Harmonic
Harmonic is a jazz festival that’ll be hosted by a few Birmingham venues – The Yardbird, CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall foyer – from 11- 14 March 2010.
Music
Platform’s Birmingham music round-up
Local Heroes, Birmingham UK from Platform. Starts with fightin’ talk: Birmingham, that murky, grey metropolis. It’s easy to think of everything in the ’second city’ as indistinct and ethereal as a cloud of smoke, a no-man’s land slap bang in the middle of the country, not far enough south to have a snobby art streak, … [Read more…]
Christmas Concert for Human Rights
There’s a concert at Birmingham Cathedral, Colmore Row tomorrow, 12 December, starting at 11.30am. It’s being put on by The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture and Amnesty International UK (via Bourneville Amnesty). Tickets are a fiver.
Mostly Jazz
Mostly Jazz will be in Moseley Park the weekend of 3-4 July 2010. No further details on this yet other than news that Birmingham Jazz will be hosting the second stage on the Sunday. Looks like the Mostly Jazz Twitter is the place to get updates from. Liking the title though – mostly folk in … [Read more…]
Capsule’s 10th birthday
The good ship Capsule sails into double figures in December and they’re putting on a succession of parties to celebrate that fact. 1 December – Monotonix + Beestung Lips + Cum Dogs + Esquilax (VIVID) 2 December – Tunng + Six Organs of Admittance + Lightning Dust + Bela Emerson (Town Hall) 8 December – … [Read more…]
CBSO – Street Maestros
A nice project from the CBSO, Street Maestros will allow people to bid (via eBay for Charity) for various experiences with the world class orchestra. The chance to win a conducting masterclass with the Andris Nelsons (CBSO’s Music Director) is a pretty big deal, and those who can play violin, viola, double bass or cello … [Read more…]
Birmingham music info
It’s actually a little tricky to find out about local music around the city, I find. This is the stuff I know about, feel free to add other stuff in the comments. News Brum Notes is the website for the free, monthly music and lifestyle magazine (Nov issue out now, Oct one online here). The … [Read more…]
Theatricalia and Black Routes
A couple of things with a national scope, born out of Birmingham have been launched recently. First up, Theatricalia is the work of the ever-impressive Matthew Somerville. It’s ‘a database of past and future theatre productions’ which makes it no less than IMDB for theatre. Already it contains archives of plays and performers from the … [Read more…]