>May Events / Art & Theatre / Events in Norfolk and Suffolk / Music / Tourist Attractions Norfolk and Suffolk April 24, 2014
Events at The Apex
1 Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3FD
Tel: 01284 758000
The massive amount of shows from the 16th – 25th May are courtesy of Bury Festival.
There’s also LOADS & LOADS of other Festival events all around town from
Fri 16 – Sun 25 May, see www.buryfestival.co.uk for details.
Fri 2 May, 7.30pm
The Searchers
Just a few tickets left!
£19.50 (£17.50conc)
Wed 7 May, 8pm
Debashish Bhattacharya
Global Adventures on a Slide Guitar. As a lap steel aficionado, as well as an innovative performer, Bhattacharya’s unique take on Indian classical music has cemented his international career for over 30 years, modernising classical melodies and rhythms with multiple levels of percussion and lightning-fast group unison solos.
£12.50 (£10.50conc) £5 under 25s
Fri 9 May
Now in its 4th year at The Apex, Fashion Fusion showcases the exciting new ranges from Bury St Edmunds’ retailers and all proceeds from the event go to St Nicholas Hospice.
£15 front row/ £13.50
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Sun 11 May, 8pm
Fat Cat Comedy Club
Check out www.fatcatcomedyclub.com for line-up.
£12
Fri 16 May – 8 June, 10am-5pm daily
Exhibition: Retro Icons
Retro Icons an exhibition of rare and historical iconic photographic images, spans thirty years from 1961. This Festival exhibition will be shown across two sites in Bury St Edmunds, The Apex Gallery and Elsey’s Gallery .
Peter Akehurst and Tim Motion have been documenting their different worlds with stylish and captivating imagery since the “Swinging sixties”.
Free entry
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Fri 16 – Sun 25 May
Bury Festival
The town comes alive with plethora of wonderful events at the Apex and other venues in town, see www.buryfestival.co.uk for more details.
Fri 16 May, 1pm
4 Girls 4 Harps
With works by Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Piazzolla.
£8/£5
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Fri 16 May, 8pm
The Fureys & Davey Arthur
Just a few tickets left!
£18 (£16conc)
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Sat 17 May, 2.30-4.30pm
Strictly Saturdays
Ballroom and Latin dancing
Free
Sat 17 May, 7pm
Mbawula
Uplifting South African grooves, stunning vocals and jazz from a great band are complemented by a huge local choir for an evening of joyous music and a celebration of local singing.
£7/£5
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Sun 18 May, 12.30pm
West Suffolk Youth Jazz Orchestra
Free
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Sun 18 May, 4pm–6.20pm
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 “The Emperor”
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 “Pastoral”
Anna Fedorova, piano. Leslie Olive, conductor
£12, £19, £26, £34
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Mon 19 May, 1pm
Alan Barnes
Chris Ingham, pianist and MC at Bury’s Jazz At The Hunter Club, is joined by Alan Barnes, a brilliant, swinging musician with a roguishly droll sense of humour who and has won numerous BBC Jazz Awards for Best Clarinet, Best Alto Saxophone and Best Baritone Saxophone.
£8/£5
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Mon 19 May, 7.30pm
What The World Needs Now…
The Music of Burt Bacharach (7.30pm)
Including; Anyone Who Had A Heart, Close to You, What’s New Pussycat?, Walk On By, Alfie; this show re-lives the sound of classic pop from one of the 20th century’s most prolific and popular musicians.
£25/£5
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Tue 20 May, 1pm
Lara Melda
Winner of BBC Young Musician 2010 with a programme including Beethoven, Liszt & Poulenc.
£8/£5
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Tue 20 May, 7.30pm
Endellion String Quartet and Wendy Cope
The centrepiece of the programme is The Audience, with music by Roxanna Panufnik accompanying a witty set of poems by Wendy Cope portraying caricatures of members of an audience. Plus:
Josef Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op. 50, No. 3
Franz Schubert Quartet No.14 in D minor, “Death and the Maiden”
£18/£15/£5
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Wed 21 May, 1pm
Anita Wardell
Chris Ingham, pianist and MC at Bury’s Jazz At The Hunter Club, is joined by Anita Wardell, winner of Best Vocalist at the 2013 UK Jazz Awards.
£8/£5
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Wed 21 May, 7.30pm
Penguin Café Orchestra
Penguin Cafe’s music has infiltrated daily life from films like Napoleon Dynamite to countless theme tunes, and they’ve played festivals and venues ranging from Bestival and The Big Chill to a sold out Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms.
£25/£5
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Thu 22 May, 1pm
Grigoryan Brothers
Widely acclaimed as Australia’s finest guitar duo, they have released five duo albums all of which have been nominated for ARIA awards. Their programme will include their own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons as well as music by a number of Australian composers.
£8/£5
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Thu 22 May, 7.30pm
Gandini Juggling Project
4 crockery sets, 9 jugglers, 80 apples. You are cordially invited to a tea party that you will never forget… At the forefront of contemporary circus for over 20 years, and having performed in over 40 countries, Gandini Juggling bring their award-winning sensation SMASHED to Bury St Edmunds
£15/£5
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Fri 23 May, 1pm
Dixie Strollers
Influenced by Alex Welch, Kid Ory, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong, the Dixie Strollers are guaranteed to get you your feet tapping.
£8/£5
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Fri 23 May, 6pm
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1
Aurora Orchestra present a dazzling new chamber orchestra arrangement which follows in the footsteps of Arnold Schoenberg’s Mahler reductions of the 1920s, bringing intimacy and piercing clarity whilst stretching players to the furthest limits of virtuosity.
£16/£14/£5
Sat 24 May, 1pm
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Cracking entertainment for everyone over six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires or Highlanders). We have the best comedians from the UK and world circuit doing what they do best… but without the rude bits!
£6.50/£5
Sat 24 May, 8pm
Son Yambu
Son Yambu play authentic ‘Son Cubano’ or Cuban son – the essential Afro-Cuban music that originated in the streets of eastern Cuba at the turn of the last century. Formed in 2011, Son Yambu feature a new generation of mainly Cuban musicians who are all passionate about maintaining the traditions of the genre, continuing the Buena Vista legacy that put Cuban music back on the map in 1997.
£16/£5
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Sun 25 May, 2.30pm
Suffolk Camerata
Ben Palmer New Work: Overture for a New Orchestra
Haydn Symphony No. 70
Britten Simple Symphony
Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite
£13/£10/£5
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Sun 25 May, 8pm
All Classical Music Explained
Brilliant British comic Rainer Hersch’s simple and stupid approach to a difficult subject! Is the triangle hard? What do conductors actually do?
£12/£5
Tue 27 May
Suggs
Additional date due to demand.
In Suggs: My Life Story the Madness frontman takes to the stage in a hilarious, yet moving, one man tour de force playing to rave reviews. The death of Suggs’ beloved cat on his fiftieth birthday triggers a personal quest to discover what happened to the father he never knew. Stunned by what he learns Suggs is taken back to his childhood on the tough streets of 1970’s Soho and his first appearance on Top Of The Pops at the age of eighteen…
With musical accompaniment and uncalled for interjection from Deano his loyal manservant-cum-pianist.
£26.50
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Wed 28 May, 7.30pm
Folk for The Hospice
With popular local folk/rockers The Bounty Hounds, who launched their most recent CD to a packed Apex last April. Supported by The Broadside Boys, with songs inspired by their experience of country life in East Anglia, and Cudby-Calder, performing their own mix of traditional music with an interesting modern twist.
All in aid of St Nicholas Hospice Care.
£15 (£12/£6conc)
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Sat 31 May, 7.30pm
The Carpenters Story
Featuring all the legendary songs: They Long To Be Close To You, We’ve Only Just Begun, I Wont Last A Day Without You, Goodbye To Love, Yesterday Once More, Top Of The World, Please Mr Postman, Solitaire.
£22.50 (£20conc)
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