Hello XXXX -- so it's summer! And even as I write, the sun is shining, the air grows increasingly warm and soporific (huh, I've only written one sentence and I'm falling asleep already!), someone is watering their lawn, and is that a BBQ I can smell...?
And wowie-dowie, do FiddleBop have some summer crackers of gigs lined up for you? O yes we do...
First, fancy some pool-side
jazz? Hot
jazz with a cool dip? How about swimming into the sunset,
luxuriating in a steam room, enjoying a drink from a donation
bar and something to eat from a donation BBQ? Sounds like a
very good plan to me... but you'll have to hurry.
THIS EVENING (Saturday 30 July), FiddleBop are playing at Chipping Norton Lido (The Lido, Fox Close, Chipping Norton, Oxon OX7 5BZ) , from 7.15 pm. Entry is £5 adults, £3.50 children, with all proceeds going to this locally-owned and run 'pool with a social conscience'. For more, see the Lido's Facebook page.
Then next
weekend, it's a new venue for us: The Fox Inn, Chipping Norton
(Market Place, Chipping Norton, Oxon OX7 5DD) from 5.30 pm on Sunday 7 August. The
Fox is a rather splendid newly-refurbished 16th century inn in
downtown Chipping Norton. And a very nice place it is too,
with a great warm welcome guaranteed... So let's make the Fox
ring with FiddleBop's gypsy jazz swing! See you there?
And there's more... on Sunday 14
August from 5 pm, FiddleBop return triumphantly to The Nag's
Head On The Thames, Abingdon (The Bridge, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 3HX).
Fancy chilling to the sound of jazz and flowing water? How about
coming to the gig by water (some did, last time we played
there)? But however you get there, this one will be a cracker,
an exemplary way to wind down on that perfect August afternoon,
yeah!
Bank Holiday Monday, that's Monday 29 August, brings FiddleBop back to The Norman Knight (Whichford, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwicks CV36 5PE)! We're following Whichford Flower Show, so from 6 pm we'll be busy creating our own hot-house atmosphere, bringing hot-jazz-with-that-gypsy-swing back to this fine pub, with equally fine food and drink. How about joining us?
That's all for now, folks. Another FiddleBop newsletter will (all being well) follow in a few weeks.
We hope to see you at a FiddleBop gig soon... but wherever and whenever we see you next, one last thing: please raise a glass to Jo's wonderful Mum, Sonia Davies (3 July 1925 – 14 July 2016). Here she is, smiling through the front window of her house. For sure, we'll miss your smiling face at our gigs, Sonia.
So... All the very best to you XXXX, see you soon!
Dave
PS How about that FiddleBop and-swim, this evening?
This list is correct at the time of writing, but the list of gigs on our website is always up to date.
| When is it? | Venue, occasion, whatever... | Where is it? |
| 5.30 pm Sunday 7 August 2016 | The Fox Inn Chipping Norton |
Market Place, Chipping Norton, Oxon OX7 5DD  01608 638535 @thefoxatchippy enquiries@foxchippingnorton.co.uk |
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| 5 pm Sunday 14 August | The Nag's Head On The Thames, Abingdon | The Bridge, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 3HX 01235 524516@TheNagsAbingdoninfo@thenagsheadonthethames.co.uk |
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| 6 pm Monday 29 August 2016 | The Norman Knight Whichford |
Whichford, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwicks CV36 5PE 01608 684621info@thenormanknight.co.uk |
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| Saturday 3 September 2016 | Private party for 25th anniversary of Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford | Balliol College, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BJ |
| 7 pm Sunday 4 September 2016 | Oxford Jazz Kitchen gig at The Rose and Crown, Oxford | North Parade Avenue, Oxford, Oxon OX2 6LX01865 510551@RoseandcrownPH |
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| 8 pm Wednesday 28 September 2016 | The Stratford Alehouse "Shakespeare CAMRA Pub of the Year 2016" | 12B Greenhill Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwicks CV37 6LF 07746 807966@stratfordale |
| 8 pm Sunday 2 October 2016 | Le QuecumBar "The World's Premier Django Reinhardt Gypsy Swing Venue" |
42-44 Battersea High Street, London SW11 3HX 020 7787 2227@LeQuecumBarinfo@quecumbar.co.ukTickets £8 in advance, £11 cash on the door |
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| 8 pm Saturday 15 October 2016 | The Bell Inn Moreton-in-Marsh |
High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos GL56 0AF 01608 651887info@thebellinnmoreton.co.uk |
| 12 pm Sunday 23 October 2016 | The Walnut Tree Inn Blisworth |
21 Station Road, Blisworth, Northants NN7 3DS 01604 859551@walnut_tree_inn |
This list is correct at the time of writing, but the list of gigs on our website is always up to date. And for the latest and greatest, most up-to-the-second info on FiddleBop's small doings (do you really want to know?), see https://www.facebook.com/FiddleBop.
All the best!
The FiddleBoppers (Dave, Jo, Martin, and Roger)
fiddlebop.org
info@fiddlebop.org
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