A New Orleans GUMBO experience for all your senses

Bates Green Farm Tye Hill Road, Arlington, Polegate, East Sussex

We will serve up a special musical and gastronomic experience together with the Bluebell kitchen chef Philippa who will prepare an authentic New Orleans gumbo. ADMISSION FREE: pass the hat event + £10 per bowl of gumbo Bring your own drinks! BOOK YOUR TABLE HERE: www.gumbo-band.com/bluebell LOCATION: Bates Green Farm Tye Hill Road, Arlington, BN26 […]

FREE (pass the hat event)

Bluebell Roots – Live music with Dan Raza

Bates Green Farm Tye Hill Road, Arlington, Polegate, East Sussex

Live music from this wonderful London-based singer singwriter. ADVANCE BOOKING ONLY. Food available to buy. BYOB. Dan Raza Starting out as a teenager in London in the early 2000s, Dan quickly became a key member of the capital’s folk-roots music scene and opened for artists as diverse as Joan Armatrading, Mary Gauthier and Badly Drawn […]

£10

An Evening at the Opera

St Mary Magdelene Church Wartling Wartling Rd, Horsewalk, Wartling, Hailsham, East Sussex

It’s just possible that some of you will be old enough to remember when the Flower Duet from the opera Lakme by Leo Delibes was the theme tune for British Airways – and that’s just one example of the many ways in which the drama and excitement of opera has entered popular culture. This programme […]

£12

The Virtuoso Flute

St Mary Magdelene Church Wartling Wartling Rd, Horsewalk, Wartling, Hailsham, East Sussex

Music Box Wealden could hardly have a better torchbearer than local flautist Daisy Noton. Currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London she has already had competition success at local, national and international level, not least as a Woodwind Finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2020. At the […]

£12

Carnaval – An Illustrated Piano Recital

Hailsham Pavilion Hailsham Pavilion Theatre, Hailsham, United Kingdom

The centrepiece of this concert is Schumann’s riotously imaginative work, Carnaval. Its 21 short movements vividly depict a colourful cast of masked partygoers, including characters from Italian street theatre, Schumann’s then fiancée, his future wife Clara and the composer himself. William Hancox will use the big screen both to talk us through the piece and […]

£12

The Story of Babar the Elephant

Hailsham Pavilion Hailsham Pavilion Theatre, Hailsham, United Kingdom

The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant is a composition for piano and narrator by Francis Poulenc, based on the hugely popular picture book by Jean de Brunhoff, which was published in 1931 and rapidly became a French children’s classic. The enchanting music, performed by pianist William Hancox, is based on Poulenc’s improvisations inspired by […]

£8