There’s another suitably bustling week ahead at The Stables, but we need to tell you that performances by The Blues Band and Go West are fully booked, and its the same deal for the Hedna’s Vintage Nightclub and Screaming Blue Murder Night.
But there are still some tasty treats for the taking, including The Demon Barbers Lock-in with the Christmas Carol on Friday (December 9).
This is part gig, part dance show and part panto! Join the BBC Award Winning team of musicians and dancers for 150% of the very best festive live music, song and dance!
It’s Christmas Eve and the regulars of Ye Olde Fighting Cocks are excited about the night ahead, it’s going to be the Folk and Hip Hop party of the year! To their dismay the landlady, Jasmineezer Scrooge, has more profitable ambitions and is preparing to launch her new business, Jazzles nightclub.
Cheap alco-pops, seedy lighting and mind-numbing bass beats are all in danger of alienating the local community and ruining Christmas! Fortunately, some insightful souls are at hand to lead her back to her senses.
On Stage 2, there’s a Big Christmas Night In at The Stables in aid of Macmillan, with the return of Amber Falconer, and support by KJ Lonsdale Perkins and Leah Vassel.
Return on Saturday afternoon and the Woburn Sands Band will greet you, with music spanning big band sounds to classical, jazz, pop and much more, at this 58th concert in the Drakeloe Series.
Christian O’Connell takes the stage in the evening with You’ve Ruined My Morning and Other Fan Mail.
He’s collected gongs and awards aplenty for his 16 years as a national Breakfast Show host.
Mind you, he’s also taken his share of hate mail, death threats and complaints.
Now he’s put them together in a show that will include A-list weirdos, offended clowns and angry cat lovers…
Former BBC Young Folk Award finalists Jaywalkers (pictured) are touring their third studio album, Weave which sees them further expanding their musical horizons at all levels, and they arrive at The Stables with with their sounds as armour, this Sunday evening (December 11).
Together they effortlessly fuse elements of bluegrass, folk and old-time and the music Jaywalkers create is innovative, rooted deeply in tradition, and exhilarating.
Most of their songs are written or inspired by stories and poetry from Mike’s home county of Lancashire. The history of the area only really starts around the time of the Industrial Revolution when the cotton industry arrived.
The main theme running through the album is a study of the hardships of life in the Lancashire working classes.
There are moments of playful respite – their instrumentals are fast, playful up-tempo tunes – but the songs tell tales of protest, poverty, fight for freedom and, as is inevitable with folk songs, death.
On Monday (Dec 12) the main auditorium will be led by acoustic guitarist Andy McKee.
Following the incredible success of their 30th Anniversary ‘Steeltown’ Tour, Big Country now celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the album that followed that release – ‘The Seer’.
Famously, the album included an appearance by Kate Bush, joining the late Stuart Adamson on the title track and the single ‘Look Away’ was the group’s biggest UK single, reaching Number seven in the charts.
The band will perform the album in its entirety at The Stables on Tuesday (Dec 13) , as well as visiting their stunning catalogue of songs, taken from their multi-million selling and Number 1 hit albums. Their classic hits and live favourites include Harvest Home , Fields of Fire, In A Big Country (which sold 2 million copies), Chance, Wonderland, Look Away, The Teacher and East of Eden’ from massive albums including the triple Grammy nominated, ‘The Crossing,’ ‘Steeltown’ and ‘Peace In Our Time’.
Last up this week, comes Acoustic Alchemy whose overriding mission for the past quarter century (and a little longer) has been to reach the broadest possible audience by pushing the potential of instrumental music to embrace a broad spectrum of styles without being limited to any specific genre.
Reach for your plastic pals and click here to book.
