Tag archives for music
“Being a rock musician in 2026 is hard, but places like Hastings make it worthwhile”
Ahead of her show at The Carlisle on Friday 5 June, award-winning guitarist, singer and songwriter Chantel McGregor spoke to JOSHUA GEER about music, touring, grief, guitar playing, and why…
The HIP List #234
Your Pull Out Guide To What’s Happening In Hastings Want your event listed? Contact us now Ian Greensmith (music), Nadine Hayward (art, cinema, theatre & performance), Hugh Sullivan (sport) and…
Eric Bibb Comes to Bexhill!
by ED FRITH Two-time Grammy Award nominee Eric Bibb will come ridin’ on to DLWP very soon. The world renowned Blues Troubadour and his band will perform the classics he…
An Unassuming Prodigy
Again, musical excellence takes varied, and often unexpected, forms, genres, and performance levels, and Hastings seems to have more than its share. We go on here to hail yet another…
Classical Music Special: Classic Provision
Classical music in and around Hastings is burgeoning. But for some reason and for some people it has been a secondary interest compared to the rockier, jazzier, more raucous genres.…
A Beautiful Chaos
Toby Barelli aka King Size Slim is a veteran of the Fat Tuesday music to explain the Hastings Fat Tuesday tour to an uninitiated musician can be quite difficult.“So, you’re…
Freight Train to Éire
VICTORIA KINGHAM enjoys a recent gig at Hasting’s jazz club containing more than a few notes of Ireland. A recent Sunday saw another full and enthusiastic house at Jazz Hastings…
#Acoubomb – Round TWO!
By Andrew Myers HASTINGS Based Sax Legend Jason Yarde needs your help! Acoutastic Bombastic is a thirteen piece band of some of the top improvisers in the UK – all…
Hastings’ Two Week Celebration of World-class Artists
Press release provided by Hastings International Piano FestivalThe Hastings International Piano Festival will run from 26th February – 8th March 2020 at White Rock Theatre and St Mary in the…
A Billion Ways – the Musical about Climate Change – to be Premiered in Hastings.
Press Release provided by the brand new musical on climate change will open in Hastings this month at the Kino-Teatr, featuring an impressive cast of local talent. Script writer Sally…
Beloved Clara – A Tale of Love And Loss
Press Release from Hastings International Piano Concerto CompetitionSunday 10 November 3pmSt Mary in the Castle, HastingsAward-winning British actors Lesley Sharp and Sir Simon Russell Beale with pianist Lucy Parham. The…
AfriKàBa Arts and Culture Festival 2019
Come, discover something new and hear Africa's musical Lion King in concert, supported by the UK's favourite Congolese band, Kasai Masai. The festival of African and Caribbean heritage, arts and…
FESTVAL BY THE LAKE 2019
Top musicians support festival welcoming refugees to Hastings Top jazz musicians Sarah Jane Morris and Gwyneth Herbert are headlining at this year’s Festival by the Lake on Sunday 23 June,…
Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou with Special Guest Hayley Savage + Film Screening
Press Release Friday June 14th – (film screening at ) Kino-Teatr St LeonardsTickets are £10 available from Kino-Teatr box office and online through Ticketsource Following the release of their fifth…
Hastings Pride 2018
By Natasha Scott This year’s theme of Space & Aliens may seem a little bit out there, literally, but there is an underlying important reason. In the last twelve months,…
Midsummer Fish Festival – Support Hastings’ Fleet!
What follows is a press release from Hastings Borough Council. Hastings Midsummer Fish Festival is back for a fifth year. The event takes place on 23 and 24 June on…
INSTRUMENTALISTS GET VOCAL BACKING
The prospect of East Sussex Music (ESM) ending its instrumental teaching provision in the county’s schools by reason of a proposed withdrawal of funding by the Council (ESCC) has stimulated…
Music Month – 13 February – 17 March
SALLY LAMPITT REPORTS: Do you love great music? The music scene across Hastings and Rother gets hotter every year and we want to celebrate that. Music Month shines a light…
LETTERS I HAVEN’T WRITTEN, Gwyneth Herbert at The Kino Teatr Nov 29th
reviewed by Colin Gibson St Leonards' Kino Teatr was lucky enough to be one of the hand-picked venues for a preview of Letters I Haven’t Written, the brand new…
Opus: A new venue for Hastings
Polo Piatti at the Opus Theatre ⓒ Peter Mould With the widely-anticipated Opus Theatre on the verge of opening in Hastings, HIP interviews British-Argentinian composer Polo Piatti, the driving force behind…
Claudia De Grandi, Artist profile by Natalie Tate
Claudia de Grandi & Josh Tennent. Painting & music performance. Hastings UK, Sept 09, 2016. Brazilian artist Claudia De Grandi has lived and worked in the Hastings area since 2006.…
Obituary: Pete Burden – 4th April 1941 – 27th December 2016
by Marcus Weeks Hastings, and the world of music, is a quieter, sadder place with the loss of alto saxophonist Pete Burden, who has died aged 75. Perhaps the best…
Hit the Stage for Hastings Fringe Festival 2017
by Miranda Gavin Have you got an original act you want to perform, new writing to showcase, a story to tell, poetry to slam, or music to share? Join us…
Hastings Orchestra Creation
By Brian Hicks A new fully professional orchestra in Hastings? The idea might seem insane in this time of austerity ,but that would be to ignore the enthusiasm and expertise…
Buddha Triangle at Smallworld
Welcome home, welcome back, welcome to Smallworld. An inter-dimensional portal to a world in which everything and nothing is real. A place to go to lose your mind and find…