Chorlton Arts Festival 2010
over 120 events in Chorlton from May 20 - 30



Now that the Festival has extended into a 10 day run we’re pretty sure you’ll find something that takes your fancy and we’ve selected our Festival Highlights to make the selection process just that little bit easier.

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Phil Ogg – Artist in Residence Private View

We have had Phil Ogg, our Artist in Residence with us for a week, and now it is time to delight you with the fruits of his labours. Come and see Chorlton Soundscape, in the Festival Hub (next to Boots) in Chorlton Precinct. Phil has been recording some of the community’s favourite sounds from around Chorlton. You may hear sounds you recognize, [...]

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Festival Launch

CLAIRE MARTIN AND SIR RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT

St. Clement’s Church
20 May 2010 7:30PM    £20/£18 concessions

What better way to celebrate the launch of the tenth Chorlton Arts Festival than in the company of the UK’s foremost jazz singer, Claire Martin and legendary classical and screen composer, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. This long-running partnership has played to packed houses and has had rave reviews in New York, London and throughout Europe [...]

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Festival Highlight

THIS MORNING CALL

St. Clements Church
Saturday 22 May 7:30PM    £5/£3 concessions

This Morning Call is the unusual moniker of an electronic pop producer Ben Heyworth. Based in south Manchester, Ben’s unashamedly eclectic and often downbeat style borrows from the likes of Keane, The Postal Service and a-ha. It’s an exciting new direction in a city already blessed with a rich musical inheritance, an independent spirit and [...]

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FLASHLIGHT BY BREAD

Chorlton Green
Saturday 22 May 9PM    Free

Flashlight (BREAD – Ruth Essex, Kate Moran, David Boultbee) Community focussed, light based, landscape intervention We’re lighting up Chorlton with 1000 paper lanterns and want you to help! Artists’ group BREAD create works which gently ask you to stop for a moment and take in your surroundings in the hope that you’ll notice something new. [...]

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BETH JEANS HOUGHTON

St. Clement’s Church
Sunday 23 May 7.30PM    £9/£6 concessions

Beth Jeans Houghton has been playing guitar since the age of 16. She’s only 19 now. In the meantime, she’s supported Tunng and Tinariwen, hobnobbed with Vetiver, John Martyn, Bon Iver and Joanna Newsome, and recorded a single, Golden/Nightswimmer with Adem. An album is, of course, on the way, and is being produced by Ben [...]

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IVAN BRACKENBURY’S RADIO SHOW

St. Clement’s Church
Tuesday 25 May 7.30PM    £9/£6 concessions

Your friend and mine Ivan Brackenbury is Brimlington General Hospital’s flagship radio presenter. The self-named ‘Cheerful Earful’ is also the self- proclaimed saviour of hospital radio and returns to the theatres of the United Kingdom with his greatest show yet. Ivan Brackenbury’s regular request and chat show Disease- Hour is broadcast each and every day [...]

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ADRIAN EDMONDSON AND THE BAD SHEPHERDS

St. Clement’s Church
Wednesday 26 May 7.30PM    £15/£12 concessions

The Bad Shepherds play punk songs on folk instruments. Not as a gag, but because they really like the noise. They think the songs are better than people remember. They love folk instruments. It works. They do songs by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Stranglers, The Jam, Sham 69, The Undertones, The Ramones, The [...]

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GIDEON CONN AND JOSEPHINE ONIYAMA

St. Clement’s Church
Thursday 27 May 7.30pm    £5/£3 concessions

Two critically-acclaimed Mancunian performers combine for this show in a breath-taking collaboration. Gideon’s songs are warm and tender, lovingly crafted and full of hope. They are perfectly complimented by Josephine’s voice, which wows with stunning tone and natural vibrato. The overall sound is delicate and soulful, infused with melodic piano and classical guitar to bring [...]

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THE ACORN

St. Clement’s Church
Friday 28 May 7.30pm    £9/£6 concessions

Ottawa–based The Acorn headline Chorlton Arts Festival to celebrate the release of No Ghost the much anticipated follow-up to Glory Hope Mountain, released to great acclaim in Autumn 2008.This is a rare chance to witness the levity and spontaneity of The Acorn’s celebrated live shows in the intimate surroundings of St. Clement’s Church. A dazzling [...]

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MATTHEW HALSALL

St. Clement’s Church
Saturday 29 May 7.30pm    £9/£6

Manchester based trumpeter Matthew Halsall is fast carving out a reputation as one of the UK’s brightest talents. A gifted trumpeter with a beautiful, expressive tone, his music draws on his love of the transcendental spiritual and modal jazz of Alice and John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, as well as the glories of ‘60s British [...]

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STREET FEAST

The Precinct Centre
Sunday 30 May 5pm-7.30pm    Free

Feast your eyes and mouths in The Square @ Chorlton (Precinct Centre) at our family-friendly party for all, where neighbours, friends and strangers share festivities, food and conversation. Bring your favourite dishes along, or buy from the vendors taking part in the event, and share in the community spirit as local entertainers put on a [...]

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