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.
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.
I was unfamiliar with this particular play by Constance Cox, based on an Oscar Wilde story, so the story brought to the stage by the Lichfield Players was all a revelation to me.
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.
