By Ruth Meech
2:00pm Friday 21st February 2014, in Live Music and Clubs
THE 2014 Sherborne Abbey Festival brings an internationally acclaimed jazz singer, one of classical music’s most enduring stars and a leading early music ensemble to Dorset for the early May bank holiday weekend, May 2-6.
Festival director John Baker, who founded the festival in 2000, is excited by this year’s line-up, which also includes a professional dance company for the first time.
He says: “We welcome you all to what we believe is a wonderful and varied selection of music for your delight.
“For the first time, at this year’s 15th annual festival, we will have professional dancers on stage with the Jiving Lindy Hoppers and Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra, Swinging at the Cotton Club and from the USA we welcome the amazing jazz singer Stacey Kent.
“We invite you to enjoy the choral beauty of Byrd’s The Great Service and Elgar’s The Apostles, probably the biggest and most beautiful work that he wrote, sung for the first time in Sherborne Abbey.
“In case that is not enough to whet your appetite we are privileged to welcome the man with the golden flute, none other than the incredible Sir James Galway.
“These are just the headline acts in a wonderful five days packed with a further 18 concerts to tempt you, most of which are free.”
Read more: http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/leisure/music/livemusicandclubs/11027606.Sherborne_Abbey_Festival/?ref=rss
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