And behind door number 22... a guide to some music of the more traditional kind
Catherine Munn and Jacob Martin list their Top 5 programmes to watch over the festive period.
And behind door number nine... some dazzling musical delights
The complete arts guide, for week 9
First stop is singer-songwriter town, with Yorker favourite David Ford coming to Fibbers on Thursday. I know, I know... "singer-songwriter?!" But that was the reaction of two of our most indie-dance hardened writers when they went to see him last year, and they both ended up falling in love with his live performance and dedication to hat wearing. Ford is the real deal as far this genre goes, more Stephen Fretwell than James Blunt, more Ed Harcourt than Damien Rice... you get the idea anyway. He's pretty on record but life-changing live... so get involved at Fibs this week.
If you're up for taking a real train a little further afield you could leave York for Greece (via Leeds) from Friday. West Yorkshire Playhouse is staging a run of Louise Page’s Salonika, a work haunted by the beauty of Greece and the long shadows of war. The play opens on a beach in Greece, with a 64-year-old woman, her mother and a naked young man, and opens out to tell the story of Enid and her mother Charlotte, who have travelled to Greece to visit the grave of her father, killed in World War I. Enid hopes for insight into the father she never knew and to dissuade Charlotte from remarrying the elderly but ardent lover who has followed them there. With an inversion of the meddling mother theme, Page's play is a mature but questioning work, and perfect for a contemplative late winter's evening.
Slightly closer to home, but also concerned with the effect of the past on the present, York Art Gallery is opening its newest exhibition Passed as Present on Saturday. The gallery will be presenting paintings and works on paper made between the 14th and 19th centuries alongside contemporary pieces from the Lodeveans collection of international contemporary art. The aim is to examine thematic or stylistic similarities between works, and should create a space in which works from both sets of periods can be examined in a new light.
If all that seems a little highbrow, our final stop this week in City Screen on Sunday, and the single 11am showing of Singin' in the Rain. Check out the video above if you feel any need to remind yourself quite how perfect this film is. Can there be any better way of spending a Sunday morning? We at The Yorker think not... picture this: Croissants. Singin' in the Rain at the cinema. A walk through the picturesque streets of York. An Evil Eye roast. We actually demand that you allow this image of perfection into your lives - find your friends and forget yourself in the real Sunday spirit, and, if you feel the need, warm up for the peerless Sunday night Gallery with the actually brilliant Mint Royale remix of the title song.
Exhibition: Ann Maria Pacheco at York St. John, 9am-8pm.
Lecture: "Economics as a Moral Discipline" with Sir Tony Atkinson, 6:15-8, free ticket needed from publiclectures@york.ac.uk
Gig: Hundred Reasons at Leeds Cockpit.
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