Tribute Night is a long and winding train ride through the wonderful, eclectic world of popular music and a celebration of its most important, influential, innovative and fun exponents. These are the people who crafted the soundtracks of our lives.
It’s a simple but winning formula: every three months, a different artist is featured and various local musicians play various songs by the featured artist in various and often surprising ways. Occasionally, it is more of a theme than an artist. All are welcome to get involved by choosing a song or two to learn and play on the night or by coming to listen and sing along. If you’ve been to one of these nights before, you’ll know that they can be silly amounts of fun.
Following a pandemic-induced hiatus, we returned with a Christmas Special in December 2022, and the schedule proper continues with Beyoncé & Destiny’s Child on Saturday 18 March 2023.
To find out more, including how to get involved, send an email to Zac at TributeNight@hotmail.co.uk and join the mailing list. You can also visit our Facebook page for more information.
A Brief History Of Tribute Night
The seeds were sown when esteemed performance poet, celebrated author and local legend, AF Harrold, thought it might be rather fun to organise an evening of Leonard Cohen songs in July 2005. It was so successful and fun that he repeated the whole exercise a year later, decided to hold similar nights for different artists at quarterly intervals, and thus was spawned Tribute Night.
Now in its seventeenth year, the Tribute Night formula has been applied to the following artists and themes:
In addition to the above, there are the occasional ‘off-piste’ specials to mark particular occasions, standing outside the regular quarterly schedule. So far, these have included: