FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS


Preview

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, and some you don’t. You may hear the sounds that were your personal contributions.

We’ve transformed the empty shop into a gallery space to showcase Chorlton Soundscape and an assocaiated Chorlton film projection too…will you be able to tell where it is?

Preview: Tuesday 25 May 5.30-6.30pm (use side entrance between Quality Save and Boots )
Exhibition open: Wed 26 – Sun 30 May 10am – 4pm (free)

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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 since 2000. Their programme includes pieces from their new album celebrating the work of Cy Coleman.

www.clairemartinjazz.com In partnership with The Lichfield Festival

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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 an international reputation.

Mixing traditional indie balladry with electronic quirks, glitch and ambience, Ben draws a somber line under the increasingly creative goings- on in the electro scene, whilst putting a quiet rocket under the traditional guitar band set up. www.thismorningcall.com

TICKETS & INFO: 07794 860 305

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Concessions: NUS/OAP/Disabled/Unemployed

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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. This time we’re attempting landscape intervention by flash-mob!

Look out around Chorlton for the Flashlight flyers that you can fold into a lantern. They’re available from the Festival Hub, the library and lots of shops and cafes. We’re also handing them out in schools – we may even post one through your door!!

We’ll let you know what to do with your lantern on May 22. Until then mum’s the word, but it will be around Chorlton at 9pm.

More information available online: http://breadartcollective.co.uk

You’ll also need a light kit, available from the Festival Hub for £1

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Festival Highlight

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 Hillier, the production mastermind behind Elbow’s Cast Of Thousands, Doves’s Some Cities and Blur’s Think Tank. “Originally, I wasn’t sure how Ben and my music would fit together, but it does and

I can’t wait to get back to his cave,” says Beth. “He looks like Mr. Bean, rides a bike, and helps me pass on love notes to cute guys in café’s.”

“A considerable talent, with a remarkable voice and a rare star quality.” Mojo

www.bethjeanshoughton.co.uk

www.myspace.com/bethjeanshoughton

TICKETS & INFO: 07794 860 305

E: tickets@chorltonartsfestival.com

Concessions: NUS/OAP/Disabled/Unemployed

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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 to the ill, and captures the fun and excitement you’d expect from being in hospital – with games, giveaways, patients’ requests and Ivan’s special blend of music and chat.

Ivan is once again taking his hospital radio show on the road and will be broadcasting, live, back to the patients of the Brimlington Hospital from comfort of the Chorlton Arts Festival.

Hear all his greatest hits and

meet the man himself.

“Barrage of cracking jokes.” Daily Telegraph “Not only a laugh-a-minute but a laugh every ten seconds.” Time Out “Audience on the verge of being hospitalised with laughter.” Independent on Sunday “Deliciously enjoyable. Fast and funny.” The Guardian

TICKETS & INFO: 07794 860 305

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Concessions: NUS/OAP/Disabled/Unemployed

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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 Buzzcocks, The Specials, Talking Heads, Squeeze and others, even Kraftwerk! Alright, they’re not all punk, but they come from roughly the same era. They’ve mostly given the songs a kind of Celtic feel, and they’ve stuck in the odd reel and jig here and there. But occassionally they just thrash! They’ve always thought the excitement of a reel taking off is the nearest thing to the excitement of watching punk live in the 70’s.

“…not just the hit of this festival [Leceister Big Session], but probably every other festival this summer.” fRoots

www.thebadshepherds.com

In partnership with The Lichfield Festival

TICKETS & INFO: 07794 860 305

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Concessions: NUS/OAP/Disabled/Unemployed

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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 together a love of singing and an overwhelming desire to capture beauty in music. Gideon’s artwork provides a fitting backdrop for the concert, with an exhibition of drawings and prints in his trademark, linear style, which show an appreciation of church architecture.
www.gideonconn.com
www.myspace.com/gideonconn
www.myspace.com/thisisjosephine


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Concessions: NUS/OAP/Disabled/Unemployed

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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 collection of songs provide a fitting soundtrack to both the tranquility of the country and the romance of city nights. Since the release of the UK debut Glory Hope Mountain, The Acorn have toured Europe and North America extensively and been selected for a host of award lists. Greatly respected by their peers, the band embarked on a number of high-profile support tours in early 2009 with the likes of Fleet Foxes, Calexico, Bon Iver and Elbow, after Guy Garvey named Glory Hope Mountain his favourite album of 2008.

Glory Hope Mountain critical acclaim:“Powerfully poetic and mercifully unsentimental.” Uncut – 4 Stars

“There’s a rhythmic adventurousness to match their lyrical ambition… Glory Hope Mountain is lit up with flashes of real brilliance.” Observer Music Monthly – 4 Stars

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Concessions: NUS/OAP/Disabled/Unemployed

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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 jazz, and has won him fans from Gilles Peterson to Mojo and BBC Music Magazine.

Halsall’s music is thoughtful, elegiac and explorative. But while imbued with a sense of history, the young trumpeter and DJ nevertheless brings a contemporary bounce to his beautiful music and his live shows are as likely to feature a Cinematic Orchestra or Soil and Pimp cover as his own thoughtful originals or the bands soulful explorations of the music of Alice and John Coltrane.

His crack band, as heard on his latest album, Colour Yes, features some of Manchester’s finest musicians

“Rain-streaked spiritual jazz from Manchester.”The Independent on Sunday

“Grooving through time on the spiritual sunship.” Mojo Magazine

TICKETS & INFO: 07794 860 305

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Concessions: NUS/OAP/Disabled/Unemployed

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Festival Highlight

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 show for you and your friends to bring the Festival to a memorable close.

Entry is free but tickets must be collected in advance from the Festival Hub.

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