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MYWEEK
www.halifaxcourier.co.uk Friday,June16,2017
10 of the best
Your guide to events you must not miss this week
Jazz singer Charlie Carr
1Jazz
Wainsgate Chapel, Old Town, Hebden Bridge, 3pm
The 2017 Wainsgate concert series continues on Sunday, June 18 with an all-Hebden Bridge line-up.
The newly-formed Charlie Carr Quartet comes to
the atmospheric venue
to perform a captivating collection of original material and intriguing arrangements of great songs not usually found in the jazz repertoire.
Tickets: £6/£4/£2 for under 18s, available on the door.
2Summer art show
Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax Landscapes, a new exhibition in the Crossley Gallery
at Dean Clough, Halifax, features semi-abstract landscapes by leading artists from Amsterdam, England and Scotland.
The exhibition has taken two years to plan and the work has been selected by curator and painter Siobhan Wall. The Summer Shows at Dean Clough open on Saturday, June 17 at noon and run until
September.
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Todmorden
Summer 2017 sees an exciting ‘first’ for the Water Street Gallery in Todmorden- an exhibition with the focus on abstraction.
Opened by the Mayor of Todmorden Coun Christine Po er, Towards Abstraction features work by more than 15 artists, many of them with connections to the Calder Valley, including Dominic Vince, Shelley Burgoyne and Chris Bland.
The works on show - paintings, sculpture, prints, ceramics and mixed media
- explore form, colour,
shape and line with varying degrees of simplification or complexity. The exhibition runs until August 27.
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A er four years of writing and performing half-hour episodes of stand-up for his TV show, Stewart Lee is now touring with his new
full-length show Content Provider.
It stops off at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford on Saturday, June 17 at 8pm. Tel: 01274 432000.
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Bridge
Hannah, who blends soulful melancholy with the controlled artistry
of a classically-
trained singer,
brings her
show to the
Trades Club,
Hebden
Bridge, on
Wednesday,
June 21 at
8pm. Tel:
01422 845265.
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Music by JS Bach, Lully, Vaughan Williams and Irving Berlin will feature in Halifax Concert Band’s summer programme at St Martin’s Church. Brighouse on Saturday, June 17 at 7.30pm. Tickets: £9/£5. Tel: 07762
240271.
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June 17
Halifax Minster will provide the dramatic backdrop for this event.The food will
be prepared by Bertie’s of Elland, wine from Halifax Wine Co and music will come from Rishworth School Funk
Band. Paralympian Hannah Cockcro
will be guest speaker
Tickets: £30 from 01422 355436.
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Royal, Wakefield. Saturday, June 17,
7.30pm.
This year marks 25 years since tribute act
T.Rextasy formed and for this very special year for the band they will be taking the Marc Bolan 40th commemorative anniversary tour on the road. This year would also have been the glam
Exhibi on
Water Street Gallery,
Summer dinner
Halifax Minster, Saturday
Stewart Lee
Alambra Theatre, Bradford
Stewart Lee at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
Work by Deborah Gardner is at the Water Street Gallery
Hannah Nicholson
The Trades Club, Hebden
Classical concert
St Martin’s Church, Brighouse
T.Rextasy
Theatre