I’m so excited about this concert! (fb)

I am delighted to announce "A Feast of English Song", the Summer Season of the 2024 London Song Festival. There will be five concerts taking place between 6th-29th June, and tickets are now on sale from https://www.londonsongfestival.org/concerts-1/ I am so excited about this series, and the wonderful singers and actors that I get to share the stage with. The venue, and the low ticket prices, are the same as last year - go to the LSF website now to buy your tickets - see you in June! Here are details: Thursday 6th June, 7pm – Comedy Song Concert A concert that is guaranteed to have you rolling in the aisles, with songs by Flanders and Swann, Tom Lehrer, Jeremy Nicholas, Victoria Wood, Tim Minchin, Dillie Keane and many more. With Michael Gibson Margarita Wood and Nigel Foster Friday 7th June, 7pm – A Celebration of Madeleine Dring This programme, devised by LSF Director Nigel Foster, celebrates Margaret Dring's centenary and combines her beautiful ‘art-songs’ with the cabaret-style and humorous songs that she wrote for West End revues. The programme is threaded together with readings taken from her letters and diaries, to paint a picture of Madeleine Dring’s vibrant and bubbly personality, which is also evident in her songs. With Kate Royal Lotte Betts-Dean Nigel Foster and Janine Roebuck Friday 14th June, 7pm – “The South Country: A Celebration of Sussex” Postponed from last year, Becca Leggett and George Ireland, the winners of the 2022 London Song Festival British Art Song Competition present a programme of songs from and about Sussex. George Butterworth’s settings of ‘Folk Songs from Sussex’ are combined with songs by Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Frank Bridge and others to create a tapestry in words and music to celebrate one of England’s most beautiful counties. With Friday 21st June, 7pm – “Ships and the Sea” This programme, devised by Nigel Foster, celebrates the centenary of the first Shipping Forecast to be broadcast on British radio (I like to celebrate weird anniversaries!). Songs by Elgar, Quilter, Finzi, Florence Price, Michael Head, John Ireland, Peter Warlock, Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Julian Philips, Kurt Weill, Noël Coward and others are combined with readings from Kenneth Graham, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Ransome, Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, Hemingway, Bob Dylan and many more. With Jess Dandy Gareth Brynmor John, Nigel Foster and Simon Butteriss. Saturday 29th June, 2pm (please note the starting time) – Prize-Winners’ Concert Maddie Boreham and Francesca Lauri, the winners of the 2023 London Song Festival Schubert Song Competition present a programme of English Song. Madeleine Boreham is an Opera Holland Park Young Artist, and a Samling Young Artist. She won the Audrey Strange Memorial Prize for Promising Young Singer at the Royal Overseas League Competition and the Royal College of Music Lieder Competition. Francesca Lauri is also the winner of the pianist prize of the Royal College of Music Lieder Competition, the Association of English Singers and Speakers Dorothy Richardson English Song Competition and the Somerset Song Piano Prize. (fb)