Wednesday 21 May
FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT
Music at Lunchtime:
Mike Hall (Saxophone) and
Dan Whieldon (Piano)
Spontaneous interaction is the key ingredient from this well established jazz partnership; from delicate exchanges on reinterpreted ballads to working up a musical lather in faster pieces. Mike and Dan draw from a broad range of material and explore the full potential of the duo format.
Mike Hall is a tutor in Jazz Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music
St Clement’s Church | 1–2pm | Free
‘Fugee’
Full details in ‘Arts in Schools ’.
Blue Box Theatre | 7.30pm | £5/£3
Manchester Road Players: A Chorus of Disapproval
This year’s dramatic offering from the Chorlton-based theatre company sees Alan Ayckbourn making fun of his own profession in his twentieth play. ‘A Chorus of Disapproval’ centres around an amateur production of John Gay’s ‘The Beggar’s Opera’. A play within a play, it shows how the lives of ordinary folk can be surprisingly eventful.
Chorlton Methodist Church Theatre | 7.30pm | £4.50/£3
The Best of the FLICK Film Festival
Full details in ‘FLICK Film Festival’.
Iguana | 6–7.30pm | Free
M21 Youth Theatre: Run Rabbit Run
It is December 1942 and a group of young evacuees face a crisis more urgent and immediate than the seemingly distant war.
St Clement’s Church | 7.30pm | £3
Chalumeau Duo together with Jonathan ellis and Duncan Reid
Tonight’s classical double-bill opens with a programme of some of the finest repertoire for clarinet and piano, performed by the Chalumeau Duo, Rachel Fillhart (Clarinet) and Kathryn Eves (Piano), graduates from the Royal Northern College of Music. This is followed by Jonathan Ellis (Piano) and Duncan Reid (Violin), performing Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major and the Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor.
St Werburgh’s Church | 7.30pm | £5/£3
Band Night @ The Lounge
A special Lounge night with music from Avant Gardner, and Gareth Evans.
The Lounge | 8pm | Free
AH HA! Theatre: Small Pleasures
Have you ever said you will never drink again? This play is either a comment on society’s attitude to alcohol or a big piss up? You decide.
WARNING – contains strong language that some may find offensive/amusing. Bring your beer goggles.
The Lloyds hotel (upstairs) | 9pm | Free
Late Night CAF: Kamal Arafa and the Moonlight Band
Kamal Arafa and the Moonlight Band find their roots in Country, Folk and Skiffle music. Their music is a blend of acoustic, upbeat folk, orchestral string arrangements, a jumping rhythm section and the occasional humorous lyric.
The Lloyds hotel | 9.30pm | Free