Music

A simple programme to open the new season but one which demanded a high level of technical expertise as well as extrovert energy.

The Big Sing returns this weekend and people can enjoy performances by 20 local choirs and singing groups who will be raising funds for St Michael’s Hospice.

The Feeling will perform celebrated million-selling album Twelve Stops And Home at the De La Warr Pavilion next Thursday October 18.

St Michael’s Hospice Big Sing takes to the stage at St John’s Church, Brittany Road, St Leonards on Sea this Saturday (October 13), 11am – 9.30pm.

Winner of the 2018 Hastings Piano Concerto Competition Roman Kosyakov returns on Friday October 12 to perform in the Hastings Philharmonic season launch,

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of milestone album Yes I Am, Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Melissa Etheridge has announced a European tour and is coming to the De La Warr Pavilion Pavilion in February 2019.

Members of Bexhill Light Operatic And Dramatic Society (BLODS) are going all ghoulish with their perfect half-term family treat which is new musical comedy The Addams Family.

Hastings Fat Tuesday is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2019 and is now inviting applications from musicians across all genres, as well as from stage managers and potential volunteers, for this special edition of the annual music festival.

At first glance Bexhill Choral Society’s concert last Saturday at St Augustine’s Church looked like a fairly conventional set of religious settings. In the event it was anything but, and all the more interesting for being so.

No.48 on Devonshire Road is holding a festival of live music this weekend to celebrate nine years of trading in Bexhill.

Local musicians from Hastings have donated their original recording sto a charity compilation album to raise funds for Citizens Advice 1066 - based in St Leonards and providing help for people in Hastings and Rother.

Hastings Oktoberfest returns to St Mary in the Castle this weekend promising beers, bratwursts and oompah bands.

Barefaced Music return with a top line-up of sounds for a festival at the Sea Angling Club on the Stade to raise funds for St Michael’s Hospice.

Plans are afoot to bring musicians in the Bexhill area together with the aim of helping good causes.

DJ Tony Blackburn will be at the White Rock Theatre in Hastings for an evening of 1960s classics performed live by the Sounds Of The 60s All Star Band & Singers.

This weekend sees Hastings Oktoberfest return to St Mary In The Castle for the third year running with plenty of beer, live music and good times as well as some charity fundraising.

Following sell-out performances of Made In Dagenham, Battle Light Opera Group is “delighted” to have attracted the skills of professional singer Louise Winter as director and London College of Music graduate Andrew Daniels as musical director for their production of The Merry Widow.

The award-winning composer, performer and Hastings resident Gwyneth Herbert releases her much-anticipated album Letters I Haven’t Written today (Friday October 5).