The Ship Inn Arts Centre – at Ashford Hill
Ship Inn Country Hotel RG19 8BD
Welcome everyone! And Happy New Year!
Our Website: https://shipinnarts.org/ has links to our events, under Events 2025 – or you can pick up a leaflet with all our events when you visit Shipinnarts.
Early Booking is Advised
Purchase Tickets: Tickets from Eventbrite.
You can also reserve tickets directly by ringing The Ship: 01189 814504 (this includes Early bird tickets) – then pay on the door when you come – please bring cash if you can.
All tickets are non-refundable – tickets may be exchanged for another performance providing it is within 48 hours of the advertised start time of the event.
If you would like to be put on our Mailing List, please email shipinnarts@gmail.com – you will receive an email monthly about events coming up for the next month.
Open Mics
During 2025 the Open Mics evenings will be announced on our Website and also on our Facebook page when they are taking place. Please do check both these platforms before venturing out. A sign outside The Ship will be displayed when they are on that evening. They usually start at 7pm.
Tuesday Crafts at Shipinnarts During 2025 we are taking a break from the Crafts sessions.
The Ship venue is available for hire at a reasonable cost: if you would like to hold a workshop of your own, or a concert, or hire The Ship for rehearsals/recording, please ring The Ship on 01189 814504. January and February would be ideal months to hold workshops as the Shipinnarts events really start up in March. Welcome everyone!
Food Allergy Notice!
Please be advised that the food may contain allergies. Ring us a week before the event you are attending, if you have a special food requirement, so we have enough warning – thank you.
Opportunities for ensemble playing!
Flautissimo II – is a lovely group of Flute players and would love to encourage more flute players to join us! All abilities welcome, school age too, even if you can read just a few notes! Please bring £5 cash with you when you come. Sometimes our rehearsals are held in Newbury. Please get in contact – email: alisonpickering30@gmail.com
Recorder Choir (18 years and up) – come and join us! Bring your recorder if you have one, Alison has some to lend if not. Alison hopes to build the full range of recorders. Please bring £5 cash each practise. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
These pages list our upcoming events in 2025. You can also pick up a leaflet with all our events when you visit The Ship.
JANUARY
Saturday 17th 24th & 31st January 7.30pm – 8.45pm Recorder Choir (18 years and up) – come and join us! Bring your recorder if you have one, Alison has some to lend if not. Please bring £5 cash each practise. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Saturday 18th January 12 – 1pm Flautissimo II Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Sunday 19th January 3pm – 5pm Celtic Song and Overtone Workshop with Laura Wilcock and Visy
Laura Wilcock – Song leader ,Local folk and ceremonial singer with decades of experience . Visy – Multi instrumentalist and Lead vocal in band Feidr Blot. He is a talented maker of drums and traditional instruments
Come and join us, welcoming the New Year together here at Shipinnarts! (this is a non-Shipinnarts independent workshop)
A Fully participatory unique event lead by Laura Wilcock and Visy who collaborate their musical talents to share their deep rooted appreciation and connection to ancient culture and song . Teas and Coffees provided – we will have a short break. Children are welcome and FREE to this event . (continued overleaf)
Celtic singing – Throughout the ages groups and communities have come together to lift up their voices in song. Science can now confirm what we have felt within, that singing in groups releases endorphins and has a positive effect on our physical, mental and emotional health.
Overtone and Throat singing – Many ancient communities have Overtone and throat singing deeply embedded in their cultures ,such as. Mongolian ,Tibetan , Turkish, Siberian and Altai peoples. Overtone singing can strengthen and improve your vocal resonance .
Tickets: £20
Saturday 8th February 12 – 1pm Flautissimo II Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Saturday 14th & 28th February 7.30pm – 8.45pm Recorder Choir (18 years and up) – come and join us! Bring your recorder if you have one, Alison has some to lend if not. Please bring £5 cash each practise. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Saturday 15th February 7 – 9pm – Clayson sings Chanson
Doors open at 6.30pm – Bar Open
Come and join us, for this theatrical evening here at Shipinnarts! (this is a non-Shipinnarts independent performance)
Alan Clayson, chanteur and raconteur, explores the most mature and cultivated form of popular song
CLAYSON SINGS CHANSON has been on the road since 2011, initially to tie-in with the publication of Alan Clayson’s Jacques Brel biography, La Vie Bohéme though the presentation’s origins lie too in 1999’s acclaimed Ne Me Quitte Pas: A Celebration Of Jacques Brel, an all-star album on which Clayson’s contributions were highlights.
With accompaniment and a supporting programme from songwriter and vocalist Andy Lavery on keyboards and guitar, and Mark T, already familiar to Ship Inn audiences, playing blues, folk and roots music on guitar and bouzouki, the show is prefaced by an explanatory talk that is as entertaining as it is educational.
Tickets £9 Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clayson-sings-chanson-tickets-1067256806839?aff=oddtdtcreator
On the door £10 – cash preferred please
Saturday 14th & 28th February 7.30pm – 8.45pm Recorder Choir (18 years and up) – come and join us! Bring your recorder if you have one, Alison has some to lend if not. Please bring £5 cash each practise. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
MARCH
Saturday 8th & 29th March 12 – 1pm Flautissimo II Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Saturday 14th 21st & 28th March 7.30pm – 8.45pm Recorder Choir (18 years and up) – come and join us! Bring your recorder if you have one, Alison has some to lend if not. Please bring £5 cash each practise. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
APRIL
Saturday 5th & 26th April Flautissimo II practise . Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Friday 11th & 25th April Recorder Choir (18 years and up) – come and join us! Bring your recorder if you have one, Alison has some to lend if not. Please bring £5 cash each practise. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
MAY
Saturday 3rd & 17th May Flautissimo II Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Friday 9th & 16th May Recorder Choir (18 years and up) – come and join us! Bring your recorder if you have one, Alison has some to lend if not. Please bring £5 cash each practise. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
JUNE
Saturday 7th & 28th June Flautissimo II. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Friday 13th 20th & 27th June Recorder Choir (18 years and up) – come and join us! Bring your recorder if you have one, Alison has some to lend if not. Please bring £5 cash each practise. Contact Alison Pickering, email: alisonjpickering30@gmail.com
Sunday 29th June 3 – 5pm “Summer Showcase” and afternoon tea with the Kingsclere Singers Come and join us for a fabulous afternoon!
Musical Directors Hazel O’Leary and Jess Craker-Knott
Accompanist Paul Freeman
Kingsclere Singers are a community choir who rehearse on Mondays during term time at The Fieldgate Centre in Kingsclere from 7.30-9.15pm. We sing a variety of music including songs from films and the West End. There are usually six events each year. Two at Christmas [these are always for charity], two in the Spring and two at the end of July. We are also available for weddings, funerals and corporate functions.
Please contact hazeloleary@hotmail.co.uk for further information or visit our website kingsclere-singers.org.
Our fees are very reasonable…….£135 yearly.
If you are interested just come along and meet us. There are no auditions and you do not need to read music!
Tickets: £15 Food Allergies: please contact us on email, or ring us to let us know of any special dietary requirements at least a week before the event you are attending – thank you.
JULY
Saturday 19th July 3 – 5pm – Courtlye Musick ‘Threading through Time and Place’ with Anita and Martin Felton, Anne and Gareth Jones – a Medieval tea will be served
Step back in time with Courtlye Musick (a group of versatile musicians specialising in instrumental music and song from the renaissance and late medieval periods), as they weave a pattern of music and composers through the courts of Europe and through the 15th and 16th centuries.
Courtlye Musick has been busy in the last year, with events such as the Milton Abbas Street Fair, Twinning weekends with an Early Music and Dance ensemble from Cherbourg and concerts across the South Coast.
Tickets: £15 Food Allergies: please contact us on email, or ring us to let us know of any special dietary requirements at least a week before the event you are attending – thank you.
AUGUST
Saturday 16th August – 3pm – 5pm – A Summer Cream Tea with Music
Come and relax and have a very special afternoon! You will be served a delicious cream tea and Angela Moore (local harpist) will play in the background some magical music on her beautiful harp!
Tickets: £15 Food Allergies: please contact us on email, or ring us to let us know of any special dietary requirements at least a week before the event you are attending – thank you.
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 13th September 7.30pm – 9.00pm – Singalong Workshop
Hazel O’Leary, local Choir Director of Kingsclere Singers and Tadley Singers will get us all singing along!! Great fun last time!! We will sing sea shanties, Olde Tyme Music Hall and other well known tunes Recorder Choir and Flautissimo II two groups established by Alison Pickering here at The Ship in 2024. ‘Twinduo’ will also perform, Alison and Jane Pickering, (piano and saxophone) who are twin sisters, and are accomplished musicians who come from a very musical family and wish to share their love of music in all genres, with everyone.
Bar Open
Tickets on door £5 – cash please
OCTOBER – free for Workshops/events
NOVEMBER
Sunday 30th November – 3 – 5pm – FAMILY EVENT “Christmas Sensations” Flautissimo II and Recorder Choir will play
Come and make Christmas Decorations and make Pot Pourri! Refreshments will be served at £4.
Tickets £5 on the door – please bring cash
Food Allergies: please contact us on email, or ring us to let us know of any special dietary requirements at least a week before the event you are attending – thank you.
DECEMBER
Carols and Cake – date to be confirmed.
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