Shenington with Alkerton’s Music & Literature Festival The 2019 Programme Shenington with Alkerton’s Music & Literature Festival Welcome to Shenfest 2019 We are again pleased to welcome our community together, with their family and friends, to have fun, to enjoy quality music and literature events and to help raise money for great local causes. Help and encouragement has come from many sources but we would particularly like to thank our sponsors and advertisers. Their kindness and generosity has allowed our costs to be covered and thus we are able again to make entry to all events FREE. We would like to encourage everyone attending to make donations at each event to help maintain our two beautiful Norman churches and to support the inspiring work of the Banbury Young Homelessness Project (BYHP). The programme summary for Shenfest 2019, complete with timing and location details, is on the back page of this brochure. The festival begins with an evening of jazz and swing from the Great Central Big Band, followed by more contemporary music in The Bell. Little Shenfest has a Narnia theme at lunchtime on Saturday and is followed by a talk in Alkerton church by Jacqui Furneaux about her extended trip through Asia and South America on a Royal Enfield Bullet motorbike. We are then very fortunate to have a quintet from the London Mozart Players as our main musical event on Saturday evening. In contrast, The Bell will then host The Popes until late into the evening. On Sunday afternoon the Sloggers again take on The Authors at the cricket ground in Wroxton. The ‘book talk on the boundary’ this year will be given by bestselling author Tom Holland. Thank you for coming and supporting our festival and we hope you have a great weekend. The Shenfest Team Shenfest Patrons Ken Bruce, Sir David Gilmour, Aubrey Powell, Tamsin Waley-Cohen Sponsors The Great Central Big Band We are extremely grateful to a number of generous villagers and 7.30pm Friday 14th June local business owners who have kindly sponsored Shenfest 2019. This group has included all our headline sponsors, advertisers and; The Bell Helen Marsden Rob and Claire Bryan The Rose and Crown Alun Hindle Sally and Finlay Scott Laws and Fiennes – Mark and Vanessa Land Agents & Petterson Chartered Surveyors The Great Central Big Band is a Northamptonshire based 20 piece Jazz ensemble. Although it does sometimes stray further afield it mainly plays concerts in the area, including the Summertime Jazz Festival at Upton House. It will be playing a selection of classic pieces from Save the Date! Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glen Miller and the great Buddy Rich plus some original Dinner by Candlelight at St Michael and All Angels, Alkerton. material from the bands’ pianist, the outstanding Mike Kemp. Saturday 21st September 2019 With uptempo swing to lush jazz ballads we hope to present an evening with something for everyone . The cost will be around £40 per head, depending on numbers, to include canapes, dinner, a glass of fizz and half a bottle of wine. The band, which was only formed in 2015, is led by drummer Lee Smith and for this event will feature a To reserve a place number of guest vocalists. please email Tim Clarke on: This concert is dedicated to the memory of George timthegourmetchef@ Gilbert, Shenington’s very own jazz trumpeter, who yahoo.co.uk sadly died this April. The event is a non- religious event of Sponsored informal and convivial dining. by Little Shenfest “Whether your daughter is headed for fashion design 1pm Saturday 15th June or Oxbridge... You are invited to a Narnia themed ...Tudor Hall family picnic on the Green where deserves a place Aslan and the White Witch may provide some Turkish Delight for best on everyone’s fancy dress and also to the best shortlist.” performers in the games. Good Schools Guide Tudor Hall School Wykham Park, Banbury OX16 9UR The weather forecast www.tudorhallschool.com suggests it will be ‘always winter, never Shenfest’ but Aslan will be beavering away to sort that out. You will be able to faun over a great pizza from our very own Two Fat Gits at any point from lunchtime through to the evening, but only if you are brave enough to enter the wardrobe. Co-educational day school for boys aged 3 to 8 yrs and girls aged 3 to 11 yrs www.carrdusschool.co.uk phone - 01295 263733 email - [email protected] Carrdus School, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX17 2BS Sponsored by A5 double advert.indd 1 13/05/2019 16:13 Jacqui Furneaux London Mozart Players Ensemble 4pm Saturday 15th June 7:30pm Saturday 15th June Regular Alkerton visitor Jacqui Furneaux wrote her book ‘Hit the Road, Jac!’ to The London Mozart Players (LMP) is celebrating its 70th birthday in 2019 and is the chronicle her motorcycle travels across Asia, Australasia and The Americas. longest established chamber orchestra in the UK. It is also the first chamber orchestra to be player led, both artistically and managerially. She travelled 42,000 miles on a Royal Enfield 500cc Bullet motorbike across 20 countries in the seven years between 2000 and 2007. The 70th Anniversary programme for the full orchestra includes performances at St John’s Smith Square, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Fairfield Halls and Buckingham ‘Hit the Road, Jac!’ is an inspiring personal odyssey and a manual for self-discovery Palace. with a writing style that is punchy, candid and involving. TV presenter Suzi Perry comments that the book “makes you think about the pleasures of nature and We are delighted that these five of their number are finding time in their busy schedule of celebrations to join us at Shenfest; simplicity, about taking the time to just stand and breathe life in.” Sebastian Comberti (cello) studied at the Royal Academy of Music before becoming On her travels Jacqui encountered the Amarnath Yatra massacre in Kashmir, was principal cello with the LMP in 1983. knocked off her bike, breaking her leg, in the mountainous Hindu Kush and felt the need to sleep with a knife under her pillow while on a voyage through the Straits of Julia Desbruslais (cello) studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She is LMP’s co- Malacca. principal cello and, since 2016, its Executive Director. Antonia Kesel (violin) plays chamber music with the Trio Derazey, LMP and others having “I hope the book appeals to everyone. It’s not meant to be a travel guide or graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2015. something just for motorcycle fanatics. I’ve been able to travel in my own way – Sophie Renshaw (viola) was the principal viola with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, slightly aimless but also wanting to get involved and meet local people. I would amongst others, before joining the LMP. also like the book to help dispel some myths and fears about Islam. The Pakistanis I met were the most generous and hospitable people that I found anywhere in the Ruth Rogers (violin) studied at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the world.” Tagore Gold Medal, and became a leader of the LMP in 2015. The Alkies (Friends of Alkerton Church) are kindly providing refreshments from The programme will include much loved pieces by Mozart, Boccherini and Schubert. 3.30pm Sponsored by Sponsored by The Authors vs Tom Holland The Shenington Sloggers At or after 3.30pm Sunday 16th June 2pm Sunday 16th June This years’ Book Talk on the Boundary’ will be given by award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster Tom Holland. His books include ‘Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic’, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, ‘Persian Fire’, which won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006, and ‘In the Shadow of the Sword’, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near The Authors are one of the world’s oldest wandering cricket sides. East, and the emergence of Islam. Emerging from the Authors’ Club, founded in 1891 as a place for writers to meet and talk, the original team featured the likes of PG Wodehouse, Tom’s biography of Æthelstan, the Arthur Conan Doyle and AA Milne. first King of England, was published in 2016 and his biography of Æthelflæd, The Authors were revived in 2012 and since then have played around the England’s Forgotten Founder, was world, against opposition that has included the Vatican, the Rajasthan published in 2019. Royals, the national team of Japan … and the Shenington Sloggers!! In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to ‘the Their book, The Authors XI: A season of English Cricket from Hackney to individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature Hambledon included chapters from squad members such as Tom Holland and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome’. and previous Shenfest speakers William Fiennes, Peter Frankopan and Anthony McGowan. Tom has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC and is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging The Sloggers managed to restrict the Authors to 197 from their 35 overs last from ISIS to dinosaurs. year (Hutton 50 n.o., Owen 38, Fiennes 29) but our batting crumbled again under pressure despite a heroic Captain’s innings of 36 from Stuart Burgess His latest book ‘Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind’ will be published in (Hinchman 2 wickets for 12 runs).