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Chiswick has a new sculpture. Designed by Conrad Shawcross RA, it celebrates the poet W.B. Yeats, who lived in Bedford Park as a young man. Pages 18-19 The area has many professional artists who draw inspiration from the landscapes and people of west London and show their work regularly in galleries. Seventeen of them have come together to take part in an exhibition of the work of local artists at the Clayton Hotel Chiswick, with some spectacular work available to buy. Pages 14-16

Brentford is going Green. Our regular contributor Sara Ward writes that as well as all her usual activities at Hen Corner ‘frolicking with the chickens’ she is involved in a number of different projects in Brentford aimed at helping us in our efforts to live a little greener. Page 8

It is 60 years since the Ealing Blues Club opened. Famously it is the place where Mick Jagger and Keith Richards first met Brian Jones and the three started playing together. It is no exaggeration to say that the influence of the club on creating the R&B scene in the UK was pivotal, encouraging other musicians from SW London to play there and at other venues such as the Eel Pie Island hotel, the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond and the Ricky-Tick clubs. A new book Rock’s Diamond Year celebrates 60 years since the birth of Rock as we know it, in west London. Pages 22-23

Carrying on that tradition of live music, Jazz at George

IV has a brilliant line-up for the autumn, with two shows in the EFG London Jazz Festival: the Retro Chet trio play the best of Chet Baker on Sunday 13th November and Robin Bibi and Alen Glen present their Blues & Roots evening on Thursday 17th November. With Blues and Jazz every Thursday night, the music ranges from Gypsy Jazz to R&B, the music of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and the songbook of Joni Mitchell. The multi awardwinning Antonio Forcione stops off in London in October for a night at George IV and at the end of November the Grande Dame of Cabaret Dillie Keane appears with Barb Jungr in a special Christmas show. Pages 24-25

Birdwatcher and artist Les McCallum writes about and draws the pretty Mandarin duck, which he has spotted in Isleworth. This is the best time of year to see them because most of Mandarins’ early breeding activities take place in the first half of winter. Males have a beautiful pattern of iridescent red, brown, orange and green feathers and during the breeding season, he also sports a “sail” of feathers over his back. Page 21

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OUR FAMILY HELPING YOUR FAMILY

For over 240 years, seven generations of the Lodge Family have been privileged to help local families in their time of need. We provide all funerals, whether modern, traditional, green or alternative, with care and compassion.

“As soon as I spoke to Jacqueline I knew she was the right person to support me through the funeral. I went with my gut and never regretted it. Nothing was too much trouble. I felt totally supported and guided through the process and amazingly felt like it was a friend holding my hand.” - Ms J

Robert, Chris, Andrew & Michael Lodge

HEN Corner

Regular readers will be familiar with our exploits at Hen Corner, be that frolicking with the chickens, collecting honey from the bees, baking bread, making cheese and the like, but in our spare time I like to support a few local groups with their green projects.

I’ve been a governor at St Paul’s Primary School for many years and have been proud to judge their annual Bake Off. I’m a director of Cultivate London who have fantastic projects all over West London - have you visited the Salopian Garden in Isleworth?

More recently we’ve been supporting the churches in the Parish of Brentford, helping them to become more sustainable through a project called Eco Church, which involves a team looking at every aspect of the church: its buildings, land, teaching, engagement with the community and generally making

sure they practice what they preach.

Whilst we are still very much on a journey, we have been growing food in the church gardens, offer regular tips on eco swaps, a monthly Clothes Repair Cafe and our young people have organised our first Clothes Swap.

On Saturday 8th October the inaugural Brentford Green Fair will take place, bringing together different community groups from across the area to network, showcase and share different ways to live greener lives. All are welcome to come, learn, network and see what opportunities there are to do things differently for the benefit of the environment around us.

Later in the month, we have a family event, Bats and Pumpkins, on Sunday 30th October, 3-5pm, where we will harvest the pumpkins that we’ve grown and learn all about Brentford’s bats

as they fly through the church garden above our heads.

Looking forward, the Clothes Repair Cafe has a special focus in November: Make your own Christmas Jumpers!

Back at Hen Corner, we have an exciting new bread course, Baker’s Dozen, on Tuesday 4th October, where we will be making New York Bagels, Traditional English Muffins and Pesto Pinenut Swirls.

We are preparing our entries for the National Honey Show, I hope the judges like our honey, and will be running our Introduction to Making Sausages on Tuesday 1st November, all ready for Bonfire Night!

So why not learn some new skills and join with the wider community as we each try to live a little greener?

Full details of Brentford’s Eco Church can be found at ParishofBrentford.org.uk/ welcome/eco-church

Brentford is Going Green

THE CHISWICK Calendar

COFFEE BREAK

Quiz

Comedy catchphrase quiz –Which UK TV comedy shows made the following catchphrases famous?

1. “I don’t believe it!”

2. “I have a cunning plan…”

3. “Yeah but no but yeah but…”

4. “Good moaning”

5. “Oooh! Betty!”

6. “Thank you very much, Jerry!”

7. “Smeghead”

Across

1 Loose from moorings (6)

4 Academy awards (6)

8 Brownish tint used in photography (5)

9 Frankness (7)

10 Oriental (7)

11 Choose to participate (3,2)

12 Morning snack (9)

17 Supermarket section (5)

19 Welsh port (7)

21 Exceed (7)

22 Intense sorrow (5)

23 Diatribe (6)

24 Story in instalments (6)

Down

1 Solution (6)

2 Quick sharp reply (7)

3 Distress signal (5)

5 Wavy, winding (7)

6 Approximately (5)

7 Pilgrim’s destination (6)

9 General agreement (9)

13 Green gem (7)

14 Japanese dish of thinly sliced raw fish (7)

15 Short-legged hound (6)

16 Legal (6)

18 More certain (5)

20 Bicker (5)

8. “No… no… no… no… yes!”

9. “Go on, go on, go on…”

10. “Lovely Jubbly”

See page 23 for answers!

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Gardener’s

Andy Eddy, Head Gardener at Osterley Park & House, writes

“One of the chief delights of the gardening year is choosing bulbs to buy each autumn with the clear anticipation of their joyous display the next spring. Here at Osterley I order mine from a Dutch wholesaler but they are available from every garden centre and also many supermarkets are increasingly offering a wide range too.

Due to our population of marauding squirrels we grow most of our bulbs in display pots their first year as we can then cover them with chicken wire to prevent damage. These pots are displayed in various parts of the garden but mainly in our Garden House – a grade 1 listed 18thC building at the centre of the garden.

Of course this style of display pot gardening can be adapted for any size of pot and also whatever the size of your garden or even balcony. Mostly I choose bulbs and accompanying plants with coordinating colours but sometimes it can be fun to use a bright mix of shades – some good clashes are fun in the spring after a long winter!

As a rule of thumb all bulbs being planted into the ground should be at a depth of twice the size of the bulb but in pots you can ignore this and plant in layers. You can then choose a greater number of varieties but more importantly to extend the length of time of flowering by using more than one type of bulb. For instance starting with large daffodil or tulip bulbs for later flowering and smaller crocus bulbs layered on top for earlier blooming.

After flowering all of these pots of bulbs can be emptied and planted into the ground in your garden leaving your pots – and your imagination for summer displays and more!”

CHISWICK inPictures

Exhibition by local artists

Chiswick is full of artists, many of whom use the west London landscapes and people of their own neighbourhood as inspiration for their art. Whether you are looking for a memento of somewhere you know well to decorate your own home, or a present for a friend, the Chiswick In Pictures exhibition is a good place to clook at the work of local artists and to buy if the mood takes you.

Organised by The Chiswick Calendar, the exhibition is hosted by the Clayton hotel at 626 Chiswick High

Rd, London W4 5RY. They have a lovely large, airy atrium with lots of light, which is on the ground floor behind the bar and reception area, open 24/7, so you can browse the art works at your leisure.

The exhibition runs from Monday 4 September until 30 October 2022, with 17 artists taking part, whose work represents a variety of styles from traditional oil paintings to digital art and mixes media.

Sponsored by Snappy Snaps Chiswick and Sipsmith gin.

Anna Kunst

Anna Kunst is a professional photographer who lives and works in Chiswick, doing portrait, wedding and corporate photography professionally and landscape photography for pleasure.

Arabella Harcourt-Cooze

Arabella Harcourt-Cooze is a landscape artist “obsessed by water, seas, rivers and above all The Thames.” She catches the light on the water during all seasons along our stretch of river from Kew Bridge to Hammersmith, working largely in oil on canvas.

Christine Berrington

Christine Berrington has worked as an illustrator on numerous highprofile commissions in advertising and publishing. She exhibits her work in several London galleries and has won prizes in the Royal Watercolour Society Open Competitions.

Eve Pettitt has exhibited widely, including with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Societyof Women Artists, National Open Art, The New English Art Club and the Chelsea Art Society. She took part in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year and her portrait was chosen by Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.

Gina Balakrishnan’s work celebrates the often overlooked and ordinary. She often works in monochrome but occasionally surprises with a punch of colour, photographing Chiswick in all seasons.

Isobel Johnstone’s work is full of colour and light, often inspired by riotous gardens. Isobel was for many years the curator of the Arts Council Collection at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre. Since leaving that job she has been able to focus on her own creativity.

Jane Price uses mainly acrylics on canvas: “my process is quick & deliberate, in the hope of capturing a sense of energy & movement.” Her work is shown in several galleries and has been selected & shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition. She has created a series of paintings of Chiswick House Gardens specially for Chiswick In Pictures.

Jennifer Griffiths is a natural photographer who takes pictures everywhere she goes. She often takes pictures along the shores of the River Thames, at Chiswick House Gardens, Gunnersbury Park and Chiswick Business Park.

Jill Spearman is a landscape artist with a very wide range of subjects. Now settled in London she says: “Instead of painting and sketching the well-known landmarks of London and around the world I seek to find the small places that provide visual tension – an evening light on a building, an allotment in winter, a tree in Richmond park.

Joanna Brendon paints pictures, often of water, with a freely expressive sense of movement and depth. She is showing a charcoal drawing of urban back gardens.

Madeleine Marsh is a sculptor, painter, jeweller and mudlarker. She collects bits and pieces from the Thames foreshore and creates mirror surrounds with what she finds.

Eve Pettitt

Gina Balakrishnan

Jennifer Griffiths

Madeleine Marsh

Isobel Johnstone

Jill Spearman

Jane Price

Joanna Brendon

Naila Hazell

Naila Hazell is the RSA Winner of Lyon & Turnbull Award 2021. Her speciality is portraits, often painting people in busy London bars and markets.

Paul Harrison

Paul Harrison studied traditional film and digital photography, maths and computer science in Australia before moving to the UK. He enjoys experimenting with technology to create images using techniques such as photo mosaics, time lapse, high dynamic range, augmented reality and artificial intelligence.

Rachel Busch

Rachel Busch is a printmaker whose work has been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She produces completely hand-made lino cuts, cardboard cuts and mono prints. Her most recent series show the Palm House at Kew Gardens.

Polly Nuttall

Polly Nuttall studied at St Martins School of Art and likes to represent ‘what silently unites us, the common shared unspoken experiences that are stronger than our apparent differences’, which includes a love of London parks.

Sarah Granville

Sarah Granville is a London based artist whose work draws on her background in architecture. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, Chelsea Arts Society, Royal Academy (Summer Exhibitions 2019, 2018, 2013), and Bankside Gallery.

Suz Hartman is a mixed media artist with a passion for combining a variety of different texture and materials.

Suz Hartman

Hearing Well

Hearing Well, the hearing care specialists at 40 Chiswick High Rd, have been selected as finalists in this year’s Business Awards, organised by the Hounslow Chamber of commerce but open to all businesses in the London Boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow. The finalists will be judged at the end of November.

Hearing Well is a past winner in the retail section. Hearing aid audiologist Deepak Jagota and his team pride themselves on customer care, welcoming their clients, taking the time people need and generally treating them with kindness.

“When I first became involved in the hearing profession, the impact of hearing loss on the lives on my customers quickly became obvious. It was a startling realisation and it led to a true understanding of the difficulties that hearing loss brought into their lives.”

While Deepak has more than 16 years’ experience as a hearing aid audiologist his colleague Abid Taluquedar is a consultant audiologist with a clinical background, having worked for more than seven years in the NHS at Great Ormond St, Guys & St Thomas hospitals and in private practice in Harley St.

“I love helping people to hear better” he says. He has worked with children and elderly patients and specialises in complex hearing loss cases in adults.

“People should get their hearing checked” he says. “You can have hearing loss at any age but people think there’s a stigma about it and that it’s a sign of ageing, so they are hesitant about it.”

Recent studies have shown auditory deprivation can accelerate the onset of dementia because people are isolated by their difficulty in hearing.

“My grandparents had dementia, so it pleases me to be able to help people in that situation.”

Receptionist Anu Kumar shares their satisfaction. “People walk out of here with joy that they can hear again”. Having run her own business and worked for the Post Office, she finds the combination of being able to use her admin skills to keep the practice running efficiently and having the social interaction with happy customers very satisfying.

On Saturday mornings when he is not working, Deepak helps out at Brentford Food Bank and makes regular donations. They are looking for volunteers with a range of skills and he would encourage other people to do it too: “It is quite humbling to find the kinds of people - professional people – who can’t afford to feed their families. It gives you a great sense of purpose. I always feel good after it.”

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CHISWICK CELEBRATES ITS MOST FAMOUS POET

W.B. Yeats

Chiswick is associated with a number of famous poets. The 16th century metaphysical poet John Donne lived in Chiswick, as did two famous women poets - Lady Mary Sidney, also in the 16th century, and Elizabeth Moody in the 18th century. Alexander Pope, often described as the best English poet of the 18th century, lived here for a while, an associate of Lord Burlington’s in the period when he was planning and building Chiswick House.

More recently Director of the Chiswick Book Festival Torin Douglas has discovered Welsh poet Dylan Thomas lived in the Vicarage of St Paul’s Grove Park during World War II and Jamaican poet James Berry, who died in 2017, spent weekends in Bedford Park for 20 years before moving into a flat in Homecross House in Fishers Lane in Chiswick.

W.B. Yeats sculpture

The most famous of all was the Irish Nobel prize winning W.B. Yeats, who lived in Bedford Park with his family as a young man. Born in County Dublin, he spent his early years in Sligo, moved to England in 1867 and to Bedford Park in 1879 when he was 13.

There the family mixed with a very artistic, cultured and avant-garde set. We know he did badly at Godolphin School, but also that he wrote some of his best-known poems while he was living in Chiswick.

In September a sculpture was installed in his memory on the green outside St Michael & All Angels Church, on the corner of Bath Rd and The Avenue. Created by sculptor Conrad Shawcross RA, the design was inspired by the first four lines of his poem Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven:

Conrad Shawcross

Enwrought Light

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Called Enwrought Light, the sculpture is one of a series which are essentially stacks of tetrahedons (a polyhedron with four triangular faces, like a pyramid only with a triangular base).

Conrad describes it as ‘fractured’. The gold and silvercoloured facets reflect light so they seem ephemeral, making Enwrought Light ever-changing, reflecting the seasons and the conditions around it.

Speaking alongside former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and the new Ambassador for Ireland, Martin Fraser, at the ceremony to introduce the sculpture, Shawcross explained as the season turned to autumn and the leaves changed it would reflect the gold and tawny colours of the trees. At dusk and dawn it would reflect the pinks of the sky.

Leading Irish actors recite Yeats’ work

That evening the Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation put on an evening of Yeats’ poetry with some of the best-known names of Irish theatre and film.

Sinéad Cusack, Ruth Negga and Ciarán Hinds illustrated Yeats’ work with readings on the various themes and periods of his life – his fascination with the fairy folk, his love for Maud Gonne, politics, Irish nationalism, the rage of an old man. Jeremy Irons, introduced as an “honorary Irishman” (he has a castle in the west of Ireland) read with them.

The prime mover behind getting the sculpture installed was Cahal Dallat, a well-known Irish poet who lives in Bedford Park now.

Over several years of hard work and fundraising by crowd-funding, the Bedford Park Project has not only organised the sculpture but arranged for workbooks to be introduced in local schools so children can learn about their local poet and for resources such as a video and a downloadable walking trail with digital information about the poet and where he lived.

Fr Kevin Morris with Conrad Shawcross

Sinéad Cusack, Ruth Negga, Ciarán Hinds & Jeremy Irons, photograph Roger Green

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Mandarin ducks SPOTTED IN ISLEWORTH

I have seen a new bird on The Duke of Northumberland river, Isleworth [now named Dukes River].

First introduced to this country from China to Foxwarren Park, Surrey, in the mid eighteenth century as an ornamental bird, the Mandarin Duck must be one of the world’s most beautiful birds. Although I have seen them for many years they are now becoming more and more common and to see a pair swimming past our resident Moorhen and Mallard heading up to the Royal Oak was a pleasant surprise.

Closely related to the American Wood Duck the females are very similar in appearance, both a mottled grey with a bold eye stripe, but the male Mandarin is spectacular. Think of any colour and I am sure you will see it in the feathers: orange, blue, yellow, purple, green, black, white …

One particular feature of the male is the most unusual pair of orange sails that stick up on the back; they are an extension of the wings and are raised even higher in a courtship display.

They are classed as perching ducks and, unusually for ducks, they nest in trees, finding a cavity large enough to lay up to 12 eggs.

On hatching, the ducklings will be coaxed out of the hole by the female calling from below, as they tumble out. Being so light and fluffy they come to no harm floating down to the ground.

It was always thought they were carried to the ground on the parents backs, but that was later proved to be untrue.

Writing this has brought back a distant memory. As a ten year old I was given a children’s encyclopaedia and there in black and white was a drawing of a Mallard in flight with a clutch of ducklings on her back. They got that wrong!

That book was such a prized possession as a child but vanished when we moved to Roehampton in the 1950s BUT a few years ago I saw the same book in a charity shop and of course I bought it straight away.

Flicking through the pages there it is, the Mallard in flight complete with the brood on her back.

Les McCallum

Mandarin duck, drawing Les McCallum

CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF Rock Music

from its birthplace in SW London

Rock music as we know it dates back to 1962 –specifically 17 March 1962. That was the date the Ealing Blues Club was first opened, a music venue which was to have such a huge influence on young musicians in south-west London that they created the UK’s R&B scene and exported music with Black roots back to the US to become Rock music as we know it today.

This is the claim by the authors of the book Rock’s Diamond Year, commemorating 60 years of the club, and the club’s influence is borne out by many in the music industry.

The Ealing Blues Club’s big claim to fame is as the venue where the Rolling Stones first met and played together. In his autobiography Life Keith Richards quotes part of a letter he wrote to his aunt Patty in 1962:

“The Saturday after Mick and I are taking 2 girls over to our favourite Rhythm & Blues club over in Ealing … They got a guy on electric harmonica Cyril Davies fabulous always half-drunk unshaven plays like a mad man, marvellous.”

That is when they saw ‘Elmo Lewis’ (aka Brian Jones) playing slide guitar for the first time, in the club newly established by Alexis Corner spearheading a revival of Chicago Blues. They made their debut as the ‘Rollin’ Stones’ in July that year at the Marquee Club, but it was the Ealing club where they gigged regularly that winter.

In his introduction Ralph Brookfield writes:

“The popularity of the Stones’ music with suburban teens helped other South West London bands to follow in their footsteps.”

Brian Jones and Mick Jagger at the Marquee Club - photograph Young

Crawdaddy Club

Eel Pie Hotel

Roger Daltrey of The Who was at that time playing the pubs, clubs and hotels around Acton, Ealing, Greenford and Hanwell. John Lord, one of the founder members of Deep Purple, played keyboards with the Artwoods, who were regulars at the Ealing Club.

In 1963 the Stones took up residency at the Crawdaddy Club in the Station Hotel in Richmond, which has had several incarnations; more a ‘brand’ than a venue, since 2012 it has been based at the Richmond Athletic Ground. The Yardbirds from Kingston, featuring the young Eric Clapton, took over the Stones’ residency when they moved uptown to the Marquee Club.

“An early jamming mate of Clapton’s … was Isleworth-born guitarist David Brock, later the founder and perennial member of space-rockers Hawkwind,” writes Ralph.

The Ricky Tick clubs were another ‘brand’ putting on gigs in Windsor, Guildford, Reading and Hounslow featuring bands such as Cream, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

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The club par excellence where they all played was the hotel on Eel Pie Island. Their gig list reads like a Rock hall of fame.

“The Island already had a reputation as a place to keep your teenage daughters away from at all costs, plus there had recently been an exposé in the Evening Standard of the long-haired types who smoked weed and impregnated young ladies at the Eel Pie Island Jazz Club” writes Gina Way.

So naturally, aged 16, she lied to her parents about where she was going and headed straight there. Hers is one of several accounts from those who experienced the early days of Rock in south-west London and now want to see a museum in Ealing dedicated to our Rock heritage.

Quiz Answers

JazzAT GEORGE IV

Larry Pryce on Live Blues & Jazz in the Boston Room

This autumn we are delighted to be part of the London Jazz Festival, putting our little bit of west London on the Jazz map.

Thursday 6th October

Trio Manouche With Special Guest Italian Vocalist Francesca Confortini

Trio Manouche are one of the foremost exponents of Gypsy Swing Jazz, bringing a unique and highly contemporary twist to this ever more popular genre. Performing inspired re-worked classics of the great Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and numbers from their forthcoming new album.

Thursday 13th October

The Jo Harrop Trio With Special Guest Andy Davis

Showcase the Music Of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong

The much-celebrated jazz singer Jo Harrop & the sensational horn player, Andy Davies celebrate the music of one of the most popular and well-loved duos in jazz history, the ‘First Lady of

Jazz’ - Ella Fitzgerald and ‘Mr Jazz’ himself, Louis Armstrong.

Thursday 20th October

Joni’s SoulHomage to Joni Mitchell

A collaboration between acclaimed singer Gina Foster and world-class guitarist Ronnie Johnson, demonstrating a shared love for one of the greatest singer/ songwriters and guitar innovators of the last half century, Joni Mitchell.

Thursday 27th October

JT4tet Featuring top R&B Vocalist Nazarene Mighty

Influenced by George Benson, Herbie Hancock & Larry Carlton, JT4tet sees the reunion of keyboard player Tim Richards and guitarist Jon Taylor. With the soulful vocalist Nazarene Mighty, expect to hear an eclectic mix of originals and choice jazz and blues covers.

Thursday 3rd November

Richie Milton & The Lowdown Featuring Linda Hall

With five well-received albums to his name, singer/songwriter and guitarist Milton and his band are always in demand for festivals all over Europe. His driving R&B sound mixes up Southern Soul and Chicago Blues with just a touch of New Orleans funk and a dash of Latin rhythms.

Thursday 10th November

An evening with Antonio

Forcione

Multi award-winning acoustic guitarist and composer, Antonio Forcione is a highly charismatic and inventive artist. He will be performing his vibrant and original blend of jazz, Latin, African, flamenco and soul, interpreting some well-known classics and playing some original numbers of his own.

Jo Harrop

Joni’s Soul

Richie Milton & the Lowdown

Sunday 13th November

The Retro Chet Trio play the best of Chet Baker

This much acclaimed trio will be recreating some of the jazz legend’s finest studio and live recordings from the 1950’s through to the mid 1980’s in a tribute to the troubled but hugely talented musician.

Thursday 17th November

Robin Bibi & Alan Glen Blues & Roots Evening

Recognised as two of the UK’s finest exponents of their respective crafts, Robin played for the Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and The Pretty Things before forming his own band. Alan, a virtuoso of the Blues Harp, rated as one of the genre’s finest players, has worked extensively with The Yardbirds, Nine Below Zero and The Barcodes and recorded with Alannah Myles, Alvin Lee and Dr Feelgood.

Thursday 24th November

Jazz Cabaret Xmas Special Featuring Dillie Keane and Barb Jungr

A marvellous pre-Christmas treat as you join two of international Cabaret’s Grandest of Dames, Dillie Deane and Brb Jungr for this very special show. Featuring songs by Tom Waits, Ray Davies and John Legend together with a hilarious take on the ‘Twelve Days Of Christmas’ among many more seasonal sizzlers, this is certainly not your standard Christmas fare.

“Exudes faded glamour, a bit like Brighton seafront ....” Daily Mail.

Barb Jungr is international recognised for her work of the songs work Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen as well as being a radical interpreter of the New American Songbook.

Google The Chiswick Calendar + Jazz at George IV for how to get tickets

Venue: George IV, 185 Chiswick High Rd, Chiswick, London W4 2DR.

Dillie Keane is known worldwide as a founder member of the legendary ‘Fascinating Aida’ having played pretty much every theatre in the country and far beyond.

Retro Chet Robin Bibi & Alan Glen Dillie Keane and Barb Jungr

Part of the EFG London Jazz Festival

Part of the EFG London Jazz Festival

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