Reviews

Review: Theo Travis at Lichfield Arts Blues and Jazz Festival
By Ben Macnair on 12th June, 2018
With a career playing in a number of genres, with some seriously heavyweight musicians, the leading jazz and experimental saxophonist and flute player Theo Travis...
Review: The Annie Whitehead Quartet at the Lichfield Arts Blues and Jazz Festival
By Ben Macnair on 12th June, 2018
With a set list that ranged from African High Life music to space jazz, the leading trombonist and composer Annie Whitehead led her talented quartet...
Review: Imperial Strut at the Lichfield Cathedral Hotel
By Ross on 5th June, 2018
The jazz rock fusion band Imperial Strut played to an appreciative audience when they appeared at the Cathedral Hotel as part of Lichfield Arts Blues...
Review: Remi Harris at the George Hotel in Lichfield
By Ben Macnair on 23rd May, 2018
A stage filled with guitars and a room full of people meant that jazz musician Remi Harris’s gig at Lichfield’s George Hotel was a very...
Review: Avenue Q by Lichfield Operatic Society at the Lichfield Garrick
By Ann Mayo on 10th May, 2018
Avenue Q is a show which could easily offend – audiences are warned it’s a musical strictly for the over 16s. But far from offending...
Review: Miranda Sykes at the Lichfield Guildhall
By Ben Macnair on 30th April, 2018
The acclaimed singer and multi-instrumental Miranda Sykes cast a musical spell over an attentive audience when she appeared at Lichfield Guildhall as part of her...
Review: Les Miserables by Lichfield Musical Youth Theatre at Lichfield Cathedral
By Phil Preece on 25th April, 2018
A new production by Oliver Rowe and his team is always a much anticipated event - and even more so with Les Miserables which has...
Review: Climax Blues Band at the Lichfield Guildhall
By Ben Macnair on 4th April, 2018
A near-capacity Easter Sunday crowd saw one of the sharpest blues outfits on the national circuit when the Climax Blues Band performed at Lichfield Guildhall...
Review: Dvorak’s Stabat Mater at Lichfield Cathedral
By Ben Macnair on 28th March, 2018
Lichfield Cathedral was filled with talented local musicians when Lichfield Cathedral Chorus, four classical singers, and The Darwin Ensemble Chamber Orchestra convened to perform Antonin...
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest at the Lichfield Garrick
By Phil Preece on 28th March, 2018
The balance of superb players is absolutely right without the tiniest glitch in this Rolls Royce of a show where every word and gesture is...