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Welcome to our Autumn 2022 season brochure. The sun is setting on a successful summer and we’re ready to welcome cosy autumn nights full of music, light and laughter. We’re looking forward to welcoming you back to More Music for our lively programme of live music, workshops, events, festivals and more.
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All the Right Notes gigs are on the first Saturday of each month - a regular rhythm for audiences and artists to know that every first Saturday is ‘All the Right Notes’ time at our lovely Morecambe Wevenue.are also thrilled to announce the return of our With One Voice singing workshops in October, with the brilliant Zimbabwean born Bruce Ncube. From lantern making to music making, there will also be the chance to get stuck into plenty of other workshops this Afterseason.ajam-packed autumn we will be rounding off 2022 with one of the highlights of Morecambe’s calendar, the West End Winter Lantern Festival on Saturday 3 December. Fun for everyone, it’s a lovely start to the festive season.
After the successful launch of our new programme of gigs, ‘All the Right Notes’, we are excited to be expanding this in the autumn and into 2023, welcoming John Kelly, Rafe’s Dilemma, Jubacana, Baked A la Ska, Raven Tales, The Brass Monkeys and Xhosa Cole.
Make sure to head over to our website for more details, join our mailing list and follow us on social media to keep up to date with all our activities. We’ll see you soon!
Fun Palaces celebrate community art, sciences and culture and believes in the power of connection. Join us as we celebrate the talent and skills of our community with a day of music, science and fun. Please get in touch to get involved and share your skills and passions. Free fun for all!@FunPalaces#FunPalacesSaturday 1 October 12–4pm More Music Free Fun Palace Community pAGE.3
Featuring Nel Begley (voice/electronics), Jamil Sheriff (keys), Katie Patterson (drums/vocals) and Pete Turner (bass), the quartet pulls influence from jazz, electronica and rock. Inspired by Bill Naughton’s play ‘Spring and Port Wine’.
Originally formed in 2017 as a commission for Bolton Worktown Festival (2018) the band went on to release their debut album ‘Rafe’s Dilemma’ with an accompanying Arts Council England supported tour (2019). They recently completed Jazz North’s Northern Line Scheme 2019/20/21 and are writing new material with the endorsement of award-winning playwright Leo Butler.
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Jubacana is a youth-led, fusion music and dance project based in Oldham for 8-18s, inspired by the music and dances of Brazil with a UK twist. Jubacana make a massive sound with Brazilian percussion instruments, creating original music with melodic guitars, bass, drum kit and flute thrown into the mix, all combined with vibrant dance choreographies. We’re presenting this performance to link in with Halton Mill’s month of events and exhibitions ‘For Dom, Bruno and the Amazon’ in support of indigenous defenders of the rainforest in Brazil.
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Find yourself immersed in synthesised soundscapes, electronic improvisation & spoken word, exploring the multitude of emotions we all experience towards our families.
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Saturday 1 October Doors 7pm More TicketsMusic£5—£10
Baked A La Ska are the ‘heavy heavy sound’ of Manchester and have been serving up the sweetest of good party vibes, vintage ska sounds and an eccentric platter of covers, since 2008. A band of assembled oddballs and pranksters brought together by keyboardist and wizard John Ellis, fronted by an un-holy trio of singers: Frank ‘The Skank’, Tommy Robot and Kuntri Ranks, who combine with the soft lilt and harmonica magic of Robin Sunflower. Baked A La Ska also feature one of the tightest rhythm sections in Manchester with ‘chops to make drop’.
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Friday 14 October –Sunday 16 October Lancaster Music Festival your place at lancastermusicfestival.com Music at Lancaster Music FestivaL
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Celebrating the diversity and quality of music in the local area, whilst inviting acts from all over the globe, Lancaster Music Festival brings music to over 30 venues in the city. With over 300 performances from more than 200 artists - many of them free - plus street theatre and workshops, there is something for everyone to enjoy, no matter what age or musical taste. excited to be part of Lancaster Music Festival with a series of workshops and performances.
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Sunday 16 October Through workshops, panel discussions and performances, Girls Can at The Dukes, is a fantastic opportunity for young women to nurture and develop their musical, technical and professional practice, meet inspirational artists and industry professionals. Girls Can at The Dukes
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Sunday 15 October Chinese WorkshopsDrumming details on moremusic.org.uk
10am Workshops for 14 - 19yr olds - £2 to reserve your space: dukeslancaster.org
Friday 14 October Raven Tales at Moor Space 10am, 12pm & 2pm A story show with songs, shadows and lots of joining in for children under 5 More CollectiveMedia Market Square Youth Stage 10am, 12pm & 2pm Live music featuring new up and coming young artists!
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Saturday 15 October Clapping Song at The Gregson 10am & 11.30am Music making for under 5s Dhol workshopsDrumming at The Storey 10am, 11am, 1pm & 2pm
pAGE.5 This session is an opportunity for music leaders and teachers working in SEN settings to learn from each other about workshop ideas and new training. Book a place by emailing ashley.murphy@moremusic.org.uk Reaching Out is a training, development and future-thinking network hosted by music organisations More Music and Brighter Sound find out more at moremusic.org.uk/news/the-reaching-out-network Wednesday 5 October 10am—12pm More Music Free Saturday 29 October 10am—4pm | More Music Tickets Pay what you decide Please bring lunch to share Friday 2 December 6pm | More Music Tickets £3 Reaching Out Skill Share Community Zimbabwean born, UK based singer/song writer and composer Bruce Ncube is inspired by journeys, where he’s from (Njube, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) and the people he has met. Specialising in teaching traditional songs from Zimbabwe/Southern Africa in 3 to 6-part harmonies, the songs and harmonies taught are emotionally charged and uplifting, designed to lift your spirits! No experience needed, just come and join in! More Media Collective present a collaborative night of music and performance by young people. From singing to dancing, spoken word to film, the night will feature unlimited wonders celebrating young people’s ability to bounce back from life’s challenges. With One Voice Chameleonwith Bruce Ncube
“Rising star of the Americana scene” Ralph McLean, BBC Radio Ulster Singer-songwriter Simeon Hammond Dallas’ desire to live life like a travel montage from a rom-com and overactive mind provides the inspiration for her music: a bluesy country-soul amalgamation. An ex-circus clown and fire eater, Rory is a oneman-soul-band, and poet. He has a natural troubadour’s talent for weaving magical, musical, storytelling spells accompanied by his own bizarre solo orchestra of distinctive instruments.
Hot on the heels of her UK Americana Award nomination, showcasing at Folk Alliance International and International Live Music Conference, Lady Nade is soaring into autumn with her Folk and Americana chart topping third album release ‘Willing’. With soothing words and melodies that nourish the mind and body though life’s complicated tapestry, weaving folk into Americana, her performances are like a reunion. Share a room with her, and she’ll give you her story. All of it. The joys and sorrows. You will love her for it, and she will love you back.
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Wednesday 14 September Doors 7.30pm More TicketsMusic£8–£10 Saturday 8 October Doors 7.30pm More TicketsMusic£6–£12
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“You don’t listen to McLeod you travel with him” City Hub, Sydney (Australia)
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Rory is a renowned rhythmic storyteller and multiinstrumentalist. He tells unpalatable truths about broken hearts and social injustice in his songs. They are percussive, bold, lyrical, deeply personal, and have an unexpected edge to them, accompanied by spoons, harmonica, guitar, trombone and-tapdancing shoes.
We’re very excited to host this trailblazing ensemble on their 30th anniversary tour! During the day the band will also be sharing some of their repertoire with More Music’s Baybeat Streetband and Lancashire Music Hub’s Honk!
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Saturday 29 October Doors 7.30pm More TicketsMusic£5–£15 Sunday 22 January 2023 Doors 7.30pm More TicketsMusic£9–£18.50
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Bollywood Brass Band is the UK’s pioneering Indian-style brass band, playing the great tunes and compulsively danceable rhythms of TwiceBollywood.nominated for Songlines World Music Awards, the band has performed all over the world – in venues, at festivals, and for Indian weddings in the UK, Norway, India, Thailand and South Africa.
Grant-Lee Phillips’ latest album, Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff, is a turbulent and highly musical rumination that finds the veteran singer-songwriter addressing the strange fragility of life. His tenth solo release bears the markings of his prolific output, a melodic prowess and an ear for lyric in everyday conversation. The album offers a salve to a wounded world, struggling to regain equilibrium. This is Grant-Lee Phillips at his most reflective, wrestling with the most pertinent of questions. What we value, how we define security, our vulnerability – here Phillips takes stock of the deeper questions with intensity and humour.
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Saturday 24 September Doors 8pm The TicketsHall£10—£16 Pictish Trail To book Tickets click on the links at moremusic.org.uk or call 01524 831997 Plus support from Dog Daisies MusicLive At THE HALL, Lancaster pAGE.10
A strange, unpredictable, sardonic and yet deeply personal record, Island Family is the fifth album from Isle of Eigg dwelling, electro-acoustic psych-pop wonder Pictish Trail, AKA Johnny Lynch. It offers his contrarian view of arcadia; a search for the euphoric in the bucolic, bound up in sometimes conflicting ideas and feelings around nature and environment, sincerity and artifice, escapism and belonging. It’s an album about how no man can remain an island, however hard he might try. This gig follows previous fantastical shows in Lancaster and Morecambe, which we’ve been proud to present. The Hall will barely be able to contain the energy and cheek on offer!
Justin Adams and Mauro Durante: Thursday 3 November Doors 7.30pm
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Justin Adams, guitarist, producer and composer, has been a creator of wonders with Robert Plant in the Sensational Space Shifters. His production on landmark albums by Tinariwen and Rachid Taha as well as local darlings Deep Cabaret highlights his feel for North African groove. This new collaboration with violinist and percussionist Mauro Durante stems from a concert led by Ludovico Einaudi, the legendary Notte de Taranta in Puglia, where the two first played together, recognising kindred spirits in the trance rhythms of Taranta which transcend “melancolia” or the blues. Mauro Durante is one of the leading players in the pizzica style of Southern Italy and leads Canzoniere Grecanico SalentinoBest Group in the Songlines Music PresentedAwards. in partnership with Lancaster Arts
Sunday 6 November Doors 4.30pm, Show 5pm Morecambe Winter Gardens Tickets £5—£15. Under 18s free Tickets via ysff.co.uk
A trip back in time through music and film at Morecambe Winter Gardens - the finale of Yorkshire Silent Film Festival 2022. The show includes the world premiere of Echoes of the North, a specially created film of rarely seen early 20th century archive footage shot around the North of England. It will be accompanied by a new score - the first ever all-brass soundtrack for a silent film - composed by Neil Brand and performed live by the world-famous Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band.
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Saturday 3 December Procession starts at 6pm at More Music Free End Winter Festival
Everyone’s invited to join the magical procession, which starts on Parliament Street at 6pm. It’s a lovely way to start the festive season. This year the procession will feature Baybeat Streetband and Cacophany Arkestra, beautiful lanterns created by the community and the giant Sea Spirit puppet.
Join us at More Music for a fun evening of music and singing festive songs and then come inside to warm up with the Baked A La Ska Christmas show!
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The markets are a place for meeting, learning, listening, chatting, making, creating, connecting and playing. A place to find out about Creative West End projects, discover community organisations in the area, try some locally made food, listen to music, buy something handmade, swap something on the book stall or simply hang out at the community hub area. are more than a market!
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Saturday 19, Sunday 20 & Saturday 26 November 10am–4pm More Music Free Donations welcome Come and make a willow and paper lantern to carry in the procession! Join our friendly workshops and make beautiful lanterns from willow and tissue to carry in the West End Lantern Festival Lanternsprocession.take about 4 hours to make. All materials and tools will be provided. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Lantern WorkshopsMaking
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A challenge has been sent to members of the Camera Club to take an image that in some way highlighted change that they saw happening around them. In these times of climate crisis anything that excites conversation around this key issue for ourselves, our children and grandchildren has to be a good thing – and potentially can lead to changes in behaviour and thinking!
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Thursday 1 September –Friday 21 October Opening Friday 2 September | 6.30pm More Music Free Opening Friday 4 November 6.30pm More Music Free
In February 2019, Spirit of 2012 awarded pilot funding to three Music for Health projects in Morecambe: Seagull Café and Sing it Out, and Drumming at West End Impact. Since then, we have expanded our work and shared the joy of music with more and more people along the Reflectingway.onthe Arts’ ability to have a positive impact on both mental and physical health, loneliness, and social isolation, we asked participants if they would like to be photographed with a friend they had made at the sessions – and here’s the result! We hope this exhibition raises awareness about the positive impact of engagement in the arts, encapsulating the warmth and joy of making music Photostogether.by Dom Bush
MCC is a friendly group of people, with a range of photographic experience, who share skills and all have a common interest in producing and editing images. It doesn’t matter if you have a fancy camera or just use your phone, they welcome anyone who likes taking visit
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Presented by More Music and MAC, this exhibition showcases participants of our Spirit of 2012 projects.
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