April at a glance...
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Thursday 1 April
Red Herring Comedy Club
Time: 8.30pmTickets: £9 (£7 concessions) in advance / £10 (£8 concessions) on the day
Seymour Mace has featured in all four series of ‘Ideal’ on BBC Three and is now unable to walk down the street without being recognised. A joyful and quirky act that always makes the gig a special occasion. It’s been 5 years since Seymour performed at Red Herring and it’s a pleasure to finally be able to get him back as we hit our 6th anniversary on April Fool’s Day itself! With MC Dave Twentyman
Please note that Red Herring comedy nights are only suitable for those aged 18 and over – all acts are subject to change.
Friday 2 April
YoungPlugged
Time: Doors open 7pmTickets: £3
Created and organised by local legends Molly & Hannah, YoungPlugged is an open mic night for young people like no other… All the performers are aged 13-19 and it’s as cool as it is unpredictable! To find out more including how to bag yourself a performance slot go to www.myspace.com/youngplugged1
YoungPlugged generally sells out, so early booking is recommended.
Saturday 3 April
High School Hits Prom Night
Time: 1.30pm & 4pmTickets: £6.50
Following last year’s sell-out tour, High School Hits returns to Lincoln Drill Hall for two spectacular one-hour live and interactive concerts staring the pop group ‘The High Schoolers’. Fronted by the four members of the band and backed by two fantastic dancers, this high energy, feel-good family production features music from High School Musical 1, 2 and 3 as well as Camp Rock, Hannah Montana, Hairspray and loads of number one hits from ‘Girls Aloud’ to ‘JLS’. This is a high-energy full-on show, with loads of opportunities to sing and dance. Early booking is recommended!
Saturday 3 April
Stayin Alive CANCELLED
Unfortunately due to unforseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Stayin Alive will be back with a summer special in July…..
Wednesday 7 April
Lincoln Drill Hall Children’s Festival
Gamelan Games!
Time: 4pm – 5pmTickets: £5
Enjoy a fun family afternoon of music workshops and performance with ‘Gamelan Collective’. Learn all about the wonderful and unique instruments from Java, Indonesia. Have fun playing the tuned percussive instruments ranging from small xylophone styled instruments to large gongs!
gamelancollective.blogspot.com
Tuesday 6 April – Wednesday 7 April
Lincoln Drill Hall Children’s Festival
Spy Play Days!
Time: 11am - 3pmTickets: £2 per child per day (accompanying adults free)
Children’s Links’ family play days are back! Drop in for a few minutes or a few hours and try your hand at being a spy … build and make spy gadgets, dress up in disguise, crack codes or just try out your spy skills! This is a family play day and all children MUST be accompanied by an adult.
Wednesday 7 April – Thursday 8 April
Lincoln Drill Hall Children’s Festival
FishTank Youth Theatre: Make A Play in Two Days!
Time: 10am - 3pmTickets: £22
Join Alice and the FishTank crew for the chance to spend 2 days making a brand new play using your own ideas and imagination. You’ll then get to perform the play in the Drill Hall auditorium at the end of the second day to an audience of family & friends. Go on… unleash your creativity! Open to ages 8 – 13.
Thursday 8 April
Lincoln Drill Hall Children’s Festival
TV Nostalgia Quiz
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £6 (children free)
Get a team together and join us for the Drill Hall’s annual TV Nostalgia Quiz! With TV clips and related trivia from decades past, this is a quiz for all the family (although those aged under 30 may struggle with some of the answers!). From the 60s to the 90s, prepare to put your knowledge – and memory – to the test as you battle it out to be crowned Quiz Champions!
Thursday 8 April
“A Moonstruck maker of Charades” a talk by Jackie M Miller
Ruston Room
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £10 (including refreshments)
The marriage between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck so nearly did not take place. When Robert finally carried off his prize his creative energy knew no bounds and in six months of the year 1840 he composed five of the greatest song cycles in the repertoire. The relationship of the couple, Robert’s complex personality and the effect on his composing life, is the subject of this enlightening evening with a speaker who never fails to entertain.
Friday 9 April
Lincoln Drill Hall Children’s Festival
Children’s Festival with Voice & Verse Festival
Paws for Poems
The Ruston Room
Time: 2pmTickets: £3 (Free for under 18s)
A special children’s event to celebrate the spoken word, young talent and the mysterious world of the cat! We’re looking for poems about cats and young people to read them… maybe you know a poem about a cat that is already published or maybe you’d like to write one yourself? Come and present a purr-fect purr-formance. Anyone between the ages of 7 and 18 can apply by completing an application form. Pick one up from the Drill Hall, or from Counterpoint Music on Grantham Street or download it from www.lincolndrillhall.com.
The poems will be selected to allow the best and most varied mix of pieces. For further information contact Viv McVeagh on 01522 537261 or email convivium.music@ntlworld.com
Each participant will be awarded a certificate of participation from Omnipuss Art, 49 Steep Hill Lincoln LN2 1LU 07810 715850 www.leagoldberg.com/gallery/cats.php
Please click here to download an application form
Friday 9 April
In association with Old Bakery Promotions
Feast of Fiddles
Time: 8pmTickets: £15
This concert is part of the seventeenth Feast of Fiddles’ Spring Tour since the band first formed in 1994. What started as an informal get together for Nettlebed Folk Club has gone from strength to strength to include festival appearances at Cropredy, Broadstairs, Jersey and even The Great British Beer Festival. The line up of fiddlers is a compendium of British folk stars including Phil Beer, Garry Blakeley and Ian Cutler. The format of solo performances mixed with stirring ensembles has developed into a musical entertainment that ensures the enjoyment and appreciation of everyone, from extreme enthusiasts to the friends they have dragged along!
‘You are seriously all great musicians’ David Fanshawe (African Sanctus)
Saturday 10 April
Lincoln Drill Hall Children’s Festival
Murray Lachlan Young’s Modern Cautionary Tales for Children
Time: 11.30amTickets: £7
Writer and performer Murray Lachlan Young, one of the UK’s foremost performance poets and a regular fixture on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live & BBC resident poet at the Glastonbury Festival, presents an hour of rock ‘n’ roll, poetry, stand-up & storytelling. A hilarious and positive route to showing children that poetry can be fun, thought-provoking and occasionally quite cool!
‘Who’d have thought it . The big bad boy of performance poetry turns out to be one of the greatest children’s entertainers I have ever seen. There is not a patronising nanosecond in this’ The Scotsman
Saturday 10 April
'Tell The "Tail" '
Christopher Maltman – baritone, Julius Drake – piano and The Hungate Singers
Convivium Music with Voice & Verse 2010
Main Auditorium
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £13 (£12 Concessions - free for under 18s)
Commissioned for Convivium Music with funds provided by The St Hugh’s Foundation, the World Première of Tomkat Murr by Judith Bingham (pictured), is the culmination of the Voice & Verse Festival 2010 which celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of Robert Schumann. Judith Bingham is a celebrated composer who as a singer herself writes sympathetically for the voice with humour and directness and the piece will be based around text from the satirical story by E.T.A Hoffman ‘The Life and Opinions of Tomkat Murr’. For full details of Voice & Verse 2010 call 01522 53721 or email convivium.music@ntlworld.com
Saturday 10 April
Open Rehearsal of TomKat Murr
Main Auditorium
Time: 3.00pmTickets: £2 or Free to those with tickets for the evening concert 'Tell the "Tail" '
Get close to the action and see artists as they work with a composer on a new piece. It is fascinating to see the piece coming together in preparation for the actual performance.
Free to the evening ticket holders or £2
Saturday 10 April
ETA Hoffman - A Talk by Viv McVeagh
Ruston Room
Time: 2.00pmTickets: £2 or Free to those with tickets for the evening concert 'Tell the "Tail" '
ETA Hoffman is best known for his “Tales of Hoffman” and is the subject of Offenbach’s music of the same name. The ballet stories of The Nutcracker and Coppelia were also based on his tales. This short talk as introduction to the evening concert sheds a little light on the man, his life and the connections with Robert Schumann.
Free to the evening ticket holders or £2
Tuesday 13 April
Lunchtime Recital
The Next Generation
Time: 1pmTickets: £5 in advance (£6 on the day)
Our monthly Lunchtime Recital series continues with two of the next generation of superb Lincolnshire instrumentalists. Ben Stevenson is principal oboist with Lincolnshire Youth Symphony Orchestra and Alexandra Grau is a leading trumpet and cornet performer with Lincolnshire Youth Symphonic Wind Band. Join us for this superb opportunity to listen to and support some of the very best of new local talent.
Thursday 15 April
4Front Performance Company
Double Bill: Idol Chat and Red Betrayal
Time: 8pmTickets: £8 (£6 concessions) Open Dress rehearsal Weds 14 April 8pm – all tickets £5
The company behind last year’s shows J,D & Coke and Going Down presents a double bill of two very different short plays. Idol Chat is a new comedy which imagines what Bettie Page and four other very recognisable icons would talk about if they were thrown in a room together and didn’t know why?
Red Betrayal explores the human story of the proletariat during the height of Joseph Stalin’s ‘mass terror’. We witness their struggle, the horror and the fear which gripped an entire nation through the eyes of two friends.
BUY TICKETS for 14 April Public Dress Rehearsal
Friday 16 April
Phil McIntyre Entertainment
John Bishop: Elvis Has Left the Building SOLD OUT
Time: 8pmTickets: £12 (£10 concessions)
John Bishop is now the same age as Elvis was when he died, a fact that has led him to reconsider the way he lives his life. Just lately, John has been spending lots of time at home hoping that things will happen and that they’ll turn out to be funny. A rather risky career move but luckily for John the antics of his teenage sons have proven to be a relentless source of comic inspiration. What results is a hilarious analysis of their blasé attitude to his chosen career and the changes that occur once your eldest son is big enough to ‘have’ his Dad as well as reflections on the peculiarities of 21st Century family life. John’s recent TV appearances include Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, 8 out of 10 Cats, For One Night Only and Skins.
“I can’t help falling in love with this open, optimistic show” Guardian
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT
Saturday 17 April
New Jazz 5
Geoff Gascoyne’s Bop Pop
Time: 8pmTickets: £12 (£10 concessions / £6 students)
Geoff Gascoyne on bass, Jim Mullen on guitar, Graeme Blevins on Trumpet, Sebastiaan de Krom on drums. With special guest appearance by Trudy Kerr on vocals Bop Pop was formed and is led by Geoff Gascoyne who, with Sebastiaan de Krom, was a member of Jamie Cullum’s band for eight years. Together with ace guitarist Jim Mullen and Kyle Eastwood’s trumpet player Graeme Blevins they make the obvious but rarely conceived connection between modern jazz and great pop melodies by artists such as The Stylistics, Diana Ross, James Taylor, Peter Gabriel, Rufus Wainwright and even Take That! Enjoyable and familiar tunes played with style and foot-tapping accessibility.
Tuesday 20 April – Wednesday 21 April
Fresh Glory Productions with Shapeshifter and Chipping Norton Theatre
Huck
Time: 1.00pm & 7.30pmTickets: £10 (£9 concessions / £7 students)
Huck, an outcast teenager and Jim, a runaway slave, are fleeing down the Mississippi on their makeshift raft. Adventures grow wilder, stories taller, and the people they meet more outlandish as they journey through a young America, searching for freedoms without and freedoms within. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s all time classic novel of taking chances and pushing boundaries, is brought crashing onto the Drill Hall stage by award-winning theatre company, Shapeshifter. With live music and a charmingly funny script, Huck is a messy, raucous and uncouth epic for young, old and everyone in between. Suitable for ages 8+, contains issues of racism and slavery.
BUY TICKETS for 20 April 7.30pm
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Thursday 22 April
An Evening of Gospel Music with Jonathan Nowell
Time: 7.30pmTickets: £7 (£5 concessions)
Lincoln based singer-songwriter Jonathan Nowell makes his first visit to the Drill Hall, with this evening of piano-driven song. Blending influences from gospel, the blues, jazz and folk, Jonathan’s music ranges from touching to toe-tapping, and from comfort to challenge. Accessible and uplifting, the songs speak of faith and real life, and a thought-provoking and entertaining evening is guaranteed! www.jonathan-nowell.com
Friday 23 April
Mapdance
Time: 8pmTickets: £9 (£7 concessions / £6 students)
Now in its fourth year, Mapdance has established itself as an exciting postgraduate company of young, dynamic dancers recruited nationally and internationally, performing a diverse repertoire by renowned and upcoming contemporary choreographers. Ranging in style and emotion, the programme includes short dance works by Shobana Jeyasingh, Matthias Sperling (Random), Gregory Maqoma (Vuyani Dance Theatre) Colin Poole (Rambert, The Mission/State of Emergency) and Keira Martin (Kompany Malakhi) – a programme that offers a mixture of dance theatre, punchy choreography, and intriguing humour.
“Inches from its audience, the troupe radiated energy.…rare to find and thrilling to watch” Total Theatre
Saturday 24 April
In the Spotlight: Songs from the Musicals
Time: 2.30pm & 7.30pmTickets: £14 (£12 concessions)
Produced by ‘In The Spotlight Productions Ltd’ ‘In The Spotlight – Songs from the Musicals’
Celebrating over a century of musical theatre, Faye Tozer from Steps together with five of the UK’s finest vocalists, six incredible dancers and a superb live band present the best that musical theatre has to offer. With numbers from Oklahoma! My Fair Lady Wicked and Rent this is an evening with something for everyone. The West End is closer than you think….
[Please note Lewis Bradley is no longer performing in this event]
BUY TICKETS for 2.30pm performance
Sunday 25 April
Happenings
Time: Doors 6pm – event starts 6.45pmTickets: Free!
Join us for this free evening of performance, promoting talent and performance in the city. With a mixture of drama, dance, music, sketches and comedy, Happenings is an exciting, creative and unpredictable night and 4Front encourages any local performers to get in touch so that they can showcase their work and talent in a laid back and friendly atmosphere…
Visit www.4frontperformance.com for more details.
Wednesday 28 April – Thursday 29 April
Lincoln College Performing Arts Department’s Musical Theatre Production
Thursday 29 April – Friday 30 April
Performance Anxiety
Shadowboxing
Ruston Room
Time: 8:00pmTickets: £7 (£5 concessions)
Performance Anxiety
Shadowboxing
Flynn has been beating opponents in the ring for years. Now it’s time to confront some tougher enemies, the demons inside himself. From the team that produced Weepie in 2009, comes another high-intensity production. It stars Jonny Collis-Scurll, tipped as ‘a man to watch’ by The Stage following his Edinburgh performances in ‘Weepie.’
Friday 30 April
Lunchtime Literature & Film
Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Time: 12pmTickets: £5 in advance (£6 on the day)
Followed at 2pm by Breakfast at Tiffany’s [PG 1961]
Known to most of us as a successful film, come and hear Dr Jane Mackay talk about what this novel was really about … and then see the film afterwards! Capote was angered by the sanitisation in the film of his rich and cruel novel. In many senses, despite its 1940s New York gloss, this is more a Henry James story, with a glamorous veneer concealing the germ of tragedy. Come and meet the real Holly Golightly, like Capote a ‘hick’ from Alabama, trying to survive in a big bad world.
Friday 30 April
Breakfast at Tiffany’s [PG 1961]
Time: 2pmTickets: Film Tickets: £4 in advance (£5 on the day) Talk & Film Ticket: £8 (advance only)
Blake Edwards’s adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel is a lighter than-air romantic comedy, set in a fantasy New York, and rides on the irresistible charm of Audrey Hepburn at her peak, as well as a memorable score by Henry Mancini.
Friday 30 April
Salsa Celtica
Time: 8pmTickets: £15
Lincoln Drill Hall is thrilled to be bringing this unique and extraordinary band to the county for the first time. Salsa Celtica’s incredible blend of Scottish and Irish traditional music mixed together with the Latin American elements of salsa has taken them and their music all over the world. Their albums have topped the New York and LA salsa charts and the European world music charts and the band has been nominated for folk music awards and appeared as themselves in a feature film. The line-up combines some of Scotland and Ireland’s most exciting traditional musicians mixed with a stellar group of world, jazz and salsa musicians from the UK and Latin America.
Please note this event will be a mix of Seating (on the tiered section) for which tickets are priced at £15, and Standing tickets which are priced at £14. There is a discount for Lincoln Drill Hall Friends.
