I really love Sam's band and their music so sharing the unique venue. If you are up for a chill, fun experience on Saturday Night.
:P So, Simply Saxes saxophone quartet has a novel little outing this Saturday evening playing in the Thames Tunnel Shaft at Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe. I don’t think I have ever played the baritone underground so that’s a first! http://www.brunel-museum.org.uk/events/music-on-a-summer-evening/ It starts at 7.30pm. We are doing two sets of light swingy stuff, lots of Gershwin, Irving Berlin, that sort of thing. There is a bar between, and then cocktails on the little roof garden from the Midnight Apothecary afterwards. Tickets are £10 and you can buy them in advance here http://www.wegottickets.com/brunelmuseum (for a £1 booking fee) or on the door. It should be a really nice evening in a unique historical venue, and if we pull in a decent crowd then they might ask us back, so all support is gratefully received, especially as 90% of you are probably on holiday! If you can’t make it but know a friend who might enjoy it, please do pass this along. thanks Sam : ) www.simplysaxes.co.uk *About the venue* The Brunel Museum in historic Rotherhithe is directly above the Thames Tunnel which opened 170 years ago in March this year. This is where Isambard Kingdom Brunel began his extraordinary career, aged nineteen years. Working with his father Sir Marc Brunel, he helped build the first tunnel under a river anywhere in the world. When it first opened in 1843, people came from far and wide to see it, such was the pulling power of the first tunnel to be built with a tunnelling shield under a navigable river. Sadly, it was only open to pedestrians, and not the horses and carts carrying cargo that had been the sole reason for creating it. The tunnel had taken so long to build there was simply no money to build the two large shafts with spiral ramps that the horses and carts would use to descend and ascend. With it being dubbed the 8th Wonder of the World the crowds flocked to it creating a brief profitability. Inevitably this was not to last as its novelty passed and the Thames Tunnel Company ran out of ideas to promote it with. 2010 saw the re-opening of the Thames Tunnel as part of the London Overground. What was once the stub East london Line has now metamorphosed into the London Overground creating new routes linking destinations north and south of the river. Eventually this will become part of an orbital railway – an outer Circle Line. -- ************************** *excuse typos & txt like shorthand,* *typing w/ one hand due to broken arm. *
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