Suffolk Festivals
We are constantly updating our Festival listings so please keep an eye on this page.
ULR Premier Rugby Sevens and Beer Festival - 4th to 6th May 2012
Latitude 2012 - 12th to 15th July 2012
Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday
Friday night and saturday Beer Festival...Sunday is the International Rugby 7's event with the beer festival.
Friday and saturday FOC with Sunday £7 for adults and £3 for children, under 5,s free.
Contact: Sue Birrell 07771 804444 or see Bury St Edmunds RUFC
Venue Address: Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club, Southgate Green, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2BL
Latitude Festival will take place 12th-15th July 2012. Tickets & line-up coming in the Spring.
Here’s what was on offer last year:
The Alde Valley Spring Festival - 23rd April - 23rd May 2011
HighTide Festival - 28 April and 8 May 2011
The Beaconsfield Arms Beer and Sausage Festival - 29th April - 2nd May
South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival 2011 - Saturday 14th May – Sunday 5th June
26th Bury St Edmunds Festival 2011 19th-29th May
Petanque and Golf Clubs Beer and Music Festival - 20th-22nd May
VEST-IVAL, Jimmy's Farm - 21st-22nd May
St Edmunds Real Beer and Food Festival 2011 21st-22nd May
Aldeburgh ART 21st-30th May
Pulse Fringe Festival 26th May – 11th June 2011
Stowmarket Festival 2011 - 27th May and 5th June 2011
LeeStock Music Festival 28th-29th May 2011
Beer Festival, Charry Tree Inn - 3rd-5th June 2011
Woolpit Festival 2011 - 9th-19th June
Alive and V-Dubbin 2011 - 10th -12th June
Aldeburgh Festival - 10th - 26th June 2011
Helmingham Hall Food & Drink Festival - 18th - 19th June 2011
Ip-Art Festival - 24 June to 10 July 2011
Maverick Festival - 1st, 2nd & 3rd July 2011
Framlingham Arts Festival - Summer Festival - Friday 1 - Sunday 10 July
Latitude 2011 - 14th to 17th July 2011
Westleton Wild Flower Festival and Village Life Exhibition - 29th July to 1st August
Jimmy's Sausage and Beer Festival - 30-31st July 2011
Gig in the Park, Halesworth 5-7th August
Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival 2011 - Thursday August 11th and Friday August 12th
Yoxfest Arts Festival - 18th-21st August
Chilli Festival & ChilliStock - 20th to 21st August 2011
Ipswich Maritime Festival 2011 - 20th to 21st August 2011
Suffolk Villages Festival - 26th to 29th August 2011
Harvest Festival at Jimmy's Farm - 9th-12th September 2011
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival - 24th-25th September 2011
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival - 24th September - 8th October 2011
Fressingfield Music Festival - 27th September-1st October 2011
Halesworth Arts Festival - 8th-23rd October 2011
Framlingham Arts Festival - Autumn Festival - Friday 14 - Sunday 16 October
Suffolk Herring Festival - 22nd-23rd October 2011
Ways With Words Southwold Literature Festival - 10-14 November 2011
Southwold RFC Beer and Cider Festival - 18 - 20 November 2011
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A four week celebration of food, farming, landscape & the arts
At White House Farm, Sweffling Road, Great Glemham, IP17 1LS
Theme for 2011 ~ The Land and The Sea
The Spring Festival for 2011 takes its inspiration from John Marsden’s book Sea-road of the Saints and explores the relationship of communities and artists with the sea and the land. New artists and makers for 2011 include the photographer Paddy Sutton, potter Sylvia Dales and basket maker Peter Dibble. More information about this year’s festival will be printed /up-loaded on to the Festival website as the programme is completed – we look forward to welcoming you to the Festival in a few months time!
The Festival Exhibition
New work by Maggi Hambling, Ffiona Lewis, Kate Giles, Tory Lawrence, Marchela Dimitrova, Stuart Anderson, Mercury Hare, Jim Parsons, Paddy Sutton, Meriel Ensom, Robina Jack, Sam Taplin, Dylan Pym, Sylvia Dales, Peter Dibble and Jason Gathorne-Hardy.
Farm Shop & Walks in the Valley
There will be a selection of farm walks open for the four weeks of the Spring Festival showing work undertaken as part of Natural England’s Higher Level Stewardship scheme. These will include a Woodland Nature Walk, Hedgerow Walk and Meadow Walk.
Festival Mardles
A series of talks will be held on Thursday evenings. Subjects will include The Early Suffolk Saints, The Suffolk Landscape and two new talks held in association with Full Circle Editions.
Festival Walks
The walks, all starting at White House Farm, will include The Suffolk Landscape, George Crabbe and Wild Food Walks. The latter will be held in association with Wild Side Publications – a Young Enterprise project set up by Sixth Form students at Woodbridge School.
The Festival Knowledge Fair
Taking its inspiration from community knowledge fairs organised by the award winning E-Bario ICT centre in Sarawak, The Festival Knowedge Fair will explore a theme of Growing Food to Eat with links to community groups, chefs, educational groups. The aim of the Knowledge Fair will be to share knowledge
about gardening, farming and growing food to eat.
Please note that a dedicated website - www.aldevalleyspringfestival.co.uk - is being launched shortly which will present the full programme of events as it comes together - please check it out soon!
For full details please see
HighTide Festival 2011
To celebrate the Royal Wedding bank holiday, we are holding our first ever Beer and Sausage Festival. Join us to try 15 real ales and many varieties of locally produced sausages, as well as our own new speciality sausage called Kate''s Wedding Present. We also have live music on Sunday night from Murphy''s Lore and the Hoxon Hundred Morris Dancers on Monday afternoon.
For further details see:
The Beaconsfield Arms Beer and Sausage Festival
Taking place between Saturday 14th May and Sunday 5th 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 plus photographic and twilight 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.
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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 on the launch day of Saturday 14th a ‘not quite half marathon’ a 12 mile walk from Needham Market through to Ipswich along the River Gipping footpath. On Weds 25th May an Archaeological Walk through Hoxne giving an insight into the ‘Hoxne Hoard’ of Roman finds. On
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. 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. Further information can also be found on website www.southandheartofsuffolk.org.uk.
A new era for Bury St Edmunds Festival
Bury St Edmunds Festival is one of the best-loved cultural events in East Anglia renowned for bringing the brightest and the boldest mix of performers to the heart of Suffolk each spring.
The 2011 Bury St Edmunds Festival runs from Thursday 19 May to Sunday 29 May and begins an exciting new era with the opening of ‘the apex’ music venue in the historic market town centre.
The acclaimed 500-seat concert hall with its superb acoustics, airy open spaces and relaxing coffee/drinks bar will host at least one Festival event every day and will provide a lively, central meeting place for Festival followers and shoppers.
The apex adds a new dimension to the Festival programme alongside other atmospheric venues such as the majestic St Edmundsbury Cathedral, the Georgian Theatre Royal, 300-year-old Unitarian Meeting House, jazz at the new Hunter Club and the glorious Abbey Gardens.
Festival Manager Nick Wells Festival has condensed this year’s programme to 11 days; packing in the usual buzzing mix of contemporary and classical music, outdoor concerts, jazz, folk, film, comedy, walks, street theatre and much more.
The opening weekend of the Festival will have a party atmosphere with ‘Blues Brothers’ and ‘Take That’ themed tribute nights in the Abbey Gardens, and the festivities will again be brought to a close with the traditional Beat Retreat ceremony performed on Angel Hill by the Band of the RAF Regiment.
St Edmunds Food & Drink Festival hosted by brewers Greene King is back after its successful launch last year, as are surprising Sonnet Walks bringing Shakespeare’s romantic poetry to life around the hidden corners of the town and Bury Busk featuring local musicians busking around the town.
Families are not forgotten with free street theatre in the Abbey Gardens and a Family Concert from Prime Brass, while local artist in residence Cate Hadley will capture what she hears in shapes and colours.
Full details of the festival programme can be viewed at www.buryfestival.co.uk
Tickets for all Festival events go on sale from 28 February at the Festival Box Office within The Apex, Bury St Edmunds.
They can also be booked online at www.buryfestival.co.uk by calling 01284 758000 or email boxoffice@theapex.co.uk.
Look out for Festival discounts and special offers!
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A celebration of East Anglian Ales and Ciders together with live music all week end.Full details will be on www.laxfieldkingshead.co.uk.
Hog roast,Bar-b-que and bangers.
Ticket Prices: £5 each day or £10 weekend pass.
From: 12 noon to midnight.
Kings Head
Laxfield
01986 798395
email lowhouse@keme.co.uk
Venue Address: Gorams Mill Lane, Laxfield, IP13 8DW
Gates open at 10am with camping overnight at Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich.
Come along to the ‘VEST-IVAL’ of music, comedy and sport coming to Jimmy’s Farm (featured on Channel 4), near Ipswich on Saturday 21 May, to help raise money to support children in poverty across the world. The vest-themed festival will feature Toploader and DJ Annie Mac, live bands including The Establishment, The Crimea, Jersey Budd and local bands Tell It To The Marines and Just Like Little People, stand up comedy from Channel 4''s Friday Night Dinner star Tom Rosenthal as well as a number of football activities including free 5-a-side football and coaching sessions, the actual FA Cup is on site, a skills cage where you can take on your mate in a 1v1 challenge with Dan Magness the 5 time world freestyle record holder and Rocket from Soccer AM as well as the chance to win a place in a celebrity 5 a side game - every ticket bought goes into the raffle for a chance to play with Dion Dublin, Darren Huckerby and Ian Walker!
All proceeds will go to Hanna’s Orphanage, which supports orphans in Ethiopia, and Football Action, which places volunteer football coaches and English teachers in developing countries across the world.
Doors open at 10am on the Saturday, and the music and comedy kicks off at midday. As well as space for camping on site, food and drink will be available to buy from Jimmy’s Farm. Keep your eye on the Facebook page for further bands and comedians as they are confirmed!
Ticket Prices: Adult £45, Child U 14 £20, Family of 4 £100 all with camping
Website: www.footballaction.org.uk/vestival
Contact: ben@footballaction.org.uk
For venue details please click on the 'Jimmy's Farm' link above.
A wide range of top quality local food and drink producers will be joining the Greene King in their picturesque brewery gardens in the heart of Bury St Edmunds to promote their wares, offering opportunities to sample as well as to buy. Among the delights will be locally produced smoked cheese, cured beef, jam, chutney, whisky, cider, premium sausages, seafood, ice cream, fudge - and of course, the finest real ales in the world!
There will also be live music in the gardens, food demonstrations, tutored tastings and beer master classes over the weekend. Families are welcome and we even have activities for the children, so get these dates in the diary!
Stand holders include Jimmy’s Farm, The English Whisky Company, Rodwell Farm homemade cheese, Powters Newmarket Sausages, the Chilli Company, Yum Yum Tree Fudge, Pinneys Oysters of Orford and many more.
Ticket Prices: £3 (Under 18''s free)
For more information please call the Greene King Visitor Centre on 01284 714297, or from the Apex on 01284 758000 (both are in Bury St Edmunds)
Venue Address: Greene King, Westgate Brewery Gardens, Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1QT
The Art World Comes to Aldeburgh for 10 Days Devoted to Every Aspect of Visual Art
Exhibitions, talks, plays, poetry, music, visits to collections and studios, lunches, dinners, and more!
For a FULL LINE-UP of EVENTS and TICKET INFORMATION please see -
www.aldeburghart.com
Ticket Hotline: 0207 622 2500 or email caroline@carolinewiseman.com
To be a VIP:
Tickets sales totalling £150 per person, or £200 a couple makes you into a VIP. As a VIP you have priority booking, priority seating, and invitations to exclusive events, with a chance to meet the artists.
ACCOMMODATION SPECIAL OFFERS!
The Brudenell Hotel:
Two night package staying on the nights of Sunday 22nd and Monday 23rd May or Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th May:- £390. This rate is for two people staying for two nights on a bed and breakfast basis, sharing a double or twin inland room, and including 2 Aldeburgh ART events of your choice each per day.
The White Lion Hotel:
Two night package staying on the nights of the Sunday 22nd and Monday 23rd May or the Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th May:- £320. This rate is for two people staying for two nights on a bed and breakfast basis, sharing a double or twin inland room, and including 2 Aldeburgh ART events of your choice each per day.
Please click on each link above to make you reservation.
Cottage Accommodation Special Offers from Best of Suffolk:
As an Aldeburgh ART customer, you will receive 10% off bookings on a selection of cottages. Please click on the link above to enquire, and quote Aldeburgh ART when you book.
For further information on this great town, please see
Guide to Aldeburgh
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Just a short train ride from London, PULSE ’11 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.
For further details on this year's Pulse Festival please see What's on In Ipswich.
For more local information please see:
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Launched in 2010, Stowmarket Festival is held over ten days at the end of May and start of June. It features a range of events and activities around Stowmarket with one of the main aims of the festival being to make things happen in the town that don't normally happen here. For example, the 2011 festival will see the launch of StowBlues, the first ever Stowmarket Blues Festival, at The Museum of East Anglian Life. A wide range of events and activities are being planned which you can find out about by visiting www.stowmarketfestival.co.uk.
Stowmarket Festival culminates in the free two-day music festival, StowFest. The popular event at Chilton Fields features a range of excellent quality music acts from around the region on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June.
You can find out more information at www.stowfest.co.uk. The full schedule for Stowmarket Festival is currently being put together and once finalised will feature here.
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LeeStock is about music. It’s about people. It’s about fun and it’s definitely about remembering. It’s a little bit about football and a lot about bands. Whether you like listening to bands, spending time with your friends, raising money for charity or raising a drink to the legend that is Lee; LeeStock is what you need.
Starting in 2006, LeeStock was born when a bunch of Lee’s friends wanted to put on a tribute gig in the memory of music mad Lee Dunford who had sadly passed away earlier that year. The gig was a rip-roaring success, very well attended as be-fitting someone as popular as Lee.
LeeStock 2011 will take place at the White Horse, North Street, Sudbury, Suffolk during the 28th and 29th May Bank Holiday weekend. This year LeeStock is scheduled to showcase 18 performers from around the country over the two days. Some have played before, some are new to the LeeStock event and there may be a few surprises.
LINE UP
Saturday headliner for this year’s LeeStock will be Dodgy!
The British trio rose to prominence during the Britpop era of the 1990s, and are best known for their hits “Staying Out For The Summer”, “If You’re Thinking Of Me”, “In a Room” and “Good Enough”.
They have had 9 Top 40 hits in the UK
They have had an album at #7 in the UK chart
In 2009 they played Glastonbury
IN 2011 THEY WILL PLAY LEESTOCK!
They are the awesome Indie legends - the one, the only… Dodgy!!
Full details of the line-up will be available in the near future, so please check back soon.
TICKETS
Tickets are now on sale! Head over to our online ticket stall at www.wegottickets.com/leestock and buy them now. With the obvious excitement of our headline act and the fact that we’ve got limited tickets, please buy early to avoid disappointment. REMEMBER – your ticket gives you entry to both the Saturday and the Sunday. It’ll be a weekend filled with great bands and acoustic acts.
If you have any problems, please e-mail tickets@leestock.org or phone 07790 431127.
Please see leestock.org for more information.
For more information on Sudbury, please also see -
Guide to Sudbury
Accommodation in Sudbury
Eating Out in Sudbury
Shopping in Sudbury
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What's On Woodbridge?
The Cherry Tree Inn Woodbridge (opposite Notcutts) will be holding their 12th beer festival on the 3rd, 4th and 5th June 2011. There will be at least 28 real ales from all across Great Britain, including Otley of Pontypridd, Wolf of Norfolk, Box Steam of Wiltshire, Cairngorm of Aviemore, Loddon of Oxfordshire and of course, our local Adnams from Southwold. The festival will run 10:30-23:00. Hot and cold food will be available 12:00-21:00 Friday and Saturday and 12:00-20:30 on Sunday. We welcome the return of the sea shanty singers High Water Mark on Saturday evening. For more information please see the website www.thecherrytreepub.co.uk, telephone 01394 384627 or e-mail info@thecherrytreepub.co.uk.
Venue Address: 73 Cumberland Street, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
For full details of this year's festival please see Woolpit Festival
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
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Alive and VDubbin is Suffolk Biggest VW Show. The Alive and V Dubbin show is in the heart of the beautiful county of Suffolk, at The Mid Suffolk Showground, Stonham Barns, Stonham, IP14 6AT.
Alive and V-Dubbin was set up and is run by the Suffolk Bug’rs VW Club. The show is run as a not-for-profit show, with all takings and profits made reinvested in future Alive and V-Dubbin shows.
We are very proud of the entertainment we have on offer.
This year it ranges from a load of Great Local Bands, Beer Tent, Climb Spider Mountain, VW Vehicle Displays, Free Skate Ramp and VW Bouncy Castle and not to mention loads of Fun and Activities for the Kids too, and a Show and Shine competition.
We also have an Auto Jumble if you are looking for 2nd hand parts. A great selection of Trade stands and Food Traders to keep you nourished while at the show.
Local Bands playing at Alive and VDubbin include: The Angry Beavers, The Colorblind Hedgehogs, Finger Kuffs, Rockface, Aworld Apart and The Rising. See website for full listings and MySpace profiles of the bands. http://www.aliveandvdubbin.co.uk/music.php
Kids Activities
As a family friendly VW club, we have entertaining the kids high up the priorities for our shows. This year is no exception with plenty of events planned to keep Mini VDubbers happy. We have Skate Ramp and Spider Mountain climbing frame.
Saturday Kids entertainment is hosted by the Bedlam Bunch with
10am - Balloon Modeling/ Walkabout
12:30pm - Rocket Ron's Intergalactic Mission
2:30pm - Fairy Fidget's Magic Medley
3.30pm - Balloon Modeling/ Walkabout
5pm - Finish
Sundays entertainment includes a selection of Drumming Workshops and The Makers. The Makers provide imaginative workshops for people of all ages and abilities. The Willow Workshop in particular uses natural materials and provides people with the opportunity to create amazing individual sculptures, such as birds, butterflies, fish, etc, with the help of experienced leaders.
Tickets
Advance - Friday Night £10/Saturday Night £10/Both Nights £15
On The Gate - Friday Night £15/Saturday Night £15/Both Nights £20/Day Entry £5
Camping is available for the Friday and Saturday nights with the show closing at 5pm on the Sunday. Camping is a must, whether sleeping in your van or under canvas next to your VDub. We are a family focused club so we appreciate consideration when camp.
Please visit www.aliveandvdubbin.co.uk for full details of this great event!
SIXTY-FOURTH ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS
This year's festival promises to be an amazing experience, as ever. For more information please see Aldeburgh Music.
New art and performance each day at the Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout during the Aldeburgh Festival
The South Lookout on Aldeburgh Beach is host to a changing daily programme of art and related performance, entitled Synesthesia, during the Aldeburgh Festival 10-26 June.
In its brand new reincarnation as an extraordinary project space the South lookout displays just one single painting each day by one artist, chosen from a line up of 17 eminent British and International artists including Sir Peter Blake RA. Each painting or artwork inspires a performance created by emerging stage director Mark Blane.
"Each day will bring a new magical experience, especially as there are some evening candle-lit performances" says Caroline Wiseman, Director of The Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout. “Synesthesia is a new concept in line with Aldeburgh's tradition of artistic innovation."
For FULL DETAILS of all performances & events at the festival, and to BOOK YOUR TICKETS, please see Aldeburgh Music.
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
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Since the C15th when Catherine Tollemache wrote her famous Book of Secrets Helmingham Hall Gardens has had a proud culinary tradition.
In its second year the Helmingham Food and Drink Festival in partnership with The Snake in the Grass promises to excite and suprise!
The Festival will attract producers from the local area and further afield. Full of foodie fun and frolics there will be many different attractions including cooking demonstrations as well as local music to enjoy whilst the taste buds are being titillated!
Ipswich's Ip-Art Festival includes music, film, theatre and more! For full details please see Ip-Art Festival.
For more local information please see:
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The Maverick Festival is a celebration of American Roots music, at Easton Farm Park. Fantastic music, great local food, real ale and the idyllic setting of the Farm Park make for a ”boutique” Festival experience, without big crowds, hassle, and expense.
Easton Farm Park’s historic Victorian farm buildings provide unique settings for four stages, featuring American roots music in its myriad forms. Guitars, fiddles, banjos and harmonies, goats, chickens and ponies… it’s country life at it’s best.
The event runs over three days, commencing on Friday night, continues on Saturday with a full programme of musical performances, film & workshops across four stages indoors and out.
ARTISTS BOOKED SO FAR:
Blue Rodeo
The Orbitsuns
Will Scott
The Henry Brothers
Brigitte DeMeyer
The Rosellys
Linda McRae
Police Dog Hogan
The Ragged String Band
The Vagaband
Dead Rock West
Rich Hall
Sadie and the Hotheads (Downton Abbey actress Elizabeth McGovern's band)
...and more to come!
TICKETS:
There are a number of ways you can purchase tickets for the Maverick Festival 2011
Online
Tickets are available from www.hmvtickets.com/events/2274
Post
You can also purchase tickets through the post (no handling charges) by sending a cheque (payable to Claptrap TV) plus a stamped addressed envelope to:
Claptrap TV Ltd
Easton
Woodbridge
IP13 0EJ
Full details available on the website: www.maverickfestival.co.uk
For further information on Woodbridge, please see Guide to Woodbridge
Accommodation in Woodbridge
Eating Out in Woodbridge
The programme offers a wide range of events including exhibitions, music, talks, theatre and practical workshops.
Friday 1 July 7.30pm - St John's Westbury Centre, Fairfield Road
"An Evening with Blake Morrison" - novelist, poet, journalist and author, talks about his work.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Saturday 2 July 7.30pm - Headmaster Porter Theatre, Framlingham College
“The Fall of the House of Usher" - The Southwell Collective screens Jean Epstein's 1928 masterpiece as well as “Ghosts Before Breakfast” and accompanies these two classic silent films with their own new scores. Premiered at The Barbican. A unique event – don’t miss it!
Tickets £8 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Sunday 3 July 7pm – Garden of Moat House, Castle Street
Roughcast Theatre presents Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” - No chairs provided so bring a folding chair or blanket and a picnic and bottle of wine, for a magical evening in a delightful garden.
Tickets £8 (£5 under 18) - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Tuesday 5 – Saturday 9 July 10am-4pm daily – Unitarian Meeting House, Bridge Street
Photographic Exhibition – works by local photographers with prints and greeting cards for sale at affordable prices.
Free entry
Wednesday 6 July 7.30pm – Conservative Club, Church Street
Film@Fram presents “And When Did You Last See Your Father” (2007) (12) based on the best selling memoir by Blake Morrison and starring Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent and Juliet Stevenson. Director: Anand Tucker.
Tickets £6 (£5 Film Club members) at the door
Friday 8 July 7.30pm – St Michael’s Church
“A Roll in the Hay” – Antonius Players with Sunny Ormonde (aka Lillian Bellamy) explore the joys of the countryside with stories, poetry, music and anecdotes from the well loved Archers radio programme. A fun filled event not to be missed, especially by Archers fans!
Tickets £10 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Saturday 9 July 1.15pm for 1.30pm start – meet at Castle Pond
“Hidden Treasures of Framingham” – Discover hidden places and and pieces of our history that you wouldn’t see every day. The walk will end with tea and cake. Limited numbers so booking essential. Please note that there will be some stairs and uneven surfaces to be negotiated!
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Phoenix Singers 7.30pm – Headmaster Porter Theatre, Framlingham College
Orff: Carmina Burana
Lambert: The Rio Grande
Sunday 10 July 12.30-2.30pm – St Michael’s Rectory
Jazz on the Lawn featuring “Redbeans ‘n’ Rice New Orleans Revivalist Jazz Band”
No seating provided so bring a folding chair or blanket and a picnic, to enjoy a thoroughly entertaining, foot-tapping event in a lovely garden adjoining the Mere.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
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LATITUDE is probably Britain's most successful new Arts and Music Festival, and it returns for an incredible 6th Edition on 14-17th July 2011, set in the beautiful countryside of Henham Park Estate on Suffolk’s Sunrise Coast.
Tickets for Latitude 2011 are on sale NOW!
For more information on the festival, including ticket booking details, please see - Latitude Festival 2011.
For accommodation nearby please see:
Accommodation in Southwold
Accommodation in Halesworth
Accommodation in Saxmundham
North Manor Farmhouse B&B
The Angel Inn, Wangford
WESTLETON WILD FLOWER FESTIVAL
The wildflower festival features displays of local wildflowers depicting a range of subjects under a new theme chosen each year. Great care is taken with the gathering of these wild flowers, many are actually grown in village gardens, or are picked from the roadside before the local County Council cuts the verges. No threatened species are used.
This year’s exhibition in the Village Hall features nearly twenty local groups and bodies that all interact with and operate around the village. These include, the Art Group, the Quilters Group, Village archives, Family History Society, the RSPB, Westleton Gun Club, the Whitefriars Bowmen, the Parish Nurses etc., etc. In addition Westleton Gardeners have been working all year to be able to offer a very wide range of garden plants for sale at their display stand in the Village Hall, and all at very reasonable prices.
There will also be demonstrators showing their skills each day. On Friday Lorna Turner will be showing Yarn Crafts, including spinning and the use of an embellisher, whilst the weaving demonstrators on Saturday will be Sue Foster and Joyce Barnes. On Sunday, Sharon McMullin will be demonstrating her skills with stained and decorative glass, both mouth blown and machine made and Chrissie Davies will be showing her unusual skills of producing jewellery from recycled materials. On Monday the internationally known potter Glynn Hugo will be demonstrating the potter’s art. All the demonstrators will have a range of their work on show and some of it will be for sale.
Refreshments will be on sale each day. Afternoon tea will be available in the Vicarage garden on Sunday.
Come and meet Westleton, and see this unique
flower festival and village exhibition for yourself!
Admission is free but donations will be most welcome.
Contact for further interest is John Bebbington, phone 01728 648943, e-mail to john@bebbington2.orangehome.co.uk
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Now into its 12th year Halesworth’s Gig in the Park is firmly established on the festival circuit and the organisers have been again working hard to provide a varied mix of musical genres, mixing established acts with the best up and coming bands around.
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Park and Ride is way to beat the jams …
With all the main seafront car Parks closed, and much of Marine Parade coned off with no parking for next weeks’ 15th Lowestoft Air Festival, visitors travelling by road are advised to use the Park & Ride sites next Thursday and Friday.
Costing £12 per car, the Air Festival park and ride sites are just off the A12 to the north of Lowestoft at Dip Farm, Corton and from the A12 south at Africa Alive, Kessingland. Both sites will be open from 8.00am each day with the first buses leaving at 8.30am an the last buses returning at 7.30pm. A fleet of modern double deck buses from first Bus, with drop down platforms, will run a shuttle service to and from the seafront at 10 to 30 minute intervals. All users will receive a discount voucher for Africa Alive.
Park & Walk sites are available at Pakefield Cliffs car park, accessed from Pakefield Street, and Kirkley & Pakefield Football Club in Walmer Road, both costing £8 per car and at ASDA Horn Hill costing £10 per car. All car parks will be well sign posted.
Disabled car parking is available free for Blue Badge Holders, on a first come first served basis, at Belvedere Road car park. There is no parking for disabled cars on the seafront. Pre-booked coaches can also park at Belvedere Road.
Police will be operating a strict tow-away system for any vehicles parked in restricted areas.
Let the train take the strain
To cope with the influx of rail passengers, National Express East Anglia is adding extra trains to is regular scheduled service between Norwich and Lowestoft both mornings and again in the early evenings for the return journey.
The service from Ipswich will have extra carriages to provide extra capacity.
Seafront Attractions
As well as 4 hours of spectacular flying displays both afternoons starting from about 12.30pm, including the world famous Red Arrows, The Blades, Matadors, Wingwalkers and many more, there are a host of attractions, exhibitors, traders and caterers along the seafront, open from 10.00am.
These include for the first time an Italian Market outside Notleys, on Royal Green – RAF Careers with Tornado cockpit, Ribena (Thurs only), Lings Honda, Thurlow Nunn, funfair, giant inflatables and much more.
On the seafront, as well as all the stalls, there’ll be an RAF Simulator, radio stations The Beach, Heart FM and BBC Radio Suffolk, plus the chance to win a brand new Ford Fiesta for £1, supplied by Hammonds of Halesworth with all profits going to the air festival, so that hopefully it can continue in 2012.
Hammonds of Halesworth will be on Sensory Gardens with a display of latest Ford cars and on The Claremont car park there will be military displays.
Donate £3 to save the air show!
Where else can you have such a fantastic family day out, with all the attractions and flying displays for only £3 per person donation. This is all the organising committee are asking for, as there is a genuine risk that the show may not continue unless enough people put more money in the collecting boxes,
All visitors who donate £3 will receive a 2 for 1 voucher for Pleasurewood Hills
Paul Bayfield, managing director of the Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival Ltd – the not for profit company organising the event – said “ We’d like to thank all the visitors who donated last year, although it is essentially a free event but if our bucket collection is low it simply won’t continue. Last year, due to the wet weather we made loss of £39,000 and we were only able to continue this year due to building up a ‘wet weather contingency’ over the last few years and this is now all gone.
Souvenir Programmes and merchandise will be available from the red air festival booths along the seafront.
For more information log on to the official website via Lowestoft Air Festival.
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“A unique and truly community event” BBC 3
Yoxford is a small village in north east Suffolk known as “the garden of Suffolk”, with a population of about 600. The Arts Festival was founded in 2002 by the flautist Anna Noakes, the percussionist Gary Kettel, and early music enthusiast Ian Terry.
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Thursday 18th August Cuban Lift
Straight from the Abbey Road Studios with their dance music from the Andes and featuring music from their new CD
Book early for this electrifying latin experience.
Anna Noakes & Julie Murray flutes & pan pipes, Tony Hinnigan guitar & charango; Grant McFarlane-Dowse guitar & Gary Kettel Latin percussion
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Friday 19th August The Nigel Hitchcock & Mark Nightingale Quintet
Saturday 20th August Bubbles & Canapes Grant McFarland-Dowse guitar
An award winning first class honours graduate, guitarist Grant studies with guitarist Graham Devine and Cuban composer/guitarist Leo Brouwer. Grant plays with the recently formed Delaney Guitar Quartet, The Sark Trio and Cuban Lift
Saturday 20th August Matchmaker
Patrick Lannigan and legendary Irish musician Dermot Crehan in Justin Pearson’s hilarious musical production
Twenty five years ago, on its first appearance, John B. Keane’ s The Matchmaker was both funny and daring. The play tells the story of a country matchmaker who corresponds with a variety of lonely rural males and females eager to find a mate. The stories are told through the reading aloud of the correspondence between the man and his clients. They are a mixture of comic, tragic, dramatic, and bizarre, and all of them are centrally concerned with sex. What was daring about the show in 1976 was its frankness about sexuality and sexual attitudes in rural Ireland. At a time when the subject was still relatively taboo, or certainly handled with a great deal of care, Keane wrote about the wants and needs of Irish men and women with the no-nonsense pragmatism demonstrated in The Field and Big Maggie. Though sex is mostly spoken of in euphemisms in the play (which change depending on the background of the person writing the letter), the play is run through with hilariously unabashed descriptions of characters and situations which are usually dead on target and laced with witty satire.
Sunday 21st August Literary Lunch with Liz Calder, founder of Bloomsbury Press and Full Circle Editions
Sunday 21st August THE PRESIDENT’S CONCERT
Locrian Ensemble with Yvonne Howard, mezzo soprano
Solists: Anna Noakes, flute; Anthony Pike, English Chamber Orchestra, larinet; Jonathan Williams, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, French Horn; Richard Skinner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Bassoon.
For full details please see: yoxfest.co.uk
To book tickets please see: http://yoxfest.co.uk/page14.html
There will be lots for the kids to do including our bouncy castle, face painting, mega slide, rodeo bull, as well as our Chilli Market, chilli eating competition, chilli cook off, BBQ and bar!!
In the evening of the 20th we are also hosting our ChilliStock Music Festival showcasing local bands, along with a sumptous hog roast and local ales bar.
And the best bit... kid's get in FREE when you quote 'Suffolk Tourist Guide.'
For full details please see The Chilli Company, Stowmarket
Celebrating all things nautical, this exciting free festival brings together Ipswich's maritime past, present and future.
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Myths and Legends: 26 – 29 August 2011
Artistic Director: Peter Holman
Friday 26 August, 8pm
St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh
Carissimi Jepthe, Charpentier Actéon and music by Monteverdi & Cavalli
Claire Tomlin & Philippa Hyde (soprano), Daniel Auchincloss (tenor) Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments, directed by Peter Holman with pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by Hugh Belsey MBE ‘Diana and Actaeon – perennial inspiration’
Saturday 27 August, 12 midday
St James’s Church, Nayland
Biber Rosary Sonatas nos 1, 3, 6, 10, 11 & Passacaglia
Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)
Saturday 27 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Legends of Betrayal: Armida – Agrippina – Arianna
Handel Overtures to Rinaldo & Agrippina, cantatas Armida abbandonata & Agrippina condotta a morire, Locatelli Concerto ‘Il pianto d’Arianna’, Haydn Arianna auf Naxos
Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Essex Baroque Orchestra, directed by Steven Devine
Sunday 28 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Corelli Sonata op 1 no 12, Handel Trio Sonata HWV393, Kuhnau The Fight between David and Goliath, Bach Trio Sonata No 6 BWV530, Couperin L’Apotheose de Lulli & La Paix de Parnasse
London Baroque
Monday 29 August, 12 midday
St Mary’s Church, Boxford
Douce Dame Debonaire – Secrets & Desires in Mediaeval Song
Joglaresa
Monday 29 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh
Handel Choice of Hercules, Bach Cantata 213 Hercules auf dem Scheidewege
Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra directed by Peter Holman
Box office & further information: 01206 366603 or box@suffolkvillagesfestival.com
For more information see: Suffolk Villages Festival
The programme offers a wide range of events including exhibitions, music, talks, theatre and practical workshops.
Friday 14 October 10am - 12 noon – United Free Church Hall
Pen and Ink Drawing Workshop with Bill Flemming – a practical workshop for all abilities. All materials included. Booking essential.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Friday 14 October 7.30pm – St John’s Westbury Centre, Fairfield Road
“The Greene Family” – Jeremy Lewis, biographer, journalist and wit talks about his latest book, “Shades of Greene”, exploring an extraordinary family which gave us Greene King Brewery and three remarkable siblings, Graham Greene the novelist, Hugh Greene who was Director General of the BBC and Elizsabeth who was a spy! An enthralling evening in store. Booking essential.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 36a Fore Street, Framlingham, IP13 9DF (01728 723028)
Saturday 15 October 10am-3pm – Unitarian Meeting House, Bridge Street
“Writing from Nature” – a writers’ workshop with Bernardine Freud – Suitable for both new and experienced writers. Booking essential – bring lunch or visit one of the town’s many cafes during the lunch break (12 noon to 1pm)
Tickets £15 – call 01728 723028 to book your place
Saturday 15 October 7.30pm – St Michael’s Rooms, Church Street
“Crownstreet” Folk Band brings song stories of fishermen, lost sailors and jilted lovers as well as jigs and polkas. Four voices, twelve different instruments, a varied repertoire and a wealth of experience!
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 36a Fore Street, Framlingham, IP13 9DF (01728 723028)
Sunday 16 October 2-4pm – St Michael’s Church
Wrentham Brass Band brings a selection of music for an autumn afternoon.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 36a Fore Street, Framlingham, IP13 9DF (01728 723028)
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Two festival goers were sat in a field when one said to the other:
‘You Hungry?’
The other stands up, looks around and says:
‘Yeah, but my tummy needs something quite extraordinary ’
And Harvest was born.
Harvest is a celebration of food and music for friends and for families. At both of our festivals, you’ll be able to feast your ears as well as your belly. The nation’s feted chefs rub shoulders with the makers of very popular music and everyone jumps up and down. Bingo.
We’re not big but we are perfectly proportioned and well considered, put simply we’ve got more flavour than your regular festival. We hope that you feel the same way as us about the marriage of good food and great music. All of us here at Harvest HQ would feel honoured if you chose to join in with our festivities on September 9th – 12th.
Harvest: The festival with a bite.
It’s well a known fact that the best accompaniment to great food is great music, and boy do we have some corkers for you at Harvest this year!
The Kooks will be playing at Harvest at Jimmy's festival September 9th - 12th. The band complete the line up which includes Eliza Doolittle, The Feeling, Fat Freddy’s Drop, The Divine Comedy, Turin Brakes, Gilles Peterson, Huw Stephens, Charlie Simpson, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Alice Gold, Various Cruelties and Tommy Reilly.
If you like food that goes ping! when it’s ready, look away now. As you may have guessed, fine food is the alter we kneel before and the chefs below are the deities that make us sing Hosanna. We’re not stuffy, we believe in good food for everyone all of the time and this ethos is at the heart of Harvest. Join us in the outdoor cooking theatre at Harvest for some killer demonstrations
Please see Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich for more information.
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The Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival is a two week celebration of the abundance of good local food and drink to be found in East Suffolk. The 2011 Festival will take place throughout East Suffolk from Friday 23rd September through to Saturday 8th October 2011, with the main weekend event being held at Snape Maltings, Suffolk IP17 1SR on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September 2011.
Festival opening times:
Saturday 24th September 2011: 10am – 5pm
Sunday 25th September 2011: 10am – 4pm
For more information please see Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival.
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The Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival takes place in the days following the main weekend event of the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival and features fringe events throughout East Suffolk on farms, in the countryside, beaches, market towns and villages. These include workshops, behind the scene tours of producers, progressive dinners and specially created menus at supporting restaurants and eateries, family activities, farm visits, guided walks and special cookery demonstrations. Something for everyone!
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After six successful years as one of the best small music festivals in the country, the Fressingfield Music Festival returns once again to host another five nights of world class music.
Stars of the classical and jazz world will perform from 27 September – 1 October at the parish church St Peter and St Paul, Fressingfield, north Suffolk. As always, locals and those from further afield will descend on this intimate venue to see world class musicians including the globally acclaimed string ensemble, The Chilingirian Quartet (27 September); rising star, pianist Timothy End (28 September); and back by popular demand, Elaine Delmar with the Brian Dee Trio (30 September).
Tuesday 27 September
The Chilingirian Quartet is acknowledged as one of the world’s top string quartets, and will be performing quartets by Mozart, Beethoven and Ravel. The “Chilis” as they are affectionately known, formed over 35 years ago, have played worldwide, broadcast regularly and have an extensive recording catalogue.
“CHILIS” BRING MUSICAL SPICE TO FRESSINGFIELD FESTIVAL’S EDUCATION DAY
One hundred children from local primary schools including Fressingfield, Garboldisham and Mendham, are expected to attend the Fressingfield Music Festival’s Education Day on Tuesday 27 September. The highlight of the day will be an interactive session with the world renowned Chilingirian Quartet who has generously offered to take time out from their rehearsal for the evening’s concert.
This widely-travelled chamber string ensemble, known affectionately by some as “The Chilis”, has performed extensively on TV and radio around the globe, and offers master classes at the Royal College of Music to many of the world’s most promising musicians. The Quartet also has a close affiliation with Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and has been invited to create a new Chamber Music Academy for the country’s El Sistema.
Wednesday 28 September
One of the UK’s up-and-coming piano virtuosos, Timothy End, who studied at Cambridge and the Guildhall, will be joining the festival to perform pieces by Bach, Chopin, Debussy and Beethoven. He has been described as “someone to watch”.
Thursday 29 September
Vox Cantare, the country’s newest, stunning vocal ensemble will be singing pieces by composers Purcell, Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Vox Cantare are known for their fresh voice and precise pitching and chording.
Friday 30 September
So many people asked for a return concert by Elaine Delmar and the Brian Dee Trio this year that it was impossible to disappoint them. Considered to be the finest jazz singer in Britain today, Elaine, along with Brian’s piano, bass and drums, will no doubt provide another evening of rich, relaxed jazz classics.
Saturday 1 October
Known for their exuberant performances, The Commonwealth Soloists Octet has been well received by its audiences. This evening they present a brilliant programme of music for violin, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, bassoon, contra-bassoon, double bass and, piano. Performing pieces by Bach, Handel, Purcell and Dvorak; the Octet will finish this year’s festival on a very high note.
All concerts will commence at 7.30pm. Tickets can be booked in advance for £10 or purchased for £15 on the door, subject to availability. Tickets for Tuesday’s concert (27 September) cost £15 in advance or £17 at the door. Available by phone 01379 586459 and from mid-August at Fressingfield Stores.
Pre concert dinners will be available at the Swan Inn and Fox & Goose in Fressingfield.
Further information can be found on the festival’s dedicated website www.fressingfieldmusic.com which will be launched at the end of June.
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The Cut, 8 New Cut, Halesworth, IP19 8BY
Annual two week Festival of music, drama, comedy, film, and art exhibitions from the heart of Halesworth.
Tenth Anniversary this year so lots of new faces and some old friends that we've invited back.
Sells out early so booking advised, from 1 August 2011. Box Office 01986 874264
TICKETS & LINE UP
Full details of tickets and the line up of events will be listed here shortly so please check back soon!
www.halesworthartsfestival.org.uk
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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 22nd-23rd October 2011. 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.
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.
For full details of this festival please see Suffolk Herring Festival.
The much anticipated line-up for this year’s Ways With Words Southwold Literature Festival has been announced with Tony Benn, Melvyn Bragg, Joanna Trollope and Maureen Lipman among the highlights.
For five days each November, this popular festival by the sea plays host to an inspiring mix of world-class writers, media figures and contemporary thinkers and attracts an annual literary pilgrimage of festival-goers from across the UK. This year’s festival programme comprises more than twenty events including a literary dinner with guest speaker Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph; and a tour of Southwold aboard Olive, a single-decker vintage bus, with local author Ian Miller on hand to show off the town’s secrets and eccentricities.
Acclaimed politician, diarist and essayist, Tony Benn will open the festival at St. Edmund’s Hall, Southwold, on Thursday 10 November. His talk, based on his latest book ‘Letters to my Grandchildren’, looks to the future and examines the challenges facing the next generation.
Image copyright Oliver Edwards
In the splendid setting of St. Edmund’s Church, Melvyn Bragg looks back, delving deep into the past to recount the political, linguistic and literary stories behind one of the most influential books in the English language, the King James Bible.
Andrew Davies, the man behind some of the best-known film and television adaptations of the past 15 years, not to mention that wet shirt moment in Pride and Prejudice, will talk about his varied screenwriting career from Bleak House to Bridget Jones. Just as memorable as Colin Firth emerging sodden from a lake (but perhaps for different reasons!) is the dance routine where John Sergeant dragged his partner across the dance floor on BBC 1’s Strictly Come Dancing. But the veteran journalist and broadcaster will leave his dancing shoes at home when he visits Southwold to talk about his life on and off camera.
Novelists Salley Vickers and Joanna Trollope will be talking about their latest books in which they examine the themes of love and family relationships respectively, and broadcaster Joan Bakewell, who has recently turned to fiction writing, will discuss her new book set in the late 1950s.
Art-critic Martin Gayford will talk about a decade of personal conversations with the influential British artist David Hockney, and the story of the Pitmen Painters, a group of Geordie coal miners whose artworks wowed the world, will be brought to life by art-critic William Feaver.
View the full programme which will be available to view and download online at www.wayswithwords.co.uk or for a printed brochure contact the Box Office: Tel. 01803 867373 Email: admin@wayswithwords.co.uk
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Beer and Cider Festival at Southwold Rugby Club
Up to 15 guest beers and ciders.
The beer festival will run from 7pm - 11pm on Friday evening (there will be a spoofing tournament starting at 7pm), from 12 midday - 12 midnight on Saturday (the 1st XV play Wisbeach at 3pm and guest band DNA entertain from 8pm) and from midday till the beer runs out on Sunday.
Free entry all weekend.
Contact: info@southwoldrfc.co.uk
Venue Address: Southwold Rugby Club ,York Way, Southwold Common, IP18 6TB
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Suffolk Festivals 2012
ULR Premier Rugby Sevens and Beer Festival - 4th to 6th May 2012
Latitude 2012 - 12th to 15th July 2012
ULR Premier Rugby Sevens and Beer Festival - 4th to 6th May 2012
Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday
Friday night and saturday Beer Festival...Sunday is the International Rugby 7's event with the beer festival.
Friday and saturday FOC with Sunday £7 for adults and £3 for children, under 5,s free.
Contact: Sue Birrell 07771 804444 or see Bury St Edmunds RUFC
Venue Address: Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club, Southgate Green, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2BL
Latitude 2012 - 12th to 15th July 2012
Latitude Festival will take place 12th-15th July 2012. Tickets & line-up coming in the Spring.
Here’s what was on offer last year:
Suffolk Festivals 2011
The Alde Valley Spring Festival - 23rd April - 23rd May 2011
HighTide Festival - 28 April and 8 May 2011
The Beaconsfield Arms Beer and Sausage Festival - 29th April - 2nd May
South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival 2011 - Saturday 14th May – Sunday 5th June
26th Bury St Edmunds Festival 2011 19th-29th May
Petanque and Golf Clubs Beer and Music Festival - 20th-22nd May
VEST-IVAL, Jimmy's Farm - 21st-22nd May
St Edmunds Real Beer and Food Festival 2011 21st-22nd May
Aldeburgh ART 21st-30th May
Pulse Fringe Festival 26th May – 11th June 2011
Stowmarket Festival 2011 - 27th May and 5th June 2011
LeeStock Music Festival 28th-29th May 2011
Beer Festival, Charry Tree Inn - 3rd-5th June 2011
Woolpit Festival 2011 - 9th-19th June
Alive and V-Dubbin 2011 - 10th -12th June
Aldeburgh Festival - 10th - 26th June 2011
Helmingham Hall Food & Drink Festival - 18th - 19th June 2011
Ip-Art Festival - 24 June to 10 July 2011
Maverick Festival - 1st, 2nd & 3rd July 2011
Framlingham Arts Festival - Summer Festival - Friday 1 - Sunday 10 July
Latitude 2011 - 14th to 17th July 2011
Westleton Wild Flower Festival and Village Life Exhibition - 29th July to 1st August
Jimmy's Sausage and Beer Festival - 30-31st July 2011
Gig in the Park, Halesworth 5-7th August
Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival 2011 - Thursday August 11th and Friday August 12th
Yoxfest Arts Festival - 18th-21st August
Chilli Festival & ChilliStock - 20th to 21st August 2011
Ipswich Maritime Festival 2011 - 20th to 21st August 2011
Suffolk Villages Festival - 26th to 29th August 2011
Harvest Festival at Jimmy's Farm - 9th-12th September 2011
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival - 24th-25th September 2011
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival - 24th September - 8th October 2011
Fressingfield Music Festival - 27th September-1st October 2011
Halesworth Arts Festival - 8th-23rd October 2011
Framlingham Arts Festival - Autumn Festival - Friday 14 - Sunday 16 October
Suffolk Herring Festival - 22nd-23rd October 2011
Ways With Words Southwold Literature Festival - 10-14 November 2011
Southwold RFC Beer and Cider Festival - 18 - 20 November 2011
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The Alde Valley Spring Festival - 23rd April - 23rd May 2011
A four week celebration of food, farming, landscape & the arts
At White House Farm, Sweffling Road, Great Glemham, IP17 1LS
Theme for 2011 ~ The Land and The Sea
The Spring Festival for 2011 takes its inspiration from John Marsden’s book Sea-road of the Saints and explores the relationship of communities and artists with the sea and the land. New artists and makers for 2011 include the photographer Paddy Sutton, potter Sylvia Dales and basket maker Peter Dibble. More information about this year’s festival will be printed /up-loaded on to the Festival website as the programme is completed – we look forward to welcoming you to the Festival in a few months time!
The Festival Exhibition
New work by Maggi Hambling, Ffiona Lewis, Kate Giles, Tory Lawrence, Marchela Dimitrova, Stuart Anderson, Mercury Hare, Jim Parsons, Paddy Sutton, Meriel Ensom, Robina Jack, Sam Taplin, Dylan Pym, Sylvia Dales, Peter Dibble and Jason Gathorne-Hardy.
Farm Shop & Walks in the Valley
There will be a selection of farm walks open for the four weeks of the Spring Festival showing work undertaken as part of Natural England’s Higher Level Stewardship scheme. These will include a Woodland Nature Walk, Hedgerow Walk and Meadow Walk.
Festival Mardles
A series of talks will be held on Thursday evenings. Subjects will include The Early Suffolk Saints, The Suffolk Landscape and two new talks held in association with Full Circle Editions.
Festival Walks
The walks, all starting at White House Farm, will include The Suffolk Landscape, George Crabbe and Wild Food Walks. The latter will be held in association with Wild Side Publications – a Young Enterprise project set up by Sixth Form students at Woodbridge School.
The Festival Knowledge Fair
Taking its inspiration from community knowledge fairs organised by the award winning E-Bario ICT centre in Sarawak, The Festival Knowedge Fair will explore a theme of Growing Food to Eat with links to community groups, chefs, educational groups. The aim of the Knowledge Fair will be to share knowledge
about gardening, farming and growing food to eat.
Please note that a dedicated website - www.aldevalleyspringfestival.co.uk - is being launched shortly which will present the full programme of events as it comes together - please check it out soon!
HighTide Festival - 28 April and 8 May 2011
For full details please see
HighTide Festival 2011
The Beaconsfield Arms Beer and Sausage Festival- 29th April - 2nd May
To celebrate the Royal Wedding bank holiday, we are holding our first ever Beer and Sausage Festival. Join us to try 15 real ales and many varieties of locally produced sausages, as well as our own new speciality sausage called Kate''s Wedding Present. We also have live music on Sunday night from Murphy''s Lore and the Hoxon Hundred Morris Dancers on Monday afternoon.
For further details see:
The Beaconsfield Arms Beer and Sausage Festival
South and Heart of Suffolk Walking Festival 2011 - Saturday 14th May – Sunday 5th June
Taking place between Saturday 14th May and Sunday 5th 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 plus photographic and twilight 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 on the launch day of Saturday 14th a ‘not quite half marathon’ a 12 mile walk from Needham Market through to Ipswich along the River Gipping footpath. On Weds 25th May an Archaeological Walk through Hoxne giving an insight into the ‘Hoxne Hoard’ of Roman finds. On
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. 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. Further information can also be found on website www.southandheartofsuffolk.org.uk.
26th Bury St Edmunds Festival 2011 19th-29th May
A new era for Bury St Edmunds Festival
Bury St Edmunds Festival is one of the best-loved cultural events in East Anglia renowned for bringing the brightest and the boldest mix of performers to the heart of Suffolk each spring.
The 2011 Bury St Edmunds Festival runs from Thursday 19 May to Sunday 29 May and begins an exciting new era with the opening of ‘the apex’ music venue in the historic market town centre.
The acclaimed 500-seat concert hall with its superb acoustics, airy open spaces and relaxing coffee/drinks bar will host at least one Festival event every day and will provide a lively, central meeting place for Festival followers and shoppers.
The apex adds a new dimension to the Festival programme alongside other atmospheric venues such as the majestic St Edmundsbury Cathedral, the Georgian Theatre Royal, 300-year-old Unitarian Meeting House, jazz at the new Hunter Club and the glorious Abbey Gardens.
Festival Manager Nick Wells Festival has condensed this year’s programme to 11 days; packing in the usual buzzing mix of contemporary and classical music, outdoor concerts, jazz, folk, film, comedy, walks, street theatre and much more.
The opening weekend of the Festival will have a party atmosphere with ‘Blues Brothers’ and ‘Take That’ themed tribute nights in the Abbey Gardens, and the festivities will again be brought to a close with the traditional Beat Retreat ceremony performed on Angel Hill by the Band of the RAF Regiment.
St Edmunds Food & Drink Festival hosted by brewers Greene King is back after its successful launch last year, as are surprising Sonnet Walks bringing Shakespeare’s romantic poetry to life around the hidden corners of the town and Bury Busk featuring local musicians busking around the town.
Families are not forgotten with free street theatre in the Abbey Gardens and a Family Concert from Prime Brass, while local artist in residence Cate Hadley will capture what she hears in shapes and colours.
Full details of the festival programme can be viewed at www.buryfestival.co.uk
Tickets for all Festival events go on sale from 28 February at the Festival Box Office within The Apex, Bury St Edmunds.
They can also be booked online at www.buryfestival.co.uk by calling 01284 758000 or email boxoffice@theapex.co.uk.
Look out for Festival discounts and special offers!
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Petanque and Golf Clubs Beer and Music Festival - 20th - 22nd May 2011
A celebration of East Anglian Ales and Ciders together with live music all week end.Full details will be on www.laxfieldkingshead.co.uk.
Hog roast,Bar-b-que and bangers.
Ticket Prices: £5 each day or £10 weekend pass.
From: 12 noon to midnight.
Kings Head
Laxfield
01986 798395
email lowhouse@keme.co.uk
Venue Address: Gorams Mill Lane, Laxfield, IP13 8DW
VEST-IVAL, Jimmy's Farm - 21st - 22nd May 2011
Gates open at 10am with camping overnight at Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich.
Come along to the ‘VEST-IVAL’ of music, comedy and sport coming to Jimmy’s Farm (featured on Channel 4), near Ipswich on Saturday 21 May, to help raise money to support children in poverty across the world. The vest-themed festival will feature Toploader and DJ Annie Mac, live bands including The Establishment, The Crimea, Jersey Budd and local bands Tell It To The Marines and Just Like Little People, stand up comedy from Channel 4''s Friday Night Dinner star Tom Rosenthal as well as a number of football activities including free 5-a-side football and coaching sessions, the actual FA Cup is on site, a skills cage where you can take on your mate in a 1v1 challenge with Dan Magness the 5 time world freestyle record holder and Rocket from Soccer AM as well as the chance to win a place in a celebrity 5 a side game - every ticket bought goes into the raffle for a chance to play with Dion Dublin, Darren Huckerby and Ian Walker!
All proceeds will go to Hanna’s Orphanage, which supports orphans in Ethiopia, and Football Action, which places volunteer football coaches and English teachers in developing countries across the world.
Doors open at 10am on the Saturday, and the music and comedy kicks off at midday. As well as space for camping on site, food and drink will be available to buy from Jimmy’s Farm. Keep your eye on the Facebook page for further bands and comedians as they are confirmed!
Ticket Prices: Adult £45, Child U 14 £20, Family of 4 £100 all with camping
Website: www.footballaction.org.uk/vestival
Contact: ben@footballaction.org.uk
For venue details please click on the 'Jimmy's Farm' link above.
St Edmunds Real Beer and Food Festival 21st - 22nd May 2011
A wide range of top quality local food and drink producers will be joining the Greene King in their picturesque brewery gardens in the heart of Bury St Edmunds to promote their wares, offering opportunities to sample as well as to buy. Among the delights will be locally produced smoked cheese, cured beef, jam, chutney, whisky, cider, premium sausages, seafood, ice cream, fudge - and of course, the finest real ales in the world!
There will also be live music in the gardens, food demonstrations, tutored tastings and beer master classes over the weekend. Families are welcome and we even have activities for the children, so get these dates in the diary!
Stand holders include Jimmy’s Farm, The English Whisky Company, Rodwell Farm homemade cheese, Powters Newmarket Sausages, the Chilli Company, Yum Yum Tree Fudge, Pinneys Oysters of Orford and many more.
Ticket Prices: £3 (Under 18''s free)
For more information please call the Greene King Visitor Centre on 01284 714297, or from the Apex on 01284 758000 (both are in Bury St Edmunds)
Venue Address: Greene King, Westgate Brewery Gardens, Cullum Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1QT
Aldeburgh ART 21st-30th May
The Art World Comes to Aldeburgh for 10 Days Devoted to Every Aspect of Visual Art
Exhibitions, talks, plays, poetry, music, visits to collections and studios, lunches, dinners, and more!
For a FULL LINE-UP of EVENTS and TICKET INFORMATION please see -
www.aldeburghart.com
Ticket Hotline: 0207 622 2500 or email caroline@carolinewiseman.com
To be a VIP:
Tickets sales totalling £150 per person, or £200 a couple makes you into a VIP. As a VIP you have priority booking, priority seating, and invitations to exclusive events, with a chance to meet the artists.
ACCOMMODATION SPECIAL OFFERS!
The Brudenell Hotel:
Two night package staying on the nights of Sunday 22nd and Monday 23rd May or Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th May:- £390. This rate is for two people staying for two nights on a bed and breakfast basis, sharing a double or twin inland room, and including 2 Aldeburgh ART events of your choice each per day.
The White Lion Hotel:
Two night package staying on the nights of the Sunday 22nd and Monday 23rd May or the Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th May:- £320. This rate is for two people staying for two nights on a bed and breakfast basis, sharing a double or twin inland room, and including 2 Aldeburgh ART events of your choice each per day.
Please click on each link above to make you reservation.
Cottage Accommodation Special Offers from Best of Suffolk:
As an Aldeburgh ART customer, you will receive 10% off bookings on a selection of cottages. Please click on the link above to enquire, and quote Aldeburgh ART when you book.
For further information on this great town, please see
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Pulse Fringe Festival 26th May – 11th June 2011
Just a short train ride from London, PULSE ’11 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.
For further details on this year's Pulse Festival please see What's on In Ipswich.
Pulse Ticket & Accommodation Offer from Lattice Lodge!
Stay at Lattice Lodge for 2 nights and get 1 ticket per person per night stayed to the events of your choice at the Pulse Fringe Festival! Offer applies 10/11/12 June 11. Click on the link above to book.
Stay at Lattice Lodge for 2 nights and get 1 ticket per person per night stayed to the events of your choice at the Pulse Fringe Festival! Offer applies 10/11/12 June 11. Click on the link above to book.
For more local information please see:
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Stowmarket Festival 2011 - 27th May and 5th June 2011
Launched in 2010, Stowmarket Festival is held over ten days at the end of May and start of June. It features a range of events and activities around Stowmarket with one of the main aims of the festival being to make things happen in the town that don't normally happen here. For example, the 2011 festival will see the launch of StowBlues, the first ever Stowmarket Blues Festival, at The Museum of East Anglian Life. A wide range of events and activities are being planned which you can find out about by visiting www.stowmarketfestival.co.uk.
Stowmarket Festival culminates in the free two-day music festival, StowFest. The popular event at Chilton Fields features a range of excellent quality music acts from around the region on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th June.
You can find out more information at www.stowfest.co.uk. The full schedule for Stowmarket Festival is currently being put together and once finalised will feature here.
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LeeStock Music Festival 28th-29th May 2011
LeeStock is about music. It’s about people. It’s about fun and it’s definitely about remembering. It’s a little bit about football and a lot about bands. Whether you like listening to bands, spending time with your friends, raising money for charity or raising a drink to the legend that is Lee; LeeStock is what you need.
Starting in 2006, LeeStock was born when a bunch of Lee’s friends wanted to put on a tribute gig in the memory of music mad Lee Dunford who had sadly passed away earlier that year. The gig was a rip-roaring success, very well attended as be-fitting someone as popular as Lee.
LeeStock 2011 will take place at the White Horse, North Street, Sudbury, Suffolk during the 28th and 29th May Bank Holiday weekend. This year LeeStock is scheduled to showcase 18 performers from around the country over the two days. Some have played before, some are new to the LeeStock event and there may be a few surprises.
LINE UP
Saturday headliner for this year’s LeeStock will be Dodgy!
The British trio rose to prominence during the Britpop era of the 1990s, and are best known for their hits “Staying Out For The Summer”, “If You’re Thinking Of Me”, “In a Room” and “Good Enough”.
They have had 9 Top 40 hits in the UK
They have had an album at #7 in the UK chart
In 2009 they played Glastonbury
IN 2011 THEY WILL PLAY LEESTOCK!
They are the awesome Indie legends - the one, the only… Dodgy!!
Full details of the line-up will be available in the near future, so please check back soon.
TICKETS
Tickets are now on sale! Head over to our online ticket stall at www.wegottickets.com/leestock and buy them now. With the obvious excitement of our headline act and the fact that we’ve got limited tickets, please buy early to avoid disappointment. REMEMBER – your ticket gives you entry to both the Saturday and the Sunday. It’ll be a weekend filled with great bands and acoustic acts.
If you have any problems, please e-mail tickets@leestock.org or phone 07790 431127.
Please see leestock.org for more information.
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Beer Festival, Cherry Tree Inn - 3rd-5th June
The Cherry Tree Inn Woodbridge (opposite Notcutts) will be holding their 12th beer festival on the 3rd, 4th and 5th June 2011. There will be at least 28 real ales from all across Great Britain, including Otley of Pontypridd, Wolf of Norfolk, Box Steam of Wiltshire, Cairngorm of Aviemore, Loddon of Oxfordshire and of course, our local Adnams from Southwold. The festival will run 10:30-23:00. Hot and cold food will be available 12:00-21:00 Friday and Saturday and 12:00-20:30 on Sunday. We welcome the return of the sea shanty singers High Water Mark on Saturday evening. For more information please see the website www.thecherrytreepub.co.uk, telephone 01394 384627 or e-mail info@thecherrytreepub.co.uk.
Venue Address: 73 Cumberland Street, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Woolpit Festival 2011 - 9th-19th June
For full details of this year's festival please see Woolpit Festival
Grange Farm, Woolpit
When visiting Woolpit an excellent accommodation option is Grange Farm. This 4 Star B&B, located within a Grade II listed building, offers a warm welcome, large garden, delicious breakfasts made from farm-fresh & local ingredients and an affordable rate. Please click on the link above for full details.
When visiting Woolpit an excellent accommodation option is Grange Farm. This 4 Star B&B, located within a Grade II listed building, offers a warm welcome, large garden, delicious breakfasts made from farm-fresh & local ingredients and an affordable rate. Please click on the link above for full details.
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:
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Alive and V-Dubbin 2011 - 10th -12th June
Alive and VDubbin is Suffolk Biggest VW Show. The Alive and V Dubbin show is in the heart of the beautiful county of Suffolk, at The Mid Suffolk Showground, Stonham Barns, Stonham, IP14 6AT.
Alive and V-Dubbin was set up and is run by the Suffolk Bug’rs VW Club. The show is run as a not-for-profit show, with all takings and profits made reinvested in future Alive and V-Dubbin shows.
We are very proud of the entertainment we have on offer.
This year it ranges from a load of Great Local Bands, Beer Tent, Climb Spider Mountain, VW Vehicle Displays, Free Skate Ramp and VW Bouncy Castle and not to mention loads of Fun and Activities for the Kids too, and a Show and Shine competition.
We also have an Auto Jumble if you are looking for 2nd hand parts. A great selection of Trade stands and Food Traders to keep you nourished while at the show.
Local Bands playing at Alive and VDubbin include: The Angry Beavers, The Colorblind Hedgehogs, Finger Kuffs, Rockface, Aworld Apart and The Rising. See website for full listings and MySpace profiles of the bands. http://www.aliveandvdubbin.co.uk/music.php
Nomad Living
Why not travel in style to the Alive & V Dubbin Festival this year by hiring a Classic VW Campervan from Nomad Living! All are fully equipped with everything you will need for your camping adventure. Please click on the link above for full details.
Why not travel in style to the Alive & V Dubbin Festival this year by hiring a Classic VW Campervan from Nomad Living! All are fully equipped with everything you will need for your camping adventure. Please click on the link above for full details.
Kids Activities
As a family friendly VW club, we have entertaining the kids high up the priorities for our shows. This year is no exception with plenty of events planned to keep Mini VDubbers happy. We have Skate Ramp and Spider Mountain climbing frame.
Saturday Kids entertainment is hosted by the Bedlam Bunch with
10am - Balloon Modeling/ Walkabout
12:30pm - Rocket Ron's Intergalactic Mission
2:30pm - Fairy Fidget's Magic Medley
3.30pm - Balloon Modeling/ Walkabout
5pm - Finish
Sundays entertainment includes a selection of Drumming Workshops and The Makers. The Makers provide imaginative workshops for people of all ages and abilities. The Willow Workshop in particular uses natural materials and provides people with the opportunity to create amazing individual sculptures, such as birds, butterflies, fish, etc, with the help of experienced leaders.
Tickets
Advance - Friday Night £10/Saturday Night £10/Both Nights £15
On The Gate - Friday Night £15/Saturday Night £15/Both Nights £20/Day Entry £5
Camping is available for the Friday and Saturday nights with the show closing at 5pm on the Sunday. Camping is a must, whether sleeping in your van or under canvas next to your VDub. We are a family focused club so we appreciate consideration when camp.
Please visit www.aliveandvdubbin.co.uk for full details of this great event!
Aldeburgh Festival - 10th - 26th June 2011
SIXTY-FOURTH ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS
This year's festival promises to be an amazing experience, as ever. For more information please see Aldeburgh Music.
New art and performance each day at the Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout during the Aldeburgh Festival
The South Lookout on Aldeburgh Beach is host to a changing daily programme of art and related performance, entitled Synesthesia, during the Aldeburgh Festival 10-26 June.
In its brand new reincarnation as an extraordinary project space the South lookout displays just one single painting each day by one artist, chosen from a line up of 17 eminent British and International artists including Sir Peter Blake RA. Each painting or artwork inspires a performance created by emerging stage director Mark Blane.
"Each day will bring a new magical experience, especially as there are some evening candle-lit performances" says Caroline Wiseman, Director of The Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout. “Synesthesia is a new concept in line with Aldeburgh's tradition of artistic innovation."
For FULL DETAILS of all performances & events at the festival, and to BOOK YOUR TICKETS, please see Aldeburgh Music.
For some background information to this historic music festival please also see Aldeburgh Festival.
For further information on this great town, please see
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Helmingham Hall Food & Drink Festival - 18th - 19th June 2011
Since the C15th when Catherine Tollemache wrote her famous Book of Secrets Helmingham Hall Gardens has had a proud culinary tradition.
In its second year the Helmingham Food and Drink Festival in partnership with The Snake in the Grass promises to excite and suprise!
The Festival will attract producers from the local area and further afield. Full of foodie fun and frolics there will be many different attractions including cooking demonstrations as well as local music to enjoy whilst the taste buds are being titillated!
Ip-Art Festival - 24 June to 10 July 2011
Ipswich's Ip-Art Festival includes music, film, theatre and more! For full details please see Ip-Art Festival.
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Maverick Festival - 1st, 2nd & 3rd July 2011
The Maverick Festival is a celebration of American Roots music, at Easton Farm Park. Fantastic music, great local food, real ale and the idyllic setting of the Farm Park make for a ”boutique” Festival experience, without big crowds, hassle, and expense.
Easton Farm Park’s historic Victorian farm buildings provide unique settings for four stages, featuring American roots music in its myriad forms. Guitars, fiddles, banjos and harmonies, goats, chickens and ponies… it’s country life at it’s best.
The event runs over three days, commencing on Friday night, continues on Saturday with a full programme of musical performances, film & workshops across four stages indoors and out.
ARTISTS BOOKED SO FAR:
Blue Rodeo
The Orbitsuns
Will Scott
The Henry Brothers
Brigitte DeMeyer
The Rosellys
Linda McRae
Police Dog Hogan
The Ragged String Band
The Vagaband
Dead Rock West
Rich Hall
Sadie and the Hotheads (Downton Abbey actress Elizabeth McGovern's band)
...and more to come!
TICKETS:
There are a number of ways you can purchase tickets for the Maverick Festival 2011
Online
Tickets are available from www.hmvtickets.com/events/2274
Post
You can also purchase tickets through the post (no handling charges) by sending a cheque (payable to Claptrap TV) plus a stamped addressed envelope to:
Claptrap TV Ltd
Easton
Woodbridge
IP13 0EJ
Full details available on the website: www.maverickfestival.co.uk
For further information on Woodbridge, please see Guide to Woodbridge
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Framlingham Arts Festival - Summer Festival - Friday 1 - Sunday 10 July
The programme offers a wide range of events including exhibitions, music, talks, theatre and practical workshops.
Friday 1 July 7.30pm - St John's Westbury Centre, Fairfield Road
"An Evening with Blake Morrison" - novelist, poet, journalist and author, talks about his work.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Saturday 2 July 7.30pm - Headmaster Porter Theatre, Framlingham College
“The Fall of the House of Usher" - The Southwell Collective screens Jean Epstein's 1928 masterpiece as well as “Ghosts Before Breakfast” and accompanies these two classic silent films with their own new scores. Premiered at The Barbican. A unique event – don’t miss it!
Tickets £8 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Sunday 3 July 7pm – Garden of Moat House, Castle Street
Roughcast Theatre presents Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors” - No chairs provided so bring a folding chair or blanket and a picnic and bottle of wine, for a magical evening in a delightful garden.
Tickets £8 (£5 under 18) - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Tuesday 5 – Saturday 9 July 10am-4pm daily – Unitarian Meeting House, Bridge Street
Photographic Exhibition – works by local photographers with prints and greeting cards for sale at affordable prices.
Free entry
Wednesday 6 July 7.30pm – Conservative Club, Church Street
Film@Fram presents “And When Did You Last See Your Father” (2007) (12) based on the best selling memoir by Blake Morrison and starring Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent and Juliet Stevenson. Director: Anand Tucker.
Tickets £6 (£5 Film Club members) at the door
Friday 8 July 7.30pm – St Michael’s Church
“A Roll in the Hay” – Antonius Players with Sunny Ormonde (aka Lillian Bellamy) explore the joys of the countryside with stories, poetry, music and anecdotes from the well loved Archers radio programme. A fun filled event not to be missed, especially by Archers fans!
Tickets £10 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Saturday 9 July 1.15pm for 1.30pm start – meet at Castle Pond
“Hidden Treasures of Framingham” – Discover hidden places and and pieces of our history that you wouldn’t see every day. The walk will end with tea and cake. Limited numbers so booking essential. Please note that there will be some stairs and uneven surfaces to be negotiated!
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Phoenix Singers 7.30pm – Headmaster Porter Theatre, Framlingham College
Orff: Carmina Burana
Lambert: The Rio Grande
Sunday 10 July 12.30-2.30pm – St Michael’s Rectory
Jazz on the Lawn featuring “Redbeans ‘n’ Rice New Orleans Revivalist Jazz Band”
No seating provided so bring a folding chair or blanket and a picnic, to enjoy a thoroughly entertaining, foot-tapping event in a lovely garden adjoining the Mere.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
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Latitude 2011 - 14th to 17th July 2011
LATITUDE is probably Britain's most successful new Arts and Music Festival, and it returns for an incredible 6th Edition on 14-17th July 2011, set in the beautiful countryside of Henham Park Estate on Suffolk’s Sunrise Coast.
Tickets for Latitude 2011 are on sale NOW!
For more information on the festival, including ticket booking details, please see - Latitude Festival 2011.
For accommodation nearby please see:
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North Manor Farmhouse B&B
The Angel Inn, Wangford
WESTLETON WILD FLOWER FESTIVAL
AND VILLAGE LIFE EXHIBITION 2011 - 29th July to 1st August
The wildflower festival features displays of local wildflowers depicting a range of subjects under a new theme chosen each year. Great care is taken with the gathering of these wild flowers, many are actually grown in village gardens, or are picked from the roadside before the local County Council cuts the verges. No threatened species are used.
This year’s exhibition in the Village Hall features nearly twenty local groups and bodies that all interact with and operate around the village. These include, the Art Group, the Quilters Group, Village archives, Family History Society, the RSPB, Westleton Gun Club, the Whitefriars Bowmen, the Parish Nurses etc., etc. In addition Westleton Gardeners have been working all year to be able to offer a very wide range of garden plants for sale at their display stand in the Village Hall, and all at very reasonable prices.
There will also be demonstrators showing their skills each day. On Friday Lorna Turner will be showing Yarn Crafts, including spinning and the use of an embellisher, whilst the weaving demonstrators on Saturday will be Sue Foster and Joyce Barnes. On Sunday, Sharon McMullin will be demonstrating her skills with stained and decorative glass, both mouth blown and machine made and Chrissie Davies will be showing her unusual skills of producing jewellery from recycled materials. On Monday the internationally known potter Glynn Hugo will be demonstrating the potter’s art. All the demonstrators will have a range of their work on show and some of it will be for sale.
Refreshments will be on sale each day. Afternoon tea will be available in the Vicarage garden on Sunday.
Come and meet Westleton, and see this unique
flower festival and village exhibition for yourself!
Admission is free but donations will be most welcome.
Contact for further interest is John Bebbington, phone 01728 648943, e-mail to john@bebbington2.orangehome.co.uk
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Jimmy's Sausage and Beer Festival - 30-31st July 2011
Please see What's On Ipswich - 30-31st July for full details.
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Gig in the Park, Halesworth 5-7th August
Now into its 12th year Halesworth’s Gig in the Park is firmly established on the festival circuit and the organisers have been again working hard to provide a varied mix of musical genres, mixing established acts with the best up and coming bands around.
Please see Halesworth Gig in the Park for full details.
For more information on Halesworth please see:
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Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival 2011 - Thursday August 11th and Friday August 12th
Park and Ride is way to beat the jams …
With all the main seafront car Parks closed, and much of Marine Parade coned off with no parking for next weeks’ 15th Lowestoft Air Festival, visitors travelling by road are advised to use the Park & Ride sites next Thursday and Friday.
Costing £12 per car, the Air Festival park and ride sites are just off the A12 to the north of Lowestoft at Dip Farm, Corton and from the A12 south at Africa Alive, Kessingland. Both sites will be open from 8.00am each day with the first buses leaving at 8.30am an the last buses returning at 7.30pm. A fleet of modern double deck buses from first Bus, with drop down platforms, will run a shuttle service to and from the seafront at 10 to 30 minute intervals. All users will receive a discount voucher for Africa Alive.
Park & Walk sites are available at Pakefield Cliffs car park, accessed from Pakefield Street, and Kirkley & Pakefield Football Club in Walmer Road, both costing £8 per car and at ASDA Horn Hill costing £10 per car. All car parks will be well sign posted.
Disabled car parking is available free for Blue Badge Holders, on a first come first served basis, at Belvedere Road car park. There is no parking for disabled cars on the seafront. Pre-booked coaches can also park at Belvedere Road.
Police will be operating a strict tow-away system for any vehicles parked in restricted areas.
Let the train take the strain
To cope with the influx of rail passengers, National Express East Anglia is adding extra trains to is regular scheduled service between Norwich and Lowestoft both mornings and again in the early evenings for the return journey.
The service from Ipswich will have extra carriages to provide extra capacity.
Seafront Attractions
As well as 4 hours of spectacular flying displays both afternoons starting from about 12.30pm, including the world famous Red Arrows, The Blades, Matadors, Wingwalkers and many more, there are a host of attractions, exhibitors, traders and caterers along the seafront, open from 10.00am.
These include for the first time an Italian Market outside Notleys, on Royal Green – RAF Careers with Tornado cockpit, Ribena (Thurs only), Lings Honda, Thurlow Nunn, funfair, giant inflatables and much more.
On the seafront, as well as all the stalls, there’ll be an RAF Simulator, radio stations The Beach, Heart FM and BBC Radio Suffolk, plus the chance to win a brand new Ford Fiesta for £1, supplied by Hammonds of Halesworth with all profits going to the air festival, so that hopefully it can continue in 2012.
Hammonds of Halesworth will be on Sensory Gardens with a display of latest Ford cars and on The Claremont car park there will be military displays.
Donate £3 to save the air show!
Where else can you have such a fantastic family day out, with all the attractions and flying displays for only £3 per person donation. This is all the organising committee are asking for, as there is a genuine risk that the show may not continue unless enough people put more money in the collecting boxes,
All visitors who donate £3 will receive a 2 for 1 voucher for Pleasurewood Hills
Paul Bayfield, managing director of the Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival Ltd – the not for profit company organising the event – said “ We’d like to thank all the visitors who donated last year, although it is essentially a free event but if our bucket collection is low it simply won’t continue. Last year, due to the wet weather we made loss of £39,000 and we were only able to continue this year due to building up a ‘wet weather contingency’ over the last few years and this is now all gone.
Souvenir Programmes and merchandise will be available from the red air festival booths along the seafront.
For more information log on to the official website via Lowestoft Air Festival.
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Yoxfest Arts Festival - 18th-21st August
“A unique and truly community event” BBC 3
Yoxford is a small village in north east Suffolk known as “the garden of Suffolk”, with a population of about 600. The Arts Festival was founded in 2002 by the flautist Anna Noakes, the percussionist Gary Kettel, and early music enthusiast Ian Terry.
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Thursday 18th August Cuban Lift
Straight from the Abbey Road Studios with their dance music from the Andes and featuring music from their new CD
Book early for this electrifying latin experience.
Anna Noakes & Julie Murray flutes & pan pipes, Tony Hinnigan guitar & charango; Grant McFarlane-Dowse guitar & Gary Kettel Latin percussion
www.cubanlift.com
Friday 19th August The Nigel Hitchcock & Mark Nightingale Quintet
Saturday 20th August Bubbles & Canapes Grant McFarland-Dowse guitar
An award winning first class honours graduate, guitarist Grant studies with guitarist Graham Devine and Cuban composer/guitarist Leo Brouwer. Grant plays with the recently formed Delaney Guitar Quartet, The Sark Trio and Cuban Lift
Saturday 20th August Matchmaker
Patrick Lannigan and legendary Irish musician Dermot Crehan in Justin Pearson’s hilarious musical production
Twenty five years ago, on its first appearance, John B. Keane’ s The Matchmaker was both funny and daring. The play tells the story of a country matchmaker who corresponds with a variety of lonely rural males and females eager to find a mate. The stories are told through the reading aloud of the correspondence between the man and his clients. They are a mixture of comic, tragic, dramatic, and bizarre, and all of them are centrally concerned with sex. What was daring about the show in 1976 was its frankness about sexuality and sexual attitudes in rural Ireland. At a time when the subject was still relatively taboo, or certainly handled with a great deal of care, Keane wrote about the wants and needs of Irish men and women with the no-nonsense pragmatism demonstrated in The Field and Big Maggie. Though sex is mostly spoken of in euphemisms in the play (which change depending on the background of the person writing the letter), the play is run through with hilariously unabashed descriptions of characters and situations which are usually dead on target and laced with witty satire.
Sunday 21st August Literary Lunch with Liz Calder, founder of Bloomsbury Press and Full Circle Editions
Sunday 21st August THE PRESIDENT’S CONCERT
Locrian Ensemble with Yvonne Howard, mezzo soprano
Solists: Anna Noakes, flute; Anthony Pike, English Chamber Orchestra, larinet; Jonathan Williams, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, French Horn; Richard Skinner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Bassoon.
For full details please see: yoxfest.co.uk
To book tickets please see: http://yoxfest.co.uk/page14.html
Chilli Festival & ChilliStock - 20th to 21st August 2011
There will be lots for the kids to do including our bouncy castle, face painting, mega slide, rodeo bull, as well as our Chilli Market, chilli eating competition, chilli cook off, BBQ and bar!!
In the evening of the 20th we are also hosting our ChilliStock Music Festival showcasing local bands, along with a sumptous hog roast and local ales bar.
And the best bit... kid's get in FREE when you quote 'Suffolk Tourist Guide.'
For full details please see The Chilli Company, Stowmarket
Ipswich Maritime Festival 2011 - 20th to 21st August 2011
Celebrating all things nautical, this exciting free festival brings together Ipswich's maritime past, present and future.
Please see Ipswich Maritime Festival - What's On in Ipswich for more information.
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Suffolk Villages Festival - 26th - 29th August 2011
Myths and Legends: 26 – 29 August 2011
Artistic Director: Peter Holman
Friday 26 August, 8pm
St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh
Carissimi Jepthe, Charpentier Actéon and music by Monteverdi & Cavalli
Claire Tomlin & Philippa Hyde (soprano), Daniel Auchincloss (tenor) Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments, directed by Peter Holman with pre-concert talk at 6.45pm by Hugh Belsey MBE ‘Diana and Actaeon – perennial inspiration’
Saturday 27 August, 12 midday
St James’s Church, Nayland
Biber Rosary Sonatas nos 1, 3, 6, 10, 11 & Passacaglia
Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo)
Saturday 27 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Legends of Betrayal: Armida – Agrippina – Arianna
Handel Overtures to Rinaldo & Agrippina, cantatas Armida abbandonata & Agrippina condotta a morire, Locatelli Concerto ‘Il pianto d’Arianna’, Haydn Arianna auf Naxos
Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Essex Baroque Orchestra, directed by Steven Devine
Sunday 28 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Stoke by Nayland
Corelli Sonata op 1 no 12, Handel Trio Sonata HWV393, Kuhnau The Fight between David and Goliath, Bach Trio Sonata No 6 BWV530, Couperin L’Apotheose de Lulli & La Paix de Parnasse
London Baroque
Monday 29 August, 12 midday
St Mary’s Church, Boxford
Douce Dame Debonaire – Secrets & Desires in Mediaeval Song
Joglaresa
Monday 29 August, 7.30pm
St Mary’s Church, Hadleigh
Handel Choice of Hercules, Bach Cantata 213 Hercules auf dem Scheidewege
Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra directed by Peter Holman
Box office & further information: 01206 366603 or box@suffolkvillagesfestival.com
For more information see: Suffolk Villages Festival
Framlingham Arts Festival - Autumn Festival - Friday 14 - Sunday 16 October
The programme offers a wide range of events including exhibitions, music, talks, theatre and practical workshops.
Friday 14 October 10am - 12 noon – United Free Church Hall
Pen and Ink Drawing Workshop with Bill Flemming – a practical workshop for all abilities. All materials included. Booking essential.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 17 de Vere Close, Framlingham, IP13 9SP (01728 724649)
Friday 14 October 7.30pm – St John’s Westbury Centre, Fairfield Road
“The Greene Family” – Jeremy Lewis, biographer, journalist and wit talks about his latest book, “Shades of Greene”, exploring an extraordinary family which gave us Greene King Brewery and three remarkable siblings, Graham Greene the novelist, Hugh Greene who was Director General of the BBC and Elizsabeth who was a spy! An enthralling evening in store. Booking essential.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 36a Fore Street, Framlingham, IP13 9DF (01728 723028)
Saturday 15 October 10am-3pm – Unitarian Meeting House, Bridge Street
“Writing from Nature” – a writers’ workshop with Bernardine Freud – Suitable for both new and experienced writers. Booking essential – bring lunch or visit one of the town’s many cafes during the lunch break (12 noon to 1pm)
Tickets £15 – call 01728 723028 to book your place
Saturday 15 October 7.30pm – St Michael’s Rooms, Church Street
“Crownstreet” Folk Band brings song stories of fishermen, lost sailors and jilted lovers as well as jigs and polkas. Four voices, twelve different instruments, a varied repertoire and a wealth of experience!
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 36a Fore Street, Framlingham, IP13 9DF (01728 723028)
Sunday 16 October 2-4pm – St Michael’s Church
Wrentham Brass Band brings a selection of music for an autumn afternoon.
Tickets £7 - send order with SAE & cheque payable to Arts Framlingham, to 36a Fore Street, Framlingham, IP13 9DF (01728 723028)
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Harvest Festival at Jimmy's Farm - 9th-12th September 2011
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One camper left for Harvest at Jimmy's on 9th Sept - please click on the link above for full details.
Two festival goers were sat in a field when one said to the other:
‘You Hungry?’
The other stands up, looks around and says:
‘Yeah, but my tummy needs something quite extraordinary ’
And Harvest was born.
Harvest is a celebration of food and music for friends and for families. At both of our festivals, you’ll be able to feast your ears as well as your belly. The nation’s feted chefs rub shoulders with the makers of very popular music and everyone jumps up and down. Bingo.
We’re not big but we are perfectly proportioned and well considered, put simply we’ve got more flavour than your regular festival. We hope that you feel the same way as us about the marriage of good food and great music. All of us here at Harvest HQ would feel honoured if you chose to join in with our festivities on September 9th – 12th.
Harvest: The festival with a bite.
It’s well a known fact that the best accompaniment to great food is great music, and boy do we have some corkers for you at Harvest this year!
The Kooks will be playing at Harvest at Jimmy's festival September 9th - 12th. The band complete the line up which includes Eliza Doolittle, The Feeling, Fat Freddy’s Drop, The Divine Comedy, Turin Brakes, Gilles Peterson, Huw Stephens, Charlie Simpson, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Alice Gold, Various Cruelties and Tommy Reilly.
If you like food that goes ping! when it’s ready, look away now. As you may have guessed, fine food is the alter we kneel before and the chefs below are the deities that make us sing Hosanna. We’re not stuffy, we believe in good food for everyone all of the time and this ethos is at the heart of Harvest. Join us in the outdoor cooking theatre at Harvest for some killer demonstrations
Please see Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich for more information.
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Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival - 24th-25th September 2011
The Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival is a two week celebration of the abundance of good local food and drink to be found in East Suffolk. The 2011 Festival will take place throughout East Suffolk from Friday 23rd September through to Saturday 8th October 2011, with the main weekend event being held at Snape Maltings, Suffolk IP17 1SR on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September 2011.
Festival opening times:
Saturday 24th September 2011: 10am – 5pm
Sunday 25th September 2011: 10am – 4pm
For more information please see Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival.
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Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival - 24th September - 8th October 2011
The Aldeburgh Food and Drink Fringe Festival takes place in the days following the main weekend event of the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival and features fringe events throughout East Suffolk on farms, in the countryside, beaches, market towns and villages. These include workshops, behind the scene tours of producers, progressive dinners and specially created menus at supporting restaurants and eateries, family activities, farm visits, guided walks and special cookery demonstrations. Something for everyone!
29 Sep: An introduction to breadmaking with John Dean
See John Dean, from the New Roundhouse Cakes & Sugarcraft, take you through each step of the bread-making process during his demonstration & workshop. A special, one-off price for the Festival - £25.00! Please click on the Fringe Festival link below for more information on the workshop, or click on the link above for more information on The New Roundhouse Cakes & Sugarcraft.
See John Dean, from the New Roundhouse Cakes & Sugarcraft, take you through each step of the bread-making process during his demonstration & workshop. A special, one-off price for the Festival - £25.00! Please click on the Fringe Festival link below for more information on the workshop, or click on the link above for more information on The New Roundhouse Cakes & Sugarcraft.
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Fressingfield Music Festival - 27th September-1st October 2011
After six successful years as one of the best small music festivals in the country, the Fressingfield Music Festival returns once again to host another five nights of world class music.
Stars of the classical and jazz world will perform from 27 September – 1 October at the parish church St Peter and St Paul, Fressingfield, north Suffolk. As always, locals and those from further afield will descend on this intimate venue to see world class musicians including the globally acclaimed string ensemble, The Chilingirian Quartet (27 September); rising star, pianist Timothy End (28 September); and back by popular demand, Elaine Delmar with the Brian Dee Trio (30 September).
Tuesday 27 September
The Chilingirian Quartet is acknowledged as one of the world’s top string quartets, and will be performing quartets by Mozart, Beethoven and Ravel. The “Chilis” as they are affectionately known, formed over 35 years ago, have played worldwide, broadcast regularly and have an extensive recording catalogue.
“CHILIS” BRING MUSICAL SPICE TO FRESSINGFIELD FESTIVAL’S EDUCATION DAY
One hundred children from local primary schools including Fressingfield, Garboldisham and Mendham, are expected to attend the Fressingfield Music Festival’s Education Day on Tuesday 27 September. The highlight of the day will be an interactive session with the world renowned Chilingirian Quartet who has generously offered to take time out from their rehearsal for the evening’s concert.
This widely-travelled chamber string ensemble, known affectionately by some as “The Chilis”, has performed extensively on TV and radio around the globe, and offers master classes at the Royal College of Music to many of the world’s most promising musicians. The Quartet also has a close affiliation with Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and has been invited to create a new Chamber Music Academy for the country’s El Sistema.
Wednesday 28 September
One of the UK’s up-and-coming piano virtuosos, Timothy End, who studied at Cambridge and the Guildhall, will be joining the festival to perform pieces by Bach, Chopin, Debussy and Beethoven. He has been described as “someone to watch”.
Thursday 29 September
Vox Cantare, the country’s newest, stunning vocal ensemble will be singing pieces by composers Purcell, Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Vox Cantare are known for their fresh voice and precise pitching and chording.
Friday 30 September
So many people asked for a return concert by Elaine Delmar and the Brian Dee Trio this year that it was impossible to disappoint them. Considered to be the finest jazz singer in Britain today, Elaine, along with Brian’s piano, bass and drums, will no doubt provide another evening of rich, relaxed jazz classics.
Saturday 1 October
Known for their exuberant performances, The Commonwealth Soloists Octet has been well received by its audiences. This evening they present a brilliant programme of music for violin, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet, bassoon, contra-bassoon, double bass and, piano. Performing pieces by Bach, Handel, Purcell and Dvorak; the Octet will finish this year’s festival on a very high note.
All concerts will commence at 7.30pm. Tickets can be booked in advance for £10 or purchased for £15 on the door, subject to availability. Tickets for Tuesday’s concert (27 September) cost £15 in advance or £17 at the door. Available by phone 01379 586459 and from mid-August at Fressingfield Stores.
Pre concert dinners will be available at the Swan Inn and Fox & Goose in Fressingfield.
Further information can be found on the festival’s dedicated website www.fressingfieldmusic.com which will be launched at the end of June.
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Halesworth Arts Festival - 8th-23rd October 2011
The Cut, 8 New Cut, Halesworth, IP19 8BY
Annual two week Festival of music, drama, comedy, film, and art exhibitions from the heart of Halesworth.
Tenth Anniversary this year so lots of new faces and some old friends that we've invited back.
Sells out early so booking advised, from 1 August 2011. Box Office 01986 874264
TICKETS & LINE UP
Full details of tickets and the line up of events will be listed here shortly so please check back soon!
www.halesworthartsfestival.org.uk
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Suffolk Herring Festival - 22nd-23rd October 2011
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 22nd-23rd October 2011. 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.
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.
For full details of this festival please see Suffolk Herring Festival.
Ways With Words Southwold Literature Festival - 10-14 November 2011
The much anticipated line-up for this year’s Ways With Words Southwold Literature Festival has been announced with Tony Benn, Melvyn Bragg, Joanna Trollope and Maureen Lipman among the highlights.
For five days each November, this popular festival by the sea plays host to an inspiring mix of world-class writers, media figures and contemporary thinkers and attracts an annual literary pilgrimage of festival-goers from across the UK. This year’s festival programme comprises more than twenty events including a literary dinner with guest speaker Sam Leith, former literary editor of the Daily Telegraph; and a tour of Southwold aboard Olive, a single-decker vintage bus, with local author Ian Miller on hand to show off the town’s secrets and eccentricities.
Acclaimed politician, diarist and essayist, Tony Benn will open the festival at St. Edmund’s Hall, Southwold, on Thursday 10 November. His talk, based on his latest book ‘Letters to my Grandchildren’, looks to the future and examines the challenges facing the next generation.
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In the splendid setting of St. Edmund’s Church, Melvyn Bragg looks back, delving deep into the past to recount the political, linguistic and literary stories behind one of the most influential books in the English language, the King James Bible.
Andrew Davies, the man behind some of the best-known film and television adaptations of the past 15 years, not to mention that wet shirt moment in Pride and Prejudice, will talk about his varied screenwriting career from Bleak House to Bridget Jones. Just as memorable as Colin Firth emerging sodden from a lake (but perhaps for different reasons!) is the dance routine where John Sergeant dragged his partner across the dance floor on BBC 1’s Strictly Come Dancing. But the veteran journalist and broadcaster will leave his dancing shoes at home when he visits Southwold to talk about his life on and off camera.
Novelists Salley Vickers and Joanna Trollope will be talking about their latest books in which they examine the themes of love and family relationships respectively, and broadcaster Joan Bakewell, who has recently turned to fiction writing, will discuss her new book set in the late 1950s.
Art-critic Martin Gayford will talk about a decade of personal conversations with the influential British artist David Hockney, and the story of the Pitmen Painters, a group of Geordie coal miners whose artworks wowed the world, will be brought to life by art-critic William Feaver.
View the full programme which will be available to view and download online at www.wayswithwords.co.uk or for a printed brochure contact the Box Office: Tel. 01803 867373 Email: admin@wayswithwords.co.uk
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Southwold RFC Beer and Cider Festival at Southwold Rugby Club - 18-20 November 2011
Beer and Cider Festival at Southwold Rugby Club
Up to 15 guest beers and ciders.
The beer festival will run from 7pm - 11pm on Friday evening (there will be a spoofing tournament starting at 7pm), from 12 midday - 12 midnight on Saturday (the 1st XV play Wisbeach at 3pm and guest band DNA entertain from 8pm) and from midday till the beer runs out on Sunday.
Free entry all weekend.
Contact: info@southwoldrfc.co.uk
Venue Address: Southwold Rugby Club ,York Way, Southwold Common, IP18 6TB
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