With a proud tradition of nurturing the talents of up-and-coming LGBTQ+ creators, OutStageUs provides a platform to showcase new LGBTQ+ writing and performance. This ground-breaking 2023 OutStageUs programme is designed to ignite creativity by offering a tailor-made artistic journey for early to mid-career LGBTQ+ writers. INVITING SUBMISSIONS: A performance from last year's OutStageUs The Queen’s Award-winning Toad Lane Concerts are every Wednesday 12.30-1.30pm at the Grade 1 listed St Mary in the Baum Church, Rochdale OL16 1DZ, admission £6. This was concert number 1,033 since taking over from the council in 2001. Only Brindisi (the drinking song from La Traviata) could do it: the audience participated enthusiastically with the obligatory la, la, la, lah, which brought the house down. Their dramatic rear exit sharing a beautiful top C, moved some to tears, and certainly earned and demanded an encore. Then a superb concert performance of a scene from Puccini’s La Boheme. The temperature rose with Joseph’s extract from La Traviata, and Heather’s My lips are much sweeter than wine by Lehar. Joseph followed with two passionate Italian songs by Verdi and Tosti, and Heather with sophisticated lieder from Brahms and Wolf. (See Arias by Mozart quickly established them as first-rate performers. They were expertly supported by multi-talented Tim Kennedy who studied music at Cambridge and is a freelance professional singer, vocal coach, organist, and piano accompanist, including ten years as a repetiteur at the RNCM. Rochdale fishing club to host family friendly open day.He is currently a chorus member for both the Royal Opera House and English National Opera. Tenor Joseph began as a chorister and lay clerk at Chester Cathedral before studying at the RNCM and the Royal Academy of Music. She also has a master’s in music therapy from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, so additionally specialises in dementia care. Soprano Heather graduated first class from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Both have developed several operatic roles with various companies as well as being soloists in choral works and concerts across the country. Heather and Joseph Buckmaster co-founded Flat Pack Music, an outreach opera company which aims to bring communities together through active music making. Toad Lane Concerts at St Mary in the Baum - Rochdale’s weekly Wednesday music at lunchtimeĪpril 19, 2023, Opera Gala from the Buckmasters and Tim Kennedy piano WHAT'S ON: JD TLC Buckmasters Kennedy cropĪll Across the Arts reviews, interviews, and recommendations with Steve Cooke
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