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Category Archives: Music
Jingle Bells! 3 pairs of Christmas concert tickets to be won!!
What a great way to get into the swing of things for the festive season – WIN a pair of tickets to the Len Phillips Swing Orchestra’s Swingin’ Christmas concert at the Fairfield Halls on December 21 in our exclusive … Continue reading
Posted in Fairfield Halls, Inside Croydon, Music
Tagged Christmas, Fairfield Halls, Len Phillips Big Band
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READER OFFER: Win tickets for Scouting For Girls at Fairfield
Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer a pair of tickets for next month’s concert by Scouting For Girls at the Fairfield Halls, when up-and-coming band Aliensdontringdoorbells will be the support act. This fabulous competition is open exclusively … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield Halls, Inside Croydon, Music, The Wreck
Tagged Aliensdontringdoorbells, competition, Fairfield Halls, Scouting For Girls
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Trinity pupil hits all the right notes to win Steinway competition
Ed Warner has been named as the winner of the 2021 Trinity-Steinway Scholarship, after a day-long set of performances under the gaze of staff at the Royal College of Music. The Trinity-Steinway Scholarship is a collaboration between Trinity, Steinway and … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Schools, Trinity School
Tagged Ed Warner, Royal College of Music, Steinway, Trinity School
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Croydon’s jazz fans are feeling at home in The Front Room
Jazz has returned to central Croydon, with regular lunchtime concerts finding a new venue, as JOHN CHAMBERS explains For more than 20 years, a hard core of around 30 jazz fans used to meet at the Clocktower Café every Thursday … Continue reading
Jazz at The Front Room, St George’s Walk, every Thursday
Posted in Activities, Art, Music, The Front Room
Tagged St George's Walk, The Front Room
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Community station has questions over council’s radio silence
Town Hall leaders were keen enough to promote themselves with selfies in the studios, but now a manager at the town’s community station claims they have been ‘black-listed’ by the council. By STEVEN DOWNES One week has passed since Croydon … Continue reading
Wireless exposes disconnect between Bromley and neighbours
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The impact of the Wireless Festival in Crystal Palace Park last weekend, and its effect on residents neighbouring boroughs has seen GLYNN McDONALD raise some serious questions of the park’s new trust The Wireless Festival staged in Crystal … Continue reading
Park trust forced to issue apology after raucous rap weekend
The Crystal Palace Park Trust and its new chief exec, Bill LoSasso, faced their first crisis at the weekend, as controversy engulfed the Wireless Festival, a three-night rap event drawing crowds of 50,000 per day, where one star was arrested … Continue reading
Cultural hopes are raised as Talawa and Nick Cave take a bow
Two shows staged at the borough’s major arts centre over the weekend helped to underline how precious the Fairfield Halls should be for Croydon. If only the artistic programme on offer more generally could rise to the local public’s expectations, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BH Live, Borough of Culture 2023, Fairfield Halls, Music, Talawa Theatre Company, The Wreck
Tagged BHLive, Fairfield Halls, Nick Cave, Talawa Theatre Company, The Wreck
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Young singing talents are given audition chance at Minster
By DAVID MORGAN Fancy having a singing career like Ed Sheeran’s? Think you may have a voice to match Katherine Jenkins? Then an event being staged at Croydon Minster later this month could be something that you really don’t want … Continue reading
Now top art critic warns: ‘Somebody is going to wind up in jail’
One of the country’s leading art critics, Norman Lebrecht, has today weighed in to the gathering storm around the £70million Fairfield Halls fiasco, warning that, “Somebody is going to wind up in jail” over what he calls the “chaotic rebuilding” … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Brick by Brick, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Nrman Lebrecht
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CODA’s Old Time Musical Hall, Sanderstead, Sep 24-25
Posted in Art, CODA, Music, Theatre
Tagged Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association
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Choirs emerge from lockdown with Oval and Fairfield dates
Two of Croydon’s leading choirs are gearing up for a return to performing in public for the first time since lockdown last year. First off the mark is the Croydon Male Voice Choir, which is singing to diners at the … Continue reading
It’s time to put back the Sparks into Croydon’s Fairfield Halls
For £70m, the Fairfield Halls should be offering a lot more for the community, says KEN TOWL If the Fairfield Halls disappoint, and they do, over and over, it is because they have a lot to live up to. Through … Continue reading
Switch to Shirley church gets choir all back under one roof
By PETER GILLMAN For some of the borough’s music groups, there is the beginnings of a return to “normality”, however slowly. The Croydon Male Voice Choir has managed to get back to indoor rehearsing. After months when only a handful … Continue reading
Sundown Sessions offer free music and cinema in the park
The Crystal Palace Festival team has launched a series of free, mid-week Sundown Sessions at the Crystal Palace Bowl, in conjunction with the South Facing Festival. The South Facing Festival got underway at the weekend with packed audiences to see … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Park, London Mozart Players, Music, South Facing Festival
Tagged Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Bowl, Crystal Palace Festival, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, South Facing Festival, Sundown Sessions
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The Fairfield Halls Community Choir is seeking a new home
By VERONA CHARD Prior to Lockdown, I ran the Fairfield Halls Community Choir “plus sessions”, I had created for toddlers and babies called “Donkey Dots For Tots”, plus a monthly musical balloon band prom for families. But I’ve been told … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BH Live, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged BHLive, Fairfield Halls, Fairfield Halls Community Choir
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Millions of questions for BHLive over Fairfield grant aid
CROYDON IN CRISIS: It’s like nothing has ever changed at the borough’s prestigious arts centre, where tribute acts still dominate its sparse programme, while the venue operators are staying schtum about how they’re spending public money. By our arts correspondent, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, BH Live, Borough of Culture 2023, Brick by Brick, Business, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, London Mozart Players, Neil Chandler, The Wreck
Tagged Arts Council England, Ashcroft Theatre, BHLive, Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Labour, The Wreck
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The show must go on: theatre groups prepare for reopening
SANJANA IDNANI reports on how local theatrical venues and amdram groups have been dealing with the covid lockdown as they prepare to put on their summer shows Theatre companies and performers across the borough have faced their fair share of … Continue reading
Late covid guidance change causes chaos to choir rehearsals
Late changes to government covid-19 restrictions saw the last-minute cancellation of a major choir’s first in-person rehearsal for 14 months. Now there are genuine fears for the future of amateur music-making and choral singing, reports PETER GILLMAN After more than … Continue reading
