A People's Cabaret
Gallery of Guests, March 99 to June 02

March 99: 
Janet Wood, and Graham Langley with Lady Ragnall
April 99: Leon Rosselson and Ian Saville - The World Turned Upside Down
May 99: Sandra Kerr, Nancy Kerr and James Fagan
June 99: Telling Tales
July  99: Banner Theatre's production of Free for All
Oct 99: Rainbow Voices - Birmingham's Gay Chorus
Dec 99: Seize the Day
A People's Ceilidh - bringing in the Millennium
Jan 00: Los Incas, exciting group from Peru
Feb 00: Mother Earth, fusion of tabla, didgeridoo and Egyptian percussion Mar 00: Sisters Unlimited, on tour to celebrate International Women's Day Otra VezApr 00: Otra Vez, spicy tropical mixture of African drums and Iberian strings
May 00: Alexander Korbakov, accordion virtuoso Jun 00: Jo Freya and Katherine Locke, innovative material for clarinet, sax, whistle, voice and cello red fisted guitar
July 00: David Rovics from USA
Sept 00: Dave Rogers’ powerful singing and songwriting skills and Fred Wisdom’s versatile and expressive flamenco, jazz and folk guitar techniques Oct 00: Judy Small - songs of conscience, fun and love, spiced with just the right amount of wit, humour, anger and compassion  Lluvia de EsperanzaNov 00: Lluvia de Esperanza (Rain of Hope) - revolutionary cumbia music from El Salvador
Robb Johnson and Leon RosselsonDec 00: Leon Rosselson and Robb Johnson combining songs and guitars Bayou Gumbo
Jan 01: Bayou Gumbo - one of the delights of the UK Cajun scene
Feb 01: Kopanang explore and share music from countries which may be poor by economic standards but whose music conveys richness and vitality - South Africa, Malawi, Brazil, Chile, the Philippines - and from the UK
Sandra KerrMar 01: Sandra Kerr - a great musician and singer of witty and hard-hitting traditional and contemporary songs Francis FirebraceApr 01: Francis Firebrace with stories and paintings from his aboriginal tradition, accompanied by Dave Reynolds on didgeridoo Julie McNamaraMay 01: Julie McNamara, "a deliciously fruity voice with a wicked sense of humour" (Time Out)icBirmingham Comedy Festival 2001
Los IncasJune 01: Los Incas - South American songs, Pan pipes, flutes, guitars and traditional Peruvian tunes Ngawang ChoephelJuly 01: A host of resident performers and floor spots, blending music, fun and politics; supporting Amnesty prisoner of conscience Ngawang Choephel Roi KwabenaOct 01: Roi Kwabena - Caribbean stories woven from drum and voice
Rebel VoicesNov 01: REBEL VOICES - songs, humour and theatre woven together with wit and intricate harmonies
Voice workshop in the afternoon with REBEL VOICES 		Tashbain's Tower of BagelDec 01: Tashbain and the Tower of Bagel

Klezmer music workshop in the afternoon with TASHBAIN
otto and kristin smithFeb 02: Otto and Kristin Smith; home made music from Port Townsend, USA

Dance workshop in the afternoon with Otto and Kristin
Attila the StockbrokerJune 02: Attila the Stockbroker
Social surrealist multi-instrumentalist hardcore wandering minstrel...sharptongued radical poet, singer/songwriter, musician and composer.  Performance poetry, page poetry, verse, rants, songs, instrumentals, stories; love, anger, politics, satire; medieval chamber punk! Analogy: a synthesis of Hilaire Belloc, The Clash and a sixteenth century troubadour.
Sadly this was the last People's Cabaret in the series. We enjoyed it a lot, and hope it will have a reincarnation one day, under the wing of the Traditional Arts Team

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