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Category Archives: Music
Blues at The Oval Tavern, May and June, free entry, 6pm start
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King Size Slim at The Oval Tavern, Sun May 10, 6pm, free entry
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Erato Orchestra concert, St Mark’s Woodcote, Sat May 23
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Tagged Croydon, Erato Orchestra, Music, Purley, St Mark's Woodcote
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Time travel by velvet and smoke back to a Paris club in 1896
STEVEN DOWNES takes a trip back in time and a sip of a once-banned liquor Everyone these days appears to be on “a journey” of some kind or another. If you were to take a half-hour journey from East Croydon, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Coco Belle, Croydon, East Croydon station, Joe Morose, Le Chat Noir, Secret Cinema, The Lost Estate, West Kensington
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Croydon Bach Choir choral workshop, South Croydon, May 16
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Blues at The Oval Tavern, May and June, free entry, 6pm start
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Coleridge-Taylor’s old band preparing for fresh set of encores
PETER GILLMAN drops in on a rehearsal at Croydon’s 120-year-old orchestra, as they prepare to perform ‘the greatest symphony ever written’ Who knew that Croydon had its own symphony orchestra? A straw poll among fellow members of the Croydon Male … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Community associations, Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Fairfield Halls, Music, Peter Gillman
Tagged Chris Braime, Croydon Symphony Orchestra, Fairfield Halls, Godstone, Orpheus Centre, Peter Gillman, Phil Myers, Rachmaninov, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood
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Blues at The Oval Tavern, May and June, free entry, 6pm start
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Croydon Minster choir on the road to Windsor and the Abbey
Today marks the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Windsor, who as Queen Elizabeth II set records as the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch – 70 years and 214 days – until her death in September 2022, aged 96. So … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Church and religions, Croydon Minster, David Morgan, Music, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Minster, Croydon Minster choir, David Morgan, HM Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth II, St George's Chapel, Westminster Cathedral, Whitgift School, Whitgift School Choir
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Friday lunchtime music recitals, Croydon Minster, April-July
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Croydon Bach Choir choral workshop, South Croydon, May 16
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Friday lunchtime music recitals, Croydon Minster, April-July
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From Sloane Square to Penge, choirs are making sweet music
PETER GILLMAN sings the praises of local choirs Streatham Choral does not lack ambition. The 150-strong amateur community choir, which rehearses every Monday at St Leonard’s Church, has hired one of London’s prime concert venues for its next concert. The … Continue reading
Streatham Choral: Haydn’s The Creation, Cadogan Hall, Apr 11
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Streatham Choral: Haydn’s The Creation, Cadogan Hall, Apr 11
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Bookings open for Scherzo Strings music courses: Apr and Jul
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The wartime night that the ‘first lady of jazz’ sang for Croydon
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Adelaide Hall performed at the Cotton Club, sang with Duke Ellington and took to the stage in the Berlin of Sally Bowles. And she was a star of the old Croydon Empire, as DAVID MORGAN explains It was … Continue reading
Great Big Bug Show is bringing minibeasts to South Norwood
Simon Mole and musician Gecko are bringing their new family performance, The Great Big Bug Show, to Stanley Halls in South Norwood for the spring half-term, on Wednesday May 27. Mole is the National Poetry Day Ambassador and acclaimed children’s … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Music, Poetry, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Gecko, Half term, Simon Mole, Stanley Arts, Stanley Halls
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Diz and the Doormen, free entry, The Oval Tavern this Sunday
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Tagged Addiscombe, Bewley Brothers, Croydon, Junkyard Choir, Music, The Oval Tavern
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Music Hall performer whose potato song helped the war effort
CROYDON CHRONICLES: Musical director of the Croydon Empire theatre enjoyed a colourful career and played a part in the community, writes DAVID MORGAN A century ago, long before we had mass media in our living rooms and at our finger … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon Empire, David Morgan, History, Jack Morgan, Music Hall, Second World War, Theatre
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Festival of Choral Classics, St John’s, Old Coulsdon, Mar 28
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Croydon Bach Choir Magnificats, St Matthew’s, Mar 21
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Festival of Choral Classics, St John’s, Old Coulsdon, Mar 28
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Bookings open for Scherzo Strings music courses: Apr and Jul
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All-star concert at Palladium to raise funds for the BRIT School
The BRIT School, the country’s leading performing and creative arts state school, has entered into a partnership for The Other Songs Live, being staged at one of the world’s most famous theatres, The London Palladium, on Tuesday, May 19. Tickets … Continue reading
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Tagged Adele, Grammys, Lola Young, Loyle Carner, Olivia Dean, Oscars, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden, The BRIT School, The BRITS, The Kooks, Tom Holland
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