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Music News
Country Music Comes to Suffolk at Easter Fest CMF
Pedal Power Needed!
Stonham Barns Park
Aldeburgh Festival
The much-loved Country Music Festival (CMF) is back with a
2022 is a 24-day
bang! Easter Fest CMF
celebration of music
2022 will feature
and the arts, running
country music bands and artists over a three-day period from
from June 3rd-26th. The programme features several
April 15th-17th. The Easter Fest CMF event will feature Mark
significant works about sustainability and the climate crisis.
James, Brian Mann, Countryholic, Kevin Barry, Tim Staff and
One is composer Laura Bowler’s ground-breaking music-theatre
Johnny Rondo, Jonny&Lynette and Pete Brazil. Tickets can be
piece, Houses Slide, performed on June 4th by soprano Jessica
purchased for individual sessions (from £7.50 per person) or
Aszodi with the London Sinfonietta and acclaimed theatre
for the whole weekend (at £50 per person). Booking can be in
director Katie Mitchell. For Houses Slide, all the power needed
advance, or visitors can pay at the door. There is a large
for the performance – the lighting and the sound – will be
camping area for caravans, motorhomes or tents with no pitch
generated solely by the pedal power of 16 cyclists. Britten
fees when you buy a weekend ticket. There are also 4,6 or 8
Pears Arts, which runs the Aldeburgh Festival, is inviting keen
berth static holiday homes to hire.
Suffolk cyclists who would like to take part in rehearsals
The Country Music Festival is part of the new Stonham Sounds
throughout the week and the performance to get in touch to
calendar of events introduced by the owners of Stonham
volunteer and make their Aldeburgh Festival debut in June. If
Barns Park to showcase more musical talent in mid-Suffolk. It
you’re interested in taking part, find out more by emailing
will bring a diverse range of live music and entertainment to
hscyclists@brittenpearsarts.org.
the leisure, retail and holiday venue during 2022.
www.brittenpearsarts.org
www.stonhambarns.co.uk
Awake My Soul Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society are delighted to be working with Broadland Youth Choir to perform John Rutter’s Mass of the Children, a piece written especially to be performed by a joint adult and children’s choir. The concert will take place in Cromer Parish Church on April 30th. Also on the programme is the first performance of Seasons, commissioned from Thomas Hewitt Jones and dedicated to the Choral Society and to the memory of Barbara Proctor. Barbara, a long-standing member of the choir, gifted funds in her will to the Society. The concert is given in her memory. John Rutter’s Mass of the Children was first performed on 13 February 2003 in Carnegie Hall, New York, conducted by the composer. As well as including traditional Latin texts, the Mass also includes verse by Thomas Ken (1637- 1711), William Blake (1757 – 1827) and others. Seasons by Thomas Hewitt Jones is a cycle of movements about the seasons of the year using the words of four poets: D H Lawrence, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë and Paul Williamson. The performance will be conducted by musical director David Ballard with soloists Zaira Palumbo (soprano) and Isaac Cooper (baritone). For tickets go to www.sheringhamlittletheatre.com. www.sheringhamandcromerchoral.org.uk
