What`s On

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What`s On

What’s On
January » April 2011
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Welcome
There’s plenty to get excited
This season, there’s plenty to
Come along to events and
about this season with The
see including Dave Spikey, Paper
support us to keep us as
Met building on our reputation
Birds, Roddy Woomble, Seth
one of the best independent
The Met is run by Bury
for attracting the very best
Lakeman and Mike Harding.
art centres in the UK.
Metropolitan Arts Association,
in touring artists to Bury.
We welcomed a record number
David Agnew, Director
a registered charity (No 701879).
We’re also making a number of
of visitors last year with plenty
We gratefully acknowledge
changes to the venue, including
of sell outs. Make sure you
the support of our funders:
a new recording studio opening
book early for this season
And of our sponsors:
Paper made from an FSC
accredited sustainable
source, using vegetable based inks.
Please recycle this brochure.
in April 2011. We’ve built a new
and avoid missing
studio space and made upgrades
out on these
to make your visit even more
fantastic
of an exciting experience.
artists.
Uiscedwr and Mat Walklate jam in
The Met’s Malt bar, December 2010
Manc Floyd
C O M E D Y Dave Spikey
Thursday 20 & Wednesday 26
January 8pm / £15 / £14 conc
The legendary comedian
returns for a warm up in aid
of the Charity Paws 4 Kids.
R O C K & P O P C O M E D Y R O C K & P O P Manc Floyd
Laughing
Horse Comedy
Competition
Whole
Lotta Led
Full Circle 2011
Sat 15 January 8.30pm / £10
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the
Moon is one of the biggest
selling albums in musical history.
Wednesday 19
Led Zep IV show
January 8.30pm / £5
Friday 21 January 8.30pm
Released in 1973, it stayed on
The Met is once again the venue
the US Billboard Album Charts
for the northern heat of this
for 741 weeks continuously, the
prestigious national comedy
longest duration of any album ever. competition featuring a selection
In this concert tribute band
Manc Floyd perform the album
in its entirety, as well as
of acts who will compete for
a chance of fame where you
the audience are the judges!
£12 advance / £14 door
Whole Lotta Led pay tribute to
Led Zeppelin with a mixture of
Zep classics alongside the whole
of the Led Zeppelin IV album.
Given the thumbs-up by no less
a guitar god than Jimmy Page
classics from Animals, Wish
So come along and cheer a
himself, Whole Lotta Led are
You Were Here and The Wall.
local through to the finals.
the Led Zeppelin tribute band.
Dave Spikey
D R A M A J A Z Z Call Mr Robeson
Written and Performed by Tayo Aluko
Wednesday 26 January 8pm
£10 / £6 concession & members
Tayo Aluko’s one
man show is a roller
coaster journey through
the life of African
American actor, singer
and activist Paul Robeson.
An internationally known
star of the stage in the 1920s,
in later years Robeson became
increasingly political, fighting racial
segregation and supporting socialism.
Call Mr Robeson highlights how his activism
caused him to be disowned and disremembered,
even by the leaders of the civil rights movement.
The Swing
Commanders
Thursday 27 January 8pm / £10 / £9 concession & members
Europe’s number one Western
have emerged as international
Swing sextet are are back at
artistes with their unique
The Met, with their new line
rendition of popular music
The play features some of Robeson’s most famous songs
up, bigger and better than
from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s.
and speeches, including a dramatic rendition of Ol’ Man River.
ever. The Swing Commanders
Prepare for a great night out!
R ock & P op Thea Gilmore
Friday 28 January 8pm / £16 seated / £14 standing
Acclaimed as the finest UK singer- “The most coherent, literate
songwriter of her generation,
and charged British singer-
Thea Gilmore has blazed a trail of
songwriter of her generation...
quality and artistic independence.
makes mincemeat of the
She has collaborated and shared
current propensity for
stages with The Waterboys,
feyness” **** MOJO
F olk R oots Richard
Wood
Joan Baez, Steve Earle, Martha
Wainwright and Beth Orton.
A Mr Kite Benefit.
F A M I L Y Room in the Sky
Saturday 29 January 8pm
Lyngo Theatre Company
Saturday 29 January 1pm / £6 / £4 members
The sky is so much bigger than
You can join in on stage or stay
£12 / £10 conc & members
Dynamic celtic fiddle playing
from Canadian Richard Wood.
the earth and everything comes
in your seat as the action is
A foot-tapping collection of
from it - light and shadow,
brought to you by CBeebies’
celtic jigs, reels, strathspeys, and
clouds and rain and all the green
Razzle Dazzle and Let’s
clogs - traditional dance tunes,
grass and the woolly sheep.
Celebrate star Patrick Lynch.
and new material inspired by
Two clowns play with all the
The world will seem a bigger
sky things and get everyone
place afterwards... Ages 5-10.
else to play with them too.
his love of Scottish folk music.
“The most entertaining fiddler I
have ever seen.” Shetland Times
D R A M A The Ring
of Stones
Presented by t-Chi Productions
Thursday 3 February 7.30pm
R O C K & P O P Roddy
Woomble
£8 / £6 concession
F A M I L Y S H O W Who’s Been
Sitting in
My Chair?
Freehand Theatre
Saturday 5 February 1pm
The inspiring musical about the
£6 / £4 members
plague village of Eyam returns
A musical version of the well
to raise money for British forces
known tale – with porridge and
charity Help for Heroes.
bears and one two three chairs.
A cast of eighteen, full orchestra
Think you know this story? It’s
and original songs. Powerful
not easy to tell when it’s winter
musical theatre with laughter
and the bears won’t wake up.
and tears in equal measure.
But spring puts a spring in our
C omedy steps – and one little girl is
First Thursday
Comedy Club
always a step ahead… Ages 3-7.
Thursday 3 February
8.30pm / £8
Featuring comedians George
Friday 4 February 8pm / £16
Familiar to many thousands
He follows up his acclaimed
of music fans as the front
2006 solo debut My Secret
man in the Scottish rock band
is My Silence with a tour
Idlewild, Roddy Woomble
promoting his new album.
Egg, Daliso Chapondra, Phil
is also a celebrated solo
Buckley and Paul Savage.
songwriter and performer.
A Mr Kite Benefit.
R ock & P op F O L K R O O T S From Stormy Monday via
Vin
Sandy Wright
Vin Garbutt
Handbags and Glad Rags to his
Garbutt
and The Toxic Cowboys
number one hit Out of Time.
Thursday 10 February 8pm
F O L K R O O T S moving, inspired, funny and gut
ahab
best kept secret. A renowned
wrenchingly honest. This singer
Friday 11 February 8.30pm
songwriter, his works have
songwriter is a BBC Folk Award
Sandy Wright is Scotland’s
Vin Garbutt’s music is powerful,
been performed by Eddi
winner (and many times nominee)
Reader, Lau, Kris Drever,
and has been at the forefront of
Karine Polwart, Chris Wood,
the folk world for many years.
Roddy Woomble and Boo
Hewerdine. In his sixtieth
year he released his
first album The Songs
of Sandy Wright.
With a band behind
him Sandy was
quickly invited
to play at the
Edinburgh
Fringe and
R O C K & P O P Ahab emerged from the vibrant
music scene in Hoxton and
Shoreditch, the creative heart of
north London. The band share
a love of American music and
Chris Farlowe
songwriting, and honed their
with The Norman Beaker Band
skills busking throughout London.
Friday 11 February 8pm / £15
Mixing Americana with a British
folk-rock sensibility, Ahab’s
An unmissable evening of soul
music has a laid-back swing
and blues from this legendary
but there’s also an undercurrent
singer with a staggering fifty
of indie edginess – a lot like
years in the business.
the popular Munford & Sons.
will embark
Chris has guested with the
upon his
greats, including Van Morrison
“Ahab is the real deal – topnotch UK Americana featuring
first ever
and toured with The Manfreds,
tight four-piece harmonies.”
UK tour.
Alan Price and many others.
Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2
Chris
Farlowe
R O C K & P O P F O L K R O O T S Man Made Sole
Saturday 12 February 8.30pm / £12.50 / Standing
Man Made Sole
Man Made Sole return to The Met
Performing songs from Stevie
to raise money for the NSPCC
Wonder to Amy Winehouse,
charity. This twelve piece band
from Chic to The Commitments,
guarantee to get you off your
Man Made Sole always
seat and on to the dance floor.
get the place jumping.
D R A M A Others
Paper Birds Theatre Company
Wednesday 16 February 7.30pm
Iranian artist, Paper Birds offer a
visual and political exploration of
Other women, deconstructing the
Others
stories and voices of women from
the East and West, from different
Paper, pens and envelopes offer
peepholes into strangers’ worlds;
ahab
sides of the television screen
and different sides of the law.
Emily
Portman
Inspired by folktales and
ballads, Emily Portman
weaves harmony-rich
narratives relaying female
experience. These visions
of a darker Albion conjure
landscapes where mythical
where secrets, self portraits and
Through live music, movement
sirens collide in urban
confessions are shared through a
and verbatim text, The Paper
backstreets. Emily’s first
series of armchair interrogations.
Birds attempt to represent three
album has been received with
Based on a six-month exchange
absent women and question if it
overwhelming acclaim. with
of letters and emails with a
is possible to better understand
The Observer hailing it “A
prisoner, a celebrity and an
other women or indeed ourselves.
remarkable and original debut.”
C O M E D Y Buzz Hawkins
Half-term holiday fun for kids...
TTFN Tour 2011
F A M I L Y S H O W How the Koala
Learned to Hug
Friday 18 February 8pm
£15 / £12.50 concession
Rib-cracking comedy sketches
People’s Theatre Company
and daft bits from a lifetime
on the radio, crammed into
one bazzin’ show for old times
sake. Buzz Hawkins looks back
at The Bradshaws an’ all that...
and forward to the all new
Bradshaws animation series.
B L U E S Monday 21 February 1pm
F A M I L Y S H O W A Little Bird
Told Me
Snail Tales
£6 / £4 members
£6 / £4 members
Written for parents to enjoy
with their children, this is a
charming tale about the magic
of family and, of course, the
importance of a nice warm hug!
F A M I L Y S H O W Elmer the
Elephant
Blunderbus Theatre Company
£8 / £6 children & concession
Green Mac
Enter the world of wizards,
Friday 18 February
witches and magical animals
games and first class hugging.
patchwork. He was yellow and red
8.30pm / £8
brought to life with music,
All you
and pink and purple and blue and
puppetry, ventriloquism, audience
need
green and black and white. But
participation and a touch of magic!
are
he was not elephant-coloured…
Green Mac showcase the extraordinary talents of Peter Green’s
Fleetwood Mac from 1967-70.
Delightfully absurd and always
Featuring classics including
colourful, curious and fun, the
Albatross, Man Of The World and
stories explore everything
Black Magic Woman, they perform
from helpful gazelles to
the blues Peter Green style!
dragon poo. Ages 3 to 11.
Join us for some great stories,
sing-along songs, superb
your
ears
(and your
arms!).
Ages 4+.
Elmer was different. Elmer was
Based on David McKee’s bestselling book, this fun-filled show
bursts to life with jungle characters,
catchy songs, and beautiful
hand-crafted puppets! Ages 4+.
F olk R ock C omedy Teddy
Thompson
Mike Harding
Saturday 19 February 7.30pm
Wednesday 23 February 8pm / £15
Supported by David Ford
£15 advance / £16 door / Standing
Son of folk rock royalty Richard and
Linda but don’t let the good manners,
pretty melodies and folk legacy
fool you. Teddy Thompson is a
seething ball of malcontent
brought up on a diet of classic
country music, merging
the writing skills of Dad
with the vocal grace of
Mum; not a bad start.
Here are real songs of
heartbreak; bitter lyrics and
intricate pop. Introspective
but never dreary. With
In this, his first tour
for fifteen years Mike
Harding returns to his
roots with a vengeance.
With a couple of
guitars and more than
forty years of material
to draw on, Mike will
lead you into his own
comic world with
stories and songs that
have had audiences
collapse with laughter
from Sydney to
Stockton, Hong Kong
echoes of U2, Springsteen
to Huddersfield. An
and Jackson Browne, there’s
evening of songs,
plenty of foot-stomping to
Teddy Thompson
Me, a guitar and
some daft stuff
go with the melodrama.
daft stories and
monologues.
Mike Harding
C O M E D Y F O L K R O O T S Tom Stade
Emily Smith
As seen on BBC 1 Michael
Emily Smith is a leading light
McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow
of the contemporary Scottish
and BBC 2 Mock The Week.
folk scene. Her powerful, clear
vocals have gained her award
This clever and controversial
winning, worldwide recognition.
Canadian tackles a huge range
of topics, from the obscure
Emily comes to The Met with
to the familiar, from simple
songs from Traiveller’s Joy, her
gags to quirky anecdotes with
stunning new album of songs
unexpected punchlines.
written and gathered on the road.
F O L K R O O T S Lau
Saturday 26 February 8pm / £15 / £12 concession & members
Twice a sell out with Met
most innovative exponents
audiences in the past two years,
of modern traditional music
best group at the BBC Radio
in Scotland today: Kris Drever
2 Folk Awards for two years
(guitar and vocal); Martin
running, Lau is a formidable
Green (piano accordion); and
union of three of the finest and
Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle).
D R A M A When Will I
Be Famous?
C O M E D Y Three Bonzos and a Piano
Hard Graft Theatre Company
Wednesday 2 March 8pm
How easy is it to become famous?
After last year’s hit comedy Poles
Apart, Hard Graft return with a
brand new show. This time they’ll
be trying to become famous in
three months. To watch their
celebrity film go to hardgraft.co.uk
A M E R I C A N A C omedy Eve Selis
First Thursday
Comedy Club
Wed 2 March 8pm / £10
San Diego’s queen of Americana
returns to The Met. Eve blends
Thursday 3 March
8.30pm / £8
Friday 4 March 8pm / £15
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Three Bonzos and a Piano will
fans will be delighted to
provide a very entertaining, life
learn that Roger Ruskin
affirming ‘hair of the dog’.
Spear, Rodney Slater and Sam
Dadaism for the New Age
Spoons have teamed up with
delivered by the Old Sculptors
many styles of American music
This month’s comedy club
super-pianist Dave Glasson
of Surrealism - Vivian
into a high calibre cocktail topped
features the hilarious Dame
to create more fun, music and
Stanshall’s legacy is heartily
Mandy Knight, Jonathan Mayor,
subversive diversion in the
celebrated. A guaranteed
Andy Watson and Duncan Oakley.
spirit of the ageless band.
hilarious evening of comedy.
off with a splash of her delicious
“lemonade and whiskey” voice.
V ariety with her heartfelt singing offset
Bury’s Got
Talent 2011
with wonderful stories.
song, whether it’s one of her own
from 10am / Free to enter
melancolic compositions or a
dancer, a singer or a songwriter?
A member of a band, dance
troupe or choir? Can you perform
a novelty or variety act?
Then why not audition for a place
in this year’s Bury’s Got Talent
Ben Waters
communicate the message of a
Auditions Saturday 5 March
Are you a comedian, a magician, a
Edwina Hayes
She has a special ability to
competition? To book a place
call Anton on 07765 873 612.
Part of “So You Think
You’ve Got Talent 2011”.
F olk R oots Edwina Hayes
Saturday 5 March 8pm
more familiar cover version. She
has just released her third album
Good Things Happen Over Coffee.
D rama Fame
PADOS Youth Theatre
Tue 8 - Fri 11 March 7.30pm
Sat 12 March 2.30pm & 7.30pm
£7 Tue & Sat matinee
£8 all other performances
It is nothing short of a global
B lues Ben
Waters Trio
phenomenon. From the hit
movie and long-running TV
series to the recent smashhit West End musical, Fame is
indeed gonna live forever.
Set during the last years of
£12 seated / £10 standing
New York’s celebrated High
Top flight blues pianist Ben Waters
brings his band to Bury for some
hot New Orleans-style blues,
rock’n’roll and boogie woogie.
One of the UK’s finest pianists,
and humorous performers, Ben
takes time off from his big band
School for the Performing
Arts, Fame is an inspiring
story of a group of students
as they commit to four
years of grueling artistic
and academic work.
PADOS Youth Theatre return
Edwina Hayes’ performances are
project to make a welcome
following their sell-out
full of warmth and immediacy,
return to smaller venues.
success with Les Miserables.
R ock & P op W orkshop F olk R oots Where Blues
Meets Hip Hop
Dàimh
The Roots of Popular Music
Saturday 12 March 4pm / £4
James
Grant
Friday 11 March 8pm
energy, fast-flowing mixture
with this dynamic Gaelic
of tunes, fusing together their
six-piece playing Scots, Irish
individual styles on bagpipes,
popular music and the musical
and Cape Breton music.
elements of rhythm and
melody. Learn how to use
rhythm and melody to explore
the links between blues and
hip hop. With Ty Garner.
B lues songwriters in the UK, James
Grant is probably best known
for his work with Love and
Money and Karen Matheson.
Celebrate St Patrick’s Day
Looking at the history of
Ty Garner
One of the most talented
Thursday 17 March 8pm / £12 / £10 concession & members
This group are immensely
talented with a live energy
fiddle, banjo, guitar, bodhran
and mandola to create a
unique and compelling sound.
rarely rivaled, Dàimh (Dive)
Featuring Gaelic Mod Gold
offer a fresh, up to date
Medalist, Calum Alex
approach to traditional music.
Macmillan on vocals, Dàimh
An exciting combination of
released their most recent
musicians perform a high
album Diversions last year.
Ty Garner performs original
His solo career has been equally
songs inspired from life and from
successful, with strong influences
living life! His new album, My
of Scott Walker and John Martyn
Internet Baby has a world class
in his work. His fifth album,
line-up of musicians who create
Strange Flowers was released
a cultural mix of blues roots,
last year to great acclaim.
jazz, psychedelia and beyond.
Dàimh
A mericana F O L K R O O T S A mericana Matt Andersen
Seth Lakeman Trio
Coal Porters
Featuring Seth Lakeman, Benji Kirkpatrick and Cormac Byrne
with special guest Sam Carter
Thursday 17 March 8pm
At the Grant Arms, Ramsbottom
Canadian Matt Andersen has a
larger than life showmanship
that has been earning him a
fervent and steadfast audience
wherever he graces the stage.
Friday 18 March 8pm
Widely regarded
£17 Seated / £15 Standing
His most recent
as the UK’s
album, Hearts
foremost
and Minds was
folk singer-
released this year.
songwriter,
Seth Lakeman
takes the
established folk
orthodoxy and
turns it on its head.
The spirit of the
rock band meets
the timeless and
Armed with a
“killer voice” (Nitin
Sawhney) and the
ability to play
his guitar “like a
harp” (Time Out),
special guest Sam
Carter made his
mark with his debut
heartfelt subject
album Keepsakes
matter of the folk
last year which led to
tale in a blur of fiddle,
Matt’s sprawling blues, roots
acoustic guitar and foot-
and rock musical hybrid with his
stomping rhythms, with
sorrowing and soulful voice has
Seth’s unmistakable
sparked a phenomenal buzz.
vocals riding the wave.
a BBC Radio 2 Folk
Awards Horizon
Award for best
newcomer
of 2010.
The Coal Porters started
life as a folk band but have
metamorphosed into an
authentic all-acoustic bluegrass
band and never looked back.
Their albums The Chris Hillman
Tribute Concerts and Turn The
Water On, Boy! built on this
exciting new acoustic format,
which audiences across the
country instantly warmed to.
Their new album Durango has
just been released to rave reviews
from Q and Uncut amongst others.
D rama R O C K & P O P Optimism
Fuzzy Logic Theatre Company
Dave Rotheray’s
Life of Birds
Wednesday 23 March 7.30pm
Wednesday 23 March 8pm / £15
The former Beautiful South guitarist
brings his modern folk concept
Optimism
album to The Met. With guests
Bella Hardy, Jim Causley and
You want to be loved. People
Damon Butcher (Beautiful South).
love lambs, so... become a lamb.
R ock & P op Most people know when they’ve
The Enid
made a wrong decision. But
what happens when someone is
convinced theirs is the right one?
Optimism is a twisted tale
£17 / Standing
Dave Rotheray’s
Life of Birds
The Enid are the world’s foremost
of desire and self worth told
through the eyes of an idiot.
Blending dark clown with
symphonic rock band fusing rock
The Enid
music with the power, dynamics
and scale of symphonic classical
multimedia and unusual
music. The masters of their art,
physicality, this production
their achievement spans more
is both brutal and dreamlike,
than twenty years. The band have
presenting a constant stream
just released Journey’s End, a
of unlikely characters, peculiar
powerful, romantic, uplifting and
situations and striking visuals.
thought provoking new album.
J A Z Z King Pleasure
& the Biscuit Boys
Friday 25 March 8pm / £12 / £10 concession & members
King Pleasure and the Biscuit
Atomic Magazine from New
Boys are more than just the
York wrote “To those who say
world’s greatest swing band,
that swing is a musical form
they are an institution! Paul
best left to Americans, prepare
Jones on BBC Radio 2 called
to be proven wrong. This British
them “the hardest act to follow
combo is bullet-proof!”.
since the parting of The Red Sea”,
F O L K R O O T S V ariety The Urban
Folk Quartet
Saturday 26 March 8pm / £10
Bury’s Got
Talent 2011
Semi Final
The Urban Folk Quartet (Joe
Sunday 27 March 7.30pm
Broughton, Paloma Trigas, Frank
£6.50 / £6 groups of 10+
Moon and Tom Chapman) is a
coming together of four of the
most inspired and experienced
young people working in music
today. Band members have
played with The Chieftains, The
An evening of entertainment and
variety as the best of the Bury’s
Got Talent 2011 auditionees
take to the stage to compete
for a place in this years final!
Albion Band, Chris While and
Presented by Platinum
Bellowhead amongst others.
Productions and Promotions.
D rama F O L K R O O T S The Birthday
of the Infanta
Rua Macmillan and
Ewan Robertson
Trestle Theatre Company
Wednesday 30 March 7.30pm / £10 / £6 concession & members
Adults and young people alike
Adapted from Oscar Wilde’s
are invited by the Infanta, the
story and performed in Trestle’s
Spanish princess, to her twelfth
unique physical style, The
birthday party, the only day
Birthday of the Infanta takes
of the year she is allowed to
you on a compelling journey,
play with other children. But
through the constraints of
mixing with those not of her
social hierarchies to the
own rank comes at a price…
price paid for love. Ages 9+.
Both winners of BBC Radio
Scotland’s Young Traditional
Musician of the Year award,
Ewan Robertson and Rua
Macmillan join forces to create
one of the most dynamic
duos on the folk circuit.
Ewan is best known for his work
with the popular Breabach. He
Rua is a celebrated solo musician
has just released his debut
and released his debut album
album, Some Kind of Certainty.
Tyro last year to great acclaim.
J azz It Might As Well Be Spring Metro Jazz
Tuesday 29 March 7.30pm / £6
Put a spring in your step with a selection of great tunes from Metro
Jazz, The Met’s community jazz orchestra, led by Munch Manship.
R O C K & P O P F olk R oots Never For Ever
The Chair
A tribute to Kate Bush
Friday 1 April 8pm
Alan
Fats
Price
Waller
Never For Ever are a four
piece band dedicated to re-
R O C K & P O P J azz Alan Price
52 Skidoo
£20 / £17.50 conc & members
Alan Price began his world class
musical career in the early sixties
as arranger and keyboardist for
legendary rock group The Animals.
A tribute to Fats Waller
experience that is Kate Bush.
The show includes all the
Hailing from Orkney, this is The
Chair’s first ever non-festival
gig south of the border. In 2007
they won Best New Act award at
Celtic Connections Open Stage,
and just one year later were
hits, and uses costumes and
named Best Band at the Scots
Friday 1 April 8pm
movement based on the
Trad Music Awards. With twin
original videos and footage
fiddles, banjo, accordion, guitar,
from the only live tour.
bass and percussion, The Chair
Three-piece 52 Skidoo are
a tribute to legendary ’20s
With the emphasis on
jazz pianist Fats Waller.
attention to detail, Never
In 1965, he formed the Alan Price
They bring back to life the
Set, with whom he recorded a
era of prohibition, speakeasys,
string of chart topping hits. In
vaudeville, rent parties, Harlem
the late sixties he embarked
stride piano and hot jazz.
on a distinguished solo career.
creating the music and visual
Saturday 2 April 8pm
For Ever are as close as you’ll
get to the real Kate Bush.
Join the band at new show,
Alan continues to produce his
The Joint is Jumpin as they invite
unique brand of music, and he
you to a 1920’s stride piano
The
performs regularly across Europe.
party in the heart of Harlem.
Chair
are about energy,
fun, and great
traditional
music.
P O E T R Y The David
Wax Museum
The Ian McMillan
Orchestra
Friday 8 April 8pm
£14 / £10 concs
Yorkshire
words and
European
music
A mericana With Latin rhythms, call-and-
The David
Wax Museum
response hollering, accordion
Wednesday 6 April 8pm
The David Wax Museum
(“one of Boston’s hottest
new bands” The Boston
Globe) fuses exuberant
Mexican roots music with
homegrown American country
pumping and donkey jawbone
rattling, they have won over
audiences internationally.
C omedy First Thursday
Comedy Club
Thursday 7 April
8.30pm / £8
from poet,
broadcaster
and comedian
Ian McMillan,
composer Luke
Carver Goss
and friends.
Ian hosts weekly hit
radio show The Verb. He’s
The Today Programme, You
Yorkshire Planetarium’s Poet
& Yours, Any Questions,
in Space, Poet-in-Residence
Quote Unquote, Just A
for Barnsley FC, Humberside
Minute and Have I Got News
Police’s Beat Poet, Yorkshire
For You? His rip-roaring
folk, creating a unique
Comedy with Tony Burgess, Gus
TV’s Investigative Poet and a
poetry shows are legendary.
Mexo-Americana sound.
Tawse, Adam Staunton and more.
regular on Newsnight Review,
Cats make him sneeze.
F O L K R O O T S D R A M A D rama Jesus Christ
Superstar
PADOS Theatre Group
Tue 12 - Fri 15 April 7.30pm / Sat 16 April 2.30pm & 7.30pm
anniversary of the premiere
nearly 1000 performances.
Monkey Poet’s
Welcome to
Afghanistan!
of Jesus Christ Superstar,
Since then and thanks
Thursday 14 April 7.30pm
Tim Rice and Andrew
to worldwide touring
Lloyd Webber’s smash
productions and revivals on
hit musical sensation
some of the most prestigious
based on St John’s Gospel
stages, Jesus Christ Superstar
account of the last week
has become a phenomenon
of Jesus’ life.
enjoyed by millions.
£8 Tue / £12 Sat evening / £10 all other performances
Karine
Polwart
Trio
PADOS Theatre Group will
The show premiered on
be marking the fortieth
Broadway in 1971 and ran for
In the last two centuries,
Britain has fought three
brutal wars in Afghanistan.
This new black comedy jumps
back in time to the 1830s to look
at the first and most disastrous
Twice winner of Best Original
Song at the BBC Folk Awards,
Karine Polwart combines the
economy and universality of
of these. Drawing on eye witness
testimony, it weaves a vivid tale
of cynical politicians, bumbling
generals and weary squaddies.
the folk storytelling tradition
A double bill with Monkey
with a probing intellect and
Poet’s Welcome to the UK!, a
compassionate lyricism.
hilarious look at modern Britain.
F olk R oots R ock & P op Buddy
Findlay
Napier
Jane Taylor
Band
Fri 15 April 8pm / £8 advance / £10 door
Findlay leads the Scottish nu-folk
Jane Taylor is no ordinary singer/
revolution with anthemic tales of love,
songwriter. She has an intangible
B lues debauchery and sin. Napier has been
magic in her voice, the kind
emerging as a songwriter of
that draws you in and holds
increasingly impressive
you. Honest, real songwriting
Buddy
Whittington
Whittington
stature for some years
are combined with smoky, sassy,
now, in his Queen’s
sultry melodies with a razor sharp
Anne’s Revenge side-
lyrical bite. Beautiful... Song
project as well as
writing at it’s absolute best.
Thursday 21 April 8pm
Lead guitarist in John Mayall’s
The Bluesbreakers, Buddy
with Back of the
Jane
Moon’s repertoire.
Taylor
Napier is clearly
Whittington is now a solo artist
playing a mix of original material,
classic blues from the likes of
relishing the
BB and Freddie King to Delbert
chance to put his
McClinton and Warren Haynes.
own work centre
stage, and it certainly
Buddy’s passionate guitar
merits such standing,
playing has earned him many
especially matched with
plaudits, including an appearance
his colourfully expressive,
Findlay
in Guitarist Magazine’s 100
thrillingly powerful voice.
Napier
Top Unsung Guitarists.
F olk R ock Silver
Dogs
Stig of the Dump
Wolf Tales
F olk R oots Katriona
Gilmore and
Jamie Roberts
BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award
nominees Katriona Gilmore
(ex-Tiny Tin Lady) and Jamie
Roberts (Kerfuffle) perform
material ranging from
blazing instrumentals to
contemporary arrangements
of traditional songs.
Their first album Shadows &
Half Light was described as
“inspired” by fRoots and awarded
five stars by Rock’n’Reel .
Silver Dog’s six members
Fun for the Easter holiday...
are drawn from a variety
F amily S how F amily S how of musical backgrounds
classical) which results in an
Stig of
the Dump
Wolf Tales
experience unlike that of any
Image Musical Theatre
(including rock, soul, blues and
other English folk rock band.
The band’s live set is built
around original interpretations
of traditional songs, stories
and legends. Blending acoustic,
ambient and rock elements,
Silver Dogs will appeal to lovers
of folk and rock music alike.
Saturday 23 April 2.30pm
£6 / £4 members
Pickled Image
Wednesday 27 April 2.30pm
£8 / £6 children & concession
He’s big, he’s bad and very, very
Clive King’s story of Barney and
hairy but underneath he’s not
his Neolithic friend Stig has
that scary! Meet the Wolf, here
been a favourite since the sixties.
to set the record straight. Little
Barney and Stig’s adventures
Red Riding Hood is not the
in and around the chalk pit
innocent she pretends to be, and
culminate in a journey back in
as for those three little pigs...
time to the days when there were
only Stigs and stone circles.
Pickled Image use puppetry,
shadows, recipes and songs to
Beautiful costumes, an ingenious
create a hilarious look at the
set and wonderful music. Ages 5+.
truth behind fairy tales. Ages 5+.
F O L K R O O T S Damien O’Kane
Damien O’Kane has a growing
reputation as a creative and
F O L K R O O T S exciting musician and singer,
The Demon
Barbers
regarded as one of the finest Irish
players on the scene. Best known
J A Z Z Stacey Kent
and Flook, he has recently been
Thursday 28 April 8pm / £17.50
Damien’s debut solo album
Stacey Kent, a best-selling
She has just released her
member of the Blue Note
new album, Raconte-Moi.
roster of recording artists,
now boasts six best-selling
albums, a string of awards,
including the British Jazz
Award, The BBC Jazz Award
for ‘Best Vocalist’, and Album
“She has charm to burn, a
smile that could give you
for his work with Shona Kipling
a member of Kate Rusby’s band.
Summer Hill was released last
year to great acclaim.
Friday 29 April 8pm
Youthful, charismatic and with
bags of attitude, The Demon
Barbers combine traditional
instruments with the oomph of
a superb rhythm section, making
a unique and captivating sound.
hope in February and sings
Taking traditional ballads, they
like nobody’s business”
make strange and dark tales of
The Wall Street Journal
Gothic danger; they don’t so
of the Year, as well as a fan
Featuring Jim Tomlinson on
base that enables her to
saxes, Graham Harvey on
sell-out concert halls around
piano, Jeremy Brown on bass
the world.
and Matt Skelton on Drums.
much make folk rock as make it
quiver and pulse with electricity.
“one of the most exciting acts
around... check them out...” fRoots
Christian Bök
Coming The Big
Soon
Whistle
Festival
Tickets on sale
from January!
Nine Below Zero
Thursday 5 May 8pm / £15
T e x t Sound
and Dark
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Hull Truck Theatre Company
Wednesday 11 May 8pm
Text Festival
Saturday 30 April 7.30pm
John Spiers
& Jon Boden
A dramatically constructed
evening of experimental
sound-poetry including the
Fri 6 & Sat 7 May
Featuring…
Michael
McGoldrick
Lúnasa
Future Trad Collective
Ross & Jarlath …and many more!
The Big Whistle Festival features the UK’s finest folk musicians
performing and teaching the whistle. Whether you’re a seasoned
professional or just starting out, there’s a class for you!
first UK performance by
acclaimed Canadian poet
Spiers and Boden
Lucy Kaplansky
Christian Bök, the author of
Friday 13 May 8pm
Saturday 14 May 8pm
the acclaimed Crystallography.
Blazin’ Fiddles
Hot Club of Cowtown
Saturday 21 May 8pm / £15
Blazin’ Fiddles
Thursday 23 June 8pm
Session A9
Sunday 22 May 8pm
Arthur Smith
Wednesday 29 June 8pm
Chris and Kellie While
Thursday 26 May 8pm
Lucy Kaplansky
Belshazzers Feast
Night of the Guitars
Featuring Martin Turners
Saturday 28 May 8pm
Wishbone Ash and Skinny Molly
Orkestra del Sol
Sunday 15 May 8pm / £15
Friday 3 June 8pm / £10
Mad, Bad and
Cara Dillon
Dangerous to Know
Saturday 4 June 8pm / £20
The Blues Band
Wednesday 8 June 8pm / £20
John Otway
and Wild Willy Barrett
MsFits Theatre Company
Thursday 9 June 8pm
Tuesday 17 May 7.30pm
Iona
Friday 10 June 8pm / £17.50
Fairport Acoustic Convention
Danú
Thursday 19 May 8pm
Wednesday 15 June 8pm
Le Vent Du Nord
The songs of Leonard Cohen
Friday 20 May 8pm
The Blues Band
Keith James
Saturday 18 June 8pm / £10
Cara
Dillon
Exhibition
Joy Division
Photographs by Martin O’Neill
take
part
Classes &
Streetwise
Drama
Met Express
Mon 7.30pm-9pm
Tues 10.30am-noon & 7.30-9pm
Mondays 5pm-7pm
A weekly drama session for young
adults. Contact 0161 253 6476.
Metro Jazz
accepting new members.
£70 (£50 conc) per term
Stagecoach
Led by Munch Manship. Front
Tuesdays 5pm-7pm
line musicians needed for
From Bury Youth Service, led by
Sundays 10am-1pm
The Met’s community jazz
MaD Theatre. email D.Cretney@
With Ruth Mauriello. For 6-16
orchestra. Over 16s only.
bury.gov.uk for information.
year olds with an interest in
Bury Youth Dance
Mondays 6.30pm-9.30pm
In the Main Theatre Foyer
This group is not currently
Black Pudding
Youth Theatre
Workshops
January, February & March
Drama for people with disabilities.
Martin O’Neill’s photographs
dance, drama and music. For
show legendary Manchester
more information call 0161 763
band Joy Division playing live
6161 or 07738267346.
Tuesdays 5pm-7pm
at Bowdon Vale Youth Club
Bury Boys
Break-Dance
Led by Claire Fildes.
Auditions for places January 10
their creativity through dance
Monday 4pm-5.30pm / £3
for performance. Participants are
in February 1979, over a year
before their infamous show
at The Met. They capture the
intimacy of the gig, which
took place on a tiny stage in
front of around 150 teenagers.
For 11-17 years olds interested
in dance. Young people explore
A break-dance crew for boys
from ages 11-16. Learn break
invited by audition. The group
Bury
has recently been working on a
A book of Martin’s
dance moves and stunts. All
Youth
dance for ﬁlm project with ﬁlm
photographs will be on sale.
levels of experience welcome.
Dance
and dance artist Julia Griffin.
Salsa Beginner’s course
Script.com
Free taster Sat 15 Jan, 2-5pm
Wednesdays monthly
Then every Tuesday at 7.30pm
Interested in writing for TV,
from Tue 17 Jan for 8 weeks
theatre, radio or film? This
£6 per week / £42 for course
member led-group meets to
Work off those extra Christmas
share scripts, and offer support.
calories and learn to dance!
New members welcome. email
Learn a catalogue of steps and
Bury Youth Theatre
turn patterns, building them
into a routine that you can
[email protected].
Aiming High
be revised and added to in fun
Bury Youth
Theatre
Sing
Weds alternate weeks / £4
with disabilities or additional
and lively classes. No partner
Weds 5.30-7pm (9-13 yr olds)
Sing is a drop in group that
needs, from Bury Council Childrens
required but couples are very
Weds 7-9pm (14 yrs +)
gives anyone and everyone the
Services and The Met. Craft and
welcome. Casual clothing and
£2.50 per session
chance to enjoy the magic of
drama sessions, gallery and theatre
smooth soled shoes essential.
Led by Marc Young, Clare Fildes
group harmony singing, and to
visits. Build confidence, make
See you on the dancefloor!
and Sammy Deas. Bury Youth
experience a wide range of songs
friends and learn skills in a fun and
from many different genres.
creative environment.
practice and show off on any
dancefloor. Each week steps will
Saturdays 11am-1pm / £2
Weekly sessions for young people
Salsa Improver’s sessions
Theatre is a fun drama session
which takes place at The Met
The group sing unaccompanied
Tuesdays 8.45pm for 6 weeks
every Wednesday. BYT members
(acapella) and all songs are
Bloco Ashê
£6 per week / £36 for course
explore their creativity through
taught by ear – no music reading
Saturdays 11am-1pm
Do you already know how to
devising, improvising, games,
ability is necessary. This is a non-
£5 / £3 conc / £2 under 16s
dance, but want to improve
and other performance related
performing group – the focus
A welcoming and exciting samba
your skills? Come to these
activities whilst developing skills
is very much on having fun and
percussive workshop catering
weekly sessions and learn
such as team building, voice
enjoying singing for its own sake.
for beginners and beyond. The
how to raise your game.
projection and confidence!
Come along and see for yourself!
band welcomes new members.
Edwin Street
Recording
Studio
The Met is building on its
success as a top north west
folk venue by constructing a
recording studio to become
Food
& Drink
Start your evening with a meal at
The Met and end it with a drink
in one of our candle lit bars.
the region’s leading centre for
Eat in our restaurant Automatic,
traditional music performance,
serving fine food all day.
participation, education and
recording. The studio, set to
open in April 2011, will be a
facility for the community
Sample real ales or a selection
of fine whiskeys in our foyer
bar Malt, open every day.
and local musicians. This
Our first floor Theatre Bar offers a
professional space will support
range of beers and wines before,
talented musicians who would
during and after each show.
like to make music their career,
use music as a device to help
young people learn additional
skills and attract professionals
to train and record in Bury.
For information about courses
available, as well as costs for
hiring the studio, email hires@
themet.biz or call 0161 761 7107.
To book a table for
your meal,call
0161 763 9399
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