Saturday 31 October–Sunday 1 November
Lewes Festival of Song
Lewes Festival of Song Weekend
Saturday 31 October
2.30pm – The Ashburnham English Song Award winners’ recital ‘A Skein of Folk’. Soprano Eve Pearson Maxwell with pianist Francesca Lauri.
St. Anne’s Church, Lewes BN7 1RJ, Tickets £20
7.00pm – ‘Letters from Scandinavia’. Songs and texts from the wild north. Mezzo Joanna Harries with pianist Sholto Kynoch.
St. Anne’s Church, Lewes BN7 1RJ, Tickets £20
9.00pm – Late Night Klezmer for Hallowe’en. Merlin and Polina Shepherd; voice, clarinet and piano.
Westgate Chapel, Lewes BN7 1XH – note different venue, Tickets £15
Sunday 1 November
2.30pm – ‘God Almighty first planted a garden’. Songs inspired by poet George Herbert. Mezzo Sally Bradshaw, pianist Julian Broughton, and actor Gareth Armstrong.
St. Anne’s Church, Lewes BN7 1RJ, Tickets £20
7.00pm – Festival Finale ‘Of the curlew and the wild country’. Tenor James Gilchrist, the Elmore String Quartet, cor anglais Daniel Swani, flute Maisie Ireland, pianist Nancy Cooley perform Warlock’s haunting The Curlew to poems by Yeats, Gurney’s song-cycle Ludlow and Teme for tenor and string quartet, and more Yeats settings for voice and piano by Muriel Herbert and Rebecca Clarke.
St. Anne’s Church, Lewes BN7 1RJ, Tickets £25
Tickets from our website or on the door
Whole Weekend Pass £90, under 30s £10 per concert, under 18s free
www.lewesfestivalofsong.co.uk