Collage Arts

Chris Laurence Quartet
2022-10-06 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
A chance to hear one of the most accomplished British bands spanning two generations – the 1960’s new music era represented by Chris Laurence and Frank Ricotti and the Loose Tubes era of the 1980’s represented by Martin France and John Paricelli. They will be playing music from their second recording released in 2020; tunes that have been honed over the decades and are full of all the good things of life: warmth, humour, melancholy, and memories.
Laurence’s group is notable for the acclaim each member has in Britain. In their debut CD ‘New View’ whether it’s the clean electric tone of his work on “Falling Grace,” the distorted edge of his own buoyant 5/4 “Scrim” or his classical guitar work on Wheeler’s melancholy ballad “Where Do We Go From Here?”
John Parricelli is a musical chameleon who paradoxically retains his personality. Like John Parricelli, Frank Ricotti is a player who leans towards spare interpretation, abstract colouration and a lyrical approach to soloing. Laurence is clearly a democratic leader, but what he brings to this band, in addition to an astute choice of band mates and material, is a homage to the great British jazz standards.
Bassist Chris Laurence has been a fixture on the British scene for many years, working regularly in the jazz sphere with artists including reedman John Surman, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and pianist John Taylor. He’s recorded pop sessions with the likes of Elvis Costello, Sting and David Gilmour, and remains active in the classical community, playing on orchestral film soundtracks including The Constant Gardener and The Man in the Iron Mask.
Line Up: Chris Laurence – double bass, John Parricelli – guitar, Frank Ricotti – vibraphone and Martin France – drums
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Doors open at 7pm, and music starts at 8pm.
Tickets £10
Venue: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre.

Private View of new exhibition ‘We Will Enjoy Flowers Again’ by Alina Potemska.
2022-10-12 18:00 - 20:00
You are cordially invited to the Private Viewing of the exhibition ” We Will Enjoy Flowers Again” by Alina Potemska at the Karamel Gallery (MAAD, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ).
When: Wednesday 12 October, 6-8pm.
RSVP via Eventbrite.
Artist statement:
I went to Ukraine just for three days during Easter to see my brother. I will never forget that fear while hearing an air siren and dealing with the silent public agreement to be killed any day. Even though it was a relatively safe place. This experience is extremely scary and damaging. Most people won’t share their real experiences and they should not, they need time to pass thought to heal wounds, to find stability. They need to get used to not being scared of a clap, plane sound, or any other unexpected loud sound.
Ukrainians want to cherish life, enjoy flowers, sing songs and draw. And we will. We just need time. To love. To win. And maybe a tiny bit of support.

08.03.22 “I wish you to enjoy flowers again!”

My brother wished it to my mum and me on International Women’s Day. Usually, he buys us flowers and nice presents on this day. Now we are all miles apart, not even able either to buy flowers, neither to receive them nor even think about presents. The idea of enjoying beauty felt inappropriate that day. The only thing we were focusing on was surviving…
Art heals. Art helps to talk and share. I’ve always been the one who carried a small sketchbook with a pen. Now it is turning into a digital version, but the concept remains: observe, feel, document.

On the 24th of February, life changed significantly. Even being safe myself, I stopped doing everything I used to. I already experienced that feeling during the Revolution of Dignity in 2013/14, the annexation of Crimea the same year, and the long-lasting war since then in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
This strange feeling of responsibility to synchronise your whole life with political changes in your country. Being settled in London for a few years hasn’t separated me from the same feeling about my home country. Art saved me again. An emotional rollercoaster that pushed all anxiety feelings to the limit had to be balanced in some way. The inhumane behaviour of occupiers, contrasting sacrificing of Ukrainian heroes more honourable than any Marvel movie ever seen, constant worry about friends and family… I just kept drawing…

– Dr Alina Potemska – visual artist and illustrator, board game designer, Doctor of Arts.

Artist’s Bio

Alina Potemska was born in Kyiv and graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She specialises in visual arts and games. She designs board games and researches effective methods of using games as an educative and healing tool. She considers game as art medium providing fundamental help in understanding the world. Usually she captures daily scenes through drawings and illustrations. After a full-scale invasion in her home country, she focused on illustration as a way to spread the word of stories from her land. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in many countries, including the UK, USA, France, Poland, and Ukraine, introducing the different sides and similarities in illustration and games.

www.potemska.com instagram.com/akilina.po behance.net/potemska

The exhibition is on display from 27 September to 29 October 2022 at the Karamel Gallery, Opening times: Wed-Sat 12-8pm. MAAD, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ

Liam Noble and Paul Clarvis play 'West Side Story'
2022-10-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
A remarkable duo re-enactment of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story performed by inventive pianist Liam Noble and leading percussionist Paul Clarvis.
Paul Clarvis was the favourite drummer of Leonard Bernstein and he performed and recorded with the great master composer many times over the years.
In celebration of that time Paul and Liam present the whole of West Side Story in their unique way…

Line Up:
Paul Clarvis – drums, percussion & Liam Noble – piano

Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

Collage Kids: John Row storytelling
2022-10-15 11:30 - 12:30 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
John Row, is a veteran storyteller of the U.K. festival scene and a familiar figure at Glastonbury Festival Kidz Field and Cambridge Folk Festival, where he has been performing for nearly thirty years.

He cut his teeth as a stage performer at the Ipswich Arts Theatre on free Monday night shows where his late wife Rose, was a theatre electrician and with Nick Toczeck in the poetry and music review Stereo Graffiti in the 70’s and as an open air performer in the East Anglian Albion Fairs in the 80’s. He added storytelling to his bow as the eighties drew to a close and was immediately drawn into a world of magic and wonder. He has shared that world in a mish mash of settings from prisons ( he was the first storyteller in residence in a British prison) to international schools across the world. His annual visits to Vienna in the first decade of this century saw him tell stories to thousands of Kindergarten children as they struggled to come to grips with English as an additional language. A crowd at the Algiers Book Fair listened, enthralled, to him speaking in what was for some their fourth language and he has become a favourite in the schools near Colibita in Transylvania where he has a house he uses as a writing retreat
He has told stories from Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei in the east to Lapland in the north, Shajah in the middle east, Texas, North Africa and across Europe.
Recently he has been collecting stories in Romania, leading an oral storytelling project in prisons, performing in schools and pootling from festival to festival.
Now isolated like many across the world as this virus spreads he is travelling the virtual highway of the world wide web to keep on sharing stories and as always encouraging others to do the same.
Check out his book of traditional tales from around the globe ‘Out of The Hat’.

Tomorrow’s Warriors presents JAM String Collective
2022-10-20 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
Tomorrow’s Warriors presents JAM String Collective. A Contemporary Jazz String trio playing original compositions and arrangements featuring Julia Dos Reis (viola), Annalise Lam (violin), and Miranda Lewis-Brown (cello).

The trio plays their own re-imaginings of works by jazz heavy weights, such as Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, and Kenny Wheeler, as well as their own compositions. The arrangements leave lots of space for moments of freeness, with a heavy focus on interaction and improvisation.
Julia and Miranda met in 2015 through Gary Crosby’s (OBE) Tomorrow’s Warriors Jazz String project, StringTing, with whom they have gigged extensively across the UK and Europe. They have toured with larger Warrior ensembles such as Peter Edward’s NuCivilisation Orchestra, and Jazz Jamaica, as well as played their own gigs – as a trio and quartet – in venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Club Soho, The Purcell Room SBC. In 2019 they supported legendary saxophonist, Steve Williamson, in a UK tour.
In more recent years Annalise also joined the larger collective of StringTing, first meeting Julia at a Warrior’s workshop led by jazz violinist extraordinaire, Benet McClean. Julia and Annalise struck up a relationship which continued through their Masters studies at Guildhall, where they would often meet to jam ideas, many of which have continued into JAM. The JAM String Collective brings the trio together in a new project, based in London and Bristol. In 2022 they released a live performance of Kenny Wheeler’s classic Kind Folk. Treating the group as a collective, they have plans to involve other instrumentalists and performers for future projects.

Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

Miles Mindlin
2022-10-27 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
We are delighted to welcome back Miles Mindlin who first performed at Karamel along with Noah Stoneman at the age of 16.
London-based Jazz guitarist, Miles Mindlin (now 21) has been gigging professionally since the age of 14. He has played at some of the most prominent UK and European Jazz clubs and festivals. Currently studying at the Royal Academy, Mindlin has flourished on the London Jazz scene.
He regularly performs with Artists from the UK and the USA such as Alexandra Ridout, Giacomo Smith, Jason Brown, James Maddren, Rachel Cohen, Dominic Ingham, Jamie Cullum and Joe Webb.

Miles has just finished recorded his debut album with his Quartet (September 2022) and we look forward to hearing some of his new music on this special evening!

Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

Collage Kids: Usifu The CowFoot Prince
2022-10-29 11:30 - 12:30 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
We are thrilled to invite storyteller Usifu The Cowfoot Prince, who will bring Sierra Leone tales to the Collage Kids stage.
Usifu Jalloh is a highly experienced, talented award-winning performer and educator who has been working in arts education for over 20 years. His roots in multicultural Sierra Leone, and his long standing and close association with artists and audiences from a wide range of cultures, have led him to develop a storytelling style which encompasses international languages, music, dance and story themes.
Meet Usifu Jalloh
Collage Kids is a bi-monthly fun packed performance event for early years children (suggested age range up to 6 years) and their families. It is a relaxed performance in the restaurant at Karamel. The performance is FREE we just ask for whatever you can donate into our tip jar.
Saturday morning at 11.30am in MAAD.

Haringey Youth Festival
2022-10-29 15:00 - 16:00
Haringey Youth Festival10th Anniversary
3pm on Saturday 29th October 2022 at Collage Arts

Please come to the 10th anniversary of the Haringey Youth Festival at 3pm on Saturday 29th October. Young people from Collage Arts, Haringey Shed and Jacksons Lane will be coming together for an exciting day of arts workshops and performance at Collage Arts’ McQueens Theatre, celebrating 10 years of the festival.
Improving access to the arts has been at the heart of the festival from its inception. It has always been free to attend, even when there has been no additional external funding available.
Attendees over the years have participated in a variety of workshops from different facilitators and organisations e.g. Frantic Assembly and Zoonation, including body percussion, fine art, singing, street dance, circus skills and spoken word.
Natalia Cid, Head of Creative Engagement at Jacksons Lane explains, ‘Haringey Youth Festival is one of the highlights of the year for our young people; they are always looking forward to working and sharing experiences with the other groups and so proud to perform on stage. The festival is a great example of the amazing work arts organisations in Haringey are doing to showcase the positive work and creativity of our young people.’

Amalia Cohen, ex-participant of the festival and Collage Arts’ MC for the 2022 festival says, ‘The Festival has always been such a good opportunity to try out something new in the different workshops, see the various brilliant art spaces in Haringey as well as watch other young people perform what they love doing.’

Jim Shepley, Executive Director of Haringey Shed says, ‘Jim Shepley, Executive Director of Haringey Shed says, ‘It’s so important for our young people to connect with each other. It’s great to bring all these organisations together who are doing such great work in Haringey. The creative arts are so important for young people and are such a great tool to develop their skills.’
Invite only and open to Collage Voices and Collage Kids families. Please RSVP to Andry Moustras, andry@collage-arts.org.

Chris Batchelor-Mark Lockheart Quartet
2022-11-03 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
Mark Lockheart is a multi-award-winning tenor sax player who first made his name working with seminal band Loose Tubes in the eighties, and whose mastery of modern jazz has kept him at the forefront of the music ever since. Co-founder of the universally regarded “The Perfect Houseplants” Mark has toured and recorded with Django Bates, Mike Gibbs, Mark Anthony Turnage and his own 11 piece “Scratch Band” as well as Seb Rochford’s highly acclaimed “Polar Bear”. A former Peter Whittingham Award winner, his album “Ellington In Anticipation” was the MOJO Album of the Year (2014) and to add further glitter to an already stellar CV he was named Jazz FM’s “Instrumentalist of the Year” (2016). Most recently Mark has completed a major jazz/orchestral work titled “Days on Earth” for jazz sextet and 30-piece orchestra, released on Edition Records (2019). And if all that wasn’t enough he is also a highly respected educator, writer and arranger.
Chris Batchelor is an innovative and creative trumpet player and composer based in London. As well as leading several projects, including the avant-trad band Pigfoot, he is also featured as a sensitive and versatile soloist in many highly regarded groups on the European jazz scene, and is a prominent soloist and composer in the re-formed Loose Tubes. He has played alongside international stars such as Michael Brecker, Sam Rivers, Hermeto Pascoal, Tim Berne and Uri Caine. In November 2009 he was selected to receive the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers.
“Lockheart is a consummate saxophonist and an original and versatile composer” The Rough Guide to Jazz; “inspired and imaginative” The Times; “compelling” Guardian
“Batchelor, a fine trumpeter who intriguingly blends Miles Davis’s shrewd pacing and evocative long-note sounds with something of Harry Beckett’s bubbly phrasing”
John Fordham The Guardian
Chris and Mark will be joined by Tom Herbert on bass and Will Glaser on drums.

Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

Tomorrow's Warriors presents Joti Quintet
2022-11-11 20:30 - 22:30 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022 OPENING GIG!
Opening the Karamel N22 sessions at EFG London Jazz Festival in Wood Green, Tomorrow’s Warriors presents a special evening with Joti Quintet led by Joseph Oti, 22 year old trumpeter.
Tomorrow’s Warriors is a pioneering talent development organisation, creative producer, learning and training provider, charity and consultancy specialising in jazz. Founded in 1991 by Queen’s Medal for Music recipient Gary Crosby OBE and Janine Irons MBE, Tomorrow’s Warriors helps aspiring young artists from diverse backgrounds discover their magic and achieve creative ambitions. TW nurtures nascent talent and builds engaged, culturally diverse audiences and has been recognised both nationally and internationally, receiving over fifty awards, including the 2021 Impact Award from Jazz FM.
Their award-winning alumni include: Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Sheila Maurice-Grey, Cassie Kinoshi and Nerija, Femi Koleoso and Ezra Collective, Binker Golding, Shabaka Hutchings and Sons of Kemet, ESKA, Denys Baptiste, Soweto Kinch, Ben Burrell, Zara McFarlane, Camilla George, CHERISE, Nathaniel Facey and Empirical, Peter Edwards… the list goes on and on.
“Tomorrow’s Warriors have changed the musical landscape of Britain. It’s as simple as that.” Cerys Matthews, Artist & Broadcaster
Find out more at www.tomorrowswarriors.org
Doors open 7.30pm, music from 8.30pm. Venue: MAAD, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ Nearest tube/rail: Wood Green (tube); Alexandra Palace (rail) A Fresh Air Ventilation System is installed throughout the premises.
The gig is presented by Collage Arts Karamel N22 Sessions and Tomorrow’s Warriors.

Alan in Wonderland and the Three Pigs Plus....
2022-11-12 11:30 - 12:30 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
We are excited to have Booster Cushion Theatre bringing Alan in Wonderland and the Three Goats Plus… to Collage Kids.
Alice is stuck in Wonderland at the Mad Hatter’s tea party and it’s up to her brother, Alan, to rescue her. Forgetting that all things in Wonderland are magical, Alice eats a plate of cakes which turn her into a troll and now she eats everything and anything she can get her hands on!
Alan knows he must find the Three Goats, Wonderland’s troll experts and ask them for help. They will help Alan to save his sister, if he can help them get back over the bridge!
Children will revel in this magical and immersive show complete with larger than life props. Take part in the Mad Hatter’s tea party, become trolls under a bridge and help Alan save Alice!
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Collage Kids is a bi-monthly fun packed performance event for early years children (suggested age range up to 6 years) and their families. It is a relaxed performance in the Karamel restaurant space. The performance is FREE we just ask for whatever you can donate into our tip jar.
MAAD, 4 Coburg Road N22 6UJ (aka Karamel).
Family friendly, all welcome.

N22 Open Studios
2022-11-12 12:00 - 18:00, 2022-11-13 12:00 - 18:00
The N22 Open Studios returns in 2022.
It’s that time of year again when N22 artists and makers open to the public for a weekend packed full of art and creativity. It’s our 24th year!! Previously known as the Chocolate Factory Open Studios, this year’s public art event will feature over 75 artists in several artistic spaces, a group exhibition, and creative activities.
Over the weekend of 12-13 November 2022, you can meet artists, crafts-makers, and creative companies, discover art, buy work, products , or accessories, make commissions, take a peek at studios and creating spaces, and indulge in a visual feast for the senses.
Collage Arts is an arts development, training, and creative regeneration charity based in the Wood Green Cultural Quarter. For over 37 years, the organisation has operated artists’ studios in Haringey with an estate of 150 studios and making spaces. Collage also creates opportunities for greater participation in the arts and widens access to employment in the creative industries. It does this through various learning programmes, enterprise and support services, facilities, and resources.
Discover art and creativity in the Artist Studios and Artspaces in N22, managed by Collage Arts. This means you can visit around 50 studios and exhibitions at Karamel in Coburg Road, Wood Green N22.
Tickets are free but donations are welcome.
For over 37 years, Collage Arts have been the creative heart of Wood Green. Every day we raise £1,000 to deliver our community and outreach programmes which target young people and members of the community with limited access to art and cultural events.
Open Studios is across multiple venues and locations including:
Karamel, Collage Artspace 1&2, 4 Coburg Road N22 6UJ
Collage Artspace 4, Corner of Parkland Road/Caxton Road N22 6DZ
Collage Artspace 5, Unit 3, 44 Coburg Road N22 6TZ
Collage Artspace 3, 3rd/4th floors, 40 Cumberland Road N22 7BU
and other artspaces in Wood Green!
Visit the Artist Directory at www.N22OpenStudios.com

Save the Date!
#wecreatewoodgreen #n22openstudios

Giuliano Modarelli - Indo Jazz
2022-11-13 20:30 - 22:30 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
PART OF EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022!
Guitarist and composer, Giuliano Modarelli is one of the most interesting musicians to emerge from the World music scene over the last few years, with his unique voice and exceptionally innovative approach to Indian Classical music and Jazz.
Originally from Italy, Giuliano Modarelli is a London based guitarist, composer and producer with a unique voice. Having studied Jazz at University, he went on to develop through the Indian classical tradition studying under UK renowned sitarist Dharambir Singh, Indian classical maestro Buddhadev Dasgupta and his senior disciple Prattyush Banerjee.
His unique and exceptionally innovative style has led to collaboration with internationally renown artists such as Shankar Mahadevan, Bickram Ghosh, BC Manjunath, Shankar Tucker, Mysore Manjunath, Pete Lockett, Talvin Singh, Soumik Datta, Sarathy Korwar, Jyotsna Srikanth and many others.
Modarelli is the leader and co-founder of the award-winning music collective Kefaya. This innovative and talented collective combines traditional forms with a range of contemporary influences to reinvent the sound of folk music.
As well as an accomplished performer, Modarelli is a prolific composer and producer for dance, theatre and cinema. He regularly collaborates across disciplines with artists such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Gregory Maqoma, Mavin Khoo, DV8, Jose Agudo and many more.
Video & Audio links Video ‘Lost Ragas’: https://youtu.be/lvsO20vbU2Y
On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/1uModNAqiOd00V8SJxvPPT
Doors open 7pm, music from 8pm. Venue: MAAD, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ Nearest tube/rail: Wood Green (tube); Alexandra Palace (rail) A Fresh Air Ventilation System is installed throughout the premises.
The gig is presented by Collage Arts Karamel N22 Sessions and ZeroClassikal.

Perfect Stranger
2022-11-14 20:00 - 22:00 | McQueens Theatre, 4 Coburg Rd, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
PART OF EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022!
It sure is an amazing sound and experience. Is it Fusion? Is it Prog? Is it Third Stream? Is it even Jazz? It’s hard to play, that’s for sure – and it’s exciting! Big band, Perfect Stranger returns to McQueens Theatre.
PERFECT STRANGER’s style ranges from fusion/prog with complex changes of meter, through a reworking of Beethoven and a slow jazz waltz to a ‘perverted Turkish dance’.
PERFECT STRANGER, a stellar 10-piece band, will play music written by Chris Sansom (composer) in 1974 (mostly) for his original band, which included, among others, Chris Biscoe, Dick Pearce, Paul Nieman and the late, legendary Pete Jacobsen.
Now, after successful appearances here, at Colchester Arts Centre and Jazz825 (Southend), Chris returns to McQueens Theatre with Adam Bishop and Mick Foster (saxes/flutes/bass clarinet), Shanti Jayasinha (trumpet/flugelhorn), Tom Green (trombone), Alcyona Mick (keyboards), Rob Millett (percussion), Eddy White (guitars), Paul Michael (bass) and Tristan Mailliot (drums).
Come and experience PERFECT STRANGER’s impressive sound and body of work.
Chris Sansom studied music at King’s College London in the early 1970s and has had a number of works performed over the years, some broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Performers of his music have included the Arditti String Quartet, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and the two Swedish giants of the classical brass world, Håkan Hardenberger and Christian Lindberg. In 1989, Hardenberger and Lindberg performed Chris’s major work Invisible Cities for trumpet, trombone and orchestra with the BBC Philharmonic, also on Radio 3.
‘… landscapes in which the ear can wander …’ – Paul Griffiths, The Times;
‘… rarely short of ear-catching ideas … new realm of beauty …’ – David Fanning, The Independent
Mini-documentary about the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAqSDVnMqw&list=PLBJcVekgEQuZewCRIwY3k3SpwtUnBH5OP
Recording of the 1974 band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSLmfeFuPu0
Doors open 7pm, music from 8pm. Venue: McQueens Theatre, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ Nearest tube/rail: Wood Green (tube); Alexandra Palace (rail) A Fresh Air Ventilation System is installed throughout the premises.
The gig is presented by Collage Arts Karamel N22 Sessions.

N17 Entrepreneurial Callings - How I did it!
2022-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Blighty Tottenham, 266 High Road, London, N15 4AJ
N17CreativeCallings – creative business support that’s as unique as you are.
Entrepreneurial Callings ‘How I did it’ talks & activities
Join us at this unique event for inspiration, insights and activities focused on the fashion and creative industries in Haringey’s creative enterprise zone.
Esme Tecle of Fashion-Enter and Toby Fernandes of Collage Arts will be showcasing how this FREE program can support artists, designers, crafts-makers and creatives living and working in Tottenham.
Fashion-Enter is one of Haringey’s major employers in fashion design and manufacturing, and will explain how they can support any fashion business to attract more sales, grow their business and acquire new skills
Collage Arts is Haringey’s leading arts development agency, managing a creative hub of over 100+ artists & creative businesses in the heart of Wood Green N22. Through Collage Works, they provide creative and digital media skills training & enterprise support.
We will share and explore “Entrepreneurial Callings: How I did it” – inspirational talks and activities about getting into the creative industries from local creatives and creative businesses.
Following this presentation there will be videos showcasing successful testimonies from companies already engaged as well as a unique Q and A session explaining what the key business triggers are for anyone in fashion and the creative industries today.
Location – in person at Blighty café-coworking space, Tottenham High Road N15.
For further information about N17 Creative Callings, please visit www.N17CreativeCallings.com and book your free place via the Eventbrite link.

John Etheridge & Vimala Rowe
2022-11-16 20:00 - 22:00
PART OF EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022!
Legendary guitarist John Etheridge joins forces with the sensational vocals of Vimala Rowe. Together, they weave a magical spell, effortlessly travelling musically from India to Africa, Middle East and the USA.
John Etheridge has had substantial relationships during his 45 year career with some of the most famous names of 20th century music including Stephane Grappelli, Nigel Kennedy, John Williams, Yehudi Menuhin and Soft Machine.
Vimala Rowe has been gaining plaudits wherever she goes. An exemplary jazz singer with a faultless and deft expression, Rowe has a unique style that compliments John’s explorative nature. She featured recently in Paco Pena’s Flamencura at Sadler’s Wells: an indication of the breadth of her talent.
They weave together a magical journey that takes the audience across continents. There will also be solos from John, taken from his celebrated show that he has performed for 10 years all over Europe. This is a unique pairing that satisfies on so many levels. Not to be missed.
Their album ‘Out of the Sky ‘ was elected in the Top Ten critic’s choice of album of the year 2016 in both the Guardian and the Sunday Times, the track ‘Detour Ahead ‘in the Top Five in the Guardian .
Both John and Vimala will be showcasing originals from their respective new releases 2022.
‘This beautiful album’ ( Guardian)
.’A rare mix of visceral emotion and jazzy intelligence’ (Sunday Times)
‘John Etheridge demonstrates awesome authority every time he touches the guitar’ John Fordham (the Guardian)
‘Immensely soulful, powerful performance’ London Jazz News
‘One of the most distinctive singers to come along in some time’ – The Sunday Times
‘Flawless tributes to the great Jazz vocalists are a speciality of hers’ – John Fordham, The Guardian
‘Plenty of Jazz singers pay their respects to Billie Holiday, but one of the most illuminating is the UK vocalist Vimala Rowe’ – John Fordham, The Guardian
‘Sensational’ – Arts Desk
‘She sings nice’ – Iggy Pop
‘The fabulous vocals of Vimala Rowe…stripped the songs of their datedness and brought them into the modern age’- Birdlives.co.uk
‘Vimala Rowe, who is recognised as one of the best vocalist of her generation’ – The Week
On Apple Music https://music.apple.com/gb/album/out-of-the-sky/1190565244
On Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XNJnKX4xGSsHpBhZOhGZm
Doors open 7pm, music from 8pm. Venue: MAAD, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ Nearest tube/rail: Wood Green (tube); Alexandra Palace (rail) A Fresh Air Ventilation System is installed throughout the premises.
The gig is presented by Collage Arts Karamel N22 Sessions.

Art Themen, Thane & the Villeins
2022-11-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
PART OF EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022!
Fantastically playful, inventive and one of Britain’s leading tenor saxophonists for over 50 years,** Art Themen** performs with his trio from the latest album ‘Thane and the Villeins’, with organist, Pete Whittaker and drummer, George Double.
“A first-rate trio..an excellent set..Themen is one of the very few totally original, utterly engaging jazz musicians around” ** Dave Gelly – THE OBSERVER**
Exciting and innovative saxophonist, Art Themen has been a beloved character of the British jazz scene for many years, famously combining his role as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with saxophone duties in the bands of Alexis Korner and Stan Tracey among many others. Described by The Observer as “One of the tiny handful of undeniably perfect jazz musicians”, he remains as brilliant and inimitable as ever.
With organist Pete Whittaker, formerly of The Nigel Price Organ Trio, and drummer George Double who has worked as sideman to Shirley Bassey and Jack Jones, Themen has formed a new trio. Their album “Thane & The Villeins” is a collection of groove-led re-imaginings of quirky curiosities from the jazz canon, acting as a perfect vehicle for the twinkly mischief of this genuine grandee of British jazz.
*Art Themen (Saxophone). * Born in Lancashire in November 1939, Art played clarinet at school and in 1958 went to Cambridge University to study medicine where he played in the University jazz group. He moved to London in1961 to study at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School and began to play on the London scene with Dave Gelly, Alexis Korner and Graham Bond. He successfully combined his medical career as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon with being a popular jazz musician. He began working with Stan Tracey in 1974 and continued with various Tracey groups until 1995. He was now playing soprano sax and sopranino sax as well as the more usual tenor sax.
He started to work with Michael Garrick in the 1960s and continued to work with Michael Garrick’s Sextet and with Don Weller during his long association with Stan Tracey. He has also accompanied many visiting US musicians including Al Haig, Red Rodney and Billy Mitchell and worked with Nat Adderley. With various groups he has toured extensively including India, the Middle East, Greece, South America, Switzerland, Indonesia and played at many festivals. He has a quirky, very original style of playing.
He led own quintet or quartet from 1996 and co-led a band with Alan Barnes and he has continued to freelance into the early 2000s with Georgie Fame and Don Weller amongst others. He now leads the trio ‘Thane & The Villeins’ with Pete Whittaker & George Double.
*Pete Whittaker (Organ). * Hammond Organist Pete Whittaker studied music at the University of East Anglia, gaining a masters degree in electroacoustic composition. Having harboured since his mid-teens a subconscious love of jazz, Pete became very much into the genre while at college. Jazz piano in due course gave way to the discovery of that force-of-nature known to the world as the organist Jimmy Smith, the single most important jazz Hammond innovator ever. The sound of those old Blue Note and Verve albums from the 1950s and 60s grabbed Pete by his charity-shop lapels and made him determined to recreate the sounds for himself.
Pete was fortunate to gain wider experience and exposure in the 1990s by touring with a couple of high-profile rock bands. The first of these was an Indie-ish melodic rock band (with a distinct folk-music influence) called The Wonder Stuff. Pete toured UK, Europe and North America with them (on and off)from 1991 to their initial disintegration in 1994.
Since moving to London in the late 1990s, Pete has had his backside kicked (musically and literally) by many fine jazz musicians. He will be eternally grateful to them all, and strives to learn from their talent and his own mistakes.
*George Double (Drums). * George’s playing and recording credits include Dame Shirley Bassey, Grammy Award Winner Jack Jones, Marc Almond, Mica Paris, Ruthie Henshall and Kym Mazelle. His West End and touring theatre record includes stints on Wicked, Guys and Dolls, Avenue Q, Sinatra and Anything Goes.
He is active on the British jazz scene and appears regularly at Ronnie Scott’s club in London and elsewhere as a freelancer (with Chris Ingham, John Etheridge, Art Themen, Digby Fairweather, Derek Nash and many others). He is also curator of Hadleigh and Southwold Jazz Clubs.
George is a senior drum kit consultant for Trinity College London. His books and arrangements are published by Trinity and Faber Music, for whom he has run seminars and workshops in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai and Abu Dhabi as well as at MusikMesse Frankfurt, the London Drum Show and around the UK. He worked as an examiner for Trinity and formerly, Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 2002-2016.
Video clip: https://youtu.be/0PVffJtt3J8?t=14
Video trailer: https://youtu.be/IaVe-ewSpls
Doors open 7pm, music from 8pm. Venue: MAAD, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ Nearest tube/rail: Wood Green (tube); Alexandra Palace (rail) A Fresh Air Ventilation System is installed throughout the premises.
The gig is presented by Collage Arts Karamel N22 Sessions.

Charlie Wood - The Memphis Music Story
2022-11-19 20:30 - 22:30 | McQueens Theatre, 4 Coburg Rd, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
PART OF EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022!
Veteran singer/songwriter/keyboardist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the rich musical history of his hometown, performing songs by WC Handy, BB King, Otis Redding and many more, bringing the spirit of Memphis to Wood Green’s McQueens Theatre.
Charlie Wood is a singer/songwriter and keyboardist whose work incorporates elements of jazz, blues, traditional r&b and popular music. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Charlie toured the world with legendary bluesman Albert King and played a nightly residency on Beale Street for over 15 years. Wood was honoured by the Memphis City Council with an official Charlie Wood Day and was awarded a Brass Note on Beale Street, the Memphis equivalent of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Charlie headed down the Mississippi to New Orleans at seventeen, spending a few formative years soaking up the music and culture of the Big Easy and playing keys with local favourites like Charmaine Neville. He returned to Memphis in his early twenties to join the band of legendary blues guitarist Albert King, with whom he toured the US and Europe.
Having established a musical reputation for himself, Charlie took up a long-standing residency with his Hammond organ trio at King’s Palace on Beale Street. The gig became known to touring musicians and locals alike, attracting impromptu sit-ins from B.B. King, Georgie Fame, Joey DeFrancesco, George Coleman, Mulgrew Miller, Alvin Batiste, and many others.
In October 2014, Wood became the 136th recipient of a Brass Note on Beale Street, the Memphis equivalent of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Other recipients include such musical luminaries as Elvis Presley, Al Green, and Isaac Hayes. Wood is an accomplished and prolific singer/songwriter with numerous original releases under his belt, including “Southbound” and “Who I Am” on Ben Sidran’s GoJazz label and “Flutter and Wow” on Memphis-based Archer Records. His original song “Promised Land” won the 2016 U.S.A Songwriting Competition, Jazz category. Now living in the UK with his wife, celebrated UK vocalist Jacqui Dankworth, Charlie continues touring and recording regularly. Notable performances have included the London Jazz Festival’s “Jazz Voice” at the Royal Festival Hall, BBC Radio 2’s “Friday Night Is Music Night” at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Radio 2’s “Jools Holland Show,” and numerous other concerts throughout the UK and Europe.
Wood’s seventh studio album, a mixture of new originals and classic soul/blues/r&b songs entitled “Tomorrow Night”, was released in November 2018. Soon to be released (2022) is “Privacy Policy”, an organ trio album with guitarist Chris Allard and drummer Ralph Salmins
Video link Video: https://youtu.be/0uFxLUtd6M8
Doors open 7pm, music from 8pm. Venue: McQueens Theatre, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ Nearest tube/rail: Wood Green (tube); Alexandra Palace (rail) A Fresh Air Ventilation System is installed throughout the premises.
The gig is presented by Collage Arts Karamel N22 Sessions and Karousel Music.

AKDC band - Indo Jazz
2022-11-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
CLOSING GIG OF THE EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2022!
Café Kathak – Launched last year at Café Oto, the AKDC band brings improvisational Kathak rhythms to blend with Jazz instruments to create a new never heard before sound to Indo Jazz.
Intricate footwork performed by the critically acclaimed kathak artist Amina Khayyam to the complex mathematical patterns of Debashish Mukherjee’s tabla, and layered by vocals by Sohini Alam, cello by Iain McHugh and vocalised parhants by Jane Chan.
A critically acclaimed performer, choreographer and dance theatre maker, Amina Khayyam began her Kathak dance training with Alpana Sengupta in Croydon progressing to professional level with Sushmita Ghosh at The Bhavan (London) under whose guidance she made her professional debut at the Purcell Room, Southbank. Alpana introduced Amina to performance and instilled in her a deep passion to pursue it as a career. Kathak, one of the main genres of Indian classical dance, is traditionally regarded to have originated from the travelling bards of North India referred as Kathakars or storytellers. These Kathakars wandered around and communicated legendary stories via music, dance and songs quite like the early Greek theatre. The Kathakars communicate stories through rhythmic foot movements, hand gestures, facial expressions and eye work.
Debasish Mukherjee is among the leading tabla players to have emerged from the great musical hub of Calcutta. He trained with the doyen of the legendary Benares gharana, Pandit Kishan Maharaj, as well as with his father Pandit Kanai Mukherjee and with his father’s Guru, Pandit Nanku Maharaj, for over two decades from 1976. A sought-after soloist and accompanist for music and dance, Debasish has played for such luminaries as Pandit Birju Maharaj (dance), Ustad Rashid Khan (vocal), Pandit Rajan Shajan Mishra (vocal) and Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee (sitar) amongst others. An “A-grade” artist with All India Radio, Debasish maintains a performance profile in India, the UK and Europe.
As a vocalist, Sohini Alam has worked on music for dance, theatre, and film. She is the lead singer of the bands Khiyo, Lokkhi Terra and has performed internationally on stage, radio, and television. Sohini is trained primarily in Nazrul Sangeet but has since branched out into folk, Rabindra Sangeet and contemporary music. While she sings mainly in Bengali, she has also sung in English for After Art, in English/Spanish for Lokkhi Terra and in English/Hindi for Kanjoos – The Miser, Dick Whittington Goes Bollywood, and Bollywood Cinderella. She sang in Tamil and Roma for a collaboration with the Mongooses Musical Playbox and in Yoruba for Lokkhi Terra’s CubAfrobeat collaboration with Dele Sosimi.
Iain McHugh is a Cellist born and trained in Scotland. Iain studied Cello at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under Robert Irvine and Rudi De Groote and in 2013, he joined the Roslin String quartet. Iain has performed premieres in a number of different events festivals across Scotland including: Against All Things Ending (Simon Smith); Harbour Dreams (Oliver Searle); Game (Claire McCue) at The Cottier Chamber Project; many new works in the RCS PLUG festivals; and the operas Welcome Inn (Jason Staddon) and Puddle Wonderful (Matthew Whiteside) at Sound Festival in Aberdeen.
Doors open 5pm, performance from 6pm. Venue: MAAD, 4 Coburg Road, London N22 6UJ Nearest tube/rail: Wood Green (tube); Alexandra Palace (rail) A Fresh Air Ventilation System is installed throughout the premises.
The gig is presented by Collage Arts Karamel N22 Sessions and ZeroClassikal.

Charlotte Keeffe Quartet
2022-11-24 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
Photocredit: Lara de Belder
Collage presents Charlotte Keeffe Quartet – Right Here, Right Now
‘…Keeffe shows notable strength of character as she runs the sonic and emotional gamut.’ – Kevin Le Gendre, JAZZWISE
Charlotte Keeffe’s unique approach and passion for improvisation, jazz and experimental music making sees her performing regularly as a soloist and as part of a variety of different ensembles, including her own Quartet.
Her Quartet is Ashley John Long (Paul Dunmall collaborator) on double bass, Ben Handysides on drums, Moss Freed (Let Spin) on guitar and herself on trumpet and flugelhorn; they explore merging together Charlotte’s compositions with freely improvising.
(The) Charlotte Keeffe Quartet performed a sellout performance at Lancaster Jazz Festival in 2019 and their live recording from Jazz in the Round has been featured on radio shows around the world. Fresh from playing Cambridge, the London Jazz Festival, (London’s) Café OTO, Birmingham, Newcastle and Sheffield, (The) Charlotte Keeffe Quartet are delighted to be continuing their U.K. tour Right Here, Right Now, celebrating the release of Charlotte’s debut album, Right Here, Right Now.
Right Here, Right Now features a selection of Charlotte’s improvised works for solo, duo, quartet and (the) London Improvisers Orchestra, it’s out now on the Discus Music record label;
Band lineup: Charlotte Keeffe – trumpet, flugelhorn, compositions Ashley John Long – double bass Ben Handysides – drums Moss Freed – guitar
‘Fresh on the scene, trumpeter Charlotte Keeffe is a whirlwind of extended techniques and tactile puzzles, removing the mouthpiece to elicit a windy howl, using her left hand as a mute in the bell of the horn and revelling in restless possibilities.’ – Daniel Spicer, JAZZWISE
‘…Charlotte Keeffe’s blood-red, rasping flugelhorn and trumpet blew breathy cadences and messages as if her lungs were burning with an electricity all of her own.’ – Chris Searle, MORNING STAR
https://www.charlottekeeffe.com
Bandcamp
Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

Collage Kids: Grethe Mangala Jensen - Sandal Sticks Theatre
2022-11-26 11:30 - 12:30 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
Photo @ Basildon – Bibbi Productions
Collage Kids is thrilled to have Grethe Mangala Jensen from Sandal Sticks Theatre and her travelling stories….
Grethe Mangala Jensen, also known as Sandal Sticks Theatre, a storyteller who draws on her Sri Lankan and Danish heritage. Her Travellers stories are from Poland and beyond….
‘Hello and welcome to Sandal Sticks Theatre ! Thank you for stopping by. My name is Grethe – I love stories, and what I love even more is to share them with people of all ages as they can help you feel good (sometimes sad), teach you lessons, inspire confidence as well as creativity and have been part of human existence since the beginning of time!’
More about Grethe Mangala Jensen Sandal Sticks Theatre
Collage Kids is a bi-monthly fun packed performance event for early years children (suggested age range up to 6 years) and their families. It is a relaxed performance in the restaurant space at Karamel. The performance is FREE we just ask for whatever you can donate into our tip jar.
Saturday mornings at 11.30am in MAAD.
Please RSVP. All welcome, Family Friendly.

Stan Sulzmann Quartet
2022-12-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
One of Britain’s most lauded and loved saxophonists is joined by a cross-generational quartet playing a mixture of Stan’s arrangements and beautiful compositions.
Stan Sulzmann – Saxophone Will Barry – Piano Steve Watts – Bass Kai MacRae – Drums
‘But a shining light of the whole attractive enterprise is the presence of Stan Sulzmann, who seems to sound more personal and hauntingly moving than ever.’ John Fordham, Jazz UK
A veteran of the UK jazz scene, Stan Sulzmann has a rich and varied career that has included playing with musicians as diverse as Kenny Wheeler, Larry Grenadier and Gwilym Simcock, as well as a prolific output as bandleader.
Always moving forward, Stan’s Neon Quartet sees him amongst some of the UKs most sought-after young musicians, and their latest album “Subjekt” explores Stan’s ever-developing musical influences. Stan is also a highly respected composer and arranger; his vibrant big band arrangements have excited and inspired people for the last 25 years, and in 2013 Stan was commissioned to write an original piece for the London Jazz Festival.
Highly in demand as a sideman, Stan has worked with a host of musicians, including: John Taylor, Jim Mullen, Nikki Iles, Mike Gibbs, Marc Copland, Allan Botchinksy, European Jazz Ensemble, Kit Downes, Michael Brecker and Gil Evans.
‘It simply doesn’t get any better than this’ John Kelman

Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

In All Languages-The Music of Ornette Coleman
2022-12-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
Martin Speake (alto saxophone); Alyson Cawley (tenor saxophone); Jakub Cywinski (double bass); Adam Merrell (drums);
We are delighted to welcome award-winning saxophonist Martin Speake, one of the most fluent and creative musicians and composers in the UK.
“A saxophonist with an unusual turn of phrase, a persuasively gentle sound … Martin Speake is not just a distinctive improviser but a striking composer too” – John Fordham, The Guardian
Video clip 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XegPkpHv8NE
Video clip 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odAp8l8dhwU
Martin Speake says: “I have been drawn to Ornette’s music since I began playing alto saxophone nearly 50 years ago. In 1974 after I had left school at 16, I was working in an office and saved up enough money to buy a saxophone after realising there must be more to life than filling out motor insurance claim forms and staring at the office clock hoping it would get to 5pm quickly each day.
Ornette was an early influence and the album Live At The Golden Circle was the first I purchased (along with Bird and Diz) and the tune Dee Dee was the first I tried to learn. The saxophone I bought was a white plastic Grafton alto as I had seen a photo of Ornette with one on those early Atlantic Records albums.
Over the years in my musical and personal development I have a returned to Ornette Coleman and Charlie Parker for further inspiration and each time discovering something new about them and deepening my connection with this music. I have had projects playing this music with like minded souls over the years.
I am going through an Ornette period again now and have transcribed many of these wonderful melodies. In fact working out these tunes has kept me going through this challenging period in our history. This new band are all more recent collaborators and is wonderful to hear how they interpret these melodies as inspirations for improvising together and telling their own story.
Many of Ornette’s melodies have become ‘standards’ being played by many musicians all over the world such as Lonely Woman, Ramblin’ and Law Years but there are many undiscovered gems that are not played as often or at all by others.
We have 90 tunes to draw on already and the repertoire is growing.
This music is endless. Ornette is the supreme melodist.”
Do not miss this special evening “In All Languages”

Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

Tomorrow’s Warriors presents Francisco Garcia de Paredes
2022-12-15 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
We invite you to join us to close the Karamel Jazz season for this year with a bang!
Tomorrow’s Warriors presents the next generation of jazz musicians and artists supported through their award-winning talent development programme.
Tomorrow’s Warriors presents London based guitarist Francisco Garcia de Paredes as he leads his quintet to close out this year’s Karamel Jazz season with a bang!
Francisco has performed at venues such as Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Pizza Express Jazz, The Vortex and been fortunate enough to perform alongside musicians such as Gareth Lockrane, Rachel Cohen and very recently the National Youth Jazz Orchestra with Bob Mintzer.
His music draws influence from musicians such as Gretchen Parlato, Aaron Parks, Jim Hall, Kurt Rosenwinkel amongst many others and tries to blend these influences to create his own compositional voice
He will be playing a set of brand-new compositions (both instrumental and vocal alongside jazz singer Eliana Veinberga) with a band of some of the best young jazz musicians in London.
Band lineup: Francisco Garcia de Paredes – Guitar ; Eliana Veinberga – Vocals ;
Rūta Sipola – Flute ;
Harry Pearce – Double Bass ;
Tom Potter – Drums ;
Tomorrow’s Warriors is a pioneering talent development organisation, creative producer, learning and training provider, charity and consultancy specialising in jazz. Founded in 1991 by Queen’s Medal for Music recipient Gary Crosby OBE and Janine Irons MBE, Tomorrow’s Warriors helps aspiring young artists from diverse backgrounds discover their magic and achieve creative ambitions. TW nurtures nascent talent and builds engaged, culturally diverse audiences and has been recognised both nationally and internationally, receiving over fifty awards, including the 2021 Impact Award from Jazz FM.
Their award-winning alumni include: Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia, Sheila Maurice-Grey, Cassie Kinoshi and Nerija, Femi Koleoso and Ezra Collective, Binker Golding, Shabaka Hutchings and Sons of Kemet, ESKA, Denys Baptiste, Soweto Kinch, Ben Burrell, Zara McFarlane, Camilla George, CHERISE, Nathaniel Facey and Empirical, Peter Edwards… the list goes on and on.
“Tomorrow’s Warriors have changed the musical landscape of Britain. It’s as simple as that.” Cerys Matthews, Artist & Broadcaster
Find out more at www.tomorrowswarriors.org

Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

The gig is presented by Collage Arts Karamel N22 Sessions and Tomorrow’s Warriors.

Alan Barnes Quartet
2023-01-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Road, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
ALAN BARNES QUARTET kicks of the new year jazz season on Thursday 12 Jan at 8pm
Band lineup: Alan Barnes – Alto Sax; Kate Williams – Piano; Steve Watts – Bass; Les Cyrkel – Drums;
“A performance by the Alan Barnes Quartet is world class. The leader is one of few saxophonists in this country capable of playing convincing bebop jazz as well as all other styles.”
“Like Peter King, Barnes is steeped in the language of bop, but is such a consummate stylist that his playing tends to buck any argument that his musical approach is conservative or out of step with the times. Whether on alto, baritone or tenor, Barnes’ melodic sense bypasses the usual scale-running clichés that pepper the playing of lesser bop disciples.” (Peter Marsh, BBC Music Review).
“Barnes, plays music that was radical 50 years ago – hard, urban post-bop – but he infuses it with so much passion and energy you could believe it was minted on the spot, which is always part of the story with jazz.” (John L. Walters, The Guardian).

Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8pm. Please book a ticket in advance.
VENUE: MAAD (fka Karamel), 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London N22 6UJ
The premises has a fresh air ventilation system installed throughout the restaurant and theatre. Menu is available at maad.co

Poetry & Poppadoms with Michael Rosen
2023-01-27 19:30 - 22:30 | McQueens Theatre, 4 Coburg Rd, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
Greetings Poppadum pickers – we invite you to a side-splitting evening of comedy and musings at Karamel’s McQueens Theatre!
Join us for a night of live spoken word and poetry performance. Collage Arts present Poetry and Poppadums, featuring..
Poet and author extraordinaire, award winning MICHAEL ROSEN will headline the first event of the year.

MICHAEL ROSEN

“Humorous & moving…memorable & worthwhile A principled man who
celebrates the funny side of life” – The Irish Times

PAUL CREE

“Thoroughly engaging, layered with experience and iced with wit” – Broadway Baby
“An engaging storyteller… Brilliant poetry punctuated by the unexpected rhymes of rap” – The Londonist

CELIA BAX

‘Chameleonic, thorny & unpredictable, challenging the expected outcomes with beauty, wit & chaos.’

Hosted By Paul Lyalls

‘Always charismatic’ Time Out

Doors open at 6.30pm, and show starts at 7.30pm.

Locomotive
2023-02-02 08:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
Locomotive returns to Karamel with: Henry Lowther (trumpet), Chris Biscoe (sax), Art Themen (tenor), Alcyona Mick (piano), Dave Green (bass), Les Cyrkel (dep’ing for Stu Butterfield) (drums).
Locomotive features the music, imaginings and rhythm-a-nings of Thelonious Monk, highly respected and Grammy award-winning American jazz pianist and composer!
“The piano ain’t got no wrong notes.” ― Thelonious Monk
Stu Butterfield has been an established and highly regarded player on the UK jazz scene since the late sixties. He has brought together many many jazz bands like Locomotive, that has some of his favourite jazz musicians. He has also programmed hundreds of jazz gigs for local Haringey venues like Karamel. Stu continues to programme his favourite jazz bands at Karamel on the first Thursday of every month.
Please book your seat in advance to avoid disappointment!
Doors 7pm, music 8pm.

Clarvis Noble & Jordan Freight Train
2023-02-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Karamel N22, 4 Coburg Rd, Wood Green, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
Image: ‘Cosy’ with Paul Clarvis, Cathy Jordan, Liam Noble. Photograph: Brian John Homer
*Freight Train *carries tracks recorded apart for that lockdown stream (with even piano tuner visits impossible), along with those from their first live meeting in the studio in January 2022. The majority of tracks were chosen by Paul and trace some of his musical history with Bernstein and in Mose Allison’s Trio for 20 years, and with Liam Noble on their 2009 duo album Starry Starry Night.
Cathy Jordan was born in County Roscommon is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist playing guitar, bodhran, bones and bouzouki. She has been the lead vocalist for the traditional Irish music band Dervish since 1991, a member of The Unwanted and a solo performer, releasing her first solo album, All The Way Home, in 2012. At the end of 2019 Dervish received a prestigious lifetime achievement award from the BBC, as “an icon of Irish music”.
Liam Noble and Paul Clarvis, familiar to many for their many projects, first met and played together with Moondog in Europe in the early 1990s. Liam Noble – playing everything from standards, new composition, free improvisation and electronics, Liam’s most recent release The Long Game 2019 introduced the trio with Tom Herbert and Seb Rochford. His long regular Trio with Dave Whitford and Dave Wickins was augmented by Chris Batchelor and Shabaka Hutchings for the quintet Brother Face and he regularly plays with Julian Siegel, Bobby Wellins, Mark Lockheart, Christine Tobin, Pigfoot, and the improvising trio Sleepthief with Tom Rainey and Ingrid Laubrock. He is Professor of Jazz Piano at the Royal Academy of Music.
Paul Clarvis – the original and ever-youthful Enfield sound (Paul turns 60 in 2023) has collaborated with some of the world’s best composers and performers from Nina Simone, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and John Adams to Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger, Sir John Dankworth and Paul McCartney. He was the late Leonard Bernstein’s preferred percussionist in London, featured soloist in the 1995 Proms performance of Birtwistle’s Panic, a concerto for saxophone and drum kit, and worked with Rick Smith on the drum arrangement for the London Olympics 2012 show-stopping opening. He is Professor of Drum Set, Latin American & Ethic Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music.
Villagelife was set up by violinist Sonia Slany and Paul Clarvis over 20 years ago and has released 14 albums including of Stan Sulzmann Big Band, Henry Lowther’s Stillwaters, Four In Perspective (Hersh, Wheeler, Winstone and Clarvis), and ‘London jazz eccentrics’ (Jazzwise, 2019) Pigfoot, also with Clarvis and Noble.
ALBUM LISTEN HERE
[‘Quite a ride!’ Guardian Review](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/21/paul-clarvis-liam-noble-cathy-jordan-freight-train-review-quite-a-ride)
Doors open at 7pm, and music starts at 8pm.
Please book a ticket in advance to avoid disappointment.

Revolution
2023-02-12 18:00 - 21:00 | McQueens Theatre, 4 Coburg Rd, London, N22 6UJ, United Kingdom
It’s Revolution time!!!!!

It’ll be a fun night full of music, poetry and theatre with an amazing line-up of stars from stage and screen, and talented musicians!

Line up:
Martina Laird
Lily Alice
Mo Sesay
Ché Walker
Jonah Grimbly
Nardia Ruth
Dj Dub
Rory Swietlicki
Altea Narici
Deborah Carew
Ela Kalicka
Esther Foga
Zoe Rahman

Sunday 12th February 2023
Show Starts at 6pm
McQueens Theatre
4, coburg Rd, N22 6UJ

Tickets are £20 and all money raised will go to the Kieran Taylor Scholarship Trust – www.kttrust.co.uk – to support young people to access high quality arts education and training.
Hosted, as always, by playwright, actor, director and teacher Che Walker this will be a night of wonderful performances and unexpected surprises. Don’t miss it!

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