first appeared, Bravo Figaro! is the true (guitar, banjo, vocals). Since their inception, Shady Grove’s popularity has tale of a self-employed builder’s love of opera, his battle with degenerative steadily grown, in no small part due to their ability to weave in and out of illness, and how to put opera on in a bungalow in Bournemouth. It sees genres whilst retaining a strong sense of togetherness, expertise, and comedian and writer Mark Thomas bring to the stage a poignant and improvisation. Songwriters Steve and Matt draw inspiration from many personal tale about his relationship with his father, sources, and whilst each has their own style, their songs often carry a strong which plunders the operatic themes of family, love, narrative. Steve likes his songs to tell a story and provoke thoughts/dreams death, and art. Thomas’s father was a self-employed along the lines of Dylan, Rab Noakes, and Dougie Mclean. Matt likes to toy builder with a passion for Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, and with wordplay, double meaning, and irony within his lyrics. The band fuses Mozart. But when he is diagnosed with progressive elemtns of country, blues, swing and folk. A band well worth seeing live, supra-nuclear palsy, his life begins to crumble. As his incredibly good fun. They will be joined by very special guest Laura Ward. father’s illness progresses, Thomas stages a concert Friday 16th January | 8pm | £8 to try to connect with him through music. BARNSTORMERS COMEDY CLUB Wednesday 21st January | 8pm | £14 Three top comics and a barrel of laughs! Matinee Film Screening: Saturday night out at Ropetackle with three top comics from the UK comedy circuit and beyond. Every month Barnstormers Comedy Club promises, and ONE CHANCE delivers, a great laugh-out-loud night out. Unbeatable sell-out Saturday night ‘Thoroughly agreeable... an unapologetic crowd pleaser’ entertainment cabaret style and the perfect way to get together with your The incredible true story of Paul Potts. 2013 British biographical film about mates. Each month our compère introduces three top acts from the comedy ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ winner Paul Potts. Starring James Cordon and Julie circuit. A barnstorming night out! Walters, and directed by Davis Frankel. Over 18s only. Please remember, seats at the front must be filled! Duration 103 mins. Certificate 12a. Saturday 17th January | 8.30pm | £12.50 Advance, £14 On The Door Thursday 22nd January | 2pm | £3.50 5 Music Film Magic Comedy World Music Theatre Opera Rock Folk Family Blues Spoken Word Jazz 6 JAN 2015 ropetacklecentre.co.uk BOX OFFICE: 01273 464440 JAN 2015 JAZZ VOCAL SUMMIT Featuring Liane Carroll, Ian Shaw and Joe Stilgoe LIANE CARROLL is a living legend of the British Jazz scene with her powerful, addictive voice having moved audiences from Hastings to Hawaii. Her stunning recording output has seen her receive universal recognition including Best Jazz Vocalist and Best Album at the BBC Jazz Awards. She is a phenomenal talent on piano and her shows are renowned for their variety of raucous wit and deeply poignant interpretations of iconic and original ballads. We are thrilled to have her at our first South Coast Jazz Festival! IAN SHAW Sings Joni Mitchell: multi-award winning jazz singer and 23rd - 25th January 2015 pianist, Shaw, has been a life-long fan of the legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Joni Mitchell. This solo show, adapted to just Shaw’s voice at the piano, explores her works, from her earliest youthful confessionals through her angsty travel songs to her more recent depictions of religions and the environment. ‘Shaw captures the poetry in Joni’s songs with an THE SOUTH COAST JAZZ FESTIVAL 2015 eye-watering vocal range and bucketloads of soul’ BBC Website. JOE STILGOE is a singer, pianist and songwriter, constantly touring the Vocalist Claire Martin OBE and saxophonist Julian Nicholas have world with his band and as a solo act, having appeared at venues including joined forces and combined their love of the South Coast and their the Royal Festival Hall, The Barbican, and in jazz clubs from New York to professional jazz profiles to curate a brand new jazz festival to be Berlin to Kuala Lumpur.