Join Miranda Sykes via Facebook on 12 August 2020

Join Miranda Sykes for her last concert for a while on Wednesday 12 August  at 7.30 pm

via her face book page…  

https://www.facebook.com/mirandasykesmusic

Town Hall Live Outdoor Concert - Kirton In Lindsey - 30 August, 2020.

 Town Hall Live Outdoor Concert

AT 18 EAST CROSS STREET, KIRTON - IN - LINDSEY, DN21 4EA
Sunday 30th August 2020
featuring Paul McClure
 and Third & Church

Town Hall Live is back for a one-off outdoor concert, at the home of John & Val Donaghy, 18 East Cross St, DN21 4EA 
It's a chance to enjoy some live music in a socially distanced environment on a lazy Sunday afternoon.  It may be the only chance we get until the end of the year.
Grimsby trio Third & Church will start the afternoon off, with their renditions of American favourites. 
They are followed by the charismatic and entertaining singer songwriter PAUL McCLURE.  'The Rutland Troubadour', as Paul is known, will play a full headlining set featuring songs from his three albums 'Songs for Anyone', 'Smiling from the Floor Up' and last year's 'Market Town', as well as some recently penned songs.  There will be no shortage of between song banter, as usual.  There is no one who can make you smile one minute and bring a tear to your eye the next.
Bring your chairs, bring a picnic and enjoy a wonderful afternoon of live music.

 Note that for this concert to take place, we have to comply with Government Guidance for out-door performances.
The Event will be fully Covid 19 risk assessed. 
It means that tickets can only be purchased on line from www.wegottickets.com.  They are priced at £10.  There will be no tickets 'on the door'
CAPACITY IS STRICTLY LIMITED
Maximum of six people per group from two households.
Social distancing of  two metres to be maintained.
Toilet facilities will be available, but all surfaces must be cleaned after use.
Hand sanitiser and other hygiene measures in place.
No Parking at the House, but spaces will be available at Allen Motors on South Cliff Road and at Kirton Concrete on East Cross Street.
Bring your own chairs, food and drink and take all of your rubbish away with you. 
Doors are at 2 pm.  The music starts at 2.30 pm 
If you want any further information, ring Brian on 01652 649230.
The music industry is on it's knees at every level.  If we can do our bit to help live music and those who perform it then we should.

Live Music at Belvoir Castle – August 2020

 Live Music at Belvoir Castle – August 2020

SATURDAY 29th 

The Roustabouts, Elvis Tribute

Mercury, Queen Tribute

 

SUNDAY 30th 

Shaney Lea Pacey

Blues Brothers Tribute

Dolly Parton Experience & Country Superstars – Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Shania Twain and John Denver

 

https://www.belvoircastle.com/tc-events/summer-concert/

My Light Shines On: Celebrating Edinburgh's enduring festival spirit

 

My Light Shines On: Celebrating Edinburgh's enduring festival spirit

Covid-19 has not dimmed the creativity of artists, nor the enthusiasm of all the people who make Edinburgh’s festivals. My Light Shines On is an act of optimism and solidarity: a series of world-class artistic interventions celebrating a spark that still burns bright. For the first time since lockdown began, artists have returned to the venues they love to make theatre together, to play music together, to sing together, to dance together and to light up the skies together.  

On 8 August, we celebrate what would have been the opening weekend of the 2020 festival season. A specially commissioned film featuring new work from artists across genres airs on our YouTube channel, Facebook Live and BBC Scotland at 9.30pm. The film features famous faces from festivals across the years, as well as collaborations with other Edinburgh festivals.   

This unique broadcast launches a series of new recorded activity, which will be viewable throughout August on our YouTube channel.  

See...  https://www.eif.co.uk/ for full details

Strange Ways - in these strange days – A message From Deep Blue Sea

Strange Ways - in these strange days – A message From Deep Blue Sea

Hi Folks,

Been away awhile. Here's a quick update on the new album "Strange Ways" - hope you like the first single "Don't Say I Didn't Warn You" - maybe it's a message for these dark days? Have a listen. There's some new clips on You Tube - be great if you could like them and follow us?

Stay safe and healthy and kind out there!

Deep Blue Sea

 Physical inquiries can be sent to: 138 Jerningham Road, London,

SE14 5NL, GBR

 littledevilmusic@btinternet.com

Alnwick Music Festival goes Virtual

The organisers of the Alnwick Music Festival are unable to run the festival as normal this year due to the Pandemic and the banning of Mass Gatherings. 

However, you can still enjoy the festival virtually. It will be live streaming on their Facebook page over the weekend 7th-9th August with some great performers.

Festival Facebook

Festival Website

Fender Release New Additions to It’s Player Series

Fender Release New Additions to It’s Player Series

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) has announced that it has released new, highly anticipated additions to its Player Series line of electric guitars and basses. 

The Series now features reimagined Mustang®, Duo-Sonic™ Duo Sonic™ HS, Mustang® 90, and Mustang® PJ Bass models in 10 colours new to the Player Series, including Firemist Gold, Desert Sand, Aged Natural and Burgundy Mist Metallic. 

Available through local retailers and on Fender.com beginning today, each delivers the classic look, comfort and signature Fender sound that has helped shape popular music for over 74 years.

https://shop.fender.com/en-GB/start

Watch Joe Bonamassa & Eric Clapton - "Further On Up The Road" Live at The Royal Albert Hall

Joe Bonamassa & Eric Clapton - "Further On Up The Road" Live at The Royal Albert Hall

A space exploration fan, jazz artist Gregory Porter to sing for NASA launch

A space exploration fan, jazz artist Gregory Porter to sing for NASA launch

 

(Reuters) - Jazz artist Gregory Porter, whose new single “Concorde” is an ode to space exploration, is set to perform on Thursday as part of a ceremony marking the launch of NASA’s next generation rover that will search for signs of habitable conditions on Mars.

The Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter is scheduled to sing the Ray Charles version of “America The Beautiful” during the U.S. space agency’s broadcast of the countdown to the launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Porter said he will perform from his living room in Bakersfield, California because of the coronavirus pandemic. His record label said Porter was invited after NASA officials heard “Concorde.”

“I wrote the song when I was on an airplane thinking about the idea of ascension, both in the body but in the mind as well. Flying into the stratosphere,” Porter told Reuters. “And so, anyway, NASA caught wind of it and they were interested... in partnering in the release of the song and the release of the video.”

In the “Concorde” music video, Porter is dressed as an astronaut and appears opposite his young son, Demyan.

“When I’m floating around in the galaxy, hanging out with the stars, the sweetest thing to do is to come back down, to drop down to and to be on the soil and to be with your loved ones. And that’s what the song is about,” Porter said.

https://www.reuters.com/video/?videoId=OVCOVBSKD&jwsource=cl

Small Music Venues in England get £2.2m Emergency Tax Payer Funding

The BBC have reported that up to 150 small music venues in England will share £2.25m

emergency government funding intended stop them going to the wall after four months with no gigs.

It is the first slice of a £1.57bn arts relief fund to be allocated and follows warnings that many venues are at risk.

The Music Venues Trust welcomed the funding as "a short-term fix".

Earlier this month, 1,500 artists from Liam Gallagher and Dua Lipa to Sir Paul McCartney signed an open letter calling for support for the live music scene.

If 150 venues are helped, they would receive an average of £15,000 each. Some grants could be bigger, up to £80,000.

The MVT, which represents small venues, said the money was "very welcome and desperately needed as we wait to hear how the recently announced £1.57bn rescue package for the arts will be administered and distributed".

Chief executive Mark Davyd added: "This interim solution will provide a short-term fix for those venues identified as being in crisis but we urgently need information and guidance on when and how venues can access the larger fund, which is so vital to safeguarding their longer term futures."