Greetings from the New Century Ragtime Orchestra! Why not beat the
General Election blues by coming along to our next concert, arranged for the
day afterwards?
Tickets are now on sale 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 281 4011 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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