The Waiting Room
vegetarian restaurant
Birkett and Fisk; with or without dinner (£45 or £16)
Sun 21 Sept
|Eaglescliffe
With-Dinner Ticket includes special event-inspired 3 course dinner, Music only = Hot Club de Eaglescliffe
Time & Location
21 Sept 2025, 19:00 – 22:30
Eaglescliffe, 9 Station Rd, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees TS16 0BU, UK
Guests
About the event
Birkett and FIsk
Birkett & Fisk play Venuti & Lang Emma Fisk – Violin James Birkett – Guitar
The names of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli are familiar to many as pioneers of all-string jazz. Less universally known are the names Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, the Italian-American duo who played hot violin and guitar jazz in the 1920s and 30s until their partnership was cut short by Lang’s untimely death in 1933. Joe Venuti has been referred to as ‘the father of jazz violin', while his musical partner Eddie Lang is widely regarded as the first jazz guitar virtuoso.
Bringing together their shared knowledge and love of early jazz styles, Emma Fisk and James Birkett present an entertaining, virtuosic and informative programme of music inspired by the first great jazz violin and guitar partnership. The programme includes quirkily named compositions by Venuti & Lang such as…