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events 8.30pm
John Cooper Clarke
Monday May 6th
£7 adv £8 door
From his early days as a pep pill swallowing mod John Cooper Clarke,
Manchester’s legendary poet, performer, writer and comedian has always looked
good and lived well.
After twenty years he can still hold an audience spellbound
as two brilliant performances at St Ives Festival recently showed. Last time he
left his fans crying for more - so here he is again.
DAVID
KEMP
Tuesday May 7th
£4 adv £5 door
David Kemp has been producing his extraordinary constructions in West Cornwall
for over twenty years now - but you will find them sited in galleries and sculpture
parks all over the U.K. Using abandoned bits of farming and industrial machinery
he has created a series of robotic animals, birds fishes and other creatures that
he claims are the archaeology of a lost industrial age.
One of the leading
artists in his field he recently completed peices for the Eden Project and the
Lowry Gallery and has work in the Glasgow Museun of Modern Art and the Manchester
City gallery amongst others. Here he talks about his work and shows slides of
it in situ. A new book on David Kemp ‘Things Re-Assembled’ is published
by Alison Hodge in April.
ROBIN WILLIAMSON &
MARTIN CARTHY
Wednesday May 8th
£9 adv £10
door
Probably the two most important influences on the course of British
folk music over the past three decades, Robin and Martin have joined forces for
a series of concerts. After acheiving great success with the Incredible String
Band in the sixties Robin launched off on an idiosyncratic musical voyage in America
and the U.K. as a songwriter, a story teller, a multi instrumentalist and even
a writer of film music.
More recently he has returned to traditional music
and has also revived the I.S.B. Martin was first known for his work with fiddler
Dave Swarbrick and then with Steeleye Span and a series of other major bands.
Revered for his fine voice and dramatic guitar, lately he has made another reputation
as a mainstay of Waterson Carthy with his wife Norma Waterson and daughter Eliza
Carthy.
ALAN SKIDMORE & PETER KING QUINTET
Thursday May 9th
£9 adv £10 door
Two
of the British jazz worlds top sax players return to Penzance with piano bass
and drums fill the festivals jazz spot. Skidmore’s career has spread over
35 years, he has toured & recorded with Elvin Jones, Herbie Hancock, Chick
Corea, Alexis Korner, Van Morrison, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon & the Hanover
Symphony Orchestra.
Peter King too has worked with many of the jazz greats
as well as with singers like Tony Bennett, Marlene Dietrich, James Brown and Lauren
Bacall. He is a regular guest at most of Europe’s top Festivals and has also
gained a reputation as a composer and arranger.
SEKOU
KEITA & JAMORAL
Friday May 10th
£10 adv £12
door
After last years Womad Festival word began to travel about yet another
brilliant African act and it turned out to be Sekou who has visited these parts
before as part of Baka Beyond. Born in Senegal in1977 he is a descendant of the
Keita family of Kings from Mali, and although a kora player through the griot
tradition he is also an outstanding drummer and percussionist.
The other
musicians, Sadio Cissokho, Kevin Willoughby, Momodou N’diaye, Landing Mane,
Baba Kone, Issa Sawane and Cheikh Beraud play kora, bass, balafon, the sabar,
the djembe, the bougarabou and the doun-doun.
LA
BOUM!
Saturday May 11th
£10 adv £12 door
Every year I get sent over 100 C.D.s and tapes, La Boum’s was superb- I had
to book them. A sort of all-star Scottish band who play infectuous African and
‘World’ dance music. A 10 piece, they have musicians from the Eliza
Carthy Band,The Poozies, Mystery Juice,
The Peatbog Fairies amongst others.
They are led by vocalist Tom Salter (who spent some time in Africa with Ali Farka
Toure) with a horn section and three classy backing vocalists, a collective compass
of styles that includes Reggae, Latin, Ambient, Rumba, Blues and Jazz. A mixture
guaranteed to get you dancing.
TICKETS FROM:
Rainyday Gallery, 116 Market Jew Street, Penzance
The
Acorn, Parade St Penzance
ENQUIRIES: 01736 366077 /
365520
