Come and enjoy a celebration of Viennese melodies from Port Sunlight Orchestra including The Gipsy Baronfrom, The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus and the ever popular Blue Danube waltz.
Port Sunlight Orchestra was formed around 1900 and is one of the village’s oldest institutions. The orchestra played at the opening ceremony of the Lady Lever Art Gallery in 1922 and have presented regular Sunday afternoon concerts here ever since.
Liverpool Bach Collective was formed in 2013, with the aim of putting on performances of J S Bach’s cantatas in churches in and around Liverpool every month as part of Sunday Evensong or Vespers. The cantatas chosen are based on, or are at least relevant to, the readings of the day in the churches visited.
Cantata 54 ‘Be steadfast against sin’ is a suitable preparation for Lent. It is a solo cantata which will be sung by Danny Townley (countertenor), accompanied by a baroque string ensemble.
Georgie Weston LIVE- Crafting songs using a pallet of Soul, Jazz and 70s Soft Rock, a fusion he calls ‘Nu-wop’ you’ll usually find Georgie Weston sat behind the Ivory keys tapping out lyrics on his phone or whistling a new found melody as he walks beside the river Mersey.
Georgie goes by the method of using left field chord changes, commonly found on an old jazz record, with the intent of aiming for a pop song. Similar to The likes of Stevie Wonder , Steely Dan and Billy Joel . ‘Play it, Georgie’ For fans of Matt Maltese , Strawberry Guy , Weyes Blood , Bruno Major , Benny Sings , Mac DeMarco ,Parcels , Drugdealer , Mayer Hawthorne
Support from Talkfield and Blue Jean
Liverpool Bach Collective was formed in 2013, with the aim of putting on performances of J S Bach’s cantatas in churches in and around Liverpool every month as part of Sunday Evensong or Vespers. The cantatas chosen are based on, or are at least relevant to, the readings of the day in the churches visited.
Cantata 54 ‘Be steadfast against sin’ is a suitable preparation for Lent. It is a solo cantata which will be sung by Danny Townley (countertenor), accompanied by a baroque string ensemble.
A Grammy-nominated folk singer-songwriter, Mary Gauthier’s songs have been recorded by everyone from Dolly Parton and Jimmy Buffett to Boy George and Candi Staton. She now performs her latest enchanting album, Dark Enough to See the Stars.
As she has so eloquently accomplished over the past 25 years, acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier has used her art once again to traverse the uncharted waters of the past few years. Her gift to us, the powerful Dark Enough to See the Stars, collects ten sparkling jewels of Gauthier songcraft reflecting both love and loss.
Motel Sundown are an Americana band based in Liverpool made up of three songwriters, Karen Turley, Naomi Campbell and Robert Johnson. Formed in 2018, they combine the sounds they grew up with such as The Beatles, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, with three-part harmonies inspired by the likes of Fleetwood Mac and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
In 2022, the band released their debut album If You Were Listening, produced by Mercury Prize nominee Andy Ross and featuring pedal steel legend Gerry Hogan. Since releasing the album, Motel Sundown have been playing shows across the UK both as a full band and acoustic trio. The band have played support slots for Americana artists such as The Hanging Stars, Ashley Campbell, The Chapin Sisters and, more recently, Grammy-nominated artist Courtney Marie Andrews.
Motel Sundown have also made various festival appearances including at the British Country Music Festival, Cosmic Cape, Sound City, and Black Deer Festival.
Motel Sundown performed during the Liverpool Philharmonic Open Day, and were one of the biggest hits of the day!
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners, Irish/Manx/Scottish quintet Ímar are amongst Glasgow’s hottest folk property. Their two albums – Afterlight and Avalanche – have amassed a devoted fanbase all around the world, whilst live audiences are transfixed by Ímar’s collective and individual technical prowess. With a line-up boasting a heavyweight haul of top solo prizes, the group’s collective synergy and live energy is positively electric.
Adam Brown (bodhrán), Adam Rhodes (bouzouki), Mohsen Amini (concertina), Ryan Murphy (uilleann pipes) and Tomás Callister (fiddle) share a strong background in Irish music – a grounding that underpins many of Ímar’s distinctive qualities, in both instrumentation and material.
The shared cultural heritages between Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man are well documented: all three once shared the same Gaelic language, and a similar, clearly potent, kinship endures between their musical traditions.
Grupo Luma returns to the Music Room following a highly successful year of UK concerts. Showcasing sounds from Cuba, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela, the group will take their audience on a captivating journey through the magical melodies, rhythms and poetry of Latin America.
With over 25 concerts in 2023, Grupo Luma has established itself on the world music circuit, having graced events such as La Linea Festival, the Migration Matters Festival, el Sueño Existe, and supporting the legendary Illapu.
In addition to their repertoire of Latin American classics, the group will also perform new original material, showcasing their unique take on rhythms such as Cumbia, Salsa and Andean Afro/Latin in an exhilarating exploration of the rich and powerful world of Latin American music.
Grupo Luma comprises: Francisco Carrasco, Oscar Carrasco, Jonathan Raisin, P. Max Alder, Erik Bichard and Phil Hargreaves.
This ambitious new line up of Attuned is striving to develop its own approach to Indian Classical fusion.
Placing a strong emphasis on the compositional elements of their material as well as improvisational prowess, they are approaching fusion in a different way to most artists in the subgenre. The diverse expertise and backgrounds of the group’s members enable a vast collection of styles and traditions from across the world to be assimilated seamlessly.
Each composition is constructed in a very specific way, creating an intriguing environment for the improvisation to take place. The melodic material is based on Raags of North and South India, the harmonic elements are evolved precisely from these Raags to develop and enrich their character, without changing the essence of the music. While embodying the complex rhythms of Indian music, the overall landscape of the ensemble draws much from Latin, and Jazz traditions also. These contrasting rhythms, that are layered into the arrangements, flow together seamlessly and when executed with the sharpness and articulation of this group it has a real impact.
The Attuned Quartet will take audiences into a new understanding of what the potential of fusion really is and how this group is truly an ideal foundation for new forms of expression.
Omar Puente – electric violin
Jack Jennings – guitar
Gurdain Rayatt – tabla
Shanti Jayashina – cello
BBC’s Bob Harris and author/music journalist Colin Hall set out upon an intimate speaking tour based around their mutual love and appreciation of The Beatles, including rare archive from Bob Harris’ collection of interviews with Lennon & McCartney.
By 1963 the pair had written so many songs they simply couldn’t all be accommodated on just their own Beatles releases, so it made artistic and economic good sense to be offered to other artists for recording and the Merseybeat boom of 1963 & 1964 gave them a tailor-made outlet in artists such as Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and Tommy Quickly. This is the story behind those songs, the hits, the misses and the demos that the group never released: ‘The Songs The Beatles Gave Away’
‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, OBE has been at the very heart of UK music scene for the best part of fifty years. He has established a worldwide reputation as one of the most trusted and influential broadcasters of his generation – described by Radio Times as “…one of the greats of British contemporary music broadcasting” and by The Mail On Sunday as “a national treasure”.
For the past 20 years Colin Hall has been the custodian at John Lennon’s childhood home ‘Mendips’ (guiding the likes of Bob Dylan, Yoko Ono and James Taylor around the property), he’s written two books on The Fab Four and presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary with Alexei Sayle titled ‘The Lennon Visitors’. Colin was incredibly in the audience at the Village Fete where John was first introduced to Paul..! The two friends have worked on several projects together before including the upcoming film Pre:Fab (which focuses on the band’s early days as The Quarrymen), a WBBC production of ‘The Songs The Beatles Gave Away’ and 2007’s Sony Award winning ‘The Day John Met Paul.’