ARTS & CULTURE / ARTS
Christmas carols &
celebrations
FESTIVE FEEL TO FESTIVAL OF MUSIC In a year that has featured some of the world’s best musicians, including Alessandro Taverna, Craig Ogden, John Etheridge, ‘Django a la Creole’, and Emma Johnson, Frant’s International Festival of Music 2015 rounds off a spectacular season with a return visit by one of the UK’s fi nest choirs, Kent Chorus, under the direction of Richard Jenkinson.
This year’s concert features highlights
from Handel’s Messiah, and Vaughan William’s beautiful Fantasia on Christmas Carols. There will also be many well-loved carols for both choir and audience. The concert takes place in Frant Church,
High Street Frant, near Tunbridge Wells TN3 9DX, on Friday, 11th December at 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). • Tickets are £12, with tickets for disabled and children (under 15) at the special price of £6, available from Frant Stores, Britten’s Music Tunbridge Wells, online at www.
wegottickets.com (where a 10% booking fee applies) or by telephone from Paul Barber on 01892 750665. The concert is in aid of the conservation of Frant Church.
FAMILY CHRISTMAS CAROLS Tonbridge Philharmonic Society choir will be performing their celebration of Family Carols in the candlelit Tonbridge School Chapel. Under their Music Director, Matthew Willis, the event will be a mixture of traditional and new festive music. Among the guests will be the Society’s
President, musician Robin Morrish, Tom Tugendhat MBE MP, the Mayor of Tonbridge and Malling Owen Baldock, Pat Downing MBE the President of West Kent Mind and three Slade primary schoolchildren will read the Lessons. Organised in conjunction with Tonbridge Round Table, proceeds will go to the local charity West Kent Mind and Community Sports Equipment. Tickets are available from Tonbridge School box offi ce at £8 for adults, under 16s £4, and under fi ves free. Call 01732 304241 or visit
www.boxoffi
ce.tonbridge-
school.co.uk/tickets/ • Visit
www.tonphil.org.uk for details.
CAROL CONCERT AT TONBRIDGE SCHOOL CHAPEL IN AID OF NSPCC On Thursday, 17th December at 6.30pm the chapel at Tonbridge School hosts a festive family carol concert in support of the NSPCC and sponsored by Fidelity International. All proceeds will go towards the work of the NSPCC Call for Help Appeal in West Kent. The concert will feature well-known carols, readings and performances by sensational guest baritone Jonathan Veira and the Fidelity Choir.
The carol concert will be followed by
a drinks reception in the Old Big School Gallery. A raffl e will be held on the evening. • Tickets – £8 for adults, £5 for children and under 5s free – are available from Tonbridge School box offi ce on 01732 304241 or
www.boxoffi
ce.tonbridge-school.co.uk
Diary date EVENT GOES WITH A BANG!
Extremely muddy conditions didn’t dampen the mood at the Royal Tunbridge Wells Round Table (RTWRT) annual fi reworks display at Dunorlan Park in Tunbridge Wells. More than 10,000 people attended the event and were treated to an amazing display. Alongside the fi reworks, the crowd enjoyed local real ales from Fuggles and gourmet burgers from Cau restaurant, as well as a delicious range of foods from Street Diner and other concessions. With KMFM’s Andy Walker in attendance as DJ for the evening, it all came together to create a fantastic atmosphere. Simon Addis, Chairman of Royal
Tunbridge Wells Round Table, said: “Once again the fi reworks were
a great success. Thank you to the people of Tunbridge Wells for coming out in their thousands to support us. All proceeds are distributed to local causes and whilst our costs go up year after year, we made over £20,000 on the night which will form part of our annual ‘Giveaway’ in the new year. There was also a bucket collection for Young Carers which made £2,000. “The event could not take place without the hard work of the volunteers from Round Table and also a number of other organisations that help on the night including Pantiles Rotary and Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar. We are also extremely grateful for the support from Buss Murton who sponsor the event.”
Sunday, 6th December, Assembly Hall Theatre, Tunbridge Wells The Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra welcomes Xuefei Yang to perform with them the well-known guitar concertos by Rodrigo and Vivaldi. Xuefei is acclaimed as one of the world’s fi nest classical guitarists. Hailed as a musical pioneer, her journey began after the Cultural Revolution, a period where Western instruments and music were banned. She was the fi rst-ever guitarist in China to enter a music school and went on to become the fi rst internationally- recognised Chinese guitarist. • Visit www.
rtwso.org
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