A quick reminder that tickets are still
available for our summer concert on Friday 9 June at
Gateshead's Caedmon Hall with our guests, Martin Litton (piano) and Nick
Ward (drums), also featuring the New Century's own Caroline on
vocals.
Martin is an internationally renowned
pianist, arranger and bandleader, who plays all the classic jazz styles with
immaculate precision, and who has recorded with many of the jazz greats
including Humphrey Lyttleton and Kenny Ball. Nick of course is a regular
guest with the New Century, probably the country's foremost drummer in the
vintage jazz style.
Tickets (£15) are best reserved in
advance from Dave Kerr on 0191 2814011 or at ragtimedavekerr@aol.com, and
can be paid for on the night. Advanced sales permitting, tickets will
also be available on the door, which opens at 7 and the show starts
at 7.30 pm. Tickets can also be obtained through the venue's
box office on 0191 433 6965 or by clicking this link:
For those who haven't been before,
the Caedmon Hall is situated within the Central Library on Prince Consort Road,
Gateshead NE8 4LN. It's an intimate venue with excellent acoustics, bar
facilities, disabled access and free parking.
We hope you can join us for another
entertaining evening of ragtime, hot dance music and early swing, all
anarchically presided over by reedman Steve Andrews!
Phil Rutherford
The New Century Ragtime Orchestra
This
twelve-piece orchestra plays music from the dawn of Ragtime in the 1890’s
through to the early Swing Era of the 1930’s. Lovingly
recreated from the original sheet music and painstakingly scored for full
ensemble, we perform not only ragtime composers such as Scott Joplin but also
the classic jazz and hot dance music of the 1920’s, and the early swing of Duke
Ellington.
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