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Crypt Live: Pop-Funk Fun with King Cerulean

Pop hooks. Funk grooves. Brass that hits you in the chest. Cardiff’s King Cerulean have been selling out venues and lighting up festival stages across the UK with a sound that borrows from everywhere and sounds like nobody else.

Known for their high-energy, feel-good live shows, they’ve spent the past few years playing sold-out venues and festival stages across the UK. Now they’re bringing it underground to The Crypt for a night of pure, joyful chaos.

Blurring the lines between pop, funk, rock, and soul, King Cerulean delivers an infectious, dance-driven experience.

Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, and enjoy some delicious food and drinks before the show starts at 8pm.

Cabaret in the Crypt: Motown Nights

Beneath Trafalgar Square, the vaulted Crypt comes alive to the sound of Motown. 

Think Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Jackson 5 – the songs that soundtracked a generation, performed live by some of the UK’s finest soul and R&B musicians.

Grab a drink and a bite to eat, then let the music move you. 

From first note to final encore, this is a night out that feels like a house party in one of London’s most atmospheric venues.

Major Tones Music & Entertainment proudly presents MOTOWN MEMOIRS.

Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, and enjoy some delicious food and drinks before the show starts at 8pm.

Crypt Live: Sinatra and Friends with Gary Williams

Fresh from his New York debut at Carnegie Hall, Gary Williams has been described as “the UK’s leading standard bearer for the supercool era” and has performed everywhere from Bestival to Buckingham Palace.

‘Frank Sinatra and Friends’ is Gary’s tribute to the biggest stars ever to have headlined Las Vegas including Burt Bacharach, Elvis Presley, Frankie Valli, Matt Monro, Nat ‘King’ Cole and more. Gary played the role of Frank Sinatra in the West End Rat Pack so expect all your favourite Sinatra hits too.

Join Gary for plenty of laughs, a joyous celebration of music at its best.

Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, and enjoy some delicious food and drinks before the show starts at 8pm.

Cabaret in the Crypt: the Best of West End Musicals

Like musicals? Love this show! We present 4 of the West End’s leading singing stars in a stunning cabaret evening featuring the best loved songs from hit West End shows. Each of our singers are highly talented lead or understudy singers from current or recent hit shows and they come together in a glittering evening of songs and entertainment. With great tapas food, wine, cocktails and beers to buy and enjoy in the intimate setting of our spectacular underground Crypt bar, our Cabaret evening gives you all of the West End, in one fantastic location!

Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, buy some food and drink before the show starts at 8pm.

Crypt Live: Jazz Night with Young Original

Young Original is an acoustic band from the US with a passion for breathing new life into classic American music – from jazz standards from the Great American Songboook era, to swing, blues and hits from the 50’s and more. Their unique fusion of jazz, classical, folk, and pop influences has made this group an absolute must-see for all music lovers and you’ll be guaranteed to be tapping your foot within minutes!

Since forming in 2022, they’ve packed out venues across the US, toured with legendary pianist Jim Brickman, and landed on NPR’s Tiny Desk Top Shelf. Their performance videos have racked up millions of views for a reason: these are musicians who are ridiculously good at what they do and visibly love doing it. Come and see for yourself!

Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, and enjoy some delicious food and drinks before the show starts at 8pm.

Crypt Live: Aretha & Friends

Aretha & Friends celebrates the life, legacy, and unstoppable spirit of Aretha Franklin – the Queen of Soul.

From her gospel roots and fearless rise to fame, to the anthems that became the soundtrack of a movement, this show honors the woman who changed music forever.

Packed with powerhouse vocals, a fantastic live band, and a whole lot of soul, Aretha & Friends brings her greatest hits to life alongside those of the artists who inspired and were inspired by her.

Get ready to clap, sway, and sing along as this isn’t just a tribute – it’s a celebration. 

Show some R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, and enjoy some delicious food and drinks before the show starts at 8pm.

Crypt Live: Soul Sisters – A Celebration of Disco

Descend into the atmospheric Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields for Soul Sisters – a cabaret show celebrating the legendary women who owned the dancefloor. From the soul anthems that started it all to the disco era that took those voices stratospheric, this is a night of powerful vocals, shimmering grooves and pure diva energy.

Expect big hits from Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Patti LaBelle and many more.

Come for the music. Stay for the spirit. Leave with your soul uplifted.

Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, and enjoy some delicious food and drinks before the show starts at 8pm.

Crypt Close-Up: Rachel Podger & Lucie Horsch – Duologues

Baroque violinist Rachel Podger and recorder phenomenon Lucie Horsch play baroque showpieces and British folksongs in a concert to illuminate the Crypt at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

They call Rachel Podger “the queen of the baroque violin”. Lucie Horsch has been described as “the latest big thing in recorder playing” – an artist whose charisma has redefined the 21st century recorder. So put them together in the magical atmosphere of the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and it’s safe to say that we won’t be short of illumination! This hour-long Crypt Closeup brings their shared musicianship close enough to touch, with a programme of Baroque delights by Telemann and Bach, as well as the pair’s delightfully fresh take on British folk songs: music as old as time, that always sounds new.

Crypt Close-Up: Ruby Hughes – Amidst the Shades

Such sweet sorrow: lutenist Jonas Nordberg and soprano extraordinaire Ruby Hughes explore four centuries of lute songs, in all their tenderness and passion.

Flow, flow my tears…“I feel often quite drawn to the more melancholic songs” says the soprano and musical explorer Ruby Hughes. “Dowland really understands the human condition; he understands suffering and sadness and loneliness”. Today, though, he’s merely the tender heart of a musical journey into the shade-dappled, endlessly poetic world of the lute song, from Tudor masters to the music of Purcell and Britten. Discover, too, specially commissioned Shakespeare songs from living composers including Errollyn Wallen and Cheryl Frances-Hoad – each inspired by the searching, wonderfully expressive sound of Hughes and her musical soulmate, lutenist Jonas Nordberg.

Crypt Live: TJ Johnson

An evening with TJ Johnson and his band in concert.

TJ will take you on a dusty trail from the smokey Jazz dives of New Orleans through the foot tapping Honky Tonks of Texas to the gin-soaked Speakeasies of New York. TJ takes influences from musical legends such as Dr John, Ray Charles, Jimmy Witherspoon, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra and Willie Nelson.

TJ Johnson is widely considered to be one of the UK’s most charismatic highly revered Jazz and Blues singers. He is also a hot piano player and respected bandleader. TJ sprang onto the Jazz scene in the late 80’s as a jazz singer with Max Collie at the age of 17 and since forming his own band in 1990 has performed extensively for over thirty years now at many theatres, festivals and jazz clubs both in the UK and overseas.

Always a true ambassador of the soul, TJ sings songs of love lost and gained, of life wholesome and corrupt, songs of hope and despair, songs of the night, all with the true passion and boozy swagger of only a man who has been there and knows.

Doors open from 7pm allowing you plenty of time to settle in, and enjoy some delicious food and drinks before the show starts at 8pm.