Secret Garden Party @ The Orangery
Starts: August 06 2011 6:00pm
Ends: August 06 2011 10:00pm
Where: The Orangery, Back Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TG
LATEST NEWS! Tonight’s event is still going ahead despite the rain - the event will be held inside our beautifu grade II listed Orangery building instead. As this event is sold out we regret to say that no tickets will be available for sale on the door tonight.
Join Canadian headliners Po’Girl, in Wakefield as part of their UK tour, alongside Fran Smith & Kayla Kavanagh for the ‘Secret Garden Party’, an outdoor evening of acoustic music, feasting and fun all held within the beautiful grounds of Wakefield’s Grade II* listed Orangery.
Bring a rug and a picnic, enjoy some real ales and fine wines and soak up the atmosphere at this unique live music event held in Wakefield’s hidden urban oasis, right next to Wakefield Westgate Station. The perfect way to spend a summer evening!
The lineup….
Po’Girl showcases a wide array of instruments-from gutbucket bass, accordion, clarinet, banjo, dobro, guitar, to electric bass, glockenspiel, piano, harmonica, bicycle bells, drums—and the artists all frequently trade off instruments with each song. Po’Girl fluid and joyous musicality is one of the group’s most endearing and irresistible features. Impossible to put this band in a tidy little box-they’re equally at home in Douala, Cameroon playing the Massao World Music Festival, as they are at the International Jazz Festival in Montreal, the Winnipeg Folk Festival, the Woodford Music Festival in Australia or just playing for fun for the people in Vondel Park, Amsterdam.
Performing in her hometown of Wakefield, Fran Smith’s idiosyncratic piano-poetry is delivered in a passionate, Yorkshire-accented voice that defies comparison. Her lyrics, however, recall Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell - soulful torch songs, dripping with imagery. She admits to being ‘obsessed with song lyrics’ from an early age, so it is unsurprising that Fran’s own material has caught the attention of acclaimed songwriters such as Devon Sproule, Karine Polwart and Catherine Feeny.
Kayla Kavanagh is a solo artist with a difference. The Yorkshire-based Singer/Songwriter plays nine instruments, writes and performs her own original music and has toured the UK with her ‘one-woman band’ show from the side of a VW Campervan. Kayla has launched her debut album Stranger than Fiction, featuring twelve original songs with her trademark fusion of the traditional and modern - an eclectic mix of electronica pop/rock with hints of Imogen Heap, Nerina Pallot, Eva Cassidy and Sarah McLachlan. After this performance Kayla’s next stop after The Orangery is the Edinburgh Fringe!
Further Details:
Date & Time: Saturday 6th August 2011, 6
-10pm
Location: The Orangery, Back Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TG
The Orangery, Wakefield
The Orangery is a unique grade II* building in the heart of Wakefield. It is a green oasis adjacent to Westgate Railway Station, on the east coast mainline, and within easy reach of the civic and cultural quarters of the city. The Orangery is also home to Beam, an arts, architecture and learning company working throughout the Yorkshire region and beyond. Beam provides services and programmes to help people make better and more sustainable places.
Tickets: Tickets are £12.50 if purchased in advance via Eventbrite, or will be available on the door for £15.
Please bring a picnic and something to sit on – alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks and bar snacks will be on sale. This event will be held outdoors unless prevented by bad weather, if this is the case the event will go ahead inside The Orangery.
Contact: For further information about this event please phone 01924 215 550 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
