Of all the projects and performances I have coming up this Christmas, there’s one that I’m especially looking forward to. I’ve always been a sucker for cheese (the musical type, at least), along with lead trumpet in its natural habitat: the big band. Combine a big band, mounds of cheese and Christmastime, and you end up with James Brady’s Swing Into Christmas. Five special shows around and about London will be all the best bits of Christmas with no holes barred.
I find myself most free to let loose as a trumpet player at this time of year. Certainly, I don’t feel restrained in other months, but Christmas is so over the top that it lends itself to energetic, uninhibited playing. This year is also the third year that I’ve depped at the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, an extremely OTT variety show which I adore for all the same reasons. We can play out and exaggerate everything even more there than in regular musical theatre!
I find myself most free to let loose as a trumpet player at this time of year. Certainly, I don’t feel restrained in other months, but Christmas is so over the top that it lends itself to energetic, uninhibited playing. This year is also the third year that I’ve depped at the Thursford Christmas Spectacular, an extremely OTT variety show which I adore for all the same reasons. We can play out and exaggerate everything even more there than in regular musical theatre!
Tickets:
15 Dec 4.30pm Earl Haig Hall, Crouch End
20 Dec 7.30pm Red Lion, Leytonstone
21 Dec 7.30pm, Mirth, Marvel & Maud, Walthamstow
22 Dec 3pm Mirth, Marvel & Maud, Walthamstow
22 Dec 6.30pm Mirth, Marvel & Maud, Walthamstow
15 Dec 4.30pm Earl Haig Hall, Crouch End
20 Dec 7.30pm Red Lion, Leytonstone
21 Dec 7.30pm, Mirth, Marvel & Maud, Walthamstow
22 Dec 3pm Mirth, Marvel & Maud, Walthamstow
22 Dec 6.30pm Mirth, Marvel & Maud, Walthamstow
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