Elizabeth Sharkey - "Why Britain Rocked"
20/09/2024 - 7.30pm
Tickets - £12.50
Tickets - £12.50
Elizabeth Sharkey is music historian, voice over artist and best-selling author. Her book Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World travels deep into Britain's history to trace the events that led to its 20th century musical explosion - completely rewriting the history of British pop music. From the Celts to the Quakers, to Ira Aldridge and Paul Robeson, Why Britain Rocked breaks out of British pop history's twentieth century confines. “Prepare to be enlightened” Louder Than War
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The Phogues
21/09/2024 - 8.00pm
Tickets - £15.00
Tickets - £15.00
Endorsed by no other than the late great Shane MacGowan, Somerset's one and only Pogues tribute band The Phogues make their Bridgwater Arts Centre debut.
Expect the energy and excitement of a live Pogues performance, creating an unforgettable experience including renditions of songs such as Sally MacLennane, Dirty old Town, Rainy Night in Soho and Pair of Brown Eyes amongst other authentic renditions of the classic Pogues hits.
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Expect the energy and excitement of a live Pogues performance, creating an unforgettable experience including renditions of songs such as Sally MacLennane, Dirty old Town, Rainy Night in Soho and Pair of Brown Eyes amongst other authentic renditions of the classic Pogues hits.
The Kala Chethena Company presents Kathakali
28/09/2024 - 8.00pm
Tickets - £18.00
Tickets - £18.00
Kathakali, the classical dance drama of Kerala south India, makes a welcome return to the UK to perform stories that highlight human behaviour including dignity, love, strength, compassion, arrogance, rejection, cruelty, and the horror of war. The Kala Chethena Kathakali Company of outstanding international artists from Kerala,
have toured extensively throughout the UK bringing Kathakali to thousands of people.
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The Jamestown Brothers
05/10/2024 - 8.00pm
Standing - £12.00
Standing - £12.00
The Jamestown Brothers are a nine pierce energetic foot stomping original indie folk band from Somerset and formed in 2018.
Drifting between the likes of The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Merry Hell, Ferocious Dog and The Pogues, they play original songs influenced by folk, country and americana, with lyrics that mine the rich history and social tapestry of Great Britain and Ireland.
With a line-up of guitars, trumpet piano, bass, drums, fiddle, recorder and trombone, the band create a big sound with intricate instrumental interplay.
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Ragtime meets Boogie
12/10/2024 - 8.00pm
Tickets - £15.00
Tickets - £15.00
Four Hands, One Piano - Ragtime Meets Boogie
International blues and boogie woogie star Julian Phillips joins top ragtime pianist Mike Denham at the grand piano to explore these two remarkable styles which together shaped 20th Century music.
"We absolutely loved the gig"
"I was seriously impressed by the quality of the performance"
"Those boys made that Steinway bounce!"
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Alfie Moore - A Face For Radio
24/10/2024 - 7.30pm
Tickets - £18.00
Tickets - £18.00
Thirty years of shift-work, and being punched in the face, had left ‘Fair Cop’ Alfie with a ‘face for radio’. A face not so much ‘lived in’ as inhabited by squatters with little regard to property
maintenance!
A surprising career shift turned middle-aged Alfie from street cop to BBC radio star. But when TV fame beckoned could he grasp it or was he past it?
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A surprising career shift turned middle-aged Alfie from street cop to BBC radio star. But when TV fame beckoned could he grasp it or was he past it?