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Tunes & Chat: A Windrush Special

Type:Music

Hat Factory Arts Centre, 65-67 Bute Street, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 2EY

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Tunes & Chat: A Windrush Special

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Tunes & Chat: A Windrush Special

Get your dancing shoes on, and alert your ears, as John Simmit takes you on a DJ journey around the hit tunes of the Windrush generation, and supplies timely tales of the era that inspired the them.

Expect hits from Desmond Dekker, Dennis Brown, Millie Small, John Holt, U Roy, The Staple Singers & many more, as we take a nostalgic tour of great tunes, and the stories behind them.

John Simmit best known for playing Dipsy in the TV phenomenon Teletubbies, wrote & narrated the hit Windrush musical Rush, and also runs the popular Birmingham sound system TC Connection.

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Opening Times

Season (13 Sept 2025)
DayTimes
Saturday19:30 - 23:00

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