Festival programme - week 8
FESTIVAL JAZZ & COMEDY WEEKEND
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DAY PASS: £25.00 / £17.00
WEEKEND PASS £40.00 / £32.00
COME AND RELAX OVER A BEER
MEET THE ARTISTS!
Saturday 20 June (see Review of this event)
The Ent Shed, Gordon Arms, Bedford
STUDENT TICKETS - £5 AT EACH GIG ON THE DOOR!
1 pm - £5.00*
BEDFORDSHIRE MUSIC JAZZ CAFE ~ the greatest young jazz!
4.30 pm - £12.00* / £8.00*
70 YEARS OF JAZZ ~ John Patrick and Digby Fairweather trace the history of jazz from the 1940s to the present day! BAR ~ FOOD
7.30 pm £12.00 / *£8.00
John Patrick Trio with guest trumpeter, Digby Fairweather
Saturday is dedicated to the late and great George Chisholm who lived in Silsoe and regularly played Pulloxhill and the Stables, Wavendon! Pictured above left: John Patrick.
Above Right: Don Lusher, Digby & George
More information to come on this Festival website!
Sunday 21 June -
The Ent Shed, Gordon Arms, Bedford
1 pm - £5.00* BEDFORDSHIRE MUSIC JAZZ CAFÉ
More great student jazz!
6 pm - £12.00* / £8.00* JAZZ FESTIVAL FOOTLIGHTS directed by Keith Badham : all age comedy featuring former Sharnbrook stand-up Paul Coles (pictured below right), now following in Showbiz Patron, John Oliver’s footsteps with the Cambridge Footlights, Mike Nurton, former Bedford Blues player and Minor Counties (Oxon/England) cricketer turned illusionist, Magic Mike! Mid Beds comics, Mick George and Bernie Morgan complete an outstanding line up with the superb sound of Wootton Upper School’s Ace Trio! If you haven’t heard these guys, you are in for a treat! 
EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW ~ Geoff Norcutt 
The Truth About Men and Women
8.30 pm - £12.00* / £8.00*
We all start out life as female in the womb, so why do some of us think better of it? Is there a genetic reason why women like to leave things on the bottom step of the stairs or why men don’t notice radical changes to their domestic surroundings? In this widely accessible show, Geoff Norcutt gets under the skin of what makes us different.”
Over18s only
Sunday is dedicated to the late much loved comics
Ronnie Barker, John Le Mesurier and Bob Monkhouse
all of whom lived in Bedfordshire and made us laugh!
Monday 22 June Bedford Central Library top floor - 2.15 pm - FREE
GOOD AFTERNOON WELCOMES BARRY KAUFMANN-WRIGHT
the Wildlife Man, an adopted Jerseyman: who worked alongside Gerald Durrell
at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust - Jersey Zoo for many years: a unique experience!
* TICKETS FROM BEDFORD CENTRAL BOX OFFICE 01234 269519
* ONLINE www.bedfordcornexchange.co.uk/events/whats-on
Bedford Jersey Arts festival
1 May – 5 July 2009 in Bedfordshire UK
Celebrating 70 years of friendship 1939—2009
“Victoria College, Jersey children evacuated to Bedford School during the Nazi Occupation of Jersey in WWII”
site under construction
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This website is an ongoing project started in late January 2009.