Miriam Roycroft and Anne-Marie Hastings will be performing at The Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley on Thursday 11 November 2010 at 7.30pm. 2010 has been a very interesting year for fans of classical music. Many of yesterday’s giants of composition have had important anniversaries to celebrate and this evening’s programme will include works by Schumann, Barber, Pergolesi, Beethoven and Chopin. Dublin-born Miriam Roycroft studied at the Royal Northern College of…
The Beverley Pipe Band performed this Saturday at Coronation Gardens, Beverley. The event was organised by Beverley Town Council with a view to introducing more live music for Saturday shoppers. For more information about the scheme please click here. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size [nggallery id=1007] HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image…
Beverley Town Council and the Beverley and District Pipe Band are joining forces to pilot an event that could see more music brought to the streets of Beverley in the future. As reported in the local media in September, the idea is to not just bring live entertainment into public spaces that everyone can enjoy, but might to also encourage shoppers to visit areas of the town that are currently…
Local bands The Estuary Dwellers, The Mark Robinson Experience and Woolicane all performed live last night on Humber.tv Humber.tv has started to offer regular live music nights from their ‘Mission Control’ in the heart of Beverley. Filmed in front of an audience the video is then streamed through their web site in real time for users to watch. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the…
Sam Clark was in Beverley promoting his music at Longcroft School and Performing Arts College, Beverley. Since joining Neighbours in 2006 as ‘Ringo Brown’ Sam Clark has become one of the most loved and recognizable characters on the long-running show. But whilst acting is a great passion of Sam’s, his first love is music, and now Sam is having the opportunity to explore his first love. Sam’s first single ‘Broken’…
Musical duo Sax Mad played at the Molescroft Inn on Friday 1st October. Two members of the popular band Soul Patrol form a duo playing soul classics, ska favourites and a few from all genres. The night was enjoyed by all, with Kippa entertaining with his vocals and occasional jokes, and Rick on sax was as usual in fine form. Keep a look out for more music coming soon at…
Local music fans have an opportunity to put the put a local music festival onto the national stage. Tribfest, the annual tribute festival has been nominated for three categories within the National UK 2010 Festival Awards which is being held at the O2 Arena in November. Tribfest is a very successful family festival that grown year by year since the first event at Driffield in 2007 and this year’s event…
Beverley’s brand new music facility was the venue for a Piano Masterclass with the Artistic Director of the Beverley Chamber Music Festival, Martin Roscoe. As part of the Cropper Welsh Roscoe Trio, Martin had opened the Festival the previous evening at St Mary’s Church with a concer
Beverley Male Voice Choir gave a free concert on Friday evening at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Manor Road, Beverley, and then the choir shared a sumptuous buffet with the audience. Although there was no entrance fee for the concert, the contents of the collection buckets were still being counted long after the concert had finished. All donations were taken straight to Dove House Hospice…
Tickets are selling well for the first weekend of the Beverley Literature Festival 1-10 October. And no wonder! Louis de Bernières kicks off the festival at 7pm on Friday night, followed by an astounding performance of Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein. On Saturday, there is a chance to rethink all our assumptions about the Battle of the Somme with William Philpott, the supremely skilful author of a new book…
Combining the talents of Stu Hanna and Debbie Hanna-Palmer the duo Megson is fast becoming ‘hot property’ on the British folk and roots scene. Their three albums have chronicled that blossoming creative talent and such is their popularity it has taken over a year for the Processed Pea to secure a booking. Originally from Teesside, the husband and wife duo met singing in the local Cleveland Youth Choir. At that…
Richard Durrant will be appearing at the Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley on Thursday 14 October 2010 at 7.30pm. He’s no stranger to delivering enchanting guitar performances that leave the hairs on the back of one’s neck standing up. Recent performances of the “Guitar Whisperer” have taken him to all corners of England where his rapidly growing audiences have enjoyed a guitar show like no other. In the constantly evolving,…
Rachel Harrington is a roots musician in the purest sense whose unique artistry captures the deep links between country, gospel and soul. Her songs tell of personal and mythical stories from the American West. Championed by Bob Harris of BBC Radio 2, her two acclaimed Americana albums both hit the top spot of the Euro-Americana Chart. She is currently touring the UK with her performances augmented by master guitarist and…
Bar Fusion concluded their Bank Holiday weekend of music by hosting two live acts. First up were a new act to Beverley, Harry David and Fern Elliot, who performed their own music and a few cover songs. They were followed by local band ‘Reloaded’ who performed to a packed crowd at the Wednesday Market night spot. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to…
Seven-piece Hull band Soul Patrol were back in Beverley on Friday night performing at Bar Fusion, drawing in a crowd that was easily the biggest and best in the town. The band performed back-to-back soul favourites to a packed bar of people that were not afraid of letting their hair down on the dancefloor. Beverley’s top cover band, Reloaded, took to the same stage on Saturday evening, bringing to a conclusion the August…
Tribfest returned to Beverley again this year and the event certainly pulled in the crowds at the Beverley Polo Club near Tickton. Thousands enjoyed the live entertainment which was provided by some of the best tribute bands in the country. Aside from the live acts, there was plenty of other attractions Funfair rides, bouncy castles and massive inflatable slides were all on site for festival-goers to enjoy. James Radley, from…
After a summer of transport industry shows throughout the UK, specialist logistics and driver training provider TIR Training Services is returning to its roots by sponsoring the Truckers Summer BBQ, Driffield Showground, on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd August. TIR is an associate sponsor of the event, which is part of the popular Truckfest series of truck-themed festivals featuring family entertainment, stalls, live music and a truckers’ “It’s A Knockout”….
‘NO SOUP!’ Productions was started in 2008 by Rosie Bristow and Kerrin Tatman in Beverley and is now in it’s 3rd year of business. After the success of ‘The Death of Isabella Bird’ in Beverley and ‘Wondering’ which went on tour around the country, NO SOUP has written another play, ‘Marvell at Midnight’. The production takes the audience to 1930’s Hull and follows the stories of a range of interesting…
