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Jazz notes
1:40pm today
PAUL Towndrow has visited Wakefield Jazz before with the saxophone quartet Brass Jaw and tonight he returns with his own bop-inspired Sextet - two saxophones, trumpet, piano, bass and drums. This is reckoned to be a reet rockin' band, so take your stomping shoes, details from 01977 680542.
User Rating: 7/10     

Magic picnic
1:39pm today
YORKSHIRE'S first 24-hour luxury musical picnic will be held this summer at Newburgh Priory, Coxwold.

Debut for singer Silje
1:35pm today
NORWEGIAN multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Silje Nes makes her City Screen debut in York on Wednesday night on her first British tour.

Preview: Michael Weston King
1:31pm today
COUNTRY singer-songwriter Michael Weston King plays York for the first time in nearly ten years at tonight's Please Please You bill in the Basement Bar of City Screen, York.

York Q&A session for Hugh
11:14am today
HUGH Cornwell will hold a question-and-answer session at Wednesday's 6.30pm screening of his first film/DVD project, Blueprint, at City Screen, York. The former Stranglers singer, songwriter and guitarist is the subject of a feature-length film about his new album, Hoover Dam, a solo release recorded and filmed at the all-analogue Toe Rag Studio in east London.

Review: Kreutzer Quartet; Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
10:31am Wednesday 14th May 2008
"Tis distance lends enchantment to the view." Thomas Campion might have added that it also lends perspective.

Review: Jethro Tull, Grand Opera House, York
10:30am Wednesday 14th May 2008
A FEW minutes after it was announced the Jethro Tull train was York-bound, the grand old engine came a rollin' in and immediately transported the audience back to the dying days of steam.
User Rating: 9.3/10     

Review: John Williams & John Etheridge, The National Centre For Early Music, York
10:27am Wednesday 14th May 2008
WHAT an inspired combination - the nylon strings of classical guitarist John Williams and the steel strings of his jazz counterpart John Etheridge.

Review: The Demon Barber Roadshow, York Theatre Royal, York
8:32am Tuesday 13th May 2008
AS FAR as musical fusions go, you don't get much more extreme than when The Demon Barber Roadshow came to town.

Review: York Guildhall Orchestra (YGO), New Barbican Centre, York
8:32am Tuesday 13th May 2008
YES, you the read the line above correctly. Back in the Barbican.
User Rating: 8/10     
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