For the first Alter Comedy Club night at The Hub at St Mary’s, a capacity crowd and a group of award-winning comedians from the national touring circuit set the new venture off in great style.
Talented performer Sarah-Louise Young bought the music and life of Julie Andrews to vivid life when she performed her cabaret one-woman show at the Hub at St Mary’s.
Three local acts from the Lichfield area played for a small but enthusiastic audience when The Alfie Romeo Blues Band together with solo singers Nick Dalmedo and Tom Woodman performed.
One of the country’s leading young guitarists and his trio played a set of music that took elements of jazz, blues and rock when Remi Harris performed at The Cathedral Hotel.
Watching The Gypsy Jazz Quartet was comparable to celebrating a butterfly finally emerging from its chrysalis before displaying beautiful and resilient fragility while travelling through both dramatic and reflective landscapes.
Ever since its formation in the early 1970s, Lichfield Arts has taken a pride in bringing national names to Lichfield, as well as giving local performers a platform to experience of playing to a live audience.
It seemed somehow poignant that as missiles rain down on innocent people in Ukraine a few hundred Bob Dylan fans gathered at the Lichfield Garrick to witness a suitable tribute to the man behind a number of anti-war songs.
