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rom Monday 29 July – Friday 16 August, Wiltshire Music Centre plays host to the 2013 Summer Fun Children’s Festival, a vibrant three week festival of summer holiday arts and music activities for children and young people, from babies to 16 years.
From ‘Musical In A Week!’ to ‘Junk Band!’ scrap instrument making, ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ puppet making to ‘Festival Tots!’ storytelling sessions and ‘Festival Arts!’ workshops, from ‘African Drumming’ to ‘Street Dance’, and ‘3D Animation’ film making ‘10 Things To Do With A Didgeridoo’, there is a feast of hands-on, creative and fun experiences for children and young people. Complete beginners welcome, no experience needed, just bags of enthusiasm. For more info:
wiltshiremusic.org.uk/ summerfun
Launching the Autumn Winter Concert Season, The Spooky Men’s Chorale (Wed 4 Sep, 7.30pm) brings its zany, compellingly comic, and unmistakably male, close harmony singing to the wonderful acoustic of the Centre.
English folk’s enduring super-duo Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick deliver sublime traditional music on Saturday 21 September (7.30pm). And Jess Vincent unveils the first show in the Bradford Roots FreeStage series - intimate, free-entry concerts
in the Café Bar – with a wondrous, romantically gorgeous alt-folk pre-show for Carthy / Swarbrick (Sat 21 Sep, 6.30pm). Free admission, no ticket required.
Mark Padmore, one of the world’s finest tenors, joins Britten Sinfonia, the UK’s most dynamic chamber orchestra, for a gorgeous classical programme (Wed 25 Sep, 7pm). Boyan Ensemble of Kiev (Fri 27 Sep, 7.30pm) is a truly world-class male voice choir with thrilling traditional sacred and folk Ukrainian songs. And Steven Osborne brings his extraordinary technical mastery and musical insight to an all- Beethoven piano recital (Sun 29 Sep, 7.30pm).
New this autumn is a fantastic event cinema season, with the world’s finest opera broadcast live in high definition and superb surround-sound from The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. On Tuesday 17 September (7.15pm) the Royal Opera presents a spectacular staging of Puccini’s final opera Turandot, full of rich colour, dance and drama. And the Bradford on Avon Film Society launches a special season of fabulous music films with Les Misérables (2012) (Thu 12 Sep, 8pm) and Ballroom Dancer (2011) (Thu 26 Sep, 8pm).
For more information on these events and to book tickets: 01225 860100 /
wiltshiremusic.org.uk
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