In this World Cup year, we will be performing ‘Perfect Pitch’, a selection of fun football-themed songs by composer Malcolm Singer, setting the rhythmically inventive and entertaining poems of Nick Toczek and incorporating fun body percussion and obligatory football...
Sussex Heritage provides a wonderful piece to celebrate the Shipley Arts Festival and the International baritone Roderick Williams who will be performed with us at Sedgwick Park.
Time to celebrate the music of v8 and v10 engines and the electric cars.
Wonderful to see both Roderick Williams and the Knepp Trio mentioned in the latest addition of BBC Music.
The Shipley Arts Festival added to the joyful celebrations of HM Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee in West Sussex with a sell-out concert at the Blue Idol at Coolham. Festival director, Andrew Bernardi is now turning his attention to a concert at Sedgwick Park...
PLATINUM JUBILEE CELEBRATION THE BLUE IDOL, COOLHAMJune 1st at 7pm FINAL TICKETSJoin us for an evening of Words and Music and celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.With music from: Handel, John Barry, Olivier Messiaen, Gluck & J.S.Bach.FESTIVAL OF CHICHESTER OPEN...
Roderick Williams OBE is one of this country’s most sought after baritones and is constantly in demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. In 2016 he won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the...
We were delighted with the review we received from Michael White of the Catholic Herald, about our recent concert with the students from Trinity Laban Conservatoire he wrote: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is so often heard I sometimes promise myself never to sit through it...
Note: the article below is from the publication 'The Strad' which appeared 21st March 2022, click here to read the article. A Change of Season: spotlighting the climate emergency through music The Shipley Arts Festival and Founder, Andrew Bernardi, are delighted to be...
This article was originally posted in the County Times and authored by Phil Hewitt. Lasting in effect 18 months, it became the 2020 and 2021 arts festival combined, offering 30 live concerts and 14 online. It was also a time of making the most of opportunities as they...