Day Eight - Friday May 16

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Hanging Basket Workshop

A hanging basket

Join Head Gardener Sean Reid as he demonstrates how to prepare and arrange a summer hanging basket. In the afternoon, create your own basket to take home and display. All materials provided. Please bring your own gloves. Morning coffee and pastries, lunch and afternoon tea included.

 

 

Sophie Garner

Sophie Garner

Listen to a sample of Sophie Garner and cover of Fever

With her powerful voice and charismatic stage presence which have seen her nominated for the Perrier Jazz Awards, it is a delight to welcome Sophie back to her home town for a set of jazz standards and original compositions.

BBC Radio Suffolk will be recording this performance for future broadcast

 

Jazz at the Angel

The Angel Hotel, Angel Hill in Bury St Edmunds

Dinner and jazz in the Angel Hotel Vaults.

 

 

 

 

Shakespeare As You Like Him

A scene from Shakespeare As You Like Him

Bruce Morrison performs a new and dazzling theatrical tour-de-force, playing both men and women, and bringing Shakespeare's Kings, Queens, Lovers, Heroes, Villains, Clowns, Songs, Music and Sonnets thrillingly to life onstage in this new and innovative solo performance.

"All the hits are here... majestic pathos... intellectual humour... achingly beautiful" - British Theatre Guide

 

Opera Double Bill - Dido & Aeneas and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

The Armonico Consort

Enjoy an evening of magic, witchery, tomfoolery, hilarity, deception and downright idiocy in this thrilling double bill presented by Armonico Consort. In its uniquely accessible and innovative way Armonico Consort presents a programme that moves from the sublime to the ridiculous with the pairing of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas with Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

From the profound 'Dido's Lament' to the 'Drunken Sailor', in Dido & Aeneas, Purcell's only complete opera, the tragic tale of true love fatefully torn away is told with the sweeping emotion of English Baroque music at its very best.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is arguably the funniest French play set to music. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was the final collaboration between Moliere and Lully,  the bad boy of French 17th century popular music.  Kit Hesketh Harvey (the glamorous half of Kit and the Widow) showcases his elegant wit in a hilarious new script that brings this satirical tale of snobbery, social climbing and class stereotypes right up to date in the 21st century.

Kit Hesketh-Harvey's new text for Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.

Acoustic Triangle - In Three Dimensions

Members of Acoustic Triangle

Listen to a sample of Acoutic Triangle's Miserere Mei from their album Resonance

Malcolm Creese's Acoustic Triangle, featuring Gwilym Simcock and Tim Garland, offers an innovative blend of melodic modern jazz and European contemporary 'classical' music and is taking its musical exploration of inspiring buildings to new heights in 2008. The acclaimed trio, joined by six world-class string players including the Sacconi String Quartet, is touring the UK's cathedrals and abbeys in a joyful celebration of magnificent spaces. New works by award-winning composers Tim Garland and Gwilym Simcock will receive their world premieres here with crafted original, eclectic pieces in which hidden passages from themes ancient and modern emerge in a feast of acoustic music.

In this unique performance, in which the spacial and aural perspective is constantly shifting, musicians will appear from all around - their sounds echoing, developing, melting, re-emerging, surprising……an unforgettable experience!

"Frequently breath-taking music... an eclectic, adventurous performance by three undisputed masters of the game" - The Guardian

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