One World Club is your show. That doesn’t mean you have to perform, but it’s there for you to enjoy. No matter what your background, you and your entire family are welcome to what is essentially a free night out with live music and dance featuring a diverse range of styles.
It’s free because my tuition agency, together with Lynda’s counselling practice, covers all the costs.
What’s the point of One World Club?
1) To bring people together from different backgrounds in friendship.
2) To help undiscovered talented performers share their talent.
3) To enjoy a great night out without wondering who’s making a mint!
It seems that most entertainment involves expensive theatre or cinema tickets, or clubbing for the young.
At One World Club you’ll be met at the door, shown to a table in the spacious function hall, get a drink if you want one, then relax as the show begins at 7.30. Apart from the bar (all profits to MK Council) everything is free.
We stage six of these shows per year. Since switching from monthly to bi-monthly shows our audiences have increased dramatically, but the atmosphere is always like a family having fun together!
Let’s take a look at who’s entertaining us on 9th May:
We have a very full show with 8 top acts booked. In the March show, gifted singer/entertainer Cathy Woodward did a short ‘Open mic’ spot, and so impressed everyone with her audience involvement that I snapped her up there and then for the next show. Fronting her band, Meercats, her style is ‘good time – join in’ music. She might even hand you a percussion instrument so you can join the band from the audience!
African born Ayo made his debut performance in March. Performing soul and pop classics such as ‘Let’s get It On’ and ‘Stand By Me’ Ayo’s infectious personality and passionate performance soon had the entire audience singing and clapping along with him. I was determined to squeeze him in for a song or two in May even though the show was, strictly speaking, full.
If you like classical or flamenco guitar, Demetri Petrou is your bag. Greek Cypriot Demetri always stuns the house to silence with his expert guitar playing.
Expert guitarist Peter Webster fronts 4-piece band Off The Beaten Track, with music from Dire Straits, Dylan, Beatles etc. Peter and his band are well known faces in venues from Cambridge to Stony Stratford. Mark Knopfler fans are in for a treat!
Regular performer Vicky Scrase is a member of the One World Club team, and simply blows us all away when she sings in her native Greek! I’m due to accompany her, so find myself once again learning bouzouki style on guitar! What I only get myself into.....
Stop moaning; get on with it!
Palmerston are a big 5-piece folk-rock band, playing a range of instruments while they all sing. This band is a big production!
Twice Nightly is a duo comprising Kevin Magill on flute and Clive Woolf on guitar. They play modern music and Irish folk. Kevin is well known on the Stony Stratford music scene for his performances in pubs and sessions.
Middle Eastern Cultural Group dancers. Booking this troupe was a real scoop! (That wasn’t intended to rhyme!)
MECG are a group of dancers whose members stem from across the Middle East, and are almost never seen performing in public! They are the friendliest group of people you’re ever likely to meet and it’s very possible that they’ll invite you to join in!
With such a range of performers I would definitely go if I wasn’t already going!
Where? Same place as usual.
Cruck Barn, Milton Keynes Discovery Centre, Bradwell Abbey, Milton Keynes, MK13 9AP
ENTRANCE FREE
PARKING FREE
Doors open 6.30 for 7.30 start.
I was invited to appear on the radio yesterday to talk about One World Club. You can hear it at
Fast forward to 43 minutes in, that’s where I start. The interview is the main feature of the programme and lasts about 45 minutes in between records, performing and the news. I was fumbling and bumbling all over the place but people who’ve heard it say it’s very moving.
It won’t be up there for long so check it out soon if you want to hear it.
Best wishes
Andy Gilbert
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