Upper Holloway Area Guide

Golden Shoals is a fiddle and guitar duo with a rousing old-time-style music that's fueled by acerbic modern-day wit (-No Depression Magazine). They are no strangers to traditional music, having placed in contests including Clifftop (3rd place 2023, 4th place 2022), Mount Airy, The Grand Masters Fiddlers Championship and Galax. Often switching instruments between fiddle, two guitars, and banjo, their original songs have been compared to Gillian Welch, with the added edge of instrumental prowess informed by energetic old time and bluegrass recordings.

Join us for a joyous celebration of the blending of Brazilian rhythms, jazz attitude and the majestic compositions of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Donato and Sergio Mendes Jazz Samba takes its inspiration and name from Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd's ground-breaking 1962 album, the first ever fully-fledged bossa nova album recorded by American jazz musicians which topped the LP charts on its release and produced its own pop hit single – ‘Desafinado’. Led by John Wilson's star soloist Mark Crooks on sax and clarinet and the award-winning guitarist Nigel Price (as you’ve never heard him before!), with John Cervantes (piano), Marianne Windham (double bass) and Demi Garcia Sabat (drums/percussion).

‘No Hollywood end to this. No last minute rescue. This… right here… with you… is the best chance I’ve got…’ Jodie and Brad seem like they have it all. The house in the suburbs, the nice car, the fully stocked bar. But when the couple are faced with a devastating crisis, they must enlist the help of a mysterious acquaintance from Jodie’s past. In this timely, dark, and dazzling UK premiere, Tony Award-nominated Neil LaBute takes an unflinching look at how we navigate our lives when time is running out. LaBute’s most shocking and tender play yet is directed by Stratford East’s newly appointed Artistic Director Lisa Spirling (Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial), from the producers of the 5-star Park Theatre hits Clybourne Park and The Shape of Things. ASSISTED PERFROMANCES: Dementia Friendly, 24th April, 3pm

Conversations about the climate crisis and what to do about it.

PROGRAMME BACH Partita No 1 in B Flat BWV 825 BEETHOVEN Sonata in C Minor No 8 op 13 PathetiqueWAGNER / LISZT Walhalla (Das Rheingold) Am stillen Herd (Die Meistersinger)Prelude (arr. Kocsis) and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde) BLA HARTMANN Tanzende Tränen (2022) Berauscht (2023)

★★★★ “The most irresistibly silly, fun and unexpected cabaret show. Hosted by Norway's finest clowns Anna Marie Simonsen and Marie Kallevik Straume” — Instafest review After sold-out shows at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, Naughty Cabaret is coming to London Clown Festival — a queer, feminist cabaret packed with energy, clowning, and comedy. Every performance features a fresh, ever-changing line-up spanning clown, circus, music, burlesque, character comedy, and more. Naughty Cabaret has wowed audiences in Australia, Edinburgh, London, and Norway, with past guest performers including Lara Ricote, Elf Lyons, Siblings, Frankie Thompson, Paulina Lenoir, Hannah Camilleri, Ella The Great, Lucy Hopkins, and Dairy King. Hosted by “Queens of the ridiculous” (Wee Review), Anna Marie Simonsen and Marie Kallevik Straume—also seen in the “irresistibly silly” ★★★★ (The Guardian) clown comedy Troll.