June 2020
Beethoven’s final and heroic Archduke Piano Trio forms the centrepiece of this concert in celebration of his 250th anniversary. Performed by Ashok Gupta and friends of the Festival Ben and David Powell as the Crista Trio, the programme also includes rarely heard arrangements of Beethoven’s famous overture Egmont and Chabrier’s orchestral masterpiece Espana, along with [...]
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Prize winning composer and pianist Marcel Zidani presents a programme of uplifting and beautiful piano music to include traditional works by classical composers Mozart and Liszt and a masterpiece by the great living jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. With an additional touch of Spanish musical elegance there will be something for every musical taste. Marcel is [...]
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Rosa Campos- Fernandez (clarinets) and Roberto Carillo-Garcia (guitar and double bass) - two musicians on four instruments. An evening of Spanish flair with a hot Latin flavour including music by Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos and Sergio Assad. Both esteemed members of the Hallé Orchestra, Roberto and Rosa’s infectious enthusiasm and virtuosic playing make for the perfect summer’s [...]
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Alex Voysey returns to the festival by popular demand with his blues band and a new show for 2020. Travel back in time through 100 years of the blues as they explore some of the genre’s founding fathers like B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, to current artists such as Joe Bonamassa and Joanne Shaw [...]
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The connection between colour and music goes back to Aristotle, and composers have conceived music as colour ever since. Using piano demonstrations and a trove of audio excerpts, Jonathan James will illustrate how music - keys, tonalities, chords and tone - can be 'seen' and how colour, for some late Romantics and early modernists, became [...]
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Join us in the marquee on the village green as world renowned performers Shona Lindsay, Tom Solomon and Glyn Kerslake (as Musical Director) present: “The West End In Broadway” - a wonderful evening of songs from the most popular musicals of all time. Between them, Tom, Shona and Glyn have played leading roles in many [...]
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Your chance to experience the joy of singing in a choir with our half day workshop - gospel, spirituals, singing in rounds and a bit of classical thrown in. You don't need to be able to read music - just come and sing! Experience the joy of choral singing across a range of works from [...]
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With her stunning voice and encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, multi award-winning jazz singer Clare Teal is a sought after singer throughout the country as well as a prolific recording artist and popular BBC Radio 2 broadcaster. Clare and her Trio are renowned for their fabulous arrangements interspersed with Clare’s warm and witty storytelling. Clare’s new [...]
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What better way to finish the Festival than with a ceilidh, suitable for all ages, with Georgia Lewis and her trio! Beautiful uplifting folk music and a night of dancing (with a bar) to celebrate the last night of the festival. Georgia is a folk singer and accordionist from Wiltshire, highly sought after celidh caller [...]
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