The Folk Roots List

The Mandolinquents feature everything from hot swing and ragtime instrumentals from the mandolin orchestras of the 1930s: Irving Berlin, Mozart, Ravel and Tchaikovsky to lively reels and beautiful traditional Irish airs to Chinese and Brazilian folk tunes. All this played with infectious fun, off-beat humour and stunning virtuosity on mandolin, mandola, mandocello, mandobass and classical guitar, with the occasional burst of song or fiddle.

December 2011

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents Christmas Special 

Wed 14. South Street Arts Centre, 21 South Street, Reading RG1 4QU

Tel: 0118 9606060 Tickets £15.00 – from 7.30 p.m.

 

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents Christmas Special 

Thurs 15 New Greenham Arts Auditorium, 113 Lindenmuth Way, Newbury, RG19 6HN.

Tel: 01635 522733 Tickets £16.00 & £14.00 Conc – From  8.00 p. m.

 

February 2012

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents with special guests A Band Like Alice

Thurs 9 New Greenham Arts Auditorium, 113 Lindenmuth Way, Newbury, RG19 6HN.

Tel: 01635 522733 Tickets £15.00 – From  8.00 p. m.

 

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents

Thurs 23 Pavilion Arts Centre, in the Pavilion Gardens Complex, St John’s Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6BE

Tel: 0845 127 2190 Tickets: £13/£15 (£12/14 Concs) From 8.00 p.m.

 

March 2012

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents

Tue 13. Chipping Sodbury Music Society @ Chipping Sodbury Town Hall, 57-59 Broad St, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol BS37 6AD

Tel: 01454 319941 or 01179 702518 Tickets £12.00 (School Children Admitted Free) – From 7.00 p.m.

 

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents

Sat 24 The Theatre Royal, Addington Street, Margate, Kent CT9 1PW

Tel: 0845 1301786 & 01227 787787 Tickets: £14 - £12 From 7:30 p.m.

 

May 2012

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents

Wed 9. The Corn Exchange, St Paul’s Square, Bedford, Beds MK40 1SL

Tel: 01234 269519 Tickets £15.00 & £13.00 From 7:30 p.m.

 

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents

Thurs 10 Theatre Severn, Frankwell Quay, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY3 8FT

Tel: 01743 281281 Tickets £16.00 & £17.00 From 8.00 p.m.

 

June 2012

Simon Mayor’s Mandolinquents

Sat 9 The Civic, Hanson Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 2HZ

Tel: 01226 327000  Tickets £15.00 From 8.00 p.m.

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