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Access Folk Reveal Research Project To Aid Diversity Participation In English Folk Singing.

As part of an ambitious five-year long research project, Access Folk are recruiting for consulting groups as they investigate ways to increase and diversify participation in English Folk singing.

As part of the investigation and consultation, Access Folk will be asking:

What is the place of folk singing in contemporary England?

How do people want to engage with English cultural traditions through song?

How can we facilitate participation in folk singing in England?

Leading the research will be Dr. Fay Hield from The University of Sheffield, and Folk Singer herself. The team of academics and community partners will be working together to identify the current problems and test out potential solutions.

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Ewan Macintyre Band, Dream On Sally. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There is a time to be practical and there is a time to immerse yourself in beauty, the lie of grace, the sincerity of belief, and if you are fortunate these strangers will be chance or design, get together and find common ground in which to share time with an audience, in which to be considered a storm which possesses the roots of all that would make any artist blush with pride at the abundance of feeling in which to work with.

Ewan Macintyre Band, Dream On Sally. Album Review. full post

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Mapplethorpe. Film Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Matt Smith, Marianne Rendon, John Benjamin Hickey, Brandon Sklenar, Tina Benko, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Thomas Philip O’Neill, Mickey O’ Hagan, Anthony Michael Lopez, McKinley Belcher III, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Karlee Perez, David J. Cork, Kerry Butler, Hari Nef, Robert George Siverls, John Bolton, Christina Rouner, Gordon Tashijan, Ruisdael Cintron, Erick Huertas, Rotimi Paul, Karen Oberoi, Tanya Warren, Martin Axon, Glenn Kubota.

Mapplethorpe. Film Review. full post

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Action Transport Theatre Ask If It Is Time To Put Big Brother In Room 101, As They Bring Extracts Of Orwell’s 1984 To Cheshire Libraries.

How to survive in a world of fake news & mass surveillance?

90 minutes of performance with Winston Smith for a flick through George Orwell’s last novel – the book that gave readers Big Brother, Doublethink, Thoughtcrime & Room 101.  

The events aim to engage and inspire local audiences as part of the B.B.C. Novels that Shaped our World – where a panel of leading writers, curators and critics were asked to choose 100 genre-busting novels that have had an impact on our lives. 

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Ancient Greece Comes To Liverpool’s Unity Theatre In A Surreal Clown Odyssey This April.

Liverpool’s international theatre troupe, Teatro Pomodoro, are returning to the city with a new show this April, entitled Sirens, Men and Crabs: A Shipwrecked Odyssey. 

Debuting at the Unity Theatre from April 23rd to 25th, this brand-new show will turn Ancient Greece upside down in a surreal clown odyssey. The show welcomes audiences to a world where the Sirens are the unsung heroines, Ulysses will never be the hero he wants to be, and Giant Crabs are taking over.

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Leanne Campbell’s Brand-New Comedy Pete Price Is Dead, Debuts At The Royal Court Theatre From The 13th March.

Leanne Campbell has written a brand-new comedy about what happens when the biggest mouth in Liverpool gets permanently shut!

Best known as the co-presenter of Radio City’s breakfast show, Leanne has written a show set at the top of the tower on what could be their final day of broadcasting.

Pete Price Is Dead is set on manic day in the Radio City studios. The station is up for sale and a new owner has flown in from America. He has agreed to buy the whole company as long as the full roster of DJs is kept on. Particularly his father’s favourite presenter, Pete Price. Everything looks set to go without a hitch until shortly before the new buyer arrives when, following a tragic accident, Pete Price Is Dead.

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Cast Announced For Sweet Mother As A Never Before Told Story Comes To The Royal Court Studio.

Real stories of family and friendships in one of Liverpool’s strongest communities will come to life on stage at Liverpool’s Royal Court Studio on 13th & 14th March.   

Sweet Mother is an oral history project created and directed by Nwoko Arts artistic director Maria Paul. The play tells the previously unrecorded stories of white women who fell in love with black men and raised their families in Liverpool 8 between the 1950s and 1980s. A time which is well recorded for unrest in the area.   

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Texas Announce 24 Date Autumn Tour, Including A Night At The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

For over 30 years, Texas have proved themselves to be one of Scotland’s best ever bands and nothing short of a national treasure south of the border. A new album, the follow up to their acclaimed 2017 release Jump On Board will come later this year on BMG.

To coincide with the release, the band will play a massive 24 date tour kicking off in Belfast on October 6th and finishing November 8th in Margate. They will also return to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Monday 19th October.

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Chester Will Come Alive To The Sound Of Music This Spring As Part Of National Tour.

Liverpool’s Andrew Lancel will play Captain von Trapp

Show runs Tuesday 14th April to Saturday 18th April 2020

Bill Kenwright’s production The Sound of Music is currently touring the U.K. and Ireland, and it’s been confirmed that the show will visit Chester during Spring 2020, the only tour dates in the North West.

This musical masterpiecetells the true story of the world-famous Trapp family, from their romantic beginnings and search for happiness, to their thrilling escape to freedom as their beloved Austria becomes part of the Third Reich at the start of the Second World War.

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Full Cast Announced For Bat Out Of Hell -The Musical U.K. Tour.

The producers of the U.K. Tour of Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical, featuring Jim Steinman and Meatloaf’s greatest hits, are delighted to announce the return of Sharon Sexton as Sloane and Rob Fowler as Falco (both starred recently in the Mamma Mia! International Tour and the original West End cast of Bat Out Of Hell), and introduce the new stars of the musical: Glenn Adamson (American Idiot) as Strat and Martha Kirby (Grease, Rags the Musical) as Raven.

Full Cast Announced For Bat Out Of Hell -The Musical U.K. Tour. full post

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