Sunday 29 September, Come and share in this celebration of A Weekend of Pakefield Parish Church the closing day of the festival as the 4.00–5.00pm Pakefield Singers raise their voices! Wonderful Music Tea and cake served from 3.30pm Glorias by Vivaldi and Schubert plus a Hallelujah by Beethoven ensure in Pakefield AUTUMN GLORIA that this hour of music-making will bring a crescendo of rejoicing. The Singers, firmly rooted in Pakefield for nearly twenty years, will also perform folksong arrangements by two -born composers, and Fraser Wilson, including the first Suffolk performances of new music by the latter. Together with delicious tea and cake, this will be a fitting way to end our first festival CR ES CE NDO weekend. The Pakefield Singers Vetta Wise, conductor Tickets: £12 standard £3 under-18s. Terry Cunnane, accompanist Tea and cake included www.pakefieldsingers.com 27-29 September 2019

Tea and Cake provided by Funnells

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In person or on the phone: Ferini Art Gallery, 27-29 All Saints’ Road, Pakefield NR33 0JL 01502 562222 Opening hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am to 4pm Pay by cheque, cash or credit/debit card

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© 2019 Promoting Pakefield Thanks to our funders, Designed by Will Goodman - phantasmagraph supporters, and friends Saturday 28 September, Sunday 29 September, Welcome to “Crescendo”, the Pakefield Parish Church The Seagull first Pakefield Music Festival. 7.00–8.30pm 10.30–11.30am & 12.30–1.30pm I am delighted that from an initial idea THE GREAT AND Family Concerts: a year ago it has become an inspiring WIDE SEA GASPARD THE FOX weekend of music and culture pulling LYNNE PLOWMAN The Rime of on the skills of Lowestoft people the Ancient Mariner that practise here and further afield. SALLY BEAMISH Sea Psalm I am grateful to our supporters and for the enthusiasm of Hazel Johnson, Fraser Wilson and Jo Stephenson amongst others, without whom it be happening. I look forward to an ongoing programme of music for and with the people of Pakefield.

Photograph: Charlie Carter Photograph: Michaela Hobbs, Ferini Art Gallery

Our Artist in Residence: www.feriniartgallery.co.uk ‘One of the most magical evenings Zeb Soanes I can remember’ - National Art ‘Brilliant’ - David Walliams We are delighted that Zeb Soanes, Collection Fund Zeb Soanes, author & narrator the BBC broadcaster “whose voice Friday 27 September, James Mayhew, illustrator sounds like how a massage feels” Opus Anglicanum Chris Warner, pianist and composer (Vogue), is our Artist in Residence for Ferini Art Gallery with Zeb Soanes, narrator 6.30—10.30pm the weekend. A native of Lowestoft, In this special festival event, the Families will love this storytelling, Zeb is known to millions as the AN EVENING OF five unaccompanied male singers of music, and fun featuring the voice of the News and the Shipping Opus Anglicanum and their narrator adventures of Gaspard the Fox, written Forecast on BBC Radio 4. He was MUSIC AND WINE Zeb Soanes present an atmospheric by Zeb Soanes. the Voice of God in the Aldeburgh Regular wine-tasting evenings at the programme of original commissions In a special premiere for our first Festival production of Noye’s Ferini are a mainstay of Pakefield’s from two of the UK’s leading female festival, Zeb Soanes reads aloud these Fludde in the 2013 Benjamin Britten cultural life, and specially for the festival composers: a complete reading of two acclaimed stories with live music Centenary and, alongside extensive we’re adding music into the mix at this Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic Rime from professional pianist Chris Warner, work with the BBC, is a narrator, lovely airy venue. Our musicians will of the Ancient Mariner with music by whose music is heard on the Gaspard event host, performer, and actor. play a strikingly beautiful programme of Lynne Plowman, and Sally Beamish’s audiobooks (available from Audible). He is the narrator for Opus music while we enjoy selected wines powerful Sea Psalm, setting an account Plus there will be live illustrations from Anglicanum, whose Great and Wide with the guidance of Sonia Boggis from from the only surviving officer of the the award-winning James Mayhew, Sea performance we are thrilled Blyth Valley Wines. Come and enjoy an destroyer HMS Duchess, which was who’s originally from Lowestoft. to present on Saturday. Following evening that we will all want to raise a sunk on 12 December 1939. Come and Copies of the books, including the appearance of an urban fox in glass to! enjoy this memorable concert in the Gaspard Best in Show (published on 22 his garden he has also become an evocative setting of Pakefield Church, August), will be on sale; Zeb and James acclaimed children’s author, and he’ll Tickets: £25 from where you can gaze out over the will be signing copies and meeting the be reading his two Gaspard the Fox Space is limited so we advise great and wide sea... audience after both shows! booking early stories to families on Sunday. Zeb is a Tickets: £15 standard £3 under-25s Tickets: £6 adults £3 under-18s patron of Awards for Young Musicians Bring Your Own Drinks (we will supply (also available directly from the Seagull) and a committed supporter of the Pastries by Nanna Hybschmann Lay glasses) Lowestoft and Waveney Samaritans, www.gaspardthefox.com and we look forward to welcoming www.feriniartgallery.co.uk www.opusanglicanum.org www.theseagull.co.uk him home. www.zebsoanes.com In partnership with