Kate Garner's Vintage Songbook

Gigs · Cromer

Kate Garner's Vintage Songbook

Friday 23 July 2027 · Doors 19:00

Community Centre, Cromer

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Kate Garner's Vintage Songbook is on Friday 23 July 2027 at Community Centre, Cromer, with doors at 19:00. Tickets start at £16.50, including the booking fee.

Kate is a singer songwriter, performer and song historian. Through her passion and knowledge of old songs, she recently wrote and presented her own TV series on Talking Pictures called 'The Stories Behind The Songs'. Kate was invited by Jools Holland to guest on his Radio 3 show 'Earlier...' Kate is the daughter of Chas Hodges from Chas and Dave Born in Edmonton, all mothers and babies were evacuated after a cockroach infestation, so Kate went onto spend the first week of her life with Mum Joan in Gracie Fields’ ball room, a maternity home at the time. Kate has been writing songs since she was a child. Her songwriting style varies from a victorian parlour song to a top ten club chart hit. Kate’s work always involved a piano in some way. Playing around the pubs and clubs of London at night and a day job at Harrods selling pianos. Kate has performed aboard the HMS Victory, The London Palladium and The Royal Albert Hall. She has also perfromed live with the BBC Big Band & Concert Orchestra for D Day 80 at Portsmouth Guildhall and guested on Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’ for VE Day 80. Kate’s love of the 20s and 30s began when her dad bought her a wind up gramophone at a flea marke...

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