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With special guest star Alison Moyet and guest vocalists Ruby Turner and Louise Marshall. Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, featuring Gilson Lavis on drums, return this Autumn with the party that never stops. Starting 14 years ago, 29-date 2009 tour takes the unrivalled Jools Holland party atmosphere the length and breadth of the UK, including Victoria Hall on 7 November 2009. The show promises to deliver the…

Following it's sell out success in the West End, The Gruffalo is back on a UK tour. Join Mouse on an adventurous journey through the deep dark wood and meet a wheeler-dealer Fox, an eccentric old Owl, and a maraca-shaking, party-mad Snake! Mouse can scare these hungry animals away with tall stories of the terrifying Gruffalo, but what happens when he comes face to face with the very creature he…

For the first of this year’s collaborations with mjf, we present a genuine ‘supergroup’ which brings together two of the UK’s finest musicians with two great stars of the US jazz scene. Gwilym Simcock has been name-checked as a ‘genius’ by Chick Corea and has worked extensively throughout Europe with top jazz artists, including Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz and Bill Bruford’s Earthworks. Mike Walker needs no introduction to…

Following an electrifying collaboration in June 2007, the RNCM Big Band is once again joined by one of the UK’s most in-demand keyboard players and Latin music producers, Alex Wilson. One of the leading names on the UK jazz and Latin music scenes, Wilson has performed with everyone from Courtney Pine to Jazz Jamaica, Adalberto Santiago to Toumani Diabaté. Of his six solo albums, his latest, Salsa con Soul, has…

FOALS have announced an autumn tour of the UK, which ends with a November date at the Brixton Academy. read more

Blues and soul diva voted the UK's No 1 female blues vocalist by BluePrint magazine. Her band consists of Peter Wade (guitar), Terry Harris (bass) and Mikael Weizman (drums). Raunchy blues singer Connie Lush delivers a powerful mix of bare knuckle r&b, soul anthems and blues ballads. "That woman makes my heart sing" BB King "a voice like a 3am whisky/enough electricity to power the national grid"The Times "unforgettable name…

An evening of new dance from the North West. Powerful, moving and sometimes stark dance works from three of the North West’s most exciting new dance companies. Selected from Turn 09, this dance triple bill encompasses a range of styles and subjects: an intense exploration of male friendship; a depiction of women trapped in a void; and a vivid battle with the demons of addiction. Cover – Eight Eyes A…