aiplanneryork events & things to do in january
Exciting events and experiences happening this month in York.
Piecing together the puzzle of LinkedIn
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Join us for our next webinar, 'Piecing together the puzzle of LinkedIn'. YTI Social Media Secretary Francesca Gatenby will take us through what LinkedIn has to offer freelance language professionals, from understanding the different technical elements of the site to devising a positioning strategy and using the platform to support your business
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Ed Force One
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Now considered the best Iron Maiden tribute act in the UK, Ed Force One have “Maiden down to perfection.” The band always sets out to deliver an authentic show full of Maiden classics and a few surprises. The band was formed in Bristol, 2017 and are as strong as ever headlining shows all over the UK. Expect killer vocals, awesome guitars, bass and drums just like Nicko! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_ghKwcyaSU
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Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club - York
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Ages 18+ Doors 7:30pm Show Start 8:00pm Laugh Out Loud Comedy Clubs - Treat yourself to a laugh! Come and see the best in live stand-up with comedians from such shows as BBC2's Mock The Week, Channel 4's 8 Out of 10 Cats, BBC1's Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow etc. Plus the best of the rest from around the world. Each show has three top comics plus the host MC. Amongst many others we’ve booked the likes of Jason Manford, John Bishop, Chris Ramsey and Sarah Millican before they hit the big time. - So come and see more brilliant acts! - Three top professional comedians make you laugh - Different comedians each month - Full bar service and two interval breaks to refill your glasses - Ideal for a regular outing or for celebrating special occasions Customer Reviews 'I liked it so much I booked for 28 people - they all loved it!' Will Sherret 'Ace night' Julie Lovatt 'Fantastic night yet again' Fleur Spafford 'Great night, everyone must try going, very funny' Lee Evans (not the Lee Evans!) There are all real reviews from real customers so get booking now if you fancy a laugh.
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The John Otway Band
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Otway’s philosophy is simple: “When you do a great gig, you want to have a beer with the audience afterwards. I’d feel really disappointed if I was kept away from the party.” The Aylesbury anarchist returns exactly a year after his sold-out show here! Fans of ‘Rock and Roll’s Biggest Failure’ – equal parts DIY punk and comedy – have taken him from Top of the Pops to Cannes across 5,000 gigs and stunts (how about the ‘pub ‘tour’ where he played two songs in one pub, then ran across the street and played two more). Otway’s career has been a seat-of-the-pants journey that started with a nine-year-old boy’s pop star obsession and, yes, he’s still with the same band he’s had since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Perfectly synced to John’s humour and razor-like observant wit, complimenting the show, trading remarks and insults. Ohhhhh go on, treat yourself again…
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The January blues can F off With Velma Celli
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Join international multi award running Cabaret star Velma for another intimate show at the secret bar in York. It’s Velma’s birthday week and she is going to belt her Brazier off for you as we help each other navigate the longest month of the year.. Expect a lot of rock and pop and alcohol
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Grace Petrie: THIS IS NO TIME TO PANIC!
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Like protest songs? Neither does Grace Petrie – and she’s been singing them for 15 politically disastrous years. No longer able to meet the deadened eyes or desperate hopes of leftwing audiences, she reckons there’s no better time for a feel-good show! Depressed by fascism, misogyny and eco-destruction? Sounds like YOUR climate needs a change! Long respected as the British folk scene’s funniest lesbian, Grace’s 2022 standup debut Butch Ado About Nothing garnered critical acclaim and sold out venues across the UK. THIS IS NO TIME TO PANIC! sees her combine music and comedy for the first time. She knows folk songs can’t save the world, and neither can standup. But both at the same time?? Read it and weep, Putin! ‘Borderline miraculous’ ★★★★★ Scotsman ‘An effervescent charm-bomb of a performer’ New Yorker Age guidance: 16+, some swearing Photo credit: Fraser West
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Naima Bock
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Please Please You & Brudenell Presents... 16+ Naima Bock tours the UK this Autumn for a selection of intimate, stripped back shows in great venues around the UK. Her second album 'Below A Massive Dark Land' was released by Sub Pop in late 2024 to rave reviews from Uncut, Mojo, The Line of Best Fit, Clash and beyond.
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Venue Premium Tickets - An Evening with Davina
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Join TV icon and wellness advocate Davina McCall for a special live evening of uplifting conversation, personal stories, and plenty of laughs. From her groundbreaking career on screen to her tireless campaigning for women’s health, Davina opens up about the moments that shaped her – with honesty, humour and heart. This is an unmissable chance to see one of Britain’s most loved personalities live on stage in York, including audience Q&A.
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U.S. Naval Academy Band
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Jeffrey Martin
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Please Please You & Brudenell Presents... This is an 10+ event (Under 18's to be accompanied by an adult) On a small corner lot in southeast Portland, Oregon, Jeffrey Martin holed up through the winter recording his quietly potent new album Thank God We Left The Garden. Long nights bled into mornings in the tiny shack he built in the backyard, eight feet by ten feet. What began as demos meant for a later visit to a proper studio became the album itself, spare and intimate and true. Recorded live and alone around two microphones, Jeffrey often held his breath to wait for the low diesel hum of a truck to pass one block over on the busy thoroughfare. During the coldest nights, he timed recording between the clicks of the oil coil heater cycling on and off. Martin's fourth full length album, Thank God We Left The Garden comes out on Portland's beloved Fluff and Gravy Records Nov __. He produced and engineered it himself, recalling, "There was a magic quality to the sounds I was getting in the shack with these two cheap microphones, some lucky recipe of time and place that allowed my voice and the way I play guitar and the shape of these new songs to come together with the kind of honesty I was craving." So much has happened in the world since the release of his previous album One Go Around (heralded by No Depression as 'the poetry of America'), and Jeffrey has filled the time doggedly, but happily, touring the US and Europe, watching it all unfold in a stream of small town conversations and city sprawl. In a moment where depth is so often traded for the instantaneous, where tech billionaires are building rockets to escape the planet, where the dead-eyed stare of artificial intelligence is promising to existentially upend our world, and where divisiveness in our culture is breeding delusional levels of certainty, Jeffrey Martin's new record feels like a hopeful and fully human antidote. There are holes in all the side walls where the wind it brings the rain in And the gold crowns have been found out to be brass that has been painted There are holes in all our bibles where we make secret compartments To hide the broken treasures we smuggled out of the garden -Quiet Man The sounds feel warm, close, and refreshingly real, all held up by the richness and rare candor of Jeffrey's voice. Production is restrained mostly to his guitar and vocals, with flashes of classical guitar for a tumbling wash of melody and low end color. Martin's voice sits high above everything, reaching into new melodic territory that goes beyond his earlier work. "I feel like I've only just learned how to sing," Martin said. "Like I've been chasing this record since my very first recordings. I wanted to really see what I could do, just my guitar and my voice and little else. I don't think it was conscious. I think maybe it was a reaction to the pace of life these days. The churning news and entertainment and politics and violence of it all. I needed to know that even in this day and age, just a few simple ingredients still hold up." Beloved Portland-based guitarist Jon Neufeld added electric guitar to three tracks. Sticking to the same less-ismore approach, his playing skillfully and subtly elevates the lyrical intention. Neufeld's touch is best displayed on Red Station Wagon, a searing story about one man's transformation from a narrow-minded bigot into a person who feels deep remorse for the ugliness of his youth. In his transformation he discovers the clarity of empathy and compassion. The devastating and redemptive four minute song contains the emotional arch of an entire film, and each turn is beautifully punctuated by Neufeld's guitar. In addition to his guitar work, Neufeld mixed and mastered the album, and was such a crucial part of the final feel of the record that Martin also credited him as a producer. "Jon and I really produced this album together," he said. "Me in the shack, and then him in his studio working with what I brought him as he mixed and mastered. It was such a treat to work with him. I brought this pile of rough songs and he was able to dial it in and make up for my complete lack of recording know-how. I love the performances I got, but Jon's magic is what helped them breathe and truly come to life." No less lyrically weighty than his previous work, Thank God We Left The Garden holds a new kindness and easy solace that feels timeless and full of generosity. The title is a paradoxical nod to Martin's own spiritual conclusions, a theme that is subtly woven throughout the album. The son of a pastor, he touches on his religious upbringing then carries us well beyond his past where the weight of his deepest questions are free to unfold. "It's always bothered me how uptight religion gets around the messiness of our human natures, always trying to tell people they're broken and flawed from the get go. The only God I can imagine is one who is overjoyed with the mess. Who revels in the edgeless mystery. I imagine hanging around with angels all day gets boring pretty fast. So maybe we got the story wrong. Maybe we were supposed to leave the Garden all along. Maybe that was the first good thing we ever did. After all, I can't think of anything that has an ounce of meaning or dimension that doesn't come from failure." This is an album that craves your full attention, best experienced as a whole. Each song further illuminates the scene until you find yourself resting in the strangely comforting tangle of aliveness and meaning (and full spectrum of being alive./what it means to be alive.). At its core Thank God We Left The Garden is an album made of questions, humble and nuanced, a reverent celebration of the asking. Whether singing about his own internal landscape, telling a story of someone else's, or reflecting on the elusive relationship between scarcity and contentment, Martin's writing never pushes the listener away, never points a finger. He sings of things we can all pin a memory on, holding the rough shorn gem of human experience up to the light. Thank God We Left the Garden will be released on Fluff and Gravy Records in the fall of 2023. Subsequent touring will carry Jeffrey Martin through all of the US, Canada, and Europe.
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Le Vent du Nord
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The multi-award winning and highly acclaimed Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Québec’s progressive francophone folk movement. The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while enhancing its hard-driving soulful music with a broad range of global influences. Since its inception in August 2002, Le Vent du Nord has enjoyed meteoric success, performing well over 2,500 concerts over 4 continents and racking up several prestigious awards, including a SONGLINES MUSIC AWARD -Americas (UK, 2023) Grand Prix du Disque Charles Cros (France), two Junos (Canada’s Grammys), three FÉLIX at ADISQ (Québec), a Canadian Folk Music Award, and been awarded Artist of the Year at the Folk Alliance annual gala. The group exhibits great finesse and flexibility, appearing regularly on Canadian, American, French, and UK television and radio, and participating in a wide variety of special musical projects. They’ve collaborated and performed with a diverse range of artists including: Väsen, Sharon Shannon, Harry Manx, singer Julie Fowlis, Dervish, The Chieftains, Yann-Fañch Kemener, Québécois roots legend and master storyteller Michel Faubert, Apiary fiddle band, Breabach and many more. Not content with standard approaches to tradition, Le Vent du Nord has also created since 2007 a symphonic concert that, according to Voir Montreal, “puts all traditional folk naysayers to shame.” As an amazing live performance quintet Le Vent du Nord continues to explore new sounds with stunning vocal arrangements. On stage these 5 friends create intense, joyful and dynamic live performances that expand the bounds of tradition in striking directions.
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Glenn Moore - Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore
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