DURHAM HYMNS - SONGS OF WAR, ST. BRANDON'S CHURCH, BRANCEPETH CASTLE, DURHAM - 7.30PM

SONGS OF WAR is an imaginative collaboration between men in HM Prison Frankland and four of the region’s most acclaimed young singer-songwriters: Barry Hyde, Elizabeth Corney, Lindsay Hannon and Bethany Coyle. Together they have produced a memorable suite of new songs that will touch the heart. 

The project drew inspiration from The Durham Hymns, the World War One project commissioned by the Northern Regional Brass Band Trust as part of the region’s commemorative programme.

The Durham Hymns created a new suite of hymns that reflected the events and experiences of real people in the county. Lyrics were commissioned from the Poet Laureate poet Carol Ann Duffy and music from Jonathan Bates, Jessica Curry and Orlando Gough.

For more information, please see HERE

NORTHERN WRITES FESTIVAL FINALE PERFORMANCE - STANLEY LAMPLIGHT THEATRE, DURHAM - 7.30PM

For more information please see HERE

WINGROVE WASSAIL - WEA GREENING WINGROVE COMMUNITY BIKE GARDENS, NUNSMOOR PARK, FENHAM, NEWCASTLE - from 3-5.30pm (FAMILIES WELCOME!)

Join us for a candlelit procession and musical celebration of our community as we give thanks for the winter and welcome in the spring, wassailling our community orchards. Who will be crowned our wassail king or queen?! With lantern making crafts workshops, mulled apple drinks, Song workshops, community theatre, and be guided through these ancient rituals and rites by our very own Green Man! 

TOMMY ARMSTRONG (PITMAN POET) BLUE PLAQUE UNVEILING
STANLEY, COUNTY DURHAM - 1PM ONWARDS 

MARCH AND RALLY FOR THE NHS - FROM MIDDAY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE - CITY CENTRE 

For more information please see HERE

ANTI-TRUMP RALLY - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

For details, please see HERE

WITH THE COAST ROAD, CUMBRIA (Further information to follow)

WYLAM WINTER FESTIVAL - WYLAM, NORTHUMBERLAND (Further information to follow)

With Gareth Davies-Jones 

This event will be a performance showcase in which I will perform both my own songs and those created during a composition project working within local schools and community groups in which we will explore the spirit of rural community, cultural identity, the changing seasons and our Northumbrian landscape.

WITH THE COAST ROAD - GOSFORTH CIVIC THEATRE, NEWCASTLE - 8PM

A CONCERT FOR DRURIDGE - 7PM, ST.JAMES'S CHURCH CENTRE, ALNWICK

REFUGEE BIRYANI & BANANAS FUNDRAISER FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES - FROM 4PM, THE CUMBERLAND ARMS, BYKER, NEWCASTLE 

Organised by North Tyneside Peoples Assembly with support from Unison Northumberland County Branch

Humanitarian volunteers and activists from the North East will be delivering aid to the Syrian Refugees fleeing war and now stranded in Greek refugee camps living in cold tents in abandoned factories with a lack of food and sanitation. 

Help raise funds to provide essential winter aid, food and basic necessities to ease some of their suffering by joining us for an evening of: 

With lots more to be confirmed!

-Snacks

-Raffle

-Henna Art

-Great Company 

**Family friendly**

*Tickets are £5 for all day*£3.50 4-7.30pm*£3.50 8-11pm*

Please contact Mollie Brown for tickets on 07478314289

Event details can be found HERE

GARY CLARKE COMPANY: COAL - 7.30PM AT THE GALA THEATRE DURHAM

NEWCASTLE 02 ACADEMY, 7.30PM - NICK PRIDE AND THE PIMPTONES, THE COAST ROAD AND TRIPTYCH

Event details can be found HERE

AN EVENING OF TOMMY ARMSTRONG SONGS, THE PEACOCK, TANFIELD, CO. DURHAM, 7.30PM

Come along and help us enjoy our annual celebration of the life of pitman poet Tommy Armstrong. As usual, there'll be lots of great singers including John Dixon, Bethany Elen Coyle, Bill Elliott, Doreen and Bryan Henderson, Jude Murphy, Allen Crawford.

Event details can be found HERE

BETHANY ELEN AND DAVE CAMLIN, BAR 26, KESWICK, CUMBRIA - 9PM

To celebrate WORLD REFUGEE DAY I am organising an ANTI RACISM MUSIC DEMONSTRATION - SAGE GATESHEAD, 6.30PM 

Event details can be found HERE

VIVA LA PALESTINE - RAFEEF ZIADAH ALBUM LAUNCH
CLUNY 1, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE - 7.30PM 

A showcase of spoken word and music, voices raised in solidarity of the palestinian struggle. All proceeds will go directly to supporting charitites working wihtin the occupied territories. (See poster below for further details)

VOICES FROM THE RUINS - WEA REGIONAL OFFICE, 10-4PM 

(See poster below for details)

BREAD AND ROSES - AN EVENING OF SOCIALIST FEMINISM - 7PM

- THE CUMBERLAND ARMS, BYKER, NEWCASTLE

For further information please click HERE

MAY DAY MARCH AND RALLY - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, FROM 11AM

For further information please click HERE

'IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE' & THE COAST ROAD LIVE - TYNESIDE CINEMA, NEWCASTLE

COME CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WITH THE COAST ROAD! 

Have an unforgettable and very Christmassy night of good cheer at the pictures with this special evening of film and live music with a screening of the greatest Christmas film of all-time It’s A Wonderful Life preceded by a performance by the fabulous North East-based acoustic jazz-folk collective The Coast Road.

Drawn together by invisible threads woven under a full moon the Coast Road play simple, stylish jazzy folk. This versatile and accomplished band will be bringing out their festive songbook for a lively night of beautiful songs guaranteed to put you in the merriest of moods before you see George Bailey become 'the richest man in town'. 

• For tickets and further information see: Tyneside Cinema website

AN EVENING WITH ROSES AND REVOLUTIONISTS - NEWCASTLE CITY LIBRARY - 6PM

Join Nigel Todd in conversation with Dr. Charlotte Alston about Newcastle’s famous but 'lost' Victorian anarchist land colony, a story told in his new book Roses & Revolutionists. 

Songs from Bethany Elen Coyle, a glass of Fairtrade wine, and rounded off with Rob Turnbull on the Plebs League.

• For tickets and further information see: Eventbrite page here

NORTH EAST PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY SEASONAL SOCIAL - BROADACRE HOUSE, NEWCASTLE, 7PM

• For details see: Facebook event page here

SUNDAY SISTA CLUB @ HOOCHIE COOCHIE, PILGRIM STREET, NEWCASTLE - 4-6PM

• For tickets and further information see: Facebook event page here

NORTH EAST LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY CHRISTMAS SOCIAL @ THE BRIDGE HOTEL, HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, NEWCASTLE - 7PM

BAR 26 - KESWICK
Bethany Elen will be playing with The Coast Road comrade Dave Camlin

MANIFESTO FOR A NEW CITY @ NORTHERN STAGE, NEWCASTLE - 7.30PM 

(Post Show discussion Friday evening after performance)

“Imagine that you could build a utopia, that this place could be different to any other. 

A free town, a place of imagination. What would we do?”                                                        

(2005 Darling, Manifesto for a City)

• For tickets and further information see: Northern Stage Website and Manifesto Twitter  

LAMPLIGHT ARTS CENTRE, STANLEY, COUNTY DURHAM - 1.30PM (see below for information)

JEREMY CORBYN LABOUR LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN CELEBRATIONS, NEWCASTLE

(PARTY MEMBERS / SUPPORTERS ONLY)

CALAIS SOLIDARITY MARCH AND RALLY (SINGING PERFORMANCE)

ASSEMBLING 10AM AT THE CENTRE FOR LIFE, MARCH BEGINS AT 11AM FOLLOWED BY A PROTEST AT THE CIVIC CENTRE AT 11.30AM

• For information please see: Facebook event page here

#REFUGEESWELCOMEHERE

SOLFEST, CUMBRIA 

• For tickets and further information please see: Solfest website

JERMEMY CORBYN LABOUR LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN 

AN EVENING WITH JEREMY CORBYN, THE TYNE JOURNAL THEATRE AND OPERA HOUSE, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, 7PM

• For tickets and information please see: Eventbrite page here

ST. TERESA'S CHURCH, HEATON, NEWCASTLE - 7.30PM (see below for details)

MINING INSTITUTE, NEWCASTLE - 7.30pm

Bethany Elen Coyle and the North East Socialist Singers presents:
JOHNNY HANDLE, BENNY GRAHAM, GARETH DAVIES-JONES

• For tickets and further information please see: www.underthefieldsofheaton.com

BAR 26, KESWICK - 8pm

Bethany Elen will be playing with The Coast Road comrade Dave Camlin

SEMIBREVE SUPPER CLUB - A TABLE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE

HEDDON ON THE WALL - 6.30pm
(for info see poster)

CLUNY 2, NEWCASTLE - 8pm

Journey to Justice - 'Footsteps to Freedom'
Exhibition closing party and handover celebration! 

An evening of inspirational music, dance, art, poetry and songs for social justice!

• For tickets and further information please see: Journey to Justice website

SPINNEY, NEWCASTLE - 2pm

Bethany Elen, NESS and The Coast Road performing as part of the 'Under the Fields of Heaton' festival.

• For tickets and further information please see: www.underthefieldsofheaton.com

GREAT NORTH MUSEUM - 7.30pm

Bethany Elen at 'A Kings Speech'. A screening and discussion on Martin Luther King's visit to Newcastle. 

 For further info: www.journeytojustice.org.uk/projects/footsteps-to-freedom

DISCOVERY MUSEUM, NEWCASTLE - 1.30pm
Bethany Elen and NESS (www.nes-singers.org) at Journey to Justice exhibition launch

THE KIRKGATE ARTS CENTRE, COCKERMOUTH - 7PM

An evening of lush harmonies with The Coast Road, Chapin-Wickwar and Sing Owt Community Choir

FENHAM LIBRARY, NEWCASTLE - 7PM

Bethany Elen and NESS performing as part of 'The Seam' album launch. Music from the heart of the Mining Institute, Newcastle.
For info: www.garethdavies-jones.com

YORK THEATRE ROYAL - 2PM

JOURNEYS TO JUSTICE: WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES - As part of  theatre production by the international human rights defenders of the Centre of Applied Human Rights, York University. 

(Bethany has created music for the production and will perform this live)

JAZZ CO-OP, NEWCASTLE - 8pm

Debut performance for the duo; Bethany Elen and Steve Newton (sound cloud.com/stevenewton)