Thursday 2nd May 2019 Retuning to the House by popular demand, Toffee Music is Mike Lydiat and Dave Markham. TOFFEE is an acronym for “Two Old Fellas For Evening Entertainment”! Dave has been ‘entertaining the troops’ for more than 40 years and Mike first ‘trod the boards’ in 1962. Between them they have a century […]
Friday 8th February 2019 Mother of Vinegar is a collaborative spontaneous arrangement of sound featuring a core of three performers (Mark Hadman, Lyn Hodnet and Ashley Tuck) each with contrasting approaches to the practice of music. Mother of Vinegar is the loss of control on the margins of expectation. Mother of Vinegar is giddy heights […]
Sunday January 13th Armenian duduk master Arsen Petrosyan joins singer and multi instrumentalist Jenny Bliss (‘fantastic’ Sean Rafferty, Radio 3) for a unique collaboration. The plaintive voice of the duduk is the iconic sound of Armenian music. Elizabethan lute songs, haunting Armenian melodies, virtuosic baroque sonatas for violin, evocative settings of Rumi poetry by Jenny […]
Saturday, 9th February Local ‘slightlydelic’ folk duo Antique Doll describe their music as ‘moth like nursery rhymes created in our front room’. They went down particularly well last Autumn and we are delighted to have them back.Rarely playing live but featured on BBC6 Music’s Stuart Maconie (Freakzone) Gideon Coe and selected by Tom Ravenscroft for […]
Friday September 28th 2018 Doors 7.30pm for 8pm start Bell Lungs, aka Ceyan Hay, is a one woman band, who uses layered electric guitar and violin, tuned percussion, field recordings and effects to create shifting atmospheric soundscapes with elements of psychedelia, folk, improvisation and dream pop. Weaving through is a remarkable and disarming voice described […]
Friday October12th 2018 7.30pm Another excellent double-header of electronic music. Åyusp A new collaboration between Graham McElearney and Paul Mills, born out of a common love for our favourite German electronic music, influenced in particular by all the usual suspects – the mighty Tangerine Dream of course (especially the golden line up with Peter Baumann) […]
Wednesday January 9th 2019 7.30pm This talk will examine the decorative plasterwork and carved woodwork in Bishops House and explore how it relates to that in other houses in Sheffield and North-east Derbyshire area during the 17th century. It was all being done by a group of craftsmen living in Norton and Greenhill. Free, but […]
Wednesday December 5th 2018 7.30pm Editor, Nancy Fielder, will talk through stories and photos which have appeared in The Star over the last century throughout Advent and Christmas. Be prepared for a few festive laughs along the way on this tour of Sheffield news in the jolliest of seasons. Nancy also invites readers to bring […]
Wednesday November 7th 2018 7.30pm This talk will examine how Sheffield reacted to the possibility, then the reality that man could fly. It will chart the development of flying clubs in the city and the role played by some well known actors on the Sheffield stage. It will also reveal that Sheffield has unexpected links, […]
Wednesday October 3rd 2018 Sanitation was the prime environmental concern of developing societies in the nineteenth century. The growth of conurbations, especially in London and the industrial north of England and lowland Scotland, presented local and national government with urgent, desperate problems – water-supply and sewerage. Practical solutions took most of the nineteenth century to […]
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