programme - Friday 9 July
FLOATING STAGE: 8.45pm - 10.00pm
Nigel Kennedy Plays The Duke
One of classical music's true superstars, Nigel Kennedy has also proved himself as an amazing interpreter of jazz and pop.
For the Henley Festival he takes on one of the greatest of all jazz and swing composers, the legendary band leader Duke Ellington.
This truly is a musical experience not to be missed.
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BANDSTAND: 5.55pm - 7.00pm
Dixie Ticklers
The development of jazz has to be one of the most organic and fascinating stories in music. Dom James and his Dixie Ticklers would like to provide the first chapter for you with an atomic Dixieland explosion. Combining some of the brightest young talent in the UK, with the oldest charts from New Orleans archives, their goal is to entertain with skill and charm.
Kid Ory, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton would hopefully have approved of their renditions of "Salty Dog", "I wish I could Shimmie like my sister Kate" and "Wild Man Blues". These guys are so hot, that even New Orleans enthusiast Woody Allen has a copy of their record.
CLUB RENDEZ-VOUS EARLY: 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Australian Music Foundation Showcase 1
The first of two opportunities to hear fine young classical musicians from down-under. With Valda Wilson (soprano), Maththew Sprange (baritone) and Benjamin Hulett (tenor).
www.amf-uk.com
AN EVENING OF SONG |
| GRAEME KOEHNE | Three Poems of Lord Byron
Stanzas to Music
To Woman,
She walks in beauty |
| ROGER QUILTER | Love's Philosophy |
| VALDA WILSON soprano |
| VAUGHAN WILLIAMS | from - Songs of Travel
The Roadside Fire
Youth and Love |
| GERALD FINZI | Fear no more the heat of the sun |
| MATTHEW SPRANGE baritone |
| VAUGHAN WILLIAMS | from - House of Life
Silent Noon
Linden Lea |
| IVOR GURNEY | Sleep |
| GEORGE BUTTERWORTH | from - A Shropshire Lad
Loveliest of trees
Is my team ploughing |
| BENJAMIN HULETT tenor |
| DUETS |
| NOËL COWARD | from - Bitter Sweet (1929)
I'll see you again |
| IRVING BERLIN | from - Annie get your Gun (1946)
Anything you can do (I can do better) |
| Claire Howard accompanist |
LAWN/FLOATING STAGE: 10.30pm - 11.15pm
Trans-Siberian March Band
A little dose of musical anarchy goes careering around the Festival Enclosure.
The flavours of the East with a pumping style that includes Balkan Ska, Klezmer Reggae, Ottoman Battle Punk, Yugoslav Mariachi, and Balalikal Brass amongst others.
And it's not just the sound. The visuals are spectacular.
www.tsmb.co.uk
CLUB RENDEZ-VOUS LATE: 10.45pm
Kasaï Masaï
The traditional sound of the most remote equatorial villages, with an urban twist! Pumping, rhythmic, African beats where percussion, Congolese guitar, traditional equatorial dance sounds from the Congo with an urban twist "...Kasaï Masaï successfully marry a respect for vintage grooves with an overwhelming urge to move the dance floor. This is the sound of the old and the new, of the countryside and the city, from deep in the heart of Africa..."
www.myspace.com/kasaimasai
CAFÉ DU SOIR: 11.00pm
Milan
Milan are three talented sopranos Gemma Edwards, Laura Pomeroy and Zannah Brooksbank who were brought together by producer Malcolm Middleton to blend classical melodies with modern dance rhythms and package them in a pop format. With their girl band image and dance choreography a vibrant new style has been created that has been exciting audiences all over the world.
followed by ....
Bowjangles
The vivacious string quartet in a special cabaret that combines fiery musicianship with energetic dance moves, vaudeville comedy and four part harmony. Henley Festival favourites.
bowjangles.org
Immediately following the Floating Stage concert the skies above Henley will be filled with fireworks - one of the most loved hallmarks of the Henley Festival. Never an event to be missed, this year's show is quite simply called, ‘Maestro ...'
