Previous Events
The Beekeepers, The Gamebirds and Dovercourt Quartet.
The Beekeepers play lovely arrangements of medieval/early and traditional (folk) tunes in harmony, producing a unique blend of music with a mellow feel that everyone can enjoy - ‘chamber music’ with a bit of a difference. The Gamebirds are a women’s quartet singing traditional music in harmony, specialising in close harmony arrangements from the folk repertoire.
Dovercourt Quartet are a line-up of soprano, alto, tenor and bass and will be performing West Gallery Anthems, Barber’s Shop and Madrigals.
All proceeds to Friends of Bishops' House, (many thanks to the performers!),
Free glass of wine or juice
Tickets - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-beekeepers-the-gamebirds-and-dovercourt-quartet-tickets-44525944298?aff=erelpanelorg
Adrena Adrena + Trans/Human
Friday 18th May 2018 7-9.30pm
Adrena Adrena is a collaboration between visual artist Daisy Dickinson and drummer E-Da Kazuhisa, previously the drummer of the Japanese noise band Boredoms and currently British electronic/post-rock band Seefeel (Rephlex, Warp Records).
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The duo cut a raw blend of drums, noise and organic visual work, featuring in their performances an eight foot white sphere that hangs above Kazuhisa’s drum kit and which Dickinson maps videos on to; her work was described by William Barns-Graham of Fluid Radio as ‘cosmological and transcendental, drawing attention to the wonder of the earth and our sensuality on it’.
As a duo, their debut was at the International Festival of Projections in early 2016 and have since performed at The ICA London, End of The Road Festival, Supernormal Festival, Splice Festival, Zorofest in Leipzig and other shows across the UK and Europe, with Acid Mothers Temple and members of Can, Faust, Wire and Bo Ningen. The pair completed a short film in 2016. ‘Man on the Hill’, which features E-da playing drums on fire in the mountains. The film has since been featured on the British Council Film website and in 2016 was nominated for The BFI London Film Festival, Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, BAFTA qualifying Aesthetica Film Festival, Vienna Short Film Festival and the London Short Film Festival.
Earlier this month they announced the release of their new record Cybals/Toy. Released via an exclusive pre-order window by Champion Version.
Joining them on the night will be acclaimed former Sheffield noise duo Trans/Human, who are currently based between Gateshead and London. Employing noise making devices including mobile phones, radio, cassette tape, prepared electric guitar, processed drums, strobe lighting, contact microphones, field recordings and feedback systems, Trans/Human’s concerns lie within the physical act of music making and its relationship to environment and audience.
LTD Tickets via - http://bit.ly/AdrenaAdrenaBishopsHouse
Professor John Moreland “Reforming Bradbourne: the impact of the Reformation in the Peak District”
Monday 18th June 2018 - 7.30pm
This presentation will use evidence from Bradbourne’s Anglo-Saxon stone cross and the church to chart the ‘progress’ of Reformation in this part of Derbyshire. The material evidence and the texts speak to us of iconoclasm, destruction, resistance and eventual Reformation. There will be some references to the situation in Sheffield, especially with regard to its Anglo-Saxon cross. In conjunction with the University of Sheffield 500 Reformations
Free entry, but please arrive early to be sure of a place.
Chris Kolonko - Sheffield’s Wartime Anti-Aircraft Defences
Wednesday 4th July 2018 - 7.30pm
Find out about Sheffield’s wartime anti-aircraft defences and the part they played in the defence of the city during two World Wars. This talk by archaeologist Chris Kolonko will investigate the development of anti-aircraft defences, looking at surviving examples in and around Sheffield and how these would have operated during air raids. He will also bring some anti-aircraft gun related items from his collection.
Free entry, but please arrive early to be sure of a place.
Sally Goldsmith - Thirteen Acres: John Ruskin and the Totley Communists
Monday 14th May 2018
A utopian project with a cast of wonderful characters: John Ruskin at his paternalistic best, cycling Quaker Henry Swan, argumentative socialist Mrs Maloy, ex Chartist and Shelley enthusiast Joseph Sharp, brave gay sandal wearing Edward Carpenter. And a little film.
Juxtavoices
Sunday 15th July 2018
4pm
Sheffield's groundbreaking antichoir, Juxtavoices, have created a new piecewritten specifically for Bishops' House. For this composition, Juxtavoices will be using the actual fabric of the building and its mysterious sounds and spaces in order to create an unforgettable sonic experience for the audience - we can't tell you exactly what we're going to do, that would spoil it!
We will be previewing the piece in a brief performance at 3pm, while the house is still open to the public, and then again at 4pm with some extra material.
Juxtavoices is an anti-choir of 25 mostly untrained voices whose repertoire includes members' own compositions and arrangements of classic modernist poems and found texts. The scores provide structure but freedom of pitch allows improvisation to shape the detail so that no two performances are ever the same. Audiences are unfailingly surprised by the Juxtavoices sound. Some try to name-check composers in the avant-garde tradition but none quite fit. Some shudder at the dark theatricality, some hear the humour, some are outraged while others feel an irresistible urge to join the ranks. This is singing on the edge of not-singing or vice versa, a music only previously heard in a sound-poet's dreams. The group enjoys unusual acoustic spaces - furnace floor or bear pit or library stairwell - as well as churches and more conventional concert venues. It hopes to create a chord which will startle the ghost of Thomas Tallis. Directed by Martin Archer and Alan Halsey Juxtavoices uniquely combines the outer reaches of improvised music and innovative poetry.
Admission free
Bob Hedger / Modulator ESP
Saturday 19th May 2018 7.30pm
Bob Hedger, from Paris, AKA Jah Buddha, makes electronic, ambient synth music. He also plays in UKKA, his collaboration with Shankara and the Glissando Guitar Orchestra, but tonight he’ll be performing his own synth soundworlds
https://jahbuddha.bandcamp.com
Modulator ESP is Jez Creek from Nottingham, he makes fantastic synthesiser music, using an ingenious table of synths, effects & mixers used to produce vast shimmering notes, sparkling chords, profound bass drones, with fascinating melodies that emerge & then subside
www.modulator-esp.co.uk
Bob and Jez will perform solo sets then combine to perform an improvised set as Hedger & Creek. Doors open 7.30pm for a 8pm start.
Cost £5.00 in advance, or £6.00 on the door
Neil Campbell - a virtuoso guitarist
SOLD OUT
13th April 2018, 7.30pm
Liverpool composer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Campbell has been described by Classical Guitar Magazine as 'an outstanding guitarist whose originality of thought makes him far more than just another gifted purveyor of finger acrobatics' and by Sean Bradbury, Getintothis, as 'a man whose fingers have the ability to harness any imaginable sound in any given style’.
He has collaborated on live projects and recordings with Jon Anderson (Yes), Sense of Sound Singers, DJ Yousef, Anne Taft (Ghost Stories), Carlo Bowry (Wizards of Twiddly) and others. He has produced three CDs of solo guitar music, *Through the Looking Glass* (2003), *Night Sketches* (2004) and *Tabula Rasa Suite* (2014) alongside several other albums of his compositions in varying styles, including progressive rock, jazz fusion, minimalism and ambient music.
Neil’s solo performances are the stuff of legend and often involve him using loops and other technology to expand the sound and scope of what one performer can do with the classical guitar. As a soloist he has performed in the UK and Europe, and has been a regular performer at the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain.
He particularly enjoys playing in ‘special’ venues and has performed solo concerts in spaces such as Union Chapel (London), Lancaster Priory, Birkenhead Priory, Liverpool Central Library, John Ryland’s Library (Manchester), Chetham’s School of Music Library (Manchester) and St Lukes (Bombed Out) Church (Liverpool).
Websites
https://neilcampbell.bandcamp.com/
http://neilcampbell.org.uk/
Video links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDMTp0L8bE4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAN_j-Iudk
Twitter @neilcampbell8
Support is provided by Sheffield-based Nick Robinson who combines the guitar with electronics to produce improvised soundscapes. Nick formerly played with the Comsat Angels, Typhoon Saturday and Dig Vis Drill and continues to perform solo and with a variety of other musicians including Herve Perez, Steve Dinsdale, John Jasnoch, Martin Archer, Neil Ardley and others. His most recent CD was ‘Cotyledon’ with the group Lost Garden.
Websites
http://www.looping.me.uk
https://soundcloud.com/nick-robinson-uk
https://nickrobinson.bandcamp.com/
Doors open from 7pm for a 7.45 start.
Tickets £5 available here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neil-campbell-virtuoso-guitarist-tickets-44315259133
Attercliffe to Wincobank and back - the story of Mary Ann Rawson
16th April 2018 7:30pm
A brief history of the remarkable Mary Anne Rawson and the Read family of Wincobank Hall, who campaigned relentlessly for the abolition of Slavery and supported many other social causes, then lay forgotten in an over ground graveyard for 130 years. Talk by Penny Rea
This is a free event but turn up early to ensure you get a seat
Ann Beedham “The suffragette, the silversmith and the novelist: three local women’s tales”
Wednesday 21st March 2018 7.30pm
Hear about three local ladies who contributed to art, literature and politics, but who have now largely been forgotten.
Suzanne Bingham “The Anti-Slavery Movement in Sheffield”
Monday February 26th 7.30pm
This talk will detail how the anti-slavery movement took off in Sheffield, the crucial role that local women played, and the movement’s contribution towards the radical reputation of the city.
This is a free event that is not ticketed, but please arrive early to ensure you get a seat.
Howard Bayley “Between River and Railway: a Victorian cemetery in the edgelands”
Monday Jan 15th 7.30pm
Wardsend Cemetery: a relaunched and revitalised Friends Group brings you new stories and fresh insights on old ones. We also celebrate the unique setting of the site and look to its future as a resource for history, art, drama, nature study, recreation and more
