Coming up at Salisbury Arts Centre

SOUNDS OF THE 60s WITH THE ZOOTS

MUSIC

Salisbury Arts Centre | Thursday 7 September | 7.30pm | Tickets from £20

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Experience THE Sixties multi award winning show that’s wowing audiences and bop to the ‘60s beats that everybody loves. With legendary numbers by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Monkeys, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Searchers, The Four Seasons, Elvis and dozens more of your favourite artists.

‘Impossible not to like’ The Stage

JOSH BERRY: SEXUAL POLITICS

COMEDY

Salisbury Arts Centre

Saturday 9 September | 7.30pm

Tickets from £19

Fresh off the back of a sell-out debut tour, Josh comes to Salisbury with his new stand-up show. Expect plenty of characters and impressions as he debates the two interweaving topics that pre-occupy him most: sex and politics.

‘A remarkable new talent’

Rob Brydon

Age guidance 16+

Hayseed Dixie Silver Salisbury Jazz Social

Salisbury Arts Centre

Wednesday 13 September | 7.30pm

Tickets from £23

Hayseed Dixie cover rock classics with a country twist. The world first got a taste of the boys on April 17, 2001 with the release of their first album, entitled A Hillbilly Tribute To AC/DC. Since then they have gone on to release 17 albums, and are now the acknowledged creators of their own musical genre, Rockgrass.

JOHN KEARNS: THE VARNISHING DAYS

Comedy

Salisbury Arts Centre

Saturday 16 September | 7.30pm

Tickets from £17

The Varnishing Days is the heartstopping, glasses-dropping new show from stand-up comedian to the stars John Kearns.

Evening Standard

Age guidance 14+

Salisbury Arts Centre

Friday 29th September | 2.30pm

Tickets £5 including refreshments

Wiltshire Creative is thrilled to welcome back Celebrating Age Wiltshire musicians for an afternoon of Jazz classics. Our partners at Celebrating Age Wiltshire, deliver culture and heritage events to support the wellbeing of vulnerable older people. We are pleased to support Silver Salisbury, a programme of activities to help older people get out and about and enjoy life, helping to relieve loneliness and isolation in old age.

Barnstormers Comedy

COMEDY

Salisbury Arts Centre | Friday 29 September | 8pm

Tickets from £15

Get ready for a night of hilarity and laughter, as three top acts from the London comedy circuit regale you with witty wisecracks and tall tales. See our website for line-up details ahead of the show.

Barnstormers Comedy will also take place on Fridays 27 October and 24 November.

Age guidance 18+

Sound Of The Sirens

Salisbury Arts Centre | Saturday 7 October | 7.30pm | Tickets from £17

Sound of the Sirens are a singer-songwriting duo based in Exeter, who have cemented themselves as “one of the UK’s finest folk acts” not only on the West country scene, but nationally, and internationally too. Enjoy emotive ballads, to up-beat, foot stomping, hands in the air, sing-along anthems.

PAUL HIGGS PRESENTS ‘A BRIEF HISTORY OF JAZZ’

Salisbury Arts Centre | Saturday 30 September | 7.30pm | Tickets from £20

Trumpeter Paul Higgs and his 3-piece band take you on a delightful musical tour of the history of jazz, playing hits by the legendary greats – Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker, and Miles Davis, amongst others. The show features New Orleans, swing and bebop, through cool jazz, modal and Latin right up to contemporary jazz.

The Unravelling Wilburys

Salisbury Arts Centre | Thursday 5 October | 7.30pm | Tickets from £20

The Unravelling Wilburys perform the songs of 1980s supergroup The Traveling Wilburys. Expect to dip into the back catalogue of each of its legendary members; George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne (ELO). A fabulous night out for lovers of great music.

FIONA ALLEN: ON THE RUN

Comedy

Salisbury Arts Centre | Friday 13 October | 7.30pm | Tickets from £15

Star of Smack The Pony Fiona Allen performs her debut Stand Up show. On The Run is Fiona’s warm, engaging and very funny journey to the stand up stage, her thoughts on family, marriage, sex robots, passive aggressive school mums and supermarket dress codes.

Age guidance 14+

Chris Mccausland

Salisbury Arts Centre

Thursday 19 & Friday 20 October

7.30pm

Tickets from £16

Chris McCausland comes to Salisbury with his work in progress comedy show! As seen on Would I Lie to You?, Have I Got News for You and QI

Age guidance 16+

Comedy Young People

SHIFT SOCIAL: HALLOWEEN PARTY

Salisbury Arts Centre

Saturday 28 October | 7pm

Tickets from £3

This October half term – trick or treat yourself at Salisbury Arts Centre for a spooktacular night of boo-gying to live music performed by young artists and get involved in creepy crafts and monster mischief. Remember to creep it real in your ghoultastic glad rags to make sure you’re the pick of the pumpkin patch.

Ages 14 – 21

GEOFF NORCOTT: BASIC BLOKE

Comedy

Salisbury Arts Centre

Friday 3 November | 7.30pm

Tickets from £19.50

Catch the NEW national tour by the star of Have I Got News For You and Would I Lie to You? Geoff tries to make sense of the current cultural and political scene with his playfully provocative brand of humour, on his sixth UK tour.

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Evening Standard

Age guidance 16+

THE GREATEST MAGICIAN: AN EVENING OF WONDERS

Magic

Salisbury Arts Centre | Saturday 11 November | 7.30pm | Tickets from £19

This astonishing new magic show will leave you aching from laughter and dizzy in disbelief. Directed by the late Paul Daniels and performed by his nephew, this enigmatic magic show comes to the stage for the first time. You’ll be transported to a jaw-dropping world of light-hearted hilarity, wonderment, and mystery for one night only!

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BBC Sounds

Age guidance 12+

TOM ROBINSON: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

Music

Salisbury Arts Centre

Saturday 4 November | 7.30pm

Tickets from £22

Musician and broadcaster Tom Robinson presents an evening of songs and stories spanning five decades of adventures in the music industry. Expect intimate versions of classics such as War Baby, Glad To Be Gay and 2-4-6-8 Motorway alongside stories from behind the scenes and a sprinkling of fan favourites from his extensive back catalogue.

Age guidance 12+

LAURENCE KNIGHT: THE BOWIE EXPERIENCE

Salisbury Arts Centre

Friday 10 November | 7.30pm

Tickets from £22

Explore David Bowie’s long and eclectic career, mixing deep cuts with all-time fan favourites. With costume changes and a huge sound, this gig really is one for the true ‘Diamond Dogs’ and the dedicated ‘Cat People’! The show has all the hits you would expect and some lesserknown surprises to delight and entertain.

Women In Rock

MUSIC

Salisbury Arts Centre

Saturday 18 November | 7.30pm

Tickets from £20

Get ready to dance and sing along to this spectacular show celebrating 5 decades of the world’s greatest female rock legends. From Quatro to Joplin, Cher to Turner, Pink to Blondie, Heart to Benatar, the set list is endless classics one after another and has something for everyone.

Age guidance 12+

SOLVE-ALONG-A MURDER SHE WROTE

Comedy

Salisbury Arts Centre | Friday 17 November | 7.30pm

Tickets from £19

Solve-Along-A Murder She Wrote returns to Salisbury with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode “Sing a Song of Murder.” Jessica Fletcher heads to London but soon gets caught up in a murder mystery only she (or you!) can solve! A unique and hilarious night featuring games, prizes and audience participation.

Age guidance 16+

The Deloreons

MUSIC

Mad Dog Mcrea

MUSIC

Salisbury Arts Centre

Saturday 25 November | 7.30pm

Tickets from £21

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Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz and bluegrass.

‘A sound mixed, mashed and finely honed through years of live gigs’

Rock ‘n’ Reel Magazine

Age guidance 14+

LIVING SPIT’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL

COMEDY THEATRE

Salisbury Arts Centre | Friday 1 December | 8pm |

Tickets from £12

The Deloreons return to Salisbury Arts Centre following numerous sell out gigs! They know exactly how to get the party going with some of the best known covers from across the decades.

Age guidance 18+

Salisbury Arts Centre | Saturday 2 December | 7.30pm |

Tickets from £18.50

With silly songs, pitiful puppetry and more Dickensian daftness than you can shake a selection box at, Living Spit’s A Christmas Carol promises to be a feast of festive foolery that you will never forget.

Age guidance 12+

FROM GOLD TO RIO JAZZ DYNAMOS JAZZ’N’80s

Salisbury Arts Centre

Friday 8 December | 7.30pm

Tickets from £18

Making a welcome return to Salisbury Arts Centre, Jazz Dynamos are back with their special versions of wellknown songs from the ‘70s and ‘80s, transforming them with a mix of jazz, bossa and samba, all featuring the wonderful vocals of Lucy Randell

Their unique set of original, entertaining, contemporary jazz arrangements includes hits by Dolly Parton, Madonna, U2, The Police, a-ha and Britney Spears, as well as some swinging Christmas songs.

Festive Barnstormers

Salisbury Arts Centre | Friday 15 December | 8pm | Tickets from £15

Barnstormers is going all Christmassy with a festive line-up of stand-up comedians. Book early as tickets sell out fast.

Age guidance 18+ MUSIC

Salisbury Arts Centre

Saturday 9 December | 7.30pm

Tickets £22

Two of the UK’s most iconic bands will be brought to life in one power packed show!

From Gold to Rio – The Greatest Hits of Spandau Ballet & Duran Duran will take you on a nostalgic journey back to the New Romantic era which ruled the charts for over a decade. Enjoy non-stop classics including Gold, Rio, True, The Reflex, Through The Barricades, Save A Prayer, Lifeline and Girls on Film to name a few.

Age guidance 12+

Limehouse Lizzy

MUSIC

Salisbury Arts Centre | Saturday 16 December | 8pm | Tickets from £22

Now in their third decade, Limehouse Lizzy continue to keep the spirit of Celtic rock icon Philip Lynott and his band Thin Lizzy alive, still-relevant and dominating stages worldwide.

Radio Times