We hope you have been enjoying the sunshine this week – even if your gardens are not!
Here is a round-up of all our summer musical offerings:
07 June, Family Festival
Musical fun for the whole family. Something for everyone from World Drumming workshops to singing sessions for the whole family, and music to enjoy in the garden. There will also be a cake stall, a second-hand bookshop, drinks, and games/activities in and around the venue. Book your workshop place here.
14 June , Blow the Dust
Instrumental playing day. Places are still available, click here.
21 June, Nottingham Chamber Singers 40th Birthday Celebration Concert
Don’t miss this wonderful celebration! Tickets are available here.
28 June, Choral Workshop with Neil Ferris
Workshop with BBC Singers choral director, Neil Ferris. Places still available. Click here to book.
4 – 6 August, Summer School
A wonderful 3 days of music making with expert conductors and tutors, and performances from exceptional guest artists.
Places still available. Click here to book.
This year’s BBC Proms season has just been announced and features 86 concerts, 72 at London’s Royal Albert Hall and 14 at venues elsewhere around the UK.
The Proms was founded in 1895 by impresario Robert Newman, who wanted to bring life to the quiet summer months with a bold new kind of concert. His idea was simple but revolutionary: take out the expensive stalls seats and create a standing area, a ‘promenade’, right in front of the orchestra. Newman made these standing tickets the cheapest in the house, putting those who paid the least closest to the music and flipping the usual stuffy rules of classical concerts on their head.
That approach still defines the Proms today. ‘Promming’ remains the most affordable way to attend, and you don’t need to book ahead. Each day at 10:30am, around 1,000 standing tickets are released online for just £8, even if all seated tickets are sold out, making The Proms the most accessible major classical music festival. Shame they can’t do anything about train fares to London!
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Can you help with donations for our Family Festival? This is a reminder to donate any spare bottles or chocolates! At our Family Festival we will be running some tombola stalls. If you are able to donate a box of chocolates or a bottle of any kind (wine, shampoo, water bottle, olive oil etc.) please drop them into Bookwise Nottingham (10 Goose Gate, Nottingham, NG1 1FF) or hand them in to Rachel Parkes at DTV Hucknall, Southwell or West Bridgford!
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Have a great week!
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