Saturday 10th May
Music By the Canal Tour – New Music Event, Birmingham Canals
Using the Midlands waterways as inspiration and a boat as a touring music platform, Music by the Canal celebrates three wonderful Midlands artists who will perform a special new-music commission.
Music by the Canal is an enchanting boat trip along the most beautiful stretch of Midlands’s canal with live musical performances by some of the city’s most spellbinding talent. Creating an entirely new repertoire for the pop-up shows, inspired by their impressions of canal life and celebrating the second largest city in the UK.
Travel around Birmingham’s Central Canals and travel out into the Greenery of England’s Second City while being entertained with the beautiful overtones of Spoken Word artist Amerah Saleh, singer and songwriter Alisha Yasmin Kadir and musician Raju Mali.
Location: Away 2 Canal (Boat), The Water’s Edge (Opposite Gourmet Burger)
Address: Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2JB (opposite the ICC).
Price: Adults £7.00, Seniors £6.00, Children (3 – 14) £4.00, Children (Under 3) Free. Family Ticket (2 adults+2 children) £18.00
Advance Tickets: www.the ticketssellers.co.uk or click on the box above.
Show and Public Departure Times: 10:30am, 12:00pm, 1:30pm, 3.00pm, 4:30pm
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Saturday 17 May
Shanti’s New Music Live
New Music Show & Club Night, Alfie Birds
Multi award-winning Shaanti and the Eastern Electronic Festival are proud to present Shanti’s New Music Live, an exclusive event specially produced for the festival.
Showcasing exciting new music commissions will be the crème de la crème of progressive artists including: Nathan Flute Box Lee, The Clinic, Arun Ghosh, Sonic Boom feat. Surinder Sandhu, Jason Singh and Abrar Hafiz. Supported by My Panda Shall Fly and guests.
Giving power to artists to create new music helps support, inspire and develop an independent music scene. This unique event has been designed through feedback and communication with the community to determine what gaps in the UK music scene needed to be filled. This tightly packed and stimulating programme of progressive artists will showcase the best new music live on the international arts scene.
Location: Alfie Birds ( Old Medicine Bar)
Address: The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham. B9 4AA
Contact: 07968 366878
Time: 9pm til late
Price: £10 Early Bird Tickets, £15, More at the Door
Advance Tickets: www.theticketsellers.co.uk or click on the box above.
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Tuesday 27 May
Sita Sings The Blue
Animated Film. Mac Centre
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”
Location: The Mac Centre
Address: Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham B12 9Q.
Contact: 0121 446 3276
Price: Adults – £6.00, Children Under 16 – £3.50. Babies Under 12 Months – Free
Time: 11.00am Duration: 82 minutes
Tickets: www.theticketsellers.co.uk or click on the link above.
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Wednesday 28 May
Spring Jam
Baby and Toddler Music Workshop, Library of Birmingham
From dancing with your baby to hearing the notes of your child’s first composition, Spring Jam is a special place for you and your child to play, sing, giggle and dance together.
At Spring Jam, we know that music is fundamental to a young child’s development. Our progressive and educational workshops are designed to nurture a lifetime of music; here we use a combination of original and traditional songs and rhymes to develop early communication skills as well as introduce new rhythms in a special Indian Tabla class, for each separate age group.
Time: 11.30am to 12.30pm
Price: £5 per child
Advance Tickets: Can be purchase on www.theticketsellers.co.uk or just click on the box above.
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Friday 30th May
Taste & Liquor Sessions presents DJ Ninja
Club Night, Novo Bar
Taste & Liquor Sessions hit Birmingham’s chic Nuvo, in partnership with Hed Kandi Worldwide Resident DJ, Stuart Ojelay.
Taste & Liquor Session is a new and exciting support platform for contemporary and electronic music, exploring the best music events around the region.
The Taste & Liquor Sessions are proud to present DJ Ninja. Born in the 80s, Ninja is a DJ, race car driver and music producer who grew up in London but attributes the inspiration for her unique musical sound to her roots in Pakistan. Her productions have been played on dance-floors from Ibiza to East Africa since 2009 and just last year, she enjoyed successful residencies in Blue Marlin and Privilege in Ibiza.
So come down and sample Taste & Liquor’s eclectic range of cocktails and see the sensational DJ Ninja making her debut appearance in Birmingham alongside Stuart Ojelay, Becki De Funk and Ben Jammin LIVE on Sax.
Location: Nuvo Bar
Address: 2 Brunswick Square, 11 Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2LP
Contact: 07968260276
Time: 10.00pm to 3.00am
Price: Free before 11pm, £3 before Midnight, £5 after
Tickets: Can be purchase on www.theticketsellers.co.uk or click on the box above.
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Saturday 31st May
Baby Got Groove – Bollywood Party!
Baby Disco-Party, Fredericks Coffee and Lounge Bar
Set in one of Birmingham’s top venues Baby Got Groove Disco is a daytime disco-party for parents with babies, toddlers and children up to 7 years old.
For this special occasion, as part of the Eastern Electronic Festival, the party will take you on a disco journey spinning lashings of Bollywood, pop, rock, soul, funk, club classics and more! All set at a baby friendly level, this retro disco will make those tiny tots of all ages get into the ‘desi groove’.
Not only that, Baby Got Groove Disco will provide the little ones plenty of activities including:
- a baby-play area
* kids play-tents
* a chill-out reading zone
* bubble machines
* an arts and colouring-in area
* a face painter
* tons of balloons to play with
* and an special music entertainer
For this event only Bollywood Dancers will be joining in for a special performance and a free Bindi’s will be given to everyone arrival.
Please Note: This is a ticketed only event.
Location: Fredericks Coffee Lounge & Bar
Address: 50 Frederick St, Birmingham B3 1TX
Contact: 0121 233 0313
Time: 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Price: Adults – £7.50, Children – £7.50 – Children under 12 months do not require a ticket.
Tickets: Can be brought on www.theticketsellers.co.uk or just click on the link above.
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Shaanti’s Eastern Electronic Festival supported by Arts Council England.
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All events and commissions are produced by Shaanti 11. Copyright Shaanti 11 2014.