A preferred ‘mini-festival’ returned to the North East on Friday, with guests having fun with a night of music, meals and comedy produced by gifted locals.

The Caper pop-up occasion has beforehand been held on the Grainger Market in Newcastle. But the most recent occasion passed off on the Baltic on Gateshead’s Quayside, overlooking town’s iconic bridges and River Tyne.

The occasion is organised by a neighborhood family-run enterprise, which has a ardour for showcasing and discovering new audiences for the unimaginable native expertise within the area, together with cooks, younger entrepreneurs, bands, artists, or comedians. And final night time was no completely different, with 4 cooks serving up scrumptious dishes whereas friends loved dwell music from 5 native artists and stand-up comedy from 4 North East acts.

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There was additionally a spread of artisan stalls for guests to browse, promoting a spread of handmade jewelry, candles, vases, classic objects and extra.

David Kennedy, the newly appointed Chairman’s Suite chef at Newcastle United, and former NE Chef of The Year John Connell have been each joined by Yasmin, of Layla’s Kitchen, in Jesmond, and Billy Thomas from Greekster to provide a wide range of tasty meals.

David is well-known for his for his trademark, full flavour conventional British dishes, and was readily available to supply tremendous decadent candy treats. While John delivered Asian fusion dishes equivalent to Maguro Yukke with contemporary tuna as effectively marinated grilled beef Bulgogi.

Yasmin cooked up Middle Eastern vegan and vegetarian dishes full with stuffed bell peppers and tabbouleh salad, whereas Billy will serve up pork skewers and do-it-yourself tzatziki. And guests have been capable of wash down all that meals with their drink of selection from one of many 5 bars on the occasion, together with cocktails served at The Caper’s newly fashioned “Chill Out Zone”.

Sisi, Cortney Dixon and her band and Moon Wax all performed music within the Front Room bar overlooking the Tyne. And within the Baltic Kitchen, there was comedy from Catherine Young and Mike Milligan, Sasha Lo and Howka Charvaz.

There was additionally music supplied by DJ BeauJack, salsa dance classes with Brazilian Andrew Viana and dwell artwork from Alfie Joey.

Speaking forward of the occasion, Cortney Dixon advised ChronicleLive: “I’m so wanting ahead to my first Caper! You can count on upbeat, enjoyable tunes with guitar riffs and catchy melodies so you possibly can sing alongside very quickly.

“It’s great that The Caper is bringing together lots of different genres of local music as well as championing local food and comedy.”

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