On this page we will bring you details of the artists we have booked and links to buy tickets.

Doors open at 8pm and the music starts at 8.30.

Please note that for gigs at The Great Northern Railway Tavern, this is an upstairs pub room and not wheelchair accessible.

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The Gypsy Dreamers   

Friday 8 November

The Blinkin’ Buzzards

£15

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Thierry Deneux returns to The Kalamazoo with his charming and much-admired string ensemble – a quartet of richly talented players who bring an original and very different sound to the Klub.

How best to describe the Dreamers? Time Out nailed it: “A dynamic jazz-meets-classical project that explores tango, bossa nova, pop, jazz and world music.” Not to mention a generous helping of chanson.

For members of the group, the superlatives abound.
Cellist Natalie Rozario – “majestic” (All About Jazz), Violinist Una Palliser – “extraordinary” (Independent), Guitarist Patrick Naylor “inventive virtuoso” (Time Out), Thierry Deneux – percussionist, guitarist, vocalist and winner of a Michael Kamen award as a composer, completes the line-up for what should be another memorable Kalamazoo night.

The Kalamazoo Klub Christmas Gig featuring Merlin Wildman

Friday 13 December

The Blinkin’ Buzzards

Plus special guests

£15

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Our very own house band The Blind’ Buzzards is joined by Merlin Wildman, plus several guests to be announced. An evenings of fun and great music.

The Cosimo Matassa Project

Friday 10th January, 2025

With support from The Blinkin’ Buzzards

£20

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Image: Laurie Lewis

Cosimo Matassa! Now there’s a name to conjure with.

This man made musical magic in his New Orleans recording studio 75 years ago and became one of the most important figures in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, guiding to stardom Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Dr John, Allen Toussaint, Lloyd Price, Big Joe Turner and many more.

He created the New Orleans sound – heavy on piano, bass and horns, copied by many and still hugely influential in popular music today.

Now, in a brilliant revival of the glorious music of that time, we present The Cosimo Matassa Project, the brainchild of Dai Price (leader of those long-time Kalamazoo favourites, Dai and the Ramblers) and piano maestro Alan Dunn. Bass man Dai leads on vocals and has assembled a crack team of session players : Al “Dente” Dunn (he’s worked with Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III and Bob Geldof), tenor sax man Damian Hind (Van Morrison, Jerry Dammers, Allen Toussaint), trumpeter Dave Priseman (Imelda May, Jeff Beck, Jools Holland orchestra) and drummer Jonathan Lee (James Hunter band).

2025

Clive Carroll

October 10 2025

With support from The Blinkin’ Buzzards

£20

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Clive began his musical journey in Chelmsford, Essex. His parents had a taste for American country and old time music and it wasn’t long before Clive was playing in the family band on a homemade banjo. By his early teens, guitar in hand, Clive was traversing the worlds of soul, pop, funk, and traditional Irish music, balancing his affinity for Slayer with the etudes of Tárrega.

This breadth of musical curiosity was to become one of his strengths; even as a kid Clive was as comfortable accompanying a group of folk singers as he was jamming along to Nirvana, or reading charts on banjo and guitar in theatre orchestra pits. 

Clive went on to earn a 1st Class Honours Degree in Composition and Guitar from the famed Trinity College of Music in London, all the while balancing his classical work with forays into the world of the steel string guitar. By the time he graduated from Trinity, Clive had not only penned orchestral works, he had written an album’s worth of solo acoustic guitar music. A chance meeting with English guitar legend John Renbourn proved the catalyst for Clive’s debut album, “Sixth Sense”, which Renbourn deemed: “A milestone in the journey of the steel-string guitar.”  He subsequently took Clive on the road with him and the pair toured North America and Europe together, launching Clive’s solo performing career.

Since then he has worked with guitar greats such as John Williams, Tommy Emmanuel, Xuefei Yang, Ralph Towner, D’Gary, and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. He has toured across Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and North America.

Clive has released four solo albums; Sixth Sense, The Red Guitar, Life in Colour and The Furthest Tree.
Clive has also written, performed, and conducted music for television and film, most notably collaborating with John Renbourn to compose the music for the film Driving Lessons, which features Julie Walters and Rupert Grint of Harry Potter fame. 

More acts to be announced soon