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STEKPANNA

in collaboration with
Leonid & Nikolai VINTSKEVICH

and special guest
Steve WATERMAN

With their latest CD ‘Starlight Barking’ now mixed and ready for mastering, the Stekpanna trio of Mads Kjølby (Guitar), Steve Kershaw (Double Bass) and Petter Svärd (Drums) will once again team up with Russian jazz stars Leonid and Nikolai Vintskevich (piano; saxes) to present a series of performances full of their characteristic deep groves, driving swing, quirky melodies, wit and humour. The splendid Steve Waterman will substitute for Mads at the Marlborough Festival.

I can't wait to visit this new London venue.

Community Arts Festival & Summer Fair

Saturday 4th July
12.00pm -7.00pm
Forest Hill School, Dacres Road, SE23 2XN
Admission: £1.00 Adults, 30p Children

FREE performing and visual art workshops, art installations and exhibitions, a live mural and arts market, fun fete activities, live music, dance, drama and poetry, plus food and refreshments. Suitable for all ages. Wheelchair accessible.

Info: www.foresthill.lewisham.sch.uk
Email: p_arts@foresthill.lewisham.sch.uk
Tel: 0208 699 9343

I'm intested in building a new musical instrument which is a cross between a clavichord and a guitar. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing?

Zuhal Sultan is a 17-year-old pianist who lives in Baghdad. Her aim is to set up the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq (NYOI).

I've been lucky enough to get to know Zuhal over skype over the past 6 months as a mentor on Channel 4's Battlefront programme and we actually met for the first time today. Zuhal is in London giving her first performance in the UK at the Wigmore Hall.

Upcoming Andy Roberts gig at Havering Folk Club April 1st 2009

Where: The Golden Lion, 2 High St., Romford, RM1 1HR Essex

When: Wednesday 1st April 2009

8.00pm

admission £1 !!

What: I get to do a full set of songs in two halves.

Havering Folk Club

Andy Roberts at Havering Folk Club on April 1st 2009

Oh My God I Miss You present:

Saturday 14th February: A Valentine's Special

Dress up as your favourite famous couple/gang this Valentines at The Bethnal Green Working Mens Club!

Sound like: "...a pulsating, genre-defying beauty, filled with inventive, erudite twists and unexpected, thrilling turns. As capable as filling a dancefloor as they are of sparking a thought, they're the sort of band that many an act will forever dream of being. Deeply exciting stuff." (Chris Long - BBC Manchester)

We like the name.

We are reecruiting CRB checked freelance artists who can deliver workshops for after school clubs around Sheffield (starting Feb/March 2009) Please send CVs and details to openminds@revisionsuccess.com

A good website for those studying music and looking for help on extra notes etc ppmta.ie (post primary music teachers association) and exam papers and marking schemes available at the sec.ie (state exams commission)

Just stumbled on 8Notes, a UK-based social network for musicians. You can upload your own music, share and download sheet music, and talk to other musicians via a lively forum.

They have a good-sized collection of not very printable musician jokes too. When I was learning classical violin many, many moons ago it was always viola jokes - from a quick glance round it looks like nothing much has changed...

http://www.8notes.com/

Free Guitar Videos blog has a lovely video of some chaps using a tractor engine as a drum machine for their jam.

http://www.freeguitarvideos.com/blog/2008/10/how-many-mpg-does-your-drummer-get.html

Just spotted Black Cab Sessions, a site where sometimes quite famous musicians play a song while riding around in the back of a taxi.

What else could be simplified by happening in the back of a taxi? Siestas, meetings, more?

http://www.blackcabsessions.com/

This is my full and current website.