Entertainment & Refreshments
A creative place to bring friends into a relaxed atmosphere and listen to live performances of music, poetry, story telling, contemporary dance & drama.
Guests Booked So Far In 2012 Include:
Nicki Rogers: Sunday February 26th. Doors Open at 7.00pm
Nicki Rogers
Nicki Rogers’ heart and music takes you through the duality of life without allowing questioning or pain to detract from hope or beauty. Her music is drawn from the complexities of life – faith and doubt, joy and sadness, the subliminal and the sublime.
Nicki is passionate about God, life and music – all three are inextricably linked for her and she questions and explores them as only someone who believes in all three and has been disappointed with all three, can.
Her voice has been described as “beautiful…healing…ethereal… crazy unbelievable” and comparisons have been drawn with Tori Amos, Nicole Norderman and even Kate Bush. She is an Indy Music Award finalist and regularly performs all over the UK and Europe.
Nicki’s first three albums – ‘Colour Scheme’, ‘Feeder Lane’ and ‘Once in a While’ have been well received on both sides of the Atlantic.
Reviews:
“Nicki Rogers is a creative and refreshingly unique singer and songwriter. Nicki’s melodies warm the heart and her words illuminate the mind”
J John
“Nicki Rogers’ music is just like her; honest, quirky, heartfelt and uncomplicated. As it is, she is one of Britain’s most under-rated and talented singer-songwriters”
DJ Steve Best, ‘The Dove’ Radio Station, USA
“This lady is crazy unbelievable. She has the best voice I’ve ever heard live…”
Andrew Marin
“Nicki is an exceptionally talented performer with a God-given gift. Beautiful, lyrical songs full of fragility, truth and hope.”
Nick Philps, 6Music/BBC Radio 2
Paul Field: Sunday April 22nd. Doors Open at 7.00pm
Paul Field
Paul Field has been working as a professional composer, producer and musician for more than 35 years. He has received an Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters and Composers and a Dove Award (and two nominations) from GMA in Nashville. His songs have been recorded by many artists around the world and his production and arrangement credits range from Country and Gospel through Classical to Rock & Pop. He also writes music for TV, Film, Theatre and Advertising and Lectures at Bath Spa University on the world’s first MA Songwriting Course. Paul’s song ‘Testify to love’ has three times been a hit in the US, first a #1 for Avalon and then for Wynnona on the Double Platinum CD ‘Touched by an Angel’ (soundtrack to the TV show) which made #3 in the Billboard Chart and recently as the title track on Avalon’s Platinum ‘Greatest Hits’ CD, It has been played in orbit around the moon by American Astronauts, at the opening of the Paralympics in 2000 and used as a theme song for the world Youth day in Sydney Australia. Cliff Richard has recorded many of Paul’s songs over the years including ‘All that matters’ on the compilation ‘Tribute’ album for Diana, Princess of Wales, ‘Thief in the Night’ on four different albums and the controversial 1.3 million selling #1 single ‘ The Millennium Prayer’. In the last few years Paul’s also had songs recorded in the US by Grammy Award winning artistes Rebecca St. James and Jaqui Velasquez as well as by Phil Keaggy, Point of Grace, Jennifer Stanley, Natalie Grant , Kees Krajenoord and Jennifer Knapp. Paul has written six musicals, which have been widely performed in the UK and around the world. His film, television and advertising credits include British Rail, The Cabbage Patch Kids (USA), Astrofarm, Guinness, The European News Network, Australian TV, CNN News Europe, Heinz Corporation and the Tokyo Motor Show.
