The Albion Christmas Band are widely regarded as the premier seasonal show, which has been touring for 25 years this year, and attracts sell-out audiences across the UK.  Indeed, many people say that their Christmas doesn’t start until they have seen The Albion Christmas Band.

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The Albion Band Christmas Show

Stables Theatre Ltd

Albany Down comprises founder member Paul Turley on vocals and guitars, drummer and backing vocalist, Pete Hancock and bassist and backing vocalist Ben Atkins. The band has recorded four studio albums with producer Greg Haver (Manic Street Preachers, INME, Super Furry Animals).

Albany Down

Dire Streets bring to life the classic songs of one of the world’s greatest guitar bands with a level of musicianship and attention to detail, making them the stand out Dire Straits tribute in the UK.

Dire Streets

From their official PRS/Billboard award and appearing in the BBC's acclaimed ‘Arena’ documentary series, to two members being a part of original Thin Lizzy member Brian Robertson's (Thin Lizzy, Motorhead) recording and touring act The Clan, Limehouse Lizzy have emerged from the pandemic period with their most explosive show and accomplished line-up yet.

Limehouse Lizzy

The Godfather of Swing Mr Ray Gelato has been taking his special brand of swing, jazz and R&B music all over the world since 1988. This multi-talented singer, saxman, songwriter and band leader has appeared at festivals, clubs and concert stages from Brazil to New York City.

Ray Gelato & The Giants

The band recreate the distinctive sound of the classic Shearing Quintet as well as highlights the work of this influential and important British pianist who found fame when he settled in the US in the late 1940s. The repertoire includes Shearing's best known compositions and arrangements of Lullaby of Birdland and September in the Rain but also features lesser known Shearing gems like Consternation and other originals inspired by Shearing's music.

Sunday Sessions: Shades of Shearing Quintet

BUT DADDY I LOVE HER sees Sophie take the stage with her trademark naughtiness, this time arguing that we should all choose silliness over common sense and hot wet fantasies over cold, bleak reality. In this intentionally unhinged hour, delulu is the solulu.

Sophie Duker: BUT DADDY I LOVE HER

The show pays homage to some of the greatest crooners of all time with a splendiferous injection of Britishness. Featuring humour, tap dance and some of the most quintessential songs from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Matt Monro, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin. Expect some Come Fly With Me, Fly Me to the Moon, Mack the Knife and many, many more…

Crooners

A jazz standard might reveal its essence only in the final moments of performance. Roth’s original compositions, such as Dancing with Grace, the Trio’s collaborative works like Trio in Five and Looking Forward to Looking Back, or their reinterpretation of masterworks like Anton Dvorak’s Largo from Symphony #9, offer just a few gateways into the creative world of the Pete Roth Trio — a world that will likely reshape your perspective on what the guitar trio format can achieve.

Pete Roth Trio

Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind-blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling, and passionate.  Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night.

Martyn Joseph

Performing over 35 chart topping smash-hits live in concert, with tributes to Duran Duran, The Human League, Kim Wilde, Culture Club, Madonna, Wham!, Nena, Toni Basil, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Bananarama, Dead or Alive, Madness and many many more !

80's Mania

Three of the country’s favourite television personalities from the world of antiques entertain you with tales from the saleroom, television and beyond. The enormous variety of their experiences range from selling chickens and cattle to priceless Chinese artefacts and to multi-million-pound cars.

Antiques and A Little Bit of Nonsense

Marc Bolan, with his band T.Rex, was one of the most flamboyant and charismatic stars of the original glam rock era. With Bolan's special ingredient of Rock-a-Boogie songs, the band had a string of huge hits throughout the 1970s including Love to Boogie,Telegram Sam, Jeepster and 20th Century Boy.

T.Rextasy

Daria has been described by Mike Harding as “one of the finest voices and one of the most intriguing and interesting songwriters on the present folk scene”. Her debut release Eternal Child was described as “phenomenal” and her second album Long Lost Home has enjoyed rave reviews and multiple awards, including LCM Album of the Year. Her third offering Earthly Delights was named "one of the year's finest albums" by Folk Radio UK, and her latest studio release EVE is “a terrific collection from the heart that reminds what a singular talent she is”, according to FATEA Magazine.

Daria Kulesh Trio

Hailed as the UK’s most successful country act, twin sisters Catherine and Lizzy Ward Thomas will tour across the country in January and February 2025 with a special show with stripped back versions of songs from across their career. Recording their debut album, 2014’s From Where We Stand, while still in school, the duo have since cemented themselves as pioneers in the UK Country and Americana scene; not least for the follow-up album Cartwheels released in 2016 going to No.1 in the UK Album Charts, the first by a UK country act to top the charts. In 2019, the band were presented with the Country Music Association’s Jeff Walker Global Achievement Award in recognition of their success and impact on country music in the UK. 

Ward Thomas

Jim co-wrote the hits, recorded the albums, and toured the world with Rod – writing and performing You’re in My Heart, I Was Only Joking, Baby Jane, Blondes Have More Fun, Forever Young, D’Ya Think I’m Sexy and many more No1 hits. Now he is taking to the road to present the very best of Rod Stewart – the songs that formed the soundtrack to our lives for more than 30 years. . .

Cregan & Co

Jan Akkerman gained international fame with Focus from 1969 – 1976 with whom he recorded a number of breakout albums including ‘Focus Plays Focus / In and Out Of Focus’ (1970), ‘Focus II/Moving Waves’ (1971) which reached the album chart in the UK #2, Netherlands #4 and #8 in the US going Gold. This album spawned the mega-hit ‘Hocus Pocus’ which had international chart success and more recently has been heard on numerous TV shows such as Top Gear, Skins and Shameless. It has been used in the in the films Hot Fuzz, Robocop (2014) and Baby Driver. and numerous TV advertisements including Nike.

Jan Akkerman

Fairport Convention have been entertaining music lovers for more than half a century, having formed in 1967. During that time the band that launched British folk-rock has seen many changes, but one thing has remained the same - Fairport’s passion for performance.

Fairport Convention

Over the past two decades Kim has released ten critically acclaimed albums, been listed in the ‘Top 10 Albums of 1999’ in Time Magazine for her album Glimmer, plus received four-stars in Rolling Stone and named ‘AltCountry Album of the Year’ in People Magazine for her album Rise. Her 2013 release Thorn In My Heart was named in year’s end best lists by No Depression, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press. She has written two #1 singles and had four others hit Top 10. Her songs have been recorded by Trisha Yearwood, Mary Chapin Capenter, James Morrison, Brooks and Dunn and many others.

Events in Wavendon

The Albion Band Christmas...

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Albany Down

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Dire Streets

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Limehouse Lizzy

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Ray Gelato & The Giants

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Sunday Sessions: Shades o...

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Sunday Sessions: Shades o...

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Sophie Duker: BUT DADDY I...

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Crooners

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Pete Roth Trio

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Martyn Joseph

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80's Mania

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Antiques and A Little Bit...

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T.Rextasy

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Daria Kulesh Trio

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Ward Thomas

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Cregan & Co

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Jan Akkerman

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Fairport Convention

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Kim Richey

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