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"For
the past 15 years, The Shed, near the market town of Malton, has been
responsible for some of the smallest and most inspired art events in the
country." Alfred Hickling Guardian
Ian McMillan's welcome to The Shed
PIED PIPER AND THE SHED
You all
remember the old legend, don't you? The Pied Piper? The way that he came
to Ryedale to rid the streets of bored children who complained of PS2
Thumb and Remote Spasm?
You
remember how The Pied Piper came and instead of enticing the young people
with his pipe (made out of an old pie, hence the name. You can get quite
a good tone with airholes cut into a solid crust, as long as you get the
fingering right. Ask Snake Davis: he started out on a steak and kidney
pie years ago. Ask him. Steak Davis, he used to be called. Ask him.) he
got them to play their own pipes that they'd made themselves, and instead
of enticing them into a mountain he enticed them into a Shed.
Which is
just a legendary way of welcoming you to the new Shed Season and to
celebrate the fact that, in The Shed's fifteenth year, its community
educational brother Pied Piper is ten years old. In other words cut
Ryedale and it bleeds Shed; scratch Ryedale and it bleeds Pied Piper. And
that has to be a good thing. So come and celebrate with us; come to a gig
and then have a go yourself.
That's how Hank Wangford started, with a Pied Piper. Used to play a
guitar made out of an old pork pie. Ask him. Hank Pieford, they used to
call him. Ask him.
© Ian
McMillan 2007
Don't
miss:
Ian McMillan Orchestra - 1 December at The Shed!
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Eliza Carthy at The Shed. Photo © Richard Foster
Eliza
Carthy
Sunday 14
October £15
REVIEW: Eliza Carthy -
The Press -16 October 2007
SUFFERING
from a cold - that occupational hazard of a touring musician - folk diva
Eliza Carthy strolled on to the village hall stage sucking a lozenge,
which she cheekily placed on the drum kit before getting her sold-out gig
rolling.
She told
the enthusiastic audience: "In order to be a decent folk singer, you
have to have an unhealthy obsession with death."
Accompanying
herself on a four-string electric guitar, she launched into a camp-fire
song she learned as a Brownie entitled Lady All Skin And Bone.
She
switched to her more customary fiddle for a traditional Yorkshire song with
the refrain "treat me daughter decent" before switching to a
melodeon to sing Colour Blind - a song composed by Irving Berlin for Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Moving from
the glitz of Hollywood to the Deep South, Carthy, inspired by Lead Belly,
sang Kisses Sweeter Than Wine.
It was just
what the doctor ordered as Carthy, joined by three fellow musicians on
drums, double bass and guitar/fiddle, overcame the effects of her cold to
throw herself into Mr Magnifico, a song set in Edinburgh about a dodgy landlord
looking for love and a lodger. It was a tour de force of ensemble
playing, with Carthy playing her fiddle with the intensity of a Shaman.
This
accomplished musician loves performing live. She does not just sing a
song, rather this natural-born story-teller inhabits it.
Avant-garde
sound effects, unorthodox rhythms, reggae, traditional ballads, rousing
drinking songs and the blues - it's all the same to this true trouper. ©
Richard Foster, The Press
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The
George Washingmachine Quartet
Friday 19
October £12.50
Hovingham village hall
Feeling
all strung out? Life in a spin? Let the George Washingmachine Quartet
rinse away the cares of everyday life.
Knuckle-busting
fiddling and Grappelli-esque workouts, Dixieland romps and smoochy velvet
vocal numbers... from the cooker-hot jazz traps of Sydney to the fridge-cool
of
The Shed, George will get your feet thumping and your heart pumping!
George
Washingmachine - violin, vocals
One of Australia's most sought after entertainers, jazz violinist George
Washingmachine, swinging and eccentric singer as well as violin player,
plays his versions of standards and new compositions with his own blend
of string jazz in this electrifying performance.
"He
doesn't play second fiddle to anyone" Sunday Telegraph
David
Blenkhorn - guitar
Highly respected musician known as much for his attitude to music as his
ability to play great swinging guitar. An in-demand player on the London
jazz cicuit since his arrival from Oz two years ago and in European
festivals for the past five years.
Dave
Kelbie - guitar
"Dave Kelbie's rhythm guitar is a joy in itself, firm but relaxed,
clearly executed but never obtrusive. Dave knows exactly the best chord
voicing for every moment and will add spice with the occasional flourish
or series of brisk arpeggios reminiscent of Eddie Lang." Charles
Alexander
Sebastien
Girardot - double bass
A
powerful, swinging bass player with a foundation of classical training
and initial jazz experiences with New Orleans Revival style groups. He
has performed with international icons such as Evan Christoper, Claude
Luter, the Paris Swing Orchestra and the Haricots Rouges.
The George
Washingmachine Quartet appears courtesy of LEJAZZETAL - the people who brought us KAL (which should be
enough recommendation for anyone!).
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Photo: Steve Ullathorne
Stewart
Lee - 41st Best Stand-up ever!
Saturday 20
October £12.50 ADULTS ONLY
Hovingham village hall
An official
Channel 4 survey in March named Stewart (Fist Of Fun, Jerry Springer The
Opera) the 41st best stand-up ever. If you only see fifty stand-ups in
your lifetime make him your 41st.
"Comedy
as a lethal weapon in the hands of a crack shot." Scotsman
READ: Stewart Lee's review of Billy
Jenkins' Songs of Praise Live! - Sunday Times, October 7,
2007. (then rush out and buy it!)
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Annie
Whitehead Band + Endless
Pied
Piper's 10th Birthday Party
Saturday 3
November £12.50 (Under 16's £7.50)
Hovingham
village hall
Annie
Whitehead - trombone
Steve Lodder - piano
Jennifer Maidman - electric guitar
Dudley Phillips - bass
Liam Genockey - drums
One of the
brightest stars on the jazz scene, trombonist Annie has played with Elvis
Costello, Joan Armatrading, The Beautiful South, Tom Jones, Paul Weller
and Jamiroquai - the list goes on! Playing a high energy mix of African
township jive, reggae, salsa, latin and funk.
"At
the heart of Whitehead's music there is a joy
that is just irresistible" Jazz Rag
Endless is a new group of
young musicians formed specially for Pied Piper's 10th Birthday Party -
under the musical directorship of Jan Kopinski.
Supported
by Jazz Yorkshire and Awards for All.
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Gwyneth
Herbert Band
Saturday 10
November £15
REVIEW:
Monday
12 November, The Press
JUST before
the last song of the first of two sets, Gwyneth Herbert asks her sold-out
audience if anyone has read Tony Morrison's book Beloved. No, me neither.
The
protagonist's scar had prompted Gwyneth to recall her mother telling the
southern English singer-songwriter never to be ashamed of her scars as
"they tell the story of who you are".
Universal
had wished to erase a scar from Gwyneth's album sleeve portrait, symbolic
of the record label's desire to funnel Gwyneth down the narrow line of
swing covers.
Herbert
took the risk of breaking away, recording her own songs her way. From her
blue polka-dotty dress and yellow shoes, to the 25-year-old Mini she
drives to her gigs, and her references to Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Tel
Aviv, she has too much individuality for this age of latte jazz.
Her songs
bear her scars, and while her voice curls around Sam Burgess's stand-up
bass, Al Cherry's flamenco-quoting acoustic guitar and Dave Price's lean
percussion in the jazz mode, the arrangements are delightfully trim and
sensuous.
Bittersweet
And Blue and Slow Down Brother are slow-burning lessons in life, while
Some Days I Forget, written only two weeks ago in a Helmsley hotel,
laments how memories fade all too quickly. However, the fresh memory of
Gwyneth singing "This is my farewell lullaby" in bare feet as
she snakes her way from the back of the hall to the stage apron will
remain forever, like her scar."
© Charles
Hutchinson, The Press
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Theo
Travis' Double Talk
Saturday 24
November £12.50
Hovingham
village hall
Described
on BBC Radio 2 as "One of the very best young tenor saxophonists
of this or any other jazz generation in Britain", Theo has appeared
on over 75 albums and played at Ronnie Scott's in London over 70 times.
He has worked with Soft Machine Legacy, Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Anja
Garbarek, John Etheridge, Gong and Michael Garrick.
Listen to Theo Travis' DOUBLE
TALK
A byword
for exciting, quality gigs, Theo Travis has always worked on a broad
canvas. His work for film ranges from Hitchcock's 'The Lodger' to the
recent Jim Carrey vehicle 'The Number 23'. He regularly plays with
renowned improvisers, 'Gong', and this set boasts soundscapes by King
Crimson's Robert Fripp.
Double
Talk's line-up has a top flight jazz pedigree, with Mike Outram
(contender for best player of his generation), the soulful Hammond organ
of Pete Whittaker, and the infinitely subtle Roy Dodds - heard here with
a genuine gong cast specially for this tour.
"Propulsive
modal jazz... mixed with Brian Eno-ish ambient soundscapes, late era
Miles Davis grooves and freaky, highly textured psychedelic
wig-outs" Time Out
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Ian
McMillan Orchestra
Saturday 1
December £12.50
Hovingham
village hall
Ian
McMillan - voice
Luke Carver Goss - accordion, guitar, vocals
Dylan Fowler - guitar, mandocello, vocals
Oliver Wilson Dickson - violin, percussion and vocals
Yorkshire
words and European music. Poet, broadcaster and comedian Ian McMillan
tangos and tangles with accordionist and composer Luke Carver Goss in
powerful, echoing tales of milkmen, mining, heatwaves, dads, death by
shanty, 9/11 and the late great Ronnie Barker.
Improvised
and constructed for audiences, 7 to 107.
"You
could call him daft as a brush but he's as switched on as a power
station." Charles Hutchinson, YEP
"a
breath of fresh air." Sue Arnold, The Observer
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Hank
Wangford and the Lost Cowboys
The
Shed's Christmas Party
Friday 7
December £15
Saturday 8 December £15
Sunday 9 December £15
Hovingham
village hall
If Daniel
O'Donnell is the brightly scrubbed face of British country music then
Hank Wangford is its guilty conscience, its dark and troubled grubby
soul. The man with the most unusual C.V. of any country musician (he's a
practising doctor too!) wheels his wagon train back to The Shed for our
annual double dose of Festive Misery.
Hank
Wangford - guitar, vocals
Reg Meuross - guitar, vocals
Martin Belmont - guitar, vocals
Kevin Foster - bass
Mike Pickering - drums
"If
you want originality then there is only one man to see. His name is Hank
Wangford." New York Times
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Reg
Meuross Band
Saturday 23
February 2008 £12.50
Hovingham
village hall
Featuring
Reg Meuross on guitar and vocals, BBC Folk Award Nominee 2008, Jackie
Oates on fiddle and vocals and Roy Dodds, drums and Simon Edwards, bass:
the rhythm section of Fairground Attraction, currently working with Eddi
Reader, Kate Rusby and Billy Bragg.
Featuring
songs from Reg's brand new album 'Dragonfly'.
Listen to Reg on MySpace
"One
of the finest, purest Country/Rock/Folk voices this side of the
Atlantic." MAVERICK MAGAZINE
"Intelligent
and thought provoking songs, beautifully made." Times
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The Shed can be bought by credit card payment over
the phone or by cheque.Tickets 'reserved' by telephone or email
should be paid for within three working days.
MONEY
CANNOT BE REFUNDED. We do not refund money or give credit for unwanted
tickets.
Every
effort has been made to ensure that the information within these pages is
correct. The Shed reserves the right to change or cancel events should
circumstances dictate. Seating allocation is on a first come, first
served basis. Seats are not numbered.
Under
16s must be accompanied by an adult.
Access
for people with disabilities TOP
The Shed is wheelchair accessible and we will happily reserve space to
accommodate disabled people - wheelchair space or front row seats (please
let us know when you make your booking) There is also a unisex toilet for
disabled people.
We have a bar!
We have a
licenced bar serving hand-pulled real ale, good wine and bottled beers
(supplied by Tate Smith Ltd of Malton) and a selection of soft drinks. We
sell crisps and you can eat supper at the Malt Shovel
(directly next door) or the Worsley Arms (just 2
minutes walk).
PLEASE DO NOT BRING YOUR OWN DRINKS.
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