The Lift Global Music Club

Rafiki Jazz

Saturday 13th March

The Globe, 144 High Street West, Glossop 8.30pm - Late

Tickets £8.00 in advance £10.00 on the door

Rafiki Jazz are the UK’s fast-rising world music collective playing tracks from their acclaimed debut album More Big Muzik from Over There!

As a big & diverse family of star African & Latin diaspora musicians and outstanding singers & music-makers, they stretch out together in an inspired fusion playing some gloriously ambitious contemporary global dance music.

Fronted by an electrifying all-Yorkshire vocal trio featuring the fiery Swahili taarab singing of Zanzibari Real World recording artist Mim Suleiman, alongside bossa-jazz singer Rosie Brown’s cool liquid stylings & newcomer Vanessa Chutturghoon’s sultry creole, their live shows deliver an ecstatic babble of voices, languages, melodies & rumbling rhythms.

Rafiki Jazz hail from a special place over there! Where beatbox meets berimbau..and Brazil greets Banjul.

"Gorgeous music" - Diz Heller, Arc Music International

"We’re loving the Rafiki Jazz album" - Mary Ann Kennedy, BBC World on 3

"Big music indeed…elegant charm & rootsy authenticity" - Howard Male, Songlines Magazine

Link to Rafiki Jazz

Kirsty McGee and Hobo Pop Collective

Saturday 27th March

The Globe, 144 High Street West, Glossop 8.30pm - Late

Tickets £6.00 in advance £8.00 on the door

photo - pauline keightley

Kirsty McGee sprang out of the “new acoustic” scene in late-nineties Manchester alongside contemporaries like Elbow and I Am Kloot (she briefly shared a label with both). Her 2002 debut saw her nominated for a BBC Folk award, which she followed up with a further nomination for her second album in 2004. Indeed she has worked with some of the best in the UK folk scene, such as producer John Wood (Fairport Convention, Nick Drake), Boo Hewerdine, Clive Gregson and Neil Macoll, and yet somehow McGee has never fitted the folk bracket comfortably. Stylistically she continues to defy categorisation.

To suggest that her music is inconsistent, however, is far from accurate. There are core qualities to her work that run much deeper than stylistic inflection and remain strong as she delves into British folk idioms, French chanson styles, Americana-roots, banjo-driven mountain music, Dixieland swing or Jazz inflections. Her writing and voice possess a singular quality born out of first-hand, sometimes bitter experience, and yet retain a simplicity and a freshness of vision that bely a dogged, bare-to-the-skin sincerity.

These are the qualities that have earned her a quiet reputation as one of the most respected ‘cult’ songwriters and voices of her generation and have created a warm place for her amongst music fans who have always loved a developing artist. In 2007 she severed ties with label and management, and adopted the ‘Hobopop’ brand as the only description of her work that encompassed its wandering spirit. In her DIY ethic (she now releases all her work on her own Hobopop label) McGee has shown remarkable resource and determination to continue creating interesting, dark, intelligent and literate music in many forms.

She has more recently formed the ever-evolving Hobopop Collective, a group of musicians attracted from the UK jazz, indie, rock, folk and even classical circles, who have added further depth and unique character to her work. The live show is eccentric, accomplished, and never dull, and is documented in her current recording project, 'No. 5' (made in one take in front of a sold out audience one Autumn night in Manchester), which features musicians from bands as diverse as Guillemots, The Brute Chorus, Richard Hawley and The Guthries.

"Absolutely superb, memorable... i love her songs." - Bob Harris

"A quiet triumph." - fRoots

"A wonderful voice." - Mike Harding

"The kind of voice that stops you dead in your tracks. she blends styles like a master alchemist and has a way with melody that means the moment you hear her songs it's impossible to get them out of your head." - Ralph Mclean, BBC

Link to Kirsty McGee and Hobo Pop Collective

Angel Brothers

Saturday 24th April

The Globe, 144 High Street West, Glossop 8.30pm - Late

Tickets £6.00 in advance £8.00 on the door

Keith and Dave Angel return to the Lift with a stunning eight piece band and a brilliant album, which has received rave reviews. Besides Keith and Dave the rest of the band are: Mick Humphrey, Jim Lockey bass, Andy Seward, Becki Driscoll fiddle, Nick Wyke fiddle and vocalist Sandhya Sanjana.

The band’s unique sounds marries their love of composers Lalo Schiffren, Ennio Morricone and David Axlerod with Latin, Indian and African percussion, acoustic and electric guitars, Hammond organ, piano and English folk fiddle. They describe their music as a ‘sound track to a film of your imagination’. Their many fans will also hear rock solid groovy versions of some of their old classics.

Link to Angel Brothers