tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85814403013655909172024-02-07T03:37:22.163-08:002020 Rye Arts Festival BlogThe 2020 Festival runs 12th Sept - 26th Sept. Follow our progress here.Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-42518545068969082622018-09-08T04:35:00.001-07:002018-09-08T04:35:18.589-07:00Six Sixes and Balls shock at the Mermaid<div class="v_1i2gbzhjyc k_1i2gbzbn-p clearfix" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: -1px; zoom: 1;">
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Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-23025651902724136792018-08-23T10:13:00.004-07:002018-08-23T10:13:55.374-07:00There ain’t nothing like a Dame<br />
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Rye Arts Festival hunts around the world for the very best talent to come to Rye in the last two weeks of September. And this year, marking the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of women’s suffrage in the UK, the
organisers have booked a trio of Dames to entertain at what has been described
as one of the UK’s best arts festivals – Jenni Murray, Joan Ruddock and Emma
Kirkby. Dame Jenni Murray is the doyenne of radio presenters; Dame Joan Ruddock
is a politician and campaigner of considerable note and Dame Emma Kirkby is a soprano with worldwide
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Dame Jenni Murray closes the Festival on Sunday 30<sup>th</sup>
September at the Milligan Theatre in Rye College. She hardly needs any
introduction, since she has been a fixture on BBC Radio 4 for many decades,
presenting Women’s Hour since 1987, Dame Jenni Murray is the author of several
books, and her latest, <i>A
History of the World in 21 Women</i> (which is published on 6<sup>th</sup>
September) looks at the great women, rescuing some from
obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names. These are women who led while others followed. They stood up and spoke
out when no one else would. They broke the mould in art, journalism and
politics. Each fought, in her own way, for change. For example, Joan of Arc,
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">An audience with Dame
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But the Rye Arts
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Dame Joan is lifelong feminist and environmentalist, and she
first came to national attention in the 1980s when she became chair of CND. She
then moved into mainstream politics, and was elected to parliament in 1987
after winning the Lewisham Deptford constituency in 1987. She was re-elected in
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Her Parliamentary career was hugely impressive and Dame Joan
held numerous shadow briefs before becoming the very first full time
Minister for Women in 1997, a post which was only created a full 79 years
after women were given the vote! Dame Joan will be introduced by her
Parliamentary colleague, and former Hastings and Rye MP, Michael Foster.</div>
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Dame Emma is unquestionably one of the world’s most famous
early music specialists and her uncommonly pure, crystalline voice is ideally
suited for early, Renaissance and Baroque music. She will be supported by the
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<br />Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-38978973528069209212018-08-14T08:15:00.001-07:002018-08-14T08:15:08.722-07:00World War I Centenary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">There will be a special screening of the film ‘Oh! What A Lovely War’ on Friday 28th September – a musical directed by Richard Attenborough, much of which was shot on Brighton Pier. And on Monda</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">y 17th September the British baritone Roderick Williams will be singing songs alongside the poetry of World War I poet Ivor Gurney spoken by the actor Philip Franks.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #212121;">The Kino in Rye has a special screening of a documentary film about the 11th</span><span style="color: #212121;"> Hastings International Piano
Concerto Competition, And, as an added extra, there will be a Q&A session with the film's acclaimed director Mike Figgis (left).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;">The film is being shown on Sunday 7th May at 5.45pm at Kino Rye, with tickets at £20, which includes a glass of wine and nibbles as well as the Q&A session with Figgis who is a British film director and screen writer as well as a composer and who gained 2 Oscars nominations for his film Leaving Las Vegas in 1995.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121;">The Battle of Hastings was shot during the 2015 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition and follows the efforts of 38 pianists from 30 different countries who battle it out for what is becoming one of the world's premier </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #212121;">competitions for young pianists, with the final at</span></span><span style="color: #212121;"> The White Rock Theatre in Hastings, featuring the Royal Philharmonic
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Starting on Sunday 26th February and then each month, Alisdair Kitchen – known in Rye for his widely acclaimed opera productions in the Rye Arts Festival – will present a concert at Rye Creative Centre featuring Euphonia Studio Artists, singers and instrumentalists who have delighted festival audiences with their performances in recent years. </div>
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The series begins, to coincide with a break in the Hasting International Piano Concerto Competition and the last day of Scallop Week festivities in Rye with a candlelit solo piano recitals given by Alisdair himself.<br />
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Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-6146971775389188412016-08-07T05:23:00.002-07:002016-08-07T05:23:32.079-07:00Churchill: Great Statesman, Poor with Money<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJ7232QlsJK3pXaQ1dZ3v-T9EnM9rHBS-C3soj6Y8G-p7yJwS4ooqAXlypCucnPfSaHmIY9EkaC0IKwLGzrDw0UBysJe_nd_prt2SCkIez4xS5ida4JucuPmY42rsKMzyJjRjgBfL6ryM/s1600/Churchill+image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJ7232QlsJK3pXaQ1dZ3v-T9EnM9rHBS-C3soj6Y8G-p7yJwS4ooqAXlypCucnPfSaHmIY9EkaC0IKwLGzrDw0UBysJe_nd_prt2SCkIez4xS5ida4JucuPmY42rsKMzyJjRjgBfL6ryM/s200/Churchill+image.jpg" width="153" /></a><i>No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money</i> is a biography by David Lough which focuses on Winston Churchill's finances. And it reveals that the great Statesman spent a lifetime keeping his head just above water when it came to his private financial affairs.<br />
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At a talk on September 23rd David Lough, who is a former City financier and who has made a forensic study of Churchill's finances, will reveal an extraordinary account of the one-time Chancellor of the Exchequer's struggle with his own money.<br />
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Lough has discovered that Churchill lost huge sums at casinos around Europe, escaped bankruptcy through secret bailouts by shady private donors and gambled disastrously on financial instruments. And, at the same time, he ran a lavish lifestyle he believed befitting a member of the grand Marlborough family but without the land or cash ion the bank of a Duke to fund it!<br />
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<br />Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-73985702337902247592016-06-21T01:25:00.004-07:002016-06-21T01:41:36.557-07:00Peasmarsh Festival 23-26 June<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaw1QhFj04n3snl4Algo4cHpX06qLIKgqI6Q_NZwyUWhVGL4Ttmy3JFvpb92g3cZmSWsTF8HTm-IQhhJFc1tua2d0qbQyuwmqvzBmuf8osSWiEXfdjpTVlGJH3iXkMpO2nqfjEr66mygw/s1600/Pesmarsh+logo+2016.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaw1QhFj04n3snl4Algo4cHpX06qLIKgqI6Q_NZwyUWhVGL4Ttmy3JFvpb92g3cZmSWsTF8HTm-IQhhJFc1tua2d0qbQyuwmqvzBmuf8osSWiEXfdjpTVlGJH3iXkMpO2nqfjEr66mygw/s200/Pesmarsh+logo+2016.png" width="137" /></a>This weekend sees the fabulous Peasmarsh Festival. From Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 June there will be nine concerts under the direction of violinist Anthony Marwood and Cellist Richard Lester, eight in the delightful church of St Peter & St Paul in Peasmarsh.<br />
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The, Orchestral Concert at 8pm on Friday 24 June will be at St Mary's Church in the heart of Rye. The soloists are Richard Lester and Anthony Marwood and they will play with the London Mozart Players. The programme comprisesmProkofiev's Symphony No 1 in D major, Haydn's Cello Concerto in D major as well as Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major.<br />
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Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-76345605226365478402016-03-08T09:49:00.004-08:002016-03-08T09:49:52.045-08:00Pianist Tzu-Yin Huang wins at Hastings<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmj3p9zw9bgzjIvOITF40PyfSbwx4F0IVIw9zfIzmQTDr9u8iUCU_wkaNr5Cfo8pvW9AjJYp5FsugzAmmvcz75Boi-N0imQrErOArmhKd4cn4sYxZjVMdYZmDdfvZoE3YWtaHISugMY8b/s1600/Tzu-Yin+Huang.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxmj3p9zw9bgzjIvOITF40PyfSbwx4F0IVIw9zfIzmQTDr9u8iUCU_wkaNr5Cfo8pvW9AjJYp5FsugzAmmvcz75Boi-N0imQrErOArmhKd4cn4sYxZjVMdYZmDdfvZoE3YWtaHISugMY8b/s200/Tzu-Yin+Huang.jpeg" width="170" /></a>Tzu-Yin Huang won the 12th Hastings International Piano Concerto competition on Saturday 5 March and as part of her prize she will be performing a concert at the Rye Arts Festival in September.<br />
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The Taiwanese pianist beat 50 of the World's finest young concert pianists who gathered in Hastings over 10 days to compete for one of Europe's most prestigious international piano competitions.<br />
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<br />Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-36627631326727824912016-02-27T03:02:00.002-08:002016-02-28T04:46:24.588-08:00The Master's Centenary <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl5EkEct1jeA9vZYpNAkUVgr67HZuMYvuW-LZLpGkDZ3FgPfN1Fzsi134XJeEAk8BHUIx9OT3_J8dcRLoqpackbmANQ4lMS-tN9l2f2W_gqW0hJ7aKQpM-Y9_SjhkKUSl1wIBdNddo3-m-/s1600/lamb+house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl5EkEct1jeA9vZYpNAkUVgr67HZuMYvuW-LZLpGkDZ3FgPfN1Fzsi134XJeEAk8BHUIx9OT3_J8dcRLoqpackbmANQ4lMS-tN9l2f2W_gqW0hJ7aKQpM-Y9_SjhkKUSl1wIBdNddo3-m-/s200/lamb+house.jpg" width="160" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.3px;">Tomorrow sees the centenary of the death of one of Rye's most famous residents. On 28th February 1916 Henry James, long-time resident of Lamb House in Rye's West Street, passed away. Such was his huge international reputation as a writer he was known simply as 'The Master'!</span><br />
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We're not sure what is planned by the National Trust , which owns Lamb House, to note this important date<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.72px;">, but we can reveal that Rye Arts Festival is lining up a real treat of an event at the end of September to mark James' centenary year! All will be revealed later but keep an eye on <a class="" href="http://www.ryeartsfestival.co.uk/" style="color: #0068cf; cursor: pointer; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22.72px;" target="">www.ryeartsfestival.co.uk</a> as this year's exciting programme comes together!</span></div>
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Ryesingers are performing Handel's Messiah on Sunday 6 December at Rye Methodist Church. Tickets for the performance, which starts at 3pm in what is perhaps Rye's lightest and brightest venue with possibly the most comfortable seats in town, will be available on the door priced just £8.<br />
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Ryesingers will celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2016 and long ago forged not just a local but national reputation for the quality of their singing.<br />
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<br />Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-35720446592317291222015-09-23T03:33:00.000-07:002015-09-23T03:33:02.019-07:00Welcome Back - the Famous Five!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pianist Clare Hammond returns to Rye Arts Festival tonight at 7.30pm at Iden Church as part of the Odysseus Piano Trio. With violinist Sara Trickey and Gregor Riddell on cello, Clare will offer a programme including two of the major piano trio pieces - Dvorak's Dumky Piano Trio and Schubert's First Piano Trio in B flat major. Tickets can be bought on the door.<br />
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Clare performed last year at Rye Arts Festival in a concert with the Festival's Quartet in Residence - the Piatti Quartet - who were a huge success! And tomorrow, Thursday 24th Sept, the Piatti will be back at Rye Arts Festival!<br />
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The Belcea Quartet are giving a concert at St Mary's Church Rye at 7.30pm and will be joined by the Piatti for the second half in order to play the Mendelssohn Octet.<br />
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<br />Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-87762899433891402882015-09-22T09:31:00.001-07:002015-09-22T14:33:29.534-07:00Memories of Rye Arts Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFBjAwotZG3jrDfw3XuqlRYldsCw8TxrFpsVpbD1qMIs_aJmchavl2q8iF8mH4VDXub_PONE2OhqZ9IIwmsC7lCD40X2-zdfs4jh2GQNemc0HTqAIXCkQ_fF9SiTwoq30Cmvqx8PUJoDV/s1600/Charliesackbut3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPFBjAwotZG3jrDfw3XuqlRYldsCw8TxrFpsVpbD1qMIs_aJmchavl2q8iF8mH4VDXub_PONE2OhqZ9IIwmsC7lCD40X2-zdfs4jh2GQNemc0HTqAIXCkQ_fF9SiTwoq30Cmvqx8PUJoDV/s200/Charliesackbut3.JPG" width="175" /></a>Charlie Cobb, artist in residence at this year's Festival was snapped by Steve Pope making sketches at the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble concert on Sunday in St Mary's Church. Charlie will be holding an exhibition of his drawings and paintings made over the last two weeks in and around the Festival on Sunday 27th September between noon and 6pm. The work will be on display at Charlie's pop-up studio at 89 High St Rye in the shop that was formerly Sweet Memories of Rye. The work will be for sale so you too can pick up and keep some delightful memories of this year's Festival.Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-22757526321501123592015-09-18T23:24:00.003-07:002015-09-18T23:24:27.548-07:00Altan - Donegal's Finest's one-off UK Gig in Rye<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsStfRPvNeJ4JclQdKW8GsB_OqtJgsZmtP3mjM9_iU2LiSQAOPa38tOkSR5kRe0j1EiG_901OXkErhq5y9QqVJNu9Db_z7gbj_ziW3GT9DaeSxv4zrOaEvJ2LJVGcPHIyA8uv-O4AnERPZ/s1600/Altan+preferred+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsStfRPvNeJ4JclQdKW8GsB_OqtJgsZmtP3mjM9_iU2LiSQAOPa38tOkSR5kRe0j1EiG_901OXkErhq5y9QqVJNu9Db_z7gbj_ziW3GT9DaeSxv4zrOaEvJ2LJVGcPHIyA8uv-O4AnERPZ/s200/Altan+preferred+photo.jpg" width="200" /></a>Today Altan are flying into Gatwick from Dublin to give a exclusive UK gig at Rye Arts Festival. <br />
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Tomorrow they're flying home! And with the rest of the year full of gigs in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland with a tour of Japan in December, Rye represents a rare chance to see one of Ireland's finest traditional bands.<br />
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Rye Arts Festival is proud of the work it does behind the scenes providing a series of exclusive masterclasses and special performances for the students of Rye's schools. Today, Wednesday 9th September, Charlie Cobb - who is the Artists in Residence for the duration (11-27 Sept) of this year's Festival - is arriving in Rye and he is going straight away to the Rye Studio School to give an art masterclass for the students. Charlie painted all the paintings in the film Mr Turner and also worked on the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympics, but during the Festival he will be working from a pop-up gallery/studio in the former <i>Sweet Memories of Rye</i> sweetshop in the High Street.<br />
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He will also be holding a couple of masterclasses for the public on 14th and 25th September at the School Creative Centre and Lamb House Garden respectively - tickets can be bought from online the website <a href="http://www.ryearstfestival.co.uk/">www.ryearstfestival.co.uk</a> or at the Box Office or phone 01797 224442.<br />
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<br />Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-29874670513439825462015-09-07T13:32:00.002-07:002015-09-07T13:32:23.387-07:00Pedal Powered Opera Singers on Way to Rye<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rannveig Karadottir and Peter Aisher are the vanguard of the singers, with the rest arriving for the final rehearsals which start in Rye on Wednesday. Rannveig plays Donna Anna and Peter is Don Ottavio in this year's production from the fantastic Euphonia Company, who have graced Rye Arts Festival with an opera for four of the last five years. Euphonia's opera productions are seen only at Rye, but for the first time this year there will be two performances of Don Giovanni, with the second show on Saturday 26th September.<br />
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Eagle-eyed readers will remember Rannveig, who gave a triumphant performance as Violetta in last year's La Traviata at Rye Arts Festival. And the Icelandic soprano's stage love interest in the opera last year was... Peter Aisher! Great to see them both back! Tickets for both performances can be bought online at <a href="http://www.ryeartsfestival.co.uk/">www.ryeartsfestival.co.uk</a>Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-30571563496507987932015-09-06T12:20:00.000-07:002015-09-06T12:20:19.573-07:00All Steam Ahead for Festival Opening Parade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rye Arts Festival opens at 11am on 11th September with a parade through town by the students of Rye College, Rye Studio School and Rye Primary.<br />
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Starting from Rye Train Station the parade will be themed as a train and will make tracks through Town to the Rye Museum in East Street where the official opening of the festival will take place. It will then be all steam ahead for the colourful and noisy parade to make its way back to the station where the students will disembark!<br />
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The 44th Rye Arts Festival will run though to 27 September with over 60 events set to take place in the packed fortnight!<br />
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Alexander Panfilov, who is playing at Rye Arts Festival on 16th September, was selected last night to go through to the semi-final of the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition.<br />
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The Russian pianist has worked hard and faced a huge challenge to reach this far of the triennial Leeds Competition with 79 pianists from around the World chosen to compete in the first round, selected from hundreds of applications! This was reduced to just over 30 for the second round and now 12 go through to the semis which take place over the next three days.<br />
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Alexander won the 2015 Hastings Piano Competition earlier in the year and, as part of his prize, he was given an engagement at his year's Rye Arts Festival! Tickets are still available for the concert at St Mary's Church at 7.30pm on Wednesday 16th September providing a chance to see a real star in the making!<br />
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September is International Piano Month, and Rye Arts Festival has taken this to heart delivering a mini Piano Festival within the Festival! Angela Hewitt will be making her first ever performance at Rye Arts Festival (now in its 44th year), with a concert on the evening of Tuesday 15th September at the lovely parish church of St Mary's in Rye.<br />
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The following day, 16th September, there will be a pair of concerts. At lunchtime, Maya Irgalina, a young pianist from Belarus, will be giving a recital in St Mary's - ideal for those who have popped into town for shopping and also workers since the the 1pm start means they can come during their lunch hour.<br />
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In the evening Alexander Panfilov will be playing in the Church at 7.30pm. Alexander recently won the 2015 Hastings Piano Competition and, as part of his prize, Rye Arts Festival offered him an engagement. Excitingly, Alexander is competing in the Leeds International Piano Competition and was in the quarter final at the time of writing! We all wish him well and hope he goes further and we will keep you posted.<br />
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Rehearsals for the eagerly anticipated two performances of Don Giovanni at this year's Rye Arts Festival on Saturday 12 and Saturday 26 September are under way and going well - despite the picture suggesting a mass brawl between the sopranos and tenors! The cast are currently working hard, and having fun, at a Roman Catholic church in Greenwich, south east London, under musical director/conductor Alisdair Kitchen.<br />
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And a sneak preview suggests that the fabulous young professional singers in Euphonia will be providing a production that equals and may exceed last year's triumphal La Traviata! Tickets are still available for both performances.<br />
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Altan, from Donegal, are one of the top Irish bands and on 19 September they are flying into the UK to play a one-off gig at Rye Arts Festival.<br />
Don't miss out then on the best irish music you'll hear all year with a mixture of energetic jigs and reels and slower ballads to touch the heart and raise a tear!<br />
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If you miss this gig, you'll have to follow them to Belgium in the late autumn to catch up and, after that, you'll have to fly out to Japan where they are undergoing a major tour in December! So it's got to be Rye!<br />
Tickets can be bought online at <a href="http://www.ryeartsfestival.co.uk/">www.ryeartsfestival.co.uk</a>Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-39148510887783346072015-09-01T07:58:00.001-07:002015-09-02T00:16:54.893-07:00The Rails - Award-Winning Folk Duo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Horizon Award for best new band of the previous 12 months went to The Rails, who will be playing at Rye Arts Festival on 12 September.<br />
Kami Thompson is the daughter of Linda and Richard Thompson, so comes from UK folk royalty! Meanwhile her husband James Walbourne has played with the Pogues and Pretenders!<br />
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This is a must-see event for all folk fans since The Rails are leading the way in terms of their contemporary take on tradition, mixing playing their own originals with songs from the canon.Rye Arts Festivalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00418897717258477091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8581440301365590917.post-49001057456669861802015-06-19T07:24:00.000-07:002015-06-19T07:24:04.647-07:00Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival 25-28 June<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival starts its 2015 programme on 25 June and runs through to 28 June with a series of concerts all at the lovely Peasmarsh church except 8pm Friday 26 June when the performance is at St Mary's Church Rye.<br />
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Once again violinist Anthony Marwood and cellist Richard Richard Lester have put together a programme of romantic and classical music to please and delight all tastes, including work from the young English composer Huw Watkins. And over the packed four days they will be joined by friends - musicians from around the whole World.<br />
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Tickets have been selling fast as the audience who know Peasmarsh Festival know they are bound to be rewarded with the highest quality of musicianship in beautiful and inspiring surroundings. But tickets are still available for most of the nine concerts.<br />
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For more info on the full programme and tickets check out <a href="http://www.peasmarshfestival.co.uk/">www.peasmarshfestival.co.uk</a></div>
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Some concerts have food available in a marquee which will be prepared by the incomparable Chicks that Chop (who also charity walk like goddesses)!</div>
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