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EVENT CANCELLED

Arthur H was involved in a motorcycle accident yesterday.  Although he avoided serious injury, he fractured his wrist – his hand is in a plaster cast and he is unable to perform.  His concert in the Queen Elizabeth Hall tonight has been cancelled: when he is recovered, we hope to reschedule this performance for 2011.  Tickets will be refunded at place of purchase.

Arthur Jeffes, the leader of Penguin Cafe, was due to play a special set of his own piano music as the first half of this concert. 
Arthur Jeffes will now play his own short concert tonight in the cabaret setting of The Front Room (in the QEH foyer) starting at 7.45pm.  Admission is free.

Arthur H reshaped the chanson tradition of Jacques Brel to his own ends, sharing with Serge Gainsbourg and Tom Waits the urge to tell current stories with the instruments of yesterday. As he rose to become a star in France and beyond, he used the groove of machines and trance to combine within his songs the poetry of rock and jazz. His new show Mystic Rumba (also a double CD on Wrasse) combines many of the characters and stories from his greatest songs with new material, all stripped back to an alluring, enigmatic solo performance, accompanied only by his piano.

To open, Arthur Jeffes, the leader of Penguin Cafe, also plays solo for the very first time.

Part of the London Jazz Festival in association with BBC Radio 3