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HITIRO.Jazz,rock and world fusion at The Queens Head,Belper.October 12th. £7. 8.00pm. A long time coming but worth the wait.

6/10/2018

Individually,Hitiro have been around for quite a while playing a diverse range of music before returning to their original love of jazz and jazz inflected rock. Since the halcyon days of Weather Report and Chick Corea,rock and jazz have entertained a long flirtation but in the case of Hitiro it is a consummate love affair which fuses a range of influences into a heady and eclectic mix.
This is their first live performance and has been a long time coming so a gig not to be missed. Incidentally,the name was originally meant to be hetero as in diverse but a typo resulted in Hitiro which is the title of a classic Japanese movie. Not a lot of people know that.
Tickets are available at the venue or to reserve contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk.

Celebrate the music of Billie Holiday ! The Queens Head,Belper.Oct 5th.£5. Featuring Tony Stark,Helen,Gayle,Molly Mercury and many more...Doors at 8.00pm.

28/9/2018

Steve Ashley + Spindrift at The Queens Head,Belper. September 29th. £8/7 unwaged. Doors at 8.00pm.

23/9/2018

Folk rock pioneer returns to The Queens Head. Firmly in the vanguard from the early seventies with his band,Ragged Robin through to the ranks of the early Albion Band and with material covered by Fairport,Steve Ashley has always been a major player in the great English folk rock revolution.
Supported on this occasion by Spindrift with their seductive range of music from soul to Sufi, Steve leads an evening of significant and original music.
Tickets available from the venue or contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk.

KATIE SPENCER AT THE QUEENS HEAD,BELPER. SEPTEMBER 22.2018. Support from Tony Stark.£8.Doors at 8.00pm.

11/9/2018

Katie Spencer,widely acclaimed for the originality of her writing and the accomplishment of her guitar accompaniment, makes her Belper debut on September 22nd with local master of the strings Tony Stark in support.
Katie's songwriting displays a mature way beyond her years whilst her guitar accompaniments have been favourably compared with such greats as Bert Jansch and John Martyn.
Clearly bound for greater things ,this is a unique chance to catch a young artist in an intimate club setting.
Tickets are available at the venue or contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk.

August 18th, 2018

18/8/2018

Award winning trio Harp And A Monkey return to Belper on September 15. Since their last appearance,they have scooped the folking.com award for band of the year. and received accolades from sources as diverse as Mike Harding and Clare Balding.
Suffice it to say that The Observer review of 'bold and brilliant' does fair justice to their brand of electro-folk storytelling with traditional roots and historical themes seamlessly blended with their unique blend of instrumentation and electronic embellishment.
Whether on the festival stage or the intimate club environment, Harp and a Monkey never fail to deliver a performance guaranteed to bring tremors to the petrified forest of traditional folk.
Tickets are available at the venue or contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk.

INTARSIA at THE QUEENS HEAD,BELPER.JUNE 22nd. £6. Doors at 8.00pm.

11/6/2018

Intarsia are of course Jo May and Sarah Matthews so a clear case of folk roots,new routes.
Sarah is no stranger to Derbyshire audiences with a long career of fruitful collaborations including the excellent Cupola and surely it can't be that long ago when I saw them backing a young Lucy Ward.
Jo is also no stranger to local audiences and if you were lucky enough to catch her at The Top Bar last autumn as one half of Against The Grain,you will appreciate just how much her percussion playing adds to material. And yes,she is probably the finest lead spoons player to have played this venue.
Expect an evening of more or less traditional material but not the way you've ever heard it before.
Tickets available at the venue or contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk.

CELEBRATE OUR NHS.ROBB JOHNSON,CHRIS BUTLER and GRAHAM 'COOKIE' COOKE at THE QUEENS HEAD,BELPER.JUNE 9th. £8.Doors at 8.00pm.

4/6/2018

Seventy years old but is it in safe hands? With Babington Hospital under threat and a national shortage of beds, the writing is clearly on the wall. Come along to celebrate our greatest national institution and help to raise cash to fight for its future.
Robb Johnson is no stranger to Belper audiences. Our foremost political songwriter returns along with local heroes Chris Butler and Graham 'Cookie' Cooke for an evening of song and merriment. A welcome antidote for those who associate campaigning with handing out soggy leaflets on rain swept streets.
Let's do some good and have fun at the same time.
Tickets available at the venue or contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk.

BONFIRE RADICALS + THE WAY OUT at THE QUEENS HEAD,BELPER.APRIL 27th. £8.Doors at 8.00pm.

10/4/2018

Surely the most innovative band to emerge on the folk/world music scene returns to the Queens Head on April 27th. Featuring guitar/bouzouki maestro and one-time Gong collaborator Andy Bole, the band also includes some of the most striking new talent on the scene to create a glorious collision of folk,jazz and world music firmly committed to trampling down musical boundaries.
If you caught them in Belper last year or at June's Exile Festival, you will know what a joyous tornado of sound this band can whip up.
In support, The Way Out from Loughborough combine quality songwriting and musical diversity to mark them out as a duo to watch and if you turn up late for this one, you might be disappointed. Better perhaps to be able to say that you caught them here first.
Tickets are available at the venue or contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk to reserve.

SoulDeep Fusion Trio + Dave Sturt at The Queens Head,Belper. May 4th. £8.Doors at 8.00pm.

9/3/2018

SoulDeep Fusion Trio create a heady brew of hot electric jazz and funk all cooked up by musicians based in Derbyshire. Drummer George Grignon grew up listening to his dad's jazz LPs before working in a wide range of bands and genres. Keyboard wizard Mark Ratcliffe from Wirksworth played across a similar range of genres before taking a BA in jazz at Birmingham Conservatoire and is now one of the area's busiest jazz pianists. Bass player Ricky Campbell hails from Derby and cut his teeth on gospel before moving on into a range of jazz,funk and latin fusion.
However,on this occasion,their sound is augmented by long term Gong bassist,Dave Sturt so there is something very special in store.
Expect an evening of rare invention and intensity of performance.
To reserve in advance contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk as word of mouth following their December gig is sure to pull an audience.

Brooks Williams at The Queens Head,Belper.November 9th.£8.Support from Tony Stark. Doors at 8.00pm.

14/2/2018

Consistently voted among the world's top guitarists,Brooks is one of those rare performers to transcend the world of the blues and reach a far wider audience. Although now resident in Cambridge,England,Brooks hails from Statesboro,Georgia where they know a thing or two about the blues. Touring relentlessly on both sides of the great pond,Brooks is also rightly acclaimed for his collaborations with the likes of Guy Davis and Boo Hewardine. However,his return to Belper sees him focused on what he does best: the great blues standards and his own compositions with a few surprises thrown in.
Support comes in the form of Amber Valley's own undoubted master of the strings: Tony Stark whose technical ability and inventiveness never fails to delight audiences.

Tickets are available at the venue or contact mjones572@hotmail.co.uk to reserve.

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