Yorkshire Music: News and Updates

Just a quick reminder that the Bradford Festival Choral Society are performing Haydn's Creation this evening at Bradford Grammar School. It's not too late to get tickets: just visit www.bradfordfestivalchoralsociety.org.uk for more details.

Straight from the main stage of Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Destino on the Road comes to Leeds for two nights only at the beginning of April!

Performances are Friday, 3^rd April & Saturday, 4^th April @ 7:30pm. We hope you will be able to join us!

Dance United has a formidable track record working with the disadvantaged and the marginalised. Destino on the Road is and ambitious artistic venture that celebrates the transformational power of dance to affect and change lives.

Featuring two new commissions from Sadler's Wells Associates, Hofesh Shechter and Russell Maliphant with Adam Benjamin, Destino on the Road also introduces work from award winning Ethiopian choreographer Junaid Jemal Sendi, and a new community piece by Tara-Jane Herbert and Susannah Broughton

Tickets are available online: http://www.leedstickets.com/eventinfo/1496/Dance-United-Destino-On-The-Road

or by calling the Stage@Leeds box-office on 0113 343 8730. (Please see the opening times at the bottom of this email.)
Alternatively, you can contact Dance United directly on 0207 431 6647.

Priced at ONLY £9 (£6 concessions) and featuring works by A-list choreographers, this is not one to miss!

Prom Prom and the Theatre Royal Richmond present:

Dan Leno The King's Jester

Written & performed by Tony Lidington

Theatre in the Mill

Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th March, 7.30pm

Tickets: £6.50/£4 | 01274 233200 or theatre@bradford.ac.uk

"If we didn’t laugh at him, we'd cry our eyes out"
Marie Lloyd

Dan Leno was the greatest Music Hall star of all time: the first stand-up comic, the best-loved pantomime dame and the world champion dog dancer with a strong line in character based skits...he was, quite simply, the comic genius of his age whose work laid the foundations for contemporary British comedy.

Dan's legacy is now almost forgotten, but this romp through his personal history traces the roots of British popular entertainment from Music Hall to Little Britain.

A show which explores what makes us laugh and why we should care.

What’s all this about then? An evening of dancing and fundraising for Saltaire Festival 2009.

Where: Shipley and District Social Club on Saltaire Road

When: Friday 20^th March

Time: From 8 till late

How much?: Only £5 (£7 on the door)

Food?: Pie and Peas £1

Music: Soul Music DJ

What else? Raffle, Quiz

Organisers? Meet the Saltaire Festival Committee

Convince me: LOOK at the attached poster!

Dance! All evening if you like.

Why? Help us kickstart our fundraising for Festival 2009

Just me? Bring all your friends for a great night out

PASS THIS ON!!!

Contact me to get your tickets NOW!

info@saltairefestival.co.uk

or call

01274 585877

Don't know what to do this evening? Snap up the last available tickets for the fantastic Tavaziva Dance or the unique Clean As Possible Comedy Night at The Carriageworks... ring (0113) 224 3801.

The Carriageworks with Yorkshire Dance present Tavaziva Dance - Heart of Darkness:

"A great company...their seamless blend of contemporary and traditional African movement, strikingly costumed and lit." The Independent

“Bawren Tavaziva’s new piece, My Friend Robert, looks at the effect Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has had on his home country." Yorkshire Evening Post

TONIGHT at 7.30pm - 10% off if you quote "Dance in Leeds"

...or if comedy is more your thing... Don't forget the regular "Clean As Possible Comedy Night" with the marvellous Roger Monkhouse.

TONIGHT 7.30pm upstairs@thecarriageworks£8 and £5 outstanding price for three top comedians cleaning up their act.Tickets ring (0113) 224 3801 or click here: http://www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk/

Just got a note in my inbox from the Concerts Administrator at the School of Music at the University of Leeds regarding a change to their Concert Series this year. It may be of interest to some people, particular because of the forthcoming concert this week:

There will be no lunchtime concert on Friday (13th March) but there is a concert on Wednesday 18th March - details below:-

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music

Event 34
Wednesday 18 March 7.30pm

Leeds Baroque Choir

Chorus Master Clive McClelland
Directed by Peter Holman
with members of Leeds Baroque Orchestra.

Monteverdi - A Venetian Vespers

A sequence of psalms and a setting of the Magnificat - drawn mainly from music Monteverdi wrote during his years at St Mark's in Venice.

Tickets £10, £7 and £3 students and young people available from Friends of Leeds Baroque
email: lbo.friends@ntlworld.com
tel. 0113 2267564 and at the door.