THURSDAY JUNE 1 **FESTIVAL THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL**
Event: Live band: THE CRAWDADDIES
Venue: The Anchor Hotel, The Quay
Time: 8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information:
Recreating the classic sounds of the early Rolling Stones - from "Come On" to "Paint It Black"
FRIDAY JUNE 2
Event: Live music: ANDY NOLAN
Venue: New Welcome Sailor, Station Rd
Time:
8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information: Solo singer pop
SATURDAY JUNE 3
Event: Live music: TERRY BATT
Venue: Victoria Inn, end of High Street
Time:
8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information: Solo singer pop
**SUNDAY JUNE 4**
Event:
FESTIVAL MUSIC TRAIN (Official Festival Launch)
Venue:
First Great Eastern - Southminster-Burnham branch
line
Times:
Depart - Wickford: 15.32
Arrive - Southminster:
16.01
Depart - Southminster 16.12
Arrive - Wickford
16.42
Depart - Wickford: 17.32
Arrive - Southminster:
18.01
Depart - Southminster 18.12
Arrive - Wickford
18.42
Additional Information: Another festival first!!!
Britain's first rolling blues jam session, hosted by Tim Aves with a "house"
band. Come along for the ride and listen to the music - or bring an instrument
and "sit in" with the band for a couple of songs!
TUESDAY JUNE 6
Event: Singers' session: hosted by
STAN WEST
Venue: Victoria Inn, end of High
Street
Time: 8.30 pm onwards
Additional
Information:
Folk/country musicians' open session - mainly acoustic
instruments. come along and play!
WEDNESDAY JUNE 7 (and every Wednesday)
Event: The Pianist
Entertains... Sheila plays while you ear
Venue:
Copper Kettle Coffee Shop, High St
Time:
2.30 pm onwards
THURSDAY JUNE 8 **FESTIVAL THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL**
Event: Live band: SMARTIE - THE BAND
Venue: The
Anchor Hotel, The Quay
Time: 8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information:
You've seen his solo act, now see him with
his own amazing band! Amazing Reggae/dance fusion, with a great live
act!
FRIDAY JUNE 9 **FESTIVAL SPECIAL CONCERT**
Event: Festival special concert:
OAPs' NIGHT
Venue: Carnival Hall, Devonshire
Road
Time: 8.30 pm onwards
Additional
Information:
Special Festival entertainment for the town's senior citizens
with Tony Pandcaldi, Sid Livingstone, Sheila at the piano and more
besides
FRIDAY JUNE 9
Event:
Live music: KEYBASH and STRUMMIT
Venue:
New Welcome Sailor, Station Rd
Time: 8.30
pm onwards
Additional Information: Keyboard/guitar/vocal duo
pop
Event: BUSKERS' WEEKEND
Venue: All
along the Burnham Waterfront - take a stroll and see who's playing!
Time:
12 noon onwards
Additional Information:
An open
invitation to buskers, local musicians and street entertainers to bring the
waterfront to life this weekend. An informal free entertainment - fun for all
the family!
SATURDAY JUNE 10
Event:
Live music: GRAHAM SCOTT YOUNG
Venue:
Victoria Inn, end of High Street
Time:
8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information: Solo singer
pop
SATURDAY JUNE 10
Event:
CLASSICAL CONCERT: AN EVENING WITH ANNA SOUTHEY (soprano)
and TREVOR SOUTHEY (tenor)
Venue: St Mary's
Church, Church Road.
Time:
7.30pm onwards
Additional Information:
Delightful evening of music with Anna and
Trevor, plus accompanianist DAVID FELSTEAD (piano)
Tickets:
For details, call 01621 783444
In aid of Ethiopian Appeal and
Cancer Research
SATURDAY JUNE 10
Event:
Live music: STEVE MARSHALL
Venue:
New Welcome Sailor, Station Rd
Time:
8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information: Solo singer
pop
TUESDAY JUNE 13
Event: FESTIVAL MUSIC QUIZ
Venue: The Queen's Head, Providence
Time:
8.30 pm onwards
Test your knowledge of
all kinds of music - for teams of 4-6 people. Call 01621 784825 for
details
THURSDAY JUNE 15 **FESTIVAL THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL**
Event: Live band: TROOPER
Venue: The Anchor Hotel,
The Quay
Time: 8.30 pm onwards
Additional
Information:
Brilliant original young pop/rock band. Better than
Supergrass, Kula Shaker, Oasis and Blur rolled into one!
FRIDAY JUNE 16 **FESTIVAL SPECIAL CONCERT**
Event:
DAVID HUGHES live in concert
Venue:
The Loft, Crouch Yacht Club, Coronation Road
Time:
9.00 for 9.30 pm
Additional Information:
Brilliant, guitarist - writer of songs of razor-sharp, acerbic wit...
Featured twice recently on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends with Edie
Reader!
Tickets: £4 (£5 on door) Burnham Bookshop.
FRIDAY JUNE 16
Event: Live music:
HARRY AND KEITH
Venue:
New Welcome Sailor, Station
Rd
Time: 8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information: Guitar/vocal duo - 60s to 80s
pop
SATURDAY JUNE 17
Event:
Spanish theme evening with: BOB WILLIAMS
Venue: Quayside Cafe, the
Quay
Time:
7 pm onwards
Latin food - plus
Flamenco, Brazilian and Portuguese music from guitarist Bob
Williams
SATURDAY JUNE 17
Event:
BURNHAM MUSIC GROUP SUMMER
CONCERT
Venue: St Mary's Church, Burnham
Time:
7.30 pm onwards
Additional Information:
Conductor: Eric Stephenson
Programme: Te Deum (Haydn); Missa Breva;
(Lennox Berkeley); Musick's Jubilee (Andrew Carter)
Tickets: £7 (£5 concs) from Burnham Bookshop, The Cutting
Parlour or by calling 01621 783444.
SATURDAY JUNE 17
Event: Live music: AMANDA
JAY
Venue: Victoria Inn, end of
High Street
Time: 8.30 pm onwards
Additional
Information: Solo singer pop
SATURDAY JUNE 17
Event: Live music: MICKY IN
PERSON
Venue: New Welcome Sailor, Station Rd
Time:
8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information: Solo singer
pop
SUNDAY JUNE 18 **FESTIVAL SPECIAL EVENT**
Event: WATER
MUSIC!!
Venue: the mighty
river Crouch!
Time: approx.
2pm-6pm
Additional Information:
Nothing to do with Handel, nothing
to do with Wet, Wet, Wet... but if you check out the river Crouch this
afternoon, you may be surprised and delighted by what comes floating in on the
tide!
SUNDAY JUNE 18 **FESTIVAL SPECIAL EVENT**
Event: FESTIVAL EXHIBITION: MAKERS OF ANCIENT
INSTRUMENTS
Venues: Burnham Museum, Coronation Road
Time:
2pm -5.30pm
Additional Information:
A rare
opportunity to see craftsmen fashioning old-fashioned stringed instruments such
as violins and lutes - and hear them being played!
TUESDAY JUNE 20 ** SPONSORED BY BURNHAM FESTIVAL **
Event: School workshops: African drumming workshops
with Rose Feltis and Julie
Jiggins
Venues: Burnham County Primary and St Mary's
C of E Primary
Additional Information: Not open to the
public
THURSDAY JUNE 22 **FESTIVAL THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL**
Event: Live band: MARCUS MALONE BAND
Venue: The
Anchor Hotel, The Quay
Time: 8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information:
Amazing soul/funk singer from Detroit, Michigan
USA and his brilliant funky band. Don't miss it!
FRIDAY JUNE 23
Event: Live music: TOMMY SAYER
Venue: New Welcome Sailor, Station Rd
Time:
8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information: Solo singer pop
Event: FESTIVAL ROCK & POP SHOW
Eight hours of really great, free live rock and pop music!
Venue:
Millfield, Burnham (Festival site - by playground
area)
Time: 3pm -
11pm
Additional Info:
A selection of the area's rock and pop bands
live in concert - and closing the show...
the deep reggae rhythms of
PROMISED LAND
Also on SATURDAY JUNE 24:
Event:
Classical Evening: Iris "Bunny" Porter
Memorial Concert
(Presented by members of the Porter Family)
Venue: St Mary's Church, Church
Road.
Time: 7.30 pm onwards
Additional
Information: Tickets: For details of prices, call 01621
783444
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Event:
Live music: CHANCE IT
Venue:
New Welcome Sailor, Station Rd
Time:
8.30 pm onwards
Additional Information: Pop
duo
SUNDAY JUNE 25
Event: SUNDAY COMMUNITY
SHOWCASE
Incorporating Burnham's first-ever Town
Picnic
But whatever you do, make sure you stick around to catch our amazing headlining act - Britain's coolest country/western swing band... LOS PISTOLEROS