Thursday 24 February 2011

March and April at Otley Courthouse



Mundo Jazz:  A Fairtrade Fortnight Event

Comedy/Music
Friday 4 March - 8pm  
Tickets £9/£7 in advance, £10/£8 on the door.
Ridiculously catchy tunes, awful dancing and thunderously crass philosophising!  Mundo Jazz are a spoof World Music band whose mission is to teach us about peace, the environment, racial harmony and love. 
“A sort of live, Latino Spinal Tap. Very, very, very funny.” Daily Express

Hickman & Quinn with Broken Ground
Music - Folk
Sunday 6 March - 7.30pm
Tickets: £10/£8 in advance, £11/£9 on the door. 
Double bill featuring twin guitar and vocal harmonies from Uiscedwr’s James Hickman performing with Chris Quinn, plus the excellent acoustic trio Broken Ground.




Rua Macmillan Trio and Ewan Robertson
Music - Folk
Saturday 19 March - 8pm
Tickets: £11/ £9.
Rua MacMillan is one of the most exciting fiddle players of the new generation in Scotland today. 2009 winner of Young Scots Traditional Musician, his playing is a real tour de force.
Spring Jam with Dales Jam
Music - World
Friday 25 March - 7.30pm
Tickets: £7/£5
On a whistle stop musical tour of the globe, the 20+ piece Dales Jam Orchestra touches down in Jamaica, India, Brazil, Cuba, South Africa, the Balkans, Japan, New York and anywhere between, to sample the finest sounds around and deliver them in their own inimitable way.

An evening with the humour of Bob Newhart and Tom Lehrer
Comedy
Saturday 2 April - 7.30pm
Tickets £10/£8 in advance £11/£9 on the door.
Peter Gill and Andrew Mellor present a fabulous show dedicated to the satirical humour of American comic legends Bob Newhart and Tom Lehrer.

20 x 20 Science Café
Science
Thursday 7 April - 7.30pm
Tickets: £4/£3
Another challenging evening as 3 top scientists explain their theories and you come up with the tricky questions!                                                                              


Liz Carroll and John Doyle in association with SaltaireLive
Music - Folk
Monday 25 April - 8pm                  
Tickets: £11/£9 in advance, £12/£10 on door.
Recognised as two of Irish music's greatest fiddlers and guitarists respectively, this is a rare occasion where Otley is able to welcome musicians from the genuine creme de la creme of their genre anywhere in the world.






Down the Wharfe
Film
Thursday 28 April - 7.30pm
Tickets: £5/£4.
This delightful film records an eclectic trip following a walker down the River Wharfe from it's source to Ilkley - a mix of historic places, local festivals, sport and activities that give a flavour of the Dale stretching from 3000 years ago to the present day. There will be a Q and A session after the film with the Director. Profits to Otley Courthouse.
Freya Abbott Ferguson
Music - Folk
Friday 29 April - 8pm  
Tickets £10/£8 in advance, £11/£9 on the door.   
Jo Freya, Jude Abbott and Neil Ferguson were all part of the Lal Waterson Project and carried on working together on Jo’s first solo album, Female Smuggler.  Freya Abbott Ferguson brings together all their favourite bits from their other bands (Chumbawamba, Blowzabella etc).

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