Name: 🎻 WORLD PREMIERE: FIDDLE ME THIS Poetry & Music
Start: 2026-02-05T15:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-05T17:00:00+00:00
Location: 40 Queen St, Scarborough

$\ud83c\udfbb WORLD PREMIERE: FIDDLE ME THIS Poetry & Music$

🎻 WORLD PREMIERE: FIDDLE ME THIS
Poetry & Music
Join us for a relaxed afternoon of culture, coffee, cocktails, ciabatta, Celtic and chill at Grind & Tonic.
📍 Grind & Tonic, 40 Queen Street
📅 Thursday 5th February
🕰 Afternoon performance 3-5pm
🎟 FREE admission – booking essential
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A once-in-a-lifetime collaboration
Tony and David have known each other for over seventy years, but have never performed together — until now.
After Tony reads one of his poems, David will respond by improvising live on the violin, blending classical mastery with Celtic spirit. No script. No rehearsal. Just words, music, and the moment.
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🎻 David Johnson
Hull-born violinist and internationally respected orchestral leader.
David studied at the RNCM in Manchester, led the Edwin Harper Orchestra in Bridlington, and regularly performed with the Max Jaffa Orchestra in Scarborough.
He later moved to Germany, becoming leader of the Kammerorchester Tibor Varga, before winning a long-term position with the Gürzenich Orchester Cologne, one of Germany’s leading orchestras, where he played for almost 40 years.
Since retiring, David has led the Ford Sinfonie Orchester and recently appeared as a soloist performing Schindler’s List to a sold-out Cologne Philharmonie. Alongside his classical career, he has a deep love of Celtic fiddle music, including rare traditional tunes and his own compositions.
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📖 Tony Robinson OBE
Author of nine books spanning fiction, satire and entrepreneurship.
Tony will be reading poems from A Perfect Little Gift (also available as an audiobook on Audible), a collection drawn from over 50 years of published work.
Tony is Chair of the Yorkshire in Business Group, of which the local Enterprise Agency and Grind & Tonic are a part.
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☕ Our small, friendly bistro is the perfect place to relax, listen, and enjoy something special.
🎟 Free admission, but please book your place dm us or text 07825827265