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Worcester
Early Music Weekend
The Weekend in
2008 (15-17 August 2008)
The Worcester Early Music Weekend
is a mini festival within the Worcester Festival.
Click here to download this year's leaflet,
which includes maps. Do note this year we have 10 events in 3 different
venues, with loads for people of all ages to do, hear and see, and
featuring a lot of costumed entertainers!
Tickets: the Worcester festival box office is 01905 611427 if
you want to purchase tickets or buy on the door.
Fri. 15 August
11.30am-12.30pm
Friends Meeting House |
'The
English Muse' :
Micaela Schmitz,
harpsichord & clavichord |
12.30-1.15pm
Friends Meeting House |
Try It! Workshop ages 7+, led by
Micaela
Schmitz, includes
admission to concert (event 1) |
2.00-4.30pm
Friends Meeting House |
'That Inventive
Bach’ Informal Early Keyboard master class; Grade 6+ led by
Micaela
Schmitz, includes admission to concert (event 1);
prebooking advised |
5.30-6.30pm
St Swithuns Church |
'Meet the Music Makers' workshop
with Piva
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7.30-9.30 pm
St Swithuns Church
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'The Italian Connection' with
costumed Renaissance group
Piva |
Sat. 16 August
10am-1.30 pm
St Helen's, Fish Street
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Try It! Family Workshop Half Day
10am Tunetastic Tudors- family singing age 7+ with
Cathy Dew &
Micaela Schmitz
11:30am Dances with Delight -age 7-105! with
Cathy Greenhill & The Warwick Courtiers
12:30 Singalonga Georgianna - age 7+ with
Lady Georgianna |
Sat. 16 August
3.00-5.00pm
Friends Meeting House |
Ladies of Misrule
with
Lady Georgianna,
18th Century costumed ensemble: poetry, music and fun from the
1750s! |
Sun. 17 August
2.00-4.00pm
St Swithuns Church |
Try It!
Playford Dance Workshop
led by Barbara Dunn, with live music, age 7+
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6.30-7.00pm
St Swithuns Church |
Recorder Petting Zoo: free if you
attend |
7.00-9.00pm
St Swithuns Church |
Bachamann: delights by
Bach and Telemann, of course! –Cathryn
Dew
&
Helen Green (recorders),
Angela Cranmore (viol) &
Micaela Schmitz
(harpsichord)
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Advance Booking: Through Worcester Festival Box Office available
at 01905 611 427. Additional Information: Available at 01386 859 648,
via
email or by going to the main festival website,
here
Location, Location, Location! That's
right there are three! Descriptions and post codes of our three
locations, all walking distance from Worcester Foregate Railway Station
or from St. Martin's Gate long stay car park in City Walls Road.
Friends Meeting House, Sansome Place,
Worcester, WR1 1UG is round the corner from the Worcester Arts workshop,
in Samsome Walk, near an archway and across from Bradbury Centre for the
Visually Impaired. Walk through the iron gate are and down the
path to the garden. Please don't think about parking there- it's
for private residents!
St Swithuns, corner of Church Street and St Swithun's Street,
Worcester WR1 2RH
is a redundant baroque church in the heart of town, near the markets. If
you park at St Martins gate and walk down Mealcheapen toward the city
centre you'll be facing it. The entrance will be round to your left,
near where the Glass House used to be! You could set someone down by car
(with hazard lights) but you can't park right there.
St Helen's, Fish Street, Worcester WR1 2HN is in a cul de sac
which meets the pedestrianised High Street, but is accessible for drop
offs only via Deansway, right by the Farrier's Arms and a stone's throw
from Huntingdon Hall, the Festival Box Office. teh absolutely closest
carpark is in Copenhagen St (short stay), or Crowngate multistory for
long stay.
If you are going between venues, the best value is St Martin's long stay
carpark in City Walls Road.
Maps
and parking and venue photos are in the leaflet at the top, above the chart.
In 2007 Friday 24 August 1:30-2:30pm Back by
popular demand, Micaela will perform 'A Royal Progress: From the Chapel Royal to Versailles' at the Friends
Meeting House, Sansome Place, Worcester WR1 1UG. It's 500 years
from the Worcester Foregate Rail Station and just around the corner from
the Worcester Arts Workshop.
Tickets Worcester Festival Box office 01905 611 427 or on the door or
visit the web.
The Weekend in
2006 (25-28 August 2006)
In 2006, we ran the Worcester Early Music Weekend
as part of the Worcester Festival with the information below.
Click here to download the leaflet, which
includes a map.
For biographies/photos click on the name of the person; for programme
information, click on the programme title. All events were held at
St. Swithun's
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