We celebrate The Specials' superb third album with songs primarily written by Jerry Dammers, arranged for Vox Holloway by Harvey Brough.
This concert is a continuation of a Vox Holloway tradition - we have done many concerts where we highlight the work of the great songwriters and album makers. We have performed arrangements of entire albums The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper, The Kinks’ The Village Green Preservation Society and have performed albums by Clara Sanabras and Monica Vasconcelos with them as lead soloists and their musicians as our band.
Our salute this time is to The Special AKA - the Specials third album, a superb collection of sophisticated pop songs primarily written by Jerry Dammers, covering topics such as freedom - Free Nelson Mandela, conflict - War Crimes, racism - If you have a Racist Friend, loneliness and urban tension - The Bright Lights/The Lonely Crowd.
These serious themes are leavened by the upbeat nature of the music (with ska, reggae and lounge influences) and the humour of a song like What I like most about you is your girlfriend.
Our band and soloist include some of the UK’s finest jazz and reggae artists - Julian Siegel (sax), Harry Brown (trombone), Byron Wallen (trumpet) and Liam Dunachie (piano) with Wills Morgan (solo voice).
Harvey Brough (who was at school with Jerry Dammers and has worked with him over the years) is writing new arrangements for the mighty Vox Holloway and we promise an uplifting and uproarious evening.
Doors open at 6.45pm for a 7.30pm start. Bar open before the concert and at the interval. Seats are unreserved.
