|  | Wednesday 7 July 6.00pm Henley Festival's Resident Company Festival Enclosure
The unusual, the silly, and the beautiful
Throughout the enclosure a wonderful collection of roving performers including Dot.Comedy, the Lifeboat, mega-robot Cyberstein, a trio of irresistible Butterflies, and stilt walking jazz band, Poles Apart amongst others. And once again join the irrepressible Bobby Lamb and the Trinity College Swing Band in the Bandstand.
7.15pm The Vienna Vegetable
Orchestra Club Marquee
Quite simply what it says 'on the tin'. The most gloriously absurd of musical experiences - a fully bio-degradable concert as a 10 strong team of Viennese musicians play on a variety of musical instruments made from vegetables - which they then cook! Only British appearance this year.
7.15pm Monsieur Pantin
The Dome
Soulful songs from France mixed up with wild dance instrumentals from Britain and beyond. A versatile quartet featuring top 'traditional' musicians Jean-Pierre Rasle and Steáfán Hannigan. 8.45pm Concerto! presented by David Mellor Floating Stage
The powerful and beautiful music of the two single most popular concertos of all time. Featuring the major rising talents of Chloë Hanslip (violin) and Stephen de Pledge (piano) the programme consists of the searingly beautiful 2nd Piano Concerto by Rachmaninov - music so memorably and tear jerkingly used in the film Brief Encounter, and Max Bruch's light-footed Violin Concerto No 1 performed by an artist who made her EMI recording debut in this work at the age of 16. Conducted by Nicolae Moldoveanu with Henley Festival's new Orchestra-in-Association, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
10.15pm Fireworks! FourSquareFireDance Riverside Lawn
A stunning new collaboration for the Henley Festival by pyrotechnicians extraordinaire, The World Famous
, top British 'urban dance' company Union Dance with specially composed music by Julie Cooper. Hi-energy movement and dazzling fireworks. Bluegrass and country gone magical, upbeat and electronic. Another Henley Festival first.
10.45pm John Williams and Friends
Club Marquee
Impressions of Africa - one of the world's top guitarists, Australian John Williams, is joined by stellar members of the music fraternity: Paul Clarvis (hand-drums and percussion), John Etheridge (acoustic steel-strung guitar), Chris Laurence (double bass) and Richard Harvey (flutes, whistles etc.) in a programme consisting of the infectious music of Cameroon, Madagascar, South Africa, Cape Verde, the Congo and Senegal.
10.45pm Hazel O'Connor
The Dome
The much recorded and massively successful singer/actress who burst on to the scene with the film Breaking Glass and album of the same name that charted for 28 weeks in the 1980's. Here she sings with her new 'world-music' inspired band.
10.45pm The Trinity College Swing Band
Floating Stage
The one constant at the Henley Festival, Bobby Lamb's virtuoso corps of young musicians take to the Floating Stage for the Festival's first major dancing opportunity. |
