Tony Peers Productions of Scarborough are making a welcome return to the East Riding this March with a show to delight audiences of all ages. Awash with laughter, great songs and beautiful costumes, this is the kind of show you rarely see any more. If you can remember when the singers could sing, the dancers could dance, the costumes were beautiful and the comedian could make you laugh, without offending…
The Rotary Clubs of Beverley and Hornsea are promoting ‘Music for Everyone’, a charity music concert at the Toll Gavel United Reformed Church, Toll Gavel, Beverley on Friday 11th February starting 7:30 pm. Headline act is the nationally acclaimed Hull classical pop quartet Ti Amero supported by jazz pianist John Murray and a performance by musicians from Hymers College, Hull. It will be an entertaining evening catering for all tastes….
The acclaimed opera company Opera Box presents a captivating new production transporting audiences into the world of romantic opera with music from some of the most loved composers including Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Mozart and many more at Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley, on Thursday, 17th February at 7.30pm. ‘A Night of Romantic Opera’ offers an enchanting evening of arias and ensembles accompanied by piano and performed by a selected cast…
Beverley Councillors met with East Riding of Yorkshire Council Officers to try and secure the life of the Samman Road Centre on Beverley’s Swinemoor Estate. The meeting was held after letters of objection were received from local groups that are all regular users of the facility and passed to Lauraine Walker who is conducting a review of the Day Centre facilities across the East Riding. These were received after Groups…
East Yorkshire-based Other Lives Productions take to the stage with their most ambitious play yet when actors Richard Avery and Neil King open with Waiting for Godot in an eight-venue East Riding tour, that includes a performance at Toll United Gavel Church on Thursday 20th January. Samuel Beckett’s play, which was first published in 1952, features two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, sitting by the roadside waiting for a man called…
The London Theatre Voices come to Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley, on Thursday 13th January 2011 at 7.30pm with ‘A Night of Gilbert and Sullivan.’ Soprano Julie Dawn Lloyd, Louise Crane (contralto), Ben Kerslake (tenor) and bass Peter Willcock, accompanied by Simon Haynes on the piano, will sing a selection of Gilbert and Sullivan songs, duets and quartets. Louise has a great many Gilbert and Sullivan roles under her belt…
The Beverley Male Voice Choir and children from Leconfield Primary School held a Christmas Concert at Toll Gavel United Church. The concert was very well attended. Special guests included the Mayor of Beverley Cllr Bessie Foot and the Chairman of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Cllr David Rudd. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the…
Early music band York Waits pay another of their regular visits to The Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley, on Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 7.30pm. For this special programme, the five-strong group takes the story back to the beginning of the world playing ancient instruments that include shawms, sackbut, recorders, crumhorns harp, lute, fiddle and hurdy gurdy. Featuring singer Deborah Catterall, the Waits start their concert with traditional English carols…
Miriam Roycroft and Anne-Marie Hastings will be performing at The Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley on Thursday 11 November 2010 at 7.30pm. 2010 has been a very interesting year for fans of classical music. Many of yesterday’s giants of composition have had important anniversaries to celebrate and this evening’s programme will include works by Schumann, Barber, Pergolesi, Beethoven and Chopin. Dublin-born Miriam Roycroft studied at the Royal Northern College of…
Mayor of Beverley Bessie Foot held a tea and coffee morning this week a Toll Gavel United Church. Shoppers were able to grab hot drink and a enjoy home made cakes in the church hall while raising money for her chosen charities, Marie Curie Cancer and The Beverley Church Lads’ and Church Girls’ Brigade. HU17.net Picture Gallery: Click on the thumbnail picture below to enlarge the image to full size…
Richard Durrant will be appearing at the Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley on Thursday 14 October 2010 at 7.30pm. He’s no stranger to delivering enchanting guitar performances that leave the hairs on the back of one’s neck standing up. Recent performances of the “Guitar Whisperer” have taken him to all corners of England where his rapidly growing audiences have enjoyed a guitar show like no other. In the constantly evolving,…
A wonderful concert series, organised by the council’s arts development service, awaits East Riding concert-goers in the forthcoming season, bringing music to your doorstep from October 2010 through to May 2011. This season offers a wide variety of concerts at Beverley, Bridlington and Pocklington. The season opens in style with a welcome return from London Theatre Voices presenting ‘Opera, Opera, Opera’ at The Pocklington Arts Centre on Wednesday, 6 October…
Over 250 people packed out Toll Gavel Methodist Church last night and were treated to music from the Northern Chamber Orchestra at a concert organised by the East Riding of Yorkshire Council Arts Development team. The group which is based in Lancashire was formed back in the 1960’s and has since go one to gain a formidable reputation and is made up of distinguished chamber musicians who play as principles…
Ignite is a monthly alternative church meeting aimed at young people but open to all. The event is being speared headed by Ali Crompton and Pete Barley who are youth workers in the town. Each evening features worship, games, chat, discussion and time to respond.Ignite runs from 8-9:30pm at Toll Gavel United Church, Beverley and is open to everyone who fancies a visit. For more info contact Pete Barley on…
Friends of Longcroft School held their annual coffee morning at Toll Gavel United Church Hall this morning. The fair weather made it a fantastic morning raising over £250, nudging them a little nearer to the target needed for a new mini bus. A second hand book stall, tombola and cake stall contributed to the overall total as well as serving tea/coffee and toasted teacakes. The committee members were ably helped…
Sally Pryce (harp) and Adam Walker (flute) will be presenting a musical evening on the harp and flute at Toll Gavel Methodist Church, Beverley, on Thursday, 18 February at 7.30pm. Sally Pryce & Adam Walker who will be performing in Beverley at Toll Gavel Methodist Church in February A Guardian newspaper review of a recent concert featuring the duo stated that “Adam Walker and Sally Pryce were the young and…
‘A Cheery, bright, joyous and frolicsome evening’ with Gilbert and Sullivan Cameo Opera are making a welcome return to Beverley presenting An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan at The Toll Gavel Methodist Church on Thursday 14 January 2009 at 7.30pm. Join them for the Topsy Turvy world of Gilbert & Sullivan and meet the many larger than life characters that appear in costumed excerpts from: The Pirates of Penzance, HMS…
The Beverley Brass Band celebrated its 40th anniversary with a concert at Toll Gavel Methodist Church. Mick Carter who founded the band was there as the Beverley Brass Band show cased their future, the youth section that included a solo performance by Catherine of Annie’s Song. The junior section of the Beverley Brass Band played three pieces before the interval and was the first time they had performed in public….
