What’s On – May 2012
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Thursday, May 17th – Music: Penwith College students ‘Keep It Live’
Friday, May 18th - Music: The Ambassadors of Sorrow
Saturday, May 19th - Drama: ‘Big Daddy versus Giant Haystacks’
Weds, May 23rd – Meeting: Penzance Literary Festival Association
Thursday, May 24th - Film: Future Shorts (Cert PG)
Friday, May 25th - Comedy: Thom Tuck: ‘Goes Straight to DVD’
Saturday, May 26th - Music: Peggy Seeger
June 2012
July 2012
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Thursday, May 17th
Penwith College students present
‘Keep It Live’ Showcase
‘Keep it Live’ was created by students from Penwith College in the fall of 2011 with the aim of giving young people the chance to perform.
Following on from the success of ‘Keep it Live’ in other local venues this showcase promises to be the biggest and best yet.
The 2 stages will feature an eclectic mix of music including:
Electric Stage:
Fuzion – A Penzance 4-piece live drum and bass band
Gary and the Minefield – Bringing body-winding, feet-tapping, finger-clicking pull-your-hair-out music to Cornwall and beyond
Danger Teazer – An exciting 4-piece bringing 80’s glam to the masses
Sorrow & Salvation – Exciting hard-edged Rock Music
The Acoustic Stage:
Freddy King, Sarah Saada-Craze, Joe & Eilidh, Shana & Amy
A fantastic blend of local singer songwriters. From the haunting vocals of Eilidh Armstrong to the streetwise rhymes of singer/guitarist, Freddy King
DJ Sets from: RamKarnage and Ashtray – Dark Dubstep and Electronica
TICKETS: £2 on the door. Performance starts at 7:30pm.
Come and support young local musicians, and
HAVE A GREAT EVENING!
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Friday, May 18th
The Acorn presents
The Ambassadors of Sorrow
TICKETS: Standard: £6.00
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500 and from Epics Entertainment, 15 Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8.30pm. Bar from 7.30pm
The Ambassadors of Sorrow live somewhere wild and strange in Cornwall, and believe in the inherent beauty of sad songs.
The brainchild of songwriter & producer, Angeline Morrison, they weave musical tales of love, loss and longing through the warp and weft of the doo wop, soul, folk and beat pop sounds of the early ‘60s into a tapestry of melodic observations of the human condition.
Join them for an intimate evening of sad songs in the downstairs cabaret bar at The Acorn, and imagine it’s 1960s Paris. . . . . .
Sounding like a solitary wander along barren clifftops accompanied by hazy memories, The Ambassadors of Sorrow weave their indie narratives of love, loss and longing through the warp and weft of the folk, beat pop, soul and doo-wop sounds of the 1960s.
Songwriter, Angeline Morrison is inspired by a love of Joe Meek and RGM Sound, Francoise Hardy, Sam Cooke, Shirley & Dolly Collins, Edward Gorey, Methodist Hymns, Jake Thackray, The Pentangle . . .
Some say The Ambassadors of Sorrow sound like Julie London singing the back catalogue of Johnny Cash. Still others say they sound like a French pop band from 1962.
Tracks from debut album ‘Easterly’ and second album ‘There is no Ending’ have been played and praised by Mark Lamarr and Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 2, by Jon Holmes, Gideon Coe and Lauren Laverne on BBC 6 Music, by Tom Robinson’s ‘Introducing… fresh on the net’ show, and others.
‘…Intriguing… The album as a whole resonates with a mix of rockabilly and folk music… although it is quite melancholy in places, it’s also strangely enough quite a comforting record… ’ Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 2
‘…Very fine stuff… ’. Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2
‘…No one else at the moment is producing such intelligent 1950s/60s indebted pop music.’ Lee Trewhela, The West Briton
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Saturday, May 19th
The Foundry Group presents
Big Daddy versus Giant Haystacks
TICKETS: Standard: £8.00 Concession: £6.00 Family: £22.00 (2 Adults, 2 Children)
NB Advisory minimum age 14
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Epics Entertainment, 15 Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm. Bar from 7pm.
At 4pm every Saturday, from 1976 to 1988, tens of millions of Britons, and countless more world-wide, were in the grip of an extraordinary sports phenomenon: watching two fat men (a.k.a. Shirley Crabtree and Martin Ruane) pretend to fight each other.
This is their story.
This new play, by the award-winning writers of New Perspectives’ hit Those Magnificent Men, brings back to grunting, grappling life these two well-loved wrestling rivals and the bizarre world they bestrode.
With an “all-star cast of thousands” including Paul McCartney, Chris Tarrant, Frank Sinatra, Princess Margaret, and Greg Dyke, this ambitious, touching, hilarious two-hander conjures up a whole nation during its most colourful era.
Featuring Latest-7-Award and Herald-Angel winner Ross Gurney-Randall (Follow Me and Goering’s Defence – Guy Masterson Productions) and Radio 4′s Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show regular David Mounfield.
You shall be moved.
“As funny as we’ve come to expect from Mitchell and Nixon, but it’s never just funny: they have a deep sympathy for the people they write about .*****” – Philip Reeve, The Solitary Bee
WINNER: Fringe Guru Editor’s Choice Award (Brighton Fringe 2011)
Buxton Festival Fringe Award for Best Theatre Production, 2011
Latest 7 Award for Best Male Performer (Ross Gurney-Randall as “Big Daddy” – Brighton Festival and Fringe 2011)
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Wednesday, May 23rd at 7pm
MEETING
of the
Penzance Literary Festival Association
This event is the Annual General Meeting of the Penzance Literary Festival Association, the organization behind the Penzance Literary Festival. It provides the movers and shakers and workers who have the ideas and make things happen. At the AGM we do normal AGM-type things, like electing officers, but there will be a report from the Chair on the progress we’ve made with this year’s Festival – the line-up of guests has just been announced: see www.pz-litfest.org.uk – and we’ll be discussing the practical arrangements we now need to put in place.
We are now recruiting members for the 2012 season. The way to join is to come to the meeting on May 23rd bringing a £10 note which you are prepared to surrender by way of a subscription. (The tenners all go to meeting the costs of putting on the Festival.) What you get for your money is the satisfaction of being part of a worthwhile enterprise and friendly team, plus a complimentary ticket to the Welcome Party on July 25th. Terrific value, surely! So do come along on May 23rd!
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Thursday, May 24th
Film at The Acorn
Future Shorts (Cert PG)
TICKETS: Standard: £5.00 Concession: £3.00
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Epics Entertainment, 15 Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm. Bar from 7pm.
Now reaching more than 25,000 people across 55 countries and 150 cities, Future Shorts is the world’s biggest glogal pop-up festival, showcasing filmmakers from around the world.
The Spring Programme features 7 classic, cult and award-winning short films including Sam Taylor-Wood’s BAFTA-nominated Love You More and Nash Edgerton’s Bear, which played in Cannes and Sundance.
Running from March 1 to May 31, the spring programme also features Spike Jonze’s stop-motion To Die By Your Side and Amy Grappell’s documentary of a four-way affair, Quadrangle.
Click to visit the Future Shorts website
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Friday, May 25th
The Acorn presents
Thom Tuck: Goes Straight to DVD
TICKETS: Standard: £9.00. Concessions: £7.00.
Recommended minimum age: 14 years.
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Epics Entertainment, 15 Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm. Bar from 7pm.
Comedian Thom Tuck recounts heart-rending tales of love, loss and the 54 straight-to-DVD Disney movies that he’s watched…so we don’t have to.
These underrated gems – perhaps rightfully ignored and forgotten – mirror the failures in his own relationships with women he has loved too often and too soon.
A show with a huge heart, all about heartbreak in various forms, Thom Tuck’s brilliant debut solo show was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Fosters Comedy Awards in Edinburgh 2011.
He is also part of acclaimed sketch group “The Penny Dreadfuls”.
“…a seductive experience” - The Guardian
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Saturday, May 26th
Gig Cartel presents
Peggy Seeger
TICKETS: £15. (This is a fully seated show.)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Epics Entertainment, 15 Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
Born in 1935, Peggy is the half-sister of Pete Seeger and daughter of Ruth Crawford Seeger: her life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and with whom she had three children. Nowadays she is sometimes thought of as the mother of Neill and Calum MacColl but she is very much her own woman. She is probably best known for her feminist song Gonna Be an Engineer and for The Ballad of Springhill, which is rapidly becoming regarded as a traditional song.
After living 35 years in England, she returned to the USA in 1994 and after residing in Asheville, North Carolina, for ten years, she now lives in Boston. She now tours extensively in the USA as a solo concert artist, singing and giving workshops. She has made 21 solo recordings and has participated in over a hundred recordings with other artists.
Her 1998 CD, PERIOD PIECES: WOMEN’S SONGS FOR MEN AND WOMEN, received major attention from Billboard. She records exclusively for Appleseed Recordings. Her latest project is her HOME TRILOGY, three albums in which each disc contains one or two songs of her own composition and the rest traditional USA songs.
Her latest recording is a 2-CD set,‘Three Score and Ten’. This captivating set is a distillation of her 70th birthday concert in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Peggy has also started a series entitled ‘Timely Productions’, contemporary songs put out … well, whenever she writes them. She has published 149 of her songs in The Peggy Seeger Songbook (Oak Publications,1998) as well as a companion volume of Ewan MacColl’s songs, The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook (Oak Publications, 2001).
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