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Suffolk Festivals
Suffolk is the place to come for Festivals this year with everything from star studded events such as High Tide and Latitude, to the action packed Lowestoft Air Festival and Honda Formula 4 stoke engine series....
Please click on the Festivals below
HighTide Festival 2nd - 5th May 2008
Bury St Edmunds Festival 2008 Friday 9 May – Sunday 25 May
Felixstowe Drama Festival Saturday 24th May – Saturday 31st May
Pulse Fringe Festival 29th May – 14th June
Aldeburgh Festival 13th - 29th June
Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2008 27th & 28th June
Ip-Art Saturday 28th June to Sunday 13th July
Bures Music Festival 9th-13th July
Latitude 2008 17th-20th July
Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival - 24-25th July
Honda Formula 4 stoke series, Lowestoft 26 - 27th July 11am - 4pm
Suffolk Villages Festival, 22nd-25th August
Following a hugely successful first year, which saw packed audiences enjoying new productions developed by HighTide with the most exciting young writers and directors, HighTide 2008 will continue its commitment to supporting new work. This year, the HighTide creative team, led by Artistic Directors Sam Hodges and Steven Jon Atkinson, have had expert support from Artistic Advisors Robert Fox, (leading film and theatre producer) and Tom Morris, (Associate Director of the National Theatre).
• The Festival runs between 2nd and 5th May and will feature short films, music, comedy, talks and masterclasses by industry professionals including Tom Stoppard
• Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Laura Wade will present professional premieres of short new plays
• Full productions from Joel Horwood, Nick Payne and Adam Brace and devised theatre company You Need Me
With the support of patrons Sinead Cusack, Sally Greene OBE, Sir David Hare and Bill Nighy, HighTide returns for a second year to New Cut Arts in Halesworth with a packed programme of theatre, film, comedy, talks and masterclasses by individuals including Tom Stoppard.
For more information see Hightide Festival
Each year this Festivals attracts top class performers attracting thousands of people and bringing a buzz to the award-winning town at the heart of Suffolk.
There will be more than 60 events over the 17 days including: orchestral concerts, new music, exciting fusions, open-air party nights, brass bands, lunchtime jazz and folk, classical ensembles, opera, dance, theatre, films, workshops, walks, and more.
Hundreds of young people will be getting involved by beating out junk funk with Weapons of Sound, singing African songs with the Bury Township Choir, writing music for the Tallis Scholars, dancing with the Jonathan Lunn Dance Company or learning about Parkour (free-running).
Highlights include:
Festival Opening Celebrations with the traditional Beating Retreat (9 May) on Angel Hill, Weapons of Sound junk funk band beating out the rhythm with local schoolchildren, and wacky Street Theatre (10 May) in the Abbey Gardens.
Gala concerts from the mighty Russian State Symphony Orchestra (11 May), the European Union Chamber Orchestra with cellist Natalie Clein (20 May), early music stars Tallis Scholars (14 May), and top brass Grimethorpe Colliery Band (10 May).
Big names Jacques Loussier (19 May), Claire Martin & Richard Rodney Bennett (20 May), and an Opera double bill from Armonico Consort (16 May) in the refurbished Theatre Royal.
Hot jazz with South African band Mbawula (12 May) performing in a pub; Australian favourites Craig Schneider Trio (19 May), the award-winning David Newton Trio (22 May) and Alan Beechey’s Bright Stars of Jazz (23 May).
Exciting fusions see the Brodsky Quartet alongside Tunde Jegede performing his new work on kora (12 May); the Gilad Atzmon Quartet explore Charlie Parker’s music with the Sigamos String Quartet (15 May); Acoustic Triangle and the Sacconi Quartet launch a grand tour of inspiring buildings from St Edmundsbury Cathedral (16 May); pianist Lucy Parham tells Liszt’s love story with actors Martin Jarvis and Joanna David (18 May); and the Jonathan Lunn Dance Company is joined by actor Juliet Stevenson (14 May).
Local heroes Karen Sharp Quintet (12 May), jazz singer Sophie Garner (16 May), Bury Bach Choir performing Verdi’s Requiem (17 May) and folk band, the Churchfitters (21 May).
Lively lunchtimes every weekday such as flute and guitar duo Flautarra (13 May), a new take on early music from Horses Brawl (14 May); and five female recorder players in Fontanella (20 May).
Favourite ensembles Prime Brass (13 May), the Royal Academy of Music’s Symphonic Wind ensemble (15 May) and The Four Temperaments (22 May), plus pirates of the baroque Red Priest (21 May).
Two very different solo performances: Ian Billings brings his Talking Pants comedy show for children (17 May) and Bruce Morrison brings Shakespeare’s characters to life (16 May); and this year sees the Festival’s first World Cinema series featuring four award-winning films that have wowed audiences worldwide
Party and picnic at a Gig in the Gardens by dancing to Jazz Jamaica, going retro for the Abba & Beatles tribute night, or swinging with the Salute to the Rat Pack for the Festival Finale with fireworks.
Plus organ recitals, themed walks, talks, cookery workshops, supper tours, flower market and much more.
Tickets for all Festival events go on sale to the general public from Monday 3 March. Book through the Festival Box Office, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds on 01284 769505, or online at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds (Early booking and group discounts available)
The Bury St Edmunds Festival is managed by St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
Festival brochures are available from Bury St Edmunds Tourist Information Centre (click here for contact details), or visit the Festival website at www.buryfestival.co.uk or call the brochure hotline on 01284 757099.
Click here for Accommodation in Bury St Edmunds
The first Annual Felixstowe Drama Festival was held in 1951 and it has taken place annually ever since. The Spa Pavilion is proud to host the 58th Annual Drama Festival, bringing a new programme of plays performed by amateur groups around the UK.
This Year’s Adjudicator is Colin Dolley
Performances: 7.30pm
Tickets: £9.00
Weekly Saver £47.00
Student Saver £30.00
See Spa Pavilion for booking details.
See Accommodation in Felixstowe for places to stay to enjoy the Festival
This year's Pulse Fringe Festival in Ipswich promises to be the biggest yet, with over thirty productions from across the country performing over the course of three weeks in venues around Ipswich. Art, music, dance and theatre all combine for this three week festival extravaganza!
As the website asks-- "What else can you do for a fiver? Watch three quarters of a movie, buy a chicken (not free range), have one eye tested, spend 15 mins on the train to London, admit your left leg to a theme park… or SEE A PULSE EVENT!! DO YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT??"
There are so many theatre companies brand new to PULSE and some returning favourites too, a combination that’s sure to light up the cultural scene in Ipswich over the festival. If you’re new to PULSE – or a “returning favourite” be sure to get your tickets booked and while you’re at it, take some risks and book for something that you wouldn’t usually!
Go to www.pulsefringe.com for a full schedule, venue details, and event listings.
Suffolk Festivals
Artistic Director: Thomas Adès
Associate Artistic Director: John Woolrich
The 61st Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts opens on Friday 13th June with the world première of Yannis Kyriakides’ new opera Ocean of Rain, co-commissioned by Aldeburgh Almeida Opera and Theatre Cryptic. Based in Holland, the Anglo-Cypriot composer Yannis Kyriakides has collaborated on Ocean of Rain, with the Canadian writer Daniel Danis and director Cathie Boyd, founder of Theatre Cryptic. Ocean of Rain is the first of a number of works that will be premièred at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival, including a new work for cello and piano by Thomas Adès, a violin concerto by John Woolrich and the UK première of Harrison Birtwistle’s most recent string quartet.
The 2008 Aldeburgh Festival is Thomas Adès’ tenth and final Festival as Artistic Director.
His tenure with the Aldeburgh Festival has been a period of growth and development, both for him personally and for the Festival. Over the ten years that he has been artistic director, in tandem with composing, Adès has become increasingly well known for his performances as pianist and conductor, and his regular appearances have become Festival highlights. In addition to conducting the première of the Orchestral Suite from Powder Her Face and the UK premières of America, A Prophecy, Adès gave the première of his piano quintet at the 2002 Aldeburgh Festival. During the 2008 Festival, as well as conducting a concert with BCMG (Sunday 15th June), Adès and Steven Isserlis will give the première of a work for piano and cello written for Isserlis (Tuesday 17th June).
The featured composer this year is György Kurtág, a close collaborator of both Thomas Adès and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. In addition to having his works performed throughout the Festival in the programmes of Thomas Adès, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, as well as BCMG, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Singers and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kurtág will give a recital with his wife Marta and the violinist, Hiromi Kikuchi (Thursday 19th June).
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who will succeed Adès as Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival with effect from 2009, will make three appearances at the 2008 Festival: as soloist and conductor with the Britten Sinfonia (Saturday 14th June), in recital including The Art of Fugue (Friday 20th June), and as chamber musician with Tabea Zimmermann and Martin Fröst (Sunday 22nd June). A Messiaen protégé, installed by Boulez as resident pianist of the Ensemble InterContemporain at the age of 19, and muse to such 20th century giants as Ligeti, Kurtág and Carter, Pierre-Laurent first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1999, when he gave a recital interspersed with poetry written and read by Alfred Brendel. Pierre-Laurent has returned annually to Aldeburgh since 2004 when The Times commented: ‘One of the most outstanding pianists of today, a player almost unrivalled for his mix of interpretive insight and easy virtuosity, Aimard has been living with this music for over a quarter of a century, and his recent recording of the piece [Ives’ Concord Sonata] sets new standards: still, as his Aldeburgh Festival recital showed, hearing the music live is another experience altogether’.
This year’s Aldeburgh Festival welcomes back the Belcea Quartet with pianist, Imogen Cooper, for a performance of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. The Belceas made their Aldeburgh debut with Imogen Cooper in 1999, when they performed Dvorak’s Piano Quintet. They have since been frequent guests. Also returning to the Aldeburgh Festival is tenor, Ian Bostridge accompanied by Antonio Pappano; the choral group EXAUDI; the Gabrieli Consort; the Arditti Quartet; Thomas Zehetmair with Northern Sinfonia; Edward Gardner who will be conducting the CBSO in a programme of Britten and Walton; baritone Robert Holl; and, soprano Carolyn Sampson.
Faster Than Sound, where electronica meets classical music, returns in a new form, presenting three events including Stockhausen’s Stimmung at Snape and an evening of commissions in the Hush House, a new venue on the disused Bentwaters airbase.
The visual arts features a major new sculpture by Ana Maria Pacheco, accompanied by works on paper.
See Aldeburgh Festival for more information
The 27th & 28th June heralds the arrival of Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2008, a swing & jazz festival to be held in the glorious gardens of Spencers at Great Yeldham on the Suffolk/Essex border, with music performed under a huge marquee. For the second year running, the gates of this Georgian estate will open up to a spectacular line-up of talented and well known musicians.
Topping a star-studded bill, will be undoubted all-time-great of British Jazz, Courtney Pine. Nine other brilliant bands will perform at MM@S 2008 including the Glenn Miller Orchestra U.K., John Etheridge and his Sweet Chorus and Shakatak. This year’s festival, with the help of China Now, will have a definite Chinese theme. Of special interest is Eugene Pao, the phenomenal jazz guitarist from Hong Kong.
Courtney Pine will headline MM@S 2008 with his six-piece band. Winner of the Urban Music Awards ‘Best Jazz Act’ 2007, this legendary musician mesmerises the audience with his technical and creative skill on tenor and soprano saxophones and bass clarinet. With energy and spirit, forcefulness and edge, Pine generates excitement with a show full of Coltranesque panache and robust playing. A Londoner born to Jamaican parents, influences of reggae and ska naturally colour the playing of this virtuoso communicator. Courtney Pine is host to the critically acclaimed specialist jazz show ‘Jazz Crusade’ on BBC Radio 2.
MM@S 2008 kicks off Friday evening’s SWING NIGHT with “Tribute to Benny Goodman” by the Julian Marc Stringle Quintet. The young virtuoso clarinettist and his band will perform a unique blend of swing, blues and jazz. To follow, will be the irresisitible Slammers Maximum Jive Band. With a vibrant horn section, powerhouse bass, commanding vocals and the finest boogie piano playing, this eight-piece band gets everyone dancing! For the night’s crescendo The Glen Miller Orchestra UK plays MM@S 2008. Under the direction of Ray McVay this sell-out big band swing ensemble is as close to authentic Glenn as it gets with favourites such as “I’ve got a gal in Kalamazoo” and “Chattanooga choo-choo”. Should be a show-stopper to end the opening night of MM@S 2008.
Saturday 28th June is JAZZ ALL DAY, starting at noon with Larraine Odell (a “voice of passion and honey”) & The Jazznights Trio. Next on stage is Eugene Pao, Hong Kong’s most publicly recognized jazz musician. Bridget Metcalfe Soul Band will follow, prior to the guitarist, composer and band leader John Etheridge performing with his gypsy jazz band ‘Sweet Chorus’.
The evening set begins with Shakatak, the seminal jazz-funk band followed by latino-style band Robin Jones & King Salsa. The King of Jazz himself , Mr Pine will be the final act to play MM@S 2008.
MM@S promises not only to be a fantastic musical experience, but also a family outing with imaginative entertainment and activities for the children. Delicious eats (including Spencers-reared burgers, alongside Chinese delicacies); a champagne, real ale and juice bar and intriguing local crafts to buy. Spencers gardens – at their peak in late June – and its park and woodlands are open for exploration and relaxing in, as well as providing a magical setting in which to enjoy Midsummmer Music.
Ticket prices are: Friday evening £28, Saturday all day £48, both days £60. Saturday12 noon - 6pm £15, Saturday 6pm-midnight £38. There are excellent discounts for “Early Birds” & Seniors (65+). 15’s and under (accompanied by an adult) are FREE.
MM@S is once again delighted to support the vital work of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Maggie’s provide a range of services to enhance the lives of those living with cancer and of their families and friends. This is provided by nurses, psychologists and other cancer-support specialists. Maggie’s have five Centres in Scotland and this year opened their first Centre in England, based at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, London. Fundraising campaigns have started in order to build a further five Centres - in the Cotswolds, the North East, Oxford, Nottingham and Lanarkshire. For further information on Maggie’s please visit Maggie's Centres
For more information on the concerts contact Flora Courtauld on 07811 376 492 or see Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2008
While you're in the area why not drop in on the following nearby attractions, or have a drink at The Cherry Tree just down the road?
Colne Valley Railway
Hedingham Castle
The Cherry Tree
For two weeks every summer Ipswich becomes the focus for a celebration of music, dance, drama, comedy, art, literature, film and sculpture with the Ip-art Festival.
Now in its sixth year, Ip-art has established itself as a major event in Ipswich’s cultural calendar, attracting increasingly large audiences drawn not only from Ipswich and Suffolk, but also from London and beyond.
Literary events:
• Author’s talks by Libby Purves, Helen Dunmore and Toby Litt
• Creative writing workshops and a short story competition
• Children’s literature day
• An examination if the increasing popularity of the graphic novel, with contributions by Paul Gravett, Bryan Talbot and Hannah Berry
Music Events:
• The Ipswich Orchestral Society Concert, with soloist Julian Lloyd –Webber
• Bring It and Sing It – a musical extravaganza in the centre of Ipswich
• Ipswich Music Day, the largest one-day music event in the East of England, with six separate stages showcasing music from jazz, soul and blues to classical and rock, all in the glorious surroundings of Christchurch Park.
Visual Arts:
The theme for this year’s visual arts is ‘colour’. Visitors will be able to savour a true colour experience as they walk through tubes of colour in the ‘Colour Dome’; appreciate a wide range of exhibitions by artists old and new working in a variety of mediums and styles; participate in workshops, and witness a demonstration of chainsaw sculpture.
Drama:
Eastern Angles will stage ‘We didn’t mean to go to sea’ on the waterfront, and theatre lovers are invited to combine drama with dinner at various restaurants around town.
This is just a small sample of the entertainment on offer.
The Festival Brochure, with full details of all the events, will be available from Tuesday 6th May 2008. BOOK NOW! See Ip-Art
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PLANS for this year's Bures Music Festival are now well advanced and, already, there has been a flurry of inquiries for tickets for the various events.
The Festival - it is the 12th - will run from July 9 to 13th with a variety of music to suit most tastes.
The Festival opens with an evening of light music and songs from the shows presented in the village church by Musicology who made such an impression when they appeared at the Festival a couple of years ago.
Once again there will be music aimed at young people through the B-Fest that is being staged in a huge marquee on the village recreation ground. It will be a splendid occasion for young musicians and singers to show what they can do.
A highlight of recent Bures Festivals has been the Blues Night, presented by BBC Radio Suffolk's Stephen Foster. This year it is on Friday, July 11 and it will feature top blues star Connie Lush and the Blues Shouters, and they will be supported by Just Blues.
The Festival's Soul Night, that proved so popular last year, has been retained but with a little jive and musical fun thrown in for good measure. It's on Saturday, July 12 and it features a highly recommended band called Johnny and His Mates.
The flagship event, Jazz by the Stour, is the finale of the Festival and takes place on Sunday, July 13, and once again some of the UKs top musicians will be featured.
They include the recent top award winner singer-pianist, Liane Carroll and her Trio along with that superb guitarist, John Etheridge.
The day starts around lunchtime with the trad-mainstream jazz of T J Johnson and his Band, and they will be followed by the popular singer Laura Zakian, who is well known on the national jazz circuit She will be followed by Atila, the Frank Sinatra sound alike who made such a good impression at last year's Festival when he appeared with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Atila will be backed by a cracking band of up and coming musicians, including pianist Rob Barron who is frequently seen as pianist to singer Charlotte Church.
Between the main acts there will be more swinging jazz with Lawford based trumpeter Tom Walsh, grandson of the legendary Robert Farnon, who is making a big name for himself on the UK music scene with the superb pianist Carl Hudson.
The Bures Music Festival that started twelve years ago with the first ever Jazz by the Stour has expanded to cater for a wider range of musical styles and over the year's it has raised well over £100,000 for charities, including the St Helena Hospice at Colchester and the Ferriers Barn Day Centre fior the Handicapped at Bures
As usual there will be camping facilities (subject to prior booking). Over the years many people have made the Festival a short break by caravaning or pitching tents on the site.
Details of the Festival - including ticket inquiries - can be obtained through Carole Heath on 01787 227953 or by visiting the website www.jazzbythestour.org.com
For accommodation nearby see Accommodation in Sudbury
This years Latitude Festival will take place on 17th – 20th of July for its 3rd year in the beautiful Henham Park in Southwold, Suffolk
This was voted the Number 1 Festival in the UK by the Independent Travel Section in May 2008
- For tickets contact Latitude Festival 2008 Tickets
For accommodation nearby see
Accommodation in Southwold
Accommodation in Halesworth
Accommodation in Saxmundham
North Manor Farmhouse B&B
The Angel Inn, Wangford
Red Arrows top Air Show bill
World famous aerobatic team, the Red Arrows will be topping the bill at the 12th Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival on Thursday July 24th and Friday July 25th.
Thousands of people will be packing the beaches and seafront as the Air Festival marks the 90th anniversary of the Royal Air Force with at least four hours of flying displays on both days.
Other RAF aircraft in the display include the supersonic Eurofighter Typhoon, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a BAe Hawk solo jet, Shorts Tucano and a Sea King search and rescue helicopter.
An icon of British aviation, the famous delta-winged Avro Vulcan bomber – the only airworthy Vulcan in the world – is also scheduled to appear.
The event costs over £300,000 to stage and organisers say they are spending a record amount on this year’s flying budget. There is no entrance fee but visitors are invited to make a voluntary donation of just £1.
Two fantastic days of family entertainment start at 10am when the fun fair, amusements and a wide variety of trade stalls and exhibitions open for business all along the promenade and on Royal Green.
Extra trains and buses will be running to Lowestoft on the two days and for those travelling by car there are official park and ride sites north and south of the town.
For more information log on to Lowestoft Air Festival
The Air Festival is part of four days of spectacular entertainment on Lowestoft seafront. The two-day event is followed that weekend (Saturday July 26th and Sunday July 27th) with the Lowestoft round of the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Grand Prix and on the Sunday afternoon by the 1000-strong Eastern Lights Motorcycle Cavalcade.
SO MAKE A WEEKEND OF IT IN LOWESTOFT!
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The Honda Formula 4 stroke series provides a weekend packed of powerboat racing and other entertainment. It is the largest off-shore series in the world! It is run by the Eight Time Class One World Champion and MBE Steve Curtis.
The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Series is the largest offshore championship in the world, with team’s competing in both the 150hp and 225 classes. The one-design rules produce fiercely competitive racing which relies solely on the skill of the driver and navigator.
Honda launched its first large scale outboard engine in 1999, the Four Stroke BF130. Before that, it was common belief that a Four Stroke motor could not match the output of a Two Stroke. Honda believed, however, that the Four Stroke that it had developed, could not only match a Two Stoke, but out-do it. Always up for a challenge, Honda decided that the best way to prove the performance of its new engine was simple – it would race it.
With the help of eight times Class 1 World Powerboat Champion Steve Curtis, Honda set about creating a championship that would fundamentally change Powerboat Racing in the UK and around the World. With eleven teams competing in identical boats powered by standard Honda engines, the Honda Formula 4 Stoke Series was established to provide an affordable and level arena that would guarantee close competition and truly test the skills of navigators and drivers.
The inaugural race was staged at a stormy Torquay in May 1999, with five two person crews taking to the water amidst thunder, lightening, hail and high winds. This fleet grew into eight boats for 2000, when Channel 4 saw the potential of the Series and decided to put powerboat racing back on terrestrial TV for the first time in more than a decade.
Now, almost 100 rounds after the Honda Fleet’s first outing, the achievements of this series continue to astound. Its popularity is expanding year on year with nearly 40 teams competing in 2008 in front of ever increasing spectator numbers. If proof were needed of Honda’s Power of Dreams philosophy the Honda Formula 4 Series is it.
Steve Curtis is considered the best international powerboat racer of all time. He has won the Class 1 world title a record-breaking eight-times and has courted death on several occasions, including when his boat disintegrated during a race in Italy and he was reported ‘missing presumed dead’.
Steve has spent his whole life in boats; unsurprising considering his father Clive was also a powerboat racer and the founder of Cougar Marine, a renowned boat-building company which blazed a trail in powerboat design and build in the 1980s. “Steve could drive a boat almost before he could walk,” says Clive. “I’ve pulled him out of more rivers and seas than I care to remember.”
Come and watch him in Lowestoft 26 - 27th July!
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Now in its twentienth year the Suffolk Villages Festival brings high-quality performances of early music to this part of East Anglia. It is fortunate to have for its principal venues the fine historic wool churches of Nayland, Boxford, and Hadleigh situated just to the north of the River Stour and Dedham Vale.
Friday 22 August, 8pm
St Mary's Church, Hadleigh
Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments
directed by Peter Holman
Purcell Dido & Aeneas with instrumental works & odes by John Blow
Saturday 23 August, 12 midday
St Mary's Church, Stoke by Nayland
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) - celebrity lunchtime recital of English virginal music
Saturday 23 August, 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Boxford
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Steven Devine (harpsichord), Essex Baroque Orchestra
directed by Steven Devine
English Concertos by Handel, Arne & Stanley
Sunday 24 August, 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Stoke by Nayland
Orlando Consort: The Call of the Phoenix - English Medieval Music
Monday 25 August, 12 midday
St Mary's Church, Boxford
Mark Caudle (bass viol), Lynda Sayce (lute), Melanie Woodcock (cello) with Jack Edwards (reader)
Thomas Gainsborough and Music
Monday 25 August, 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Hadleigh
Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra
directed by Peter Holman
Coronation Anthems from James II to George III - Purcell, Blow, Croft, Handel & Boyce
Box office & further information: 01206 366603
box@suffolkvillagesfestival.com
Suffolk Villages Festival
For Accommodation nearby check out
Bildeston Crown
Milsoms, Dedham
Accommodation in Ipswich
Suffolk is the place to come for Festivals this year with everything from star studded events such as High Tide and Latitude, to the action packed Lowestoft Air Festival and Honda Formula 4 stoke engine series....
Please click on the Festivals below
HighTide Festival 2nd - 5th May 2008
Bury St Edmunds Festival 2008 Friday 9 May – Sunday 25 May
Felixstowe Drama Festival Saturday 24th May – Saturday 31st May
Pulse Fringe Festival 29th May – 14th June
Aldeburgh Festival 13th - 29th June
Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2008 27th & 28th June
Ip-Art Saturday 28th June to Sunday 13th July
Bures Music Festival 9th-13th July
Latitude 2008 17th-20th July
Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival - 24-25th July
Honda Formula 4 stoke series, Lowestoft 26 - 27th July 11am - 4pm
Suffolk Villages Festival, 22nd-25th August
HighTide Festival 2nd - 5th May 2008
Following a hugely successful first year, which saw packed audiences enjoying new productions developed by HighTide with the most exciting young writers and directors, HighTide 2008 will continue its commitment to supporting new work. This year, the HighTide creative team, led by Artistic Directors Sam Hodges and Steven Jon Atkinson, have had expert support from Artistic Advisors Robert Fox, (leading film and theatre producer) and Tom Morris, (Associate Director of the National Theatre).
• The Festival runs between 2nd and 5th May and will feature short films, music, comedy, talks and masterclasses by industry professionals including Tom Stoppard
• Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Laura Wade will present professional premieres of short new plays
• Full productions from Joel Horwood, Nick Payne and Adam Brace and devised theatre company You Need Me
With the support of patrons Sinead Cusack, Sally Greene OBE, Sir David Hare and Bill Nighy, HighTide returns for a second year to New Cut Arts in Halesworth with a packed programme of theatre, film, comedy, talks and masterclasses by individuals including Tom Stoppard.
For more information see Hightide Festival
Bury St Edmunds Festival 2008 Friday 9 May – Sunday 25 May
Each year this Festivals attracts top class performers attracting thousands of people and bringing a buzz to the award-winning town at the heart of Suffolk.
There will be more than 60 events over the 17 days including: orchestral concerts, new music, exciting fusions, open-air party nights, brass bands, lunchtime jazz and folk, classical ensembles, opera, dance, theatre, films, workshops, walks, and more.
Hundreds of young people will be getting involved by beating out junk funk with Weapons of Sound, singing African songs with the Bury Township Choir, writing music for the Tallis Scholars, dancing with the Jonathan Lunn Dance Company or learning about Parkour (free-running).
Highlights include:
Festival Opening Celebrations with the traditional Beating Retreat (9 May) on Angel Hill, Weapons of Sound junk funk band beating out the rhythm with local schoolchildren, and wacky Street Theatre (10 May) in the Abbey Gardens.
Gala concerts from the mighty Russian State Symphony Orchestra (11 May), the European Union Chamber Orchestra with cellist Natalie Clein (20 May), early music stars Tallis Scholars (14 May), and top brass Grimethorpe Colliery Band (10 May).
Big names Jacques Loussier (19 May), Claire Martin & Richard Rodney Bennett (20 May), and an Opera double bill from Armonico Consort (16 May) in the refurbished Theatre Royal.
Hot jazz with South African band Mbawula (12 May) performing in a pub; Australian favourites Craig Schneider Trio (19 May), the award-winning David Newton Trio (22 May) and Alan Beechey’s Bright Stars of Jazz (23 May).
Exciting fusions see the Brodsky Quartet alongside Tunde Jegede performing his new work on kora (12 May); the Gilad Atzmon Quartet explore Charlie Parker’s music with the Sigamos String Quartet (15 May); Acoustic Triangle and the Sacconi Quartet launch a grand tour of inspiring buildings from St Edmundsbury Cathedral (16 May); pianist Lucy Parham tells Liszt’s love story with actors Martin Jarvis and Joanna David (18 May); and the Jonathan Lunn Dance Company is joined by actor Juliet Stevenson (14 May).
Local heroes Karen Sharp Quintet (12 May), jazz singer Sophie Garner (16 May), Bury Bach Choir performing Verdi’s Requiem (17 May) and folk band, the Churchfitters (21 May).
Lively lunchtimes every weekday such as flute and guitar duo Flautarra (13 May), a new take on early music from Horses Brawl (14 May); and five female recorder players in Fontanella (20 May).
Favourite ensembles Prime Brass (13 May), the Royal Academy of Music’s Symphonic Wind ensemble (15 May) and The Four Temperaments (22 May), plus pirates of the baroque Red Priest (21 May).
Two very different solo performances: Ian Billings brings his Talking Pants comedy show for children (17 May) and Bruce Morrison brings Shakespeare’s characters to life (16 May); and this year sees the Festival’s first World Cinema series featuring four award-winning films that have wowed audiences worldwide
Party and picnic at a Gig in the Gardens by dancing to Jazz Jamaica, going retro for the Abba & Beatles tribute night, or swinging with the Salute to the Rat Pack for the Festival Finale with fireworks.
Plus organ recitals, themed walks, talks, cookery workshops, supper tours, flower market and much more.
Tickets for all Festival events go on sale to the general public from Monday 3 March. Book through the Festival Box Office, Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds on 01284 769505, or online at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds (Early booking and group discounts available)
The Bury St Edmunds Festival is managed by St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
Festival brochures are available from Bury St Edmunds Tourist Information Centre (click here for contact details), or visit the Festival website at www.buryfestival.co.uk or call the brochure hotline on 01284 757099.
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Felixstowe Drama Festival Saturday 24th May – Saturday 31st May
The first Annual Felixstowe Drama Festival was held in 1951 and it has taken place annually ever since. The Spa Pavilion is proud to host the 58th Annual Drama Festival, bringing a new programme of plays performed by amateur groups around the UK.
This Year’s Adjudicator is Colin Dolley
Performances: 7.30pm
Tickets: £9.00
Weekly Saver £47.00
Student Saver £30.00
See Spa Pavilion for booking details.
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Pulse Fringe Festival 29th May-14th June
This year's Pulse Fringe Festival in Ipswich promises to be the biggest yet, with over thirty productions from across the country performing over the course of three weeks in venues around Ipswich. Art, music, dance and theatre all combine for this three week festival extravaganza!
As the website asks-- "What else can you do for a fiver? Watch three quarters of a movie, buy a chicken (not free range), have one eye tested, spend 15 mins on the train to London, admit your left leg to a theme park… or SEE A PULSE EVENT!! DO YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT??"
There are so many theatre companies brand new to PULSE and some returning favourites too, a combination that’s sure to light up the cultural scene in Ipswich over the festival. If you’re new to PULSE – or a “returning favourite” be sure to get your tickets booked and while you’re at it, take some risks and book for something that you wouldn’t usually!
Go to www.pulsefringe.com for a full schedule, venue details, and event listings.
Suffolk Festivals
Aldeburgh Festival 13th - 29th June
Artistic Director: Thomas Adès
Associate Artistic Director: John Woolrich
The 61st Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts opens on Friday 13th June with the world première of Yannis Kyriakides’ new opera Ocean of Rain, co-commissioned by Aldeburgh Almeida Opera and Theatre Cryptic. Based in Holland, the Anglo-Cypriot composer Yannis Kyriakides has collaborated on Ocean of Rain, with the Canadian writer Daniel Danis and director Cathie Boyd, founder of Theatre Cryptic. Ocean of Rain is the first of a number of works that will be premièred at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival, including a new work for cello and piano by Thomas Adès, a violin concerto by John Woolrich and the UK première of Harrison Birtwistle’s most recent string quartet.
The 2008 Aldeburgh Festival is Thomas Adès’ tenth and final Festival as Artistic Director.
His tenure with the Aldeburgh Festival has been a period of growth and development, both for him personally and for the Festival. Over the ten years that he has been artistic director, in tandem with composing, Adès has become increasingly well known for his performances as pianist and conductor, and his regular appearances have become Festival highlights. In addition to conducting the première of the Orchestral Suite from Powder Her Face and the UK premières of America, A Prophecy, Adès gave the première of his piano quintet at the 2002 Aldeburgh Festival. During the 2008 Festival, as well as conducting a concert with BCMG (Sunday 15th June), Adès and Steven Isserlis will give the première of a work for piano and cello written for Isserlis (Tuesday 17th June).
The featured composer this year is György Kurtág, a close collaborator of both Thomas Adès and Pierre-Laurent Aimard. In addition to having his works performed throughout the Festival in the programmes of Thomas Adès, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, as well as BCMG, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Singers and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kurtág will give a recital with his wife Marta and the violinist, Hiromi Kikuchi (Thursday 19th June).
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who will succeed Adès as Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival with effect from 2009, will make three appearances at the 2008 Festival: as soloist and conductor with the Britten Sinfonia (Saturday 14th June), in recital including The Art of Fugue (Friday 20th June), and as chamber musician with Tabea Zimmermann and Martin Fröst (Sunday 22nd June). A Messiaen protégé, installed by Boulez as resident pianist of the Ensemble InterContemporain at the age of 19, and muse to such 20th century giants as Ligeti, Kurtág and Carter, Pierre-Laurent first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1999, when he gave a recital interspersed with poetry written and read by Alfred Brendel. Pierre-Laurent has returned annually to Aldeburgh since 2004 when The Times commented: ‘One of the most outstanding pianists of today, a player almost unrivalled for his mix of interpretive insight and easy virtuosity, Aimard has been living with this music for over a quarter of a century, and his recent recording of the piece [Ives’ Concord Sonata] sets new standards: still, as his Aldeburgh Festival recital showed, hearing the music live is another experience altogether’.
This year’s Aldeburgh Festival welcomes back the Belcea Quartet with pianist, Imogen Cooper, for a performance of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. The Belceas made their Aldeburgh debut with Imogen Cooper in 1999, when they performed Dvorak’s Piano Quintet. They have since been frequent guests. Also returning to the Aldeburgh Festival is tenor, Ian Bostridge accompanied by Antonio Pappano; the choral group EXAUDI; the Gabrieli Consort; the Arditti Quartet; Thomas Zehetmair with Northern Sinfonia; Edward Gardner who will be conducting the CBSO in a programme of Britten and Walton; baritone Robert Holl; and, soprano Carolyn Sampson.
Faster Than Sound, where electronica meets classical music, returns in a new form, presenting three events including Stockhausen’s Stimmung at Snape and an evening of commissions in the Hush House, a new venue on the disused Bentwaters airbase.
The visual arts features a major new sculpture by Ana Maria Pacheco, accompanied by works on paper.
See Aldeburgh Festival for more information
Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2008 27th & 28th June
The 27th & 28th June heralds the arrival of Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2008, a swing & jazz festival to be held in the glorious gardens of Spencers at Great Yeldham on the Suffolk/Essex border, with music performed under a huge marquee. For the second year running, the gates of this Georgian estate will open up to a spectacular line-up of talented and well known musicians.
Topping a star-studded bill, will be undoubted all-time-great of British Jazz, Courtney Pine. Nine other brilliant bands will perform at MM@S 2008 including the Glenn Miller Orchestra U.K., John Etheridge and his Sweet Chorus and Shakatak. This year’s festival, with the help of China Now, will have a definite Chinese theme. Of special interest is Eugene Pao, the phenomenal jazz guitarist from Hong Kong.
Courtney Pine will headline MM@S 2008 with his six-piece band. Winner of the Urban Music Awards ‘Best Jazz Act’ 2007, this legendary musician mesmerises the audience with his technical and creative skill on tenor and soprano saxophones and bass clarinet. With energy and spirit, forcefulness and edge, Pine generates excitement with a show full of Coltranesque panache and robust playing. A Londoner born to Jamaican parents, influences of reggae and ska naturally colour the playing of this virtuoso communicator. Courtney Pine is host to the critically acclaimed specialist jazz show ‘Jazz Crusade’ on BBC Radio 2.
MM@S 2008 kicks off Friday evening’s SWING NIGHT with “Tribute to Benny Goodman” by the Julian Marc Stringle Quintet. The young virtuoso clarinettist and his band will perform a unique blend of swing, blues and jazz. To follow, will be the irresisitible Slammers Maximum Jive Band. With a vibrant horn section, powerhouse bass, commanding vocals and the finest boogie piano playing, this eight-piece band gets everyone dancing! For the night’s crescendo The Glen Miller Orchestra UK plays MM@S 2008. Under the direction of Ray McVay this sell-out big band swing ensemble is as close to authentic Glenn as it gets with favourites such as “I’ve got a gal in Kalamazoo” and “Chattanooga choo-choo”. Should be a show-stopper to end the opening night of MM@S 2008.
Saturday 28th June is JAZZ ALL DAY, starting at noon with Larraine Odell (a “voice of passion and honey”) & The Jazznights Trio. Next on stage is Eugene Pao, Hong Kong’s most publicly recognized jazz musician. Bridget Metcalfe Soul Band will follow, prior to the guitarist, composer and band leader John Etheridge performing with his gypsy jazz band ‘Sweet Chorus’.
The evening set begins with Shakatak, the seminal jazz-funk band followed by latino-style band Robin Jones & King Salsa. The King of Jazz himself , Mr Pine will be the final act to play MM@S 2008.
MM@S promises not only to be a fantastic musical experience, but also a family outing with imaginative entertainment and activities for the children. Delicious eats (including Spencers-reared burgers, alongside Chinese delicacies); a champagne, real ale and juice bar and intriguing local crafts to buy. Spencers gardens – at their peak in late June – and its park and woodlands are open for exploration and relaxing in, as well as providing a magical setting in which to enjoy Midsummmer Music.
Ticket prices are: Friday evening £28, Saturday all day £48, both days £60. Saturday12 noon - 6pm £15, Saturday 6pm-midnight £38. There are excellent discounts for “Early Birds” & Seniors (65+). 15’s and under (accompanied by an adult) are FREE.
MM@S is once again delighted to support the vital work of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Maggie’s provide a range of services to enhance the lives of those living with cancer and of their families and friends. This is provided by nurses, psychologists and other cancer-support specialists. Maggie’s have five Centres in Scotland and this year opened their first Centre in England, based at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, London. Fundraising campaigns have started in order to build a further five Centres - in the Cotswolds, the North East, Oxford, Nottingham and Lanarkshire. For further information on Maggie’s please visit Maggie's Centres
For more information on the concerts contact Flora Courtauld on 07811 376 492 or see Midsummer Music @ Spencers 2008
While you're in the area why not drop in on the following nearby attractions, or have a drink at The Cherry Tree just down the road?
Colne Valley Railway
Hedingham Castle
The Cherry Tree
Ip-Art Saturday 28th June to Sunday 13th July
For two weeks every summer Ipswich becomes the focus for a celebration of music, dance, drama, comedy, art, literature, film and sculpture with the Ip-art Festival.
Now in its sixth year, Ip-art has established itself as a major event in Ipswich’s cultural calendar, attracting increasingly large audiences drawn not only from Ipswich and Suffolk, but also from London and beyond.
Literary events:
• Author’s talks by Libby Purves, Helen Dunmore and Toby Litt
• Creative writing workshops and a short story competition
• Children’s literature day
• An examination if the increasing popularity of the graphic novel, with contributions by Paul Gravett, Bryan Talbot and Hannah Berry
Music Events:
• The Ipswich Orchestral Society Concert, with soloist Julian Lloyd –Webber
• Bring It and Sing It – a musical extravaganza in the centre of Ipswich
• Ipswich Music Day, the largest one-day music event in the East of England, with six separate stages showcasing music from jazz, soul and blues to classical and rock, all in the glorious surroundings of Christchurch Park.
Visual Arts:
The theme for this year’s visual arts is ‘colour’. Visitors will be able to savour a true colour experience as they walk through tubes of colour in the ‘Colour Dome’; appreciate a wide range of exhibitions by artists old and new working in a variety of mediums and styles; participate in workshops, and witness a demonstration of chainsaw sculpture.
Drama:
Eastern Angles will stage ‘We didn’t mean to go to sea’ on the waterfront, and theatre lovers are invited to combine drama with dinner at various restaurants around town.
This is just a small sample of the entertainment on offer.
The Festival Brochure, with full details of all the events, will be available from Tuesday 6th May 2008. BOOK NOW! See Ip-Art
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Bures Music Festival 9th - 13 July
PLANS for this year's Bures Music Festival are now well advanced and, already, there has been a flurry of inquiries for tickets for the various events.
The Festival - it is the 12th - will run from July 9 to 13th with a variety of music to suit most tastes.
The Festival opens with an evening of light music and songs from the shows presented in the village church by Musicology who made such an impression when they appeared at the Festival a couple of years ago.
Once again there will be music aimed at young people through the B-Fest that is being staged in a huge marquee on the village recreation ground. It will be a splendid occasion for young musicians and singers to show what they can do.
A highlight of recent Bures Festivals has been the Blues Night, presented by BBC Radio Suffolk's Stephen Foster. This year it is on Friday, July 11 and it will feature top blues star Connie Lush and the Blues Shouters, and they will be supported by Just Blues.
The Festival's Soul Night, that proved so popular last year, has been retained but with a little jive and musical fun thrown in for good measure. It's on Saturday, July 12 and it features a highly recommended band called Johnny and His Mates.
The flagship event, Jazz by the Stour, is the finale of the Festival and takes place on Sunday, July 13, and once again some of the UKs top musicians will be featured.
They include the recent top award winner singer-pianist, Liane Carroll and her Trio along with that superb guitarist, John Etheridge.
The day starts around lunchtime with the trad-mainstream jazz of T J Johnson and his Band, and they will be followed by the popular singer Laura Zakian, who is well known on the national jazz circuit She will be followed by Atila, the Frank Sinatra sound alike who made such a good impression at last year's Festival when he appeared with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Atila will be backed by a cracking band of up and coming musicians, including pianist Rob Barron who is frequently seen as pianist to singer Charlotte Church.
Between the main acts there will be more swinging jazz with Lawford based trumpeter Tom Walsh, grandson of the legendary Robert Farnon, who is making a big name for himself on the UK music scene with the superb pianist Carl Hudson.
The Bures Music Festival that started twelve years ago with the first ever Jazz by the Stour has expanded to cater for a wider range of musical styles and over the year's it has raised well over £100,000 for charities, including the St Helena Hospice at Colchester and the Ferriers Barn Day Centre fior the Handicapped at Bures
As usual there will be camping facilities (subject to prior booking). Over the years many people have made the Festival a short break by caravaning or pitching tents on the site.
Details of the Festival - including ticket inquiries - can be obtained through Carole Heath on 01787 227953 or by visiting the website www.jazzbythestour.org.com
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Latitude 17th – 20th July
This years Latitude Festival will take place on 17th – 20th of July for its 3rd year in the beautiful Henham Park in Southwold, Suffolk
This was voted the Number 1 Festival in the UK by the Independent Travel Section in May 2008
- For tickets contact Latitude Festival 2008 Tickets
For accommodation nearby see
Accommodation in Southwold
Accommodation in Halesworth
Accommodation in Saxmundham
North Manor Farmhouse B&B
The Angel Inn, Wangford
Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival - 24-25th July 2008
Red Arrows top Air Show bill
World famous aerobatic team, the Red Arrows will be topping the bill at the 12th Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival on Thursday July 24th and Friday July 25th.
Thousands of people will be packing the beaches and seafront as the Air Festival marks the 90th anniversary of the Royal Air Force with at least four hours of flying displays on both days.
Other RAF aircraft in the display include the supersonic Eurofighter Typhoon, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, a BAe Hawk solo jet, Shorts Tucano and a Sea King search and rescue helicopter.
An icon of British aviation, the famous delta-winged Avro Vulcan bomber – the only airworthy Vulcan in the world – is also scheduled to appear.
The event costs over £300,000 to stage and organisers say they are spending a record amount on this year’s flying budget. There is no entrance fee but visitors are invited to make a voluntary donation of just £1.
Two fantastic days of family entertainment start at 10am when the fun fair, amusements and a wide variety of trade stalls and exhibitions open for business all along the promenade and on Royal Green.
Extra trains and buses will be running to Lowestoft on the two days and for those travelling by car there are official park and ride sites north and south of the town.
For more information log on to Lowestoft Air Festival
The Air Festival is part of four days of spectacular entertainment on Lowestoft seafront. The two-day event is followed that weekend (Saturday July 26th and Sunday July 27th) with the Lowestoft round of the Honda Formula 4-Stroke Powerboat Grand Prix and on the Sunday afternoon by the 1000-strong Eastern Lights Motorcycle Cavalcade.
SO MAKE A WEEKEND OF IT IN LOWESTOFT!
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Honda Formula 4 stoke series, Lowestoft 26 - 27th July 11am - 4pm
The Honda Formula 4 stroke series provides a weekend packed of powerboat racing and other entertainment. It is the largest off-shore series in the world! It is run by the Eight Time Class One World Champion and MBE Steve Curtis.
The Honda Formula 4-Stroke Series is the largest offshore championship in the world, with team’s competing in both the 150hp and 225 classes. The one-design rules produce fiercely competitive racing which relies solely on the skill of the driver and navigator.
Honda launched its first large scale outboard engine in 1999, the Four Stroke BF130. Before that, it was common belief that a Four Stroke motor could not match the output of a Two Stroke. Honda believed, however, that the Four Stroke that it had developed, could not only match a Two Stoke, but out-do it. Always up for a challenge, Honda decided that the best way to prove the performance of its new engine was simple – it would race it.
With the help of eight times Class 1 World Powerboat Champion Steve Curtis, Honda set about creating a championship that would fundamentally change Powerboat Racing in the UK and around the World. With eleven teams competing in identical boats powered by standard Honda engines, the Honda Formula 4 Stoke Series was established to provide an affordable and level arena that would guarantee close competition and truly test the skills of navigators and drivers.
The inaugural race was staged at a stormy Torquay in May 1999, with five two person crews taking to the water amidst thunder, lightening, hail and high winds. This fleet grew into eight boats for 2000, when Channel 4 saw the potential of the Series and decided to put powerboat racing back on terrestrial TV for the first time in more than a decade.
Now, almost 100 rounds after the Honda Fleet’s first outing, the achievements of this series continue to astound. Its popularity is expanding year on year with nearly 40 teams competing in 2008 in front of ever increasing spectator numbers. If proof were needed of Honda’s Power of Dreams philosophy the Honda Formula 4 Series is it.
Steve Curtis is considered the best international powerboat racer of all time. He has won the Class 1 world title a record-breaking eight-times and has courted death on several occasions, including when his boat disintegrated during a race in Italy and he was reported ‘missing presumed dead’.
Steve has spent his whole life in boats; unsurprising considering his father Clive was also a powerboat racer and the founder of Cougar Marine, a renowned boat-building company which blazed a trail in powerboat design and build in the 1980s. “Steve could drive a boat almost before he could walk,” says Clive. “I’ve pulled him out of more rivers and seas than I care to remember.”
Come and watch him in Lowestoft 26 - 27th July!
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Suffolk Villages Festival, 22nd-25th August
Now in its twentienth year the Suffolk Villages Festival brings high-quality performances of early music to this part of East Anglia. It is fortunate to have for its principal venues the fine historic wool churches of Nayland, Boxford, and Hadleigh situated just to the north of the River Stour and Dedham Vale.
Friday 22 August, 8pm
St Mary's Church, Hadleigh
Psalmody, The Parley of Instruments
directed by Peter Holman
Purcell Dido & Aeneas with instrumental works & odes by John Blow
Saturday 23 August, 12 midday
St Mary's Church, Stoke by Nayland
Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) - celebrity lunchtime recital of English virginal music
Saturday 23 August, 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Boxford
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Steven Devine (harpsichord), Essex Baroque Orchestra
directed by Steven Devine
English Concertos by Handel, Arne & Stanley
Sunday 24 August, 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Stoke by Nayland
Orlando Consort: The Call of the Phoenix - English Medieval Music
Monday 25 August, 12 midday
St Mary's Church, Boxford
Mark Caudle (bass viol), Lynda Sayce (lute), Melanie Woodcock (cello) with Jack Edwards (reader)
Thomas Gainsborough and Music
Monday 25 August, 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Hadleigh
Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra
directed by Peter Holman
Coronation Anthems from James II to George III - Purcell, Blow, Croft, Handel & Boyce
Box office & further information: 01206 366603
box@suffolkvillagesfestival.com
Suffolk Villages Festival
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Milsoms, Dedham
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