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Acclaimed naturalist and Guardian writer, Mark Cocker, will discuss his views on the future of Britain’s wildlife and invite comments from the audience. Mark will also sign copies of his new book Our place.
Environmental thought and politics have become parts of mainstream cultural life in Britain. The wish to protect wildlife is now a central goal for our society, but where did these ‘green’ ideas come from? And who created the cherished institutions, such as the National Trust or the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, that are now so embedded in public life with millions of members?
From the flatlands of Norfolk to the tundra-like expanse of the Flow Country in northern Scotland, acclaimed writer on nature Mark Cocker sets out on a personal quest through the British countryside to find the answers to these questions.
He explores in intimate detail six special places that embody the history of conservation or whose fortunes allow us to understand why our landscape looks as it does today. We meet key characters who shaped the story of the British countryside – Victorian visionaries like Octavia Hill, founder of the National Trust, as well as brilliant naturalists such as Max Nicholson or Derek Ratcliffe, who helped build the very framework for all environmental effort.
This is a book that looks to the future as well as exploring the past. It asks searching questions like who owns the land and why? And who benefits from green policies? Above all it attempts to solve a puzzle: why do the British seem to love their countryside more than almost any other nation, yet they have come to live amid one of the most denatured landscapes on Earth? Radical, provocative and original, Our Place tackles some of the central issues of our time. Yet most important of all, it tries to map out how this overcrowded island of ours could be a place fit not just for human occupants but also for its billions of wild citizens.
Thursday 28 June at the Centenary Centre, 22 Atholl Street, Peel, IM5 1BD at 7:30 PM Bar & refreshments.
Cost – £10 plus booking fee
Follow the link to book : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-mark-cocker-tickets-44872131754?aff=efbevent
Ímar – BBC Radio 2 Folk Award 2018 winners of the Horizon Award for best emergent band -brings a diversity of background and influences to their music. They all came together on the vibrant music scene in Glasgow.
Tomás Callister on fiddle and Adam Rhodes on bouzouki are well-known on the Manx music scene, Ryan Murphy from Cork plays uillean pipes, whistle and flute, Scottish Iranian Mohsen Amini plays concertina, and Adam Brown from Suffolk provides percussion on bodhran.
Individually and collectively as members of other bands, they have garnered a number of awards, most recently in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winning the Horizon Award for the best emergent band, whilst Mohsen Amini concertina wizard won the award for Musician of the Year.
Mera Royle of Maughold is the winner of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2018. She developed her traditional music skills from a young age, playing whistle and violin before being introduced to the harp at 8 years of age by inspirational Ramsey teacher Mike Boulton RBV.
Mera has enjoyed Culture Vannin’s monthly Bree sessions, and plays as part of a group of Bree alumni called Scran. She has been tutored by superb Scottish harp player Rachel Hair, with whom she performed this year’s Edinburgh Harp Festival before going on to Belfast to receive her BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award.
Las means ignite in the Gaelic languages of Scotland and Ireland. They are all established performers in their own right, and as Las perform Scottish and Irish traditional music and songs in the two branches of Gaelic. As well as their music and song, they also perform Scottish step dance and Irish sean nòs dancing.
Three of them are from Ireland – Edel Ní Churraoin plays tin whistle, button accordion and piano and is also a sean-nós dancer; Gráinne Brady is a fiddle player; and guitarist and singer Catherine Ní Shúilleabháin – and two from Scotland – Suzanne Fivey is a pianist, whistle player and singer, and Joy Dunlop is a singer and Scottish step-dancer.
Clash Vooar has been described as a Manx Gaelic gypsy jazz blues band.
They feature the vocals and cornet playing of Aalin Clague, who also writes many of their songs. She’s joined on vocals by composer and flute player, Breesha Maddrell. With Rob Caine preparing atmospheric samples and playing ukelele and bodhran, there’s solid support from the rhythm section of Anglin Buttimore on keyboards, Dave Mclean on bass and Danny Kneale on drums.
NoGood Boyo is a Welsh four-piece band (accordion, fiddle, guitar, double bass), named for a character in Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood. The band includes Bethan Rhiannon (Williams) and Sam Humphreys, who have visited the festival as accordion and guitar player respectively with leading Welsh band Calan. Bethan also includes her award-winning Welsh clog dancing in her performances.
With their uncompromising tagline, ‘Go loud or go home, boyo!’, NoGood Boyo are helping to take Welsh traditional music onwards and upwards.
The Lawrences are a highly-talented musical family group of Kirsty (whistle and cello), Katie (fiddle and keyboards) and Mark (guitar). They have represented the Isle of Man in a range of inter-Celtic and international events, but have only joined musical forces as a trio comparatively recently.
With a background in traditional music of all sorts, they also perform their own compositions – Katie is a particularly prolific composer.
Altan have delighted and moved audiences for over 30 years with their exquisitely produced award-winning recordings, ranging dynamically from the most sensitive and touching old Irish songs all the way to hard hitting reels and jigs, and with their heartwarming, dynamic live performances.
Throughout their illustrious musical career, there has been the unwavering commitment of the band to bringing the beauty of traditional music, particularly that of the Donegal fiddlers and singers, to contemporary audiences in a way that brings out all its qualities and destroys none. In fact, Altan have always believed that Irish traditional music is a modern music in every sense.
Keggin, Smith, Stitt is an inter-Celtic super-trio of Manx singer, whistle, flute and keyboard player, Ruth Keggin, Welsh accordion wizard Jamie Smith and Scottish guitar and bouzouki maestro, Malcolm Stitt.
Ruth has made two solo albums with her own band and has recently launched a new album with the band a’Nish. She was part of the acclaimed inter-Gaelic Aon Teanga: Un Chengey project with Scotland’s Mary Ann Kennedy and Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin from Ireland..
As well as leading the very successful and much-recorded band Mabon, Jamie Smith also is a vital component of the highly respected Manx and Irish trios, Barrule and Alaw.
Malcolm Stitt has been involved at the forefront of Scottish traditional music as a founder-member of bands such as Keep It Up and Deaf Shepherd, as well as playing with the finest folk performers from elsewhere, such as Kate Rusby and, of course, as a member of the world-renowned Boys of the Lough.
** PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SHOW IS NOW FULLY SOLD OUT **
Following a critically acclaimed sell out run at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival The Carole King & James Taylor Story comes to a theatre near you to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the six-time Grammy Award winner and twenty-time platinum hit maker Carole King and five-timeGrammy Award winner & American folk legend James Taylor.This new “show-umentary” format gives a fascinating insight into the lives behind the music.
Featuring passionate renditions of Fire and Rain, Sweet Baby James, I Feel the Earth Move, Natural Woman, You’ve Got a Friend and many more this astonishing back catalogue is realised with authenticity by Phoebe Katis and Dan Clews, both well established artists in their own right.
“both guitar and voice took these fans back to The Troubadour in 1970” **** BroadwayBaby 2017
“Will leave any folk-rock fans wholly satisfied” **** BroadwayBaby 2016
“Wow, what an experience” BBC Kent
“performance was immaculate” **** Three Weeks
Blue John Media is delighted to bring the incredible world-renowned US blues and roots music musicians John Miller (guitar/vocals) and Grant Dermody (harmonica/vocals) to the Isle of Man. This show at the Centenary Centre is only one of two shows they are performing together in the British Isles before teaching guitar and harmonica at Blues Week, in Gloucester, UK.
In addition to being a phenomenal musician and recording artist, John Miller has an incredible reputation as a music tutor and has presented a number of tuition DVDs for Stefan Grossman’s Guitar Workshop on the music of several country blues guitar legends including Mississippi John Hurt, Elizabeth Cotten and Furry Lewis (to name but a few).
The late great fingerpicking hero John Fahey described John as ‘just brilliant’ and fellow fingerpicking legend Duck Baker said: “This is not the boy on the magazine cover but the guy the pros admire and cop licks from (I can attest to this).”
Grant Dermody is a harmonica master who has made amazing solo albums, trio albums with John Miller and Orville Johnson and has recorded and performed with other musical giants.
Among those has been Eric Bibb, who describes Grant as “One of the greatest blues and roots harmonica players around. His playing reaches deep into the well of tradition and at the same time takes the music to exciting new places with a very personal sound. Working with him in the studio and on the stage is always a pleasure.”
Dirk Powell said about him: “Grant Dermody plays the harmonica with power that is equally effective and evocative whether held in reserve or allowed to wail to its fullest and wildest degree. His musical voice, both through the instrument and singing itself, reunited forms and feels that are not-so-distant cousins into one wide and calmly flowing stream.”
Grant, like John, is a master teacher too and blues and roots musicians around the world have learned directly from them at workshops, including the popular Euroblues Promotions’ Blues Week event in the UK.
Tickets are available from Celtic Gold, Peel, Shakti Man, Ramsey, online at www.etickets.im/bjm or by ringing John Gregory on 204320 or email him at bluejohnmedia@hotmail.co.uk
Keep folk smiling!!
We welcome back again our friends Tony, Steve, David and James from the Houghton Weavers for a wonderful evening of humour and song. This year the Weavers are back for two nights.
Tickets are available from:
Celtic Gold in Peel
GH Corlett the Jewellers in Douglas
Thompson Travel in Port Erin
Shakti Man in Ramsey
and online – www.etickets.im/cc
Keep folk smiling!!
We welcome back again our friends Tony, Steve, David and James from the Houghton Weavers for a wonderful evening of humour and song. This year the Weavers are back for two nights.
Tickets are available from:
Celtic Gold in Peel
GH Corlett the Jewellers in Douglas
Thompson Travel in Port Erin
Shakti Man in Ramsey
and online – www.etickets.im/cc
FILM STARTS AT 7:45PM. DOORS AND BAR OPEN 7:00PM.
Runtime: 1h 27min || Cert: 15
Documentary, Music, War
Online Tickets | Facebook Event| Trailer
In collaboration with the ISLE OF MAN FILM FESTIVAL, a brilliant documentary with director Matthew Millans introducing and for a Q&A afterwards.
A defiant music scene erupts amidst the 2011 Libyan revolution to become the voice against tyranny and oppression. But as victory descends into conflict and chaos, the music goes silent and the musicians become the hunted. Contains upsetting scenes of war.
Directed by: Matthew Millan
Produced by: Hammuda Abidia, Alistair Audsley, Harold Millan, Matthew Millan
Written by: Matthew Millan, Alistair Audsley
Music by:
Dado Ikanovic, Erik Niel, Benton Quin, Alex Rea, Dan Ursillo
Cinematography: Matthew Millan
Edited by: Douglas Blush, Matthew Millan
Country: Libya | Isle Of Man | UK | USA | Tunisia
Language: English
Tickets available online (http://bit.ly/fip-booknow), or from Celtic Gold (Peel), Shakti Man (Ramsey) and Thompson Travel (Port Erin) or on the door (unless sold out).
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The evening Concerts will take place in the Centenary Centre, Peel on Friday and Saturday
7/8th of September at 7.30pm.
PLEASE NOTE TICKET NUMBERS WILL BE LIMITED BOTH NIGHTS TO LEAVE PLENTY
OF ROOM FOR DANCING!!!
On Friday night we have Baka Beyond, playing music from the Baka people of Cameroon, West Africa.
Sheelanagig, dance music from Eastern Europe, Balkans and Israel
Vera van Heeringen Trio, Americana/Cajun music
On Saturday night, we have Soothsayers, Afrobeat, dub, funk and jazz
Angel Brothers
Clash Vooar, (the Big Groove), Afro, Klezmer, Latin grooves , Manx Gaelic songs
EARLY BIRD TICKETS FOR BOTH CONCERTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR £45 FROM
https://www.etickets.im/cc/
On Saturday afternoon (8th September) 12 noon until 5pm there is a FREE event suitable for all the family in the Peel Cathedral Grounds (in the Cathedral if wet). There will be dancing on the Labyrinth, Music in the new Amphitheatre, Global food, workshops ,and lots of things for Children!
In the Corrin Hall there will be a celebration of the different communities living on the Island, again with Children’s activities , showing aspects of their various cultures.
Come along for lunch, the Music starts at noon!
Full details will be published later!
The evening Concerts will take place in the Centenary Centre, Peel on Friday and Saturday
7/8th of September at 7.30pm.
PLEASE NOTE TICKET NUMBERS WILL BE LIMITED BOTH NIGHTS TO LEAVE PLENTY
OF ROOM FOR DANCING!!!
On Friday night we have Baka Beyond, playing music from the Baka people of Cameroon, West Africa.
Sheelanagig, dance music from Eastern Europe, Balkans and Israel
Vera van Heeringen Trio, Americana/Cajun music
On Saturday night, we have Soothsayers, Afrobeat, dub, funk and jazz
Angel Brothers
Clash Vooar, (the Big Groove), Afro, Klezmer, Latin grooves , Manx Gaelic songs
EARLY BIRD TICKETS FOR BOTH CONCERTS NOW AVAILABLE FOR £45 FROM
https://www.etickets.im/cc/
On Saturday afternoon (8th September) 12 noon until 5pm there is a FREE event suitable for all the family in the Peel Cathedral Grounds (in the Cathedral if wet). There will be dancing on the Labyrinth, Music in the new Amphitheatre, Global food, workshops ,and lots of things for Children!
In the Corrin Hall there will be a celebration of the different communities living on the Island, again with Children’s activities , showing aspects of their various cultures.
Come along for lunch, the Music starts at noon!
Full details will be published later!
FILM STARTS AT 7:45PM. DOORS AND BAR OPEN 7:00PM.
Runtime: 1hr 47min || Cert: 15
Dark Comedy, History
Online Tickets | Facebook Event| Trailer
Nominated for Best Screenplay and Outstanding British Film of the Year at the 2018 BAFTAs. This wickedly dark comedy follows Stalin’s final days in 1952 and depicts, with zero decency or taste, the chaos that ensued as his lackeys turn on each other for power and survival. In the Kremlin no one can hear you scheme! Contains bad language, violence, tons of brilliant one liners and lots and lots of dark humour.
“The humor is so black that it might have been pumped out of the ground.” – The New Yorker
Directed by: Armando Iannucci
Produced by: Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Kevin Loader
Written by: Fabien Nury, Thierry Robin, Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin, Peter Fellows
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Paddy Considine, Rupert Friend, Jason Isaacs, Olga Kurylenko, Michael Palin, Andrea Riseborough, Paul Chahidi, Dermot Crowley, Adrian McLoughlin, Paul Whitehouse, Jeffrey Tambor
Music by: Chris Willis
Cinematography: Zac Nicholson
Edited by: Peter Lambert
Country: UK | France | Belgium
Language: English
Tickets available online (https://bit.ly/fip-booknow), or from Celtic Gold (Peel), Shakti Man (Ramsey) and Thompson Travel (Port Erin) or on the door (unless sold out).
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Some Kinda Wonderful – A celebration of Stevie Wonder
FILM STARTS AT 7:45PM. DOORS AND BAR OPEN 7:00PM.
Runtime: 2hr 19in || Cert: 15
Biography, Drama, History
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Winner of 2 Oscars, 1 BAFTA plus 46 award wins and 111 nominations. This is the utterly amazing true story of Desmond Doss, the bravest man who ever lived. During the horrific battle of Okinowa he single-handedly saved 75 men. What’s even more remarkable is that he was also the only American soldier to fight on the front lines in WW2 without a weapon as he was a pascifist and stayed true to his beliefs. He was the first ever conscientious objector to receive the Purple Heart for bravery which was personally awarded by President Truman. Contains realistic war scenes
Tickets available online from http://bit.ly/fip-booknow, or from Celtic Gold (Peel), Shakti Man (Ramsey) and Thompson Travel (Port Erin) or on the door (unless sold out).
Directed by: Mel Gibson
Produced by: Bill Mechanic, David Permut
Terry Benedict, Paul Currie, Bruce Davey, Brian Oliver, William D. Johnson
Written by: Robert Schenkkan, Randall Wallace, Andrew Knight, Terry Benedict
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, Vince Vaughn
Music by: Rupert Gregson-Williams
Cinematography: Simon Duggan
Edited by: John Gilbert
Country: USA | Australia
Language: English
Tickets available online (http://bit.ly/fip-booknow), or from Celtic Gold (Peel), Shakti Man (Ramsey) and Thompson Travel (Port Erin) or on the door (unless sold out).
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Think Etta James, James Brown, Dinah Washington, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Chuck Berry, Johnny Otis and Otis Redding: all the classic music of the ’50s and ’60s delivered hard-and-fast with energy, grit and a 21st century attitude!
Authentic soul and rhythm ‘n’ blues outfit Sugar T & The Swells are the slickest, sexiest, funkiest rock ’n’ roll band in town. Formed 20 years ago by charismatic frontman and natural showman Ralph Lamb, The Swells have played thousands of shows across the globe, honing their craft and building an impressive reputation. Featuring some of the hottest R n B vocalists on the scene, the Swells truly deliver Maximum Vintage R n B with style!
Please note that the capacity of the Theatre will be reduced to allow for a dance floor.