October Program

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October 2011
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2nd October
presents
Snake Davies

If there's one
thing more credibility-sapping than honking one's instrument for the Eurythmics,
it's doing so for M People. Chris Snake Davis, bless him, has done both.
However, to paraphrase a saying, you don't shoot the saxophonist, and if
backing Heather Small up with some tasteful parping has put the bread on his
table, then good for him.
The sax-happy waters of AOR, MOR and 1980s pop (hello, Paul
Young) may often have been
The session man's life is not a romantic one, but it sounds
like fun, and unsurprisingly for a man whose multi-genre expertise has kept him
in demand for two decades,
7.30pm start
Tickets
3rd October
Byron Jones

An accomplished organist, Byron has also played most of the
major theatre pipe organs in Great Britain, namely, Comptons, Christies and
WurliTzers including the famous Blackpool Tower WurliTzer. He is a
much-sought-after concert performer, and travels all over the country, giving
concerts on many of the loved and cherished Theatre Cinema Organs that have
been preserved and held in affection. He also cannot resist the temptation to
sample all kinds of Church Organs when he has the opportunity. There are
hundreds of Organ Societies around the country today having guest organists in
concert, and Byron is among the tops, being sought after for these events, even
as far as Spain and Jersey.
In recent years Byron has achieved an increasing
international success, with many new friends in
7.30pm start
Tickets £6 members £5
6th October
Jazzhouse
presents
Jure
Puki Quartet

Jure Pukl - sax
Jim
Hart - vibes
Michael
Janisch - bass
Herbert
Pirker - drums
Up-and-coming Slovenian saxophonist joined by Bonington
favourites Hart and Janisch.
One of the most
prolific and creative saxophonists of the younger Slovene jazz generation, Jure
Pukl studied tenor sax with Joe Lovano and has worked with artists such as
Maceo Parker, Esperanza Spalding and Marcus Gilmore, and orchestras like
European Jazz Orchestra, European Movement Jazz Orchestra, Vienna Saxophone
Quartet and many others. His music has won him many awards. What he creates is
a unique type of modern jazz, impressionistic, contemporary music influenced by
John Coltrane and Steve Coleman performed with a great deal of knowledge and
love, giving prominence to the interplay between band members.
Start- 8pm tickets £12 cons£10
8th October
presents
Billy Roberts Clairvoyant

Billy Roberts is one of the UK’s
leading Stage Psychics, and is a published author with fourteen books to his
credit. He has been psychic since he was a child, and although he began his
early life as a professional musician touring Europe with such names as Chuck
Berry, The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, The moody Blues, Small Faces, The Kinks, to
mention but a few, he only became a professional medium when he was 34.
Billy has always been regarded as
an extremely radical medium whose work in the early days was greatly opposed by
the different fractions of the Spiritualist movement. He has always stood by
his beliefs, and although he has extremely strong views about the paranormal
and the occult, his wealth of knowledge does make him stand out from his peers.
For the past two years, Billy and Ciaran O’Keeffe, parapsychologist off the
television programme, MOST HAUNTED, have been jointly working on a book
entitled THE GREAT PARANORMAL CLASH, to be published in July 2008 by Apex
Publications. Although the two are good friends, and come from very different
backgrounds, their combined efforts have culminated into an excellent read for
all those interested in the paranormal.
7.30pm start
Tickets £
11th October
presents
Film
An affair to remember

A relentlessly heart-tugging tale of two soulmates
whose love even great tragedy cannot tear asunder, An Affair to Remember tosses
and turns the emotions but never descends into schmaltz; it stays compelling –
partly down to its smart, surprisingly sassy script, which often holds back
when it could go for the cheap weep, but also because it is brought to us by
two of the classiest acts in Hollywood history: Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
7.30pm start
Tickets £2.50
13th October
Jazzhouse
presents
Joonas
Haavisto Trio

Joonas Haavisto - piano
Antti
Lotjonen - bass
Joonas
Riippa - drums
Nottingham International Jazz Piano Competition
semi-finalist returns with trio.
Joonas Haavisto
began his musical studies at the age of seven playing classical double bass and
started playing the piano at the age of sixteen. From 2002 he studied in
Start- 8pm tickets £12 cons £10
15th October
Class Act presents
7.30pm start
Tickets
Wednesday 19th – Saturday
22nd October
Bonington Players present

Dr David Mortimer is
preparing to address a conference of neuro-surgeons with a speech certain to
guarantee him a knighthood. In rushes a visitor. A nurse he had a fling with 18
years ago. Mortimer learns that as a result of their tryst she bore him a son.
A son who is at this moment rampaging round the hospital searching for his
wayward father! Attempting to cover up such a catastrophe on this important day
sets the fibs fizzing. “If you’re going to tell a lie, tell a whopper,” yells
Dr Mortimer as events begin to spin deliriously out of control. He enlists the
help of hospital staff. In the ensuing chaos his best friend is passed off as the
boy’s father! Fierce matron falls off the window ledge with a hypodermic needle
in her rump! And several doctors end up in nurses’ uniform! There are more
twists and turns in this outrageously funny farce than the Monaco Grand Prix.
An evening of delicious and uproarious fun for all. By arrangement with Samuel
French Ltd.
7.30pm start
Tickets £6.50
27th October
Jazzhouse
presents
John

John Aram - trombone, compositions
Graeme
Blevins - sax/flute
Jason
Rebello or Tom Cawley (tbc) - piano/Fender Rhodes
Phil
Donkin - bass
Arthur
Hnatek - drums
Joss
Sessions - VJ, Visual/Photographs/Image manipulation
An imaginary jazz soundtrack to the classic work
by Alan Sillitoe.
Nottingham-born,
"
Start- 8pm tickets £12
cons £10
31st October
Chiho Sunamoto

Chiho Sunamoto, who has recently been described as the
Vanessa May of the organ and keyboard world, brings a breath of fresh air onto
the keyboard scene. Originally from
During Chiho's time at St. Katerina University, where she
studied opera singing, piano and classical organ, she became one of the youngest
people to pass Yamaha's top exam, Grade 3 Music Diploma.
Twice Chiho was a finalist in the Yamaha Electone (organ)
Festival, which led to offers of work from Yamaha as an overseas demonstrator
and contracts with two of
7.30pm start
Tickets £6 members £5