Our New programme is out and can be downloaded from
but before it starts there are a few extra events that didn’t make it into the last program that you really shouldn’t miss:
Tuesday 25th November
we present ‘One Glass Wall’
Wednesday 26th November
we have Hai La Drum with Support from ‘The Slippers’
Sunday 30th November
‘Hank Wangford’ with Support from ‘The Vagaband’
All Events can be booked through the Box Office on 01976 897130 or online
(Box Offcie is open from 11am – 3pm Mon-Sat an answerphone will take calls outside of these times)
‘One Glass Wall’
The Fisher Theatre – Tuesday 25th November Tickets £7.50 / £5 Conc.
It’s 1968. Mum, Dad and eight-year-old Morag are motoring down the road of life listening to Cilla Black when, irritated by the incessant female chit-chat, Dad jumps out the Morris Minor and disappears.
For the next 10 years, Mum and Morag are stranded by the edge of the road. Dad eventually returns in a Mercedes, but by then the women have made a life for themselves. However, as Morag grows up, more changes are in store. The beautifull acting and a litany of 1970s references, from Green Shield stamps to Pinky and Perky, ensure that this brave little show about the mechanisms we employ to ensure our survival slips down nicely.
Hai La Drum with The Slippers
The Fisher Theatre Wednesday 26th November Tickets £8 / £7 Conc
If you enjoy Jazz, world music or are just a fan of a roaring good tune then Hai La Drum are for you. They are a Virtuosic Violin-led gypsy jazz quartet from London playing fast and fiery Romanin tunes to Russian classics and Django-style Gypsy swing with some jazz influences. With the incredible Vasile Stanescu ( Vilolin ), Jonny Hepbir (guitar), Pete Watson (accordion) and Dan Sheppard (double bass). They will be joined by another Jazz/Swing band The slippers who have a new line up and have been going down a storm in local venues.
The Slippers play 1930’s music using the classic 1960’s instrumentation of 3 electric guitars and drums. The strong material and signature guitar sound give The Slippers a chance to bring something new to tunes sometimes claiming to be swing revival but often overplayed with nostalgia or parody.
And Finally …..
Hank Wangford & The Lost Cowboys
Launching the new CD ‘ Whistling in the Dark’
The Fisher Theatre – Sunday 30th November Tickets £10
If Daniel O’Donnell is the brightly scrubbed face of British country music then Hank Wangford is its guilty conscience, its dark and troubled grubby soul. Hank has picked at the miserable underbelly of country music for twenty eight years, inspiring others like Billy Bragg, The The, The Alabama Three and other alt.country musicians.
Hank knows that laughter, tears and music are the greatest healers we have. This is why he loves Country music. Hank continues to tour extensively both with the Lost Cowboys and as a duo with Reg Meuross touring village halls on the Rural Arts Scheme. This is an Arts Council and local Council supported scheme to bring music and arts to village halls. This is Hank’s NO HALL TOO SMALL tour and he has played in two hundred and twenty village halls throughout England and Scotland in the last three years. He is chronicling the tour for a book which he will finish once the new album is launched. The new album WHISTLING IN THE DARK is launched on November 24th 2008.
Hank is choosing to launch the CD officially at the Fisher Theatre in Bungay, back in the area where he started and a hefty stones’ throw from his birthplace Wangford. He will be bringing the Lost Cowboys with the great Martin Belmont (ex Elvis Costello, Johnny cash, Graham Parker and the Rumour) and the legendary BJ Cole on pedal steel.
