They're coming back, for the fourth time at Rye Arts Festival. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are playing this year's Festival on Saturday 22nd September at Rye College. Last time round the gig included pieces by the Uke maestro George Formby, British rapper Miss Dynamite and Nirvana. Grunge can rarely have had a more appreciative audience in Rye, with many older audience members getting off on Smells Like Teen Spirit!
Friday, 13 July 2012
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Rye: A Fertile Place For Entertaining Doctors
This year's Rye Arts Festival is probably going to feature more medical doctors than Rye's two surgeries combined can muster. And the good news is that the medics aren't coming to treat us but to give us a treat.
First up is Instant Sunshine. They're a trio who having been singing their very own brand of humorous songs since the 1970's - an alternative and very successful career away from their day jobs treating the sick. Older Ryers will remember them on Stop the Week on Radio 4, back in the day when Robert Robinson was the Daddy.
First up is Instant Sunshine. They're a trio who having been singing their very own brand of humorous songs since the 1970's - an alternative and very successful career away from their day jobs treating the sick. Older Ryers will remember them on Stop the Week on Radio 4, back in the day when Robert Robinson was the Daddy.
Monday, 9 July 2012
41st annual Festival Launched
Despite the counter-attraction of the Wimbledon men's final a large complement of Festival Friends, Supporters and Sponsors were at the launch of the 2012 Rye Arts Festival on Sunday afternoon. The audience at Tilling Green Community Centre were rewarded with an entertaining presentation of all the individual events in this year's packed and exciting programme, delicious canapes and some rather good wine.
The Festival runs from 15th to 30th September and the other important dates for your diary are:
The Festival runs from 15th to 30th September and the other important dates for your diary are:
Thursday, 21 June 2012
Romney Reminder
Two exciting classical music concerts are promised on the evenings of 7th and 8th July in Romney Marsh. After selling out last year, London-based JAM is returning to the Marsh with concerts that offer a vibrant mix of new and old classical music. St Leonard's Church in Hythe hosts the first concert on Friday 7th July and St Nicholas Church in New Romney is the venue for the evening of Saturday 8th July.
JAM was founded a decade ago to encourage, nurture and commission new talents, whilst also performing older classics. So the Hythe concert will feature the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) playing a specially commissioned piece by composer Julia Bingham called, fittingly, The Hythe, as well as Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and the achingly beautiful Handel organ concerto. The concert starts at 7.30pm, but there is a pre-concert talk by Julia Bingham at 6.45pm.
JAM was founded a decade ago to encourage, nurture and commission new talents, whilst also performing older classics. So the Hythe concert will feature the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) playing a specially commissioned piece by composer Julia Bingham called, fittingly, The Hythe, as well as Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and the achingly beautiful Handel organ concerto. The concert starts at 7.30pm, but there is a pre-concert talk by Julia Bingham at 6.45pm.
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Free Street Theatre at Rye Arts Festival
Street theatre is coming to this year's Rye Arts Festival with several free performances during on the opening day, Saturday 15th September, of The Little Cauliflower Machine. The machine will wheel around the town's streets, controlled by two bumbling assistants seeking audience help to get it working.
Fun for all the family, The Cauliflower Machine will be appearing at Edinburgh Festival in August, but while the ineptitude of the assistants won't get any better - as they fine-tune their act, hopefully it will get worse, with comic effect!
Fun for all the family, The Cauliflower Machine will be appearing at Edinburgh Festival in August, but while the ineptitude of the assistants won't get any better - as they fine-tune their act, hopefully it will get worse, with comic effect!
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Royal Event at Festival
As the Diamond Jubilee celebrations draw to a close our thoughts are surely with our marvellous monarch and her family, and we hope that Prince Phillip makes a fast and full recovery.
Looking further ahead the Rye Arts Festival has at least one Royal event. Penny Junor, who has just written the first biography of Prince William, will be coming to speak at the festival on 19th September.
Looking further ahead the Rye Arts Festival has at least one Royal event. Penny Junor, who has just written the first biography of Prince William, will be coming to speak at the festival on 19th September.
Friday, 1 June 2012
Classical Music on the Marsh
Following sell-out concerts last year, classical music, courtesy of JAM, is returning to Hythe and New Romney on the weekend of 5-7th July.
JAM was launched in 2000 dedicated to nurturing, commissioning, promoting and performing new music in the UK and on 6th July at St Leonard's Church, Hythe the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is performing, among other pieces, The Hythe, by Julia Bingham, which was commmisioned to celebrate the composer's 60th birthday this year.
JAM was launched in 2000 dedicated to nurturing, commissioning, promoting and performing new music in the UK and on 6th July at St Leonard's Church, Hythe the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is performing, among other pieces, The Hythe, by Julia Bingham, which was commmisioned to celebrate the composer's 60th birthday this year.
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