Swaffham Prior Summer Festival
September 12th-14th
COLOUR AND SOUND
This is to alert you that there will be a weekend of music and paintings in St Cyriac's Church in September, that will, we hope, offer "something for everyone". And by knowing the date in advance perhaps you can plan not to be away.
An Exhibition of Paintings by Keith Gentle will hang from Friday evening to Sunday evening. Keith is a local Cambridge painter who knows Swaffham Prior very well. He has spent a working life in arts education and now in "retirement" is producing a body of exciting, large-scale, vibrantly-coloured watercolours. He draws on the countryside, landscape and buildings of Britain and Europe to paint wonderfully evocative pictures.
Entrance to the exhibition is free
There will be an opening party on Friday 12th, 6.00-8.30pm
A Concert by Cambridge Voices and The Orchestra of the Age of Reason will be dedicated to performing Handel's "Israel in Egypt". Forty musicians will fill the church with this great protestant Georgian oratorio and complement the building's late Georgian architecture.
Tickets are £7.50 at the door. Saturday 13th , 7.30pm
A West Gallery "Quire" and Band will indulge in some light-hearted shenanigans with Roy Tricker on Sunday evening. The event is inspired by the little West Gallery in St Cyriac's church - a typical Georgian feature. This is a chance to learn about the music played in country parish churches at one time, and be surprised. Fancy dress optional. Audience participation unavoidable!
Tickets £5.00, children free. Sunday 14th, 6.00pm
A programme of the weekend's events will be delivered to you in late August. If you would like to know more please telephone either Elisabeth Everitt or Kate Child.