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Category Archives: Music
Open invitation to new singers for choir rehearsals, Sep 27
The Croydon Bach Choir is looking for new members in all voice parts, but particularly tenors. The choir is one of Croydon’s longest standing classical choral societies. They will be holding a free open rehearsal next Wednesday, September 27, at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Croydon Bach Choir, Music
Tagged Croydon Bach Choir, London Mozart Players, Park Hill, St Matthew's Church
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Croydon Male Voice Choir open evening, Sandilands, Oct 19
Posted in Croydon Male Voice Choir, Music
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Male Voice Choir, singing
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Taking Liberty with the arts in a way that celebrates us all
KEN TOWL takes hope, and much joy, from last week’s Liberty Festival, where deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists injected some much-needed culture into the borough. Photos by PAUL FULLER The Liberty Festival, which landed in Croydon last weekend, represented the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Borough of Culture 2023, Comedy, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Ken Towl, Music, Poetry
Tagged Aaron Simmonds, Ashcroft Theatre, Borough of Culture, Croydon, Drunken Chorus, Fairfield Halls, Francesca Martinez, giraffes, Inner Vision Orchestra, Ken Towl, Liberty Festival, Steve Day
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Choir starts a recruitment drive in the search for new voices
One of the borough’s long-standing and much-respected musical organisations is launching a recruitment drive this week. The Croydon Male Voice Choir will be holding an “Open Evening” at its rehearsal room in Sandilands Sports Club, Addiscombe, on October 19, open … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Male Voice Choir, Music
Tagged Addiscombe, Croydon, Croydon Male Voice Choir, Sandilands
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Tik-Tok organ player named as Fairfield’s first Associate Artist
Matt Walters, a 23-year-old organ-playing Tik-Tok star, will headline at Fairfield Halls as the first Associate Artist in the 2023-2024 season. Walters, a Cambridge graduate, has been announced under the Fairfield Halls’ Associate Artists scheme, which aims to support the … Continue reading
Posted in Fairfield Halls, Jonathan Higgins, Music
Tagged Fairfield Halls, Jonathan Higgins, Matt Walters, Reductio, Tik-Tok
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3 lucky patrons win tickets for Budapest Concerto on Sep 12
Congratulations to three loyal readers, each of them winning a pair of tickets worth nearly £90 each for the next concert in the International Orchestral Series at the Fairfield Halls. The Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra will be performing in Croydon … Continue reading
‘We’ll be back!’ as organisers abandon 2023 festival plans
There is to be no Crystal Palace Festival this year, the organisers said in a shock announcement last night in which they expressed the hope that they can secure the necessary funding for a return in 2024. “It’s time to … Continue reading
Joli Blon Cajun Band, Blues at the Oval Tavern, Aug 27
Posted in Addiscombe West, Music, Pubs
Tagged Addiscombe, Blues at The Oval, The Oval Tavern
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Rollo Markee and The Tailshakers, Blues at The Oval, Aug 20
Posted in Music, Pubs
Tagged Blues at The Oval, Oval Tavern, Rollo Markee and The Tailshakers, The Oval Tavern
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WIN!!! 3 pairs of tickets for Budapest Concerto up for grabs
EXCLUSIVE COMPETITION FOR iC PATRONS: Inside Croydon is delighted to offer our loyal readers the chance to win a pair of tickets for the latest concert in the Fairfield Halls’ International Orchestral Series The Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra will be … Continue reading
Posted in Fairfield Halls, Inside Croydon, Music
Tagged Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Fairfield Halls
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60 years on and a taste of Beatlemania returns to Fairfield Halls
The Fairfield Halls is to mark the 60th anniversary of its staging a concert by the Beatles, at the height of “Beatlemania”, with a gig by the tribute act, The Mersey Beatles. The Mersey Beatles biggest ever tour of Britain … Continue reading
Posted in Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Croydon, Fab Four, Fairfield Halls, Freddie Starr, John Paul George and Ringo, The Beatles
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Farewell Jamie Reid, artist and anarchist, forgotten by Croydon
Jamie Reid, the anarchist artist and graphic designer who devised the designs and artwork that defined the punk era’s iconoclasm, has died. He was 76. Reid’s ransom note-style collage work for the Sex Pistols was “a central pillar of the … Continue reading
£250 per day fees paid to lead on borough’s Heritage Trail
CROYDON IN CRISIS: One arts company in the borough appears to have won the Lottery for its role in the less-than-inspiring flagship project for the Borough of Culture. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The project lead working on the Music Heritage … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Croydon Council, Education, Museum of Croydon, Music, Queens Gardens
Tagged Borough of Culture, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heritage Music Trail, Jacqueline du Pre, Jamie Reid, Kirsty MacColl, London Borough of Croydon, National Lottery, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Queens Gardens, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Stormzy
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Purley Festival returns to Rotary Field with live music stage
The Purley Festival is set to return to Rotary Field next month, hoping to deliver “a wonderful celebration of culture, talent and community”, according to the organisers. The focal point of the weekend of September 9 and 10 will be … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Charity, Music, Purley, Purley BID
Tagged Borough of Culture, Purley, Purley BID, Purley Festival, Rotary Field, Simon Cripps
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75th anniversary sees Mozart orchestra celebrate Fair Field
The London Mozart Players will be celebrating their 75th anniversary through the 2023-2024 concert season, with performances by the Croydon-based ensemble at the Fairfield Halls, in Upper Norwood and in Sussex to celebrate their history and development. LMP’s season opens … Continue reading
Budapest virtuoso latest to enthrall Fairfield music school
The Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra will be performing at the Fairfield Halls next month, the latest highlight in the Croydon venue’s International Orchestral Series. The orchestra will be performing a programme of rich, virtuoso music including Lizst’s Rhapsody No2 and … Continue reading
Coulsdon choir energises itself with rehearsal in bike shop
“Culture” in Croydon can take many forms, and the borough’s arts venues are varied and many (though not as many as they once were, sadly…). Next week, Croydon will enjoy a new “arts venue”, when the Energise E-bikes showroom in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Coulsdon, Cycling, Music
Tagged Coulsdon, Energise E-bikes, S.I.N.G. a cappella choir
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It’s hard to find signs of the borough’s musical heritage trail
So just what do we get for the £220,000 of Lottery cash splurged on Croydon’s Music Heritage Trail? We sent LOUISA GAUTREY along to road-test the trail and its accompanying app As a teenager who listens to a wide range … Continue reading
