Our upcoming gigs are:
SUNDAY JANUARY 29th 2012
CONCERT FOR HOMELESSNESS AND LEPROSY SUNDAY
THE LEPER CHAPEL, NEWMARKET ROAD – 3.00 PM
Please come and join us at this year’s Cambridge Link Up concert of music and poetry in this wonderful ancient building which dates back to medieval times. Expect to be moved and inspired by the wonderful variety of poetry and song from Cambridge’s homeless and ex-homeless community. Do wrap up warm, it can be chilly!
Please note that sadly disabled access is poor (there are lots of steps down from the road) and the nearest toilet facilities are at the Cambridge Football Ground (just across the road) and at the Abbey Pool. If you come by car, please park in Ditton Walk or other side roads, taking care not to block driveways.
Our next confirmed open event:
FRIDAY MARCH 16th
IRISH SESSION AND LUNCH at 82 AKEMAN STREET
TIME: 11.00 – 1.30 DRESS CODE: green, shamrocks optional
Please bring an Irish song or poem to share!
PAST PERFORMANCES
DOWN MEMORY LANE - OUR BACK CATALOGUE OF EVENTS FROM 2011:
March 18th: George Tavern, 373 Commercial Road, Stepney, London E1 0LA
March 26th: All Saints Church, Landbeach 4 – 6 pm
April 9th: All Saints Church, Haslingfield ‘Concert of Words and Song’. Yes all our lovely songs and some wonderful poetry too. 3 – 5 pm, £3 on the door, children and teenagers free, yummy refreshments included.
May 27th: The Golden Hind, Milton Road, CB4 1SP, 7.30 for 8.00. Street Voices visit Cambridge Folk Club ‘Open Stage’ We hope to play two songs as part of the musical smorgasbord preceding ‘King Alfred’s Cakes’… it all hangs on getting our name down early enough…
June 1st – East Barnwell Community Centre, Cambridge – around 12 noon. Performance and community sing to celebrate all things recyclable. The CHYPPS team will be leading activities for young people and our very own Robert Waugh will demonstrate that King of Junk Instruments, the drainpipe dijeridoo.
15th June: Newmarket Open Door Charity Garden Party at Westcott House, Cambridge. Westcott Students’ choir will sing and Street Voices will play 2 short sets. Looking forward to meeting the resident tortoise and seeing our friend Terry Waite again. We hope he’ll feel moved to play the spoons as he did so expertly once before…
Friday 22 July: Visit to Wintercomfort Day Centre, Overstream House, Cambridge. A summer performance and jam open to all users of the day centre. We’ll be there over lunch, 12.30 – 2.00
Friday 26 August: Summer Jam and buffet lunch at 82 Akeman Street, 11.00 – 1.30pm
Sunday 18 September: Akeman Street Street Party! Street Voices performance and parade, lots of fun stuff for all the family…. 2 – 4pm
Monday 10 October is World Homelessness Day. Cambridge Link Up are hosting an evening benefit gig to raise some much-needed cash to be used for small grants to homeless folk in the city. The concert will include poetry, music and film, and it will be an opportunity to hear the Street Voices blues harp maestro Robert Waugh play. Time: 7.30 – 10.30, venue: Sturton Street Methodist Church, Cambridge.
Thursday 20 October: in collaboration with Cambridge Celebrates Age! Street Voices lead a sing-along with the 50 Plus Friends and guests at 82 Akeman Street – 2 – 4 pm
