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February, 2012
Saturday 04th February - 2012
Private
Club closed for a private event, Café still open!!
To book your own please call 0207 370 1434 or email susie@troubadour.co.uk or dorota@troubadour.co.uk
Sunday 05th February - 2012
Poetry
Poetry Workshop - The Magic of Realism
n=Neruda, Vallejo and Paz with C.L. Dallat Discover three major Latin American poets (in translation), all three major world artists engaging with the local and universal, each from a par...
Monday 06th February - 2012
Poetry
Coffee House Poetry - Oversteps Books
With Alwyn Marriage (ed.), Michael Swan, Ann Kelley, Robert Stein, Ann Segrave, Christopher North, Joan McGavin & Graham High. Firs...
Tuesday 07th February - 2012
Acoustic
Engine + Jessica Sharman + Julia Johnson + Neb
Engine Info coming soon... Julia Johnson Julia Johnson is fast becoming a fixture of the London singer-songwriter circuit, and recognised for her unusual lyrics and candid, quirky, ...
Wednesday 08th February - 2012
The Sessions
MAIA + Jessica Mary York + Phoebe Larner + Juey
MAIA Once in a while a band will come along who sound way beyond their years, think Fleet Foxes or The Incredible String Band. Having just completed university, Maia is a band that fall into ...
Thursday 09th February - 2012
Acoustic
Shena + MALLiE + Nell Ryder + Gabriel Mesh
Shena 'Shena is a singer/song writer specializing in acoustic pop. She writes songs from a mature perspective with lyrics that audiences can relate and immediately connect with, underpinned by...
Saturday 11th February - 2012
Blues and Funk
BluesMix + Emma Divine + DJ Lil' Koko
BluesMix Funky, soulful Blues from London band BluesMix. Their 2nd album release ‘Biding My Time’ received lots of praise from the music press. Blues Matters magazine called it “Top class funk...
Tuesday 14th February - 2012
Troubadour Valentine Night
Troubadour Valentine's Night presents: My Grey Horse + Bel and the Boy + Lucy Westhead + Ree Gibson
My Grey Horse My Grey Horse are a band of brothers....3 to be precise. Singers and guitarists Paul, John & Oobah Butler are completed by close friends Joe Nicklin on drums and bassist Tom M...
Wednesday 15th February - 2012
The Sessions
Kirsten Joy + Delve + Matt Woods + AleX Hamel
Kirsten Joy "Having had the privilege to work with and for some amazing artists, I have now embarked on this exciting and crazy adventure of making my own mark on the world of music. Come and ...
Thursday 16th February - 2012
Folk
Ashley John-Baptiste + Rosie Bans + Erin Todd + Lydia Baylis
Ashley John-Baptiste Showcasing his musicianship Ashley John-Baptiste will captivate and entertain with his soulful, dynamic, and full range voice while playing the piano in a stripped down, u...
Friday 17th February - 2012
Rock & Pop
Fellow Stranger + The ISIS + Sunday Waits + Phil Scott + Hermione Fricker
Fellow Stranger Fellow Stranger is the latest musical moniker for the work of Brighton songwriter Luke Sital-Singh. After a decade of writing and performing under his own name, Luke gathered s...
Saturday 18th February - 2012
Indie & Alternative
Clark and Carter + The Mannakings + Oli Tatler + Emily Davies
Clark & Carter A trio of highly talented musical maestros. Their Soundcloud The Mannakings Four piece band based in London, incl...
Sunday 19th February - 2012
Poetry
Poetry Workshop - An Exaltation of Larks
Themed writing-workshop with Anne-Marie Fyfe Songbirds, lovebirds, hummingbirds, birds of omen and birds of prey, signs of peace, auguries of death, harbingers of spring, messengers, thie...
Monday 20th February - 2012
Poetry
Coffee House Poetry - What We Should Have Said
An entertaining, enlightening, innovative & unpredictable spoken-word shindig, with Stuart Silver, Ellen Cranitch, Robert Minhinnick, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch & pianist,
Tuesday 21st February - 2012
Folk
Michael Chapman + Eliza Shaddad
Michael Chapman Michael Chapman The guitar and voice of Michael Chapman first became known on the Cornish Folk Circuit in 1967. Playing a blend of atmospheric and autobiographical material he...
Wednesday 22nd February - 2012
The Sessions
Mayflys + Tom Bertram + Sabiyha Rasheed + Sam Monaghan
Mayflys "Purveyors of dreamy cloud pop, Mayflys bring you quirky, funky and feel-good tunes for your ears to hear and your feet to beat. They are fronted by french born Aurelie Konter, whose v...
Thursday 23rd February - 2012
Jazz & Pop
Chico Chica
Chico Chica Hilary Cameron, Tom Hannah and Barbara Snow are three London-based musicians who had known and worked with each other for many years but never together as a trio. However, on one a...
Friday 24th February - 2012
Eclectic
The Kleeks + Tasha Johnson + GEM'N'I + Erin Mortimer + Helena Skelly
The Kleeks The Kleeks move between upbeat dancing blues to the slow-low blues that’ll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. With a good dose of showmanship, each member knows his b...
Saturday 25th February - 2012
Gallery event:
RODIN: Life class
How to book: Please send a confirmation email to thematthewevent@googlemail.com to confirm your next RODIN: Life class Formed by Matthew and Lidia. They are professional artist performers/artist ...
Sunday 26th February - 2012
Eclectic
AJ Moore with The Scotts Guards
AJ Moore TO BUY TICKETS IN ADVANCE: Click Here The AJ Moore and Nat Martin bands will be performing a speci...
Wednesday 29th February - 2012
The Sessions
Southpaw Saints + Moment of Leaves + Marc O'Reilly + Marta tchai
Southpaw Paints A mix of Jazz, Rock and their own kind of spoken word/hip hop. Their Myspace Moment of Leaves "Moment of Leaves...
March, 2012
Thursday 01st March - 2012
Indie & Alternative
Jack Durtnall
Jack Durtnall A singer-songwriter with a gorgeous voice and fresh folk-inspired music. Jack's Soundcloud
Friday 02nd March - 2012
Rock & Pop
Los Pelos Rizos + Leah McFall + Sam Larner
Los Pelos Rizos Katy Blatt, David Lydon, Alan Shaw, Will Dollard and David Garcia make up this exciting blues folk jazz band. Los Pelos Rizos' M...
Saturday 03rd March - 2012
Private
Club closed for a private event, Café still open!!
To book your own please call 0207 370 1434 or email susie@troubadour.co.uk or dorota@troubadour.co.uk
Monday 05th March - 2012
Poetry
Coffee House Poetry - Magma #52 Launch
With guests, Inua Ellams & Greta Stoddart. Astonishing London audiences for most of Coffee-House Poetry's fifteen years with their dazzle and diversity, seasonal magma launc...
Tuesday 06th March - 2012
Singer/Songwriter
Kate Peters + Hadrian's Union + JazZ
Kate Peters The Kate Peters Septet is kicking up a storm on the British jazz scene.This exciting line-up features Matt Anderson on tenor sax, Ian Chalk on trumpet, Aubin Vanns on guitar, Zezo ...
Wednesday 07th March - 2012
The Sessions
Waxwork + Tom Figgins + Lee Clayden
Waxwork Waxwork is a London based group of 5, playing alternative/indie rock with a twist. With such influences as The Smiths, Sonic Youth, and Neil Young, their music incorporates grunge, psy...
Thursday 08th March - 2012
Acoustic
Polly Barrett
Polly Barrett Polly Barrett is the new darling of the Irish acoustic/folk scene. Discovered while busking on the streets of her native city Cork, her mellow folky songs and clear easy voice re...
Sunday 11th March - 2012
Poetry
Poetry Workshop - Late Check Out
Themed writing-workshop with Anne-Marie Fyfe Dropping cabin-bags, suitcases or a single knapsack onto the patterned carpet and listening to the door clunk shut, in yet another chain ...
Tuesday 13th March - 2012
Folk
All the Queens Ravens
All the Queens Ravens All The Queens Ravens are an enigmatic six-piece at large on the London folk scene. Their music is a flamboyant bi-lingual mix of nu folk and country that alludes to blue...
Wednesday 14th March - 2012
The Sessions
Sulene Fleming
Sulene Fleming Sulene Fleming is a gutsy soul diva from the UK with a voice that has been described as thrilling. Currently working on her solo project and touring with The Fantastics! who's ...
Thursday 15th March - 2012
Acoustic
Fledgling + The Perennials + That Girl Angeline + Phil Martin
Fledgling Indie/Folk band from Spokane, WA, USA. Their Bandcamp The Perennials The Perennials are an Indie/folk rock band based ...
Monday 19th March - 2012
Poetry
Coffee House Poetry - Tipping the Night Porter
A Hotel-Themed End-of-Season Poetry-Party The quotidian equivalent of all those wayside-inns and mountain castles where weary pilgrims, travellers, troubadours and mysterious strangers sh...
Wednesday 21st March - 2012
The Sessions
Annie Dressner
Annie Dressner New York City, singer-songwriter, Annie Dressner writes charming indie-folk songs that are delivered with such conversational ease, it often seems as if she is reading from an i...
Thursday 29th March - 2012
Troubadour
The Small Hands + The Ayesha V Jeffreys Band + The Penny Red + Lydia Baylis
The Small Hands "Nonchalant laid back strummy popola referencing West Coast stuff, late era Kinks and all manner of rootical pop rock" Their Mysp...
Friday 30th March - 2012
Eclectic
The Kleeks + Thank Pablo + Tabitha Mortiboy
The Kleeks The Kleeks take their name from The Klooks Kleek club in West Hampstead that was the centre of the British Blues Boom of the late 60’s. Hosting such legends as Peter Green’s Fleetwo...
April, 2012
Thursday 05th April - 2012
Rock & Pop
Otherness
Otherness Otherness music is based on electro rock/pop sounds focused on the songwritting and with a catchy & fresh sound. O...
Friday 06th April - 2012
Rock & Pop
Holy Water + Los Pelos Rizos
Holy Water Holy Water plays a mix of traditional and modern rock & roll. Their original songs are inspred by rock (& roll), blues and even some country influences. Inbetween you can hear some...
Tuesday 10th April - 2012
Indie & Alternative
Bommerillo
Bommerillo "Their sound has become known as London Country, but a massive range of influences make this South London five piece difficult to categorise. The general concensus is that Bommerill...
Wednesday 11th April - 2012
The Sessions
Nina Schofield
Nina Schofield Classically trained and having successfully completed a Degree in Vocal Performance at the Academy of Contemporary Music. Nina was invited to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festi...
Wednesday 18th April - 2012
The Sessions
Luci Cahn
Luci Cahn Luci Cahn started her career working behind the scenes at a major London Recording Studio. She then formed The Luci Chan Band -a 5 piece outfit - hailing from all around the globe. a...
Thursday 19th April - 2012
Singer/Songwriter
Lydia Baylis + Bella McKendree + Sorana Santos
Lydia Baylis Lydia Baylis is a new, hotly tipped singer/songwriter, who is already attracting attention from both publishers and major labels alike. With her wonderfully emotive songs, smoulde...
Thursday 26th April - 2012
Folk
Monica Lionheart + Renny Field
Monica Lionheart Singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist of an exotic sort, Monica Lionheart has a unique style that is the result of a lifetime of musical influence. Growing up...
May, 2012
Tuesday 01st May - 2012
Rock & Pop
BeX
BeX BeX is a singer songwriter, her style covers the Soulful Pop, Rock & Country genre, she has worked and travelled all over the world as a professional Singer, Dancer & Actress working perfo...
Thursday 03rd May - 2012
Rock & Pop
Scott Huckabay
Scott Huckabay Scott's unique & original act is reminiscent of transcended masters Jimi Hendrix, Michael Hedges, Ravi Shankar & Jimmy Page. He is a very rhythmic player, developing complex and...
Tuesday 22nd May - 2012
Eclectic
Tír na nÓg
Tír na nÓg Tir na nOg, the legendary alt.folk duo formed by Leo O'Kelly & Sonny Condell, return to the venue where they played their first ever London gig in the summer of 1970...The Troubadou...
June, 2012
Wednesday 06th June - 2012
The Sessions
Doll Rats
Doll Rats DOLL RATS manifested somewhere between the mining town of Constantine and the industrial fog of the Midlands. Despite the debauchery and countless empty bottles of whiskey, DOLL RATS...