Although he is known as the saxophonist with long-running blues and rock group The Climax Blues Band, Chris ‘Beebe’ Aldridge plays a number of instruments and writes his own material too.
The talented jazz trio of Nick Dewhurst, Phil Robson and Tim Amann played a set of their own original compositions for an attentive audience at The Hub at St Mary’s.
As purveyors of soulful, melodic pop and rock with a slightly melancholic lilt, The Beautiful South have had a successful career with many hit songs and hit albums to their name.
This a murder mystery with audience participation, improvisation and a through narrative that depends on the cooperation and energy of the five-person cast to carry the action that is made up and altered as the story goes along.
Local trumpet player, guitarist and composer Nick Dewhurst led his newest musical venture through a set of inventive fusion tunes, some alternative arrangements of older material and some new pieces.
The storied career of the blues singer Bessie Smith was bought to vivid life by three talented musicians and performers when they appeared at The Hub at St Mary’s.
A stage full of various guitars and decades of experience in writing, performing and recording guitar music were all the affable acoustic guitarist Gordon Giltrap needed to entertain a near capacity audience.
