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Featuring NILS LOFGREN GARY MURPHY TONY REMY MARTIN TAYLOR & ULF WAKENIUS RICKY ROSS THE BLOCKHEADS THE IMPOSSIBLE GENTLEMEN RICK VITO ROY WOOD Box Office floralpavilion.com 0151 666 0000 WELCOME to the 27th THE QUEENS ROYAL We’re delighted to be partnering once again with our neighbours The Queens Royal International Guitar Festival to present the Brendan McCormack Series. of Great Britain. This year we are proud to bring you some of the finest guitarists currently playing and bands that feature the guitar as an integral part of their music. Once again, the festival sets out to show the breadth and range of the guitar as music has moved into the 21st Century. The first floor concert room seats up to 100 people and is The festival has always attempted as The Queens Royal Hotel Please join us in celebrating ideally suited for classical and to place the musicians in intimate are perfect for this synergy. the guitar! We look forward jazz concerts and perfectly settings where the audience feels to your company. Classical music, Jazz, Folk, Blues, complements the programme connected with the artists. The The relaxed and friendly bar at New Brighton photographs to Rock’n’Roll and Rock are all here The International Guitar at the Floral Pavilion’s main main house and Blue Lounge The Queens Royal is extremely add to an already existing gallery throughout November setting Festival of Great Britain Team. auditorium and Blue Lounge. at the Floral Pavilion as well popular with both locals, residents of old New Brighton snaps and Wirral alight with great music. This imposing, Victorian building and Floral Pavilion theatregoers advertisements, some dating back on the seafront is also a hotel, and in April was renamed ‘The to the Victorian seaside resort era. restaurant and home to a runner- Stage Door Tap @ The Queen’s The month of November, unlike CONTENTS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN up CAMRA Best Pub. Royal’ featuring old theatre and thequeensroyal.com summer festival months, offered THE QUEENS ROYAL In 1988, Wirral Council’s newly little competition and also allowed Page 1 appointed Arts Officer, Rob Smith, better access to guitarists who was looking to create a different might otherwise have been busy. BLUES/ROCK THE BRENDAN COMPETITION kind of ‘community festival’ for In November 1989, the first ‘Wirral Pages 2 - 5 Wirral. At the reopening of the International Guitar Festival’ ran MCCORMACK SERIES JAZZ/FOLK Win a pair of tickets to the recently refurbished Birkenhead for 7 days, presented 18 concerts Pages - Brendan was able to play in any Brendan McCormack Series Priory, he met musician Brendan 5 7 Liverpool-born Brendan and events, and was a resounding style with great skill and panache. McCormack, who suggested a McCormack co-founded at The Queens Royal. success. In 1991 the name was SOUL/FUNK, CLASSICAL Rock, Classical and Early Music guitar festival which celebrated The series includes concerts from changed to the International & ALTERNATIVE the International Guitar all interested him. Performing in the guitar in all of its styles and Page 7 Modjango, John Goldie and Guitar Festival of Great Britain. Festival of Great Britain concert halls, theatres or cafés, musical genres. Their aim was to Peter Price. Brendan always respected the bring top class national and Now, under the directorship of VENUE & with Rob Smith in 1988. BOOKING INFORMATION audience and left them bathed in To win a pair of tickets to the series international players to Wirral Dave Tracey, it continues that He was the director of the Page 8 the majesty of the music he played answer the following question: performing the widest range of spirit of attracting the best festival for many years for them. Brendan sadly died styles and repertoire, whilst also international artists, whilst also Where and when did DIARY and encouraged many unexpectedly in 2009. providing a platform for showcasing very talented Page 9 Guitar Festival founders local talent. local players. guitarists to play in Wirral The International Guitar Festival Brendan McCormack and bestguitarfest.com for the first time through of Great Britain owes him an Rob Smith meet? immense debt of gratitude his powerful personality Email answers to: and will always present his OUR MEDIA PARTNERS PARTNERS [email protected] and the respect he earned concert series. by Friday 2nd October 2015. as a virtuoso guitarist. The winner will be contacted on visitwirral.com Monday 5th October 2015. 0151 666 0000 floralpavilion.com 1 GERRY MURPHY at Birkenhead Priory, the Plaza NASHER topped the charts and travelled ME, MYSELF AND I TOUR Lounge at the Floral Pavilion, FRI 6th NOV 7:30pm the world. The band exploded in THU 5th NOV 7:30pm Williamson Art Gallery and now Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge 1984 and imploded in 1987 and The Queens Royal | £13 (£11) comes to The Queens. £13 (£11) most people think that was the Brendan McCormack Series end of the story. Nasher has been He is author of Sweet Liberty, CHAS COLE FOR CMP ENTERTAINMENT very quietly writing, producing PRESENTS Marvellous Marvin Gaye and recoding his own music and RUMOURS OF and re-worker of titles like to date has three solo albums FLEETWOOD MAC Valerie in swing jazz style and under his belt. His gigs are a cross SUN 22nd NOV 7:30pm Pinball Wizard in the style of Floral Pavilion Theatre between an engaging troubador Johnny Cash. £33.50 & £23.50 and an aspiring comedian His performance is a mix of interspersed with Nasher’s own Rumours of Fleetwood Mac acoustic folk guitar styles, blues As a member of 80’s pop compositions and maybe an odd returns with its stunning new A veteran acoustic ‘power- licks, soul vibes and good times TONY REMY Frankie tune. stage production, performing in & THE STOLEN CLONES sensation Frankie Goes To solo’ player and winner of the and will feature his Harmony meticulous note-for-note detail THU 19th NOV 7:30pm Hollywood, guitarist Nasher www.reverbnation/babylonpink Valencia (1935), Dick Knight all the classic hits from one of the prestigious PRS John Lennon Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge 12-string (1970), his Golden Vision most outstanding and enduring Award for songwriting, Gerry £17 (£15) Murphy has played the Guitar customised guitar, and Gibson THE RICK VITO BAND catalogues in the history of Festival on previous occasions Gospel acoustic (1976). Tony Remy is one of the world’s SUN 15th NOV 7:30pm rock music. most exciting guitar players with Floral Pavilion Blue Lounge Recognised internationally as the a style infused with jazz rhythms £19 (£17) world’s leading Fleetwood Mac and bluesy soul. He has played PETER PRICE Philadelphian guitarist Rick Vito tribute show, and with the priceless SUN 8th NOV 7:30pm with so many Jazz players it is has a musical pedigree second to golden seal of approval from The Queens Royal | £13 (£11) hard to know where to begin - none. Early in his career he played founding member Mick Fleetwood, Brendan McCormack Series Courtney Pine, Jason Rebello, alongside Delaney and Bonnie, this show takes you on an epic Jean Toussaint and US3. He A mind-boggling mastery Todd Rundgren and Little Richard. musical journey through changing has also worked with trumpeter of the acoustic guitar , a rich His playing has been influenced eras and styles, from the sixties Freddie Hubbard and legendary singing voice, and a relaxed yet by such players as James Burton, London blues scene right through to pianist, Herbie Hancock as well as in his blues band. He has also compelling stage presence have strange and exotic journeys from B.B. King and Keith Richards. the staggering commercial success Annie Lennox and the late great worked with Roger McGuinn, garnered Warrington’s Peter Price the country blues style of Robert of the seventies and eighties, Jack Bruce. Rick is perhaps best remembered Bonnie Raitt, Rita Coolidge, Maria a brilliant international reputation Johnson, Blind Willie McTell and beyond. for his work with John Mayall and Muldau, Dolly Parton and Bob and so far taken him to festivals and Leadbelly, to Latin American The Stolen Clones are a fabulously Fleetwood Mac and continues Seger. Simply put Rick is one of ‘A stunning and emotive snapshot and concert venues throughout dances, Celtic Pipe and Harp inventive band made up of some to play with Mick Fleetwood the world’s greatest guitarists. of the World’s first Supergroup’ the UK, Europe and North tunes, Hymns and Indian Ragas. of today’s finest musicians. We SUNDAY TIMES America. He will take you on are certain that this gig will excite even the most jaded listener. CHAS COLE FOR CMP ENTERTAINMENT both the 2012-13 Wrecking Ball ‘Listening to Nils play and ‘An acoustic blues virtuoso.’ THE GUARDIAN Prepare to be blown away! PRESENTS NILS LOFGREN tour and the 2014 High Hopes sing has been an inspiration LIVE IN CONCERT tour. Known for his world-class to me for many years’ WITH VERY SPECIAL GUEST guitar playing and his on-stage Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, fashion in 1979 and form a band NEIL YOUNG THE BLUES BAND GREG VARLOTTA acrobatics, Nils is a true Rock THU 12th NOV 7:30pm Tom McGuinness, ‘just to play the blues’. SAT 21st NOV 8:00pm legend in his own right and a Floral Pavilion Theatre | £21 Rob Townsend & Gary Fletcher. About 20 albums and thousands Floral Pavilion Theatre superb front-man. He is now back £43.50 & £33.50 Many of The Blues Band’s 21st of gigs later, they’ve earned a in the UK as part of the Guitar century fans weren’t even born reputation around the world Legendary American songwriter, Festival to perform his own when these five virtuosos, already as one of the finest exponents virtuoso guitarist and pianist, legendary live show.