All programme times & details are subject to alteration.
To make a booking please call the Box Office on 01323 841414.
(between 10.00am and 3.00pm Monday to Friday)

May
Saturday 10 May 2008 - 7.30pm
Animals & Friends
Pavilion Hailsham

There is no Eric Burdon but John Steel who has been around from day one and Mickey Gallagher who took over from Alan Price in 1965 are, and Pete Barton does a great job with the vocals!

Expect all the hits, Boom Boom, Don't let me be misunderstood, We've gotta get out of this place, Baby let me take you home, Dimples, I'm cryin', Talkin' about you, Bring it on home to me, It's my life, and of course The house of the rising sun. No matter how far forward music goes, it's always great to look back, and this you can do at the Pavilion with the Animals and Friends

Seats: £17.50 - booking opens 12/02/08 - 01323 841414
Thursday 22nd May 2008 - Doors Open 7pm for 7.30pm
ANGELICA CELTIC CHOIR
Raising Funds for STARLIGHT

ANGELICA is a 25 strong girl’s choir ranging from 11 to 19 years old. The girls came together 7 months ago performing mainly Celtic Songs, concentrating on soft haunting harmonies.
ANGELICA sing exclusively for the Starlight Charity and have a huge passion for singing.
We hope you enjoy their heavenly voices!

Tickets £6.50 (No Concessions)
Sunday 25 May 2008 - 7.30pm
The annual visit of Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes CANCELLED
Pavilion Hailsham

Unfortunately this show has been cencelled. Please contact our Box Office on 01323 841414 for further information.

Seats: £18.50 - booking opens 12/02/08 - 01323 841414
June
Saturday 07 June 2008 - 7.30pm
The Strawbs (full electric show)
Pavilion Hailsham

The Strawbs electric show at the Pavilion will feature Dave Cousins, Dave Lambert, Chas Cronk, John Hawken and Rod Coombes. This was the line-up that completed the band’s move from folk to pop to prog rock in 1974 with the album Hero and Heroine, which followed the success of the singles Lay Down and Part of the Union that had reached twelve and two in the charts in 1972-73.In their five-piece incarnation, two very different styles emerge. Cousins supplies the folk element, while Lambert provides the rock - the long hair, power chords, and the occasional Pete Townshend-style leap into the air. On the face it, the combination shouldn’t work - there is no obvious musical connection, for example, between Witchwood, Cousins’s tale of a bosky ramble in winter time, and the lovelorn, up tempo Heartbreaker, written by Lambert - but somehow it does. Their voices are very different, but they share a common passion for the music which is clear in complex pieces like Autumn, Ghosts and The River/Down By The Sea when lead vocals are alternated.

Seats: £17.50 - booking opens 12/02/08 - 01323 841414
September
Sunday 14th September 2008 - Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm
Swing 'n' Sinatra

Featuring Simone from the Ivy Benson Orchestra
"They Swing like crazy - Superb !" Sheila Tracy (BBC)
An exciting night with hits from the Rat Pack, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald. The Best of Swing & Jazz from Glenn Miller to "Jools Holland" style. 6-piece band.

TICKETS £12.50 – 01323 841414
Friday 19th September 2008 - Doors Open 7pm for 7.30pm
WINSTON THE SINGING FARMER

Winston ‘The Original Singing Farmer’ is one of East Anglia’s favourite entertainers, renowned for his one man shows his singing and humour has won him a following from fans all over the world. Winston’s light-hearted songs are based on everyday events and life in the country as it is now and as it was not so long ago, and are great fun for young and old alike.

www.singingfarmer.co.uk

Tickets TBA
October
Saturday 04 October 2008
Uiscedwr Big Band Show



Seats: BOOKING DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN JULY
Sunday 19 October 2008
Richard Digance in concert



Seats: BOOKING DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN JULY
November
Sunday 09 November 2008
The Writing On The Wall

An anthology of dissent in words and music performed by Tony Benn and Roy Bailey.

The Writing On The Wall is a collaboration between two eminent and respected traditionalists , Tony Benn, now in his eighty fourth year, is Britain’s longest serving MP.

Famously outspoken and often controversial, he spent 50 years in parliament, many of those on the front benches.

Roy Bailey also has a career stretching over 50 years - as a folk singer - and in that time he has appeared all over the world.

He has been described as one of folk music’s finest carriers of the people’s message and interpreters of both traditional and contemporary song - and he has got an MBE to prove it (Just a minute though! - he returned it - back in 2006 - reason - "For our government's failure to call for an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon and to our complicity with the USA's policy of supporting Israel's actions in Palestine.")

Voted as the “Best Live Act” at the 2003 BBC Folk Awards, Tony Benn and Roy Bailey present a performance of writings, speeches and songs taken from the words of Socialists, Radicals, Chartists, Suffragettes and Revolutionaries that illustrate nearly 1000 years of campaigning for justice, freedom and equality.

It makes compelling listening......

Seats: BOOKING DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN JULY
December
Sunday 14 December 2008
The London Community Gospel Choir at Christmas



Seats: BOOKING DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED IN JULY