Suffolk Festivals
Suffolk Festivals
Suffolk is the place to come for Festivals, with everything from star studded events such as High Tide and Latitude, to the action packed Lowestoft Air Festival and Honda Formula 4 stoke engine series....
We are currently gathering information on all of the festivals happening in Suffolk during 2010, so please check back soon.
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SUFFOLK FESTIVALS 2010
The Suffolk Villages Festival Winter Series 2010 - February, March & May
The 9th Aldeburgh Literary Festival - 5th - 7th March 2010
Jimmy's Science Festival - 13th & 14th March
HighTide Festival 30th April - 3rd May 2010
The East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival - 9th May
25th Bury St Edmunds Festival 2010 14-30th May
Weird and Wonderful Wood - 15th & 16th May 2010
South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival 2010 - 15th May–6th June
Felixstowe Drama Festival 29th May – 5th June 2010
Open Air Concerts at High Lodge Forest Centre - June & July 2010
Woolpit Festival 2010 - 8th - 20th June 2010
Aldeburgh Festival - 11th - 27th June 2010
Debenham Country Music Festival - 14th-19th July 2010
Latitude 2010 15th-18th July
Hachfest 2010 - Friday 30th July - Sunday 1st August
Halesworth Gig in the Park 6-8th August 2010
Yoxford Arts Festival - August 19th-22nd
Suffolk Villages Festival 27th-30th August
Harvest at Jimmy's Farm - 11th-12th September 2010
Check out the wonderful Suffolk Villages Festival Winter Series by clicking on the following links - -
Music Concerts in Suffolk - February
Music Concerts in Suffolk - March
Music Concerts in Suffolk - May
All Events in The Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Friday 5th March
Event 1: 10.00am - Kate Charlton Jones (Yates)
Event 2: 3.30pm - Richard Mabey
Event 3: 5.00pm - Anthea Bell on Stefan Zweig
Event 4: 6.30pm - Sandi Toksvig
Saturday 6th March
Event 5: 10.00am - Gillian Tett: Fool’s Gold
Event 6: 11.30am - Henry Hitchings
Event 7: 2.30pm - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
Event 8: 4.00pm - Francis Wheen & Tristram Hunt
Event 9: 5.30pm - Tariq Ali
Sunday 7th March
Event 10: 9.30am - Jenny Uglow: Charles II
Event 11: 11.00am - Karen Armstrong
Event 12: 12.30pm - Sam Kiley and Frank Gardner
Event 13: 2.30pm - Francis Wheen
Event 14: 4.00pm - Taboo-Be-Do: Songs … with Terence Blacker
Bookings can only be made by post or by retuning your form to The Aldeburgh Bookshop.
Please address all correspondence to: The 9th Aldeburgh Literary Festival, 42 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5AB. Any enquiries to 01728 452587.
As part of National Science Week, Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich are holding a fantastic Science Festival on 13th & 14th March at the farm to get you excited about science in food, farming and animals!
The Science Festival will feature:
* Stage Presentations and Workshops
* Science Activities
* Science Exhibitors
* Live Music
* Animal Petting and Feeding
* Lamb Bottle Feeding
* Delicious Hot and Cold Food
* Roast Pork Stand and Bar
To celebrate National Science Week and the farms education programme, all children can come to the event for FREE!!!
Adults tickets are £5 in advance (online) and £6 on the gate.
HighTide have curated a provocative and stimulating line-up of ancillary events, including panel debates, talks, and film screenings, inspired by the three key themes addressed in the 2010 HighTide Festival productions: global warming, abuses of power, and freedom of the press.For more information see
For full details please see HighTide Festival 2010
Make waves at the East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival in 2010!
On Sunday 9th May the East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival returns to Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad in Lowestoft for what promises to be the best year yet!
The Festival is a not-to-be-missed opportunity for companies, organizations, clubs and groups of friends to test themselves in a totally different way, whilst promoting their organisation to a large local audience and raising money for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) or the charity of their choice. The East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival has to date raised more than £75,000 for EACH and you can help increase that amount.
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices provides vital support for children and young people in the area with life-threatening illnesses, and they offer help varying from music therapy to bereavement counselling. Not only will your entry help support such a worthwhile charity, it is also a fantastic team building opportunity - what better way to really get to know what makes your colleagues and competitors tick!
In this spectacular dragon boat race crews of up to 11 people will battle it out in a series of fast and furious heats and finals over a 200m course in 30’ dragon boats to raise funds for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices. All potential teams need to worry about is entering and raising as much sponsorship as they can, as all the dragon boats and racing equipment is provided and no previous experience is necessary- just be sure to bring buckets of team spirit and enthusiasm! 2010 is the Chinese year of the tiger, so don’t miss out on this opportunity to show you share the same traits of courage and fierceness!
Dragon boat racing has an ancient Chinese history and the Festival is a re-enactment of a tragic event that took place more than 2,000 years ago in the kingdom of Chu. Legend has it that falsely accused of treason and exiled by jealous rivals in the government, despairing warrior poet, Qu Yuan, threw himself into the Mi Lo River. Local fishermen rowed out to save the drowning poet and tried to rescue him from vicious fish by beating the water with their paddles. But their attempts failed and every year in Hong Kong a Tuen Ng (Dragon Boat) Festival is held as a mark of respect for the fishermen’s frantic efforts and to commemorate the tragic death of Qu Yuan. The dragon boat’s fierce looking dragon’s heads were added later to ward off evil spirits and in Hong Kong special dumplings are eaten to represent the dumplings that were thrown in to the river to stop the fish eating the mighty Qu’s body.
According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, symbolising great courage, stealth and fearlessness, coincidentally the perfect attributes for dragon boat team members! No previous experience is required to take part in the East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival, just plenty of team spirit so why not take up the challenge? The dragon boats and all racing equipment are provided and each crew is guaranteed a minimum of three races. The Festival offers a full day of fun on land as well as water with plenty of activities on the bankside to entertain teams and spectators between races.
Carl Brooks, Corporate Fundraiser at East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), said: “Relying as we do on voluntary public support for the majority of our income of around £5.8 million a year, we are delighted to once again be the official charity for the Dragon Boat Festival. The money raised through the generosity of the teams taking part will go towards the one-to-one nursing care and support that is so vital to life-threatened local children and their families”. The top fundraisers for EACH will win the charity trophy plus a full day of spa, gym use and lunch kindly donated by the Marriott Sprowston Manor in Norwich.
Carol Lester, director of Festival organisers, Gable Events, adds; “The Festival is a great chance for companies and organisations to try something completely different, promote themselves to a large local audience, network with local companies and potential clients and raise money for EACH. It is also a fantastic team building opportunity - what better way to get to know what makes your colleagues and competitors tick! We expect the Festival to be as popular as ever this time around so we recommend teams get their entries in early to guarantee a place”.
Up to 50 teams from all over East Anglia are expected to take part in this year’s Festival, many of them new and many returning annually to join in the fun. One of the companies taking part for the first time last year was the UK’s largest self catering holiday company, Hoseasons Holidays, which has its head office in Lowestoft. Such was the enthusiasm from the staff for joining in last time around that the team had more crew volunteers than places – it was a case of a paddle off to select the first team!
Teams should encourage their families and friends to come along and support them too, as not only can they offer moral support to the teams they can also take advantage of the bankside activities. These will include Chinese lion dancing, funfair, street entertainers, children’s activities, bar and catering- so there really is something to keep everyone amused for the duration of the Festival.
The Festival is supported by Waveney District Council, BBC Suffolk and The Lowestoft Journal.
Other keen Festival supporters include solicitors, Birketts LLP, who have offices in Norwich and Ipswich. Victoria Cole, Marketing Co-ordinator, comments: “We find taking part in this event great for team building, as well as raising the company profile and getting our name out there. The staff enjoy a great day out, whilst knowing they are making a difference to EACH by their charity fundraising”. With trophies not only for the top three crews but also for the top mixed crew, the best-dressed crew and the crew that raises the most money for EACH, there really is something for every team to aim for!
There will also be plenty of activities on the bankside to entertain teams and spectators between races including Chinese lion dancing, funfair, street entertainers, children's activities, bar and catering.
For further information and to make sure you are on the starting line on 9th May please call Gable Events today to request an entry form on 01780 470718.
Bury St Edmunds Festival 2010 runs from Friday 14 May to Sunday 30 May, and celebrates 25 years of bringing the finest performers and freshest ideas to the historic market town at the heart of the Suffolk countryside.
The 17-day Festival is one of the best-loved cultural events in East Anglia offering an exciting mix of contemporary and classical music, outdoor concerts, jazz, folk, opera, dance, film, poetry, comedy, walks, street theatre and much more.
A party night will signal the start of this year’s Festival, with a Queen and Madness Tribute Night to set the ball rolling. The popular outdoor gigs in the Abbey Gardens are spread over two Fridays to give revellers a great start to Festival weekends. The traditional Beating Retreat sunset ceremony moves to close the Festival and the town’s first Food and Drink Festival celebrating the best of local produce will be hosted by Bury St Edmunds-based brewers Greene King.
This year will also see the formation of a Festival jazz orchestra, plus adult and youth choirs to perform world music with South African band Mbawula, while local musicians can showcase their talents by busking around the town.
The Festival brochure will be launched among Festival Friends at the Angel Hotel, Bury St Edmunds on Monday 15 February and can then be viewed as an e-magazine on the Festival website at www.buryfestival.co.uk. You can now also keep up to speed with all the latest news and behind the scenes action by following the Festival on Facebook and Twitter.
Tickets are now on sale for the 2010 Bury St Edmunds Festival and are already selling quickly so call the box office on 01284 769505 or visit the Festival website at www.buryfestival.co.uk to make sure you can get the tickets you want.
Festival highlights include:
Gala Cathedral concerts: the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra with soloist Chloe Hanslip performing the Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto (16 May), and the Armonico Consort celebrating the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s Vespers (25 May) and Britain’s favourite soprano Lesley Garrett (18 May).
Acclaimed performers: TV favourite Adrian Edmondson and The Bad Shepherds punk/folk band (25 May), pub comedian Al Murray (15 May), poet John Hegley (26 May), Leeds Piano Competition’s first female winner Sofya Gulak (27 May) and jazz singer Clare Teal (29 May).
New works and fusions: a world premiere of music for piano and strings by Nathan Williamson at the Festival Eucharist (16 May), Dante Quartet and Kings College Choir premiere new work by Roxana Panufnik (24 May), while cellist Natalie Clein and Simon Fisher Turner on electronics find musical ‘Resonances’ at historic Ickworth House performing Bach suites and new works by Fyfe Dangerfield of The Guillemots (28 May).
Great outdoor events: a Queen and Madness Tribute night gets the Festival party started (14 May), the return of The Dubliners guarantees a good craic (21 May) and Bury World brings a chance for local people to perform alongside Mbawula (22 May) in the Abbey Gardens. The Festival ends with the Beating Retreat on Angel Hill (30 May).
Festival firsts: Greene King brewery hosts a new Real Food & Beer Festival featuring the best local produce (15 & 16 May), Sonnet Walks bring the bard’s poems to life in the streets of Bury (15 May) and there’s time to pick up a few dance moves before Monica Vasconcelos’ Vintage Brazil Samba Night (27 May).
For more information on the town, please see a Guide to Bury St Edmunds
Search for Accommodation in Bury St Edmunds.
Search for Eating Out in Bury St Edmunds
Search for Activities in Bury St Edmunds
Weird and Wonderful Wood on 15th & 16th May 2010 promises to be a fun-packed event for the whole family! Please click on the for full details.
Taking place between Saturday 15th May and Sunday 6th June, the annual South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival will feature around 30 guided walks in a variety of locations to suit different tastes and fitness levels. A different kind of walking festival, it will feature some outings accompanied by a poet and storyteller plus photographic and twilight nature walks.
The region, with its softly undulating landscapes, pretty villages and magnificent cultural heritage, is the perfect place to relax and enjoy the fresh air while exploring its countryside on foot.
Walks range from gentle 2-3 mile country rambles and medieval meanders through ancient villages and towns to longer and more energetic outings of up to 12 miles through Suffolk’s beautiful countryside. Many include lunch and afternoon tea stops with a chance to sample some fresh local produce, while for others walkers are asked to bring their own picnic.
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Special interest outings include Wildlife Discovery on 15th May, a circular walk taking in the habitats at Grove Farm, near Thurston where conservation and farming can be seen working side by side, and an early morning walk on 22nd May around Arger Fen to watch and hear the dawn wildlife and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the designation of the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This ends with breakfast at the idyllic Assington Mill.
Walkers will be joined by poet and performer Dean Park on four of the routes who will recite poems and stories along the way; there will also be a photographic walk on 22nd May starting out from the Beyond the Image Gallery at Thornham Magna when everyone is encouraged to bring a camera, and a chance to visit the sites associated with the famous murder of Maria Marten in the Red Barn at Polstead on 23rd May.
There are also several walks with activities to attract a younger audience such as Mister Stevenson’s Light Railway on Bank holiday Monday, 31st May, which follows the route of the ‘Middy’ to discover how to interpret landscape clues, and the Scavenger Hunt at Thornham Walks – a gentle afternoon stroll through the woods hunting for a given list of items.
The South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival is organised by Mid Suffolk and Babergh District Councils and sponsored by the Discover Suffolk Project, which aims to encourage local residents and visitors to get out and about in the scenic Suffolk countryside.
Pre-booking is essential for all walks by calling the Tourist Information Centre at either Lavenham on 01787 248207 or Mid Suffolk on 01449 676800; they would also be able to advise on places to stay. Many of the walks are free while for others the prices range from £2 up to £20 per person (latter includes lunch); dogs are allowed on some walks but must be kept on a lead at all times. For further information or to download a copy of the Walking Festival programme, visit website www.southandheartofsuffolk.org.uk.
Tickets available at our Box Office from 10th April 2010
Box Office Tel 01359 240655 email is boxoffice@guyler.com
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Dean Parkin:'Walking with Words', a stroll around Woolpit with Poems, Words and Stories along the way, followed by a glass of something refreshing in the Woolpit Swan, with more Poems! Starts from the Village Pump at 6.30pm. Tickets £6.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
The Amadeus Orchestra: will be performing a String Programme for this concert in the Village Hall comprising - Elgar: Serenade, Op.20, E minor; Dvorak: Serenade, Op22, E major; Mendelssohn: Sinfonia no.12, G minor; Holst: St Paul's Suite; Mozart: Adagio and Fugue, K.546,
C minor; Greig: Holberg Suite, Op.40. Tickets £12
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Obelon Arts: at 2pm in the Village Hall, presents 'The Three Singing Pigs', a puppet show for children with plenty of audience participation with songs, sounds and actions. Tickets £5
John & Paul II: then at 7.30pm in the Hall, with a superb tribute to Lennon and McCartney, plus DJs Sights'n'Sounds, will entertain us with a nostalgic evening of 50s and 60s sounds! Tickets £12
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Rohan McCullough: on stage in the Village Hall in the remarkable, moving and highly entertaining story of the woman who married one of the truly great figures of the 20th century - Sir Winston Churchill, "My Darling Clemmie" - this play has had fantastic reviews and we are so pleased it will be performed at the 2010 Festival. Tickets £12
Thursday, 17 June 2010
CANTABILE: presents 'From Madrigal to McCartney' in St Mary's Church, Woolpit. Cantabile have established an unrivalled reputation throughout Europe and beyond for harmony singing of the highest quality combined with a unique and very British sense of humour. Tickets £15
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Richard Digance: on stage in the Village Hall. He remains one of the most respected and evergreen entertainers that Britain has produced, and we are fortunate that he will be performing his latest show at our Festival. Tickets £16
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Robert Powell & Friends: at Woolpit Village Hall, in 'The Silver Screen'. This is an affectionate and nostalgic romp through the first hundred or so years of cinema, and will be a terrific finale event for the 2010 Festival. Tickets £16
Check out more information about the History of the Festival and other activities including the Festival Classic Films shown in the Village Hall during the Year on the website – www.woolpit-festival.com
Woolpit is a lovely village situated just off the the A14 between Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. For more information on nearby towns, attractions and accommodation, please see:
Guide to Bury St Edmunds
Accommodation in Bury St Edmunds.
Eating Out in Bury St Edmunds
Activities in Bury St Edmunds
Attractions in Stowmarket
Shopping in Stowmarket
The Open Air Concerts at High Lodge Forest Centre in Thetford
Forest Park, in association with The Forestry Commission, have a fantastic line-up of concerts this year featuring Keane on 10th June, Simply Red on 11th June, and Doves on 12th June. New concerts announced for July include The Saturdays on 9th July and Katie Melua on 10th July.
Please see Music in Suffolk - June and Music in Suffolk - July for full details and booking information.
The 2010 Festival will be held as usual over the May Bank Holiday week at the Spa Pavilion Theatre on Felixstowe's picturesque seafront. Performances will begin each evening at 7.30pm. but please note that there will be NO PERFORMANCE on Tuesday night or Wednesday night.
Line-Up of plays:
Saturday 29th May - Art (comedy) by Yasmina Reza, Tryst Theatre
Sunday 30th May - Under Milk Wood (play) by Dylan Thomas, Rushmere Players
Monday 31st May - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Deben Players
Thursday 3rd June - Round and Round the Garden (play) by Alan Ayckbourn, Cardiff Players
Friday 4th June - The Importance of being Earnest (comedy) by Oscar Wilde, Parkside Players
Saturday 5th June - Like a Virgin (play) by Gordon Steel, In Yer Space
The Adjudicator:
In 2010 our Diamond Festival will see Tony Rushforth making a welcome return to Felixstowe.
Tony studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and acted with the Harrogate Repertory Company and also directed productions at the Bradford Playhouse, the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon and at the Edinburgh Festival.
For twenty years he was Head of the Drama Department at St. Mary's University College in Strawberry Hill. He spent six months as Visiting Fellow in Performing Arts at Melbourne University and adjudicated the Sydney Theatre Festival before returning to act in the film The Opium Wars. For six years Tony was the Artistic Director of The Questors International Theatre Festival in Ealing which enabled him to to travel and see the work of many European companies.
More recently he has been busy directing and also teaching Theatre Workshops in the UK and in Europe and for the Drama League of Ireland where his travels have taken him to Dublin, Cork, Galway and two Summer Schools at Maynooth University. Tony writes for the theatre and his plays include The Kerry Dance, Close-Up, Charade and Seascape. For six years he was a judge for the NDFA New Play Award.
Tony Rushforth is a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, a member of The Writers Guild, The Society for Theatre Research and The Guild of Drama Adjudicators. He also has an MA in Modern Drama. He has adjudicated the Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh One Act Finals. In 2004 and 2007 he adjudicated the All Ireland Finals in Athlone and Wexford and last year was at the One Act International Festival in Brussels.
Tony is delighted to be paying a return visit to the prestigious Felixstowe Festival.
Further information about the Felixstowe Drama Festival can be found by visiting the website www.showlitesoundandlight.co.uk/festival.
Tickets:
Spa Pavilion TheatreTickets can be booked in any of the following ways:
•at the Box Office 10am - 5pm Monday to Saturday
•by telephone on 01394 282126 during the Box Office opening hours
•using the Ticketmaster 24hr. hotline on 0844 847 2372
•on line at ticketmaster.co.uk
Tickets should be on general sale from 30th March 2010. For current ticket prices please contact the Box Office.
Booking Charges:
When booking directly with the Felixstowe Box Office there is a charge of £1.50 per transaction if you use a credit card. There is no charge if you use a debit card. For any transaction there will be an additional charge of £1.00 if you wish your tickets to be posted to you.
When booking through Ticketmaster, using either the 24hr. phone number or on-line, there will be a per ticket service and booking charge.
For more information on this lovely town, please see Guide to Felixstowe
Accommodation in Felixstowe
Eating Out in Felixstowe
Activities in Felixstowe
It's more than just a music festival!
Tickets for Latitude 2010 went on sale on Tuesday 9th March.
LATITUDE is probably Britain's most successful new Arts and Music Festival, and it returns for an incredible 5th Edition on 15-18th July 2010, set in the beautiful countryside of Henham Park Estate on Suffolk’s Sunrise Coast.
Latitude continues to lead the way as a bold and pioneering festival cherry-picking the very best from the worlds of music, theatre, comedy, literature, film, poetry, dance, art, fashion and cabaret and bringing them together for one glorious weekend.
Latitude's Top 5...highlights
In honour of our 5th Edition, we thought we'd share our favourite memories from previous years. Each week we'll bring you Latitude's Top 5 things.
If you'd like to send in your own experiences, email info@latitudefestival.co.uk and we'll publish them online.
~ *~ Thom Yorke's blissed out Sunday slot last year. How beautiful was listening to 'Reckoner' in the glorious sunshine!
~ *~ Britten Sinfonia was the first full orchestra to appear at an outdoor music festival. Truly magical.
~ *~ Royal Shakespeare Company sent hundreds of zombies spilling off the stage blurring staged theatre with walkabout performances. It had to be seen to be believed!
~ *~ The ethereal Music Of The Spheres floating serenely across the lake, including the suspended flautist within, much to everyone's surprise.
~ *~ The legendary Patti Smith performing two very special performances on not only the main music stage, the Obelisk Arena, but also in the Poetry Arena in our inaugural year.
These are just a few of the many memories Latitude has mustered. Latitude’s extensive line-up is an incredible assortment of riches that can keep you entertained all weekend… a leisurely stroll through the festival’s magical woods and beyond can lead to all manner of untold treasures and unexpected pleasures. There's so much to do and see, you'll just have to come and experience it for yourselves.
For full details of the festival please see Latitude Festival 2010
For accommodation nearby please see:
Accommodation in Southwold
Accommodation in Halesworth
Accommodation in Saxmundham
North Manor Farmhouse B&B
The Angel Inn, Wangford - ALMOST FULLY BOOKED, SO HURRY!!
SIXTY-THIRD ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS
This year's festival promises to be an amazing experience, as ever. Please continue reading to to learn of the festival performance programme, and how to book tickets.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Artistic Director (pictured above)
John Woolrich Associate Artistic Director
63rd Aldeburgh Festival Diary:
FRIDAY 11 JUNE
Into the Little Hill 8pm*
SATURDAY 12
Festival Directors I 11am °
Listen with Colour 3pm
Britten Sinfonia & Aimard 7.30pm
SUNDAY 13
Festival Service 10.30am
Open Air 12 noon
La Nuova Musica 3pm °
Leon Fleisher 7.30pm ° (pictured below)
MONDAY 14
Festival Directors II 11am
BBC Discovering Music 3pm °
Ian Bostridge 7.30pm (pictured below)
TUESDAY 15
Fleisher Masterclass 11am
Hesse Lecture 3pm
Scottish Ensemble 7.30pm
WEDNESDAY 16
Festival Walk I
Brendel Lecture 7.30pm (pictured below)
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THURSDAY 17
Two Hands 3pm
The Way to the Sea 6pm, 8pm*
FRIDAY 18
European Academies 11am
Charlotte Bray Verre de Venise (world premiere - pictured above)
English Song Recital 2pm
Hesse Students Concert 4pm
Alumni I: Young Composers 6pm
Into the Little Hill 8pm
SATURDAY 19
George Benjamin Portrait 11am
The Way to the Sea 2pm, 4pm
CBSO 7.30pm
SUNDAY 20
Open Air 12 noon
Festival Chorus 3pm
The Pianist’s Brain 6pm
Aimard: Collage-Montage 8pm °
MONDAY 21
Films: Music & Brain 11am
Festival Directors III 3pm
Fleisher and Signum Quartet 7.30pm °
TUESDAY 22
Togetherness 11am
Peter Pears: the Collector 3pm
Oelze and Aimard 8pm °
Christiane Oelze soprano (pictured below)
WEDNESDAY 23
Festival Walk II
Zehetmair Quartet 8pm °
THURSDAY 24
Peter Pears: A Celebration 11am
A Birthday Hansel 3pm
Film: Tenor Man’s Story 5.30pm
Britten–Pears Orchestra 8pm
FRIDAY 25
Alumni II: Young Singers 11am
Boulez and Aimard 3pm
Hesse Students Concert 5pm
Film: Piano 5.30pm, 6.15pm
Mass in B minor 7.30pm °
SATURDAY 26
Zehetmair and Aimard 11am °
Huelgas Ensemble 3pm °
Ensemble Intercontemporain and Boulez 7.30pm °
Anthèmes 10pm
SUNDAY 27
Open Air 12 noon
Arcanto Quartet and Lonquich 3pm, 4.30pm, 6pm ° (pictured above)
* = With pre-performance talk / event
° = Concert recorded by BBC Radio 3
Book your ticket:
By Post, Telephone or Online via Aldeburgh Music
By Email boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk
In Person
Aldeburgh High Street
Mon–Sat 9.30am–4.30pm
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm and during the Festival
9.30am–start of evening concert.
20% ticket discount
This year’s Aldeburgh Festival offers an exciting choice of musical discoveries –
and we invite you to explore as many of them as possible! Please look out for this: and take advantage of our Magical Discovery Tour. Combine a minimum of 5 events from the offering, and qualify for a 20% discount on ticket prices.
For some background information to this historic music festival please also see Aldeburgh Festival.
For further information on this great town, please see
Guide to Aldeburgh
Accommodation in Aldeburgh
Hotels in Aldeburgh
Attractions in Aldeburgh
Eaing Out in Aldeburgh
THE 22ND DEBENHAM COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL
JULY 14th TO JULY 19th 2010
HELD AT THE DEBENHAM LEISURE CENTRE, DEBENHAM, SUFFOLK, IP14 6BL
ALL PROCEEDS TO THE DEBENHAM LEISURE CENTRE CHARITY TRUST
DONT MISS OUT ON THIS SUPER FESTIVAL BOOK NOW AND AVOID DISAPOINIMENT
Thursday night 7.30pm dance with the fabulous award winning Welsh duo
COUNTRY COMPANY
Friday night 7.30pm dance to the great CLEAR CUT
Saturday afternoon from 12 noon with three great acts BONNIE DIAMOND & COE, PAT JAMES, AMERICAN ROUTS
Saturday night, 7.30pm a super night with two of England's top acts
Norfolk's award winning JEFF GALANT BAND & Kent's singing sensation ROSIE HORNE
Sunday afternoon from 12 noon with three more great acts NASHVILLE NUMBERS BAND and from Buckinghamshire RANCHER COUNTRY DUO
and Suffolk's very own master of country MR KEVIN BARRY
And at 7.30pm to finish off a fabulous weekend the Award winning
DOUBLE BARREL
A GREAT LINE UP. ADD THAT TO TWO DANCE FLOORS, SHOWERS
MAINS TOILETS, TRADE STALLS, FOOD, AND A GREAT ATMOSPHERE,
CREDIT CRUNCHING PRICES FOR THIS 5 DAY EVENT
FESTWAL FULL WEEKEND TICKET IS JUST £26
DAY PRICES ARE THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY NIGHTS £4 EACH
SATURDAY & SUNDAY AFTERNOONS £6 EACH & SATURDAY NIGHT £7
OPEN AIR CONCERTS SATURDAY & SUNDAY AFTERNOONS WEATHER PERMITTING
MORE INFORMATION or Booking Form RING:- ED CUFFE ON 01473 405 672 or email: e.cuffe@hotmail.co.uk
"Only the best in country music"
YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME JUST FOR THE DAY!
3-day music festival at Mutimers' Meadow, Hacheston, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 0DR.
Showcasing local musicians and raising money for local charities.
Activities for all the family.
Over £6000 from Hachfest 2009 presented to local charities.
The Hachfest committee would like to extend their thanks and gratitude to everyone who supported & contributed to the huge success of Hachfest in 2009. A highlight of which had to be Ade Edmondson performing with his band ‘The Bad Shepherds’.
Last year’s event built on the previous successes and despite the poor weather at times, raised over £6000 for local charities. The charities benefiting from the event include East Anglian Air Ambulance, St Elizabeth Hospice, the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust and Heathside Special School Minibus Fund; as well as Suffolk Soundwaves Youth Music Project, Pound Farm, Parham Airfield Museum, Hacheston Village Hall, St John’s Ambulance and Framlingham First Responders. Hachfest is a non-profit making event, and all the money raised goes to the nominated charities, or is re-invested into next year’s event.
The money raised in 2009 was presented to the charities at a recent celebration evening, which was also a thank you to all those who volunteered and helped out to make the event happen.
Following on from this, Hachfest organisers have announced their dates for 2010. The festival will be held between 30th July and 1st August, at Mutimers' Meadow in the village of Hacheston, near Wickham Market.
The event will begin on Friday evening and will continue all day on Saturday and Sunday, providing a great weekend of entertainment for all the family. The committee feel strongly that it is important to work closely with the local community to ensure the success of the event, so if you have any comments, queries, or ideas; or would be interested in getting involved, please get in touch via comments@hachfest.co.uk. Closing date is 31st March; successful acts will be announced in May.
One of the highlights planned for the 2010 event is the BBC Introducing sessions. The team from BBC Radio Suffolk will be taking over the Hachfest stages on the Saturday afternoon, and have been given free reign to showcase the best acts from the BBC Introducing selection! BBC Introducing supports unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar musicians.
Thank you once again for the continued support, it is hoped that 2010 will be the best year yet!
For full details of this wonderful festival please see Halesworth Gig in the Park
For more information on Halesworth please see:
A Guide to the town of Halesworth
Accommodation in Halesworth
Thursday 19th August - BY POPULAR REQUEST “CUBAN LIFT” return with their dance music from the Andes.
Tony Hinnigan guitar & charango; Catherine Musker bass; Anna Noakes & Julie Murray flutes and pan pipes & Gary Kettel Latin percussion.
The Nigel Hitchcock Quartet with Mark Nightingale - Friday 20th August
The amazing jazz saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock, has performed to millions of people around the world with artists such as Tom Jones, Wet Wet Wet, Ray Charles and Robbie Williams. At Yoxford he leads a star studded band featuring the brilliant trombonist Mark Nightingale
Mark has been featured with artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Cleo Laine, London Brass, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sting and Shakatak. He has penned many compositions, big band arrangements and books of trombone studies.
John Tams & Barry Coope - Saturday 21st August 2010
John Tams described by Mojo as'one of the ultimate British songwriters',had a career spanning four decades in every medium.
A member of the Albion Band and Home Service he is perhaps best known for his work at the National Theatre and as Rifleman Daniel Hagman in the Sharpe television series. He is a five times winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
He has made over 50 albums as singer, musician or producer and continues to tour festivals and concert stages throughout the UK and Europe. He co-wrote the score for all the Sharpe films alongside Dominic Muldowney and has been a long standing collaborator with Jack Shepherd on numerous productions for stage, screen and radio. Last year John received an Honorary Doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University.
In the early 1980s, Barry Coope was a member of innovative English folk band Muckram Wakes. Later he played with the folk “supergroup” Blue Murder. Around 1990 Barry Coope helped form Coope, Boyes & Simpson, a British vocal folk trio.
Return of Pamela Thorby - Sunday 22nd August
Last year “Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny and Susanne Heinrich gave what was regarded by many as the finest concert in six festivals”
Pamela, one of the world’s finest recorder players, returns this year to play Vivaldi’s Concerto for Sopranino Recorder in C Major RV443 and Telemann’s Concerto for flute, recorder, strings and continuo in E minor with The Locrian Ensemble.
Bringing together some of the most prominent string soloists in London, THE LOCRIAN ENSEMBLE has established an enviable reputation for its recordings, broadcasts and live performances. This outstanding concert features Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, soloist Rita Manning, violin and also the world premiere of a work for flute and strings by Elgar Howarth with soloist Anna Noakes, flute.
The concert also features a contemporary work for recorder and percussion with Gary Kettel.
For more information on the Yoxford Arts Festival 2010, please see www.yoxfest.co.uk.
Please click on the following link for other venues and attractions in Yoxford.
The Suffolk Villages Festival
J S Bach and his World: 27-30 August 2010
Artistic Director: Peter Holman
Friday 27 August, 8pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
J S Bach: Cantatas
directed by Peter Holman
Saturday 28 August, 12 midday
St James’s Church, Nayland
Consort of Viols
Saturday 28 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Dresden Orchestra
Sunday 29 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Music at the Court of Frederick the Great
Flautist: Rachel Latham
Pre-concert talk by Professor Anthony King
Monday 30 August, 12 midday
St Mary’s Church, Boxford
19th Century Lieder
Stephen Varcoe and David Miller
Monday 30 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh
Philippa Hyde, Tom Raskin, Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra
directed by Peter Holman
C P E Bach: St Matthew Passion
Box office & further information:
01206 366603
box@suffolkvillagesfestival.com
Harvest is back; brighter, fresher and tastier than ever - on 11th and 12th September at Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich.
We are delighted to announce THE ZUTONS and NEWTON FAULKNER as well as an abundance of other bands and chefs, including Angela Hartnett, Hairy Bikers, Rachel Allen, Mark Hix, Tom Parker Bowles and Thomasina Miers.
Also a UK festival exclusive from the award winning CHARLIE & LOLA's Best Bestest Play.
Please check our website www.harvestatjimmys.com for lots more fantastic appearances and activities.
See you all in September!
You may also be interested in reviewing details of the 2009 Festivals listed below, as many of them run annually and will be taking place again this year.
The Ipswich Food, Drink and Garden Festival - 23rd - 24th May 2009
Pulse Fringe Festival 27th May – 13th June 2009
Suffolk Folk Festival - 30th & 31st May 2009
Laugh in the Park Comedy Festival - 12-13 June 2009
The 13th Stowmarket Festival of Beer and Brewing 18th-21st June
Festival of the Sea, Southwold - 19th-21st June
Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2009 27th June
The Ipswich Arts Festival 27 June – 12 July 2009
Sat 27th - Sun 28th June, 10.30 – 5.00pm Sutton Hoo Poetry Festival
Debenham Arts Festival July 9th - 12th
Bures Music Festival July 8th - 12th
Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival - 23-24th July
Honda Formula 4 stoke series, Lowestoft 25 - 26th July
Sausage & Beer Festival at Jimmy's Farm 29th-30th August 2009
Festinho Festival - 4th-6th September 2009
Inside Out Festival 2009 - 19th and 26th September 2009
Fressingfield Festival - 22-26th September 2009
Ipswich RESPECT Festival - 26th September 2009
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival - 26th-27th September 2009
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival - 28th September - 4th October 2009
Halesworth Arts Festival - 10-25 October 2009
Saxmundham Arts and Entertainment Festival - Friday 23rd October - Sunday 1st November
Suffolk Herring Festival - 24th-25th October 2009
21st Aldeburgh Poetry Festival - 6th-8th November 2009
Lavenham Literary Festival - 20th-22nd November 2009
Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre - 27th-29th November 2009
Christ Church Park, Ipswich
(Park Road or Westerfield Road entrances)
Opens 10.30am
Admission £3
Great food and drink stalls
Free celebrity chefs demonstrations
Free samples
Free gardening tips from the experts
Flowers and plants for sale
Free music and entertainment
Food, drink, flowers, plants, free tastings, free cookery demonstrations, free music.
Medieval cookery, medieval food and drink stalls.
The Best of British food on dozens of stalls.
Continental Market with food from around Europe.
‘New Generation’ steel band and the Suffolk School of Samba plus our brass band playing at the Festival.
There is a huge range of food and drinks for you to try and buy:
Sizzling Sausages plus a What’s the Best Sausage in Ipswich? competition. Will you be a judge?
Best Bacon competition, can we tempt you to be a judge?
Fiery Tastes. We try the world’s hottest chilli sauces. Have you tried chilli chocolate?
All in marquees in the park – come rain or shine you will have a great time!
For full details please see The Ipswich Food, Drink and Garden Festival
Guide to Ipswich
Ipswich Attractions
A Guide to Ipswich Hotels
Accommodation in and around Ipswich
Eating out in Ipswich
Pubs in Ipswich
Just a short train ride from London, PULSE ’09 fills the theatres, galleries, offices and caravans of Ipswich with a three week long explosive celebration of the most vibrant, bold and brilliant theatre from across the UK.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS:
Kate Flatt Projects and SEGUE Wednesday 27 May, 6pm
Songs from a Hotel Bedroom
These excerpts from a new musical theatre production introduce the timeless and bittersweet songs of composer Kurt Weill. Set in 1950s America, the scenario tells of a love affair between a touring singer and a writer who are accompanied by two tango dancers.
New Wolsey Studio, £3 (work-in-progress)
Lost Spectacles Thursday 28 & Friday 29 May, 7.45pm
Lost in the Wind
Lost in the Wind follows one man’s struggle as he desperately searches for something unknown. Lost, he finds himself battling for survival against the elements and a group of strange lonely beings. Floating between hilarious comic scenarios and spectacular visual sequences, Lost in the Wind blends
clowning, puppetry, object manipulation and delicate physical performance.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Tom Purcell
Thursday 28 May- Saturday 13 June, 10am-5pm
Beauty- A Peep Show
Beauty is a study of social perceptions of beauty, focussing on the local community and its surroundings. Through this multi-sensory installation the public are invited to peer in to an aperture to view a kaleidoscopic explosion of colour, image and sound from a series of collected, abstract video footage of surrounding beauty.
Town Hall Galleries, FREE
Polly Cruse
from 28 May
Out There
Polly constructs and places objects and ornaments and then photographs them in the interior and exterior landscape to capture moments of dreamt freedom. The photographs reference a snapshot of fleeting moments of pleasure and escape. She employs the form of commercial street advertising, seeking to distract and amuse everyday passers, whilst demonstrating an alternative to the usual publicly displayed images that try to sell us products and influence our lives.
Pick up a map at Town Hall Galleries or at the New Wolsey Theatre
PULSE DOUBLE BILL
Friday 29 May, 7pm
Seeta Patel
Last One Standing
A sensitive interpretation of game playing explored through contemporary South Asian dance. In their second artistic collaboration, Seeta Patel and Kamala Devam present a reworking of the piece created for the Kadam Choreography Prize 2008. This multi-media piece features film by filmmaker Maria Årkesson.
Mayday
Les Angles Mortes
Les Angles Mortes is a powerful duet for dancer and musician/DJ that questions our ability to understand the world from another point of view and observes from every angle the small details that make us all the same and perfectly distinct.
New Wolsey Theatre, £7
Gecko Friday 29 May, 10pm
No. 5
Highly visual, astonishingly physical and gloriously cinematic, Gecko create theatre for anyone who is willing to dream a little and imagine a lot. Fresh from a three week run of The Overcoat at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Gecko return home to The New Wolsey to experiment with and share some new ideas.
New Wolsey Studio, £3 (work-in-progress)
Top of the World
Saturday 30 May, 12 Noon, 5pm & 9.30pm and Sunday 31 May, 2pm & 5pm
Paperweight
Paperweight is the absurd story of two men trapped in mindless office jobs. As the pressures of work and the ever present threat of the telephone ringing increase, chaos descends. An (almost) silent comedy of escalating intensity and surprising tenderness. A sell out show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Paperweight received critical acclaim winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Total Theatre Award nomination.
An office at The New Wolsey Theatre, £7
Linda Marlowe, James Seabright and LMP
Saturday 30 May, 7pm
The World’s Wife
A new stage version of the acclaimed poems by Carol Anne Duffy, imagining the voices of the wives of great men. Linda Marlowe has enjoyed great acclaim for her previous solo work including Berkoff’s Women, which toured internationally and played West End seasons. In this new show her virtuoso performance of Duffy’s brilliant and often controversial verse is interspersed with commentary about the poems.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Kath Burlinson in association with The Weird Sisters
Saturday 30 May, 9.15pm
Wolf
They have inspired and terrified us since the beginning of time. They have been reviled, hunted and then invited back into our lands. In fairy tales, fables and films they have slipped between the identities of human and beast. Wolf explores the ecology, psychology and mythology of these extraordinary animals, and in turn, asks how wild we humans may be.
New Wolsey Studio, £5 (work-in-progress)
The New Wolsey Theatre
Sunday 31 May & Sunday 7 June, 2pm
SPRINGBOARD Rehearsed Readings
SPRINGBOARD, The New Wolsey’s series of drama writing workshops, took as its starting point playwright David Greig’s provocative statement that “nothing should be on stage that doesn’t demand to be there”. Between January and April of this year, 16 aspiring writers, guided by writer and workshop leader Danusia Iwaszko, have been on an imaginative journey together, attempting to unlock each writer’s voice and to unearth the topics that most urgently call out to be explored. Come and enjoy the results – two evenings of fresh and original new writing, directed by The New Wolsey’s Associate Director Rob Salmon.
Town Hall Galleries on The Cornhill, £3
Out of Argyle Theatre Company
Sunday 31 May, 4.30pm
The Snow Goose Diaries
It is 1947 in rural Russia. Young Pyotr has been given the opportunity of moving away to the city in order to pursue a career as a writer. On the eve of his departure, he reflects upon his life in his native village. Will these recollections of his family and friends stirred by his recorded journal and the recent death of his grandfather affect his decision to abandon the life that he has known?
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Theatre Tours International Sunday 31 May, 7pm
Bully
A taste for malice haunts the males of Fry’s bloodline, vampirically passing from father to first born son. As the timid younger brother, spanning his life from tragic childhood to tainted adulthood, Fry charts the inner afflictions of a well meaning soul who tries to break the cycle by becoming a sufferer, rather than the bully. A sell out sensation at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Bully is a mesmerising experience and a most exemplary and powerful monologue.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Look Left Look Right Tuesday 2- Saturday 6 June, various times
The Caravan
In summer 2007 severe flooding across the UK brought misery to thousands of people, destroying homes and livelihoods. As a result of the ensuing chaos, over 2000 households were still living in caravans a year after the event, with over 100 families still stuck in caravans two Christmases later. Following a Fringe First Award and sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival and The Royal Court, Look Left Look Right presents the stories of real people word for word, alongside visual and audio footage inside their very own caravan.
The New Wolsey Theatre (in a caravan outside the venue), £7
Holly Rumble
Holly Rumble’s Mobile Disco
To take part in the world's most portable and surreptitious disco, text ‘DISCO’ to 07807 956410 and Holly will let you know where and when. Be ready to respond quickly.
Company FZ
Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 June, 10am- 4pm
Circus Theatre Workshop
Company FZ invites you to a workshop that explores the space between tragedy and comedy; the floor and the air. Using their experience in theatre, dance and the circus arts they will show how to make work that comes from a personal place or interest and how humour and pathos, success and failure are often closer to each other than we think.
The workshop will be physically demanding. Participants must be aged 18+
New Wolsey Theatre, £10
The Ornate Johnsons
Tuesday 2 June, 7pm
Mississippi
A rehearsed reading with Beth Fitzgerald (Winner Herald Angel 2007, Best Actress Brighton Festival 2008). Set in a Deep South themed restaurant somewhere in Worthing in 1987, Mississippi follows one chaotic day in the life of its nineteen-year-old manager, Helena, as she battles with booze, her domineering parents’ disastrous marriage, unruly staff, a Yugoslavian hen party, the not wholly unwanted attentions of the waiter and the meat order. Written by Louise Law and Brian Mitchell.
St Nicholas Centre, £3
The Ornate Johnsons
Wednesday 3 June, 7.45pm
The October Revolutions
BBC scriptwriter Philip and art student Kath hover in the region between friendship and love. Over the course of three meetings in three parks over three Octobers, they jockey, vie, scheme and battle for position with comical, and sometimes brutal, results. Written by Brian Mitchell.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Double Gusset Productions Thursday 4 June, 7.45pm
Britain’s Best Mates
Spend a hysterical hour with Britain’s Best Mates and you’ll never look at lads the same way again. Funny and touching, compelling and silly, these two delusional young men have created a world where they never have to engage with reality. Following their award-winning series for Comedy Central, Jamie Glassman and Matthew Steer bring their lovable characters to the stage.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
PULSE TRIPLE BILL Friday 5 June, 7.45pm
Lîla Dance
Tracker
Tracker was made from the inside out. And Begin. There is a space, a game and a seed of thought. There is a birth (of a sort) and from there, there is instinct, learning and development of skills. And because everything is new, there is insecurity, hesitancy and exploration. There are relationships (of a kind) and because there is intellect, learning is contagious and growth is inevitable. So now there is energy, exertion and imagination; subtlety, detail and texture. There is rushing, silence, rhythm and feeling. There is movement, movement, thought and more movement.
Neel de Jong
Driven
De Jong walks towards freedom, without hesitation, exploring all facets of womanhood. She jumps with ease between theatre and dance, while she’s sometimes singing too. Renewing herself every performance, she externalizes a series of inner worlds for the audience.
Pianist Augusto Pirodda accompanies her live during the performance.
Leila McMillan
iD
iD maps the graffiti found in East London through the body via explosive movement and raw sound, performed by 5 physical female performers. It incorporates the art and philosophy of graffiti along with the sound of the urban city to take the audience on a visual experience of graffiti through the form of contemporary dance.
New Wolsey Theatre, £7
Juliet Holton
Friday 5 - Sunday 7 June
The Process of Painting- in Progress
Juliet produces Action Paintings, a style in which paint is dribbled or splashed onto the surface instead of being carefully applied. She will engage viewers through the physical act of painting itself, this time involving the audience in the process. You are invited to donate paint and bring your own surfaces (2-d/ 3-d) for her to respond to or incorporate into the ‘action’.
The event is open to all. To learn how you can become part of Juliet’s Process of Painting contact Julia Devonshire, Arts Project Officer, Ipswich Borough Council e: Julia.Devonshire@ipswich.gov.uk, tel: ++44 (0)1473 432862.
Demonstration: Friday 6-8pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm
St Mary’s on the Quay, FREE
Tam Hinton
Friday 5 June, 8pm
The Truth is I Can’t Stop Telling Lies
In this latest slice of hi-octane absurdity, Hinton invites us again to meet more of the strange residents of the Bernard Hepton Housing Estate. He tells of tortured genius Simon Crevice – a man driven mad by Boris Johnson; Enid Beveridge, a woman turned on by electrocution; Brenda Surplus, part girl, part dog; and Lonely Barry Ungswater, the only truly normal person in the world.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Synergy Theatre Project Saturday 6 June, 2pm
Write Now
Established in 1999, Synergy Theatre Project works towards rehabilitation with prisoners and ex-prisoners through theatre, whilst placing the wider issues surrounding imprisonment in the public arena. This is your unique chance to see work from Synergy’s Second Annual National Prison Script Writing competition performed by professional actors specially selected for the PULSE Fringe Festival.
New Wolsey Studio, £3
ProudExposure
Saturday 6 June, 7.45pm
Out Westgate
Rural Suffolk is the best place to retire to, the safest place to raise kids in and the finest place to cover up old secrets...Set on the day of John Peel’s funeral in 2004, Out Westgate, written and directed by Drew Taylor, is a blackly comedic 21st Century drama.
New Wolsey Studio, £3
PULSE DOUBLE BILL
Sunday 7 June, 7pm
ANHNGDANCE
Two Bye Two
Created for Union Dance, Two Bye Two is an emotional journey of a relationship between two people, a roller-coaster which leads the audience in the dance by a flowing and powerful duet.
Kieran Sheehan Dance Theatre Company (KSDT)
Cope
Cope combines filmic movement, spoken word, dance, poetry, design, live and pre-recorded music to create powerfully expressionistic dance theatre. It is the story of two women unable to move on from the events of their past, trapped in a world where every noise, touch and taste stings with the memory of what came before.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Fergus Rougier Tuesday 9 June, 8.30pm
Bedroom Stories
A cow escapes from the slaughterhouse, a jealous lover struggles with the exes, a smelly sea forces the pirates ashore... From the intimacy of the bedroom emerge these three darkly humorous stories, innovatively told in a physical and vividly imaginative way that interweaves live and pre-recorded music with movement and a lyrical text.
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
Making Box Productions Wednesday 10 June, 7pm
Jude Simpson: Making Happy
Stand-up poet Jude Simpson brings her unique blend of observational comedy, witty wordplay, poetry, rap and song to the subject of happiness. From a lament about the clichés of falling in love, to a poem on the beneficial habits of reptiles and a song praising the humble spleen, Jude has wide appeal, a strong feel-good factor and the ability to leave you with a suspicion that maybe, just maybe, everything’s going to be OK…
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Lewis Barfoot of Three Beyond The Sea Wednesday 10 June, 8.30pm
The History of the Pomegranate
Working with a composer and sculptor, Lewis Barfoot deftly brings to life The History Of The Pomegranate in a show combining visual theatre, live music and song. Is it possible that a fruit could transcend every religion, every continent and make you live longer? Could the old sages be right? Is the pomegranate really the symbol of everlasting life?
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
Company FZ Wednesday 10 June, 9pm
Horse
A woman sits alone in a stable where she delves in to a life of horse thoughts and gallops through observations of horsey behaviour. She conjures a world where imaginary horses are ridden, tragic songs are sung and hilarious antics on a gym horse dissolve into a desperate desire to have one of her own.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
WHAT IS IT?
ESCALATOR WEEKEND Thursday 11 June- Saturday 13 June
These Colours Thursday 11 June, 6pm
King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies follows a gypsy bare knuckle fighter whose memories and fading dreams haunt him; his victories, his losses, his every choice reflected in the objects that are carried with him on his ceaseless travels. This ‘work in development’ combines verbatim text and new writing in a vibrant amalgam of image and sound. Due to premiere in August at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, King of the Gypsies journeys into a deeply private and secretive community, a community about which we actually know very little…
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5 (work in progress)
Nabokov
Thursday 11 June, 7.30pm
Is Everyone OK?
Daisy’s job is on the line and whilst she can’t remember why she has it, she's sure she can’t afford to lose it. Meanwhile Em’s about to become a self-elected single mother and Cameron doesn’t know what to do with these strange warm feelings that the office temp has infected him with… A collaboration between Fringe First winning playwright Joel Horwood and internationally acclaimed new writing company nabokov.
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
El Toro
Thursday 11 June, 9.30pm
Lovedrunk
Lovedrunk is a story about loving somebody who does not love you anymore. Visually stunning and highly inventive, this new show from El Toro combines physical theatre, video projection and emotive music to explore falling out of love.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
THEATRE IS… & Throwdown UK in association with The Hat Factory
Friday 12 June, 7pm
Epiphany
A new promenade performance fusing breakin, locking, popping, spoken word and the unique ‘multi’ vocals of MC Xander. Epiphany explores the moment in our personal histories when we find our 'element', the place we love to be, where our passion meets our talent.
New Wolsey Theatre, £5
DOUBLE BILL Friday 12 June, 7pm
Helix Dance
The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a comic solo written, choreographed and performed by DanceEast Associate Artist Isobel Cohen. While nominally a piece about cheap underwear and other unforeseen disappointments, its primary purpose is to explain why an otherwise intelligent and rational individual would choose to be a contemporary dancer.
Experiment 86 'in association with the Hat Factory
This is Our Universe & Basic Dressing
2 Men. 1 Sofa. But who’s is it? They laugh. They cry. They fight. They sing. But what for? Or who for? A fusion of movement, text and song to unravel the stories of these 2 men in a familiar but unfamiliar environment. Will they find a way to open up their minds as well as their front door? Includes an unconventional lesson in how to get ready for bed.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Gagged Theatre
Friday 12 June, 7.45pm
You Are Here
A moving story documenting a grandfathers perilous escape from Poland to Great Britain during World War II, told by his grandson as he retraces his steps. Gagged Theatre brings this cross-generational odyssey to life with a fusion of theatre, documentary and photography, resulting in a dynamic live performance.
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
Axis of Evil Productions and Sh*tty Deal Puppet Theatre Company
Friday 12 June, 9.30pm
Oh! What A Sh*tty War
Imagine if The Muppets have become embittered with their careers, gone off the rails and performed their kid’s show through a haze of gin and schadenfreude. That’s Sh*tty Deal! After tackling such diverse themes as Art and Oppression, this rag-tag crew of foul-mouthed puppets turn their withering gaze on the entire history of warfare, as cynical clown puppet Mr Doper takes his innocent sidekick Bobby on a hilarious journey through battles and bloodshed to find out why warfare is as endemic to the human condition as back hair. Contains strong language, puppet violence and, yes, Barbie nudity!
New Wolsey Studio, £5
SEQUE Saturday 13 June, 5pm
Sound Journey
Created and performed by afro-Brazilian master percussionist Adriano Adewale, Sound Journey is a solo work of world-music-theatre which uses percussion, voice and dance to explore its contemporary themes of cultural identity, migration, immigration and climate change. Join Adriano on his remarkable Sound Journey from African to South America, desert to rain forest, from city to village in this moving and intimate work of worlds-music-theatre.
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
Footprints Theatre Company
Saturday 13 June, 8.30pm
Dreamdance
Experimental cabaret for theatregoers with a sense of adventure, Dreamdance explores the relationship between two women in the decadent but dangerous world of the 1920’s Weimar Cabaret. Their painful story is told against a surrealscape of music, movement and dance where the audience are invited into the world of cabaret. A world where to survive is to trust no one.
Sir John Mills, £5
Chris Goode Saturday 13 June, 9pm
The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley
Shirley is a teenage boy with a girl’s name, growing up in suburbia and feeling like the weirdest kid in the school. Wound Man is an unconventional superhero with a silver thong and an alarming assortment of weapons who has just moved into Shirley’s street - and he happens to have a vacancy for a teenage sidekick... A new solo show from Chris Goode that combines intimate storytelling with original animation to tell the story of two unlikely friends and their escapades together.
New Wolsey Theatre, £7
Listings Information
Venue: The New Wolsey Theatre and various venues throughout Ipswich
Address: New Wolsey Theatre, Civic Drive, Ipswich, IP1 2AS
Dates: Wednesday 27 May - Saturday 13 June 2009
Times: Various times
Price: Various prices
Box Office: 01473 295900
Transport: Trains leave London Liverpool Street Station frequently and take around 1hr 10mins. For detailed directions see www.wolseytheatre.co.uk
Website: www.pulsefringe.com
For further details on this year's Pulse Fringe Festival please see Pulse Fringe Festival
Guide to Ipswich
Ipswich Attractions
A Guide to Ipswich Hotels
Accommodation in and around Ipswich
Eating out in Ipswich
Pubs in Ipswich
The 5th Suffolk Folk Festival takes place over the weekend of 30 & 31
May 2009 in Woodbridge.
The 5th Woodbridge Scout Hall on Tide Mill Way will be the
“headquarters” over the weekend. You can drop in to find out
what’s happening, shelter from the intense sunlight, use the
toilets, buy refreshments from the scouts or shop for festival
memorabilia such as programmes and badges.
The Suffolk Folk Festival has become one of the largest celebrations
of traditional dance in the East of England. Throughout the Saturday
and Sunday there will be many colourful displays of morris, sword and
Appalachian dancing at various locations in Woodbridge , on the Quay
and at the Cherry Tree Inn.
There will be a Grand Ceilidh on the Saturday evening in the hall of
the Abbey School from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets for this event are £10.
On the Sunday, the famous, free, open air concert at the Bandstand in
Elmhurst Park takes place from 12 noon to 5 p.m. Bring your chairs,
picnic rugs, picnics and parasols to spend a sunny afternoon
listening to great music and song from Cruel Folk, Kiss the Mistress,
The Bounty Hounds, The Larks and Triangle.
The Cherry Tree Inn will be holding a beer festival over the Folk
Festival weekend with about 25 beers from Suffolk and beyond and on
the Saturday evening there will again be shanty singing and other
music and song led by High Water Mark.
We are once again most grateful to Woodbridge Town Football Club for
allowing us to use their facilities for camping. The club will be
charging £5 per pitch for each night’s camping.
There are still more ideas in the pipeline, so check the website at
www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SuffolkFolkFestival for up to date information.
For further information on the town, please see Guide to Woodbridge
Accommodation in Woodbridge
Eating Out in Woodbridge
SOUTHWOLD FESTIVAL 12th - 13th June 2009 (Southwold Common)
The Red Card Comedy Club and Adnams brewery are excited to announce our very first comedy festival in the beautiful seaside town Southwold on 12th and 13th June.
12th: Paddy Lennox / Eddy Brimson / Sean Kent / Ricky Grover
13th: John Mann / Bob Mills / Chris Molineux / Danny Buckler
CORPORATE TABLES
Option 1 = £280 package
Table of 10
4 bottles of wine (two red, 2 white)
Choice of vegetarian or a meat dish
Option 2 = £280 package
Table of 10
20 x pints of Adnams beer (a choice of Bitter, Broadside, Explorer, East
Green, Spindrift, Bitburger)
Choice of vegetarian or a meat dish
Option 3 = £320 package
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4 bottles of Champagne
Choice of vegetarian or a meat dish
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Table of 10
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Luxury seafood platter
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Adult Tickets (over 18's only) £13.50 advance
Comedy for kids run from 1pm - 3pm - Tickets £6.00
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Over 60 East Anglian Real Ales and Ciders, with Live Music each evening
Event: The 13th Stowmarket Festival of Beer and Brewing
Date: Thursday 18th June – Sunday 21st June 2009
Venue: the Museum of East Anglian Life
Press contact: Lisa Harris - Collections Manager or Patsy Cane – Office Manager on 01449 612229 or enquiries@eastanglianlife.org.uk
The Museum of East Anglian Life in association with CAMRA – the Campaign for Real Ale, kicks off its 13th Beer Festival on Thursday 18th June. The event which runs through to the Sunday afternoon of 21st June is perhaps the Museums most celebrated annual event. Visitors will have the chance to sample up to 60 East Anglian real ales and a number of ciders. The festival takes place in the beautiful setting of the museum’s 14th century Abbots Hall barn.
Museum Director, Tony Butler reckons that the museum is the ideal venue for an ale festival. “Stowmarket has a long history of brewing. There are former hop beds on the museum site near to the Rattlesden River. Although there is no longer a brewery in the town, companies like Muntons have helped the town retain its malting Traditions.”
Opening Hours are
Thursday 6pm – 11pm
Friday 12noon – 11pm
Saturday 11am – 11pm
Sunday 12noon – 3pm
Admission: £2 when Museum is closed
Normal Admission applies when Museum is open (£6.50/£5.50)
CAMRA members free admission to beer festival
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Southwold to host Festival of the Sea 2009.
For the first time in its 25-year history, the Festival of the Sea is to be held on Southwold Pier.
From Friday June 19, the stage will be set for a celebration of the sea including ‘World of Fish’ stalls, lessons in filleting and Adnams wine tasting for fish dishes.
Chris Gates, Masterchef finalist, will be opening the event this Saturday at 10am with a cookery demonstration of local, fresh Suffolk fish, to give people ideas on what to prepare with the local seafood we have on our doorsteps.
Attractions at the festival, in aid of the Fishermen’s Mission, will also include coastal trips, an RNLI demonstration and a race by Southwold yacht club - there will even be a Sunday service on the pier.
Southwold Pier MD Stephen Bournes said: “The Festival of the Sea will be a celebration of everything that’s great about the region. It promises to be a wonderful three day event with something for all the family.”
Children can enjoy beach trails, join in competitions, see the ‘Shirley Bass-ey’ fish car – and there’s even Caron Cantor’s children’s variety show to enjoy on Friday evening.
A full programme will include Music Hall entertainment from variety act Kenny Cantor and live music from The Capstan Full-Strength Shanty Band.
Organisers of the three-day event in June, which at its previous location in Lowestoft saw crowds of up to 12,000, see the pier as an ideal location for the family festival.
The Fishermen’s Mission was founded in Gorleston in 1881 and is now a national charity. Patron Rick Stein said: "Working as a fisherman is a dangerous and lonely job that very few people comprehend. The Fishermen's Mission makes sure it knows the hardship fishermen and their families face and therefore exactly how to help them".
The mission provides much needed support, care and compassion to working, retired and injured fisherman and their families. It is funded completely by contributions.
** Advance booking for the Flying High’ on June 19 and ‘Veterans of Variety’ on June 20 cost £5.
Tickets are available from Southwold Pier, by telephone 01502 722105 or via email bookings@suffolkcoast-festivalofthesea.co.uk.
Entry into the festival is £1 and all donations will go to the Fishermen’s Mission.
For more information on the festival visit www.suffolkcoast-festivalofthesea.co.uk.
Friday June 19:
Arrival of the ‘Shirley Bass-ey’ Fish Car, The Pier. 6pm
'Flying High' Childrens' Variety Show. Beachcomber, The Pier. 7.30pm £3/ £5 entrance
Festival of the Sea: Southwold Pier
Open 10am- 4pm June 20-21
Saturday June 20
Stalls and events on the Pier throughout the day, including:
Chris Gates, Masterchef finalist cookery demonstration. 10am
Wine Tastings and seafood kitchenware, Adnams Cellar&Kitchen, 9.00am - 6.00pm
Festival lunch and supper Menu with complimentary glass of Adnams Fizz. Including Seafood Platter for two, Lobster and Chips, locally caught cod butties. Adnams Crown
Kenny Cantor's 'Veterans of Variety Show". Beachcomber, The Pier. 7.30pm £3/ £5 entrance
Sunday June 21
Stalls and events throughout the day, including:
Lifeboat Rescue Display. Off the Pier. 11.00am
Southwold Sailing Club Race. Starts at the Pier. 11.00am
Wine Tastings and seafood kitchenware, Adnams Cellar&Kitchen,10.00am - 4.00pm
Festival Menu in the Adnams Crown and Swan.
Service of Thanks by Superintendent Port Missioner Tim Jenkins with attendance from local churches The Pier. 3.00pm.
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Georgie Fame to headline Midsummer Music @ Spencers 27th June 2009
The 27th June heralds the arrival of Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2009, a swing & jazz festival to be held in the glorious gardens of Spencers at Great Yeldham in Essex with music performed under a huge marquee.
For full details please see Midsummer Music Festival 2009
While you're in the area why not drop in on the following nearby attractions, or have a drink at The Cherry Tree just down the road?
Colne Valley Railway
The Cherry Tree
THE IPSWICH ARTS FESTIVAL RETURNS
Ipswich is gearing up to host the Ipswich Arts Festival once again this summer, when it becomes the cultural focus for the arts in the region, with a programme that reflects the contrasts and dynamisms in the county Town of Suffolk.
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If you thought poetry was dull, come along today and be inspired. Poets will lead workshops for families and a poetry trail will intrigue you. Be enchanted by poetry spoken by Katrina Porteous and other fine poets. This festival is sponsored by the Poetry Society to celebrate their 100th birthday and the 70th anniversary of the ship discovery.
Normal admission
Sat 27th June, 7.30pm
A Performance of Longshore Drift by the poet Katrina Porteous at Sutton Hoo, National Trust.
Enjoy the bewitching word craft of this beautiful poem, delivered by the author and accompanied by the Northumbrian pipe and concertina playing of Alistair Anderson. Held in the elegant surroundings of Tranmer House lounge. Refreshments available in the interval.
£10 – booking essential
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A strong line-up of professional authors, including Hilary Mantel whose new novel Wolf Hall has been tipped to win the Booker, will be appearing at the first arts festival in the village of Debenham, July 9 - 12. Most events will be free, others at low cost.
For full details please see Debenham Arts Festival
The Bures Music Festival, incorporating Jazz by The Stour, is an annual music event held in a marquee in the picturesque village of Bures on the Essex & Suffolk Borders. The original Sunday event 'Jazz by the Stour' is now supported & proceeded by four nights of top musical performances spanning the genres from Soul, Blues, Swing, Rock 'n Roll & Choral as well as our very own young musicians showcase.
The Festival is a non profit making event, run by volunteers, with all proceeds being donated to local charities.
Our main Beneficiaries are St Helena Hospice & Ferriers Barn Handicapped Center, but we welcome requests from other local charities in need of support.
Choral Evening Wednesday 8th July 7:30pm
The Voice Squad directed by Birgitta Kenyon
Tickets £6
B Fest Thursday 9th July 7:30pm - 10pm
Tickets £4 (£1 for under 16's)
Blues Night Friday 10th July 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Stephen Foster introduces Paul Lamb and the King Snakes supported by Ramon Goose Band
Tickets £15
Soul Night Saturday 11th July 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Liz Mullen introduces Soul Kitchen
Tickets £15
Jazz by the Stour 13 Sunday 12th July Noon - 8:30pm
Tickets £17.50 (£15 concessions)
The Jonny Boston Quartet
The Eden Project
The Jo Fooks Quintet
The Geoff Gascoyne Quintet with Trudy Kerr
Full details available at Bures Music Festival
Red Arrows top Air Show bill
The biggest event on the Lowestoft calendar, the award-winning Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival, takes place this summer on Thursday July 23rd and Friday July 24th.
Last year’s record-breaking Air Festival attracted a two-day attendance estimated at 440,000 and won the Tourism in Suffolk award for the Best Festival or Event in 2008.
The 13th Lowestoft Air Festival will once again be a spectacular family event featuring over four hours of flying on both days plus a big variety of ground attractions near the mile-long award-winning golden beach.
The Royal Air Force is again sending a full flying display team to Lowestoft, headed by the world-famous aerobatic team the Red Arrows.
Joining them will be the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a BAe Hawk solo jet, a Grob Tutor training aircraft and a Sea King search and rescue helicopter.
It is also hoped that the programme will include the iconic Cold War bomber, the delta-winged Avro Vulcan which made its first appearance public display appearance last year after a multi-million pound restoration project.
The world’s only airworthy Vulcan is aiming to be back on the display circuit again this summer after a £1 million fundraising campaign and, as last year, Lowestoft Air Festival organisers are hoping it will again prove to be a huge attraction.
Other highlights planned for this year include a Meet the Pilots facility, a funfair, live music on the seafront and a fireworks display on the Thursday night.
The Air Festival will be followed by another spectacular event, this time on the sea, with the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Grand Prix on Saturday July 25th and Sunday July 26th.
Lowestoft is one of only five venues around the UK to feature the world’s largest off-shore powerboat championships in which up to 45 boats will be taking part.
Admission on all four days is free but voluntary donations will again be welcomed to help meet the £300,000 cost of the Air Festival.
Since 2004 the Air Festival has been run by an independent and voluntary support group who formed the charitable and not for profit company Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival Ltd, working in partnership with local charities and Waveney District Council.
Last year the company handed back almost £28,000 to 27 local charities and community groups who assisted at the event as collectors and stewards.
For more information log on to Lowestoft Air Festival or contact the Air Festival’s sponsorship and operations manager, Keith Moughton, on 01502 523398 (email: keith.moughton@waveney.gov.uk)
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HONDA POWERBOATS THIRD YEAR COME BACK FOR SUCCESS
Organisers of the famous Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival are proud to welcome the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat race series back this July 25th and 26th to coincide with them as part of an extravaganza of the air and sea. This collaboration now in its third year will complete the huge success brought about by the partnership of the two events in 2007 and 2008. The series which was first introduced to the area in 2007 by local competitors Lings Honda who decided to make their debut in their home town after entering the series earlier that year. Lings who are recognised for their famous 2007 150hp championship win have now embarked on a new challenge to dominate the 225hp fleet in their new Cougar powerboat which was launched for the first time last season. Lings Honda is one of Europe’s largest Honda dealerships who supply new and used cars and motorcycles as well as a full range of Honda power equipment. The company has five branches across East Anglia and is run by Managing Director Chris Jary who makes up the third crew member of the Lings team. Chris believes that racing is a perfect way to market the brand and make the most of enjoying the Honda products available.
The remaining team members, driver David Cowley and one of two navigators Paul Barkshire are optimistic for a win back on home ground in three weeks time. Currently sitting fourth in the championship only a mere five points behind the leaders, the boys have it all to play for on a course they have an advantage over mastering in their spare time; and with crowds of up to 250,000 expected to arrive to witness the weekend’s racing the pressure is certainly on for them to give their fans what they have been waiting for.
Lowestoft is officially the most easterly town in Britain and its Sunshine Coast provides a natural amphitheatre – an ideal setting for spectators, flyers and powerboat racers alike. The course features a long straight which runs along the beach front, while a tight chicane close to the pier will offer a look at the dramatic action which will take place over the race weekend. Racing on both days will start from around 11am with two races on each day. Both the 150hp and 225hp fleets will race ending with a podium prize giving ceremony that will award winning teams their trophies for the Grand Prix and hopefully a position closer to winning the championship.
Full commentary coverage will be available over the weekend giving spectators up to the second action as the race unfolds with live interviews form the teams competing in the championship. For more information on the Lings team the series website www.f4sa.com is a perfect place to keep up to date with championship standings and the latest news.
Honda Formula 4-Stroke Association:
The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Series is the largest offshore powerboat Championship in the world. With the help of eight-time Class 1 World Powerboat Champion, Steve Curtis, MBE, Honda launched the Series in 1999 in order to prove the performance of their then newly launched BF130 4-stroke outboard.
Since its creation ten years ago, F4SA has fundamentally changed powerboat racing in the UK. Its rapid development has seen it grow from just four teams competing in a single 130hp class in 1999, to some 20 teams competing in two classes in 2009.
About the Lowestoft Grand Prix
The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Race Series will coincide with the Lowestoft Seafront Air Show for the third year running this year after the huge success brought about by the partnership of the two events in 2007 and 2008.
The powerboat racing follows two days of spectacular action in the air when the 13th Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival will feature over 30 aircraft and at least four hours of flying on both Thursday July 23rd and Friday July 24th.
Crowds of up to 250,000 will be entertained by F4SA powerboats and local hero’s Lings who won the Championship in 2007. The team consisting of David Cowley, Paul Barkshire and Chris Jary will attract a large amount of support from the area as they fight it out to regain their Championship title this year in the 225hp class..
Lowestoft is officially the most easterly town in Britain and its Sunshine Coast provides a natural amphitheatre – an ideal setting for spectators, flyers and powerboat racers alike. The town’s origins are buried deep in time, but there has been a thriving coastal community here for generations, and its rich fishing and maritime connections have played a major role in the fortunes of the town.
The course features a long straight which runs along the beach-front, it will be an exciting race weekend for both spectators and racers, while a tight chicane close to the pier will offer a look at the dramatic action which will take place over the race weekend.
Honda F4SA History
Honda launched its first large scale outboard engine in 1999, the 4-Stroke BF130. Before that, it was common belief that a 4-Stroke motor could not match the output of a 2-Stroke. Honda believed, however, that the 4-Stroke that it had developed, could not only match a 2-Stroke, but out-do it. With the help of eight times Class 1 World Powerboat Champion Steve Curtis, Honda set about creating a championship that would fundamentally change Powerboat Racing in the UK and around the World. With eleven teams competing in identical boats powered by standard Honda engines, the Honda Formula 4-Stroke series was established to provide an affordable and level arena that would guarantee close competition and truly test the skills of drivers and navigators. The inaugural race was staged at a stormy Torquay in May 1999, with five two person crews taking to the water amidst thunder, lightening, hail and high winds. This fleet grew into eight boats for 2000, when Channel 4 saw the potential of the series and decided to put powerboat racing back on terrestrial TV for the first time in more than a decade. In 2002 the series expanded further, with the introduction of a new racing class into which competitors could graduate. Three prototype race boats featuring Honda’s largest ever marine engine, the mighty BF225, raced alongside the then 15 strong 130hp fleet. HF4S’s standing as the World’s largest offshore powerboat racing series was confirmed. In 2004 the 130hp fleet was upgraded to race BF150 engine and, by 2006 the HF4S show had grown to 13 teams in the 150hp class and 15 in the 225hp category, all battling it out at five exciting race locations around the UK. Now, 10 years after the Honda Fleet’s first outing, the achievements of this series continue to astound. Its popularity is expanding year on year with nearly 20 teams competing in 2009 in front of ever increasing spectator numbers. If proof were needed of Honda’s Power of Dreams philosophy the Honda Formula 4-Stroke series is it.
In the Spotlight! The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat series is capable of attracting the media in more ways than one. Due to the series’ massive popularity and huge following, the series is now able to draw attention from a number of media sources. The series has its own in house media department which is responsible for the overall exposure, expansion and image of the company and are always on the look-out for new innovative ways to represent themselves through television, radio, press and magazine. Television has been the series’ most powerful medium with previous broadcasting on ITV4 to include world-wide coverage with a variety of stations across the board. The racing has become extremely popular with production companies over the last few years and in 2008 the series was included in production like; How Do They Do It; Islands of Britain and Blue Peter. Media support RIB On event, the media office runs a RIB which allows national and regional journalists to get a real taste of the racing from the water. This encourages the local media to cover the weekend’s action. For more information on this please contact our PR department.
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This year we’re organizing a better than ever Sausage and Beer Festival at Jimmy's Farm.
Here's what will be happening at the event:
· Sausage making demonstrations
· Cookery demos
· Live music from the Wild Ones, Daisy Mae and The Smokin Hogs
· Kids entertainment, bouncy castle, mini 4x4 driving, face painting, merry-go-rounds, nature trail activities, sausage making, birds of prey, pottery painting and so much more!
· Guess the weight of the pig and win a £50 Jimmy's Farm Voucher!
· Spinny Rodeo Pig
· Sausage eating competition with cup prize
· Sausage judging panel to select best sausage producer with cup prize
· Beer judging panel to select best beer producer with cup prize
· Sausage and Beer producers from around the UK
· A brew your own and make your own market place with all the
equipment you need to start making homemade sausages and beer
The event will start at 11am and run until 6pm each day. Tickets are £5,
with under 2’s receiving free entry.
Tickets can be bought in advance from the Jimmy’s Farm online shop or the
Farmshop. Tickets will also be available on the day.
It promised to be a really fun summer bank weekend, and a proper celebration of the great British Bangers and Beers!
Festinho returns to Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk: 4th-6th September 2009
An intimate, friendly festival in a magical setting, Festinho is a delicious cocktail of the best in eclectic music, sunny Brazilian vibes, a laid-back feel and shedloads of wonderful nonsense.
All profits go to the ABC Trust, which helps Brazilian children and young people on the streets to transform their lives ( www.abctrust.org.uk).
We’re overjoyed to announce that son of the late, great Simon Jeffres of The Penguin Café Orchestra fame, Arthur Jeffries, will be bringing Music from The Penguin Café to Festinho this year. This special performance will feature an array of exciting new compositions along with beloved tunes from his fathers' celebrated repertoire such as Telephone and Rubber Band and Music for a Found Harmonium. The Penguin Café Orchestra is acclaimed for its experimental classical music infused with inventive and exuberant folk.
We will also be joined by Ivor Novello nominees, The Leisure Society, as well as AGT Rave Cru, The Fontanas, Jon Kennedy Live!, hotly tipped folk band, Mawkin:Causley and the ultimate party starters, Carnival Collective. We also have the biggest chiller of all, Pete Lawrence (founder of the Big Chill festival) curating an entire stage for us this year.
The line up also includes: James Yuill, Anoushka Lucas, Nancy Wallace, Dollboy, Emily Davies, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Spiro, Lindy Layton, Mixmaster Morris, Dr Em & Funky Jim You’ll find acts and artists you know and love, and the best of fresh new talent from London to Salvador – so whether you like to rave one up or folk one off, get ready for some musical adventures.
There’s also The Cinema Cottage, bedtime stories, capoeira, pedal-bikes powering wondrous light installations, samba workshops, Cockney knees-ups round the old Joanna, open-mic comedy acts, trolls in the woods, yoga in the morning sunshine, pillow fights, trapeze cabaret acts…
When it all gets too much guests can grab a perfect caipirinha from the cocktail bar and kick back in a hammock, or bliss out with a massage in the Body and Soul space. When night falls, we recommend you take a stroll amongst the mirrorballs of the Feel Good Woods – where you'll stumble upon a mysterious hidden disco which keeps everyone dancing under the stars. Or cosy up by the campfire and get some tasty locally-sourced food from the BBQ.
Festinho is family-friendly too, with a play area to keep the small people entertained, high quality camping and plenty of good toilets and hot showers. Best of all, it’s a three minute walk from tent to site.
A quirky, charming alternative to the festival mammoths, Festinho is living proof that small is very beautiful.
Ticket Prices:
Adult weekend tickets - £60
Adult weekend tickets without camping - £45
Sunday day tickets will be available – price to be confirmed
Children under 14 get in for free (must book a free ticket online so we can make room!)
There are no extra charges for people with camper vans, which hardly ever happens!
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Actors from across the Waveney Valley are joining forces for the third year in succession to bring new, local drama to the stage.
The Inside Out 2009 Festival, held on two Saturdays – 19th and 26th September - in Fressingfield and at the newly re-opened Wingfield Barns, is presenting thirteen short plays, all by local writers.
Half the plays will be performed outdoors during the afternoon – bring chairs, rugs and picnics – and half indoors during the evening.
With each play lasting just 10-20 minutes, and covering every type of drama from comedy to serious, and with a couple of radio plays as well, the sessions will fast-paced and highly entertaining.
And for younger people, Wingfield is offering free admission to under 18s for both the afternoon and evening performances.
Phone 01379 873536 to book your free space – and for all other enquiries or ticket orders.
Tickets, priced at £10 for both shows, £6 for one (conc. £8 and £5) will also be available on the door, subject to availability.
Organiser Alan Huckle, prolific playwright and founder member of the EyesWrite drama writing group is convinced this year’s festival has something for everyone. “This is a too-good-to-miss opportunity to watch new plays written by local writers at a cost everyone can afford,” he says.
And, if the festival inspires you to pick up a pen and have a go yourself, Alan and EyesWrite will be happy to hear from you – maybe your play could be performed next year! He can be contacted at the phone number above, or at eyeswrite@aagh.fsnet.co.uk
Programme
Saturday 19th September - Fox and Goose Green & Sancroft Hall Fressingfield
and
Saturday 26th September - Wingfield Barns
Outdoor Plays - 4.00pm
Plain Nan - Tony Vale
Little Crow - Roger Curtis
Sticking Together - Alan Huckle
INTERVAL
Jo Jello - Roger Curtis
A Great Performer - Tony Vale
Walls - Richard Crawley
Indoor Plays - 7.30pm
Shall I Be Mother - Gwyn Guy
First Degree Murder - Richard Crawley
Masque - Pat Quorn
INTERVAL
A Whole New Start - Pat Potter
Wedding Day - Mark Finbow
The Judas Bird - Pat Quorn
Plays, Writters, Directors and Cast
4.00pm Performances
Plain Nan by Tony Vale
As you get older and find yourself alone without your
partner isn’t it time to settle down?
Nan - Mary Thompson, Lucy - Emma Martin.
Directed by Mary Thompson & Emma Martin
Little Crow by Roger Curtis
Little Crow is set on the veranda of an isolated Kentucky farmhouse. It begins in the recent past travels back eight years and then returns to the recent past again. Intrigued?
Dr David Hunter - Steve Humfress, Miss Emily - Edith Peck,
Hirem J Pentenkofer - Andy Kemp, Isabel - Amy Gibbons,
Little child - Grace Gibbons.
Directed by Alan Huckle
Sticking Together by Alan Huckle
Take three men and a DIY assembly kit and what happens?
You’ve guessed!
Read by Mary Thompson, Simon Evans,
Steve Humfress, and Alan Huckle.
Directed by Andy Kemp
- Interval -
Jo Jello by Roger Curtis
The action of Roger’s Jo Jello takes place in front of an office building overlooking the Thames Embankment.
Tom - Chris Strachan, Charlie - Andy Kemp,
Jo Jello - Paul Ffitch, Sam - Becky Martin.
Directed by Gary Stodel
A Great Performer by Tony Vale
Is this what happens when extra rehearsals are needed?
Barbara - Pat Parris, Brian - Simon Evans,
Mike - Steve Humfress.
Directed by Gary Stodel
Walls by Richard Crawley
Ever wondered what happened to those given community service?
Peter Wilson – Paul Ffitch, Kev – Jake Kubala,
Vita – Emma Martin.
Directed by Mike Davison
Plays, Writters, Directors and Cast
7.30pm Performances
Shall I be Mother? by Gwyn Guy
What would you expect three middle aged women to talk about? Set in a the lounge of an hotel this is perhaps not a black comedy but a semi serious piece interspersed with humour.
Madge - Edith Peck, Susan - Amy Gibbons,
Angela - Pat Parris, Waitress - Chelsey Williams.
Directed by Gwyn Guy
First Degree Murder by Richard Crawley
Set in a living room of a everyday home with a wife who
thinks she can kill her husband and get away with it.
Brain Robinson - Chris Strachan, Grace Robinson - Keshar Whitelock,
Jill Robinson - Amy Gibbons, Detective Sergeant Wilkinson - Paul Baker.
Directed by Paul Baker
Masque by Pat Quorn
Masque is a small Jacobean fantasy performed by several small Jacobeans attempting to be larger than life. The characters were real, the Masques were real but the language and the plot highly suspect. The play is set in The Elephant, a Bankside inn, popular with poets and other lowlifes and a furnace of literary creativity and dispute...
Ben Johnson - Bruce Cox, Will Shakespeare - Chris Strachan, Queen Anne - Laura Green, Inigo Jones – Paul Ffitch.
Directed by Pat Quorn
- Interval -
A Whole New Start by Pat Potter.
A Whole New Start is set in a piece of waste ground, a kebab shop and then again in in the waste ground. A young man is faced with a dilemma. What should he do?
Jimmy - Jake Kubala, Luke - Chelsey Williams,
Tyrone - Hannah Peck / Matt Peck, Leanne - Becky Martin,
Georgiou - Chris Strachan, Harry - Paul Ffitch, Chris - Gary Stodel, Customer One - Steve Humfress, Customer Two - Andy Kemp.
Directed by Andy Kemp
Wedding Day by Mark Finbow
A very early draft of a radio play designed to accompany a series of short stories about the mythology of East Anglia currently under development.
Jenny - Emma Martin, Fred - Jake Kubala, Mrs Cole - Becky Martin.
Directed by Emma Martin
The Judas Bird by Bruce Cox
A gothic fairy tale.
Reader of Prologue - Bruce Cox, Persephone - Laura Green,
Sirena - Emma Martin, Lothar - Joe Putman.
Directed by Pat Quorn
Crew
Organisers - Alan Huckle and Mike Davison
Lighting - Arthur Brown
Sound - Laurence Nunn
Staging - Arthur Brown, Laurence Nunn,
Alan Huckle, Gwyn Guy,
Andy Kemp, and David Black.
Publicity - Mike Davison
Poster & Programme - Kevin Farrow
Props - Robin Franklin and The Cast
Costumes - The Cast
Five Nights of Musical Excellence in North Suffolk
Marking its fifth anniversary with an additional concert, the Fressingfield Music Festival has already been described as one of the best small music festivals in the country. From 22 to 26 September, the church of St Peter and St Paul in Fressingfield, north Suffolk, plays host to five nights of varied music that fulfil the event’s aim to bring high quality music to a rural community at an affordable price. Two of this year’s highlights are rare opportunities to hear at close quarter, performances by world famous cellist Julian Lloyd Webber (25 September) and the much celebrated soprano, Dame Emma Kirkby, OBE (23 September).
Tuesday 22 September
The Brian Dee quintet opens the festival with an evening of jazz. Brian Dee, described as England’s Oscar Peterson, is a highly acclaimed jazz pianist and has performed with stars such as Miles Davis, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker and Elton John, to name but a few. His band of outstanding musicians includes Jim Mullen on guitar, Bruce Adams on trumpet, Bill Coleman on double bass and Ralph Salmins on drums.
Wednesday 23 September
Award winning early music soprano Emma Kirkby will be singing a programme of cantatas and other music by Purcell, Vivaldi, Handel and their contemporaries accompanied by baroque ensemble, Badinage. The programme will also include instrumental sonatas for flute, oboe and bassoon with harpsichord and cello.
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Thursday 24 September
Added to this year’s programme to mark the event’s fifth anniversary, this is the first concert to showcase emerging talent. Selected by the Royal College of Music to receive the Fressingfield Young Musician Award, Meng Yang Pan will perform a selection of pieces by Haydn, Schubert, Poulenc and Liszt. The climax of her recital is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Friday 25 September
Friday’s concert presents a rare opportunity to hear world famous cellist Julian Lloyd Webber perform outside a major concert hall. Accompanied by Paul Chowhan on piano, Julian will be performing a personal selection of music by Bach, Fauré, Debussy and Brahms.
Saturday 26 September
The Choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge returns by popular demand. The choir will sing Mozart’s requiem, new settings of William Blake’s poetry composed by Paul Carroll, and works by Purcell and Elgar. The choir is acclaimed as one of Cambridge’s finest mixed ensembles and has established an enviable reputation through worldwide touring, recording and broadcasting
All concerts will commence at 7.30pm and tickets can be booked in advance for £10 or at £12 on the night, subject to availability. Tickets for Friday’s concert cost £15 in advance or £17 at the door, subject to availability. Contact tel: 01379 586269 or 01379 586537. Website: http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/FressingfieldPC/MusicFestival/
For more local information please see:
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A Guide to Halesworth
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Accommodation in Framlingham
Attractions in Framlingham
IPSWICH SHOWS SOME RESPECT!
Ipswich comes together as one community on Saturday 26th September 2009! Being held at University Campus Suffolk -Waterfront Building, now in its 6th year Ipswich RESPECT Festival brings the people of Ipswich a fun filled day of great live music, workshops, community stalls and much more for all the family! This year is set to be bigger than ever and RESPECT has grown to be a valued, well attended annual event in the Ipswich calendar. This really is the ideal way to say a fun, fond farewell to summer, and best of all its all FREE!
Organised by local charity the Waterfront Community Centre and supporting Love Music Hate Racism, Come and join Ipswich to stand up against prejudice and come together as one community, with the Ipswich RESPECT festival '09!
In the morning there will be a parade leaving from the New Wolsey Theatre, partying its way through the streets to the University! Come and join in from 11am!
The festival kicks off at noon and we will be celebrating community together all day long! With guest celebrities including the Cheeky Girls and a great lineup of music to suit any taste.
Shelly Littlejohn, RESPECT Festival co-ordinator , “It’s just such a great day for anyone, crowds of people together having fun together and with so much going on for them to do and enjoy! There is still time so if anyone is interested in getting involved by having a stall, for example, they should get in touch.”
CONTACT:
Shelly Littlejohn
Waterfront Community Centre
32-34 Grimwade Street
Ipswich, IP4 1LP, Suffolk
(01473) 226931
ipRESPECTfest@gmail.com
At Snape Maltings, nr. Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP17 1SR, there will be over 70 local producers, workshops, demonstrations, talks & discussion forums, children’s activities & ample tastings of food, wine & beer, musical entertainment, RSPB guided walks and river trips. For full details pelase see Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival 2009
The Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival takes place over seven days following the main weekend event of the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival.
For full details please see Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival 2009 .
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With tickets now on sale for the eighth annual Halesworth Arts Festival here are just some of the delights on offer in October. We had more sell-outs than ever in 2008 and it looks as though this can be beaten in 2009!
Kicking off with Classical guitar legends John Williams and John Etheridge and ending with the last night Extravaganza that is Alan Barnes' Strayhornes Harlem Airshift performing the music of Duke Ellington, there is something for everyone in the two week Festival.
Rosie Ashe – The Killer Soprano, performs a joyful roller-coaster ride through works from Noel Coward, Cole Porter to Chopin and Dusty Springfield.
World Music is supplied by Zum , who perform with toe tapping virtuosity, intoxicating harmonies and awesome rhythmic power. They create a cultural alchemy, where the world's music collides. And Cuban Lift will take an exhilarating and fascinating musical journey from Mexico right through South America. The musicians, all virtuosos in their own field, will be hot footing it from Abbey Road Studios to Halesworth for this spectacular evening of Latin Music.
Marcus Brigstocke (pictured above) supplies the comedy this year with God Collar, a brand new and hilarious stand up show. The audience will know him from Argumental – (Dave) and Radio 4's The Now Show. An award winning comedian Marcus says “There's probably no God... but I wish there was. I've got some things I want to ask him”. This is a hot ticket so book in advance, as this will be a sell out!
Another predicted sell out is Harry the Piano (pictured above). 'The best damn pianist in the civilised world' just about sums it up but if you need more persuading Terry Wogan named it 'The best music show I've ever seen'. Paul 'Harry' Harris has headlined at festivals in all six continents and played with just about everybody in show business from David Bowie and Elvis Costello to Charlotte Church and the Opera Babes. Finally Harry is being recognised for what he does best, his ability to take requests to play 'any tune in any style' coupled with his 'staggering virtuosity' (TIMES) and 'uncanny ability' (INDEPENDENT).
Rohan McCullogh is with us once again after her stunning performance last year. This time with, My Darling Clemmie by Hugh Whitemore. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me,” said Winston Churchill. The remarkable, moving, story of the woman who married one of the truly great figures of the 20th Century.
St Mary's Church is once again filled with song as the Halesworth Festival Voices and Orchestra conducted by Ian Humphries perform the Haydn Anniversary Concert – Te Deum, Trumpet Concerto and Nelson Mass, a must hear on the second Saturday of the Festival.
Resident young musicians will again be playing a selection of their original work as Waveney Amplifier do their showcase of emerging talent with an evening of acoustic compositions. A charming bill of songwriters ranging from established acoustic folk acts to crossover interpretations by contemporary bands.
Back once again is the ever-popular Silent Movie Night with live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne This year it's the 1927 classic Sunrise by FW Murnau.
A special Festival occasion is An Evening with Julian Lloyd Webber (pictured above). The celebrated Cellist will play works, including pieces by Bach, Britten, Fauré, Debussy, Lloyd Webber as well as take questions from the audience about his life as a working musician. A very rare treat!
The Festival Art Gallery will celebrate the 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of Origin of Species with an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Helen Gilbart. This also inspired a Darwin Day with a visit to Hooker House in the morning through to theatre, dance and Richard Mabey, the nature writer, reads for us in the evening.
Dance East will be running two workshops for young people on Saturday 17th at the Cut dance studio exploring the history of Darwin and the world of evolution. This is a great opportunity to get creative with dance and to make friends for 5-10 and 10-15 year olds.
We will also be bringing you a Cookery Master class from the French chef and author Franck Pontais on Saturday 24th. Franck will be be giving an introduction to artisan charcutier traiteur and classic French dishes from canapés to Oeuf cocottes.
The final Saturday gives us Pascal and Ami Rogé (pictured above)- Four Hands and Two Hearts. Pascal Rogé is one of the great interpreters of French piano music – his name is synonymous with the best playing of French repertoire in the world today. For several years Pascal has enjoyed playing recitals for four hands/two pianos with his partner in life and music Ami Rogé. The concert includes work by Ravel, Debussy and Dukas.
Tickets and more details on all the events in October from 10- 25, are available online at www.halesworthartsfestival.org.uk as this is just a selection,. You can also save 20% on multiple tickets if you book any three events!
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The Festival is organised by the Saxmundham Arts and Recreation Trust which was established in 2004 to ensure that an initiative started by the Town Council to provide an annual Arts Festival in Saxmundham is maintained. It started as a Festival for children during the schools’ Autumn half-term break , suggested by a local resident, was expanded to include adults in its 2nd year and is now in its 7th year.
The Trust is attempting to foster an interest in all forms of artistic involvement – the written word, acting, music, puppetry, painting, dance and much more for a very wide age range, from small children to the elderly.
Now that the Arts Festival has become well established our aim is to draw in the services of performers from a wider area and this will undoubtedly add to the cost of mounting such a Festival. The provision of good class musicians is particularly difficult and expensive partly because travelling expenses are high to reach rural areas such as ours; many first class performers specialising in music, dance and theatre are centred in large cities with purpose built facilities.
However, the good news is that an amateur dramatic society started some 3 years ago is now flourishing, an Art group is well established, a poetry competition has been well supported, the Museum has been drawn into our sphere of activities and, in the last 2 years we have started the Festival with a Literary Lunch with guest appearances, so far, from Joanna Trollope, Guy de Moubray, Esther Freud and Richard Mabey: as you can imagine, this is always a “sell out” event!
Each year we are expanding our field of arts and entertainment provision, drawing wherever and whenever possible, from local talent and expertise. Over the last few years we have “discovered” some superb bands, a wonderful jazz group who appear each year, a number of budding poets, several talented puppeteers and a growing number of artists and on this excellent foundation we are planning to build even better Festivals in the years ahead.
We are grateful to our various sponsors who continually help and encourage each year but particularly to Saxmundham Town Council who allow us the use of the Market Hall for the whole of Festival Week (usually the last week in October). In 2009 the Festival will run from Friday, 23rd October through to Sunday, 1st November. The Festival organisers can be reached on 01728 603553 or visit the Saxmundham town website www.saxmundham.org for details nearer the time.
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Suffolk has a long historical association with the herring and herring fisheries. Now there is little demand for this locally caught fish, and, apart from the kipper, it is hardly eaten either at home or in restaurants.
Timed to coincide with the traditional autumn peak of the herring fisheries (and with school half-term break) the first Suffolk Herring Festival will take place on the weekend of Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October 2009. Core events will take place at Middleton Farm Shop, Middleton, Suffolk, IP17 3NS.
The overall programme will be a mixture of events throughout the weekend – food and drink, sustainability exhibitions, music and games, competitions, demonstrations of herring preservation and preparation. The aim is to involve all parts of the community in rediscovering the herring, and to build a solid base for putting on an annual Suffolk Herring Festival. The focus will be local, but with opportunities to learn of other cultures around the North Sea, the cultural highway that connects Suffolk Coastal to its Northern European neighbours.
An important motivation for the Suffolk Herring Festival is to stress the health benefits of eating the humble herring and to promote a significant local food; to raise awareness of the way in which the herring fisheries can contribute to the development of the local economy and related employment opportunities; and to develop a local market for both raw and processed (e.g. smoked and marinated) herring to the benefit of local fisheries and food suppliers.
Saturday 24th October
10.00 Festival Opens
Have fun learning interesting and useful things about the herring in Suffolk,
sustainable fishing and nutritional benefits of eating herring.
10.00 -12.00 - Filleting, Preparing and Cooking the Humble Herring
Chefs from Suffolk and further afield will show you how to prepare delicious herring recipes, and give you the chance to sample the results - fresh, smoked, pickled and marinated herring to try and to buy.
12.00 – 2.00 Barbecue & Bar
Eat more herring, enjoy a drink from the bar, test your herring knowledge with the herring quiz, and explore local arts and crafts.
2.00 – 4.00 Singing & Knitting
Workshop and concert for all ages singing traditional and new songs about the sea and fishing, and your chance to knit a herring to put into the cran!
Sunday 25th October
10.00 Festival Opens
Carry on eating and singing, learn about Suffolk’s herring culture, become an expert on local kippers, and get a new passion for the not-so-humble herring.
10.00 – 1.00 Kipper Brunch
A true “dégustation de kipper”. Sample a wide variety of local smokes, cooked in a variety of ways, and then enjoy a drink at the bar. Guaranteed to set you up for the day, while you enjoy herring music from East Anglia, listen to sea stories and knit some more herring!
1.00 – 3.00 Music and Singing
Sing along with Capstan Full Strength – the loudest and best shanty crew in East Anglia, watch archive film of herring fisheries, play herring games.
3.00 – 4.00 Had enough herring?
Count the knitted herring, winners get prizes, buy a fish, sing a bit more and, whatever the weather, carry on eating herring!
Contact kelvin@northseashores.com if you want to receive information on the Suffolk Herring Festival between now and October.
For full details of this festival please see Suffolk Herring Festival.
The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival is this year celebrating its 21st birthday
and doing so in style with poets coming from America, India, Italy,
Russia, all over the UK and Ireland.
With 47 events - 13 free - you can create your own Festival experience
and mix the main readings with workshops, craft talks, discussions,
cabaret, masterclass, photography exhibitions and even an open mic if
you want to strut your stuff!
For more information including booking details, please see Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
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For full details of this fascinating and informative festival - featuring talks by Lord Phillips, John Warwicker, Mike Ripley and Rose Tremain amongst others - please see Lavenham Literary Festival.
Also, why not take advantage of the fantastic Festival Weekend Offer from The Swan at Lavenham by clicking on the link and making a booking!
For more local information please see Lavenham Town Guide.
If you are organising a festival and want it to be listed here, please email the info to suffolkguides.admin@suffolktouristguide.com
Bury St Edmunds Sixth Annual Christmas Fayre... 27th 28th & 29th November
An attractive combination of six markets, a fun fair and free entertainment all running for three days, makes the Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre the biggest in East Anglia.
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Suffolk is the place to come for Festivals, with everything from star studded events such as High Tide and Latitude, to the action packed Lowestoft Air Festival and Honda Formula 4 stoke engine series....
We are currently gathering information on all of the festivals happening in Suffolk during 2010, so please check back soon.
If you want your festival to be included here, please email the details to suffolkguides.admin@suffolktouristguide.com
SUFFOLK FESTIVALS 2010
The Suffolk Villages Festival Winter Series 2010 - February, March & May
The 9th Aldeburgh Literary Festival - 5th - 7th March 2010
Jimmy's Science Festival - 13th & 14th March
HighTide Festival 30th April - 3rd May 2010
The East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival - 9th May
25th Bury St Edmunds Festival 2010 14-30th May
Weird and Wonderful Wood - 15th & 16th May 2010
South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival 2010 - 15th May–6th June
Felixstowe Drama Festival 29th May – 5th June 2010
Open Air Concerts at High Lodge Forest Centre - June & July 2010
Woolpit Festival 2010 - 8th - 20th June 2010
Aldeburgh Festival - 11th - 27th June 2010
Debenham Country Music Festival - 14th-19th July 2010
Latitude 2010 15th-18th July
Hachfest 2010 - Friday 30th July - Sunday 1st August
Halesworth Gig in the Park 6-8th August 2010
Yoxford Arts Festival - August 19th-22nd
Suffolk Villages Festival 27th-30th August
Harvest at Jimmy's Farm - 11th-12th September 2010
The Suffolk Villages Festival Winter Series 2010 - February, March & May
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The 9th Aldeburgh Literary Festival - 5th - 7th March 2010
All Events in The Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Friday 5th March
Event 1: 10.00am - Kate Charlton Jones (Yates)
Event 2: 3.30pm - Richard Mabey
Event 3: 5.00pm - Anthea Bell on Stefan Zweig
Event 4: 6.30pm - Sandi Toksvig
Saturday 6th March
Event 5: 10.00am - Gillian Tett: Fool’s Gold
Event 6: 11.30am - Henry Hitchings
Event 7: 2.30pm - Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
Event 8: 4.00pm - Francis Wheen & Tristram Hunt
Event 9: 5.30pm - Tariq Ali
Sunday 7th March
Event 10: 9.30am - Jenny Uglow: Charles II
Event 11: 11.00am - Karen Armstrong
Event 12: 12.30pm - Sam Kiley and Frank Gardner
Event 13: 2.30pm - Francis Wheen
Event 14: 4.00pm - Taboo-Be-Do: Songs … with Terence Blacker
Bookings can only be made by post or by retuning your form to The Aldeburgh Bookshop.
Please address all correspondence to: The 9th Aldeburgh Literary Festival, 42 High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP15 5AB. Any enquiries to 01728 452587.
Jimmy's Science Festival - 13th & 14th March
As part of National Science Week, Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich are holding a fantastic Science Festival on 13th & 14th March at the farm to get you excited about science in food, farming and animals!
The Science Festival will feature:
* Stage Presentations and Workshops
* Science Activities
* Science Exhibitors
* Live Music
* Animal Petting and Feeding
* Lamb Bottle Feeding
* Delicious Hot and Cold Food
* Roast Pork Stand and Bar
To celebrate National Science Week and the farms education programme, all children can come to the event for FREE!!!
Adults tickets are £5 in advance (online) and £6 on the gate.
HighTide Festival 30th April - 3rd May 2010
HighTide have curated a provocative and stimulating line-up of ancillary events, including panel debates, talks, and film screenings, inspired by the three key themes addressed in the 2010 HighTide Festival productions: global warming, abuses of power, and freedom of the press.For more information see
For full details please see HighTide Festival 2010
The East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival - 9th May
Make waves at the East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival in 2010!
On Sunday 9th May the East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival returns to Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad in Lowestoft for what promises to be the best year yet!
The Festival is a not-to-be-missed opportunity for companies, organizations, clubs and groups of friends to test themselves in a totally different way, whilst promoting their organisation to a large local audience and raising money for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) or the charity of their choice. The East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival has to date raised more than £75,000 for EACH and you can help increase that amount.
East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices provides vital support for children and young people in the area with life-threatening illnesses, and they offer help varying from music therapy to bereavement counselling. Not only will your entry help support such a worthwhile charity, it is also a fantastic team building opportunity - what better way to really get to know what makes your colleagues and competitors tick!
In this spectacular dragon boat race crews of up to 11 people will battle it out in a series of fast and furious heats and finals over a 200m course in 30’ dragon boats to raise funds for East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices. All potential teams need to worry about is entering and raising as much sponsorship as they can, as all the dragon boats and racing equipment is provided and no previous experience is necessary- just be sure to bring buckets of team spirit and enthusiasm! 2010 is the Chinese year of the tiger, so don’t miss out on this opportunity to show you share the same traits of courage and fierceness!
Dragon boat racing has an ancient Chinese history and the Festival is a re-enactment of a tragic event that took place more than 2,000 years ago in the kingdom of Chu. Legend has it that falsely accused of treason and exiled by jealous rivals in the government, despairing warrior poet, Qu Yuan, threw himself into the Mi Lo River. Local fishermen rowed out to save the drowning poet and tried to rescue him from vicious fish by beating the water with their paddles. But their attempts failed and every year in Hong Kong a Tuen Ng (Dragon Boat) Festival is held as a mark of respect for the fishermen’s frantic efforts and to commemorate the tragic death of Qu Yuan. The dragon boat’s fierce looking dragon’s heads were added later to ward off evil spirits and in Hong Kong special dumplings are eaten to represent the dumplings that were thrown in to the river to stop the fish eating the mighty Qu’s body.
According to the Chinese calendar, 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, symbolising great courage, stealth and fearlessness, coincidentally the perfect attributes for dragon boat team members! No previous experience is required to take part in the East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival, just plenty of team spirit so why not take up the challenge? The dragon boats and all racing equipment are provided and each crew is guaranteed a minimum of three races. The Festival offers a full day of fun on land as well as water with plenty of activities on the bankside to entertain teams and spectators between races.
Carl Brooks, Corporate Fundraiser at East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH), said: “Relying as we do on voluntary public support for the majority of our income of around £5.8 million a year, we are delighted to once again be the official charity for the Dragon Boat Festival. The money raised through the generosity of the teams taking part will go towards the one-to-one nursing care and support that is so vital to life-threatened local children and their families”. The top fundraisers for EACH will win the charity trophy plus a full day of spa, gym use and lunch kindly donated by the Marriott Sprowston Manor in Norwich.
Carol Lester, director of Festival organisers, Gable Events, adds; “The Festival is a great chance for companies and organisations to try something completely different, promote themselves to a large local audience, network with local companies and potential clients and raise money for EACH. It is also a fantastic team building opportunity - what better way to get to know what makes your colleagues and competitors tick! We expect the Festival to be as popular as ever this time around so we recommend teams get their entries in early to guarantee a place”.
Up to 50 teams from all over East Anglia are expected to take part in this year’s Festival, many of them new and many returning annually to join in the fun. One of the companies taking part for the first time last year was the UK’s largest self catering holiday company, Hoseasons Holidays, which has its head office in Lowestoft. Such was the enthusiasm from the staff for joining in last time around that the team had more crew volunteers than places – it was a case of a paddle off to select the first team!
Teams should encourage their families and friends to come along and support them too, as not only can they offer moral support to the teams they can also take advantage of the bankside activities. These will include Chinese lion dancing, funfair, street entertainers, children’s activities, bar and catering- so there really is something to keep everyone amused for the duration of the Festival.
The Festival is supported by Waveney District Council, BBC Suffolk and The Lowestoft Journal.
Other keen Festival supporters include solicitors, Birketts LLP, who have offices in Norwich and Ipswich. Victoria Cole, Marketing Co-ordinator, comments: “We find taking part in this event great for team building, as well as raising the company profile and getting our name out there. The staff enjoy a great day out, whilst knowing they are making a difference to EACH by their charity fundraising”. With trophies not only for the top three crews but also for the top mixed crew, the best-dressed crew and the crew that raises the most money for EACH, there really is something for every team to aim for!
There will also be plenty of activities on the bankside to entertain teams and spectators between races including Chinese lion dancing, funfair, street entertainers, children's activities, bar and catering.
For further information and to make sure you are on the starting line on 9th May please call Gable Events today to request an entry form on 01780 470718.
25th Bury St Edmunds Festival 2010 14-30th May
Bury St Edmunds Festival 2010 runs from Friday 14 May to Sunday 30 May, and celebrates 25 years of bringing the finest performers and freshest ideas to the historic market town at the heart of the Suffolk countryside.
The 17-day Festival is one of the best-loved cultural events in East Anglia offering an exciting mix of contemporary and classical music, outdoor concerts, jazz, folk, opera, dance, film, poetry, comedy, walks, street theatre and much more.
A party night will signal the start of this year’s Festival, with a Queen and Madness Tribute Night to set the ball rolling. The popular outdoor gigs in the Abbey Gardens are spread over two Fridays to give revellers a great start to Festival weekends. The traditional Beating Retreat sunset ceremony moves to close the Festival and the town’s first Food and Drink Festival celebrating the best of local produce will be hosted by Bury St Edmunds-based brewers Greene King.
This year will also see the formation of a Festival jazz orchestra, plus adult and youth choirs to perform world music with South African band Mbawula, while local musicians can showcase their talents by busking around the town.
The Festival brochure will be launched among Festival Friends at the Angel Hotel, Bury St Edmunds on Monday 15 February and can then be viewed as an e-magazine on the Festival website at www.buryfestival.co.uk. You can now also keep up to speed with all the latest news and behind the scenes action by following the Festival on Facebook and Twitter.
Tickets are now on sale for the 2010 Bury St Edmunds Festival and are already selling quickly so call the box office on 01284 769505 or visit the Festival website at www.buryfestival.co.uk to make sure you can get the tickets you want.
Festival highlights include:
Gala Cathedral concerts: the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra with soloist Chloe Hanslip performing the Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto (16 May), and the Armonico Consort celebrating the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s Vespers (25 May) and Britain’s favourite soprano Lesley Garrett (18 May).
Acclaimed performers: TV favourite Adrian Edmondson and The Bad Shepherds punk/folk band (25 May), pub comedian Al Murray (15 May), poet John Hegley (26 May), Leeds Piano Competition’s first female winner Sofya Gulak (27 May) and jazz singer Clare Teal (29 May).
New works and fusions: a world premiere of music for piano and strings by Nathan Williamson at the Festival Eucharist (16 May), Dante Quartet and Kings College Choir premiere new work by Roxana Panufnik (24 May), while cellist Natalie Clein and Simon Fisher Turner on electronics find musical ‘Resonances’ at historic Ickworth House performing Bach suites and new works by Fyfe Dangerfield of The Guillemots (28 May).
Great outdoor events: a Queen and Madness Tribute night gets the Festival party started (14 May), the return of The Dubliners guarantees a good craic (21 May) and Bury World brings a chance for local people to perform alongside Mbawula (22 May) in the Abbey Gardens. The Festival ends with the Beating Retreat on Angel Hill (30 May).
Festival firsts: Greene King brewery hosts a new Real Food & Beer Festival featuring the best local produce (15 & 16 May), Sonnet Walks bring the bard’s poems to life in the streets of Bury (15 May) and there’s time to pick up a few dance moves before Monica Vasconcelos’ Vintage Brazil Samba Night (27 May).
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Weird and Wonderful Wood - 15th & 16th May 2010
Weird and Wonderful Wood on 15th & 16th May 2010 promises to be a fun-packed event for the whole family! Please click on the for full details.
South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival 2010 - 15th May–6th June
Taking place between Saturday 15th May and Sunday 6th June, the annual South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival will feature around 30 guided walks in a variety of locations to suit different tastes and fitness levels. A different kind of walking festival, it will feature some outings accompanied by a poet and storyteller plus photographic and twilight nature walks.
The region, with its softly undulating landscapes, pretty villages and magnificent cultural heritage, is the perfect place to relax and enjoy the fresh air while exploring its countryside on foot.
Walks range from gentle 2-3 mile country rambles and medieval meanders through ancient villages and towns to longer and more energetic outings of up to 12 miles through Suffolk’s beautiful countryside. Many include lunch and afternoon tea stops with a chance to sample some fresh local produce, while for others walkers are asked to bring their own picnic.
Special interest outings include Wildlife Discovery on 15th May, a circular walk taking in the habitats at Grove Farm, near Thurston where conservation and farming can be seen working side by side, and an early morning walk on 22nd May around Arger Fen to watch and hear the dawn wildlife and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the designation of the Dedham Vale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This ends with breakfast at the idyllic Assington Mill.
Walkers will be joined by poet and performer Dean Park on four of the routes who will recite poems and stories along the way; there will also be a photographic walk on 22nd May starting out from the Beyond the Image Gallery at Thornham Magna when everyone is encouraged to bring a camera, and a chance to visit the sites associated with the famous murder of Maria Marten in the Red Barn at Polstead on 23rd May.
There are also several walks with activities to attract a younger audience such as Mister Stevenson’s Light Railway on Bank holiday Monday, 31st May, which follows the route of the ‘Middy’ to discover how to interpret landscape clues, and the Scavenger Hunt at Thornham Walks – a gentle afternoon stroll through the woods hunting for a given list of items.
The South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival is organised by Mid Suffolk and Babergh District Councils and sponsored by the Discover Suffolk Project, which aims to encourage local residents and visitors to get out and about in the scenic Suffolk countryside.
Pre-booking is essential for all walks by calling the Tourist Information Centre at either Lavenham on 01787 248207 or Mid Suffolk on 01449 676800; they would also be able to advise on places to stay. Many of the walks are free while for others the prices range from £2 up to £20 per person (latter includes lunch); dogs are allowed on some walks but must be kept on a lead at all times. For further information or to download a copy of the Walking Festival programme, visit website www.southandheartofsuffolk.org.uk.
Woolpit Festival 2010 - 8th - 20th June 2010
Tickets available at our Box Office from 10th April 2010
Box Office Tel 01359 240655 email is boxoffice@guyler.com
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Dean Parkin:'Walking with Words', a stroll around Woolpit with Poems, Words and Stories along the way, followed by a glass of something refreshing in the Woolpit Swan, with more Poems! Starts from the Village Pump at 6.30pm. Tickets £6.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
The Amadeus Orchestra: will be performing a String Programme for this concert in the Village Hall comprising - Elgar: Serenade, Op.20, E minor; Dvorak: Serenade, Op22, E major; Mendelssohn: Sinfonia no.12, G minor; Holst: St Paul's Suite; Mozart: Adagio and Fugue, K.546,
C minor; Greig: Holberg Suite, Op.40. Tickets £12
Saturday, 12 June 2010
Obelon Arts: at 2pm in the Village Hall, presents 'The Three Singing Pigs', a puppet show for children with plenty of audience participation with songs, sounds and actions. Tickets £5
John & Paul II: then at 7.30pm in the Hall, with a superb tribute to Lennon and McCartney, plus DJs Sights'n'Sounds, will entertain us with a nostalgic evening of 50s and 60s sounds! Tickets £12
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Rohan McCullough: on stage in the Village Hall in the remarkable, moving and highly entertaining story of the woman who married one of the truly great figures of the 20th century - Sir Winston Churchill, "My Darling Clemmie" - this play has had fantastic reviews and we are so pleased it will be performed at the 2010 Festival. Tickets £12
Thursday, 17 June 2010
CANTABILE: presents 'From Madrigal to McCartney' in St Mary's Church, Woolpit. Cantabile have established an unrivalled reputation throughout Europe and beyond for harmony singing of the highest quality combined with a unique and very British sense of humour. Tickets £15
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Richard Digance: on stage in the Village Hall. He remains one of the most respected and evergreen entertainers that Britain has produced, and we are fortunate that he will be performing his latest show at our Festival. Tickets £16
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Robert Powell & Friends: at Woolpit Village Hall, in 'The Silver Screen'. This is an affectionate and nostalgic romp through the first hundred or so years of cinema, and will be a terrific finale event for the 2010 Festival. Tickets £16
Check out more information about the History of the Festival and other activities including the Festival Classic Films shown in the Village Hall during the Year on the website – www.woolpit-festival.com
Woolpit is a lovely village situated just off the the A14 between Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. For more information on nearby towns, attractions and accommodation, please see:
Guide to Bury St Edmunds
Accommodation in Bury St Edmunds.
Eating Out in Bury St Edmunds
Activities in Bury St Edmunds
Attractions in Stowmarket
Shopping in Stowmarket
Open Air Concerts at High Lodge Forest Centre - June & July 2010
The Open Air Concerts at High Lodge Forest Centre in Thetford
Forest Park, in association with The Forestry Commission, have a fantastic line-up of concerts this year featuring Keane on 10th June, Simply Red on 11th June, and Doves on 12th June. New concerts announced for July include The Saturdays on 9th July and Katie Melua on 10th July.
Please see Music in Suffolk - June and Music in Suffolk - July for full details and booking information.
Felixstowe Drama Festival 29th May – 5th June 2010
The 2010 Festival will be held as usual over the May Bank Holiday week at the Spa Pavilion Theatre on Felixstowe's picturesque seafront. Performances will begin each evening at 7.30pm. but please note that there will be NO PERFORMANCE on Tuesday night or Wednesday night.
Line-Up of plays:
Saturday 29th May - Art (comedy) by Yasmina Reza, Tryst Theatre
Sunday 30th May - Under Milk Wood (play) by Dylan Thomas, Rushmere Players
Monday 31st May - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Deben Players
Thursday 3rd June - Round and Round the Garden (play) by Alan Ayckbourn, Cardiff Players
Friday 4th June - The Importance of being Earnest (comedy) by Oscar Wilde, Parkside Players
Saturday 5th June - Like a Virgin (play) by Gordon Steel, In Yer Space
The Adjudicator:
In 2010 our Diamond Festival will see Tony Rushforth making a welcome return to Felixstowe.
Tony studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and acted with the Harrogate Repertory Company and also directed productions at the Bradford Playhouse, the Ashcroft Theatre in Croydon and at the Edinburgh Festival.
For twenty years he was Head of the Drama Department at St. Mary's University College in Strawberry Hill. He spent six months as Visiting Fellow in Performing Arts at Melbourne University and adjudicated the Sydney Theatre Festival before returning to act in the film The Opium Wars. For six years Tony was the Artistic Director of The Questors International Theatre Festival in Ealing which enabled him to to travel and see the work of many European companies.
More recently he has been busy directing and also teaching Theatre Workshops in the UK and in Europe and for the Drama League of Ireland where his travels have taken him to Dublin, Cork, Galway and two Summer Schools at Maynooth University. Tony writes for the theatre and his plays include The Kerry Dance, Close-Up, Charade and Seascape. For six years he was a judge for the NDFA New Play Award.
Tony Rushforth is a Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music, a member of The Writers Guild, The Society for Theatre Research and The Guild of Drama Adjudicators. He also has an MA in Modern Drama. He has adjudicated the Irish, Scottish, English and Welsh One Act Finals. In 2004 and 2007 he adjudicated the All Ireland Finals in Athlone and Wexford and last year was at the One Act International Festival in Brussels.
Tony is delighted to be paying a return visit to the prestigious Felixstowe Festival.
Further information about the Felixstowe Drama Festival can be found by visiting the website www.showlitesoundandlight.co.uk/festival.
Tickets:
Spa Pavilion TheatreTickets can be booked in any of the following ways:
•at the Box Office 10am - 5pm Monday to Saturday
•by telephone on 01394 282126 during the Box Office opening hours
•using the Ticketmaster 24hr. hotline on 0844 847 2372
•on line at ticketmaster.co.uk
Tickets should be on general sale from 30th March 2010. For current ticket prices please contact the Box Office.
Booking Charges:
When booking directly with the Felixstowe Box Office there is a charge of £1.50 per transaction if you use a credit card. There is no charge if you use a debit card. For any transaction there will be an additional charge of £1.00 if you wish your tickets to be posted to you.
When booking through Ticketmaster, using either the 24hr. phone number or on-line, there will be a per ticket service and booking charge.
For more information on this lovely town, please see Guide to Felixstowe
Accommodation in Felixstowe
Eating Out in Felixstowe
Activities in Felixstowe
Latitude 15th – 18th July
It's more than just a music festival!
Tickets for Latitude 2010 went on sale on Tuesday 9th March.
LATITUDE is probably Britain's most successful new Arts and Music Festival, and it returns for an incredible 5th Edition on 15-18th July 2010, set in the beautiful countryside of Henham Park Estate on Suffolk’s Sunrise Coast.
Latitude continues to lead the way as a bold and pioneering festival cherry-picking the very best from the worlds of music, theatre, comedy, literature, film, poetry, dance, art, fashion and cabaret and bringing them together for one glorious weekend.
Latitude's Top 5...highlights
In honour of our 5th Edition, we thought we'd share our favourite memories from previous years. Each week we'll bring you Latitude's Top 5 things.
If you'd like to send in your own experiences, email info@latitudefestival.co.uk and we'll publish them online.
~ *~ Thom Yorke's blissed out Sunday slot last year. How beautiful was listening to 'Reckoner' in the glorious sunshine!
~ *~ Britten Sinfonia was the first full orchestra to appear at an outdoor music festival. Truly magical.
~ *~ Royal Shakespeare Company sent hundreds of zombies spilling off the stage blurring staged theatre with walkabout performances. It had to be seen to be believed!
~ *~ The ethereal Music Of The Spheres floating serenely across the lake, including the suspended flautist within, much to everyone's surprise.
~ *~ The legendary Patti Smith performing two very special performances on not only the main music stage, the Obelisk Arena, but also in the Poetry Arena in our inaugural year.
These are just a few of the many memories Latitude has mustered. Latitude’s extensive line-up is an incredible assortment of riches that can keep you entertained all weekend… a leisurely stroll through the festival’s magical woods and beyond can lead to all manner of untold treasures and unexpected pleasures. There's so much to do and see, you'll just have to come and experience it for yourselves.
For full details of the festival please see Latitude Festival 2010
For accommodation nearby please see:
Accommodation in Southwold
Accommodation in Halesworth
Accommodation in Saxmundham
North Manor Farmhouse B&B
The Angel Inn, Wangford - ALMOST FULLY BOOKED, SO HURRY!!
Aldeburgh Festival - 11th - 27th June 2010
SIXTY-THIRD ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS
This year's festival promises to be an amazing experience, as ever. Please continue reading to to learn of the festival performance programme, and how to book tickets.
Pierre-Laurent Aimard Artistic Director (pictured above)
John Woolrich Associate Artistic Director
63rd Aldeburgh Festival Diary:
FRIDAY 11 JUNE
Into the Little Hill 8pm*
SATURDAY 12
Festival Directors I 11am °
Listen with Colour 3pm
Britten Sinfonia & Aimard 7.30pm
SUNDAY 13
Festival Service 10.30am
Open Air 12 noon
La Nuova Musica 3pm °
Leon Fleisher 7.30pm ° (pictured below)
MONDAY 14
Festival Directors II 11am
BBC Discovering Music 3pm °
Ian Bostridge 7.30pm (pictured below)
TUESDAY 15
Fleisher Masterclass 11am
Hesse Lecture 3pm
Scottish Ensemble 7.30pm
WEDNESDAY 16
Festival Walk I
Brendel Lecture 7.30pm (pictured below)
THURSDAY 17
Two Hands 3pm
The Way to the Sea 6pm, 8pm*
FRIDAY 18
European Academies 11am
Charlotte Bray Verre de Venise (world premiere - pictured above)
English Song Recital 2pm
Hesse Students Concert 4pm
Alumni I: Young Composers 6pm
Into the Little Hill 8pm
SATURDAY 19
George Benjamin Portrait 11am
The Way to the Sea 2pm, 4pm
CBSO 7.30pm
SUNDAY 20
Open Air 12 noon
Festival Chorus 3pm
The Pianist’s Brain 6pm
Aimard: Collage-Montage 8pm °
MONDAY 21
Films: Music & Brain 11am
Festival Directors III 3pm
Fleisher and Signum Quartet 7.30pm °
TUESDAY 22
Togetherness 11am
Peter Pears: the Collector 3pm
Oelze and Aimard 8pm °
Christiane Oelze soprano (pictured below)
WEDNESDAY 23
Festival Walk II
Zehetmair Quartet 8pm °
THURSDAY 24
Peter Pears: A Celebration 11am
A Birthday Hansel 3pm
Film: Tenor Man’s Story 5.30pm
Britten–Pears Orchestra 8pm
FRIDAY 25
Alumni II: Young Singers 11am
Boulez and Aimard 3pm
Hesse Students Concert 5pm
Film: Piano 5.30pm, 6.15pm
Mass in B minor 7.30pm °
SATURDAY 26
Zehetmair and Aimard 11am °
Huelgas Ensemble 3pm °
Ensemble Intercontemporain and Boulez 7.30pm °
Anthèmes 10pm
SUNDAY 27
Open Air 12 noon
Arcanto Quartet and Lonquich 3pm, 4.30pm, 6pm ° (pictured above)
* = With pre-performance talk / event
° = Concert recorded by BBC Radio 3
Book your ticket:
By Post, Telephone or Online via Aldeburgh Music
By Email boxoffice@aldeburgh.co.uk
In Person
Aldeburgh High Street
Mon–Sat 9.30am–4.30pm
Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm and during the Festival
9.30am–start of evening concert.
20% ticket discount
This year’s Aldeburgh Festival offers an exciting choice of musical discoveries –
and we invite you to explore as many of them as possible! Please look out for this: and take advantage of our Magical Discovery Tour. Combine a minimum of 5 events from the offering, and qualify for a 20% discount on ticket prices.
For some background information to this historic music festival please also see Aldeburgh Festival.
For further information on this great town, please see
Guide to Aldeburgh
Accommodation in Aldeburgh
Hotels in Aldeburgh
Attractions in Aldeburgh
Eaing Out in Aldeburgh
Debenham Country Music Festival - 14th-19th July 2010
THE 22ND DEBENHAM COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL
JULY 14th TO JULY 19th 2010
HELD AT THE DEBENHAM LEISURE CENTRE, DEBENHAM, SUFFOLK, IP14 6BL
ALL PROCEEDS TO THE DEBENHAM LEISURE CENTRE CHARITY TRUST
DONT MISS OUT ON THIS SUPER FESTIVAL BOOK NOW AND AVOID DISAPOINIMENT
Thursday night 7.30pm dance with the fabulous award winning Welsh duo
COUNTRY COMPANY
Friday night 7.30pm dance to the great CLEAR CUT
Saturday afternoon from 12 noon with three great acts BONNIE DIAMOND & COE, PAT JAMES, AMERICAN ROUTS
Saturday night, 7.30pm a super night with two of England's top acts
Norfolk's award winning JEFF GALANT BAND & Kent's singing sensation ROSIE HORNE
Sunday afternoon from 12 noon with three more great acts NASHVILLE NUMBERS BAND and from Buckinghamshire RANCHER COUNTRY DUO
and Suffolk's very own master of country MR KEVIN BARRY
And at 7.30pm to finish off a fabulous weekend the Award winning
DOUBLE BARREL
A GREAT LINE UP. ADD THAT TO TWO DANCE FLOORS, SHOWERS
MAINS TOILETS, TRADE STALLS, FOOD, AND A GREAT ATMOSPHERE,
CREDIT CRUNCHING PRICES FOR THIS 5 DAY EVENT
FESTWAL FULL WEEKEND TICKET IS JUST £26
DAY PRICES ARE THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SUNDAY NIGHTS £4 EACH
SATURDAY & SUNDAY AFTERNOONS £6 EACH & SATURDAY NIGHT £7
OPEN AIR CONCERTS SATURDAY & SUNDAY AFTERNOONS WEATHER PERMITTING
MORE INFORMATION or Booking Form RING:- ED CUFFE ON 01473 405 672 or email: e.cuffe@hotmail.co.uk
"Only the best in country music"
YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME JUST FOR THE DAY!
Hachfest 2010 - Friday 30th July - Sunday 1st August
3-day music festival at Mutimers' Meadow, Hacheston, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 0DR.
Showcasing local musicians and raising money for local charities.
Activities for all the family.
Over £6000 from Hachfest 2009 presented to local charities.
The Hachfest committee would like to extend their thanks and gratitude to everyone who supported & contributed to the huge success of Hachfest in 2009. A highlight of which had to be Ade Edmondson performing with his band ‘The Bad Shepherds’.
Last year’s event built on the previous successes and despite the poor weather at times, raised over £6000 for local charities. The charities benefiting from the event include East Anglian Air Ambulance, St Elizabeth Hospice, the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust and Heathside Special School Minibus Fund; as well as Suffolk Soundwaves Youth Music Project, Pound Farm, Parham Airfield Museum, Hacheston Village Hall, St John’s Ambulance and Framlingham First Responders. Hachfest is a non-profit making event, and all the money raised goes to the nominated charities, or is re-invested into next year’s event.
The money raised in 2009 was presented to the charities at a recent celebration evening, which was also a thank you to all those who volunteered and helped out to make the event happen.
Following on from this, Hachfest organisers have announced their dates for 2010. The festival will be held between 30th July and 1st August, at Mutimers' Meadow in the village of Hacheston, near Wickham Market.
The event will begin on Friday evening and will continue all day on Saturday and Sunday, providing a great weekend of entertainment for all the family. The committee feel strongly that it is important to work closely with the local community to ensure the success of the event, so if you have any comments, queries, or ideas; or would be interested in getting involved, please get in touch via comments@hachfest.co.uk. Closing date is 31st March; successful acts will be announced in May.
One of the highlights planned for the 2010 event is the BBC Introducing sessions. The team from BBC Radio Suffolk will be taking over the Hachfest stages on the Saturday afternoon, and have been given free reign to showcase the best acts from the BBC Introducing selection! BBC Introducing supports unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar musicians.
Thank you once again for the continued support, it is hoped that 2010 will be the best year yet!
Halesworth Gig in the Park 6-8th August 2010
For full details of this wonderful festival please see Halesworth Gig in the Park
For more information on Halesworth please see:
A Guide to the town of Halesworth
Accommodation in Halesworth
Yoxford Arts Festival - August 19th-22nd
Thursday 19th August - BY POPULAR REQUEST “CUBAN LIFT” return with their dance music from the Andes.
Tony Hinnigan guitar & charango; Catherine Musker bass; Anna Noakes & Julie Murray flutes and pan pipes & Gary Kettel Latin percussion.
The Nigel Hitchcock Quartet with Mark Nightingale - Friday 20th August
The amazing jazz saxophonist Nigel Hitchcock, has performed to millions of people around the world with artists such as Tom Jones, Wet Wet Wet, Ray Charles and Robbie Williams. At Yoxford he leads a star studded band featuring the brilliant trombonist Mark Nightingale
Mark has been featured with artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Cleo Laine, London Brass, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sting and Shakatak. He has penned many compositions, big band arrangements and books of trombone studies.
John Tams & Barry Coope - Saturday 21st August 2010
John Tams described by Mojo as'one of the ultimate British songwriters',had a career spanning four decades in every medium.
A member of the Albion Band and Home Service he is perhaps best known for his work at the National Theatre and as Rifleman Daniel Hagman in the Sharpe television series. He is a five times winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
He has made over 50 albums as singer, musician or producer and continues to tour festivals and concert stages throughout the UK and Europe. He co-wrote the score for all the Sharpe films alongside Dominic Muldowney and has been a long standing collaborator with Jack Shepherd on numerous productions for stage, screen and radio. Last year John received an Honorary Doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University.
In the early 1980s, Barry Coope was a member of innovative English folk band Muckram Wakes. Later he played with the folk “supergroup” Blue Murder. Around 1990 Barry Coope helped form Coope, Boyes & Simpson, a British vocal folk trio.
Return of Pamela Thorby - Sunday 22nd August
Last year “Pamela Thorby, Elizabeth Kenny and Susanne Heinrich gave what was regarded by many as the finest concert in six festivals”
Pamela, one of the world’s finest recorder players, returns this year to play Vivaldi’s Concerto for Sopranino Recorder in C Major RV443 and Telemann’s Concerto for flute, recorder, strings and continuo in E minor with The Locrian Ensemble.
Bringing together some of the most prominent string soloists in London, THE LOCRIAN ENSEMBLE has established an enviable reputation for its recordings, broadcasts and live performances. This outstanding concert features Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, soloist Rita Manning, violin and also the world premiere of a work for flute and strings by Elgar Howarth with soloist Anna Noakes, flute.
The concert also features a contemporary work for recorder and percussion with Gary Kettel.
For more information on the Yoxford Arts Festival 2010, please see www.yoxfest.co.uk.
Please click on the following link for other venues and attractions in Yoxford.
Suffolk Villages Festival 27th-30th August
The Suffolk Villages Festival
J S Bach and his World: 27-30 August 2010
Artistic Director: Peter Holman
Friday 27 August, 8pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
J S Bach: Cantatas
directed by Peter Holman
Saturday 28 August, 12 midday
St James’s Church, Nayland
Consort of Viols
Saturday 28 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Dresden Orchestra
Sunday 29 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Music at the Court of Frederick the Great
Flautist: Rachel Latham
Pre-concert talk by Professor Anthony King
Monday 30 August, 12 midday
St Mary’s Church, Boxford
19th Century Lieder
Stephen Varcoe and David Miller
Monday 30 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh
Philippa Hyde, Tom Raskin, Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra
directed by Peter Holman
C P E Bach: St Matthew Passion
Box office & further information:
01206 366603
box@suffolkvillagesfestival.com
Harvest at Jimmy's Farm - 11th-12th September 2010
Harvest is back; brighter, fresher and tastier than ever - on 11th and 12th September at Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich.
We are delighted to announce THE ZUTONS and NEWTON FAULKNER as well as an abundance of other bands and chefs, including Angela Hartnett, Hairy Bikers, Rachel Allen, Mark Hix, Tom Parker Bowles and Thomasina Miers.
Also a UK festival exclusive from the award winning CHARLIE & LOLA's Best Bestest Play.
Please check our website www.harvestatjimmys.com for lots more fantastic appearances and activities.
See you all in September!
You may also be interested in reviewing details of the 2009 Festivals listed below, as many of them run annually and will be taking place again this year.
The Ipswich Food, Drink and Garden Festival - 23rd - 24th May 2009
Pulse Fringe Festival 27th May – 13th June 2009
Suffolk Folk Festival - 30th & 31st May 2009
Laugh in the Park Comedy Festival - 12-13 June 2009
The 13th Stowmarket Festival of Beer and Brewing 18th-21st June
Festival of the Sea, Southwold - 19th-21st June
Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2009 27th June
The Ipswich Arts Festival 27 June – 12 July 2009
Sat 27th - Sun 28th June, 10.30 – 5.00pm Sutton Hoo Poetry Festival
Debenham Arts Festival July 9th - 12th
Bures Music Festival July 8th - 12th
Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival - 23-24th July
Honda Formula 4 stoke series, Lowestoft 25 - 26th July
Sausage & Beer Festival at Jimmy's Farm 29th-30th August 2009
Festinho Festival - 4th-6th September 2009
Inside Out Festival 2009 - 19th and 26th September 2009
Fressingfield Festival - 22-26th September 2009
Ipswich RESPECT Festival - 26th September 2009
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival - 26th-27th September 2009
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival - 28th September - 4th October 2009
Halesworth Arts Festival - 10-25 October 2009
Saxmundham Arts and Entertainment Festival - Friday 23rd October - Sunday 1st November
Suffolk Herring Festival - 24th-25th October 2009
21st Aldeburgh Poetry Festival - 6th-8th November 2009
Lavenham Literary Festival - 20th-22nd November 2009
Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre - 27th-29th November 2009
The Ipswich Food, Drink and Garden Festival - 23rd - 24th May 2009
Christ Church Park, Ipswich
(Park Road or Westerfield Road entrances)
Opens 10.30am
Admission £3
Great food and drink stalls
Free celebrity chefs demonstrations
Free samples
Free gardening tips from the experts
Flowers and plants for sale
Free music and entertainment
Food, drink, flowers, plants, free tastings, free cookery demonstrations, free music.
Medieval cookery, medieval food and drink stalls.
The Best of British food on dozens of stalls.
Continental Market with food from around Europe.
‘New Generation’ steel band and the Suffolk School of Samba plus our brass band playing at the Festival.
There is a huge range of food and drinks for you to try and buy:
Sizzling Sausages plus a What’s the Best Sausage in Ipswich? competition. Will you be a judge?
Best Bacon competition, can we tempt you to be a judge?
Fiery Tastes. We try the world’s hottest chilli sauces. Have you tried chilli chocolate?
All in marquees in the park – come rain or shine you will have a great time!
For full details please see The Ipswich Food, Drink and Garden Festival
Guide to Ipswich
Ipswich Attractions
A Guide to Ipswich Hotels
Accommodation in and around Ipswich
Eating out in Ipswich
Pubs in Ipswich
Pulse Fringe Festival 27th May-13th June
Just a short train ride from London, PULSE ’09 fills the theatres, galleries, offices and caravans of Ipswich with a three week long explosive celebration of the most vibrant, bold and brilliant theatre from across the UK.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS:
Kate Flatt Projects and SEGUE Wednesday 27 May, 6pm
Songs from a Hotel Bedroom
These excerpts from a new musical theatre production introduce the timeless and bittersweet songs of composer Kurt Weill. Set in 1950s America, the scenario tells of a love affair between a touring singer and a writer who are accompanied by two tango dancers.
New Wolsey Studio, £3 (work-in-progress)
Lost Spectacles Thursday 28 & Friday 29 May, 7.45pm
Lost in the Wind
Lost in the Wind follows one man’s struggle as he desperately searches for something unknown. Lost, he finds himself battling for survival against the elements and a group of strange lonely beings. Floating between hilarious comic scenarios and spectacular visual sequences, Lost in the Wind blends
clowning, puppetry, object manipulation and delicate physical performance.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Tom Purcell
Thursday 28 May- Saturday 13 June, 10am-5pm
Beauty- A Peep Show
Beauty is a study of social perceptions of beauty, focussing on the local community and its surroundings. Through this multi-sensory installation the public are invited to peer in to an aperture to view a kaleidoscopic explosion of colour, image and sound from a series of collected, abstract video footage of surrounding beauty.
Town Hall Galleries, FREE
Polly Cruse
from 28 May
Out There
Polly constructs and places objects and ornaments and then photographs them in the interior and exterior landscape to capture moments of dreamt freedom. The photographs reference a snapshot of fleeting moments of pleasure and escape. She employs the form of commercial street advertising, seeking to distract and amuse everyday passers, whilst demonstrating an alternative to the usual publicly displayed images that try to sell us products and influence our lives.
Pick up a map at Town Hall Galleries or at the New Wolsey Theatre
PULSE DOUBLE BILL
Friday 29 May, 7pm
Seeta Patel
Last One Standing
A sensitive interpretation of game playing explored through contemporary South Asian dance. In their second artistic collaboration, Seeta Patel and Kamala Devam present a reworking of the piece created for the Kadam Choreography Prize 2008. This multi-media piece features film by filmmaker Maria Årkesson.
Mayday
Les Angles Mortes
Les Angles Mortes is a powerful duet for dancer and musician/DJ that questions our ability to understand the world from another point of view and observes from every angle the small details that make us all the same and perfectly distinct.
New Wolsey Theatre, £7
Gecko Friday 29 May, 10pm
No. 5
Highly visual, astonishingly physical and gloriously cinematic, Gecko create theatre for anyone who is willing to dream a little and imagine a lot. Fresh from a three week run of The Overcoat at the Lyric, Hammersmith, Gecko return home to The New Wolsey to experiment with and share some new ideas.
New Wolsey Studio, £3 (work-in-progress)
Top of the World
Saturday 30 May, 12 Noon, 5pm & 9.30pm and Sunday 31 May, 2pm & 5pm
Paperweight
Paperweight is the absurd story of two men trapped in mindless office jobs. As the pressures of work and the ever present threat of the telephone ringing increase, chaos descends. An (almost) silent comedy of escalating intensity and surprising tenderness. A sell out show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Paperweight received critical acclaim winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award and a Total Theatre Award nomination.
An office at The New Wolsey Theatre, £7
Linda Marlowe, James Seabright and LMP
Saturday 30 May, 7pm
The World’s Wife
A new stage version of the acclaimed poems by Carol Anne Duffy, imagining the voices of the wives of great men. Linda Marlowe has enjoyed great acclaim for her previous solo work including Berkoff’s Women, which toured internationally and played West End seasons. In this new show her virtuoso performance of Duffy’s brilliant and often controversial verse is interspersed with commentary about the poems.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Kath Burlinson in association with The Weird Sisters
Saturday 30 May, 9.15pm
Wolf
They have inspired and terrified us since the beginning of time. They have been reviled, hunted and then invited back into our lands. In fairy tales, fables and films they have slipped between the identities of human and beast. Wolf explores the ecology, psychology and mythology of these extraordinary animals, and in turn, asks how wild we humans may be.
New Wolsey Studio, £5 (work-in-progress)
The New Wolsey Theatre
Sunday 31 May & Sunday 7 June, 2pm
SPRINGBOARD Rehearsed Readings
SPRINGBOARD, The New Wolsey’s series of drama writing workshops, took as its starting point playwright David Greig’s provocative statement that “nothing should be on stage that doesn’t demand to be there”. Between January and April of this year, 16 aspiring writers, guided by writer and workshop leader Danusia Iwaszko, have been on an imaginative journey together, attempting to unlock each writer’s voice and to unearth the topics that most urgently call out to be explored. Come and enjoy the results – two evenings of fresh and original new writing, directed by The New Wolsey’s Associate Director Rob Salmon.
Town Hall Galleries on The Cornhill, £3
Out of Argyle Theatre Company
Sunday 31 May, 4.30pm
The Snow Goose Diaries
It is 1947 in rural Russia. Young Pyotr has been given the opportunity of moving away to the city in order to pursue a career as a writer. On the eve of his departure, he reflects upon his life in his native village. Will these recollections of his family and friends stirred by his recorded journal and the recent death of his grandfather affect his decision to abandon the life that he has known?
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Theatre Tours International Sunday 31 May, 7pm
Bully
A taste for malice haunts the males of Fry’s bloodline, vampirically passing from father to first born son. As the timid younger brother, spanning his life from tragic childhood to tainted adulthood, Fry charts the inner afflictions of a well meaning soul who tries to break the cycle by becoming a sufferer, rather than the bully. A sell out sensation at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Bully is a mesmerising experience and a most exemplary and powerful monologue.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Look Left Look Right Tuesday 2- Saturday 6 June, various times
The Caravan
In summer 2007 severe flooding across the UK brought misery to thousands of people, destroying homes and livelihoods. As a result of the ensuing chaos, over 2000 households were still living in caravans a year after the event, with over 100 families still stuck in caravans two Christmases later. Following a Fringe First Award and sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival and The Royal Court, Look Left Look Right presents the stories of real people word for word, alongside visual and audio footage inside their very own caravan.
The New Wolsey Theatre (in a caravan outside the venue), £7
Holly Rumble
Holly Rumble’s Mobile Disco
To take part in the world's most portable and surreptitious disco, text ‘DISCO’ to 07807 956410 and Holly will let you know where and when. Be ready to respond quickly.
Company FZ
Tuesday 2 & Wednesday 3 June, 10am- 4pm
Circus Theatre Workshop
Company FZ invites you to a workshop that explores the space between tragedy and comedy; the floor and the air. Using their experience in theatre, dance and the circus arts they will show how to make work that comes from a personal place or interest and how humour and pathos, success and failure are often closer to each other than we think.
The workshop will be physically demanding. Participants must be aged 18+
New Wolsey Theatre, £10
The Ornate Johnsons
Tuesday 2 June, 7pm
Mississippi
A rehearsed reading with Beth Fitzgerald (Winner Herald Angel 2007, Best Actress Brighton Festival 2008). Set in a Deep South themed restaurant somewhere in Worthing in 1987, Mississippi follows one chaotic day in the life of its nineteen-year-old manager, Helena, as she battles with booze, her domineering parents’ disastrous marriage, unruly staff, a Yugoslavian hen party, the not wholly unwanted attentions of the waiter and the meat order. Written by Louise Law and Brian Mitchell.
St Nicholas Centre, £3
The Ornate Johnsons
Wednesday 3 June, 7.45pm
The October Revolutions
BBC scriptwriter Philip and art student Kath hover in the region between friendship and love. Over the course of three meetings in three parks over three Octobers, they jockey, vie, scheme and battle for position with comical, and sometimes brutal, results. Written by Brian Mitchell.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Double Gusset Productions Thursday 4 June, 7.45pm
Britain’s Best Mates
Spend a hysterical hour with Britain’s Best Mates and you’ll never look at lads the same way again. Funny and touching, compelling and silly, these two delusional young men have created a world where they never have to engage with reality. Following their award-winning series for Comedy Central, Jamie Glassman and Matthew Steer bring their lovable characters to the stage.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
PULSE TRIPLE BILL Friday 5 June, 7.45pm
Lîla Dance
Tracker
Tracker was made from the inside out. And Begin. There is a space, a game and a seed of thought. There is a birth (of a sort) and from there, there is instinct, learning and development of skills. And because everything is new, there is insecurity, hesitancy and exploration. There are relationships (of a kind) and because there is intellect, learning is contagious and growth is inevitable. So now there is energy, exertion and imagination; subtlety, detail and texture. There is rushing, silence, rhythm and feeling. There is movement, movement, thought and more movement.
Neel de Jong
Driven
De Jong walks towards freedom, without hesitation, exploring all facets of womanhood. She jumps with ease between theatre and dance, while she’s sometimes singing too. Renewing herself every performance, she externalizes a series of inner worlds for the audience.
Pianist Augusto Pirodda accompanies her live during the performance.
Leila McMillan
iD
iD maps the graffiti found in East London through the body via explosive movement and raw sound, performed by 5 physical female performers. It incorporates the art and philosophy of graffiti along with the sound of the urban city to take the audience on a visual experience of graffiti through the form of contemporary dance.
New Wolsey Theatre, £7
Juliet Holton
Friday 5 - Sunday 7 June
The Process of Painting- in Progress
Juliet produces Action Paintings, a style in which paint is dribbled or splashed onto the surface instead of being carefully applied. She will engage viewers through the physical act of painting itself, this time involving the audience in the process. You are invited to donate paint and bring your own surfaces (2-d/ 3-d) for her to respond to or incorporate into the ‘action’.
The event is open to all. To learn how you can become part of Juliet’s Process of Painting contact Julia Devonshire, Arts Project Officer, Ipswich Borough Council e: Julia.Devonshire@ipswich.gov.uk, tel: ++44 (0)1473 432862.
Demonstration: Friday 6-8pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am-5pm
St Mary’s on the Quay, FREE
Tam Hinton
Friday 5 June, 8pm
The Truth is I Can’t Stop Telling Lies
In this latest slice of hi-octane absurdity, Hinton invites us again to meet more of the strange residents of the Bernard Hepton Housing Estate. He tells of tortured genius Simon Crevice – a man driven mad by Boris Johnson; Enid Beveridge, a woman turned on by electrocution; Brenda Surplus, part girl, part dog; and Lonely Barry Ungswater, the only truly normal person in the world.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Synergy Theatre Project Saturday 6 June, 2pm
Write Now
Established in 1999, Synergy Theatre Project works towards rehabilitation with prisoners and ex-prisoners through theatre, whilst placing the wider issues surrounding imprisonment in the public arena. This is your unique chance to see work from Synergy’s Second Annual National Prison Script Writing competition performed by professional actors specially selected for the PULSE Fringe Festival.
New Wolsey Studio, £3
ProudExposure
Saturday 6 June, 7.45pm
Out Westgate
Rural Suffolk is the best place to retire to, the safest place to raise kids in and the finest place to cover up old secrets...Set on the day of John Peel’s funeral in 2004, Out Westgate, written and directed by Drew Taylor, is a blackly comedic 21st Century drama.
New Wolsey Studio, £3
PULSE DOUBLE BILL
Sunday 7 June, 7pm
ANHNGDANCE
Two Bye Two
Created for Union Dance, Two Bye Two is an emotional journey of a relationship between two people, a roller-coaster which leads the audience in the dance by a flowing and powerful duet.
Kieran Sheehan Dance Theatre Company (KSDT)
Cope
Cope combines filmic movement, spoken word, dance, poetry, design, live and pre-recorded music to create powerfully expressionistic dance theatre. It is the story of two women unable to move on from the events of their past, trapped in a world where every noise, touch and taste stings with the memory of what came before.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Fergus Rougier Tuesday 9 June, 8.30pm
Bedroom Stories
A cow escapes from the slaughterhouse, a jealous lover struggles with the exes, a smelly sea forces the pirates ashore... From the intimacy of the bedroom emerge these three darkly humorous stories, innovatively told in a physical and vividly imaginative way that interweaves live and pre-recorded music with movement and a lyrical text.
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
Making Box Productions Wednesday 10 June, 7pm
Jude Simpson: Making Happy
Stand-up poet Jude Simpson brings her unique blend of observational comedy, witty wordplay, poetry, rap and song to the subject of happiness. From a lament about the clichés of falling in love, to a poem on the beneficial habits of reptiles and a song praising the humble spleen, Jude has wide appeal, a strong feel-good factor and the ability to leave you with a suspicion that maybe, just maybe, everything’s going to be OK…
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Lewis Barfoot of Three Beyond The Sea Wednesday 10 June, 8.30pm
The History of the Pomegranate
Working with a composer and sculptor, Lewis Barfoot deftly brings to life The History Of The Pomegranate in a show combining visual theatre, live music and song. Is it possible that a fruit could transcend every religion, every continent and make you live longer? Could the old sages be right? Is the pomegranate really the symbol of everlasting life?
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
Company FZ Wednesday 10 June, 9pm
Horse
A woman sits alone in a stable where she delves in to a life of horse thoughts and gallops through observations of horsey behaviour. She conjures a world where imaginary horses are ridden, tragic songs are sung and hilarious antics on a gym horse dissolve into a desperate desire to have one of her own.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
WHAT IS IT?
ESCALATOR WEEKEND Thursday 11 June- Saturday 13 June
These Colours Thursday 11 June, 6pm
King of the Gypsies
King of the Gypsies follows a gypsy bare knuckle fighter whose memories and fading dreams haunt him; his victories, his losses, his every choice reflected in the objects that are carried with him on his ceaseless travels. This ‘work in development’ combines verbatim text and new writing in a vibrant amalgam of image and sound. Due to premiere in August at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, King of the Gypsies journeys into a deeply private and secretive community, a community about which we actually know very little…
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5 (work in progress)
Nabokov
Thursday 11 June, 7.30pm
Is Everyone OK?
Daisy’s job is on the line and whilst she can’t remember why she has it, she's sure she can’t afford to lose it. Meanwhile Em’s about to become a self-elected single mother and Cameron doesn’t know what to do with these strange warm feelings that the office temp has infected him with… A collaboration between Fringe First winning playwright Joel Horwood and internationally acclaimed new writing company nabokov.
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
El Toro
Thursday 11 June, 9.30pm
Lovedrunk
Lovedrunk is a story about loving somebody who does not love you anymore. Visually stunning and highly inventive, this new show from El Toro combines physical theatre, video projection and emotive music to explore falling out of love.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
THEATRE IS… & Throwdown UK in association with The Hat Factory
Friday 12 June, 7pm
Epiphany
A new promenade performance fusing breakin, locking, popping, spoken word and the unique ‘multi’ vocals of MC Xander. Epiphany explores the moment in our personal histories when we find our 'element', the place we love to be, where our passion meets our talent.
New Wolsey Theatre, £5
DOUBLE BILL Friday 12 June, 7pm
Helix Dance
The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a comic solo written, choreographed and performed by DanceEast Associate Artist Isobel Cohen. While nominally a piece about cheap underwear and other unforeseen disappointments, its primary purpose is to explain why an otherwise intelligent and rational individual would choose to be a contemporary dancer.
Experiment 86 'in association with the Hat Factory
This is Our Universe & Basic Dressing
2 Men. 1 Sofa. But who’s is it? They laugh. They cry. They fight. They sing. But what for? Or who for? A fusion of movement, text and song to unravel the stories of these 2 men in a familiar but unfamiliar environment. Will they find a way to open up their minds as well as their front door? Includes an unconventional lesson in how to get ready for bed.
New Wolsey Studio, £5
Gagged Theatre
Friday 12 June, 7.45pm
You Are Here
A moving story documenting a grandfathers perilous escape from Poland to Great Britain during World War II, told by his grandson as he retraces his steps. Gagged Theatre brings this cross-generational odyssey to life with a fusion of theatre, documentary and photography, resulting in a dynamic live performance.
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
Axis of Evil Productions and Sh*tty Deal Puppet Theatre Company
Friday 12 June, 9.30pm
Oh! What A Sh*tty War
Imagine if The Muppets have become embittered with their careers, gone off the rails and performed their kid’s show through a haze of gin and schadenfreude. That’s Sh*tty Deal! After tackling such diverse themes as Art and Oppression, this rag-tag crew of foul-mouthed puppets turn their withering gaze on the entire history of warfare, as cynical clown puppet Mr Doper takes his innocent sidekick Bobby on a hilarious journey through battles and bloodshed to find out why warfare is as endemic to the human condition as back hair. Contains strong language, puppet violence and, yes, Barbie nudity!
New Wolsey Studio, £5
SEQUE Saturday 13 June, 5pm
Sound Journey
Created and performed by afro-Brazilian master percussionist Adriano Adewale, Sound Journey is a solo work of world-music-theatre which uses percussion, voice and dance to explore its contemporary themes of cultural identity, migration, immigration and climate change. Join Adriano on his remarkable Sound Journey from African to South America, desert to rain forest, from city to village in this moving and intimate work of worlds-music-theatre.
Sir John Mills Theatre, £5
Footprints Theatre Company
Saturday 13 June, 8.30pm
Dreamdance
Experimental cabaret for theatregoers with a sense of adventure, Dreamdance explores the relationship between two women in the decadent but dangerous world of the 1920’s Weimar Cabaret. Their painful story is told against a surrealscape of music, movement and dance where the audience are invited into the world of cabaret. A world where to survive is to trust no one.
Sir John Mills, £5
Chris Goode Saturday 13 June, 9pm
The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley
Shirley is a teenage boy with a girl’s name, growing up in suburbia and feeling like the weirdest kid in the school. Wound Man is an unconventional superhero with a silver thong and an alarming assortment of weapons who has just moved into Shirley’s street - and he happens to have a vacancy for a teenage sidekick... A new solo show from Chris Goode that combines intimate storytelling with original animation to tell the story of two unlikely friends and their escapades together.
New Wolsey Theatre, £7
Listings Information
Venue: The New Wolsey Theatre and various venues throughout Ipswich
Address: New Wolsey Theatre, Civic Drive, Ipswich, IP1 2AS
Dates: Wednesday 27 May - Saturday 13 June 2009
Times: Various times
Price: Various prices
Box Office: 01473 295900
Transport: Trains leave London Liverpool Street Station frequently and take around 1hr 10mins. For detailed directions see www.wolseytheatre.co.uk
Website: www.pulsefringe.com
For further details on this year's Pulse Fringe Festival please see Pulse Fringe Festival
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Suffolk Folk Festival - 30th & 31st May 2009
The 5th Suffolk Folk Festival takes place over the weekend of 30 & 31
May 2009 in Woodbridge.
The 5th Woodbridge Scout Hall on Tide Mill Way will be the
“headquarters” over the weekend. You can drop in to find out
what’s happening, shelter from the intense sunlight, use the
toilets, buy refreshments from the scouts or shop for festival
memorabilia such as programmes and badges.
The Suffolk Folk Festival has become one of the largest celebrations
of traditional dance in the East of England. Throughout the Saturday
and Sunday there will be many colourful displays of morris, sword and
Appalachian dancing at various locations in Woodbridge , on the Quay
and at the Cherry Tree Inn.
There will be a Grand Ceilidh on the Saturday evening in the hall of
the Abbey School from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets for this event are £10.
On the Sunday, the famous, free, open air concert at the Bandstand in
Elmhurst Park takes place from 12 noon to 5 p.m. Bring your chairs,
picnic rugs, picnics and parasols to spend a sunny afternoon
listening to great music and song from Cruel Folk, Kiss the Mistress,
The Bounty Hounds, The Larks and Triangle.
The Cherry Tree Inn will be holding a beer festival over the Folk
Festival weekend with about 25 beers from Suffolk and beyond and on
the Saturday evening there will again be shanty singing and other
music and song led by High Water Mark.
We are once again most grateful to Woodbridge Town Football Club for
allowing us to use their facilities for camping. The club will be
charging £5 per pitch for each night’s camping.
There are still more ideas in the pipeline, so check the website at
www.onesuffolk.co.uk/SuffolkFolkFestival for up to date information.
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Laugh in the Park Comedy Festival - 12-13 June 2009
SOUTHWOLD FESTIVAL 12th - 13th June 2009 (Southwold Common)
The Red Card Comedy Club and Adnams brewery are excited to announce our very first comedy festival in the beautiful seaside town Southwold on 12th and 13th June.
12th: Paddy Lennox / Eddy Brimson / Sean Kent / Ricky Grover
13th: John Mann / Bob Mills / Chris Molineux / Danny Buckler
CORPORATE TABLES
Option 1 = £280 package
Table of 10
4 bottles of wine (two red, 2 white)
Choice of vegetarian or a meat dish
Option 2 = £280 package
Table of 10
20 x pints of Adnams beer (a choice of Bitter, Broadside, Explorer, East
Green, Spindrift, Bitburger)
Choice of vegetarian or a meat dish
Option 3 = £320 package
Table of 10
4 bottles of Champagne
Choice of vegetarian or a meat dish
Option 3 = £350 package
Table of 10
Choice of 4 bottles of Champagne 6 bottles of wine or 20 x pints beer
Luxury seafood platter
TICKETS & BOOKING INFORMATION
Book Online: www.redcardcomedyclub.com
Call our booking hotline: 0844 826 1902
Adult Tickets (over 18's only) £13.50 advance
Comedy for kids run from 1pm - 3pm - Tickets £6.00
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The 13th Stowmarket Festival of Beer and Brewing 18th-21st June
Over 60 East Anglian Real Ales and Ciders, with Live Music each evening
Event: The 13th Stowmarket Festival of Beer and Brewing
Date: Thursday 18th June – Sunday 21st June 2009
Venue: the Museum of East Anglian Life
Press contact: Lisa Harris - Collections Manager or Patsy Cane – Office Manager on 01449 612229 or enquiries@eastanglianlife.org.uk
The Museum of East Anglian Life in association with CAMRA – the Campaign for Real Ale, kicks off its 13th Beer Festival on Thursday 18th June. The event which runs through to the Sunday afternoon of 21st June is perhaps the Museums most celebrated annual event. Visitors will have the chance to sample up to 60 East Anglian real ales and a number of ciders. The festival takes place in the beautiful setting of the museum’s 14th century Abbots Hall barn.
Museum Director, Tony Butler reckons that the museum is the ideal venue for an ale festival. “Stowmarket has a long history of brewing. There are former hop beds on the museum site near to the Rattlesden River. Although there is no longer a brewery in the town, companies like Muntons have helped the town retain its malting Traditions.”
Opening Hours are
Thursday 6pm – 11pm
Friday 12noon – 11pm
Saturday 11am – 11pm
Sunday 12noon – 3pm
Admission: £2 when Museum is closed
Normal Admission applies when Museum is open (£6.50/£5.50)
CAMRA members free admission to beer festival
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Festival of the Sea, Southwold - 19th-21st June
Southwold to host Festival of the Sea 2009.
For the first time in its 25-year history, the Festival of the Sea is to be held on Southwold Pier.
From Friday June 19, the stage will be set for a celebration of the sea including ‘World of Fish’ stalls, lessons in filleting and Adnams wine tasting for fish dishes.
Chris Gates, Masterchef finalist, will be opening the event this Saturday at 10am with a cookery demonstration of local, fresh Suffolk fish, to give people ideas on what to prepare with the local seafood we have on our doorsteps.
Attractions at the festival, in aid of the Fishermen’s Mission, will also include coastal trips, an RNLI demonstration and a race by Southwold yacht club - there will even be a Sunday service on the pier.
Southwold Pier MD Stephen Bournes said: “The Festival of the Sea will be a celebration of everything that’s great about the region. It promises to be a wonderful three day event with something for all the family.”
Children can enjoy beach trails, join in competitions, see the ‘Shirley Bass-ey’ fish car – and there’s even Caron Cantor’s children’s variety show to enjoy on Friday evening.
A full programme will include Music Hall entertainment from variety act Kenny Cantor and live music from The Capstan Full-Strength Shanty Band.
Organisers of the three-day event in June, which at its previous location in Lowestoft saw crowds of up to 12,000, see the pier as an ideal location for the family festival.
The Fishermen’s Mission was founded in Gorleston in 1881 and is now a national charity. Patron Rick Stein said: "Working as a fisherman is a dangerous and lonely job that very few people comprehend. The Fishermen's Mission makes sure it knows the hardship fishermen and their families face and therefore exactly how to help them".
The mission provides much needed support, care and compassion to working, retired and injured fisherman and their families. It is funded completely by contributions.
** Advance booking for the Flying High’ on June 19 and ‘Veterans of Variety’ on June 20 cost £5.
Tickets are available from Southwold Pier, by telephone 01502 722105 or via email bookings@suffolkcoast-festivalofthesea.co.uk.
Entry into the festival is £1 and all donations will go to the Fishermen’s Mission.
For more information on the festival visit www.suffolkcoast-festivalofthesea.co.uk.
Friday June 19:
Arrival of the ‘Shirley Bass-ey’ Fish Car, The Pier. 6pm
'Flying High' Childrens' Variety Show. Beachcomber, The Pier. 7.30pm £3/ £5 entrance
Festival of the Sea: Southwold Pier
Open 10am- 4pm June 20-21
Saturday June 20
Stalls and events on the Pier throughout the day, including:
Chris Gates, Masterchef finalist cookery demonstration. 10am
Wine Tastings and seafood kitchenware, Adnams Cellar&Kitchen, 9.00am - 6.00pm
Festival lunch and supper Menu with complimentary glass of Adnams Fizz. Including Seafood Platter for two, Lobster and Chips, locally caught cod butties. Adnams Crown
Kenny Cantor's 'Veterans of Variety Show". Beachcomber, The Pier. 7.30pm £3/ £5 entrance
Sunday June 21
Stalls and events throughout the day, including:
Lifeboat Rescue Display. Off the Pier. 11.00am
Southwold Sailing Club Race. Starts at the Pier. 11.00am
Wine Tastings and seafood kitchenware, Adnams Cellar&Kitchen,10.00am - 4.00pm
Festival Menu in the Adnams Crown and Swan.
Service of Thanks by Superintendent Port Missioner Tim Jenkins with attendance from local churches The Pier. 3.00pm.
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Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2009 27th June
Georgie Fame to headline Midsummer Music @ Spencers 27th June 2009
The 27th June heralds the arrival of Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2009, a swing & jazz festival to be held in the glorious gardens of Spencers at Great Yeldham in Essex with music performed under a huge marquee.
For full details please see Midsummer Music Festival 2009
While you're in the area why not drop in on the following nearby attractions, or have a drink at The Cherry Tree just down the road?
Colne Valley Railway
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The Ipswich Arts Festival 27 June – 12 July 2009
THE IPSWICH ARTS FESTIVAL RETURNS
Ipswich is gearing up to host the Ipswich Arts Festival once again this summer, when it becomes the cultural focus for the arts in the region, with a programme that reflects the contrasts and dynamisms in the county Town of Suffolk.
For full details pelase see Ip-Art Festival 2009
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Sutton Hoo Poetry Festival Sat 27th - Sun 28th June, 10.30 – 5.00pm
If you thought poetry was dull, come along today and be inspired. Poets will lead workshops for families and a poetry trail will intrigue you. Be enchanted by poetry spoken by Katrina Porteous and other fine poets. This festival is sponsored by the Poetry Society to celebrate their 100th birthday and the 70th anniversary of the ship discovery.
Normal admission
Sat 27th June, 7.30pm
A Performance of Longshore Drift by the poet Katrina Porteous at Sutton Hoo, National Trust.
Enjoy the bewitching word craft of this beautiful poem, delivered by the author and accompanied by the Northumbrian pipe and concertina playing of Alistair Anderson. Held in the elegant surroundings of Tranmer House lounge. Refreshments available in the interval.
£10 – booking essential
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Debenham Arts Festival July 9th - 12th
A strong line-up of professional authors, including Hilary Mantel whose new novel Wolf Hall has been tipped to win the Booker, will be appearing at the first arts festival in the village of Debenham, July 9 - 12. Most events will be free, others at low cost.
For full details please see Debenham Arts Festival
Bures Music Festival July 8th - 12th
The Bures Music Festival, incorporating Jazz by The Stour, is an annual music event held in a marquee in the picturesque village of Bures on the Essex & Suffolk Borders. The original Sunday event 'Jazz by the Stour' is now supported & proceeded by four nights of top musical performances spanning the genres from Soul, Blues, Swing, Rock 'n Roll & Choral as well as our very own young musicians showcase.
The Festival is a non profit making event, run by volunteers, with all proceeds being donated to local charities.
Our main Beneficiaries are St Helena Hospice & Ferriers Barn Handicapped Center, but we welcome requests from other local charities in need of support.
Choral Evening Wednesday 8th July 7:30pm
The Voice Squad directed by Birgitta Kenyon
Tickets £6
B Fest Thursday 9th July 7:30pm - 10pm
Tickets £4 (£1 for under 16's)
Blues Night Friday 10th July 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Stephen Foster introduces Paul Lamb and the King Snakes supported by Ramon Goose Band
Tickets £15
Soul Night Saturday 11th July 7:30pm - 11:30pm
Liz Mullen introduces Soul Kitchen
Tickets £15
Jazz by the Stour 13 Sunday 12th July Noon - 8:30pm
Tickets £17.50 (£15 concessions)
The Jonny Boston Quartet
The Eden Project
The Jo Fooks Quintet
The Geoff Gascoyne Quintet with Trudy Kerr
Full details available at Bures Music Festival
Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival - 23-24th July 2009
Red Arrows top Air Show bill
The biggest event on the Lowestoft calendar, the award-winning Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival, takes place this summer on Thursday July 23rd and Friday July 24th.
Last year’s record-breaking Air Festival attracted a two-day attendance estimated at 440,000 and won the Tourism in Suffolk award for the Best Festival or Event in 2008.
The 13th Lowestoft Air Festival will once again be a spectacular family event featuring over four hours of flying on both days plus a big variety of ground attractions near the mile-long award-winning golden beach.
The Royal Air Force is again sending a full flying display team to Lowestoft, headed by the world-famous aerobatic team the Red Arrows.
Joining them will be the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a BAe Hawk solo jet, a Grob Tutor training aircraft and a Sea King search and rescue helicopter.
It is also hoped that the programme will include the iconic Cold War bomber, the delta-winged Avro Vulcan which made its first appearance public display appearance last year after a multi-million pound restoration project.
The world’s only airworthy Vulcan is aiming to be back on the display circuit again this summer after a £1 million fundraising campaign and, as last year, Lowestoft Air Festival organisers are hoping it will again prove to be a huge attraction.
Other highlights planned for this year include a Meet the Pilots facility, a funfair, live music on the seafront and a fireworks display on the Thursday night.
The Air Festival will be followed by another spectacular event, this time on the sea, with the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Grand Prix on Saturday July 25th and Sunday July 26th.
Lowestoft is one of only five venues around the UK to feature the world’s largest off-shore powerboat championships in which up to 45 boats will be taking part.
Admission on all four days is free but voluntary donations will again be welcomed to help meet the £300,000 cost of the Air Festival.
Since 2004 the Air Festival has been run by an independent and voluntary support group who formed the charitable and not for profit company Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival Ltd, working in partnership with local charities and Waveney District Council.
Last year the company handed back almost £28,000 to 27 local charities and community groups who assisted at the event as collectors and stewards.
For more information log on to Lowestoft Air Festival or contact the Air Festival’s sponsorship and operations manager, Keith Moughton, on 01502 523398 (email: keith.moughton@waveney.gov.uk)
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Honda Formula 4 stoke series, Lowestoft 25 - 26th July
HONDA POWERBOATS THIRD YEAR COME BACK FOR SUCCESS
Organisers of the famous Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival are proud to welcome the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat race series back this July 25th and 26th to coincide with them as part of an extravaganza of the air and sea. This collaboration now in its third year will complete the huge success brought about by the partnership of the two events in 2007 and 2008. The series which was first introduced to the area in 2007 by local competitors Lings Honda who decided to make their debut in their home town after entering the series earlier that year. Lings who are recognised for their famous 2007 150hp championship win have now embarked on a new challenge to dominate the 225hp fleet in their new Cougar powerboat which was launched for the first time last season. Lings Honda is one of Europe’s largest Honda dealerships who supply new and used cars and motorcycles as well as a full range of Honda power equipment. The company has five branches across East Anglia and is run by Managing Director Chris Jary who makes up the third crew member of the Lings team. Chris believes that racing is a perfect way to market the brand and make the most of enjoying the Honda products available.
The remaining team members, driver David Cowley and one of two navigators Paul Barkshire are optimistic for a win back on home ground in three weeks time. Currently sitting fourth in the championship only a mere five points behind the leaders, the boys have it all to play for on a course they have an advantage over mastering in their spare time; and with crowds of up to 250,000 expected to arrive to witness the weekend’s racing the pressure is certainly on for them to give their fans what they have been waiting for.
Lowestoft is officially the most easterly town in Britain and its Sunshine Coast provides a natural amphitheatre – an ideal setting for spectators, flyers and powerboat racers alike. The course features a long straight which runs along the beach front, while a tight chicane close to the pier will offer a look at the dramatic action which will take place over the race weekend. Racing on both days will start from around 11am with two races on each day. Both the 150hp and 225hp fleets will race ending with a podium prize giving ceremony that will award winning teams their trophies for the Grand Prix and hopefully a position closer to winning the championship.
Full commentary coverage will be available over the weekend giving spectators up to the second action as the race unfolds with live interviews form the teams competing in the championship. For more information on the Lings team the series website www.f4sa.com is a perfect place to keep up to date with championship standings and the latest news.
Honda Formula 4-Stroke Association:
The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Series is the largest offshore powerboat Championship in the world. With the help of eight-time Class 1 World Powerboat Champion, Steve Curtis, MBE, Honda launched the Series in 1999 in order to prove the performance of their then newly launched BF130 4-stroke outboard.
Since its creation ten years ago, F4SA has fundamentally changed powerboat racing in the UK. Its rapid development has seen it grow from just four teams competing in a single 130hp class in 1999, to some 20 teams competing in two classes in 2009.
About the Lowestoft Grand Prix
The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Race Series will coincide with the Lowestoft Seafront Air Show for the third year running this year after the huge success brought about by the partnership of the two events in 2007 and 2008.
The powerboat racing follows two days of spectacular action in the air when the 13th Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival will feature over 30 aircraft and at least four hours of flying on both Thursday July 23rd and Friday July 24th.
Crowds of up to 250,000 will be entertained by F4SA powerboats and local hero’s Lings who won the Championship in 2007. The team consisting of David Cowley, Paul Barkshire and Chris Jary will attract a large amount of support from the area as they fight it out to regain their Championship title this year in the 225hp class..
Lowestoft is officially the most easterly town in Britain and its Sunshine Coast provides a natural amphitheatre – an ideal setting for spectators, flyers and powerboat racers alike. The town’s origins are buried deep in time, but there has been a thriving coastal community here for generations, and its rich fishing and maritime connections have played a major role in the fortunes of the town.
The course features a long straight which runs along the beach-front, it will be an exciting race weekend for both spectators and racers, while a tight chicane close to the pier will offer a look at the dramatic action which will take place over the race weekend.
Honda F4SA History
Honda launched its first large scale outboard engine in 1999, the 4-Stroke BF130. Before that, it was common belief that a 4-Stroke motor could not match the output of a 2-Stroke. Honda believed, however, that the 4-Stroke that it had developed, could not only match a 2-Stroke, but out-do it. With the help of eight times Class 1 World Powerboat Champion Steve Curtis, Honda set about creating a championship that would fundamentally change Powerboat Racing in the UK and around the World. With eleven teams competing in identical boats powered by standard Honda engines, the Honda Formula 4-Stroke series was established to provide an affordable and level arena that would guarantee close competition and truly test the skills of drivers and navigators. The inaugural race was staged at a stormy Torquay in May 1999, with five two person crews taking to the water amidst thunder, lightening, hail and high winds. This fleet grew into eight boats for 2000, when Channel 4 saw the potential of the series and decided to put powerboat racing back on terrestrial TV for the first time in more than a decade. In 2002 the series expanded further, with the introduction of a new racing class into which competitors could graduate. Three prototype race boats featuring Honda’s largest ever marine engine, the mighty BF225, raced alongside the then 15 strong 130hp fleet. HF4S’s standing as the World’s largest offshore powerboat racing series was confirmed. In 2004 the 130hp fleet was upgraded to race BF150 engine and, by 2006 the HF4S show had grown to 13 teams in the 150hp class and 15 in the 225hp category, all battling it out at five exciting race locations around the UK. Now, 10 years after the Honda Fleet’s first outing, the achievements of this series continue to astound. Its popularity is expanding year on year with nearly 20 teams competing in 2009 in front of ever increasing spectator numbers. If proof were needed of Honda’s Power of Dreams philosophy the Honda Formula 4-Stroke series is it.
In the Spotlight! The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat series is capable of attracting the media in more ways than one. Due to the series’ massive popularity and huge following, the series is now able to draw attention from a number of media sources. The series has its own in house media department which is responsible for the overall exposure, expansion and image of the company and are always on the look-out for new innovative ways to represent themselves through television, radio, press and magazine. Television has been the series’ most powerful medium with previous broadcasting on ITV4 to include world-wide coverage with a variety of stations across the board. The racing has become extremely popular with production companies over the last few years and in 2008 the series was included in production like; How Do They Do It; Islands of Britain and Blue Peter. Media support RIB On event, the media office runs a RIB which allows national and regional journalists to get a real taste of the racing from the water. This encourages the local media to cover the weekend’s action. For more information on this please contact our PR department.
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Sausage & Beer Festival at Jimmy's Farm 29th-30th August 2009
This year we’re organizing a better than ever Sausage and Beer Festival at Jimmy's Farm.
Here's what will be happening at the event:
· Sausage making demonstrations
· Cookery demos
· Live music from the Wild Ones, Daisy Mae and The Smokin Hogs
· Kids entertainment, bouncy castle, mini 4x4 driving, face painting, merry-go-rounds, nature trail activities, sausage making, birds of prey, pottery painting and so much more!
· Guess the weight of the pig and win a £50 Jimmy's Farm Voucher!
· Spinny Rodeo Pig
· Sausage eating competition with cup prize
· Sausage judging panel to select best sausage producer with cup prize
· Beer judging panel to select best beer producer with cup prize
· Sausage and Beer producers from around the UK
· A brew your own and make your own market place with all the
equipment you need to start making homemade sausages and beer
The event will start at 11am and run until 6pm each day. Tickets are £5,
with under 2’s receiving free entry.
Tickets can be bought in advance from the Jimmy’s Farm online shop or the
Farmshop. Tickets will also be available on the day.
It promised to be a really fun summer bank weekend, and a proper celebration of the great British Bangers and Beers!
Festinho Festival - 4th-6th September 2009
Festinho returns to Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk: 4th-6th September 2009
An intimate, friendly festival in a magical setting, Festinho is a delicious cocktail of the best in eclectic music, sunny Brazilian vibes, a laid-back feel and shedloads of wonderful nonsense.
All profits go to the ABC Trust, which helps Brazilian children and young people on the streets to transform their lives ( www.abctrust.org.uk).
We’re overjoyed to announce that son of the late, great Simon Jeffres of The Penguin Café Orchestra fame, Arthur Jeffries, will be bringing Music from The Penguin Café to Festinho this year. This special performance will feature an array of exciting new compositions along with beloved tunes from his fathers' celebrated repertoire such as Telephone and Rubber Band and Music for a Found Harmonium. The Penguin Café Orchestra is acclaimed for its experimental classical music infused with inventive and exuberant folk.
We will also be joined by Ivor Novello nominees, The Leisure Society, as well as AGT Rave Cru, The Fontanas, Jon Kennedy Live!, hotly tipped folk band, Mawkin:Causley and the ultimate party starters, Carnival Collective. We also have the biggest chiller of all, Pete Lawrence (founder of the Big Chill festival) curating an entire stage for us this year.
The line up also includes: James Yuill, Anoushka Lucas, Nancy Wallace, Dollboy, Emily Davies, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Spiro, Lindy Layton, Mixmaster Morris, Dr Em & Funky Jim You’ll find acts and artists you know and love, and the best of fresh new talent from London to Salvador – so whether you like to rave one up or folk one off, get ready for some musical adventures.
There’s also The Cinema Cottage, bedtime stories, capoeira, pedal-bikes powering wondrous light installations, samba workshops, Cockney knees-ups round the old Joanna, open-mic comedy acts, trolls in the woods, yoga in the morning sunshine, pillow fights, trapeze cabaret acts…
When it all gets too much guests can grab a perfect caipirinha from the cocktail bar and kick back in a hammock, or bliss out with a massage in the Body and Soul space. When night falls, we recommend you take a stroll amongst the mirrorballs of the Feel Good Woods – where you'll stumble upon a mysterious hidden disco which keeps everyone dancing under the stars. Or cosy up by the campfire and get some tasty locally-sourced food from the BBQ.
Festinho is family-friendly too, with a play area to keep the small people entertained, high quality camping and plenty of good toilets and hot showers. Best of all, it’s a three minute walk from tent to site.
A quirky, charming alternative to the festival mammoths, Festinho is living proof that small is very beautiful.
Ticket Prices:
Adult weekend tickets - £60
Adult weekend tickets without camping - £45
Sunday day tickets will be available – price to be confirmed
Children under 14 get in for free (must book a free ticket online so we can make room!)
There are no extra charges for people with camper vans, which hardly ever happens!
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Melford Hall is a local site in Long Melford maintained by the National Trust.
Inside Out Festival 2009 - 19th and 26th September 2009
Actors from across the Waveney Valley are joining forces for the third year in succession to bring new, local drama to the stage.
The Inside Out 2009 Festival, held on two Saturdays – 19th and 26th September - in Fressingfield and at the newly re-opened Wingfield Barns, is presenting thirteen short plays, all by local writers.
Half the plays will be performed outdoors during the afternoon – bring chairs, rugs and picnics – and half indoors during the evening.
With each play lasting just 10-20 minutes, and covering every type of drama from comedy to serious, and with a couple of radio plays as well, the sessions will fast-paced and highly entertaining.
And for younger people, Wingfield is offering free admission to under 18s for both the afternoon and evening performances.
Phone 01379 873536 to book your free space – and for all other enquiries or ticket orders.
Tickets, priced at £10 for both shows, £6 for one (conc. £8 and £5) will also be available on the door, subject to availability.
Organiser Alan Huckle, prolific playwright and founder member of the EyesWrite drama writing group is convinced this year’s festival has something for everyone. “This is a too-good-to-miss opportunity to watch new plays written by local writers at a cost everyone can afford,” he says.
And, if the festival inspires you to pick up a pen and have a go yourself, Alan and EyesWrite will be happy to hear from you – maybe your play could be performed next year! He can be contacted at the phone number above, or at eyeswrite@aagh.fsnet.co.uk
Programme
Saturday 19th September - Fox and Goose Green & Sancroft Hall Fressingfield
and
Saturday 26th September - Wingfield Barns
Outdoor Plays - 4.00pm
Plain Nan - Tony Vale
Little Crow - Roger Curtis
Sticking Together - Alan Huckle
INTERVAL
Jo Jello - Roger Curtis
A Great Performer - Tony Vale
Walls - Richard Crawley
Indoor Plays - 7.30pm
Shall I Be Mother - Gwyn Guy
First Degree Murder - Richard Crawley
Masque - Pat Quorn
INTERVAL
A Whole New Start - Pat Potter
Wedding Day - Mark Finbow
The Judas Bird - Pat Quorn
Plays, Writters, Directors and Cast
4.00pm Performances
Plain Nan by Tony Vale
As you get older and find yourself alone without your
partner isn’t it time to settle down?
Nan - Mary Thompson, Lucy - Emma Martin.
Directed by Mary Thompson & Emma Martin
Little Crow by Roger Curtis
Little Crow is set on the veranda of an isolated Kentucky farmhouse. It begins in the recent past travels back eight years and then returns to the recent past again. Intrigued?
Dr David Hunter - Steve Humfress, Miss Emily - Edith Peck,
Hirem J Pentenkofer - Andy Kemp, Isabel - Amy Gibbons,
Little child - Grace Gibbons.
Directed by Alan Huckle
Sticking Together by Alan Huckle
Take three men and a DIY assembly kit and what happens?
You’ve guessed!
Read by Mary Thompson, Simon Evans,
Steve Humfress, and Alan Huckle.
Directed by Andy Kemp
- Interval -
Jo Jello by Roger Curtis
The action of Roger’s Jo Jello takes place in front of an office building overlooking the Thames Embankment.
Tom - Chris Strachan, Charlie - Andy Kemp,
Jo Jello - Paul Ffitch, Sam - Becky Martin.
Directed by Gary Stodel
A Great Performer by Tony Vale
Is this what happens when extra rehearsals are needed?
Barbara - Pat Parris, Brian - Simon Evans,
Mike - Steve Humfress.
Directed by Gary Stodel
Walls by Richard Crawley
Ever wondered what happened to those given community service?
Peter Wilson – Paul Ffitch, Kev – Jake Kubala,
Vita – Emma Martin.
Directed by Mike Davison
Plays, Writters, Directors and Cast
7.30pm Performances
Shall I be Mother? by Gwyn Guy
What would you expect three middle aged women to talk about? Set in a the lounge of an hotel this is perhaps not a black comedy but a semi serious piece interspersed with humour.
Madge - Edith Peck, Susan - Amy Gibbons,
Angela - Pat Parris, Waitress - Chelsey Williams.
Directed by Gwyn Guy
First Degree Murder by Richard Crawley
Set in a living room of a everyday home with a wife who
thinks she can kill her husband and get away with it.
Brain Robinson - Chris Strachan, Grace Robinson - Keshar Whitelock,
Jill Robinson - Amy Gibbons, Detective Sergeant Wilkinson - Paul Baker.
Directed by Paul Baker
Masque by Pat Quorn
Masque is a small Jacobean fantasy performed by several small Jacobeans attempting to be larger than life. The characters were real, the Masques were real but the language and the plot highly suspect. The play is set in The Elephant, a Bankside inn, popular with poets and other lowlifes and a furnace of literary creativity and dispute...
Ben Johnson - Bruce Cox, Will Shakespeare - Chris Strachan, Queen Anne - Laura Green, Inigo Jones – Paul Ffitch.
Directed by Pat Quorn
- Interval -
A Whole New Start by Pat Potter.
A Whole New Start is set in a piece of waste ground, a kebab shop and then again in in the waste ground. A young man is faced with a dilemma. What should he do?
Jimmy - Jake Kubala, Luke - Chelsey Williams,
Tyrone - Hannah Peck / Matt Peck, Leanne - Becky Martin,
Georgiou - Chris Strachan, Harry - Paul Ffitch, Chris - Gary Stodel, Customer One - Steve Humfress, Customer Two - Andy Kemp.
Directed by Andy Kemp
Wedding Day by Mark Finbow
A very early draft of a radio play designed to accompany a series of short stories about the mythology of East Anglia currently under development.
Jenny - Emma Martin, Fred - Jake Kubala, Mrs Cole - Becky Martin.
Directed by Emma Martin
The Judas Bird by Bruce Cox
A gothic fairy tale.
Reader of Prologue - Bruce Cox, Persephone - Laura Green,
Sirena - Emma Martin, Lothar - Joe Putman.
Directed by Pat Quorn
Crew
Organisers - Alan Huckle and Mike Davison
Lighting - Arthur Brown
Sound - Laurence Nunn
Staging - Arthur Brown, Laurence Nunn,
Alan Huckle, Gwyn Guy,
Andy Kemp, and David Black.
Publicity - Mike Davison
Poster & Programme - Kevin Farrow
Props - Robin Franklin and The Cast
Costumes - The Cast
Fressingfield Festival - 22-26th September 2009
Five Nights of Musical Excellence in North Suffolk
Marking its fifth anniversary with an additional concert, the Fressingfield Music Festival has already been described as one of the best small music festivals in the country. From 22 to 26 September, the church of St Peter and St Paul in Fressingfield, north Suffolk, plays host to five nights of varied music that fulfil the event’s aim to bring high quality music to a rural community at an affordable price. Two of this year’s highlights are rare opportunities to hear at close quarter, performances by world famous cellist Julian Lloyd Webber (25 September) and the much celebrated soprano, Dame Emma Kirkby, OBE (23 September).
Tuesday 22 September
The Brian Dee quintet opens the festival with an evening of jazz. Brian Dee, described as England’s Oscar Peterson, is a highly acclaimed jazz pianist and has performed with stars such as Miles Davis, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker and Elton John, to name but a few. His band of outstanding musicians includes Jim Mullen on guitar, Bruce Adams on trumpet, Bill Coleman on double bass and Ralph Salmins on drums.
Wednesday 23 September
Award winning early music soprano Emma Kirkby will be singing a programme of cantatas and other music by Purcell, Vivaldi, Handel and their contemporaries accompanied by baroque ensemble, Badinage. The programme will also include instrumental sonatas for flute, oboe and bassoon with harpsichord and cello.
Thursday 24 September
Added to this year’s programme to mark the event’s fifth anniversary, this is the first concert to showcase emerging talent. Selected by the Royal College of Music to receive the Fressingfield Young Musician Award, Meng Yang Pan will perform a selection of pieces by Haydn, Schubert, Poulenc and Liszt. The climax of her recital is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Friday 25 September
Friday’s concert presents a rare opportunity to hear world famous cellist Julian Lloyd Webber perform outside a major concert hall. Accompanied by Paul Chowhan on piano, Julian will be performing a personal selection of music by Bach, Fauré, Debussy and Brahms.
Saturday 26 September
The Choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge returns by popular demand. The choir will sing Mozart’s requiem, new settings of William Blake’s poetry composed by Paul Carroll, and works by Purcell and Elgar. The choir is acclaimed as one of Cambridge’s finest mixed ensembles and has established an enviable reputation through worldwide touring, recording and broadcasting
All concerts will commence at 7.30pm and tickets can be booked in advance for £10 or at £12 on the night, subject to availability. Tickets for Friday’s concert cost £15 in advance or £17 at the door, subject to availability. Contact tel: 01379 586269 or 01379 586537. Website: http://www.onesuffolk.co.uk/FressingfieldPC/MusicFestival/
For more local information please see:
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Ipswich RESPECT Festival - 26th September 2009
IPSWICH SHOWS SOME RESPECT!
Ipswich comes together as one community on Saturday 26th September 2009! Being held at University Campus Suffolk -Waterfront Building, now in its 6th year Ipswich RESPECT Festival brings the people of Ipswich a fun filled day of great live music, workshops, community stalls and much more for all the family! This year is set to be bigger than ever and RESPECT has grown to be a valued, well attended annual event in the Ipswich calendar. This really is the ideal way to say a fun, fond farewell to summer, and best of all its all FREE!
Organised by local charity the Waterfront Community Centre and supporting Love Music Hate Racism, Come and join Ipswich to stand up against prejudice and come together as one community, with the Ipswich RESPECT festival '09!
In the morning there will be a parade leaving from the New Wolsey Theatre, partying its way through the streets to the University! Come and join in from 11am!
The festival kicks off at noon and we will be celebrating community together all day long! With guest celebrities including the Cheeky Girls and a great lineup of music to suit any taste.
Shelly Littlejohn, RESPECT Festival co-ordinator , “It’s just such a great day for anyone, crowds of people together having fun together and with so much going on for them to do and enjoy! There is still time so if anyone is interested in getting involved by having a stall, for example, they should get in touch.”
CONTACT:
Shelly Littlejohn
Waterfront Community Centre
32-34 Grimwade Street
Ipswich, IP4 1LP, Suffolk
(01473) 226931
ipRESPECTfest@gmail.com
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival - 26th-27th September 2009
At Snape Maltings, nr. Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP17 1SR, there will be over 70 local producers, workshops, demonstrations, talks & discussion forums, children’s activities & ample tastings of food, wine & beer, musical entertainment, RSPB guided walks and river trips. For full details pelase see Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival 2009
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival - 28th September - 4th October 2009
The Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival takes place over seven days following the main weekend event of the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival.
For full details please see Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival 2009 .
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Halesworth Arts Festival - 10-25 October 2009
With tickets now on sale for the eighth annual Halesworth Arts Festival here are just some of the delights on offer in October. We had more sell-outs than ever in 2008 and it looks as though this can be beaten in 2009!
Kicking off with Classical guitar legends John Williams and John Etheridge and ending with the last night Extravaganza that is Alan Barnes' Strayhornes Harlem Airshift performing the music of Duke Ellington, there is something for everyone in the two week Festival.
Rosie Ashe – The Killer Soprano, performs a joyful roller-coaster ride through works from Noel Coward, Cole Porter to Chopin and Dusty Springfield.
World Music is supplied by Zum , who perform with toe tapping virtuosity, intoxicating harmonies and awesome rhythmic power. They create a cultural alchemy, where the world's music collides. And Cuban Lift will take an exhilarating and fascinating musical journey from Mexico right through South America. The musicians, all virtuosos in their own field, will be hot footing it from Abbey Road Studios to Halesworth for this spectacular evening of Latin Music.
Marcus Brigstocke (pictured above) supplies the comedy this year with God Collar, a brand new and hilarious stand up show. The audience will know him from Argumental – (Dave) and Radio 4's The Now Show. An award winning comedian Marcus says “There's probably no God... but I wish there was. I've got some things I want to ask him”. This is a hot ticket so book in advance, as this will be a sell out!
Another predicted sell out is Harry the Piano (pictured above). 'The best damn pianist in the civilised world' just about sums it up but if you need more persuading Terry Wogan named it 'The best music show I've ever seen'. Paul 'Harry' Harris has headlined at festivals in all six continents and played with just about everybody in show business from David Bowie and Elvis Costello to Charlotte Church and the Opera Babes. Finally Harry is being recognised for what he does best, his ability to take requests to play 'any tune in any style' coupled with his 'staggering virtuosity' (TIMES) and 'uncanny ability' (INDEPENDENT).
Rohan McCullogh is with us once again after her stunning performance last year. This time with, My Darling Clemmie by Hugh Whitemore. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me,” said Winston Churchill. The remarkable, moving, story of the woman who married one of the truly great figures of the 20th Century.
St Mary's Church is once again filled with song as the Halesworth Festival Voices and Orchestra conducted by Ian Humphries perform the Haydn Anniversary Concert – Te Deum, Trumpet Concerto and Nelson Mass, a must hear on the second Saturday of the Festival.
Resident young musicians will again be playing a selection of their original work as Waveney Amplifier do their showcase of emerging talent with an evening of acoustic compositions. A charming bill of songwriters ranging from established acoustic folk acts to crossover interpretations by contemporary bands.
Back once again is the ever-popular Silent Movie Night with live piano accompaniment by Stephen Horne This year it's the 1927 classic Sunrise by FW Murnau.
A special Festival occasion is An Evening with Julian Lloyd Webber (pictured above). The celebrated Cellist will play works, including pieces by Bach, Britten, Fauré, Debussy, Lloyd Webber as well as take questions from the audience about his life as a working musician. A very rare treat!
The Festival Art Gallery will celebrate the 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years since the publication of Origin of Species with an exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculpture by Helen Gilbart. This also inspired a Darwin Day with a visit to Hooker House in the morning through to theatre, dance and Richard Mabey, the nature writer, reads for us in the evening.
Dance East will be running two workshops for young people on Saturday 17th at the Cut dance studio exploring the history of Darwin and the world of evolution. This is a great opportunity to get creative with dance and to make friends for 5-10 and 10-15 year olds.
We will also be bringing you a Cookery Master class from the French chef and author Franck Pontais on Saturday 24th. Franck will be be giving an introduction to artisan charcutier traiteur and classic French dishes from canapés to Oeuf cocottes.
The final Saturday gives us Pascal and Ami Rogé (pictured above)- Four Hands and Two Hearts. Pascal Rogé is one of the great interpreters of French piano music – his name is synonymous with the best playing of French repertoire in the world today. For several years Pascal has enjoyed playing recitals for four hands/two pianos with his partner in life and music Ami Rogé. The concert includes work by Ravel, Debussy and Dukas.
Tickets and more details on all the events in October from 10- 25, are available online at www.halesworthartsfestival.org.uk as this is just a selection,. You can also save 20% on multiple tickets if you book any three events!
For more information on Halesworth please see:
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Saxmundham Arts and Entertainment Festival - Friday 23rd October - Sunday 1st November
The Festival is organised by the Saxmundham Arts and Recreation Trust which was established in 2004 to ensure that an initiative started by the Town Council to provide an annual Arts Festival in Saxmundham is maintained. It started as a Festival for children during the schools’ Autumn half-term break , suggested by a local resident, was expanded to include adults in its 2nd year and is now in its 7th year.
The Trust is attempting to foster an interest in all forms of artistic involvement – the written word, acting, music, puppetry, painting, dance and much more for a very wide age range, from small children to the elderly.
Now that the Arts Festival has become well established our aim is to draw in the services of performers from a wider area and this will undoubtedly add to the cost of mounting such a Festival. The provision of good class musicians is particularly difficult and expensive partly because travelling expenses are high to reach rural areas such as ours; many first class performers specialising in music, dance and theatre are centred in large cities with purpose built facilities.
However, the good news is that an amateur dramatic society started some 3 years ago is now flourishing, an Art group is well established, a poetry competition has been well supported, the Museum has been drawn into our sphere of activities and, in the last 2 years we have started the Festival with a Literary Lunch with guest appearances, so far, from Joanna Trollope, Guy de Moubray, Esther Freud and Richard Mabey: as you can imagine, this is always a “sell out” event!
Each year we are expanding our field of arts and entertainment provision, drawing wherever and whenever possible, from local talent and expertise. Over the last few years we have “discovered” some superb bands, a wonderful jazz group who appear each year, a number of budding poets, several talented puppeteers and a growing number of artists and on this excellent foundation we are planning to build even better Festivals in the years ahead.
We are grateful to our various sponsors who continually help and encourage each year but particularly to Saxmundham Town Council who allow us the use of the Market Hall for the whole of Festival Week (usually the last week in October). In 2009 the Festival will run from Friday, 23rd October through to Sunday, 1st November. The Festival organisers can be reached on 01728 603553 or visit the Saxmundham town website www.saxmundham.org for details nearer the time.
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Suffolk Herring Festival - 24th-25th October 2009
Suffolk has a long historical association with the herring and herring fisheries. Now there is little demand for this locally caught fish, and, apart from the kipper, it is hardly eaten either at home or in restaurants.
Timed to coincide with the traditional autumn peak of the herring fisheries (and with school half-term break) the first Suffolk Herring Festival will take place on the weekend of Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th October 2009. Core events will take place at Middleton Farm Shop, Middleton, Suffolk, IP17 3NS.
The overall programme will be a mixture of events throughout the weekend – food and drink, sustainability exhibitions, music and games, competitions, demonstrations of herring preservation and preparation. The aim is to involve all parts of the community in rediscovering the herring, and to build a solid base for putting on an annual Suffolk Herring Festival. The focus will be local, but with opportunities to learn of other cultures around the North Sea, the cultural highway that connects Suffolk Coastal to its Northern European neighbours.
An important motivation for the Suffolk Herring Festival is to stress the health benefits of eating the humble herring and to promote a significant local food; to raise awareness of the way in which the herring fisheries can contribute to the development of the local economy and related employment opportunities; and to develop a local market for both raw and processed (e.g. smoked and marinated) herring to the benefit of local fisheries and food suppliers.
Saturday 24th October
10.00 Festival Opens
Have fun learning interesting and useful things about the herring in Suffolk,
sustainable fishing and nutritional benefits of eating herring.
10.00 -12.00 - Filleting, Preparing and Cooking the Humble Herring
Chefs from Suffolk and further afield will show you how to prepare delicious herring recipes, and give you the chance to sample the results - fresh, smoked, pickled and marinated herring to try and to buy.
12.00 – 2.00 Barbecue & Bar
Eat more herring, enjoy a drink from the bar, test your herring knowledge with the herring quiz, and explore local arts and crafts.
2.00 – 4.00 Singing & Knitting
Workshop and concert for all ages singing traditional and new songs about the sea and fishing, and your chance to knit a herring to put into the cran!
Sunday 25th October
10.00 Festival Opens
Carry on eating and singing, learn about Suffolk’s herring culture, become an expert on local kippers, and get a new passion for the not-so-humble herring.
10.00 – 1.00 Kipper Brunch
A true “dégustation de kipper”. Sample a wide variety of local smokes, cooked in a variety of ways, and then enjoy a drink at the bar. Guaranteed to set you up for the day, while you enjoy herring music from East Anglia, listen to sea stories and knit some more herring!
1.00 – 3.00 Music and Singing
Sing along with Capstan Full Strength – the loudest and best shanty crew in East Anglia, watch archive film of herring fisheries, play herring games.
3.00 – 4.00 Had enough herring?
Count the knitted herring, winners get prizes, buy a fish, sing a bit more and, whatever the weather, carry on eating herring!
Contact kelvin@northseashores.com if you want to receive information on the Suffolk Herring Festival between now and October.
For full details of this festival please see Suffolk Herring Festival.
21st Aldeburgh Poetry Festival - 6th-8th November 2009
The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival is this year celebrating its 21st birthday
and doing so in style with poets coming from America, India, Italy,
Russia, all over the UK and Ireland.
With 47 events - 13 free - you can create your own Festival experience
and mix the main readings with workshops, craft talks, discussions,
cabaret, masterclass, photography exhibitions and even an open mic if
you want to strut your stuff!
For more information including booking details, please see Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
For more information on the lovely town of Aldeburgh please see:
Aldeburgh Town Guide
Restaurants in Aldeburgh Guide
Accommodation in Aldeburgh Guide
Lavenham Literary Festival - 20th-22nd November 2009
For full details of this fascinating and informative festival - featuring talks by Lord Phillips, John Warwicker, Mike Ripley and Rose Tremain amongst others - please see Lavenham Literary Festival.
Also, why not take advantage of the fantastic Festival Weekend Offer from The Swan at Lavenham by clicking on the link and making a booking!
For more local information please see Lavenham Town Guide.
If you are organising a festival and want it to be listed here, please email the info to suffolkguides.admin@suffolktouristguide.com
Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre - 27th-29th November 2009
Bury St Edmunds Sixth Annual Christmas Fayre... 27th 28th & 29th November
An attractive combination of six markets, a fun fair and free entertainment all running for three days, makes the Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre the biggest in East Anglia.
For more information on Bury St Edmunds please see:
Guide to Bury St Edmunds
Accommodation in Bury St Edmunds
Eating Out in Bury St Edmunds
Activities in Bury St Edmunds
