Music - 18/07/08

Jul 18 2008 by Michael Green, Flintshire Chronicle

MUSIC

FRIDAY

LIVERPOOL: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall presents The John Lennon Songbook at the Philharmonic Hall in Hope Street at 7.30pm. Ring 0151 709 3789.

LIVERPOOL: After Eight presents Ian Prowse in the Rodewald Suite at the Philharmonic Hall in Hope Street at 7.30pm. Ring 0151 709 3789.

LLANGOLLEN: Llangollen Fringe Festival, Llangollen Town Hall. Tickets from www.llangollenfringe.co.uk or 01978 860600. Acoustic band Show of Hands and double bass player Miranda Sykes.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents the launch party featuring Stuart McCallum, Chris Illingworth Trio, Beats and Pieces Big Band and DJs Ryan Hunn and Jonny Dub at The Deaf Institute at 8pm. Tickets £6 in advance, £8 on the door. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

SATURDAY

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Musical Walk on the Walls – noon and 4pm. Meet at Festival Hub @ Bollicini’s. Tickets free – maximum spaces 15, please call 01244 320 722 to book.

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Saxophone masterclass with Chester Summer Music Festival artist-in-residence John Harle from 11am-1pm, The King’s School, Wrexham Road, Chester. Tickets - children free, adults £5, refundable if a ticket for the John Harle evening concert is purchased also.

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Talk and concert by John Harle at the Grosvenor Museum at 5pm. Tickets free.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents Bossa Nouvelle at noon in St Ann’s Square. Free concert.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents the John Ellis Band at 1.45pm in St Ann’s Square. Free concert.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents 12twelve at 3.30pm in St Ann’s Square. Free concert.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents Lunnetta Dean at 5.30pm in the City Inn. Free concert.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents the Christine Tobin Band at the Royal Northern College of Music in Oxford Road at 7.30pm. Tickets £13.50, concessions £9.50. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents RKW in a World ‘n’ Jazz Style at Matt & Phred’s at 10pm. Tickets £5. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

SUNDAY

BIRKENHEAD: The “Big Easy” Jazz band are playing on the third Sunday of every month from 8pm at Melrose Hall, Hoylake.

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Alfie Boe performs La Passione at Chester Cathedral at 7.30pm. The Tony Award winner will explore the expressive and evocative tradition of Italian song, accompanied by an ensemble of top instrumentalists adding a wealth of colour to this musical landscape. Tickets £32, £28, £23, £14.

ELLESMERE PORT: Chester Summer Music Festival. Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, conducted by Matthew Wood with John Harle (saxophone), at 2.30pm at Whitby High School, Ellesmere Port. Tickets £3,under 18s free. Programme includes works by Von Suppe, Bizet, Morricone and Vaughan Williams.

GWERNYMYNYDD: Live music at the Owain Glyndwr Inn. Ring 01352 752913.

LIVERPOOL: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis, presents the Last Night of the Summer Pops at the Philharmonic Hall in Hope Street at 7.30pm. Ring 0151 709 3789.

LLANGOLLEN: Llangollen Fringe Festival, Llangollen Town Hall. Tickets from www.llangollenfringe.co.uk or 01978 860600. Misty’s Big Adventure and Thomas Truax.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents The Jazz Services Promotors Choice Showcase at the Bridgewater Hall featuring the Gareth Roberts Quintet at 1pm, Alcyona Mick Quintet at 2.15pm and Free Spirits at 3.30pm. Admission free. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents Latin big band La Gran Descarga and pianist Roberto Fonseca in concert at the Bridgewater Hall at 7.30pm. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MONDAY

BIRKENHEAD: The Jazzmen are playing at The Ship in Hoylake every Monday from 8.30pm.

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Adrian Ward (tenor) and Francois Salignat (piano) perform at St Mary’s Centre, Handbridge at 1pm. Tickets £8.

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Guy Johnston (cello) and Kathryn Stott (pianist) perform at the Wesley Methodist Church in St John Street at 7.30pm. Tickets £17.50.

CHESTER: Wall City Jazzmen with occasional guest artists, 8.15pm every Monday, Mill Hotel, Milton Street. Admission free. Ring 01244 350035.

GWERNYMYNYDD: Mountain Harmony ladies barbershop chorus rehearse every Monday (except first Monday of the month) in the village centre at 7.30pm.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents free concerts featuring the European Union Trio + 1 at 11.45am, The Wagon Train at 1pm at Bridgewater Hall, HB3 at 3pm at Leftbank Stage and Melonius Funk at 5pm at St Ann’s Square. Admission free. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents a double bill of pianist Danilo Rea and the Gabriele Mirabassi Trio at the Royal Northern College of Music in Oxford Road at 7.30pm. Tickets £13.50, concessions £9.50. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents the Arun Ghosh Indo-Jazz Sextet at Matt & Phred’s at 10pm. Tickets £5. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

WREXHAM: The Monday-at-12.30pm lunchtime organ recital in St Giles' Church is given by John Evans, organist at Hamilton Street Methodist Church, Hoole. Retiring collection. Lunch available from noon.

TUESDAY

BIRKENHEAD: Parade Jazzband playing at the Boathouse in Parkgate at 8.30pm

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Kathryn Rudge (mezzo soprano) with Jonathan Fisher (piano) perform songs by Handel, Mozart, Strauss and Mahler at St Mary’s Centre, Handbridge at 1pm. Tickets £8.

CHESTER: The Tuesdays-at-One lunchtime organ recital in St Werburgh's Church, Grosvenor Park Road, is given by David Evans, organist at St Margaret's Church, Garden Village, Wrexham. Retiring collection.

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. John Harle (saxophone) and Steve Lodder (pianist) perform works by John Dowland, Chick Corea, Bartok, Harle and Phil Wood at Wesley Methodist Church in St John Street at 7.30pm. Tickets are £17.50.

CHESTER: Chester Ladies Choir concert, conducted by Rodney T Jones, in aid of the Blacon Hospice branch, at Blacon Community Centre at 7.30pm.

HESWALL: The Peninsula Jazzmen at the Royal British Legion. Ring 0151 336 1190.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents free concerts featuring the Tom Sykes Quartet at St Ann’s Square at 11.45am, The Troubadors featuring Kirsty Almeida in the Bridgewater Hall foyer at 1pm, Alex Douglas and John Ellis on the Leftbank Stage at 3pm and the Brigitte Beraha Group in St Ann’s Square at 5pm. Admission free. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents a triple bill featuring The Owl Ensemble, Grew Quartet and Graham Clark & Graham Massey at the Royal Northern College of Music in Oxford Road at 7.30pm. Tickets £8, concessions £6. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents the Steve Grossman/Damon Brown Quintet at Matt & Phred’s at 10pm. Tickets £5. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

WEDNESDAY

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Sally Pryce (harp) perform works at 1pm at St John’s Church, Vicars Lane. Tickets £8.

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. I Fagiolini and Ensemble present Flaming Heart – the music of Claudio Monteverdi at Chester Cathedral at 7.30pm. Tickets £23, £20, £18, £12.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents free concerts featuring The MK-Ultras in St Ann’s Square at 11.45am, the Clark-Grew Duo in St Ann’s Square at 1pm, Lava on the Leftbank Stage at 3pm, and DrumCake in St Ann’s Square at 5pm. Admission free. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents the UK premiere of Ropes by renowned guitarist Mike Walker, featuring the 22-piece Madhouse Strings at the Royal Northern College of Music in Oxford Road at 7.30pm. Tickets £13.50, concessions £9.50. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents Killer Shrimp at Matt & Phred’s at 10pm. Tickets £7.50. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

PORT SUNLIGHT: Colwyn Male Voice Choir in concert at The Gladstone Theatre at 7.30pm in aid of the theatre's improvement fund appeal. Tickets at £6 and £7 available from the box office on 0151 643 8757.

RUTHIN - David Houlder, assistant organist at Leeds Parish Church, gives this week's organ recital in St. Peter's Church, Ruthin, at 8pm. Suggested donation £5.

THURSDAY

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Sunshine - Learn to love, featuring singer and keyboard player Kate Threlfall and Ashley Wood (saxophone) at Alexander’s Jazz Theatre at 8pm. Tickets £10.

CHESTER: Chester Summer Music Festival. Philip Rushforth plays music by Messiaen, Bach and Swayne, in his lunchtime organ recital in Chester Cathedral. Forming part of the Chester Summer Music Festival, it commences at 1.00pm and admission is £8.00.

LLANGOLLEN: Llangollen Fringe Festival presents a North Wales Jazz Society celebration of jazz guitar featuring Gary Potter, Trefor Owen, Billy Thompson and Bill Coleman at the Town Hall at 8pm. Admission £10.

MANCHESTER: Manchester Jazz Festival presents free concerts featuring Mrs Columbo in St Ann’s Square at 11.45am, George King in St Ann’s Church at 1pm, Tony Judge Quartet on the Leftbank Stage at 3pm and The Brothers Gris in St Ann’s Square at 5pm.. Admission free. Visit www.manchesterjazz.com or ring 0161 276 9350.

WIRRAL, Poulton Vics Social Club, Wallasey: Leasowe Castle Country and Western Music Club presents Joe & Jean

WIRRAL, Poulton Vics Social Club, Wallasey: Leasowe Castle Country and Western Music Club presents Red Dirt Duo.

WREXHAM: Wrexham Unplugged Folk and Acoustic Music host nights every first and third Thursday of the month in the Nag’s Head Inn, Wrexham. For details, ring Geoff Jones on 01978 755478 or Ian Chesterman on 01978 357307.