Sutton Coldfield Festival of Arts

[ July 10, 2008; 9:00 pm; ]

Minworth’s answer to organ great Jimmy Smith will grace the tiny stage of The Gate Inn during the Festival.
This may come across as Sutton-centric hyperbole, but it shouldn’t. Norman Haines, now aged 61, has a superb pedigree, having recorded for EMI Parlophone.

He wrote and sang Brum blues and soul band Locomotive’s 1968 top 30 hit Rudi’s [...]

[ July 13, 2008; 4:00 pm; ] THE GATE INN, SUNDAY JULY 13, 4pm

The quiet village of Marston on the outskirts of Sutton Coldfield is the backdrop to one of the finest CDs ever to have been released by a local performer.

Mike Gates, who lives there, has come up with the home-recorded gem Resistance To The Passage Of Sound, in league with [...]

[ July 10, 2008; 7:00 pm; ] Sally Minchin and Mike Fowler will play their own brand of jazz at Pizza Express in Birmingham Road on Thursday July 10 at 7pm, as one of the Festival’s first events.

The flexible duo, from Wylde Green and Boldmere respectively, will be making their debut at the venue, which is staging the performance as a special [...]