03 December 2025
Back in the day (a hundred years or so) in New Orleans, the birthplace of Jazz, a 'Professor' was someone who played piano in a brothel. In 2025, the considerably more prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance also has a Jazz Professor - and he's heading our way this month to institute a regular series of Jazz concerts at the Southgate Club. And where better to start, on Thursday 11th December, than with a celebration of a hundred years of music from the 'Crescent City'?
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21 October 2025
Lesley Jordan, until recently chair of Enfield Choral Society, invites people to an upcoming concert which will see the choir returning to its roots to celebrate the 150th anniversary of one of Enfield's notable buildings, Christ Church Chase Side.
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24 May 2025
Arbeit Studios are recruiting DJs for the Octave Street Party that will take place in Devonshire Square on 12th July.
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07 May 2025
This month's Balboa Nights event at the Southgate Club features a student big band from Trinity Laban Conservatoire in Greenwich that specialises in recreating the music of Fletcher Henderson, one of the greats of the Swing era.
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24 February 2025
Winchmore String Orchestra's spring newsletter whets our appetites for the feast of Nordic music that they will be laying on in Southgate on Saturday 5th April.
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23 October 2024
The Little Green Dragon in Winchmore Hill is among four pubs which have reached the final round of the Campaign for Real Ale's national Pub of the Year contest.
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17 October 2024
The Dugdale Arts Centre is looking for members of the local community with a stake in arts and culture to sit on its community panel.
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25 September 2024
Starting on 9th October and every second Wednesday after that, the Southgate Club will be the venue for a monthly night celebrating a dance that originated in California in the late 1920s - and the dancers get to choose the music!
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26 June 2024
Saturday sees the launch of a summer-long series of free events in Edmonton at the newly built Pavilion on the Green. Between now and September the Pavilion will play host to live music featuring styles from the African diaspora, holiday activities for young people, family arts, theatre and dance workshops, wellbeing activities and a whole range of other activities.
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26 June 2024
Music lovers planning to attend the Livestock 2024 music festival at Forty Hall Farm should buy tickets now as unless ticket sales pick up soon there is a risk that the event may be cancelled.
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25 June 2024
How well do you know your flugelhorn from your trumpet? Come along to Winchmore String Orchestra's next concert on 13th July and find the difference between these two similar brass instruments. Discover too how smoothly the local musicians can switch from 17th Century Italian Baroque to 20th Century British, with a little pinch of Argentinian Tango thrown in to spice things up a bit.
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03 January 2024
Following the suspension of the Fox's entertainment licence because of complaints from neighbours, an online petition to Enfield Council in support of permitting live music has amassed more than a thousand signatures.
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27 October 2023
Southgate Symphony Orchestra are inviting musicians to a workshop and performance of the Symphonie fantastique, conducted by Berlioz authority Adrian Brown.
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30 August 2023
As always, there will be live music and a DJ at the Bandstand during Sunday's Palmers Green Festival. This year the music stage is being organised by Clare Donovan of the wonderful food charity Cooking Champions that is doing so much to feed hungry residents and to revive the once widespread art of home cooking.
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22 August 2023
Enfield in Song are looking for new members. This friendly choir sings show tunes and popular melodies, and puts on concerts locally.
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30 May 2023
Jazz musicians with an international pedigree will be playing in the smart new community room at the Fox during June and July - at affordable entry prices.
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09 May 2023
The first Sunday of the month means it's time for Myddleton Road Market, and Sunday gone being the first in May, what better way to celebrate than to dance around a maypole? Meanwhile in Fox Lane Sunday's celebrations included a tug-of-war between streets on either side of the road: Old Park Road versus Caversham Avenue.
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10 January 2023
Featured at Bowes Park Folk Club's first 2023 session this week will be some familiar local faces in a new line-up, offering an eclectic mix of music played not too seriously.
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05 November 2022
Winchmore String Orchestra have issued their autumn newsletter, featuring news of their new conductor and a typically varied programme for their next concert, at which he will be both conducting and playing violin.
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