Live and Local 1st June to2017 2nd July Welcome to

2017 This is our eleventh year of celebrating music within our community with the emphasis on our own local talent. Once again, we welcome back to the De La Warr Pavilion, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Last Night of the Bexhill Proms featuring the Sussex Concert Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Roberts. This is an important Charity Fundraiser for the Festival, and we would appreciate your support. We are particularly pleased this year to welcome the internationally renowned guitarist Richard Durrant to the Festival. His concert “Stringhenge” is a not-to-be-missed acoustic event to be held in St Peter’s Church, Old Town - an absolutely perfect location. The trustees would like to thank the De La Warr Pavilion, Gaby Hardwicke, McPhersons and Number 48 Devonshire Road for their continued help and support in making this year’s Festival happen. As always, if you wish to be part of our 2018 Festival, please contact us now with an expression of interest, as planning is well under way. We look forward to seeing you. Brian Beeston Chairman [email protected]

Bexhill Festival of Music Patron: Julian Lloyd Webber Charity Registration Number 1131799 Company Registration number 6836020

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk THURSDAY 1 JUNE The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphonic Summer works, its famous winding melody FRIDAY 2 JUNE with the Royal characterises this enchanting Philharmonic Orchestra miniature, creating a tranquil and Bexhill Choral Society’s magical atmosphere. Tchaikovsky’s “Invitation to the Dance” De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, - A Lecture Recital Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1DP ever-popular Piano Concerto No.1 provides the centre-piece for this St. Martha’s Church Hall, Rossini - La Scala di Seta Overture thrilling concert. A majestic theme Cooden Sea Road/Birkdale, Fauré - Pavane soars above crashing chords in Little Common TN39 4SL the piano, creating a dramatic and Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 Since time immemorial, triumphant opening, which contrasts the dance has proved Dvorák - Symphony No.8 with the more lyrical passages that one of the most powerful Conductor - Brian Wright follow. Performed by Alex Panfilov, influences on musicians. Piano - Alex Panfilov this fiendish work will showcasethe In his highly entertaining artist’s immense talent, particularly in For an evening of outstanding classics way, Kenneth Roberts, the show-stopping final movement. from your favourite composers, join BCS’s Director of Music, will play the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for Concluding this gripping programme and talk about some of the great Symphonic Summer at the is Dvorák’s joyous Symphony No.8. piano music inspired by, and De La Warr Pavilion. Its twists and turns leap from one composed for, the dance in a whole melody to the next in an exhilarating variety of moods and styles. We will Opening with the light-hearted and theatrical work, which is sure to hear music by Weber, Mozart, Grieg, Overture to Rossini’s La Scala di be a crowd pleaser. Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Albeniz, Seta, internationally acclaimed Scott Joplin and others! and Sussex-based conductor Starts: 7.30pm. Tickets £17, £25, Brian Wright leads the Orchestra £32. Box office: 01424 229111 Starts 7.30pm. Tickets: £10 from in this lively opener, which bursts Book online: www.dlwp.com Second Spin, 14 Sackville Road, with energy and paves the way Bexhill-on-Sea, Choir members, for Fauré’s more pensive Pavane. 01424 213352 or on the door. Perhaps the best known of Fauré’s Booking recommended.

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk SATURDAY 3 JUNE SUNDAY 4 JUNE MONDAY 5 JUNE continued Bach to the Future The Wacky Band Traditional Jazz Sessions Sackville Road Methodist Church, Bandstand, De La Warr Pavilion, by Creole Jazz Sackville Road, Bexhil-on-Sea Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1DP Royal British Legion, 4/6 London TN39 3JA Road, Bexhill-on-Sea TN39 3JU Andrew McGregor The Wacky Band is a local Wind Band with over 30 amateur musicians of Comprising Jim (Doc) Searson on various ages and abilities who meet reeds, Roger Hooper on sousaphone once a week to make merry music and bass, Colin Martin on piano, and play at local festivals, events Geoff Collins on drums, plus invited and fêtes under the guidance of guests. This great jazz scene is our lively conductor Nikky Holt. We on the first Monday of each month. have a vast and varied From 8pm-10.30pm. Members An eclectic mix of popular music play list so you will and guests welcome. Tickets £5 for from traditional classics to the soon be humming member, £6 for guests. present day. Performers Andrew along to a tune you McGregor (organ), Cindy Gilham recognise! Why not dust off that wind (soprano), Lynne Conway (piano), TUESDAY 6 JUNE instrument and join Andy Conway (violin), James in the fun - you are Blue Bayou Conway () and Stephen Conway very welcome whatever level! Wheatsheaf Inn, 2 Barnhorn Road, (double bass) take the audience on Little Common TN39 4LR a journey through space and time From 1pm-3pm. Free concert. Phone and provide them with an evening to Paul on 07989 751567 for details. ‘A little bit country - a little bit rock remember at this beautiful church. ’n’ roll’ with popular Bexhill based husband and wife duo. Carol & Rod Starts 7.30pm. All are welcome MONDAY 5 JUNE entertain with duets made famous and entry is free, with a retiring by Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, collection for the charity ‘Starfish Folk Night at the Johnny Cash & June Carter. There Malawi’. For more details phone Albatross (RAFA) Club will also be songs from the likes 07944 077615. featuring the Exiles of Neil Diamond, Dolly Parton, and RAF Association, 15 Marine Arcade, favourites from the 60’s. Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1JS SATURDAY 3 & SUNDAY 4 JUNE Starts 8.00 pm. To book a table On the first Monday of each month 01424 848400, or call in for a drink. No48 Free Music Festival the RAFA Club hosts a “Tune-up” For more details call 01424 731903. featuring the Exiles session for local and visiting folk No48, 48 Devonshire Road, musicians. The atmosphere is Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX relaxed, players and singers are A free 2 day festival with several welcomed. The “Exiles” will be different acts throughout the day. playing their wide range of folk The “Exiles” will begin the Saturday related music. session at 2pm and then come in Starts 8.00pm running until 10.30pm and out between the other acts, or later. Entrance is free on folk ending the afternoon on a high note nights and signing in is waived on with some of their old favourites. condition that visitors give generously

From midday to 10pm. Donations to the Club’s collection box on the Blue Bayou are welcome and will go towards bar when ordering from the excellent next years festival publications. selection of local real ales and ciders.

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk TUESDAY 6 JUNE continued THURSDAY 8, FRIDAY 9 & SATURDAY 10 JUNE FRIDAY 9 JUNE SATURDAY 10 JUNE continued Chloe Paige Music Quiz Exiles at Bexhill Hospital Garden Party No48, 48 Devonshire Road, Bexhill Hospital, Holliers Hill, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 2DZ Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX Every year Bexhill Hospital League of Friends give a garden party with a variety Quiz with a of musical and performing arts events during the afternoon. The “EXILES” musical theme. are happy to be invited to play for the event with their range of music from traditional Blues of the Southern States of America, through Country numbers Starts: 7pm. and “Americana”, to English and Celtic songs and tunes with the occasional Entrance £5 foray into European and Ragtime. includes choice of meal. For more Chloe Paige If the weather is wet, and it has only rained on details phone Showcase Night one occasion in the last few years, the band 01424 736600 or No48, 48 Devonshire Road, will play indoors, where there is ample visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX space for a good audience. X Factor finalist with a powerful Starts: Early afternoon. voice and wonderful stage THURSDAY 8 JUNE Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - personality, Chloe has been A Musical Thriller SUNDAY 11 JUNE The Izzard Theatre, Bexhill 6th Form College, Penland Road, TN40 2JG perfoming at No.48 for many years now and loves to come back here, The League of Gentlemen 50s & 60s Nostalgia Set in Victorian London, Sweeney Todd tells of a Fleet Street barber, Benjamin where she receives a great reception. Blues Band Afternoon Barker, who was deported to Australia on a trumped up charge because the evil Judge Turpin desired his wife. Fifteen years later Barker escapes back to Starts: 7pm. Entrance £12.75 The Colonnade, Bexhill Seafront. No48, 48 Devonshire Road, includes choice of 2 course meal. London determined to have his revenge on Turpin and his subordinate, Beadle The League of Gentlemen are a Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX For details phone 01424 736600 Bamford. Under the guise of Sweeney Todd, he works his way back into society powerful Blues & Soul band, based O’Donnell & Sapsford pay tribute or visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk by restoring his barber’s shop, and making his living by slitting the throats of in Bexhill.“Watching League of to the Everly Brothers, The Beatles, customers and putting them into pies to be sold at Mrs Lovett’s pie shop. Gentlemen at the Colonnade is Simon & Garfunkel, ... Music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler. From an SATURDAY 10 JUNE better than being at Glastonbury”- Starts: 2pm. Entrance £8.75 includes adaptation by Christopher Bond. Originally directed by Harold Prince Chris Welch (veteran rock journalist, choice of meals. For more details The Blues Brothers Show Melody Maker, Record Collector). Comedy night with a Originally produced on Broadway by Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert phone 01424 736600 or No48, 48 Devonshire Road, musical theme Fryer, Mary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards in association with Dean & Judy Manos Playing songs from artists such as visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX BB King, Robert Johnson, Bill Withers, No48, 48 Devonshire Road, This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre All the big soul hits and a good Robben Ford, Matt Schofield, Cream, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied dose of humour along the way from Freddie King and many more. by MTI Europe www.mtishows.co.uk. With M.C. Dave Thompson, acts Ritchie Lee and Andy B. Regular performers at ‘Tea Beside include Jo Public, John Cave, Anita Dates and start times: Starts: 7pm. Entrance £12.75 the Sea’ these musicians Jardine and expect a cameo from Thursday 8th at 7pm, Friday 9th at 7pm, Saturday 10th at 2pm & 7pm. includes choice of 2 course meal. never fail to provide a great magician Richard Bellars. Ticket Prices: £12. Book Tickets by telephone: 01424 214545 ext 1146. For details phone 01424 736600 atmosphere and attract Email: [email protected] or online: www.bexhillcollege.ac.uk/theatre Starts: 7pm. Entrance £10 includes or visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk a big crowd. The band choice of meal. For details phone Izzard Theatre The consists of Tom Robinson 01424 736600 or visit (Vocals), Reg Duff www.no48bexhill.co.uk (Guitar), Andy McGregor

(Keyboards), Mick O’Donnell & Sapsford Clifford (Bass) and Daniel Clifford (Drums). Starts 3pm. Admission free.

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk Helen Ward-Jackson Helen TUESDAY 13 JUNE THURSDAY 15 JUNE Music Quiz Adele Tribute No48, 48 Devonshire Road, No48, 48 Devonshire Road, Bexhill-on-Sea Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX East Sussex TN40 1AX Quiz with a musical theme. With Helen Ward-Jackson (as seen in Mama Mia Starts: 7pm. Entrance £5 includes in the West End), this is the original and best choice of meal. For more details Adele Tribute show. Fortunately for us Helen lives phone 01424 736600 or quite locally and therefore we are lucky that she has agreed to perform here. visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk She will be covering all the Hits from Rolling in the Deep to Someone Like You. Starts: 7pm. Entrance £15 includes choice of 2 course meal. For more details Rother Community Choir phone 01424 736600 or visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk Summer Concert St Barnabas Church, Cantelupe FRIDAY 16 JUNE Road (corner with Sea Road), Bexhill-on-sea TN40 1JG Sussex Day Party at No48 No48, 48 Devonshire Road, Bexhill-on-Sea East Sussex TN40 1AX As well as a party we will have a variety of local artists performing their original music. Starts: 7pm. Entrance: a £3 cover charge will go towards the performers. Food and drink will be available as will albums to purchase from the acts. For more details phone 01424 736600 or visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk

Starts: 7.30pm (doors open 7pm.) Interval refreshments available along Spinning Jenny Band Barn Dance with a raffle. Free admission, with Little Common Community Centre, Shepherds Close, Little Common, donations for “Chestnut Tree House Bexhill-on-Sea TN39 4SQ Children’s Hospice” much appreciated. This will be an evening of music and dancing for all the family. Last year we Contact details for the event, email to raised £350 for Dragonflies and this year we will be supporting The Sussex [email protected] or telephone Heart Charity who provide support for people recovering from heart treatment. 07899403802. From 7.30pm to 10.30pm. Tickets £6 adults and £3 for children. Please bring your own snacks and drinks. Tickets in advance only. Telephone Colin 01424 215258 or Ken 01424 843486. WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE Evening with The Spinning Jenny Band the Spinning Jenny Band The New Inn, 2 Ninfield Road, Sidley TN39 5AE This regular event takes place on the second Wednesday in the month. All musicians and singers are welcome. The Spinning Jenny Band play for barn dances and at musical events locally. Starts: 8pm. Free entry.

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk FRI 16 & SAT 17 JUNE TUESDAY 20 JUNE Music Quiz No48, 48 Devonshire Road, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX Quiz with a musical theme. Starts: 7pm Entrance £5 includes choice of One Voice meal. For more details phone The Izzard Theatre, Bexhill College, Penland Road, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 2JG 01424 736600 or One Voice is a spectacular evening of Singing. 100 voices coming together for visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk a three show special. With Mad Fish in no less than 12 professional shows in the last year, we are putting on a performance not to be missed. If you love music and singing this is the show for you. WEDNESDAY 21 JUNE

Starts: Friday 7pm, Saturday 2.30pm & 7pm. Tickets £15 from Tom Fitzpatrick [email protected]. For more info visit www.madfishmadfish.co.uk

SATURDAY 17 JUNE The Christchurch Singers present ‘Sussex by the Sea’ Christchurch Methodist Church, Springfield Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, TN40 2BX Music, word and song with both a Elvis tribute Night Christian and Sussex flavour!” with Chris Field Master of Ceremonies, Barry Turnwell, Crooner Tom Fitzpatrick No48, 48 Devonshire Road, introduces the choir with their No48, 48 Devonshire Road, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX conductor, Pat Reigh, accompanist Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX All the hits, the moves, the shakes Elizabeth Bush, and organist Tom Fitzpatrick, crooner and swing and the grooves. Join us for a Gerald Witts. night. A real top performer, Tom will magical night of Elvis. Starts: 7pm. Free admission and deliver hits made famous by Michael Bublé, Frank Sinatra, Robbie Starts: 7pm. Entrance £12.75 free refreshments, with a collection Williams, Dean Martin, Nat King includes choice of 2 course meal. for charity. Regulars will know to For details phone 01424 736600 or come early for a seat!! Cole, Van Morrison and many more. visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk Starts: 7pm. Entrance £15 includes The Christchurch Singers choice of 2 course meal. For more details phone 01424 736600 or visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk A Summer Evening of Song FRIDAY 23 JUNE Soul Sensation Sammy Lou Hallam No48, 48 Devonshire Road, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX Having appeared on televison she is even better in the flesh, Sammy TUESDAY 27 JUNE delivers a huge range of music covering the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, A Summer Evening Cilla Black, Lulu, Tina Turner, Adele, of Song Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin... St Peter’s Community Centre, She loves to get the dance floor filled. Church Street, Bexhill-on-Sea Starts: 7pm. Entrance £8.75 TN40 2HE includes choice of meal. For more Concert to include Jacs, Quintasia SUNDAY 25 JUNE details phone 01424 736600 or and Voice Prints with soloists. visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk Loose Ends Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £6, available No48, 48 Devonshire Road, from 01424 216689 or on the door. SATURDAY 24 JUNE Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX The Eversley Road 60’s 70’s 80’s & 90’s An afternoon with Loose Ends featuring a wonderful mix of popular Singers Covers Party Band songs of all genres with superb Bexhill Senior Citizens Club, No48, 48 Devonshire Road, vocals, great guitar, ukulele, 45 Eversley Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1AX mandolin, bass and drums. This East Sussex TN40 1HA Featuring 6 Hour Stint, a 5 piece band band cover contemporary classics in A selection of popular music. with an appetite to party, covering a light up beat style of their own. Starts 2.30pm. Entry £2. popular hits from Stereophonics to So why not enjoy some lovely For information call 01424 212911. Blondie & Duran Duran. traditional laid back music from the Starts: 7pm. Entrance £8.75 20’s to the present day. Live Swing Music includes choice of meal. For more Starts: 2pm. Entrance £8.75 at the Albatross Club details phone 01424 736600 or includes choice of meal. For more RAF Association, 15 Marina Arcade, visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk details phone 01424 736600 or Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1JS visit www.no48bexhill.co.uk A pleasant evening of live swing music. All welcome! Starts 8pm. No entrance fee, just bring along a good raffle prize (ie bottle etc). See you there! For info call 01424 212916. Loose Ends

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk THURSDAY 29 JUNE FRIDAY 30 JUNE continued The Eversley Road Richard Durrant - Singers Stringhenge Bexhill Senior Citizens Club, Acoustic Music Inspired 45 Eversley Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, by the British Isles East Sussex TN40 1HA St Peter’s Church, Church Street, A selection of popular music. Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 2HE Starts 2.30pm. Entry £2. Richard Durrant’s latest musical adventure will feature the Uffington Tenor For information call 01424 212911. Guitar, built in Sussex, and a six string Concert Guitar, built in Lincolnshire and made from 5,000 year old bog oak. This show is a uniquely British exploration of unplugged, acoustic music on the folk/classical cusp. FRIDAY 30 JUNE Stringhenge is as beautifully produced and richly visual as any of Durrant’s Exiles in Concert at the tours of recent years. It’s also unplugged allowing you to hear and feel the Albatross (RAFA) Club vibrations of the wood in these RAF Association, 15 Marine incredible guitars. Durrant plays them Arcade, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1JS brilliantly and is a clever weaver of intriguing tales. It’s real roots music The “Exiles” are well known for linking the mesolithic to the 21st offering a wide range of folk related century. music, from the traditional Blues of the Southern States of America, The Durrant originals written for this through Country numbers and tour draw inspiration from the hill “Americana”, to English and Celtic barrows of Sussex, the flatlands of songs and tunes. It promises to be a East Anglia and the mountains of lively and entertaining evening! Cumbria. Other pieces are chosen from eleven centuries of music. Starts 7.30pm. Entry fee £5.00. As numbers are limited tickets can be Starts: 7.30pm. Tickets £14. Richard Durrant purchased in advance from the Club Box office: 01424 229111 or reserved through Richard Mann Book online: www.dlwp.com at: [email protected] and paid Booking fees apply. for on entry. Tickets will be on sale/ bookable from Tuesday 18th April.

The Exiles

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk SATURDAY 1 JULY Treble Clefs’ Third Summer Spectacular Annual Petertide Concert St Augustine’s Church, St Augustine’s Close (off Cooden Drive), with St Peter’s Church Choir, Bexhill-on-Sea TN39 3AZ St Peter’s Singers and friends We have a new and exciting programme and proceeds will be donated to a St Peter’s Church, Church Street, local charity. Come and join us! Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 2HE Starts: 7.30pm. Entry £5 to include refreshments. Tickets from Hilary Enjoy an evening of stirring choral 01424 225 888, Sue 01323 371065 and AP Westbrooks Ltd 01424 212619. music as we celebrate Petertide. The programme will include the ever-popular choral suite from Sir Karl Jenkins’ mass setting The Armed Man. Time 7pm - 8pm. Admission free, with a retiring collection for the Choir Fund. This helps support the training of our younger choristers and enables everyone to take part in our activities. For Information call 07729 206721 or email [email protected] The Treble Clefs The Treble

SUNDAY 2 JULY Bexhill Festival of Music and the De La Warr Pavilion present Kenneth Roberts The Last Night of the Bexhill Proms with the Sussex Concert Orchestra The De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1DP Featuring the Bexhill Festival Choir led by Lorraine Barry. Soloists Thomasin Trezise (from Glyndebourne) and Carl Donahue. Come & wave your flags and sing all the prom favourites including Land of Hope & Glory, Rule Britannia and Jerusalem! Conducted by Kenneth Roberts. Union flags are available on the evening. Peter was so wrong when he thought he was Starts 7.30pm. Tickets: £10, £15 & £20 (concessions available), going to be the lead singer in the new line up! Box office: 01424 229111. Book online: www.dlwp.com Think differently – choose McPhersons. Design by Tony Lindfield. Phone 01424 222714. Lindfield. Tony Design by

For more information visit www.bexhillfestivalofmusic.co.uk www.mcphersons.co.uk l [email protected] l 01424 730000 BEXHILL FEST IVAL OF MUSIC AND DE LA WARR PAVILION PRESENT The Sussex Concert Charity Registration Number 1131799 Orchestra Sunday 2 July 2017 Conductor Kenneth Roberts

Featuring the Bexhill Festival Choir led by Lorraine Barry. Soloists Thomasin Trezise (from Glyndebourne) and Carl Donahue. Come & wave your flags and sing all the prom favourites including Land of Hope & Glory, Rule Britannia and Jerusalem! Union flags available

De La Warr Pavilion Sunday 2nd July 2017 Starts 7.30pm Tickets £10, £15, £20 Concessions available Box office01424 229111