Alex Voysey returns to the festival by popular demand with his blues band and a new show for 2021. 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 [...]
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 [...]
This dance workshop is aimed at complete beginners or anyone wanting to refresh their fundamental skills of Lindy Hop. Lindy Hop is a partner dance with its roots in the swing jazz of the 30s and 40s. With an infectious feel it gets your feet moving, your heart pumping and your smile beaming! The workshop [...]
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Rosa & Roberto, the musicians scheduled to play at our Spanish night on Wednesday 9th June in the marquee have had to cancel. However, good news! We are absolutely delighted that the world-renowned classical guitarist, Craig Ogden, has agreed to perform in their place with a sunny Spanish programme to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 former Radio 2 presenter and a recent addition to the Jazz FM family. Clare and her Trio are renowned for their fabulous arrangements interspersed [...]
Pianist and entertainer Peter Gill presents a tribute to the wit and song-writing skill of that most English of Englishmen, Noel Coward, who said of himself "I am an enormously talented man and there is no point in denying it". Born in 1899, Coward was an actor, writer, composer, director, producer, and in later life [...]
Join us at The Barn at Broadway Tower for a concert with harp and violin Enigma Duo. Following on from their breath-taking performance at the 2018 Festival and by popular request, we are pleased to welcome back this virtuoso duo with a programme to delight and thrill you for a summer evening. A treat not [...]
We are pleased to announce that the 2018 programme of events has been announced and can now be be viewed on the website! Tickets will go on sale on 30th March at 10am through the website - Benefactors & Friends priority booking starts at 10am on March 16th. We have over 60 events this year with many [...]
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