November Programme
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Allen Valley
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Friday 10th
November
NORTHUMBRIAN MUSIC
NIGHT
Perhaps the best
opportunity for all our new friends and visitors to
experience that quintessential special quality of our very
own entertainment. With the very best of the local talent
from Tynedale. These nights have a particular variety that
we really enjoy, whether it's many different instrumentals,
many different voices in many different songs, or a varietal
blend of all of the above, each night is a precious,
shimmering jewel of quintessential Northumberland as it is
today.
Friday 24th November,
King's Head, Allendale
The very last feature in
our incredible
WOMEN with WELLY Programme
!!!!
The APRIL
VERCH Band
If you follow anything of
the music scene in Allendale, you'll know that
fiddles play a large part of the offerings there.
Whether it's in classical mode, when I guess the
instrument is known as a violin, or in
traditionally friendly fiddle mode, this
four-stringed sound board has been called the
sweetest torture ever devised.
Certainly capable of the
most exquisite and sublime expressions of feeling,
the fiddle is also the home of some of the worst
excesses of yeowling and caterwauling ever heard.
Concentration, we're lead
to believe, is everything, for one small slip of a
finger or a bow and the sound is apt to creak into
a banshee's wail.
How strange, then, to
announce the imminent appearance of a a champion
fiddler from Canada who also dances, or should we
say, a champion step-dancer from Canada, who also
fiddles? Either of these disciplines requires the
utmost of concentration, of course -- you only have
to miss a step at any ceilidh to realise how
important that concentration is to the success of
the dance.
Yet April Verch, champion
fiddler and champion step-dancer, manages to do the
impossible, combining her dancing skill and her
fiddling acumen together into one cohesive
offering. You have to see it to believe it! Imagine
Riverdance and Blazing Fiddles encapsulated
simultaneously into one individual, and you have
some idea of the treat in store. April has thrilled
audiences all over Canada, and she scouted the UK
on an advance foray with some of her compatriots,
the effervescent band Mad Pudding, a year ago at
Brampton's Live Festival.
Canadian Fiddle
Champion Dances into the 'Dale
April arrives on Friday,
November 24th at the King's Head in Allendale, by
courtesy of the Northumbrian Music Nights
promotions group, and she's got a lively band in
tow as well. So with the best of fiddle tunes from
Appalachia, from Cape Breton and the western
provinces of Canada, along with the best dancing
feet from across the big water, this looks like an
evening entirely devoted to that most good-natured
of all human activities, call it the envy of
amazement, call it good old showbiz razzamatazz,
call it the most marvelous display of human
virtuosity you could ever imagine.
Tickets are expected to
vanish rapidly for this incredible musical and
danceable event, so an early booking would be
strongly advised.
What we
said about The APRIL VERCH Band
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If you follow anything of the music scene in Allendale, you'll know that fiddles play a large part of the offerings there. Whether it's in classical mode, when I guess the instrument is known as a violin, or in traditionally friendly fiddle mode, this four-stringed sound board has been called the sweetest torture ever devised. Certainly capable of the most exquisite and sublime expressions of feeling, the fiddle is also the home of some of the worst excesses of yeowling and caterwauling ever heard. Concentration, we're lead to believe, is everything, for one small slip of a finger or a bow and the sound is apt to creak into a banshee's wail. How strange, then, to announce the imminent appearance of a a champion fiddler from Canada who also dances, or should we say, a champion step-dancer from Canada, who also fiddles? Either of these disciplines requires the utmost of concentration, of course -- you only have to miss a step at any ceilidh to realise how important that concentration is to the success of the dance. Yet April Verch, champion fiddler and champion step-dancer, manages to do the impossible, combining her dancing skill and her fiddling acumen together into one cohesive offering. You have to see it to believe it! Imagine Riverdance and Blazing Fiddles encapsulated simultaneously into one individual, and you have some idea of the treat in store. April has thrilled audiences all over Canada, and she scouted the UK on an advance foray with some of her compatriots, the effervescent band Mad Pudding, a year ago at Brampton's Live Festival.
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Tickets only £5.00
Wednesday 29th
November, Allendale Village Hall
Special Thanks to
North
Pennine Highlights
for offering this delectable programme. It looks
like such great fun!
Great fun and exciting
music for the whole family -- you'd never believe
that the big brass horns could make such funny
sounds, or such sad ones, or happy ones!
The programme includes a
March (well of course, how could you have tubas
without a March!), a Bop (a ?Bop?), three Negro
Spirituals (including one or two that the Dales
Singers have done!), 'Scarborough Fair '(a
traditional number for the folkies!), a Zululand
number, and even an Ian McQueen 'The Heights of
Halifax'.
Then there's 'St. James
Infirmary' for the blues fans, or Bach's 'Fugue in
G minor' for the classicists, an 'Adoramus' for
Christmas, and some incredible material to round
off the night. If the lads don't dance around the
hall, it'll be a surprise!
Here's a
delightful pre-Christmas warmer that's just right
for the Village Hall!
TUBALATÉ
Don't believe your mind,
listen with your belly! This looks like a great
night, and with the proceeds going to the Village
Hall funds, everybody benefits.
So pick up your tickets at
the Co-op, or reserve them by email if you like,
and be sure to get to the hall promptly by 7:30 pm,
with all the family!
What
we said about the Tubalaté show.
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Special Thanks to North Pennine Highlights for offering this delectable programme. It looks like such great fun! Great fun and exciting music for the whole family -- you'd never believe that the big brass horns could make such funny sounds, or such sad ones, or happy ones! The programme includes a March (well of course, how could you have tubas without a March!), a Bop (a ?Bop?), three Negro Spirituals (including one or two that the Dales Singers have done!), 'Scarborough Fair '(a traditional number for the folkies!), a Zululand number, and even an Ian McQueen 'The Heights of Halifax'. Then there's 'St. James Infirmary' for the blues fans, or Bach's 'Fugue in G minor' for the classicists, an 'Adoramus' for Christmas, and some incredible material to round off the night. If the lads don't dance around the hall, it'll be a surprise!
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