Cafe Portico Presents – Oxjam
Sunday 19th October
Food available
Tickets £3 on the door or online
The Party Continues at Cafe Portico with Fyreflies, Robinson O’dwyer and Kelly, Aidan Marshall, Emma Mersseman, Interpretation, Rainmaker and The Outskirts!
Tickets available in advance and online; http://www.wegottickets.com/event/291595
“Lucky Cups” raffle – a bit like Deal or No Deal, you get to pick a numbered cup and win whatever’s in the cup!
Shannon Reilly Trio
Friday 17th October
Food served from 7:30pm
Music starts 8:30pm
Tickets £6 available in advance from the Cafe
Taking the UK by storm, fabulous Lincolnshire based emerging vocalist Shannon Reilly is joined by guitar virtuoso Pat McCarthy and fine bassist Warren Jolly. “This is superb music that manages to pull off that difficult trick of having a broad appeal whilst still satisfying the jazz connoisseur” – Gill Wilde, Jazz Promoter of the Year. “The most talked about gig of the week” – John Holland, New Jazz 5.
Tickets available from the cafe or online at;
http://www.seetickets.com/event/shannon-reilly-trio/cafe-portico/811716
Nicola Farnon Trio
Friday 26th September
Food Served from 7:30pm
Music Starts 8:30pm
Tickets £6 available in advance from the Cafe
With Nicola’s trio you get a lot of musical talent for such a small band. It comprises of voice, tenor sax, piano, double bass and drums and with Piero Tucci – “a jazzer’s dream, as unpretentiously skilfulon keys as he is on sax.” Sandman magazine – and the intense and propulsive drumming of Phil Johnson, these three musicians combine to give a performance that will startle you with its genuine love of music and melody. They all aim to enjoy themselves fully, to entertain joyfully – and to swing yer socks off!
Tickets available from the cafe or online at;
http://www.seetickets.com/event/nicola-farnon-trio/cafe-portico/811715
Stevie Smith Trio
Friday 5th September
Food served from 7:30pm
Music Starts 8:30pm
Tickets £6 available in advance from the Cafe
Lincoln based drummer Stevie Smith presents his all star trio, featuring the talents of the fabulous Thom Whitworth (guitar) and Dave Shields (bass). Stevie has worked with the likes of Jim Mullen, Alan Barnes, Jean Toussaint as well as being a former member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Tickets available from the cafe or online at;
http://www.seetickets.com/event/stevie-smith-trio/cafe-portico/811713
Liteside Jazz
Friday 11th July
Food served from 7:30pm
Music Starts 8:30pm
Tickets £6 available in advance from the Cafe
Liteside are a six-piece swing, Latin and party band. “We call our music Latin jazz for people who don’t think they like jazz. It’s jazz-based but on the lighter side. We play sweet, foot-tapping tunes and smooth ballads for you to dance and bop around to. From swing to boogie-woogie, rock & roll, classic pop such as the Beatles, Latin and jazz rock.”
Lydia Bauman Making Colour
Tuesday 2nd September
Food served after lecture
Lecture starts 6:30pm
Tickets £10 including a tea or coffee
‘Making Colour’, the first exhibition of its kind in the UK, invites you on an artistic and scientific voyage of discovery. From sparkling minerals to crushed insects, learn about the surprising materials used to create pigments and the incredible journeys made by artists in their pursuit of new hues.
Span hundreds of years from the early Renaissance to the Impressionist movement as you take in displays of paintings, mineral specimens, textiles, ceramics and glass.
Tickets available from the cafe or online at;
http://www.seetickets.com/event/lydia-bauman-making-colour/cafe-portico/811714
Lydia Bauman 1st World War Artists and Art
Tuesday 1st July
Food served after lecture
Lecture starts 6:30pm
Tickets £10 including a tea or coffee
A war artist will have depicted some aspect of war through art; this might be a pictorial record or it might commemorate how war shapes lives. A war artist creates a visual account of war by showing its impact as men and women are shown waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating.
The works produced by war artists illustrate and record many aspects of war, and the individual’s experience of war, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural. The rôle of the artist and his work embraces the causes, course and consequences of conflict and it has an essentially educational purpose.
Farrar Joy
Friday 25th April
Food served from 7:30pm
Music starts at 8:30pm
Tickets: £6 Available at the Cafe
Having played her way around the globe and in venues like Ronnie Scotts in the UK we can safely say that Farrah Joy knows her trade. Farrah brings a sophisticated and eclectic mix of well known soul, blues and Jazz Classics influenced by Dinah Washington, Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald among others, we can most certainly expect a thoroughly memorable performance from this Lincoln born artist.
Andrew Wood Trio feat; Dave O’Higgins
Saturday 10th May
Food Served from 7:30pm
Music starts 8:30pm
Tickets £6
The jazz scene comes to Lincoln for its annual 9-day celebration of jazz music featuring UK and international acts including with Cafe Portico featuring Andrew Wood Trio feat; Dave O’Higgins. Expect some fireworks when this world class saxophonist teams up with our very own local hero
Warbirds
Friday 16th May
Food served from 7:30pm
Music starts at 8:30pm
Tickets: £6
Café Portico favorites The Warbirds return with an evening full of beautifully written, heartfelt indie-pop songs. The boys have courted a lot of coverage of late, chances are you’ve heard them either on BBC Radio Lincs (as their National Tip for the song ‘Kid On The Street’), in any Co-op around the country (as their artists of the week) or at the Oxjam music festival in Lincoln.
