Summer 2022
CLASSICAL FOLK JAZZ ROCK & POP
COUNTRY COMEDY FAMILY SHOWS TALKS
Box Office You can book your tickets online at cedarshallwells.co.uk or over the phone on 01749 834483. All tickets sold over the phone are sent out via email or left on the door for you. You can also buy tickets on the door (up to one hour before each concert or event) with card or cash payments accepted.
Hearing enhancement Cedars Hall has two types of hearing device available to patrons: a necklace (to use with your own hearing aid with a ‘T’ setting) and a headset (to use without your own hearing aid). Please pre-book one of your devices free of charge to ensure availability on 01749 834483.
Disabled access Please contact the Box Office (01749 834483) if you would like us to allocate you a free disabled-only parking space in our car park adjacent to Cedars House on The Liberty (limited availability) or if you require wheelchair seats. Please contact us in advance if you intend to bring your assistance dog.
Cedars Hall bar The bar is open one hour prior to most performances, and you can also pre-order your interval drinks on arrival - which we recommend for large groups in particular. You will be allowed to take your drinks into the auditorium in biodegradable plastic cups.
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Onyx Brass
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Gigspanner Big Band
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Piano Masters 5: Ingrid Fliter
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Oxford Lieder Young Singers
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Somerset Day Concert
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The Super Greedy Caterpillar!
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Sunday 24th April 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Thursday 28th April 7.30pm - 9.30pm
FAMILY THEATRE Gulliver’s Travels: Journeys of a Bookworm
Edward Leaker's Blaze Ensemble: Music and Dance Spectacular
Calling all 5-11s! Make your Sunday whizz by! Fly to the stars with a musical ‘Space Medley’. Dance and sing along to the Birdie Song and tuck in with Gulliver at ‘A’ for “Anglo Saxon” on a ‘tasty’ adventure of encyclopedic discovery to come out at ‘Z’ all the wiser. Wild Words brings its latest globetrotting family show to Cedars Hall, led by storyteller Michael Loader with musicians Martin Solomon and Lizzie Tucker. Create a new page in our Encyclopedia in the pre-show Playshop and bring a percussion instrument to play. All children must
Edward's groundbreaking crossover ensemble featuring string quartet and soprano saxophone play the music of Astor Piazzolla to coincide with the composer's centenary year. Blaze will be joined by classical guitar to perform specially commissioned arrangements of Piazzolla's music by Hywel Davies alongside music from their extensive back catalogue. Expect to hear a fusion of classical, jazz and tango music together with a visual feast provided by authentic tango dancers!
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Tickets: £16, unreserved cedarshallwells.co.uk
Thursday 12th May 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Oxford Lieder Young Singers 2: Café Bazar with Olivia Boen (soprano) and Sholto Kynoch (piano) Continuing our new one-hour informal song recital series in partnership with Oxford Lieder, star young soprano Olivia Boen joins Sholto Kynoch for another fascinating selection of songs and chat. In the 1920s the Café Bazar in Salzburg was the international meeting place for European composers and writers including
Debussy, Strauss, Ethel Smyth, Manuel de Falla and others. Olivia is a prize-winning graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall where she was a finalist in the 2021 Gold Medal competition at the Barbican. Generously supported by Claire and Tony Marshall.
Tickets: £16, free for 18s and under, unreserved Box Office: 01749 834483
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Friday 13th May 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Somerset Day Concert: Sinatra and the Kings of Cool “The best Big Band singer around today” - The Times Join Matt Ford, the UK’s most charismatic Swing Era vocalist, with the hits of Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Matt Monro, Michael Bublé and many more backed by the allstar Swing Machine Jazz Orchestra. A highlight of the 2022 Somerset
to be a memorable and emotional night of fabulous music and song. All profits from this concert go to Heads Up Somerset, a mental health and wellbeing charity based in Wells.
Day celebrations, this promises
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Thursday 19th May 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Friday 20th May 7.00pm live music, 7.30pm talk
Gigspanner Big Band
CHAT 8: Dr Xa Sturgis
"They don't play together very often, but when they do it's spectacular." - R2 Magazine The Gigspanner Big Band began life as a trio - with Steeleye Span’s fiddle player Peter Knight being joined by percussionist Sacha Trochet and guitarist Roger Flack the line-up has been expanded to form the Gigspanner Big Band, with acclaimed multi-instrumental duo Edgelarks (Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin - BBC Folk Awards 'Best Duo') and Bellowhead co-founder and melodeon player extraordinaire, John Spiers, joining the fray. Their high-energy, virtuosic performances appeal equally to traditionalists and to those looking for something more experimental. Tickets: £22, unreserved Box Office: 01749 834483
Xa Sturgis is Director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Arguably the world’s oldest public museum, it opened in 1683. Today the Ashmolean houses collections that span millennia from Ancient Egypt to contemporary China and include such treasures as the Alfred Jewel (discovered in North Petherton) Uccello’s Hunt in the Forest and Stradivarius’s famous Messiah violin. Dr Sturgis traces the history of the Ashmolean through 10 objects in its collection, from its pioneering beginnings to the great public museum that it is today.
Tickets: £10, free for 18s and under, supper £10 extra 7
Saturday 21st May 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Thursday 26th May 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Onyx Brass
Albion Quartet
Onyx was founded in 1983 as an approachable yet seriously virtuosic brass chamber group. Its members hold principal positions with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English National Opera, English Chamber Orchestra and more. Onyx’s concert will include commissions by Emily Hall and Jason Rebello plus music by Couperin and Shostakovich and they will also be joined by young brass students for the William Tell Overture for massed brass and Duke Ellington’s C Jam Blues. There will be an informal pre-concert performance by Wells Cathedral School brass players at 6.00pm. Tickets: £16, free for 18s and under 8
“…masterly in its vividness, freedom and sensitivity” - Sunday Times Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Emma Parker (violins); Ann Beilby (viola); Nathaniel Boyd (cello) Founded by Somerset violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, the Albion Quartet unites four outstanding young players brought together by a shared belief in the visceral power of the string quartet. Making their Cedars Hall debut, they serve a delightful menu of three courses: Mozart’s effervescent A major quartet, the folk-inspired singlemovement 3rd Quartet by Bartok and Dvorak’s quartet masterpiece in G major.
Tickets: £18, free for 18s and under cedarshallwells.co.uk
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Sunday 5th June 2.30pm – 4.30pm
Thursday 9th June 7.30pm – 9.00pm
Family Theatre: The Super Greedy Caterpillar!
Songs of the Earth: Mark Padmore and Roger Vignoles
Calling all 5-11s! Want to see puppets behaving badly; a man wearing fairy wings; a six-foot caterpillar who wants to eat the entire supermarket - including your Granny? Of course you do! Want to hear toe tapping tunes to dance to; singalong songs to join in with; and make your own caterpillar/ butterfly sock puppet to star in the show? Yup!
According to the New York Times Mark Padmore “does not so much sing this music as inhabit it”, summing up the great British tenor’s ability to nail the character and emotion in the music he sings.
Wild Words brings its latest family fun show and PlayShop to Cedars Hall, led by storyteller Michael Loader. All children must bring an adult with them. Tickets: £9, adults go free 10
This unique programme with pianist Roger Vignoles blends masterpieces by the likes of Schubert, Mahler, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Copland and Holst with poetry by Larkin, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Seamus Heaney, Edward Thomas, Wordsworth, Auden and many more.
Tickets: £18, free for 18s and under cedarshallwells.co.uk
Thursday 16th June 7.00pm live music, 7.30pm talk
Thursday 7th July 7.30pm - 9.30pm
CHAT 9: A Journey Within with Olivia Fraser - artist and great niece of Eileen Agar
Piano Masters 5: Ingrid Fliter
Contemporary artist Olivia Fraser moved to India in 1989. Initially she was a travel painter before apprenticing herself to miniature and pichwai artists from Jaipur. There she learnt the language of a fabulously rich, rigorous and intricate painting tradition which she has deeply drawn on. Combined with her great interest in yoga and meditation, Olivia has produced profound works – paintings that could be considered spiritual road maps to reflect a journey within.
Tickets: £10, free for 18s and under, supper £10 extra Box Office: 01749 834483
Cedars Hall welcomes Ingrid Fliter to Wells with music by Haydn, Beethoven, Scarlatti and Schumann. Argentian-born Fliter is one of the piano world’s best kept secrets. Celebrated for incisive interpretations of classic piano repertoire and the Silver medal winner at the 2000 Chopin Competition in Warsaw, she was little known in Europe until 2006 when her recordings began to make an impact. Since then she has become one of the most in-demand pianists on the international circuit.
Tickets: £18, free for 18s and under 11
7th-10th July 2022 A festival programme of 45 performances of 19 different shows at venues all around Wells. Shows at Cedars Hall: The Secret Garden, Instant Wit, Opera in a Box and Fate and the Unexplained
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Which seat should I book at Cedars Hall? Unreserved seating The majority of our concerts and events have unreserved seating. This means that you have booked a ticket for the performance, but not a particular seat. As Cedars Hall is quite compact, most of the seats have a good view of the stage. Raked (tiered) seating within the stalls (A-G) Similar to cinema seating with each row slighly higher than the row in front.
Which seat should I book at Cedars Hall?
Flat seating within the stalls (in front of the the raked seats) (AA-AG) Raked (tiered) seating within stalls (A-G)
For some performances, we add seating, flat seats in front theslightly raked seating - up the to seven This is similar to cinema with eachof row higher than row inrows. frontPlease note thatofthese seats canoffer be quite close toof the performers. it. These seats a great view the stage and are a good distance away to maximise enjoyment, making this our premium seating option. Gallery seating
Flat seating within the stalls (AA - AG)
Our gallery seats are accessed via a flight of stairs. Seats are located around the perimeter of For some performances, we add rows of flat seats in front of the raked seats, up to the auditorium, so some seats offer views of the side and the rear of the stage. seven rows. Please note that these seats can be quite close to the performers. Flat seating often costs less than the raked seating. Cabaret seating
Gallery seating
Our cabaret seats consist of tables (usually seating six people at each table). Please book all six Our gallery seats are accessed via a flight of stairs. Seats are located around the seats if you would like a table to yourself. With cabaret seating, the auditorium doors tend to be perimeter of theplan Hall, so some seats offer views of the side and rear of the stage. Seating left open all evening so you can move freely in and out to the bar and toilets. TicketAA4 prices vary in cost, depending on the view of the stage. - AG18 = FLAT SEATING A1 - G23 = RAKED/TIERED SEATING
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How to get to Cedars Hall Cedars Hall is situated in the heart of Wells Cathedral School and can be accessed on foot either from The Liberty or from the main gate on College Road (postcode BA5 2ST). Please note there is no public access via the service gate at the Bristol Hill junction of New Street and Mountery Road (A39).
Parking for Cedars Hall We are able to allocate disabled-only parking in the car park adjacent to Cedars House on The Liberty. (BA5 2ST) Please contact the Box Office on 01749 834483 to reserve a disabled parking space. Please refrain from parking here unless you have booked a disabled space. Further free evening-only parking is available in Mundy’s Meadow car park (BA5 2QX) ; from here it is a short walk via Lovers Walk to The Liberty. Please see the map opposite.
Alternative parking in Wells Additional parking spaces are available in the city’s public car parks. Charges start from £1.50 for two hours parking during the day and are often free after 6.00pm. All these car parks are within a 15-minute walk from Cedars Hall: Union Street (off Chamberlain Street, BA5 2PU) South Street (BA5 1SL) Princes Road (BA5 1TE) Tucker Street (off West Street, BA5 1TF) For more information on parking in Wells, please visit en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/wells
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