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FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH 11am-2pm / The Apex Gallery is open daily and holds a wide range of Free (No booking is required, simply turn up) exhibitions by both emerging and established artists. Most Weekends were made for relaxing! works are for sale (unless otherwise stated). Bring your family along to ‘Sunday Brunch’ in the Apex MY BLUE HEART Lounge; your children can join in WED 2ND – SUN 27TH SEPT with fun games and activities while Supporting CLIC Sargent. you unwind with delicious food, the Launch evening: Sun 6th Sept 6pm-8pm WELCOME weekend papers and live acoustic Exhibition & workshops interpreting love & loss. entertainment. Although Bellowhead’s gig sold out on the same morning COUNTY UPPER SCHOOL EXHIBITION it went on sale, there are still plenty of delights on offer TUE 29TH SEPT – SUN 11TH OCT this autumn, including a whole array of other folk gigs. FAIRS & MARKETS These include two winners of 2015 BBC Folk Awards; THE BIG DRAW Bellowhead member Sam Sweeney (Folk Musician of THE APEX WEDDING FAIR TUE 13TH OCT – SUN 1ST NOV the Year) and Nancy Kerr (Folk Singer of the Year), along SUN 20TH SEPT 11am-3pm / Free Showcase: Thu 29th Oct 6-8pm with folky-favourites Seth Lakeman and Cara Dillon. Take My Hand present Bury’s biggest wedding fair, with 60+ Exhibition & workshops. stands. FINE ART PRINTS In what is our busiest season to date, you will find the usual STUDENT SHOPPING FEST TUE 3RD NOV – SUN 3RD JAN tantalising mix of classical music, jazz, world music, pop & THU 24TH SEPT 4pm-7pm rock, folk, children’s events, comedy and speakers. Come Launch evening: Thu 5th Nov 6-8pm Arc shopping offers, plus DJs & entertainment in The Apex and join us and find out what makes the Apex so special! Exhibition & workshops by Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop. CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR GOOD CAUSES STALL THE APEX CAFÉ THU 8TH OCT – FRI 18TH DEC / Mon-Sat 10am-4pm GREEN FAIR OTHER EVENTS The Apex foyer café is open for delicious drinks, cakes and SAT 14TH NOV 10am-4pm / Free snacks from Monday – Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm and on Sustainable living stalls, demonstrations & live music. CHESS CLUB Sunday 10.30am-4pm. The ethically focused café serves triple- EVERY TUESDAY 3.30pm-5.30pm / Free BURY ST EDMUNDS CHRISTMAS FAYRE certified Fairtrade and organic coffee. You can sit at a table in Bury St Edmunds Chess Club, THU 26TH – SUN 29TH NOV the foyer, or out in Charter Square if the weather is pleasant, or everyone welcome, sets available. you can head upstairs to the beautiful Lounge and Art Gallery. MARCH HARE CRAFT & GIFT FAIR STRICTLY SATURDAYS SAT 5TH DEC 10am-5pm / Free SAT 5TH SEPT & 10TH OCT & SUN 1ST NOV PRE-CONCERT DINING CRAFT & GIFT FAIRS 2.30–4.30pm / Free SATURDAYS: 12TH & 19TH SEPT; 3RD, 17TH & 31ST OCT; 7TH, Ballroom and Latin dancing. Available from just £6! For more information, or to make a 14TH & 21ST NOV 10am-4.30pm / Free reservation, call 01284 758110 (lines open Mon-Sat HARMONICA WORKSHOP WITH STEVE LOCKWOOD 10am-4.30pm) or see www.theapex.co.uk/foodanddrink SAT 12TH SEPT, 10TH OCT & 14TH NOV 12pm-3.30pm / £30

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• MARTY WILDE: BORN TO ROCK N ROLL / TUE 1ST DEC 7.30pm EXERCISE & WELL-BEING • ADMISSION ONE SHILLING WITH PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE & PIERS LANE / THU 3RD DEC 7.30pm INTRODUCTION TO YOGA • ABBA PARTY NIGHT / SUN 6TH DEC 7.30pm TUESDAYS 5.45pm-7pm & WEDNESDAYS 1pm-1.45pm • STEELEYE SPAN / TUE 8TH DEC 8pm Postures (asanas), breathing & meditation techniques. • SOUL LEGENDS / THU 10TH DEC 8pm PILATES CLASS • TUESDAYS 7pm-8pm Mat-based class which aims to develop core muscles • LET’S HANG ON: THE MUSIC OF FRANKIE VALLI & strength, flexibility & posture. THE FOUR SEASONS / SAT 12TH DEC 7.30pm • ROY WOOD’S ROCK & ROLL CHRISTMAS PARTY Dates may change, please see www.theapex.co.uk or ring MON 14TH DEC 7.30pm 01284 758000 for up-to-date information. • THE LOCRIAN ENSEMBLE: CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT TUE 15TH DEC, 7.30PM • JAZZ AT THE MOVIES: A SWINGING CHRISTMAS WED 16TH DEC 8pm • LET’S TWIST AGAIN STARRING CHRIS MADIN THU 17TH DEC 7.30pm SAT 12TH – SUN 20TH SEPTEMBER • ORCHESTRAL CAROLS BY WEST ROAD CHURCH The Festival of Sport takes place throughout the town and SUN 20TH DEC 6pm aims to introduce people of all ages & abilities to sports • THE SNOW QUEEN / MON 21ST DEC 11.30am & 3pm & exercises that they may never have tried before, and to SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2015 • AN ALBION CHRISTMAS / WED 23RD DEC 8pm encourage participation through taster sessions and events by local clubs. • JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT TUE 29TH DEC 7.45pm; WED 30TH DEC 7.45pm; Events at The Apex include: THU 31ST DEC 4pm; SAT 2ND JAN 2.30pm & 7.45pm JOHN INVERDALE SPORTING DINNER MON 14TH SEPT – see events diary overleaf. ABOUT THE APEX WHAT’S FREE TASTER CLASSES FOR CHILDREN: Tiddlywinks Baby Yoga, Saraha Yoga’s Childrens Yoga, Tumble The Apex is situated in the heart of Bury St Edmunds, close Tots, Suzanne Hume Schools of Dance’s Bebe Ballet, Primary to the train & bus stations and numerous car parks. The box Poppets Ballet & Modern Dance. office is open Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm & an hour before events, 24-hour booking is available on the website. Concession FREE TASTER CLASSES FOR ADULTS: categories change according to event. See website for terms ON Introduction to Yoga with Carole Baker, Pilates with Joyce, & conditions. Event information is subject to change. For BOOK TICKETS AT Positive Steps for Healthy Aging from Age UK Suffolk & Sarah map & directions see website. Closest parking at arc/Cattle THEAPEX.CO.UK Jeffreys-Emrys’ Belly Dancing. Market car park, for Sat Nav use IP33 3DG. 01284 758000 More classes to come! Places are limited, so booking is advised to secure your place. The Apex, 1 Charter Square Please contact The Apex Box Office. Bury St Edmunds IP33 3FD SEPTEMBER – facebook.com/theapexofficial

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LAZFEST LEE MEAD BOOGIE NIGHT 4 FAUSTUS RALPH McTELL CARA DILLON SUN 30TH AUG SAT 19TH SEPT 7.30pm / £25 SAT 3RD OCT 7.45pm / £25.50 MON 19TH OCT 8pm / £14 FRI 30TH OCT 7.30pm / £22 WED 11TH NOV 7.30pm / midday-midnight / The West End star takes you Smooth Soul, Motown & uptown Saul Rose (Waterson:Carthy, Ralph’s beautifully crafted £20 (£18 conc) £12.50 adv (£15 door) back to the 1940s & 50s, for Funk from original Drifters Whapweazel, War Horse), narrative songs include the Ivor All-dayer of live blues, rock & fabulous musical theatre and member Roy G Hemmings & his Benji Kirkpatrick (Seth Novello award winning Streets heavy metal in aid of Cancer magical MGM film numbers. 12-piece cast. Lakeman Band, Bellowhead) Of London. Research UK, headlined by Hi- ______& Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, ______On Maiden – the UK’s best Iron Belshazzar’s Feast). Maiden tribute band. JASPER CARROTT’S LEO SAYER ______AUTUMN CONCERT ______STAND UP & ROCK SUN 4TH OCT 7.30pm / £25 FOR EACH MON 21ST SEPT 7.30pm / HAYSEED DIXIE SAT 31ST OCT 7.30pm / BACK TO BROADWAY TUE 20TH OCT 8pm / £17.50 £27.50 £12 (£8 conc) Captivating performer of SUN 6TH SEPT 7.30pm / Hilarious hillbilly deliverances Bury St Edmunds Concert Band, traditional songs & original £18 (£16 conc) of rock classics. Wattisham Military Wives choir & The all-singing, all-dancing ______compositions. Elmswell Primary School choir. ______musical theatre show. ______JEREMY HARDY WED 21ST OCT 8pm / GRAHAM KENDRICK HUGH CORNWELL THU 12TH NOV 7.30pm / £15, £12 SAM SWEENEY’S £14 (£5 unwaged) SUN 1ST NOV 8pm / An evening with one of the FIDDLE £20 adv (£22 door) world’s best-known Christian TUE 8TH SEPT 8pm / Hits include Thunder In My singer/songwriters. £17 (£15 conc) Heart, Moonlighting, When I ______Bellowhead’s Sam Sweeney Need You and You Make Me uses music, storytelling & film Feel Like Dancing. ONE NIGHT OF ELVIS to tell the true story of a violin Enjoy Jasper’s inimitable stand- ______FRI 13TH NOV 7.30pm / £21.50 left behind by a WW1 soldier. up routine, before rockin out Lee Memphis King is Europe’s ______with Bev Bevan (The Move, ELO) BRODSKY QUARTET most successful Elvis Presley and his band. MON 5TH OCT 7.30pm / tribute artist. THE DRIFTERS ______£18, £15, £5 U25s ‘In an ideal world, Jeremy Hardy ______WED 9TH SEPT 7.30pm / Works from Borodin, Beethoven would be extremely famous, £26 (£25 conc) GEORGIA MANCIO & Having enjoyed massive & Shostakovich. ‘The Brodskys’ but an ideal world would leave SÖNDÖRGÖ With Under The Boardwalk, success as guitarist, singer SUN 15TH NOV 7.30pm / ALAN BROADBENT achingly beautiful performance him without most of his best Saturday Night At The Movies, TUE 22ND SEPT 7.30pm / £15 reached deep into the heart…’ – and main songwriter in The £12.50 (£5 U25s) material’ – THE GUARDIAN Stranglers, Hugh’s songwriting Up On The Roof and Kissin In Two-time Grammy award- THE GUARDIAN ______Söndörgö (say: shoen-doer- The Back Row, alongside newer winning jazz pianist/composer ______talents come to the fore in his goe) bring vigorous virtuosity songs. Alan Broadbent & stellar KING KING solo shows. to fresh interpretations of ______vocalist/lyricist Georgia Mancio. THE IRISH THU 22ND OCT 7.30pm / Hungarian folk music, with PICCADILLY DANCE ______HOUSE PARTY £16 adv (£18 door) ANDY HAMILTON delicate patterns of intertwining SAT 10TH OCT 7.30pm / British Blues Awards include MON 2ND NOV 8pm / £20.50 strings & dazzling displays of ORCHESTRA RURA £20.50 (£19 conc) Best Band (2012, 2013, 2014), fingerwork. SAT 12TH SEPT 7.30pm / £20 WED 23RD SEPT 8pm / £15 Traditional musical plus Best Album, Male Vocal, ______With special guest Anita Harris. Powerhouse mix of Highland entertainment featuring All Bass Player & Drummer of 2014! Great songs & swing numbers: pipes, fiddle, bodhran, guitar, Ireland Champion musicians & ______BELLOWHEAD MON 16TH NOV 8pm / SOLD OUT! In The Mood, Chattanooga Choo- whistle, flute & voice. dancers. Choo, We’ll Meet Again, etc. ______THE REAL THING ______FRI 23RD OCT 8pm / £21 ULTIMATE EAGLES RAY QUINN Includes all their million selling JOSH WIDDICOMBE FAT CAT COMEDY CLUB FRI 25TH SEPT 7.30pm / TUE 13TH OCT 7.30pm / TUE 17TH NOV 8pm / SOLD OUT! hits; You to Me Are Everything, ______SUN 13TH SEPT, 11TH OCT, £22 (£20 conc) £19.50 (£17.50 conc) Can’t Get By Without You & Can Panel regular on The News Quiz, 8TH NOV & 13TH DEC 8pm / £12 Timeless classics such as Hotel Star of X Factor & Dancing on You Feel the Force? NANCY KERR For line-up, see California & Take It Easy. Have I Got News For You & QI. Ice, Ray’s jazzy, soul funk sound ______THU 19TH NOV 7.30pm / £12 www.fatcatcomedyclub.com ______focuses on his incredible vocal BBC Folk Singer of the Year ______talents. HANSEL & GRETEL GOODMAN–MILLER 2015 with THE SWEET VISITOR SONGBOOK SUNDAYS ______MON 26TH OCT 2pm / JOHN INVERDALE SUN 27TH SEPT 11.30am / TRIBUTE ORCHESTRA BAND. £12 (£10 conc) £40 family ______SPORTING DINNER £9.50 adv (£11.50 door) THE SEARCHERS Fun-filled feast of magic, TUE 3RD NOV 7.30pm / MON 14TH SEPT 7pm / £45 WED 14TH OCT 7.30pm / £22 comedy & dragons for ages 3+. £20 (£5 U25s) SUFFOLK SINFONIA Sweets For My Sweet; Needles Warning - may contain witches A night of great swing numbers SAT 21ST NOV 7.30pm / and Pins; Sugar and Spice and & maybe a custard pie or two! led by Pete Long. In The Mood, £12 (£10, £4 conc) many more. ______T’Aint What You Do, Little Brown Schubert’s 4th symphony. ______Jug & many more. Tragic, but not unfinished. HUBBUB ______DUKE SPECIAL TUE 27TH OCT 10am & 11.30am / THU 15TH OCT 8pm / £15 £7.50 adult (£5.50 child) EDDI READER SONGBOOK SUNDAYS A magical, musical adventure WED 4TH NOV 7.30pm / £22.50 SUN 22 NOV 11.30am / for ages 4+, with live music by The ex-Fairground Attraction £9.50 adv (£11.50 door) singer brings joyous life to all Three-course dinner with Aurora Orchestra. ______forms of song. speaker John Inverdale, With the CHRIS INGHAM TRIO ______presenter of major sporting & JULIET KELLY: The Divas of TOM ROBINSON events, including the Olympics, Jazz. TUE 27TH OCT 7.30pm / £20 JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Wimbledon & the Rugby ______Tom currently presents three THU 5TH NOV 7.30pm / World Cup. Sponsored by £18 (£16 conc) NAMVULA shows a week on BBC 6 Music St Edmundsbury Financial and has recently returned to the In this illustrated talk, Jonathan Services and in aid of Sports Aid. MON 28TH SEPT 7.30pm / With a sound that is self- tells the epic story of The Battle With the CHRIS INGHAM TRIO £12.50 (£5 U25s) recording studio. ______confessed ‘hobo-chic’. Duke ______of the Atlantic. & GEORGINA JACKSON: The Namvula draws on her Zambian Special is musically ambitious ______Swing Selection. THE SIMON & & Scottish heritage to produce & bracingly eccentric, with SETH LAKEMAN ______GARFUNKEL STORY an intoxicating & unique blend FESTIVAL OF inimitable style and lush WED 28TH OCT 8pm / £20, £18 THE BACHELORS WED 16TH SEPT 7.30pm / of uplifting global sounds. Steering English folk into the REMEMBRANCE musicality. SUN 22ND NOV 2.15pm / £16.50 £18.50 (£16.50 conc) She has shared the stage ______mainstream with high-energy FRI 6TH NOV 7.30pm / £10 An afternoon of memories, sing- 50th Anniversary Celebration with legendary South African performances & best-selling Entertainment & reflection in featuring original film footage, STEVE EARLE & a-longs & a hint of Irish blarney! trumpeter Hugh Masekela & albums. aid of The Royal British Legion ______full live band & all the hits. sitar player Anoushka Shankar. TWO TRIBES ______Poppy Appeal. ______SAT 17 OCT ______CHAS & DAVE American country & folk singer- UNFORGETTABLE SUN 22ND NOV 7.30pm / £31 MIDGE URE & MORRIS ON THE HITS OF THE 50s & 60s LEROY JONES songwriter and activist. Vintage rock & roll and rockney THU 1ST OCT 8pm / £14 THU 29TH OCT 7.30pm / MON 9TH NOV 7.30pm / £21.50 INDIA ELECTRIC CO ______classics. THU 17TH SEPT 7.30pm / Ashley Hutchings & The Morris £20 (£19 conc) Legendary New Orleans ______£20 (£18 conc) On Band perform classic AN EVENING WITH Michael Williams (The Drifters) trumpeter Leroy Jones, with Ian Performing the entire Breathe tracks from ‘one of the most MICHAEL PORTILLO & cast perform songs from Shaw (‘Our finest jazz singer’ – THE STYLISTICS album, plus hits like Vienna, influential folk albums of all SUN 18TH OCT 7pm / icons such as Franki Valli, Elvis TIME OUT) & Joe Stilgoe (‘truly TUE 24TH NOV 7.30pm / Dancing with Tears in My Eyes, time’; includes Morris dancing £20 (£18 conc) Presley, The Supremes, The remarkable’ – SIR MICHAEL £38.50 seated (£36.50 standing) Fade to Grey & If I Was. displays. TV presenter & ex-MP. Beatles & many more. PARKINSON). Greatest hits tour.

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