The Poetry Cabaret at Hampton Hub Club

The Poetry Cabaret
Music and Poetry night fundraising for Off the Record
November 12th 7.00 - 11.00 pm
£25 in advance
Hampton Hub Club

Live music with
EyiTemi
British-Nigerian singer-songwriter headlines The Poetry Cabaret, backed by her 5-piece band and young contemporary dancer, Anouska Lukac. Expect a diverse range of music influences from Jazz, Afro, Spoken Word, Gospel to Folk and laid-back funk.

Lulu May
A jazz-influenced vocalist and multi-instrumentalist whose eclectic repertoire spans generations, genres and languages.

Ellen and Sam began working together in 2022, after becoming close friends at school, with their first collaboration ‘We Never Even Dated" have developed a unique sound together drawing inspiration from artists such as Taylor Swift, Kacey Musgraves and Kelsea Ballernini.

Verity Holloway is a local singer-songwriter, influenced by folk, her vulnerable lyrics tell stories paired with haunting yet hopeful musical arrangements.

LOCAL POETS WITH A PASSION FOR PERFORMANCE

Dilly Orme writes and performs clear-cut, contemporary, playful, unifying poetry. Primarily, she's an Interiors Editor contributing regularly to magazine with’ home or house' in the title. She is also studying advanced poetry at CityLit while completing her first collection, ‘In Good Time’.

Eddie Chauncy has written poetry since childhood. He prefers not to publish much, relying on getting together with other poets to share ideas, or reading at the occasional open mic. He loves writing, songwriting, photography, and meditation.

Del Bowen writes quickly, from the heart and without filter. She takes inspiration from her childhood, family, the landscape, Welsh mythology and most of all, from people-watching in pubs with a glass of wine.

Philip Porter AKA The Utopian Fool is a poet, writer and imaginative provocateur whose work explores the strange, beautiful and often contradictory experience of being human. Through poetry, he invites audiences to pause, question the world around them and consider the possibilities that exist beyond the obvious.

Sam Ball should be considered a vehicle for The Author, a malcontent whose ramblings can be found at https://theauthorsbin.co.uk. The Author is influenced by (but Lewis Carroll, Spike Milligan, Homer (not Simpson), Edward Lear, Robert Browning, and anyone with an interesting rhyme scheme or pretensions to humour.

Sarah Boyd has just completed an MA in Writing Poetry and her poems have been published in specialist poetry magazines, anthologies and websites. usually find her in a cafe drinking in inspiration for more poems.

Ian Lee-Dolphin is a songwriter, poet, singer, guitarist and founder member of the bands Take Five, French Lessons and Different People. Ian has been writing songs and poems since the mid 1960s.

Heather Moulson is a co-founder of Poetry Performance in Teddington. Heather’s pamphlets are Bunty, I Miss You and Slummy Mummy. She is currently working on a collection of Blokes. Heather also enjoys sketching, especially her grumpy black cat, and is the author of Conversations with Dobby.

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All proceeds from the event supporting the work of Off the Record, a free counselling service for young people in the Richmond Borough