Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata 180: Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele (Dear Soul, adorn yourself with gladness)
The text of the cantata invites the hearer to be prepared and to be ready to accept the Saviour’s invitation to enter heaven as his guest. The four vocal soloists and chorus are joined by an ensemble of recorders, flute, oboes, string and organ.
The up and coming Seas of Neptune – a 4-piece rock band from Liverpool – are playing the iconic Liverpool Zanzibar Club on 29/09/23 with support from The Dave Simpson Trio and The Mighty George Farmer.
Tickets are £5 on Skiddle or OTD, or £3 OTD with a valid student card.
Liverpool Urban Sketchers are celebrating their 10th anniversary next year and are currently fundraising to cover the cost of publishing a book of their sketches.
They are holding a fundraising jazz concert in November, featuring the brilliant Frank Griffith Quartet.
Tickets cost £12.50.
To buy tickets, contact Lesley Scholes: lesleyscholes@blueyonder.co.uk or phone: 07762 360591
Critically acclaimed, award-winning English/Scottish folk group The Furrow Collective are heading out on tour, in support of their fourth full-length album We Know by the Moon.
Each of the group’s three previous albums has marked a distinct development of their music, whilst retaining its idiosyncratic core of resonant bowed and plucked strings anchoring sky-bound harmony singing; the fourth will mark a further expansion of this unique trademark sound. Recorded and due for release in winter 2023, the record will span the seasons to link the solstices in harmony, in the form of a suite of noctilucent laments, lunar serenades and starlit balladry.
Evoking the uncanny atmosphere of a moonlit midwinter’s night, The Furrow Collective will present eerie story-songs and seasonal carols with their signature spine-tingling harmonies and masterful storytelling, bringing a spark of light into the wintry gloom. This promises to be an unmissable winter’s evening to remember.
Join them for a night of choral favourites as the Liverpool Male Voice Choir joins Bois Goetre-Hen Male Choir to raise money in aid of Ukraine.
There will also be performances from the Ukrainian dance groups “UKraїna”, choreographed by Nataliia Slakva and “Radist”, choreographed by Nataliia Slakva.
Thanks also to Big Help Project Tickets are £5 each and available via http://www.liverpoolmvc.org.uk or through the phone numbers below:
Mike 07598 324546, Frank 07369 236177, Pete 0151 486 7724
7:00pm, Saturday, 23rd September 2023
St Sebastian’s Church, Lockerby Road, L70HG
Take a break from the glorious chaos of Christmas preparations to enjoy an evening of Christmas songs, festive classics, carols and seasonal melodies from across the ages.
Performed by students from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA), this annual, feel-good, family concert features the LIPA Big Band, strings, choirs, vocalists, and dancers in a wonderful evening of yule-tide light entertainment.
Taking place in the early evening, it’s perfectly timed for everyone in the family to round off their weekend with some Christmas cheer and still get an early night ahead of school or work the next day!
Founded in 1996, and with a reputation for world-leading creative and performing arts training, LIPA attracts some of the most talented and committed students from the UK and across the world. Join us for a joyous celebration of Christmas!
The greatest concert film of all time, Stop Making Sense brings to the screen Talking Heads at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, alongside an ecstatic ensemble of supporting musicians.
Renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) captures the band at their exhilarating best, in this new and complete restoration for the film’s 40th anniversary.
The artists of MDM Recordings present an incredible country/folk music showcase in Apologetically Canadian.
Taking to the stage will be record-breaking and chart-topping independent artist Tyler Joe Miller, singer-songwriter and Juno and CCMA Award nominee Don Amero, iHeart Radio’s ‘Future Star’ duo Five Roses and the multi award-winning Jess Moskaluke, the first Canadian female artist to go platinum in Canada since Shania Twain.
Get ready for an incredible evening, starring the very best country musicians Canada has to offer.
Rose City Band’s country psychedelic rock evokes the wide-open spaces of the American west and the free spirits who call it home.
The project of acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Ripley Johnson, Rose City Band has extended beyond the studio and lives in tandem as a live ensemble featuring some of the finest players in contemporary rock: pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker, keyboardist Paul Hasenberg, bassist Dewey Mahood (aka Plankton Wat) and drummer Dustin Dybvig.
Their latest record, Garden Party, is a celebration of summer and all it brings: communal gatherings, the respites offered by nature, and an appreciation for even the simplest beauty. Freedom, contentment, and joy were the sources for the songs. From the soaring guitar solos to the driving rhythms, the elegant pedal steel lines to the organ grooves, Garden Party has a live band’s energy captured in exquisite detail.
Like all great music, Garden Party takes listeners to their happy place – their sunny spot. The album is an invitation to recalibrate, a joyous ride where the band’s sounds surround and embrace you.
A huge modular synth showcase is coming to The Capstone Theatre in Liverpool this autumn.
On Thursday 26th October, the venue will host a triple bill of electronic music from an exciting trio of artists heralding from the North West; Polypores, Field Lines Cartographer and Lo Five.
From the bucolic drift of 2019’s Flora, or the jagged fever-dream timbres of Chaos Blooms, Stephen Buckley’s Polypores project has never ceased to innovate, weaving intricate textures and motifs into effortlessly anxiolytic electronic music for some of the most respected labels in the electronic music sphere including Castles In Space, Polytechnic Youth, Woodford Halse, DiN and Frequency Domain.
It’s not just via recorded medium that we get an insight into the Polypores world though, with his live performances ranging from highly textural modular synth tapestries, slowly unfurling into threads of sound, to nigh-horizontal mesmeric drone monoliths and meditative simmering sound baths wrought through a baffling array of hardware synths and effects.
In Field Lines Cartographer’s world there is no rush, no hurried resolutions or hasty developments; Mark Burford has been meticulously crafting an impeccable body of work that revels in gradual imperceptible shifts and slow-burning realisations for some years now.
From the chimeric Dreamtides for Castles In Space, rich with atmospheric intensity and nebulous melodic turns, to the insectile mystery and skittering echoic arpeggios of Formic Kingdom for Woodford Halse, or the stunning Tone Maps for fledgling imprint Quiet Details, Burford’s music is intensely emotive and unfathomably deep.
While the textural detail inherent in all of FLC’s work carries through to his jawdropping live show, his performances are mostly stripped back to a couple of hardware synthesisers, effortlessly mixing analogue and digital in a masterclass of restraint and balance, earning him a much-lauded repeat appearance at Levitation festival in Whitby and a spot at DiN’s Tone Science live show at The Capstone Theatre.
Lo Five is the experimental melodic ambient handle of Neil Grant, a Wirral-based producer who specialises in heavily textured tape-worn beat-heavy soundscapes, which refer to an ongoing interest in human consciousness and spiritual enlightenment.
Including previous releases on Castles in Space, Miracle Pond, Upitup and Patterned Air, Lo Five has two records scheduled for release on Castles in Space in 2023. Neil is the founder of Emotion Wave, an ongoing collaborative project which is primarily involved with releases and events designed to showcase underground electronic artists.
Simply a must for modular synth and electronic music fans, this incredible showcase promises to be an exhilarating display of other-worldly sounds; taking the audience on a mind-blowing journey. Another incredible night of entertainment courtesy of Liverpool’s forward thinking Capstone Theatre.