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Llandaff Cathedral Concert for Spring
Soloists: Elizabeth Donovan (soprano), John York-Skinner (baritone) Consort: featuring the Llandaff Cathedral Girl Choristers Conductor: Simon Lovell-Jones
Llandaff Cathedral has a proud tradition of choral singing and this evening’s concert promises a superb evening of glorious music in the stunning location of the Bradenstoke Hall in St Donats Castle.
The 30-strong choir helps lead the worship in Llandaff, and the girls are all scholars at the Cathedral School. They have toured the UK and internationally and have worked with many eminent artists. Tonight they are joined by two of the UK’s leading soloists - John York Skinner, who has an impressive track-record as one of the world's great counter-tenors and Elizabeth Donovan who has worked extensively with Welsh and Scottish National Opera, Radio 3, Radio France and festivals such as the Edinburgh International, the Aix-en-Provence, the Chester International and the Welsh Proms.
The concert will feature spiritual music and will include amongst other pieces, Faure’s Requiem accompanied by a professional musicians drawn from the orchestras of Wales.
ACAPELA, Heol Y Pentre, Pentyrch, Cardiff CF15 9QD Tickets: 01446 799100 - Venue: 02920 890862 Tuesday 23 March 3pm
Café Concert : with Ros Evans
This fabulous singer makes a welcome return after delighting audiences last year. Following King’s College, London she has sung in Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, The Magic Flute, The Pearl Fishers, Dido and Aeneas and Nabucco with the Welsh National Opera. Enjoy a varied programme of operatic arias, songs from the musicals and other popular Welsh/English songs.
29 March – 1 April 10am – 4pm (Performance April 1 6pm)
Hannah Pekary : Contemporary Dance Easter School 2010
In this exciting Easter School, your child will learn the basics of contemporary dance and many other creative skills through this creative and expressive dance form culminating in a performance on stage.
Contemporary dance is an elegant dance form that gives your child the opportunity to nurture their creativity, movement, confidence and positivity in a safe and fun environment.
The school will be run by the experienced local dance teacher, Hannah Pekary who has been teaching dance since graduating from Winchester University.
£75
Unicorn Singers Choral Concert Conductor Stephen Marshall
£12, £10
Café Concert with The Mistral Trio
£6/£5.50 (includes tea and cake!) Twentyfour04 Acoustic Showcase
Steve Collins Originally from Portishead, Steve is one of our finest up and coming solo acoustic guitarists. He picked up the guitar after hearing Thomas Leeb’s, The Hard Can and wrote his own Star Gazing as a result. Grace Hartrey Grace is already, at just fifteen, one of our most exciting young singer-songwriters - an impressive vocal talent compared with that of Beth Orton and a unique and accomplished guitarist, fusing her main inspiration, Newton Faulkner with a laidback song-writing style more akin to Jack Johnson, Nickel Creek or Paolo Nutini. The Beard Shop This five piece collective from Llantwit specialises in their takes of pop and rock covers from David Gray and Ryan Adams to Elbow, The Magic Numbers and Pearl Jam via a multitude of musical diversions en route. Melding piano, acoustic guitar and percussion to unique vocal harmonies, you are assured a good night to be had wherever they play.
New Druids Founded by Kerry Sanson and Colum Regan, these singer songwriters recorded their first album in 1999 and were soon performing at venues and festivals in the UK, Ireland and America collaborating with many artists, - folk musicians, dance music producers, storytellers, jazz and funk players, flamenco guitarists, drum ‘n’ bass groups, gypsy choirs, pop producers and theatre companies.
"Sensational Talent, they never fail to energise and enthuse an audience. Indeed it's a habit of theirs to upstage all comers - but then again, they're so good they can't help it" Tunetown £7.50
£5
Sunday 9 May 4pm
Monteverdi Beatus Vir Purcell Airs and Dances for the Theatre
Conductor: Carl Grainger
Carl Grainger directs the Welsh Sinfonia Orchestra and outstanding Welsh Sinfonia Chorus in favourite pieces from the Baroque era.
After the success of Annie last year we are delighted to welcome back Stage Door 1 Youth Theatre.
Guys and Dolls is a Broadway classic with legendary musical characters - Sarah Brown, who reforms the evil-doers of Times Square; Sky Masterson, the slick, high-rolling gambler who falls in love with Sarah; Adelaide, the nightclub performer whose chronic cold is brought on by her 14 year-long engagement to the same man and Nathan Detroit, her devoted fiancé, who desperately seeks to find a spot for his infamous floating crap game.
With its bright, brassy and richly melodious score it’s the perfect musical comedy!
Jennifer Walker (Soprano) Sharon Richards (accompanist)
Café Concert: Cambria String Quartet
Sunday 20 June 3pm
Midsummer Dido An afternoon of Purcell, including the first ever English language opera - "Dido and Aeneas."
Welsh Camerata Consort de Danse Baroque Welsh Baroque Orchestra Director : Andrew Wilson-Dickson Producer : Buddug Verona James
The Welsh Baroque Orchestra, Wales' professional period instrument ensemble presents Purcell's opera 'Dido and Aeneas' - the first written in English - as the main work in this summer concert. Taken from part of Virgil's Aeneid, the opera shows supernatural forces playing with the emotions of the humans. By way of an appetiser, the Welsh Baroque Orchestra, Welsh Camerata and Consort de Danse Baroque present colourful extracts from The Fairy Queen and other of Purcell's theatre works.
With support from the Arts Council of Wales, the Welsh Baroque Orchestra gives innovative concert programmes with the finest players and singers and tours throughout Wales, England and abroad.
£12, £10
“Beyond The Border – a Festival like no other” (The Times) Beyond The Border is back! Britain’s leading international festival of storytelling returns to St Donats Castle on the South Wales coast for another spectacular weekend featuring storytellers, singers, poets, musicians, writers and artists from around the globe. “discover places where only your imagination can take you…..” For three glorious and magic filled days, the grounds of our fairytale castle by the sea will echo with world stories, world music and even world food, plus workshops and activities for all the family, our legendary Real Ale bar (voted in the Western Mail’s ‘100 Things To Do in Wales Before You Die’), bookshops, craft stalls and cliff-top camping.
“Nothing is perfect – but this came close!” (Nature Conservationist, Hanoi, Vietnam)
The 2010 programme includes In The Footsteps of Marco Polo - storytellers and musicians from Italy, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and ancient Babylon; as well as…. Stories from Celtic Britain, Africa and The Caribbean, Traveller’s Tales, Stories and Food, The Green Stage, and much, much more….
Family* £220 (Concessions £200) EB 15 off
Family* £55 (Conc. £5 off) Adult £20 (Conc £2 off) Child £10 * Family ticket: 2 adults and 2 children OR 1 adult and 3 children. Tu Hwnt i’r Ffin Gŵyl Chwedleua Ryngwladol Cymru “Tu Hwnt i’r Ffin – Gŵyl heb ei thebyg” The Times Mae Tu Hwnt i’r Ffin yn ôl! Bydd gŵyl chwedleua ryngwladol flaenllaw yn dychwelyd i Gastell Saint Donat ar arfordir de Cymru am benwythnos ysblennydd arall a fydd yn cynnwys chwedleuwyr, cantorion, beirdd, cerddorion, awduron ac artistiaid rhyngwladol. “darganfyddwch lefydd tu hwnt i’ch dychymyg....” Am dridiau rhyfeddol a gogoneddus, bydd gerddi’n castell hudol ar lan y môr yn atseinio â storïau, cerddoriaeth a hyd yn oed bwyd rhyngwladol, gyda gweithdai a gweithgareddau i’r holl deulu. Ymwelwch hefyd â’n Bar Cwrw o Ansawdd (a gafodd ei enwi fel un o’r ‘Can beth i’w gwneud yng Nghymru yn ystod eich Oes” yn Y Western Mail), siopau llyfrau, stondinau crefft a gwersylla ar ben y clogwyn.
“Nid yw’r un peth yn berffaith – ond daeth hyn yn agos!” Cadwraethwr Natur, Hanoi, Fietnam
Mi fydd rhaglen 2010 yn cynnwys ‘Yn olion traed Marco Polo – hanesion, chwedleuwyr a cherddorion o’r Eidal, Twrci, Georgia, Armenia, Iraq a Babylon Hynafol; yn ogystal â ... Hanesion o Brydain Geltaidd, Affrica a’r Caribî, Storiau’r Trafeiliwr, Storiau a Bwyd, Y Llwyfan Gwerdd a llawer mwy. Tocyn Gŵyl Penwythnos (Dydd Gwener - Nos Sul) Mynediad am ddim i bebyll a safleoedd dan do, os caniateir cynhwysedd. Oedolyn £80 (gostyngiadau £72) CF £5 yn llai Teulu * £220 (gostyngiadau £200) CF £15 yn llai Plentyn - £40 CF £2.50 yn llai Tocyn Hanner Ŵyl (Naill ai dydd Sadwrn neu ddydd Sul 11yb – canol nos) Mynediad am ddim i bebyll a safleoedd dan do, os caniateir cynhwysedd. Oedolyn £40 Gostyngiadau £2.50 yn llai Teulu* £110 Gostyngiadau £5.00 yn llai Plentyn - £20 Tocyn Gŵyl Dydd (Naill ai dydd Sadwrn neu ddydd Sul 11yb - 6yh) Mynediad am ddim i bebyll a safleoedd dan do, os caniateir cynhwysedd. Oedolyn £20 Gostyngiadau £2.00 yn llai Teulu* £55 Gostyngiadau £5.00 yn llai Plentyn - £10 Tocyn Dydd Gwener neu nos Sul (6yh – canol nos) Oedolyn £20 Gostyngiadau £2.00 yn llai Plentyn £10 Gwersyllwch am brisiau 2007! Oedolyn £15. Mae pobol ifanc a phlant o 16 oed a llai yn gwersylla am ddim! (Rydym yn difaru ni chaniateir plant digwmni ar y maes gwersylla.) Mae yna le prin i garafanau (archebu blaenllaw yn unig) Oedolyn £25 Codir ffi o £2.50 ar bob un drafodyn lle defnyddir cardiau credyd a sieciau. *Tocyn Teulu: 2 oedolyn a 2 plentyn Plentyn: (6 – 16 oed) Cefnogir Tu Hwnt i’r Ffin gan Gynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru a Chyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
St Donats Atlantic Chorale
With guest soloists and a cream tea included there’s no better way of lazing on a Sunday afternoon.
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