Live-Arts

03/08/2025

Alice Through the Looking Glass is coming to Burgess Hill

On Wednesday 13 August, in St John’s Park as the fantastic Quantum Theatre perform Alice Through the Looking Glass.

The performance is free for all and starts at 1pm.

Pack a picnic and come down for a fun afternoon. Please dress for the weather, as this is an outdoor performance.

Well done to Burgess Hill Town Council for organising this event

07/10/2024

URBAN EVENTS - BURGESS HILL
October 26th - November 3rd

Mid Sussex District Council and New River are co-funding an exciting line-up of events for 8-16 year-olds at the Martlets Marquee from October 26 to November 3. Some of our events do cater for younger children and age suitability is given via the link below.

Full calendar of events via the link below

https://www.midsussex.gov.uk/leisure-sport/whats-on-in-mid-sussex/half-term-fun-with-urban-events-in-burgess-hill/

07/10/2022

“A Brief History of Music” with Chris Green & Sophie Matthews
St Edward The Confessor Church, Royal George Road
Thursday 20th October, start 7.30pm

Tickets £11.00 (

06/05/2022

THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S MEN
PROUDLY PRESENT
"AS YOU LIKE IT"

SUNDAY 5th JUNE, 6pm (doors open 5pm)
£13.00 (adult), £8.00 (under 16)
(plus booking fee).

On Sunday 5th June, the UK's premier all male theatre company, "The Lord Chamberlain's Men" will be performing Shakespeare's classic play 'As You Like It', in an open air performance in the grounds of Burgess Hill Girls.

This fantastic production will be fun for all the family!

Tickets are available to purchase now!
https://buff.ly/38wMfWG
Photos by: Jack Offord

13/02/2022

Head over to www.beehiveartscentre.com to see the plans for the new community centre and performing arts venue for Burgess Hill

The Beehive in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, will be an accessible, modern and welcoming community facility designed to provide much needed community space and a modern theatre for the town's talented local drama groups and societies. It will also be a venue for high quality professional performances.....

18/03/2020

It was inevitable really but the show with Martin Taylor and Martin Simpson on May 7th has had to be cancelled. I will refund everyone who has bought tickets.

17/01/2020

Great news

There was delight for Burgess Hill town councillors after long-standing plans for a £5.5m theatre were given the nod by Mid Sussex District Council writes Karen Dunn, local democracy reporter.

12/09/2019

Friday 1st November is Live-Arts last show for 2019.

The Melrose Quartet is a great way to finish. Appearing at Clair Hall on the main stage. Show starts at 8.00pm

Melrose Quartet are Nancy Kerr (voice, fiddle), James Fagan (voice, bouzouki, guitar), Jess Arrowsmith (voice, fiddle) and Richard Arrowsmith (voice, melodeons).

From deep roots in their hometown’s vibrant music, song and dance scene, to smashing concert appearances all over the UK, Sheffield-based Melrose Quartet have attracted a reputation for making music that truly connects with people. All four are internationally renowned singers, instrumentalists and writer/composers and this year they were proud to be named the new patrons of Whitby Folk week.

Their second album, Dominion expanded and strengthened the musical presence they first asserted with “Fifty Verses”, their 2014 BBC Folk Award-nominated debut CD.

“Brilliantly showcases their joyous confidence and versatility. With particularly impressive four-part harmony singing, this is a rich, dynamic and inspired team.” fRoots Magazine

“…all in all an inspired ensemble so obviously playing for joy” Martin Simpson

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Tickets via www.live-arts.co.uk

10/08/2019

Jim Causley is one of the finest folk singers around with a beautifully rich tone to his voice backed up by first class musicianship.

See him live at Folk on Friday on Friday 13th September, 8pm in the studio at Clair Hall, Haywards Heath.

Tickets via www.live-arts.co.uk.

Don't miss what will be a great evening

Live-arts promotes live shows in Mid Sussex and Brighton. Specialises in folk and jazz but will promote good quality music, drama and dance across all genres

05/08/2019

THE LONDON KLEZMER QUARTET
Sunday 20th October 2019
Chequer Mead Theatre, East Grinstead
£15 (adults); £13.00 (concessions); £13 (16 and under) *price includes booking fee.

The London Klezmer Quartet is a dynamic group of performers whose deep understanding of klezmer, the celebratory and soulful music of Eastern European Jews, is reflected in exuberant, passionate and accomplished performances that captivate audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
The group plays old and new traditional material guaranteed to move audiences from toe-tapping to tears and back again in moments.
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LKQ was formed in 2009 by a group of klezmer specialists keen to explore the almost-lost wedding music tradition of Jewish eastern Europe. The band was swiftly picked up by some of the UK’s foremost folk & world music promoters - Songlines Magazine, Continental Drifts and The Magpie’s Nest offered stages for the group's unique combination of artistry and exuberance. The band is also one of the few in the world who lead the Yiddish dances that this music would traditionally have accompanied.

21/07/2019

JIM CAUSLEY
FOLK ON FRIDAY

FRIDAY 13th SEPTEMBER, 8.00pm
CLAIR HALL (studio), Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath
Tickets via www.live-arts.co.uk

More than simply a folk-singer, multi award winning singer-songwriter, musician and proud Devonian Jim Causley is an all-round entertainer and during the past decade Causley has been nominated no less than six times for a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award, he was nominated as “Singer of the Year” at the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, he won the Spiral Earth Singer of the Year award in 2014, presented his own folk music show on BBC Radio Devon and in 2015 he worked with BBC TV historian Dr Sam Willis to create the music for his show 'Highwaymen, Outlaws and Villains' and was asked to perform his song about Dartmoor tin mining 'Pride of the Moor' on BBC TV's Countryfile - Dartmoor Special.

A prolific collaborator, Causley is hugely admired for his work with iconic groups The Devil’s Interval and Mawkin:Causley as well as playing, touring and recording alongside Waterson:Carthy, John McCusker, Eddie Reader, Graham Coxson, Shirley Collins, Michael Morpurgo, Show of Hands, Kate Rusby, David Rotheray of Beautiful South fame and many more. He was described by Mojo Magazine as “the finest singer of his generation” and they put Forgotten Kingdom in their Top Ten Folk Albums of 2016 list