Penguin Cafe
Future Yard Presents
Penguin Cafe Orchestra (PCO) was a British avant-pop and chamber jazz group founded in 1972 by Simon Jeffes. The ensemble blended classical, folk, jazz, and minimalism with a whimsical, experimental spirit, creating a sound that is famously genre defying. Their music featured unconventional instrumentation, including ukuleles, harmoniums, and found sounds, resulting in a warm and organic aesthetic.
Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned PCO music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997.
Arthur, a talented composer in his own right, quickly began to create new and unique genre-defying music, blending classical instruments like violins and cellos with unexpected elements like ukuleles and melodicas, the spellbinding philosophy of the Penguin Cafe always in his mind.
VENUE INFO
Future Yard is open every day from 10am – so you can stop by for a coffee or a pre-show drink in our bar area whenever you like. Our pizza kitchen is open on weekends and before every gig, 5-9pm.
Doors open at 6:30pm.
This is a standing show.
Future Yard presents
Penguin Cafe
Thursday 30th April 2027
6:30pm doors
75 Argyle Street
Tickets £28 (+ booking fee)
Tickets available online in advance or in person at the Future Yard Box Office.
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. We cannot issue refunds to under 16s who are not accompanied by an adult.
Future Yard is a cashless venue – all payments are taken by contactless or chip and pin. Live curfew 11pm.
If you have any specific access requests, please read all of the details about accessibility at Future Yard here.
