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Jake Rodrigues

Jake Rodrigues

Musician & Performer

2008

 

 

 

 

 

Jake Solo 2008 - Back to Vaudeville & Music Hall

For the last couple of years Jake has been augmenting his solo reportoire of original songs with a new reportoire of Old Time Music Hall and American Vaudeville songs. His monthly gigs at The Camel in Bethnal Green feature the songs of Harry Champion , Gus Elen, Al Bowly, Sir George Robey and Vesta Tilly. We then cross the Atlantic for tin pan alley , Blues and Vaudeville from the likes of Emmet Miller, Nick Lukas and Ukulele Ike. Each month features a different theme ( previous themes have included death, journeys , Cockney knees up and Love ). If you've seen his major chicken show you'll love his rendition of Tiptoe Through the Tulips and his take on classic novelty songs of yesteryear.

8th March - Ukulele Workshops at The Barbican with ' The Duke of Uke ' shop. The event culminates in an 80 strong ukulele performance

9th March -Duke of Uke Salon at The Horse & Groom.
 
As part of EAST festival Duke of Uke is holding a relaxed and intimate evening of totally unplugged acoustic entertainment, featuring:
 
Mr John Barnes
Paul Moore’s Musical Medicine Show
Nigel Burch and The Flea-Pit Orchestra
6 Day Riot
The Hula Bluebirds 

12 March - Hula Bluebirds at Doncaster racecourse - from 5pm

 

 

23 March - Hula Bluebirds & The Lei Aloha Dancers & The Dulwich Ukulele Club present a day of free workshops and performance - starts 11am and all indoors at the Royal Festival Hall

24 March- The Windy Workshops are on all day at The Royal Festival Hall  from 11am till 3pm 

5 April - Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in

6 April - The Ragtime Millionaires ( Jake & Martin Wheatley ) TBC

3 May - Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in

24-26 May - The Pierrotters in Blackpool - Check the Rotters in and around the The Grand Theatre Blackpool over the bank holiday weekend

 

 

7 June - Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in

8 June - The Hula Bluebirds at Stanford Guitar Festival 

28-29 June - The Chuff Train Stompers reunion and Jc's 40th Birthday Bash at Briddlesford Fram on the Isle of Wight 

Tuesdays in July - Jake teaches a Uke courses at The City Lit. , Central London ( beginners & intermediate )  

5 July - Jake solo at 'The Camel' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm . Free Entry and lots of musical silliness as well as tunefullness will be on the menu

12 July - Eistedford Festival in Llangollen North wales with The Pierrotters

27 July - The Pierrotters in Barrow in Furness

2 Aug - The Hula Bluebirds at Canvey island Con Club

3 Aug - The Pierrotters in Goole bandstand in the afternoon

17 Aug - The Hula Bluebirds at the banstand West Ham Park  East London in the afternoon 

25-26 Aug - The Hula Bluebirds at Bude Jazz Festival 

13-14 Sept - The Pierroters along Morecombe seafront 

4 October -  Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in. This months theme is a Good Ol Cockney Knees Up

1 Nov - Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in. This months gig is of a nautical nature with lots of Rodger the Cabin Boy and Master Mates shenanigans

13 Dec - Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in. Tonights theme is 'Christmas on Christmas Island' songs of far away places and exotic climes to keep the frost away. Expect mad dogs and englishmen as well as the old bazaar in Cairo.

14 Dec - The Smoking Cabinet Film Festival

Performing live music to a Vaudeville set of films Jake will be playing , Tiple, Dulcimer + plus his regular menagerie of acoustic instruments to the final programme of this Soho film festival. Check out http://thesmokingcabinet.com/ for more details . A summary is listed below.

 


 

4pm - SANDOW THE MUSCLE MAN AND THE SPIRIT OF CONEY ISLAND
Roll up, roll up to witness Boxing Cats, The King of Coins, and Edwin S Porter's classic Coney Island at Night (1905), that we're screening in a celebration of the extraordinary amusement empire that astonished, delighted and shocked a nation. There's a rare opportunity to see Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton's 1917 romp Coney Island and to revel in the most magnificent spectacle of the world's mad hunt for pleasure!

 

 


 

17 Jan 2009- Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in. This month's Credit Crunching theme will be  'Tramps and Hobo's '

 
14 Feb 2009 - Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in. This month's romantic theme will be  'Spoon & Swoon'

12 march 2009- Jake solo at ' The Camel ' 277 Globe Road E2, Bethnal Green from 8.30pm on and free to get in. This month's totally Bonkers theme will be  'Mad as March Hare's'