6.00pm
Henley Festival's Resident Company Festival Enclosure
(see Wednesday)
7.15pm Conchord
Club Marquee
Top internationally recognised chamber group in a programme featuring
chamber music from France by Poulenc and Faur茅 and the beautiful
but rarely heard sextet by 19th century German composer Ludwig Thuille.
7.15pm Jiggerypipery
The Dome
The Henley Festival's 'pipes' programme continues with traditional
and new tunes played by leading Scottish piper James Robertson and
friends.
8.45pm
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Floating Stage
The Henley Festival is privileged to welcome back one of the world's
greatest opera stars. Anyone present at Dame Kiri's first outing
to the Floating Stage in 2001 will vouch for the fact that this
was truly a great night of music making. In a programme comprising
operatic and popular repertoire together with stunning arrangements
of traditional Maori songs, Dame Kiri returns in the company of
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Robin Stapleton.
10.15pm Fireworks! FourSquareFireDance
Riverside Lawn
(see Wednesday)
10.45pm Georgie Fame and Keith 'Mr Hefty
Jazz' Smith
in From Basin Street to Broadway Club Marquee
The evergreen rock 'n roller Georgie Fame joins seven of the UK's
finest jazz musicians including legendary trumpeter Keith 'Mr Hefty
Jazz' Smith in a fabulous programme featuring the cream of American
music from the 20th century - jazz, blues and big Broadway tunes.
10.45pm The Angel Brothers and Satnam Singh
The Dome
This fast rising and highly danceable fusion band performs a snaking
mix of Bhangra & classical Indian rhythms intertwined with Western
dance grooves, folk tunes & wither-wringing acoustic guitar
melodies.
11.00pm Union Dance in Urban Classics
Floating Stage
A must-see dance performance by one of the UK's most remarkable
and highly charged dance companies. With a reputation second to
none in the dynamic British dance scene, Union present a mixture
of street dance, capoeira, ballet and jazz dance with music ranging
from Missy Elliot to Talvin Singh.
