Howden Festival Archive - 2007

The winners of the 2007 Festival programme cover design competition were presented with their prizes and certificates at Howden Junior School on Friday 13th October. William Sweeting, the Howden Festival Chairman of 2006, carried out the presentation.

Entries to the competition were received from both Howden Junior School and Howden Infant School. The Festival Committee selected finalists for the competition and these were displayed in Howden Minster during the Festival week.

The final of the competition was judged by David Fanshawe, composer of African Sanctus, and his wife Jane after the performance of this work in Howden Minster on the last Saturday of Festival week. David and Jane were both impressed by the standard of entries from these young artists.

The winners were as follows:
Georgina Gray-Howden Junior School winner and overall competition winner Jessica Makey-Howden C of E Infant School winner

The judges awarded “Highly Commended Certificates” to:
Laura Kinnaird-Howden Junior School
Georgia Duck- Howden C of E Infant School - Georgina’s winning design will form the basis of the front cover of the Howden Festival programme in 2007. Jessica’s design will be printed inside the 2007 programme.

Winners of “The Cover Design Competition for the 2007 Festival Programme”

Saturday 15th September -

Howden Minster Evening Concert 7:45pm £10 (£8)

CONCERT - ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC THROUGH THE AGES

David Leeke Director of Music of St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury - sister church of St. Alkmund's, and is Director of the Sam Baker School of Church Music based at St Alkmund’s Church, Shrewsbury and Conductor of the Shrewsbury Cantata Choir. He was born and educated in Shrewsbury, where he received his early musical training under the late legendary Sam Baker. David subsequently studied at the Royal College of Music and has pursued a distinguished musical career.

Kathryn Burningham recently appointed Director of Music at University College, Oxford, grew up in Surrey and was educated at Sutton High School. She read music at Oxford University, where she was the Organ Scholar of Merton College. This busy role involved accompanying chapel services, directing the chapel choir and organising, rehearsing and performing the music for college functions.

Church music through the ages will include:

If ye love me Tallis 1505-1585
God so loved the world Stainer 1840-1901
I Was Glad Parry 1848-1918
Like as the hart Howells 1892-1983
We wait for thy loving kindness, McKie 1901-1984
Christ the Lord is risen again! Rutter b. 1945

Kathryn Burningham & David Leeke

Sunday 16th September -

Howden Minster Evening Concert 7:45pm £10 (£8)

Howden Minster Evensong 3:30pm

- The Redbury Singers perform - EVENSONG
- Introit: Oculi Omnium - Wood
- Rose responses
- Psalm 150
- Canticles: Lloyd 'Shrewsbury Service'
- Parry I Was Glad
- Hymns as arranged

Shire Hall Evening Concert 7:45pm £7 (£5)
Comedy Night - with Headliner - Archie Kelly

Archie Kelly starred as Kenny Senior in Peter Kay’s ‘Phoenix Nights’ and has also appeared in programs such as ‘Shameless’, ‘The Street’ and ‘Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere’. He is a regular at the Comedy Store and was part of the sold out UK theatre tour, ‘On the Bandwagon’, featuring other comedians from ‘Phoenix Nights’. He is truly one of the Northern circuit’s greatest comedians.

“He's got plenty of talent in his armoury, too: a great singing voice, a knack for impersonation and an endearing stage manner.” - Chortle

Roger Monkhouse is one of the most original and distinctive acts on the comedy scene. A consummate stand-up who employs a deadly combination of charm and menace to exert a masterful control over any audience. A highly original and quirky performer, Roger's trademark stage-prowling style and curious, inimitable manner have established him as one of the hottest names on the comedy circuit.

- "His laconic delivery shields an engaging persona and an enquiring mind." - The Guardian
- "Unfailingly entertaining and skilfully able to pull punchlines, seemingly, out of thin air." - Chortle
- Richard Coughlan will be appearing at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, for the second time with a full length show, ‘Honky-hating Heterophobic Manwhore’, and will also be attempting to break the world record for the longest freestyle rap.
- “…providing a shot in the arm to the energy of the gigs at which he performs.” - Chortle
Resident compere of ‘Howden Comedy’, local comedians Ian Smith is a developing new talent, and is currently a semi-finalist in both ‘So You Think You’re Funny?’ and ‘The Otherside New Act of the Year Award’.
“Superb” - Leeds Smirking Room

Monday 17th September

Howden Minster Lunchtime Concert 12:10pm Free

Organ Recital David Leeke Director of Music of St. Chad's Church, Shrewsbury - sister church of St. Alkmund's.

- Stanley Trumpet Voluntary - Bach Prelude and Fugue in F minor - Mendelssohn Sonata II in C minor: Grave-Adagio, Allegro maestoso e vivace, Fugue - Saint Saens Fantasie in C - Elgar Adagio from the cello concerto - Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre - Whitlock Fidelis - Campbell Gaudeamus

Methodist Church, 6pm £5 (£4)

Other Lives Productions - Richard Avery, Jessica Duffield, Neil King perform a monologue and a play Anton Chekhov’s The Proposal a 25 minute one-act play. Ivan Vassilievich Lomov, a landowner, visits the estate of his neighbour, Stepan Stepanovitch Choobukov, in order to make a proposal of marriage to Choobukov’s daughter, Natalyia Stepanovna. We have transposed the action to a West Yorkshire farming community.

Shire Hall Late Evening Concert 7:45pm £10 (£8)

White Rosettes - Gold Medal winning Ladies Barbershop Chorus, performing moving ballads and heart stopping up tempos full of choreography.

The chorus have sung around the world in their 30 year history and are regulars on the Radio 3 Choir of the Year. They perform with passion and create a sound not to be missed.

The White Rosettes were formed in 1977 by a small group of women wishing to pursue their own barbershop singing after husbands and partners had joined the local men's group. We now have more than 50 members from all walks of life: from teachers to bank managers, secretaries to pub landladies.

Since our formation we have been fortunate to have many wonderful moments including reaching the semi-finals of Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year Competition in 1990 and 1994, and the finals in 2000 where we won the title 'Sainsbury’s Single Voice Choir of the Year'. In 2005 we competed in the Final of Radio 3 Choir of the Year, coming 2nd in the adult category. In 2006 we won our way through to the Category Finals of the 2006 Radio 3 Choir of the Year in Cardiff.

They have also recently Entered the Coleraine International Choral Festival and were:
- Runners-up - Barbershop Class
- Winners - Light Entertainment Class
- Overall Winners

Tuesday 18th September

Howden Minster Lunchtime Concert 12:10pm

Caroline Tate-Lovery (saxophones) Alan Jones (piano)

Both from North Wales, Caroline and Alan have worked in London together for many years. Today their musical journey takes them far from their native land of song, in a programme that takes in the elegance of Bach, the romance of Rachmaninoff, the cabaret of Berlin and the Argentinian tango of Astor Piazzolla.

Shire Hall, 6pm £5 (£4)

Basil Lewis - History of the Music Hall

Brought up in the days of wireless, and frequent visits with his father to such theatres as the Met in London's Edgware Road, Basil has a historian's love for the Music Hall. He wrote and recorded many talks on Radio Humberside, featuring artists from 'All Those Years Ago' as well as a series about Hull's New Theatre. This talk will include old recordings of songs which he hopes the audience will join in with.

Catholic Church - Evening Concert 7:45pm £10 (£8)

Passacaglia is one of the UK’s most innovative and sought after early music ensembles, combining top class musicianship and virtuosity with illuminating insights into the baroque repertoire. Their programme includes favourites by Bach and Vivaldi as well as some rarely heard musical gems.

‘Outstanding...Passacaglia remain one of my favourite instrumental groups’ Early Music Review

‘There are so many good things to savour, not least the maturity and natural ease of Passacaglia's chamber music making' - Classic FM Magazine.

Wednesday 19th September

Howden Minster Lunchtime Concert 12:10pm

Peter Richmond is a local classical guitarist who teaches at both Howden Secondary and Junior Schools.

As well as playing solo he also plays in a guitar duet and is the bass and lead mandolin player for York band 'Whyte Fyre'.

In this lunchtime concert he will attempt to present a broad spectrum of classical guitar music from the last five hundred years, and still leave time for the audience to grab a coffe/tea and a sandwich!

The Programme will include :

- Luys de Narvaez - Cancion del Emperador
- Alonso Mudarra - Fantasia
- Robert De Visee - Suite in D minor
- Francisco Tarrega- Gran Vals
- Recuerdos De la Alhambra
- Sueno
- Plus arrangements of Lennon-Macartney and show tunes

Shire Hall, 6pm - The History Wardrobe - 'Frills & Frivolity' £5 (£4)

This costume-in-context talk offers a fascinating glimpse into the boudoir of a Regency lady with exquisite fashion items and disgracefully witty contributions from Miss Jane Austen.
Presented by Gillian Stapleton and Lucy Adlington from the creators of 'Undressing Mr Darcy' "Masterly work of very high quality... a delightfully entertainin gand most professional performance!" - the Jane Austen Society

Howden Minster Evening Concert 7:45pm £10 (£8)

Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band - one of the most famous names in the brass band world. As well as concerts, we also compete at the highest level in many of the Major Contests, holding our own against the very best, and most prestigious bands in the world, including Grimethorpe Colliery, Black Dyke and Brighouse & Rastrick to name just a few. For this years festival we will be playing a selection of typical brass band music including marches and arrangements.

Thursday 20th September

Howden Minster Lunchtime Concert 12:10pm Free

Natalia Wandoch - pianist has graduated with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in June 2006 where she was a postgraduate student of Vanessa Latarche. She received her BMus first class honours degree from the I J Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, Poland.

She has been acclaimed for her performances of Chopin and Mozart. Her programme will include:

Prelude - Menuet and Toccata from 'Le Tombeau de Couperin' - Ravel Mozart - Rondo in A minor K. 511 R Schumann - 'Kreisleriana Op. 16

Methodist Church , 6pm £5 (£4)

Prudence Bebb - has lived in many places but has spent the last 30 year’s near York. She was Head of the History Department at Howden School and, since early retirement, has been writing and speaking about Regency times.

Her research into this period has been carried out in London, Bath, Brighton and on the battlefield at Waterloo.

She is the author of four historical romances – The Eleventh Emerald, the Ridgeway Ruby, The White Swan and The Nabob’s Nephew: the second and fourth of these have been translated into Italian. She has also written, Aspects of Yorkshire in the Regency in York, Harrogate, Scarborough, Whitby & Beverley. Also Shopping in Regency York ( Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker) and Georgian Poppleton.

Prudence is pictured on the right with one of the benefactors of her talks, as she donates all her fees to SPANA (Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad) Click here or the image for details.

Shire Hall Evening Concert 7:45pm £10 (£8)

Swingin’ through the Classics - Tim Kliphuis Quartet

- Tim Kliphuis Dutch Fiddle Star
- Len Skeat Top UK Bassist
-Mitch Dalton Versatile Guitar Stylist
-Nick Dawson Virtuoso Swing Pianist

Following his succesful “Tribute to Grappelli” concert, with tours of England, Germany and Scotland and rave reviews, Dutch swing fiddler Tim Kliphuis now plays famous melodies by Mozart, Grieg, Chopin and Liszt … in Swing!

Friday 21st September- Howden Minster Lunchtime Concert 12:10pm

Ben Dawson & Olly Carey - trumpets to include music by Vivaldi,Haydn, Honneger plus light jazz pieces.

Methodist Church , 6pm £5 (£4)

Yorkshire Dialect and it's humour - Dr. Arnold Kellet Vice President of the Yorkshire Dialect Society. Historian and linguist, well-known as a writer and speaker on Yorkshire Dialect and as an entertaining raconteur of its humour. Author of the Yorkshire Dictionary of Dialect, Tradition and Folklore, and Yorkshire Dialect Classics.

Shire Hall Late Evening Concert 7:45pm £10 (£8)

Viramundo - Having been together in various line ups since 1989 VIRAMUNDO have enormous experience and a very large repertoire of material ranging from their own compositions to Brazilian & Latin classics. The varied & eclectic mix of Brazilian music performed by the band reflects the multiregional origins of the band members having performers from Rio de Janeiro, Salvador Bahia & Florianopolis.

Viramundo have appeared on Big Breakfast TV, Good Morning with Richard & Judy, London Tonight, the Viramundo dancers have appeared twice on the BBC's Generation Game & the dancers were also featured on an interactive CD from Peter Gabriel's Real World Company.. They have played live on Talk Sport's coverage of the 2002 World Cup Final. Viramundo have also played a wide range of festivals, functions & Clubs in Europe including Gran Gran Fiesta, Henley Festival, Notting Hill Carnival, numerous University Balls, functions at the NEC & all top Hotels up & down the country. They have played benefits for Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Target Breast Cancer, Playtex Moonwalk & Task Brasil amongst others.

Saturday 22nd September - Shire Hall Children's Show 2:30pm £3 ages 3 and over

Albert Alchemy - perfoms his Theatre Show With Magic, Juggling, Escapology, Fun, Games and a firey finale ..... Come a join in and be enthralled !

Howden Minster Evening Concert 7:45pm £10 (£8)

Orchestral Spectacular with Goldstone and Clemmow (two pianos)

“A British institution” (International Record Review), and “the UK’s pre-eminent two-piano team” (The Herald, Glasgow), husband and wife Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow have thrilled audiences for nearly a quarter-century with their spectacular performances. They bring the festival to a climax with their unique blockbuster collection of favourite orchestral showpieces.

MOZART, arr. Busoni ... OVERTURE, "THE MAGIC FLUTE"

GRIEG, with second piano part by Grieg and Károly Thern ... PIANO CONCERTO IN A MINOR

... interval ...

HOLST ... THE PLANETS, in the composer's original two-piano version

Sunday 23rd September - Bishop's Manor 3:30pm

Ecumenical Service - in front of the Bishop's Manor House (by kind permission of the Press Association). If wet in the Shire Hall