What: We’re playing at a party!
When: 27th October, Doors 8pm, Sets at 9:15 and 10:30
Where: –
Tickets: –
Please note this is a private event and not open to the general public. The orchestra is available for private events, please get in touch if you’re interested 🙂
What: A celebration of the Cube cinema’s 20th anniversary!
When: Saturday 20th October, from around 8pm
Where: Kings Square / Outside the Cube
Tickets: See here for tickets for the main event
The Fantasy Orchestra will be joining in celebrations for the wonderful Cube Microplex Cinema’s 20th birthday. Expect to see us outside the cinema playing a small selection of somehow appropriate tunes. See the Cube’s facebook event for more details.
What: An evening of music by Ennio Morricone
When: 13th October, 8.30 pm
Where: All Hallows Hall, Easton
Tickets: £8 from Bristol Ticket Shop
Featuring the amazing Underscore
The Fantasy Orchestra are going back to their roots with a celebration of the film music of Spaghetti-Western composer Ennio Morricone – featuring such delights as The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and the beautiful Ecstasy of Gold.
More information can be found on Headfirst Bristol
Here are a collection of performances of Morricone’s music from over the years:
What: A Leonard Cohen tribute concert
When: Sunday 7th October, 8.30 pm
Where: Cheltenham Town Hall, Baillie Gifford Stage (Cheltenham Literature Festival)
Tickets: £12 (available here)
The Fantasy Orchestra is coming to Cheltenham Literature Festival for another of our celebrated tributes to the life and music of Leonard Cohen. Featuring a range of Cohen’s most popular tunes performed by the orchestra with a range of guest singers.
For more information see here
Here is a clip of our last Leonard Cohen gig at the Lantern earlier this year:
What: A lovely village festival
When: Saturday 15th September 2018, 5pm
Where: Priston, St Luke and St Andrew’s Church
Tickets: Free!
We’ll be performing in St Luke and St Andrew’s Church in Priston at 5pm. The set will feature special guest singer Djanan Turnan!
Priston Festival is a free festival in the village of Priston, near Bath, featuring a number of in- and out-door stages around the village.
More information at the Priston Festival website
Here is a video from our appearance last year, performing I am the Walrus:
What: We’re busking by the Aladdin Sane Wallace on the 24th August!
When: Friday 24th August , 6pm
Where: Wapping Wharf, Bristol
Tickets: Free!
The Wapping Wharf area forms part of the Gromit Unleashed 2 trail , which consists of dozens of sculptures from Aardman’s famous Wallace and Gromit series dotted around the city in aid of the Grand Appeal.
Artist Carys Ink’s Bowie-themed Space Oddi-tea Wallace sculpture is located at Wapping Wharf until September 2 and is the inspiration behind both of the Bowie music fundraiser.
Bristol’s very own Fantasy Orchestra will be performing a selection of Bowie’s early songs on August 24, in keeping with the Wallace sculpture’s Aladdin Sane lightning bolt.
Here is a taste of what to expect – the orchestra’s rendition of Life on Mars from our recent Valley Fest appearance:
The performance will take place at 6pm on August 24 next to the sculpture, in front of Portside Gallery and Brothers We Stand.
What: A celebration of music by women
When: 7th and 9th of June 2018
Where: Bristol (Lantern) and Stroud (Goods Shed)
In association with Bath Film Festival and in promotion of the F-Rating – a rating awarded to films either directed or written by a woman – the orchestra played a pair of gigs, both at Colston Hall’s Lantern and in Stroud’s Goods Shed.
The music performed was written entirely by women and included works by Joni Mitchell, The Roches, Connie Converse, Ivor Cutler (close enough!), Beyonce, and P. J. Harvey. The orchestra was also joined by special guests Rita Lynch and Djanan Turnan performing arrangements of their own songs.
Our evening showcasing the songs of Leonard Cohen featured vocal guests including Jimmy Goodrich, Lady Nade, Billie Bottle, Nuala Honan and Emily Breeze.
Here’s our own Rich Green from the night…
…and Davide Ariasso…
14 August: The kick-off of the 10th anniversary of Luke Jerram’s ‘Play Me I’m Yours’ public piano project, in the Galleries, Broadmead:
15-17 August: Kids’ workshops, Colston Hall, culminating in a concert in the main auditorium.
18-20 August: Green Man Festival. We played every day on the Solar Stage in Einstein’s Garden:
16 September: Priston Festival:
23 September: Plymouth Arts Fest
7 October: Colston Hall:
And a show in All Hallows, Easton in November, and a Christmas show or two, and so on…
Fresh from a month traveling in India, the Fantasy Orchestra present a week of music workshops aimed at young people who play instruments and can read music to a basic standard.
The repertoire will bring together music from all over the world including African, Indian, Turkish, American and European pieces with an emphasis on different cultures.
The workshops take place Mon 30 July – Fri 3 August, 2-4pm
The cost will be £15 for the week or £3 per 2 hour session (with concessions available – please ask).
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hope to see you there, do pass the message on!
best wishes,
Jesse and all the Fantasy Orchestra team
