Otley Courthouse Autumn-Winter Programme September 2022- February 2023

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CALAN
Sunday 20th November
8pm
£17.50
Prepare for a hurricane!
Powerhouse indie-folk band
Calan are rolling in with their
long-awaited Autumn
Thunder tour.
Calan are a multi awardwinning
Welsh folk band
comprising of five virtuoso
musicians formed after they
met at a folk music course in
Sweden. Since they formed,
the band has played to
audiences numbering from
40 at a garden fete to
26,000 at Fairport
Convention’s Cropredy
Festival in Oxfordshire, as
well as a packed Royal
Albert Hall alongside Sir
Bryn Terfel and Sting.
The band will be showcasing
tunes from their latest album,
'Kistvaen' - an old Welsh
word for tomb. And that’s
what Calan do, they excavate
tombs, find old tunes and
bring them back to life for
the 21st century.
'A storming juggernaut of
power-folk with a jawdropping
repertoire...you
can’t help but marvel at their
astounding musicianship' -
Folk Wales Magazine
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LINDISFARNE
STORY
Thursday 24th November
8pm
£22
Back in 1971, Lindisfarne
released their groundbreaking
first album and
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began to attract the fervent
fan base that followed them
for decades.
In October that year they
released their second
album, Fog on the Tyne,
which topped the UK charts
for six weeks in spring 1972.
It was a game-changer, with
UK and international
successes soon following.
To celebrate the 50th
anniversary of this classic
album, Lindisfarne frontman
Billy Mitchell and founder
member Ray Laidlaw tell the
group’s amazing story with a
combination of superb
songs, vital video, tall tales
and, of course, scurrilous
gossip.
From Whitley Bay to ‘Frisco
Bay: The Lindisfarne Story.
Don’t miss it.
theatre
THE SECOND
BEST BED
Friday 25th November
7.30pm
£15.50
When Shakespeare died, he
famously left his wife Anne
only one thing – the second
best bed. This superb onewoman
play, full of both
humour and pathos, has
received great critical
acclaim since its premier at
the Swan Theatre Worcester
in 2012.
Liz Grand stars as Anne
Hathaway on the night of
Shakespeare’s funeral. The
wake has finished, the
mourners have all gone
home, leaving Anne to
remember her life with the
most talented playwright the
world has ever seen. Or was
he? Did he write the plays?
His widow would know if
anybody did. Wouldn’t she?
'Liz Grand as Anne is
magnificent. The eighty
minutes of performance time
never dragged and much of
that comes down to Grand’s
compelling performance' -
International Shakespeare
Review
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