This weekend saw the return of the Black Rose Ball to York. The two night extravaganza started with a concert on Friday at The Hospitium in the Museum Gardens before attendees donned their masks for a masquerade ball on Saturday at De Grey Rooms. We headed down to Friday’s concert to check out Seventh Harmonic, Irfan and Kirk Brandon in action. Continue reading “Black Rose Ball 2017 – The Concert”
In this week’s magazine, we focus on some big gigs coming, to our area in the autumn, including Goldfrapp and The Black Rose Ball, as well as a look at one of the last festivals of the summer, Lost Village Festival in Lincolnshire. Continue reading “York Calling Magazine – Issue 10”
A couple of weeks ago, York’s charity ball A Night To Remember raised almost £38,000 for St Leonard’s Hospice. Full of warm and fuzzy feelings, we thought we’d countdown some other York charity events on the horizon. Continue reading “6 Charity Events That’ll Get Out Your Pocketbook”
It’s a testament to us Yorkshire folk that, when in 2016 the world seemed to be going mad around us, we’ve just got on with things. It’s been a good year for music and culture in York and beyond this year, and we’ve had a privilege of covering a heck of a lot of it. Head Writer Jane Howkins and Editor in Chief Graeme Smith run down their highlights.
Continue reading “York Calling’s 2016”
On Saturday night, De Grey Rooms was transformed into a vampire’s lair thanks to the annual fundraiser the Black Rose Ball. Its ghoulish inhabitants gathered all in the name of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity set up after the tragic loss of its namesake, who was attacked for simply for the way she looked. Continue reading “Black Rose Ball – Night Two”
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