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| Shaftesbury Festival As Shaftesbury's first full food, music & arts festival comes to a climax, Saturday 1st June will see well over 100 stalls featuring local food on Park Walk and Arts and Crafts on the High Street plus a programme of live music on the open-air stage outside the Town Hall from 10am to 4pm. A succession of local bands playing everything from folk and jazz to rock includes Harpin On, Jazz Lads, Bell Street Strollers, Bag of Rats and Shaftesbury Ukulele Band. The day culminates with a Ceilidh dance in the Town Hall from 7.30pm with the famous Hambledon Hopstep Band led by Shaftesbury's Nick Crump and Tim Laycock The musical weekend kicks off on Friday 31st May with the four times award-winning blues band, The Producers, at Shaftesbury Arts Centre at 7.30pm with frontman Harry Skinner and bass player Dave Saunders joined by Ray Drury on organ and piano and 'Biff' Smith on drums and percussion. "Young Musician of the Year" finalist, George Hewett teams up with his opera-singing sister, Charlotte, to provide a rare musical treat on Sunday 2nd June. The couple, both from Iwerne Minster, are joined by young tenor Tim Langston to feature as the latest local musical talents in the Festival Finale Concert at St Peter's Church. This concert is a 24-item programme of popular music, old and new, from Britten and Bach to Bernstein and the Beatles. It also includes Shaftesbury Community Choir, conducted by David Grierson, to be seen next month in the new ITV series 'Harbour Lives'. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |