What's On / Proms by Day
SUNDAY 20 JULY
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10.00am: Proms Family Orchestra & Chorus Come and join us to create a folk-inspired premiere, or learn folk songs from around the British Isles.
12.00pm: Proms Folk in the Park A free Proms mini folk festival in the park.
Prom 4: Folk Day 1 (Free Event)
- Date Sunday 20 July 2008
- Time 3.30pm - c6.00pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets This is a free event. Tickets available from the Royal Albert Hall Box Office from Monday 30 June.
- Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand for the following week.
We're opening up the doors to the Royal Albert Hall for our first ever free of charge Prom! Come over the road after Folk in the Park to the Royal Albert Hall and experience the Proms for yourself in our special folk-influenced concert.
Programme to include:
- Traditional Folk songs: Seventeen Come Sunday, Green Bushes, I wonder as I wander
- Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite, for military band (c.11mins)
- Grainger Shepherd's Hey; Green Bushes (c.4 mins)
- Berio Folk Songs (25 mins)
- Trad. arr. Folkestra Folk music from the British Isles (15 mins)
- Trad. arr. Muzikas from Transylvania, the Eastern Carpathian Mountains and Moldova (15 mins)
- Bartók Romanian Dances (13 mins)
- interspersed with traditional folk-song settings
- Kathryn Tickell 'Confluence' (BBC commission: world premiere) (c8 mins)
There will be one interval
Monica Bacelli mezzo-soprano
Bella Hardy singer
Performers from Camden and Hertfordshire Music Services
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
Folkestra
Muzsikás
London Sinfonietta
Martyn Brabbins conductor
To get hold of your free tickets, contact the Royal Albert Hall Box Office.
Like this Prom? Try these:
5.45pm - 6.30pm: Proms Literary Festival Ian McMillan and his orchestra demonstrate the connections between folk music and storytelling.
Prom 5: Folk Day 2 and Ceilidh
- Date Sunday 20 July 2008
- Time 7.30pm - c9.30pm
- Venue Royal Albert Hall
- Tickets £6-£35 price band A or Prom for £5
- Broadcast Live on BBC Four. Live on BBC Radio 3, and available as audio on demand for the following week.
Following the free afternoon concert exploring how folk music has influenced classical composers, Proms Folk Day's evening concert focuses on artists who are continuing, reviving and reinterpreting the traditions of English folk music.
Tonight's Prom presents a fascinating picture of the many directions folk music is taking, and includes appearances from Derbyshire-born singer Bella Hardy, guitarist Martin Simpson and the boisterous 11-piece big band Bellowhead - winners of three Radio 2 Folk Awards.
- To include sets by:
Bella Hardy singer
Martin Simpson singer/guitar
Bellowhead
There will be one interval
Like this Prom? Try these:
- 26/08 PROM 54: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS ANNIVERSARY PROM
- 10/08 PROM 32: ORGAN AND CHORAL MASSES BY MESSIAEN & MANCHICOURT
10.00 - c10.45pm - Ceilidh
Join your partners in the Arena, or just watch from your seat, as the London Lasses and Pete Quinn lead the dancing in an energetic final flourish to Proms Folk Day.
Free to ticket-holders for the 7.30pm concert; dancers require a free dancing ticket, available from Tuesday 27 May by calling the Box Office 0845 401 5040
BBC Radio 3
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