Simon Thorpe’s swing band Jivin’ Miss Daisy regularly appears at Ronnie Scott’s Club and is well known on the UK jazz scene.
Simon and singer Liz Fletcher will perform songs by the greats, including Duke Ellington and Irving Berlin. Expect a variety of music and a special guest!
Barefoot Opera are offering another outdoor picnic music event; with great care and attention to social distancing and track and tracing. We are going to limit numbers to 45 as an extra precautionary measure.
A Family-Friendly 30-minute show. It’s August – it’s CRAZY!
Bev and her family create music using random household objects. Join in with your own pots and pans and whatever hitty, shaky things you can find lying around for this fun, chaotic musical extravaganza.
Bev is a composer, performer, singer-songwriter and educator who revels in mixing up genres and everyday sounds into one big musical soup for the soul.
Outstanding soloists Gavin Kibble and Naomi Burrell will play a selection of solos and duets live in a St Leonards garden.
Gavin Kibble played ‘cello in Barefoot Opera’s ‘Bloom Britannia’ extract last May. He and his partner violinist Naomi Burrell perform regularly with ensembles including the English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and were both poised to start a long tour with English Touring Opera when lockdown struck.
Repertoire: Bach, Cassado, Corelli, and other tuneful surprises…
The concert is ‘pay what you can by donation’
Bring your picnic blanket/chairs
There will be no facilities available
Parking on the road
After the success of our pop-up live recording with Chiara Vinci and Tom Clarkson, Barefoot Opera are offering another outdoor picnic music event; with great care and attention to social distancing and track and tracing. We are going to limit numbers to 40 as an extra precautionary measure.
