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Wed 8 Sept 7.30pm
Cinema
Letters To Juliet
When a young American travels to the city of Verona, home of the starcrossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love.
Sat 11 Sept 7.30pm
Local Talent Presents
An Evening Of Live Music
This is our first show of the autumn season, an evening of song, a rich mix of jazz, folk, soul, blues, duwop, barbershop, gospel....all sung and played by some very talented musicians from the heart of Ryedale...
Wed 15 Sept 7.30pm
Cinema
Please Give
Kate has a lot on her mind. There' the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store (and how much markup can she get away with?).
Fri 17 Sept 7.30pm
Angus And Ross Theatre Company Presents
Up Frankie!
By Stuart Forteywith Dominic Goodwin as Frankie Howerd
Directed by Tony Lidington
Frankie Howerd has been thrown out of heaven! As he bemoans his fate, dressed in his robes and halo, he reveals what made him tick, what took him up and what brought him down! And even how he put his acts together....
Sat 18 Sept 7.30pm
Cello & Piano Recital
Tim Lowe – CelloAnnabel Thwaites – Piano
When Tim Lowe first played here a few years ago he was hailed as a rising star. Now the star has risen! He is firmly established as one of the new generation of cellists.
Their programme tonight is: Boccherini Cello Sonata in A major, Delius Romance,
Beethoven Sonata in D major, Ligeti unaccompanied Sonata, Franck Sonata in A major
Sun 19 Sept 4.00pm
A Concert In Memory Of Valerie Watts 1942 – 2010
Serenades For Val
Played byTHE HELMSLEY FESTIVAL WIND ENSEMBLE
Director: Geoffrey Emerson
The programme will include Serenades Op.4 and Op.7 by Richard Strauss
The concert will be followed by a celebration party
There will be a collection in aid of St. Catherine’s Hospice, Scarborough
Admission is free but by advanced booking only
Book by Email: juneemerson@phonecoop.coop or Telephone: 0771 968 8099
Wed 22 Sept 7.30pm
Cinema
Wild Target
Bill Nighy is Victor Maynard, a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, Louisa, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose.
Thurs 23 Sept at various times
Four Days Of Folk Thursday 23 To Sunday 26 September
Helmsley Folk Weekend
Bring your instruments and voices, walking boots and dancing shoes and join us for a spectacular Helmsley Folk Weekend 2010! We are delighted to welcome some wonderful artists to the folk weekend this year.....All-in tickets for the whole weekend available at special discount prices.....and some events free...
Thur 23 Sept 8.00pm
Helmsley Folk Weekend
Ceilidh In Helmsley Town Hall With Tiefrung Gleemen
Tiefrung Gleemen are based in the little village of Terrington, nestling in the heart of the Howardian hills in North Yorkshire and comprise an eclectic collection of instruments....the first event of our FOLK WEEKEND......
Fri 24 Sept 7.30pm
Helmsley Folk Weekend
Jez Lowe & The Big Bad Pennies
Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies have been playing their songs and music of Northern England for a decade and a half around the folk festivals, clubs and concert stages of the world. "Acoustic simplicity coupled with electric vitality"......
Sat 25 Sept 12.00 noon
Helmsley Folk Weekend
Jez Lowe Lunchtime Concert
Jez Lowe (born 1955) is an English folk singer-songwriter. Lowe was born and raised in County Durham, in a coal mining family with Irish roots. He is known primarily for his compositions dealing with daily life in North-East England....
Sat 25 Sept 7.30pm
Helmsley Folk Weekend
Scottish Concert
SHONA MOONEY & AMY THATCHER/ ROBIN LAING/ EMILY SMITH TRIO (With MC Eddie Affleck)....Fiddler Shona Mooney is one of Scotland's leading young traditional musicians. The winner of the 2006 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year....Robin Laing is one of Scotland's most lyrical contemporary folk writers, and has a diverse repertoire of his own songs....‘Scots Singer of the Year 2008/9’ Emily Smith has firmly established herself as a leading light in the Scottish folk scene. Since winning the 2002 ‘BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award’ she has...
Sat 25 Sept 3.00pm to 4.00pm
Helmsley Folk Weekend
Fiddle Masterclass With Shona Mooney
In 2006, Shona was awarded with the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year, and as a result of this award, had the opportunity to record her debut album, Heartsease.......
Sun 26 Sept 2.30pm
Helmsley Folk Weekend
The Final Concert
EDWINA HAYES/ CARRIVICK SISTERS/ JAMES KEELAGHAN TRIO(With MC David Swann)
Edwina Hayes is a wonderful singer-songwriter from Driffield, East Yorkshire, who spends her time between Nashville and her Yorkshire base, as a prolific writer and touring artist...Just out of their teens, The Carrivick Sisters, twins Charlotte and Laura have grown up playing and writing music together. Their unique style shows their strong bluegrass influences without obscuring their English roots....James Keelaghan is probably the most lauded singer-songwriter on the Canadian folk music scene, with numerous JUNO Awards to his name (Canada's prestigious music awards) and has toured internationally to much acclaim for almost 25 years....
Wed 29 Sept 7.30pm
Cinema
Toy Story 3
The creators of the beloved “Toy Story” films re-open the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of Woody, Buzz and our favorite gang of toy characters.
Sat 2 Oct 7.30pm
Attila The Stockbroker'S 30th Anniversary Tour
Poet and songwriter Attila the Stockbroker started as a punk bass player in 1977, took his inimitable stage name in 1980 during a short stint as a stockbroker's clerk and did his first gig as Attila in1980. Since then he's done about 2,800 more in 21 countries.“Whether he's ranting a poem or bashing out a song, there is something magnificent
about Attila in full flight” Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 4
Sun 3 Oct 7.30pm
Bon Appetit!
Bon Appetit! serves you tonight from a warm and lively menu of delicious French songs,from Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Prevert, Becaud and beyond. An exploration of the fabulous world of French Chansons Populaires - 'beautifully performed with warmth, panache & passion'.
Wed 6 Oct 7.30pm
Cinema
Heartbreaker
Few films in the last decade have even come close to the gates of the rom-com hall of fame, let alone entered them. HEARTBREAKER has all the elements and more to become an all-time favourite in its genre: originality, wit and above all, breath-taking romance.
Sat 9 Oct 7.30pm
Something And Nothing Presents
The Dinner Lady Man
Things are not going well for Bob Enwright. His building company has just gone bump, he's careering towards 50 at an alarming rate and his wife has traded him in for a younger man. The offer of work in the dinner hall of a local school seems to be the light at the end of a particularly dark and miserable tunnel.
Sun 10 Oct 4pm
Cleveland Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Tim JacksonHarpsichord: John Treherne
Flute: Ian Denley
Violin: Dan Hands
The programme today is Haydn's Symphony 88 - Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no.5 (solo harpsichord, flute and violin) - Handel's Water Music
Wed 13 Oct 7.30pm
Cinema
London River
Set against the backdrop of the 7th July 2005 bombings, London River tells the story of a friendship which develops between two seemingly unconnected people - Elizabeth and Ousmane. Both of them have come to London to search for their children who are missing in the aftermath of the bombings.
Sat 16 Oct 7.30pm
Dynamic New Anglo-Australian Super-Trio
Kerr / Fagan / Harbron
Long-established duo Nancy Kerr (fiddle) and James Fagan (bouzouki) join forces with multi-instrumentalist and composer Robert Harbron (English concertina and guitar) to form a new trio which is quickly establishing itself as a powerful combination.
Sun 17 Oct 7.30pm
North Country Theatre Presents
A Blood Wedding In Wensleydale!
Cold Comfort Farm meets Carmen and 3 Fights, 2 Weddings & a Funeral.Lorca's famous Spanish tale of feuding families, freely adapted and re-set in the farming communities of the Yorkshire Dales.
Wed 20 - Sat 23 Oct 7.30pm
1812 Theatre Company Presents The Wortld Premiere Of
Steak Frites
An Anglo-French comedy of manners by Martin Vander WeyerLost on holiday in deepest rural France, Clive and Amanda stop for lunch at Chez Henri, where a talkative Englishman at the next table, Paul, recommends the menu du jour. But Clive doesn’t like French cuisine, chef Henri doesn’t like difficult customers, Paul likes making mischief, and Amanda can never finish her sentences. A comedy of personal and international misunderstanding, with a powerful whiff of garlic.
Wed 27 Oct 7.30pm
An Evening With Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle was born in Liverpool on the day egg rationing came to an end...tonight he performs excerpts from his new book, a hilarious memoir of his confusing life as the son of Communist parents, his childhood in Eastern Europe and his years as a teenage Maoist...
Thurs 28 Oct 7.30pm
Reform Theatre Company Presents
Thick As Thieves
Thick as Thieves is a vibrant new comedy by Mark Whiteley that takes the audience into the comically dark underbelly of the world of small-time criminals.
Fri 29 Oct 7.30pm
Cinema
Tamara Drewe
Once a shy and unattractive teenager from a small rural idyll, Tamara’s past catches up with her when she returns to the village and has to face an old flame.
Sat 30 Oct 7.30pm
A Stroll Through The Axis Of Evil
Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran are often in the news for all the wrong reasons. Starting in Beirut, broadcaster and writer John Pilkington unravelled a picture quite different from the news stories as he followed a winding route via the Euphrates, the Caucasus and the Valleys of the Assassins to finish on the Persian Gulf.
Wed 3 Nov 7.30pm
Cinema
The Girl Who Played With Fire
In THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, having served his prison sentence, Mikael Blomkvist returns to Millennium intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring.
Fri 5 Nov 7.30pm
Tributes Direct Presents
Take That Mania
Introducing 'Take That Mania' - Britain's hottest new tribute to Take That.In a fast paced show, Take That's greatest hits are recreated live on stage with tight harmonies, energetic dance routines and great costumes. From the early days of Could It Be Magic and Relight My Fire to the comeback smashes Shine and Patience.
Its time to Take That & Party!
Sat 6 Nov 7.30pm
The Crick Crack Club Presents
Frankenstein
Performed by Ben Haggerty with Sianed JonesEnter a world of feverish dreaming, as storyteller, Ben Haggerty, and musician, Sianed Jones, present an intense steam punk interpretation of Mary Shelley's modern myth...
“This is real storytelling” The Guardian Hay Festival
Wed 10 Nov 7.30pm
Cinema
Leaving
Suzanne is married to Samuel with two children. When she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist, it brings her into contact with a builder called Ivan, an odd job man who has been to prison.
Thur 11 Nov 7.30pm
Kill For A Seat Comedy Club
Returning to Helmsley with our best bill yet we will make you laugh very hard indeed!
Sun 14 Nov 7.30pm
Nikolai Demidenko
Nikolai Demidenko's passionate performances mean that he is in demand worldwide. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see and hear a great pianist!
Thur 18, Fri 19th & Sat 20 Nov 7.30pm
1812 Youth Theatre
The Late Sleepers
Book and lyrics by Paul James Music by Eric AngusWith show-stopping numbers, a high gothic wedding, drama and betrayal, and, ultimately,
heart-breaking bravery, this is a fascinating romp through the world of the Undead, of popular culture, and of teenage rebellion.
Sun 21 Nov 7.30pm
The Fitzwilliam String Quartet
with Anna TilbrookThe Fitzwilliam Quartet is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, having first met and
played together as undergraduates during their inaugural term at Cambridge. On graduating they were appointed Quartet-in-Residence at York University, where they quickly achieved world-wide recognition which continues to the present day. Celebratory events are dotted throughout 2010 and we are indeed fortunate to have them play for us in Helmsley.
Wed 24 Nov 7.30pm
Cinema
Inception
Inception sees a man become involved in a murder of the mind when he starts to see visions of a crime unfold.
Sat 27 Nov 7.30pm
Coope, Boyes & Simpson Fi Fraser, Jo Freya And Georgina Boyes
Fire And Sleet And Candlelight...
There are carol singers and then there are Coope, Boyes and Simpson. Add Georgina Boyes and the two Fraser sisters, Jo and Fi, and you have a combination that manages to put the magic back into Christmas.
Wed 1 Dec
Cinema
Beautiful Kate
Set in Australia’s mesmerising and captivatingly beautiful outback, Beautiful Kate is in essence an intense and tragic love story about the sexual awakening of three siblings growing up in isolation.
Sat 4 Dec 7.30pm
Badapple Theatre Company Presents
A Yorkshire Christmas Carol
Enjoy a family treat this Christmas and join the much lauded Badapple Theatre for their latest 'theatre on your doorstep' production.
Wed 15 – Sat 18 Dec 7.30pm & Matinee Sat 18 Dec 2.30pm
1812 Theatre Company Presents
Mother Goose
by Chris Denys and Chris HarrisFinally - the wait is over! Oh yes it is! The 1812 Theatre Company presents Mother Goose, a traditional family panto by Chris Denys and Chris Harris.
Wed 5 Jan 2011 7.30pm
Cinema
The Illusionist
A new film by the maker of the much praised "Bellville Rendezvous", Sylvain Chomet, from a screenplay by Jacques Tati - what a combination! The story of a stage magician of the old school, looking like Jacques Tati himself, in the 1950s, no longer able to compete in a world where rock stars reign. He arrives in Scotland where meets....."A deeply moving, exquisitely crafted, elegiac film..." Philip French, The Observer
