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Wednesday
7 July
6.00pm
Henley Festival's Resident Company Festival Enclosure
The unusual, the silly, and the beautiful聟 Throughout the enclosure
a wonderful collection of roving performers including Dot.Comedy,
the Lifeboat, mega-robot Cyberstein, a trio of irresistible Butterflies,
and stilt walking jazz band, Poles Apart amongst others. And once
again join the irrepressible Bobby Lamb and the Trinity College
Swing Band in the Bandstand.
7.15pm
The Vienna Vegetable
Orchestra Club Marquee
Quite simply what it says 'on the tin'. The most gloriously absurd
of musical experiences - a fully bio-degradable concert as a 10
strong team of Viennese musicians play on a variety of musical instruments
made from vegetables - which they then cook! Only British appearance
this year.
7.15pm Monsieur Pantin
The Dome
Soulful songs from France mixed up with wild dance instrumentals
from Britain and beyond. A versatile quartet featuring top 'traditional'
musicians Jean-Pierre Rasle and Ste谩f谩n Hannigan.
8.45pm
Concerto! presented by David Mellor Floating Stage
The powerful and beautiful music of the two single most popular
concertos of all time. Featuring the major rising talents of Chlo毛
Hanslip (violin) and Stephen de Pledge (piano) the programme consists
of the searingly beautiful 2nd Piano Concerto by Rachmaninov - music
so memorably and tear jerkingly used in the film Brief Encounter,
and Max Bruch's light-footed Violin Concerto No 1 performed by an
artist who made her EMI recording debut in this work at the age
of 16. Conducted by Nicolae Moldoveanu with Henley Festival's new
Orchestra-in-Association, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
10.15pm Fireworks! FourSquareFireDance
Riverside Lawn
A stunning new collaboration for the Henley Festival by pyrotechnicians
extraordinaire, The World Famous聟 , top British 'urban dance'
company Union Dance with specially composed music by Julie Cooper.
Hi-energy movement and dazzling fireworks. Bluegrass and country
gone magical, upbeat and electronic. Another Henley Festival first.
10.45pm John Williams and Friends
Club Marquee
Impressions of Africa - one of the world's top guitarists, Australian
John Williams, is joined by stellar members of the music fraternity:
Paul Clarvis (hand-drums and percussion), John Etheridge (acoustic
steel-strung guitar), Chris Laurence (double bass) and Richard Harvey
(flutes, whistles etc.) in a programme consisting of the infectious
music of Cameroon, Madagascar, South Africa, Cape Verde, the Congo
and Senegal.
10.45pm Hazel O'Connor
The Dome
The much recorded and massively successful singer/actress who burst
on to the scene with the film Breaking Glass and album of the same
name that charted for 28 weeks in the 1980's. Here she sings with
her new 'world-music' inspired band.
10.45pm The Trinity College Swing Band
Floating Stage
The one constant at the Henley Festival, Bobby Lamb's virtuoso corps
of young musicians take to the Floating Stage for the Festival's
first major dancing opportunity.
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