JUNEjim marshall auditorium<strong>The</strong> Celtic Fiddle FestivalDate: Tuesday 4 June, 8pm Tickets: £16Called “three of the finest folk violinists anywhere” by<strong>The</strong> Washington Post, Celtic Fiddle Festival celebrates theviolin in all its globe-trotting variations. Fiddlers KevinBurke (Ireland), Christian Lemaître (Brittany, France) andAndré Brunet (Quebec, Canada) showcase a fascinatingjuxtaposition of international and individual styles. Alongwith acclaimed guitarist Nicholas Quemener from Brittany,the quartet combines their talents, musical traditions, andspontaneous humour for an evening of dazzling energy andsubtle grace. <strong>The</strong>se traditional masters showcase theirregional repertoires and together conjure an experience ofbreathtaking performances.www.kevinburke.comLike this? Try this:Feast of Fiddles12 AprilOpera North: <strong>The</strong> Girl I LeftBehind Me Featuring Jessica Walker(mezzo) and James Holmes (piano)Date: Thursday 6 June, 8pmTickets: £16, £17.50A supremely well-sung andcoolly contemporary look atone of the most intriguingquestions of musical theatre– just what is it that makesa woman in trousers soappealing? With just a piano,a microphone and a fewwell-chosen items of maleattire, mezzo-sopranoJessica Walker and theatredirector Neil Bartlett conjure up an entire world, from theswaggering cross-dressers of the Victorian Music Hall,to the ambiguous boy-heroes of Mozart and Strauss.A provocative, flirtatious and deliciously personalone-woman guide to a whole forgotten chapterof female performance.www.operanorth.co.uk/projects/the-girl-i-left-behind-meEnsemble 360Like this? Try this:20 MarchMidge UreDate: Friday 7 June, 8pmTickets: £20Midge Ure has shape-shifted his way through the UK musicscene for over 35 years, from prototype boy band with Slik,electronic pioneer with Visage, rock guitarist with Thin Lizzy,chart topper with Ultravox and his solo career, to charity fundraiser with Band Aid. Ure has adapted to the ebb and flowof his career performing with large bands, power trios andhis solo acoustic shows with which he sticks to his mantrathat a good song can be stripped down to its basics and stillstand close inspection. Midge’s shows in 2013 will reflecthis full career, including solo songs such as If I Was, andUltravox songs from Vienna up to new songs from the brandnew Ultravox CD “Brilliant” released in May 2012.www.midgeure.comLike this? Try this:Ricky Ross15 April<strong>The</strong> Northern Soul TourDate: Saturday 8 June, 8pmTickets: £21.50<strong>The</strong> late great Edwin Starr’s band <strong>The</strong> Team (with leadvocalist Angelo Starr) and special guest Northern Soullegend Lorraine Silver perform soul and Motown hitsincluding Agent 00 Soul, 25 Miles, Stop Her On Sight,Landslide, War, Eye To Eye Contact and many more. AngeloStarr has taken over lead vocals, performing all thefantastic Edwin Starr classics, plus dynamic performancesof some great Northern Soul covers. Northern Soul legendLorraine Silver recorded Lost Summer Love which is still amassive record on the Northern Soul & Scooter scene.www.theteam-online.co.ukLike this? Try this:Botown19 JulyClaire Martin with the MontpellierCello QuartetDate: Sunday 9 June, 8pm Tickets: £16.50Claire Martin brings herwealth of experience as ajazz vocalist into a brandnew arena with theBrighton-basedMontpellier Cello Quartet.This exciting new venturecombines her love of theGreat American Songbookand popular classics with brand new arrangements especiallycommissioned for this project by internationally renownedcomposers including Sir Richard Rodney Bennet, Mark AnthonyTurnage and Django Bates. Unlike anything Claire has ever donebefore, this chamber-jazz adventure promises to be a magicalfusion that brings a new sonic perspective to songs such as KurtWeills’ My Ship, Tom Waits’ Old Boyfriend’s and Lennonand McCartneys’ She’s Leaving Home.www.clairemartinjazz.comLike this? Try this:Quercus14 AprilMike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells ForTwo: 40th Anniversary ConcertDate: Wednesday 12 June, 8pmTickets: £19.50Two talented Australianmusicians playing overtwenty instrumentsbring to life MikeOldfield’s seminalalbum in a uniquetheatrical performance. Multi-instrumentalists DanielHoldsworth and Aidan Roberts have arranged the entire score ofTubular Bells to be played by just two blokes, its subtle beautyand richly layered madness intact. This herculean feat leaves themusicians drenched in sweat and audiences on the edge of theirseats, as they race from instrument to instrument. Join us for amemorable night as these ambitious musicians undertake thechallenge of recreating the original album as faithfully aspossible with just four hands and four feet.“<strong>The</strong> musical equivalent of the triathlon-with bellson.” <strong>The</strong> Scotsmanwww.tubularbellsfortwo.comLike this? Try this:<strong>The</strong> Little Unsaid & Cate Ferris16 April - Stage 2Eve Selis BandDate: Thursday 13 June, 8pmTickets: £16.50Eve Selis isn’t just asinger - she’s an emotiontransducer who convertscountry, R&B, blues, folk,and rock ‘n’ roll signalsinto a megawatt zap thatgalvanizes everyone in itspath. And as with fellowfrontwomen Bonnie Raitt,Joan Osborne, MariaMcKee and MelissaEtheridge, the cauterizing power of Selis’s voice can arc-weldmaterial from almost any genre into a personal manifesto.She joins us touring material from latest album Family Tree,from swamp-rock to plaintive country heartbreakers toppedoff with Leonard Cohen’s masterpiece Hallelujah.www.eveselis.comLike this? Try this:Gretchen Peters14 MarchPete Long’s Echoes Of EllingtonOrchestraDate: Friday 14 June, 8pm Tickets: £19.50, £21.50Duke Ellington was the composer, pianist and bandleader whoemerged from Harlem and became a world force. No other jazzmusician has produced such a volume of hits - It Don’t Meana Thing (if it ain’t got that Swing), Take the A Train, MoodIndigo, Prelude to a Kiss, Things ain’t what they used to Be, Igot it Bad, Jam with Sam, C Jam Blues, Harlem Airshift, I‘mbeginning to see the Light, Perdido and many others. Underthe direction of Pete Long all these will be brought to life as if<strong>The</strong> Duke was directing his own orchestra. You’ll also able towitness the incredible singing and trumpet playing of GeorginaJackson. <strong>The</strong> critics can’t be wrong!“In Pete Long, reeds player, raconteur, bandleaderand all-round wit, we have a genuine home-growntreasure.” <strong>The</strong> Timeswww.plong.co.ukLike this? Try this:Dutch Swing College Band12 JulyJUNE jim marshall auditorium24 Treat someone special – gift vouchers are available from the Box OfficeBox Office:01908 280800 email:stables@stables.org www.stables.org25
JUNEjim marshall auditoriumAnne Reid – In A New KeyDate: Sunday 16 June, 8pmTickets: £19.50, £21.50 *Anne Reid - star of Last Tango in Halifax, Ladies of Letters,Upstairs Downstairs, Marchlands, Dinnerladies and <strong>The</strong>Mother in her new solo cabaret show, an evening of song,nostalgia and humour. With her Musical Director,award winning pianist Stuart Hutchinson.“Beautifully crafted programme.” Classical Source*Fundraising concert in aid of Wavendon All Music PlanLike this? Try this:Julian SmithClare Teal5 AprilDate: Friday 21 June, 8pmTickets: £18<strong>The</strong> Jackie Generation:<strong>The</strong> Supersonic 70s ShowDate: Saturday 22 June, 8pmTickets: £17Taking the UK by storm,the Supersonic 70s showis quite simply the hottestticket in town!This incredible live showfull of classic 70s hits,featuring a six-piece bandand the incredible vocals ofJaney Bombshell and MarkKeen, will take you from thetowering majesty of Queenand ELO, the pin-up popof <strong>The</strong> Osmonds, David Essex and David Cassidy to theclassic sounds of <strong>The</strong> Carpenters, Saturday Night Fever andGrease. So come join the band in their travelling 70s timemachine, back to the days when pop really was at its peak.www.supersonic70s.comLike this? Try this:T-Rextasy26 AprilTenors UnLimited– <strong>The</strong> Rat Pack of OperaDate: Friday 28 June, 8pmTickets: £19.50Baluji Shrivastav presents:<strong>The</strong> Inner Vision OrchestraDate: Saturday 29 June, 8pmTickets: £14 (under 16s £10)Indian maestro and Musical Director Baluji Shrivastav, whohas played with Stevie Wonder, Coldplay and recorded withMassive Attack amongst other formidable artists, has broughttogether incredible musicians from around the world who areblind or partially sighted. <strong>The</strong>ir uplifting music moves betweensongs from Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, tosoulful Gospel and Blues to sublime Indian Ragas and WesternClassical compositions. Driven by the intensity of an innervision they celebrate the power of music to transform lives.This UK tour builds on the success of the London dates in 2012and the participation of members of the Orchestra atthe London 2012 Paralympic Closing Ceremony.www.baluji.comBotownLike this? Try this:19 JulyBe in good company!Acknowledgements<strong>The</strong> <strong>Stables</strong> would like to give aspecial thanks to the following fortheir valuable support:Arts Council of England, McCann Homes Ltd,Dame Cleo Laine, Foundation for Sport & <strong>The</strong> Arts,Jim Marshall, Sir John Dankworth, Mancini Institute,Milton Keynes Arts Association, <strong>The</strong> WavendonFoundation.Supported using public funding byJUNE jim marshall auditoriumJulian Smith graduated from Birmingham Conservatoire in1991 and has since pursued a successful musical career,including many appearances at the Birmingham Jazz Festival,under his own name and also as Jools Gianni, the name heused on the Chilled 2 <strong>The</strong> Sax CD. His career suddenly movedto another level in 2009 when he gained second place onBritain’s Got Talent, with 700,000 public telephone votes.Highlights since then have included playing with his idol KennyG at the Royal Albert Hall and being given one of his signaturemodel saxophones, recording with Julian Lloyd Webber, PaulPotts and many others for Classical Relief for Haiti andperforming for Prince Charles at Clarence House.www.juliansmithsax.co.ukLike this? Try this:Dave Koz7 JulyTenors UnLimited embark on their 10th anniversary tourwith a beautiful evening of classical crossover melodiesand stunning vocal harmony. <strong>The</strong> clever combination ofopera classics and modern day favourites will includesongs from their previous albums Brand New Day and VivaLa Vita as well as a sneak peak of new material from theirupcoming studio album. Encompassing some of the bestworks from Bizet to Puccini, Bublé to Bocelli and whetheryour favourite song is Nessun Dorma, Come What May, OSole Mio, You Raise Me Up, Volare or Time to Say Goodbye,this evening promises a fabulous musical journey.www.tenorsunlimited.comLike this? Try this:Blake31 AugustWhen you need to make an impression, you can besure <strong>The</strong> <strong>Stables</strong> will help you deliver the right one!Our dedicated Development Team will work closelywith you to ensure your bespoke event runsas smoothly as possible.Conferences, Events & Training – Our expertise isfirmly rooted in event management enabling us tostage anything from a whole-day event for a seniorlevel conference, staff seminars, and training forumsto themed and entertaining events.Corporate Hospitality – Live entertainment is still verymuch the heart and soul of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Stables</strong>. Its uniquenature has attracted audiences and performers back,time after time. <strong>The</strong> perfectsetting to entertain clients and staff alike.Sponsorship & Advertising – We offer CorporateAssociate programmes, with a range of benefits foryour company; Show Sponsorship and CorporateBranding opportunities.For more information, please call 01908 280815or email development@stables.orgwww.stables.org26 Buy any time – book your tickets online 24 hours a day Box Office:01908 280800 email:stables@stables.org www.stables.org27