Subscription Packages  

Are you planning on joining us for a few concerts this season? If so, you might want to consider one of the special subscription packages for brilliant savings on full ticket prices. 

Although you do not need to be a member to come along to any of the Wednesday evening concerts taking place between October 2021 and March 2022, you are able to make great savings by becoming a member. 

Subscription:

Gold £75 
This subscription gives you entry to all 8 Wednesday evening concerts throughout the season*, a saving of over £50!  

Any5 £60 
Come along to any 5 Wednesday evening concerts between October 2021 and March 2022, a saving of £20! 

Student FREE! 
An amazing offer for students. Entry to all Keele Concerts Society Wednesday evening concerts is now free for all students. (Subject to presentation of student card).

Support: Become a Patron!
Patron £50 
Patrons help the Keele Concerts Society to deliver a diverse and inspiring programme of concerts each year. Patrons also help us to continue enable students and young people to access our concerts at little or no cost, inspiring the next generation of audiences. In appreciation of your support, you will be recognised in ArtsKeele and Concerts brochures and at the Keele Concerts Society’s AGM. You and a guest will also receive an invite to the annual Patron’s Concert with complimentary drinks.

Donate!
Any amount, small or large is hugely apreciated.  100% of your donation will go towards future programmes or educational/outreach project developed.

Granny’s Attic 

16 February 2022 

7.30pm 

New Vic Theatre, Etruria Road, Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5 0JG 

Granny’s Attic – Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (Melodeon, Concertina, Vocals), George Sansome (Guitar, Vocals) and Lewis Wood (Fiddle, Vocals) – are a folk trio who play the tradition with verve, energy and their own inimitable style. They are all exceptional  

musicians and fine singers and play English traditional and original music. Since 2009 they have toured across the UK and Europe and been heralded for their lively performances, and delivery and selection of traditional songs. 

 Tickets: Standard £16 | Students & under 16 FREE 

boxoffice@keele.ac.uk

The Inner Vision Orchestra

16 March 2022 

7.30pm 

Keele University Chapel 

Ensemble:
The performance will showcase a smaller ensemble comprising of 8 artists and the programme will feature folk music from around the world and together with some original compositions.

The Inner Vision Orchestra was founded in 2012 and is the world's only professional ensemble of blind musicians. Our extensive repertoire moves between songs from Iran, Lebanon, Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, to soulful Gospel and Blues to sublime Indian Ragas and Western Classical compositions. We celebrate the diversity of its talented members who have been brought together from around the world by Indian maestro Baluji Shrivastav OBE. Members of the orchestra burst onto the world stage at the Paralympics in 2012 to perform at the closing ceremony with Coldplay and performed International Unlimited Commission ‘Antardrishti-Inner Vision’ to full audiences at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Norwich Arts Centre, The Royal Opera House in Mumbai, and The British Council Theatre in Delhi.  

Tickets: Standard £16 | Students & under 16 FREE 

boxoffice@keele.ac.uk

London Klezmer Quartet 

30 March 2022 

7.30pm 

Patron’s Evening 

Westminster Theatre, Keele University 

The London Klezmer Quartet is a dynamic group of performers whose deep understanding of klezmer, the celebratory and soulful music of Eastern European Jews, is reflected in exuberant, passionate and accomplished performances that captivate audiences of all ages and backgrounds. 

The group plays old and new traditional material guaranteed to move audiences from toe-tapping to tears and back again in moments. 

They were formed in 2009 by a group of klezmer specialists keen to explore the almost-lost wedding music tradition of Jewish eastern Europe. The band was swiftly picked up by some of the UK’s foremost folk & world music promoters - Songlines Magazine, Continental Drifts and The Magpie’s Nest offered stages for the group's unique combination of artistry and exuberance. The band is also one of the few in the world who lead the Yiddish dances that this music would traditionally have accompanied. 

Tickets: Standard £16 | Students & under 16 FREE 

boxoffice@keele.ac.uk

Xuefei Yang 

2 March 2022 

7.30pm 

President’s Evening 

Westminster Theatre, Keele University 

Xuefei Yang is acclaimed as one of the world’s finest classical guitarists. Hailed as a musical pioneer, her fascinating journey began after the Cultural Revolution, a period where Western musical instruments and music were banned. Fei was the first-ever guitarist in China to enter a music school and became the first internationally recognised Chinese guitarist on the world stage. 

Fei is one of the few guitarists whose artistry connects with audiences far beyond the guitar fraternity. Her international success has led her to be invited to play in more than 50 countries at numerous prestigious venues and is frequently invited to play with the world’s leading orchestras, and collaborate with artists such as Ian Bostridge, Rosalind Plowright, Sir James Galway.  

Gramophone magazine praised her as one of the leading innovators of her generation for continuing to build the guitar repertoire. 

The UK classical music station, Classic FM, named Fei as one of the 100 top classical musicians of our time. 

Tickets: Standard £16 | Students & under 16 FREE 

Boxoffice@keele.ac.uk