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The George Washingmachine Quartet
Known for his virtuosic high-energy violin playing and engaging stage presence, Australia’s second most famous cultural export George Washingmachine leads this quartet with characteristic eccentricity, charm and humour.
George Washingmachine (violin / vocals)
Dave Kelbie (guitar)
John Kelly (guitar)
Mark Elton (bass)
Feeling all strung out? Life in a spin? Well then, let the dreamy music of George Washingmachine wash away the dust of everyday life.
A master showman whether playing toe-tapping jazz, soulful blues, or uplifting melodies, when it comes to knuckle-busting feats on a violin, George doesn’t play second fiddle to anyone! From Sydney, George Washingmachine is a captivating old school entertainer - he’s a violinist who sings, a blues guitarist, and a visual artist. In his quartet are guitarists Dave Kelbie of Dime Notes and Django a la Creole fame, and John Kelly from the Fleeting Paradise Orchestra, and bassist fellow Australian Mark Elton, a regular with the Scott Hamilton band.
Courtyard Theatre
£17.50
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Jaz Delorean
Jaz Delorean is a London based British singer, with the European touring band Tankus (formerly Tankus the Henge) and also on his own at the piano.
He has a colourful past together with a wild and wandering present. The songs that he sings and plays on the piano are tender observations of our fragile and sometimes twisted existence on this planet, taking inspiration from bar-room piano players of the Old West, the mournful melodies of his Cypriot ancestry and a patchwork of comic and tragic stories from growing up around a travelling funfair.
Strange things happen in dreams, but stranger things can happen in waking life, and Jaz Delorean has never shied away from baring his tattered soul to anyone willing to listen.
He’ll pull at your heartstrings and get you dancing to the rhythms of his fingers and forgetting your own worries for a time, before skulking off into the blackness behind the neon carnival lights again.
Some things aren’t meant to be kept.
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Courtyard Theatre
£19
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Live Music Lunch Club: Firelight Trio
A new regular spot for lovers of live music who prefer their concerts in the daytime, alongside a little lunch, in a relaxed environment.
Performances take place in the Studio in a cabaret set up so you can come and go during the music if you want to.
The ticket price includes a pre-show two course lunch from our Café Bar.
Firelight Trio is a mighty new group featuring Fatea instrumentalist of the year 2023 Gavin Marwick (fiddle), accordionist Phil Alexander (Moishe’s Bagel) and Ruth Morris (Outlander – HBO) on the beautiful Swedish Nyckelharpa.
They play European music that is evocative, inventive and endlessly exciting. Ruth’s resonant nyckelharpa is matched by Gavin’s powerhouse fiddle, all backed up by Phil’s groovily inventive accordion and piano. A rich tapestry of lively Swedish polskas and Scottish reels, lilting French waltzes, toe-tapping klezmer, dazzling original tunes and more. Don't miss them!
‘A veritable roots music supergroup’ RnR Magazine
‘Top-calibre trio with grace, energy, and playfulness’ Folk Radio UK
‘Achingly beautiful’ Fatea
£30 including a 2 course lunch
12.30pm 2 course lunch
2pm Concert starts
Firelight Trio
Playing European music that is evocative, inventive and endlessly exciting.
Firelight Trio is a mighty new group featuring Fatea instrumentalist of the year 2023 Gavin Marwick (fiddle), accordionist Phil Alexander (Moishe’s Bagel) and Ruth Morris (Outlander – HBO) on the beautiful Swedish Nyckelharpa.
Ruth’s resonant nyckelharpa is matched by Gavin’s powerhouse fiddle, all backed up by Phil’s groovily inventive accordion and piano. A rich tapestry of lively Swedish polskas and Scottish reels, lilting French waltzes, toe-tapping klezmer, dazzling original tunes and more. Don't miss them!
‘A veritable roots music supergroup’ RnR Magazine
‘Top-calibre trio with grace, energy, and playfulness’ Folk Radio UK
‘Achingly beautiful’ Fatea
Studio
£16.50
Cormac Diamond – Nostalgiarama!
Join local musical theatre talent Cormac Diamond, as he brings his debut cabaret show back to where it all began!
You can expect a nostalgic array including golden-age showtunes by Rogers and Hammerstein, and pop-rock anthems by Elton John and David Bowie, weaved together into an uplifting story about memories, 'the good old days', and good old friends. This homecoming cabaret will be nothing if not a night… to remember…
Studio
£15
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Heath String Quartet
Presented by Maidenhead Music Society.
Britten Three Divertimenti
Haydn Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 50 No. 1
Suk Meditation on an old Bohemian Chorale (St Wenceslas), Op. 35a
Dvořák Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 51
The miraculous Heath Quartet (Guardian) returns for a great concert. Capricious, youthful Britten, witty, joyful Haydn, stirring Suk and romantic Dvorak full of captivating Slavonic tunes.
Courtyard Theatre
£20 I £15 (MMS members) I Under 18s free
Funky Monkeys
An energetic and creative music and movement class for babies and children under 5.
This fun and funky session uses lights, puppets, parachute, instruments and music to get your little ones moving!
Suitable for ages 9 months - 5 years.
Summer
Fri 9 May - 25 Jul (excluding 28 May)
11am - 11.45am
£8.50 | Siblings (9 months +) £4 | £45 for 6 sessions a term (this offer doesn't include the sibling ticket)
If you would like to book the offer price for 6 sessions, please enter a ticket for each date you would like to attend into your basket and the offer will apply automatically.
Intermediate Yoga
Led by Julie Potter
This class is suited to those who have been practising for at least 6. My intention for this class is to move our practise forward, explore different avenues and approaches to the traditional postures. We will be aiming to be going deeper into awareness and noticing.
The yoga I teach is an evolution of over 20 years of practice and study, perhaps moving away from external evaluation of the postures and moving towards an internal sense of the postures, moving away from the more used traditional approach of systemised yoga to a more experiential approach. Whilst looking at traditional Hatha Yoga postures and pranayamas, I will be encouraging fun and freedom within the traditional structure, whilst taking into our awareness fundamental anatomical and functional aspects required by our bodies for maximum wellbeing benefits.
Please bring a blanket, a Yoga / Pilates mat, and wear loose comfortable clothing.
Spring
Fri 10 Jan - 7 Feb (5 weeks)
Fri 14 Feb - 14 Mar (5 weeks)
Fri 21 Mar - 25 Apr (5 weeks)
Summer
Fri 2 May - 6 Jun (6 weeks)
Fri 13 Jun - 25 Jul (6 weeks) (excl 4 Jul)
Please note that the sessions on Fri 6 and 13 Jun will be covered by a different teacher.
11am - 12.15pm
£12 per session | £50 per 5 week course
This class will take place both in person and online via Zoom.
You will find the link to access the session in your booking confirmation email.
Duck
It’s the summer of 2005, England prepare to win the Ashes and Ismail (Smiley to his friends), a British south Asian schoolboy, is about to become the youngest-ever player in his elite public school’s First XI cricket team.
He sets his sights on immortality, breaking the school batting record and getting his name into Wisden. But things are about to heat up.
From award-winning playwright maatin, Duck is about adolescence, the pressures of sporting competition and finding your identity in an environment that doesn’t cater for difference.
Performances are captioned with projected text and illustrations onto the set making it accessible to d/Deaf audiences.
Recipient of the Pleasance's Charlie Hartill Fund 2024.
'It could not feel more topical' ★★★★ Guardian
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Credits
Produced by Broccoli Arts
Writer - maatin
Director - Imy Wyatt-Corner
Original Design - Maariyah Shaarjil
Original Lighting Design - Jonathan Chan
Sound Design - Holly Khan
Caption Design - Rachel Sampley
Image design - Alice Gorman
Production photographs - Isha Shah
DUCK was originally produced by Two Magpies Productions.
Age guidance
12+ years
Content warning
This show contains distressing or potentially triggering themes of racism and islamophobia.
Creative captioning
Performances are captioned with projected text and illustrations onto the set.
Studio
£16.50
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