Dixie Mix JAZZ BAND
Music of LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Saturday 15th April 2023, 7.30pm,
St. Botolph’s Church, TRUNCH
The DixieMix Jazz Band, one of the UK’s most engaging and successful jazz ensembles, is returning to TRUNCH CONCERTS to open the 2023 season.
After their very succesfull concert at St.Botolph’s last year, the feedback was amazing: “A wonderful night’s music and entertainment that we are reliving again and again…”. “Congratulations on a very successful evening’s entertainment, for me personally it brought back many happy memories…”. This year the band will present in Trunch their new program of music of the legendary Louis Armstrong.
The band is a professional six piece, excelling with fresh arrangements of many jazz favourites. With the best jazz musicians in East Anglia, enthusiasm for traditional jazz and great humour, the DixieMix has gained national recognition, leading to a tour with Rod Stewart, TV appearances and multiple festival and theatre gigs.
Dixie Mix:
Simon Nelson – cornet, trumpet, flugel horn and vocals
Chris Wigley – trombone and vocals
Karl Wirrmann – clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax
Kevin West – banjo, guitar, ukulele
John Benson – bass and vocals
Tony Wilkins – drums and vocals.
Dixie Mix in Trunch (12th May 2018):
The concert will take place in St. Botolph’s Church in Trunch. With a licensed bar.
It’s good practice to wear face masks all the time, except when you are eating or drinking.
The number of places is limited. Pre-booking only. Tickets: £15 – adult, £7 – children.
Tickets are available by phone 01692 402 624 or cash only at The Crown at Trunch (Front Street, Trunch, North Walsham NR28 0AH).
Proceeds will be donated to Trunch and Swafield Church restoration projects.
NORWICH BAROQUE
CHAMBER PLAYERS
Musical Treasures of the 17th century: Secrets of Norfolk’s Royal Shipwreck
Saturday 13 May 2023, 7.30pm, St. Botolph’s Church, TRUNCH
This concert celebrates the extraordinary find of the HMS Gloucester in Norfolk, a famous warship that sank near Great Yarmouth in 1682, creating political ripples that shaped the nation we live in today.
This very exiting baroque programme is designed as a musical companion to the upcoming exhibition on the Gloucester at the Norwich Castle Museum – which will be open at the same time as the concert in Trunch – and with the help of the exhibition’s curators, Prof. Claire Jowitt and Dr. Benjamin Redding of the UEA.
James Stuart, Duke of York and Albany survived the ship’s sinking – to become King James II and VII in 1685. It was an important ‘almost’ moment in British political history: a royal shipwreck causing the very near-death of the Catholic heir to the Protestant throne at a time of great political and religious tension.
The programme would have two parts: an exquisite selection of consort music that would have been played aboard the Gloucester and similar ships in the 17th century (Purcell, Locke, Lawes), and a suite from Matthew Locke’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s Tempest.
The concert will take place in St. Botolph’s Church in Trunch. With a licensed bar.
It’s good practice to wear face masks all the time, except when you are eating or drinking.
The number of places is limited. Pre-booking only. Tickets: £15 – adult, £7 – children.
Tickets are available by phone 01692 402 624 or cash only at The Crown at Trunch (Front Street, Trunch, North Walsham NR28 0AH).
Proceeds will be donated to Trunch and Swafield Church restoration projects.