Events at The Apex

1 Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3FD

Tel: 01284 758000

www.theapex.co.uk

 

Sat 5 Apr, 7.30pm              

City of London Sinfonia

CLO with cellist Matthew Barley and a wonderful programme that includes arrangements of South American music the Brazilian Antonio Carlos Jobim and the Argentinian founder of Nuevo Tango, Astor Piazzolla and culminates in Tavener’s gorgeous “Protecting Veil”, which helped him to become a household name in the 1990s.

£23/£19 (£21/£17conc) £5 U25s

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Sun 6 Apr, 8pm

Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham

Scotland’s best loved traditional musicians have toured together since 1988. Aly was a founder member of the ‘Boys of the Lough’ and his passionate fiddle playing has also found its way onto recordings by the likes of Eddie Reader and Richard Thompson. Accordion player Phil has been named as one of Scotland’s 25 most influential people and his mastery of the instrument has led to him working with the likes of Mark Knopfler, James Taylor, Rosanne Cash and Midge Ure.

£18 (£16conc)

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Tue 8 Apr, 7.30pm

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Together with a 9 piece band including an amazing 4 piece horn section, this is an all hits show: Nowhere To Run, Dancing In The Street, Heatwave, Third Finger Left Hand and Jimmy Mac.

£22.50

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Wed 9 Apr, 7.30pm

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

A concert by the Ukulele Orchestra is a funny, virtuosic, twanging, awesome, foot-stomping obituary of rock-n-roll and melodious light entertainment featuring only the “bonsai guitar” and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies.

£24.50

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Thu 10 Apr, 7.30pm

The Big Chris Barber Band

Jazz Legend, Chris Barber, celebrates his 65th Anniversary as band-leader in 2014 with a Europe-wide concert tour. Inspired by the ‘King Oliver Creole Jazz Band’, Chris formed his first band in 1949 at the age of nineteen and has since gone on to become not only Europe’s most successful and influential bandleaders, but a bona fide jazz legend. With his 10-piece band, featuring a 7-strong front line, Chris plays a selection of his favourite traditional Jazz and Blues: from his roots in New Orleans style in ‘Bourbon Street Parade’ to the early music of Duke Ellington and Sidney Bechet … before going back to ‘When the Saints’!

£21

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Fri 11 Apr, 8pm

Mokoomba

Rising stars from Zimbabwe: Electrifying, intoxicating, irresistible!

Fresh & original, Mokoomba mix Tonga rhythms with Congolese grooves and dashes of rap, ska and latin. With their album ‘Rising Tide’ they have earned themselves invitations by everyone from WOMAD to Jools Holland, as well as a whole ream of awards.

£12.50 (£10.50conc) £5 under 25s

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Sat 12 Apr, 7.30pm

The Peacemakers and Faure Requiem

Classical concert by Stowmarket Chorale Society

£20, £16, £12, £5 under 18’s

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Wed 16 Apr, 7.30pm

Escher Quartet & Benjamin Grosvenor

Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-Flat Major Op. 12

Mendelssohn Andante and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 14

Schubert Impromptu in G flat D899 No.3

Gounod/Liszt Valse de Faust

Dvorak Piano Quintet

£18/£15 (£16/£13cons) £5 U 25s

 

Sat 19 Apr, 7.30pm

Feast of Fiddles

2014 marks the 21^st year this group of musical friends have taken to the road to entertain their growing legion of fans with a show of huge dynamic range, passionate and joyful playing and a liberal dose of fun.

Fiddlers Peter Knight (Steeleye Span), Chris Leslie (Fairport Convention), Phil Beer (Show of Hands), Brian McNeill (Battlefield Band), Ian Cutler (Bully Wee), Tom Leary (Zeus) and Garry Blakeley (Band of Two) add the large range of fiddle playing styles to the rock back-line of guitars, keyboards, sax and accordion – all held together by legendary drummer Dave Mattacks.

£20 (£18conc)

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