Festival programme - week 7
.. Week 7 in Detail plus Special Features.
FESTIVAL BUNYAN, CHORAL & ORGAN WEEKEND
Friday 12 June Guided walks and talks
ELSTOW ABBEY ~ MOOT HALL & VILLAGE
2 pm: £2.00* Meet John Crockall, Organist and History Guide at Elstow Abbey for a conducted tour of the Abbey, founded in 1078, and the Village
3 pm: £1.00* Continue to, or meet at Moot Hall: 45 minute talk & tour
13 June JERSEY ARTS EXHIBITION AT BROMHAM MILL Private View
Sponsored by Bedford Arts Forum—drinks, nibbles, music. FREE
Saturday 13 June at 11 am—4 pm
Bedfordshire Organists’ Association
presents
AN ORGAN-WOOFYT DAY at ELSTOW ABBEY
CLASH OF THE TITANS! IS IT ORGAN MUSIC OR SCIENCE?
Come and decide! Come for some - or for all of the day!
Learn how an Organ and Woofyt work: you can hear both and play both yourself
Admission: Adults £3.00* ~ Children under 16 £1.00*
Family ticket (2 adults, 3 children) £5.00*
WOOFYT = (wooden one-octave organ for young technologists)
13 & 14 June at 7.30 pm
Barton Le Clay Village Hall £8.00* / £6.00*
present HOME ENTERTAINMENT by Joan Jenkin
Saturday 13 June at 7.30 pm
Corn Exchange, Bedford
SUMMER CONCERT
BEDFORD CHORAL SOCIETY
BEDFORD SINFONIA
Conducted by Ian Smith
Soloist: Tim Grant-Jones
J Willcocks - Riddle of the World,
Handel - Organ Concerto Haydn - Harmoniemesse
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TICKET PRICES*
Balcony/Tier £15.00*
Front Stalls £12.00*
Concessions from £8.00*
Membership, Friends of Bedford Choral Society and further information :
www.bedfordchoralsociety.org.uk
Sunday 14 June
at 7.30 pm (doors open at 7 pm) £6.00*
BLUES ON THE OUSE
Andy Gilbert a brings a glittering line up
to The Ent Shed, Gordon Arms, Castle Road, Bedford
Video samples can be viewed on YouTube
A SPECIAL DEDICATION from Sandra Dudley, Festival Organiser:
WEEKS SIX and SEVEN are dedicated to the musicians of Kent where so many servicemen were brought ashore to safety from Normandy in June, 65 years ago. Amongst these were Sandra’s parents and grandparents and their friends. Her mother and aunt as teenagers were on Broadstairs beach as the smaller boats arrived collecting names and addresses of ‘the boys’ to telegraph news of their safety to their families. In 1946, Margate musician, George Vesey with friends including his future wife, Eileen Rickon (soprano) and Sandra’s father, Kenneth Allen (bass baritone) founded the Margate Festival Choir to help begin the long rebuilding of lives at Hell’s Corner, as Thanet was known during WWII. Margate internationally celebrated counter tenor, Alfred Deller (below right) was a frequent soloist, the BBC’s Stanford Robinson, Vice President and Conductor, developing choir expertise to a highly acclaimed performance of Elgar’s “Dream”. Sandra’s Choir history will appear later in 2009 on
www.thanetfestivalchoir.org.uk. 
* TICKETS FROM BEDFORD CENTRAL BOX OFFICE 01234 269519
* ONLINE www.bedfordcornexchange.co.uk/events/whats-on 
Bedford Jersey Arts festival
1 May – 5 July 2009 in Bedfordshire UK
Celebrating 70 years of friendship 1939—2009
“Victoria College, Jersey children evacuated to Bedford School during the Nazi Occupation of Jersey in WWII”
site under construction
visit often-watch the site develop
This website is an ongoing project started in late January 2009.