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Final Edition CITY OF FESTIVAL 22 JUNE - 17 JULY 2014

FULL TO THE BRIM: OVER 250 LIVE EVENTS!

BOX OFFICE 0845 120 7502 COLF.ORG Festival supporters Welcome

Main Funding Corporate Partner Corporate Partner Event Sponsor Partner Welcome It is my privilege to present the full programme of the 2014 Festival. Over three weeks outstanding artists will bring life and vitality to the amazing places and spaces Hotel Partner Dining Partner Project Partner Media Partner of the Square Mile including our own new pop-up venue in Paternoster Square, the Bowler Hat (details from p.8). This is one of our biggest ever programmes with over 250 events in 50 venues, with half of them free of charge. The City played host to the President of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, in November and we are delighted to be following up her state visit with a number of events under the title ‘Seoul in the City’ including a unique Anglo-Korean performance of Media Partner Media Partner Media Partner Media Partner Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in St Paul’s Cathedral. You can find more information and background to the Festival on our website colf.org and stay connected with us on Facebook or Twitter for regular updates. Paul Gudgin, Festival Director

Singing, soccer and street guitars fill the Corporate Members Paternoster Square Management Royal Mail outdoors, with over 120 free events. The City of London Solicitors’ Company BNY Mellon Rock the Boat Street Guitars are ready to be The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Clifford Chance LLP played in City beauty spots, Premier League The Golden Bottle Trust football clubs and children’s writers join forces Supporters the happenstance The Idlewild Trust for our Storybook World Cup, and the Bowler Acción Cultural Española The Rushworth Charitable Trust Hat is brimming with a new programme of free & Allhallows Foundation The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths and ticketed children’s theatre, dance, circus, comedy and cabaret. More than 50 Arts Council Korea The Worshipful Company of Gardeners schools have contributed this year, including the Festival Children’s Parade with Bank of England The Worshipful Company of Glaziers Barbican Children’s Library over 1,400 children presenting classic children’s stories, while Musical Meeting & Painters of Glass BDO LLP Place sees nine primary schools and nine offices singing together in work-places. The Worshipful Company of Gold and Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP Join us for Melodians Steel Orchestra presenting ’s English Magic, Silver Wyre Drawers City of London Guixot de 8’s marvellous Sculpture Scribble and Factoria Circular’s giant music wheel The Worshipful Company of Insurers Canary Wharf Arts & Events The Worshipful Company of Launderers Rodafonio – just some of the events filling our squares and gardens this summer! CBRE Management Ltd The Worshipful Company of Management Devonshire Square Ruth Oakley, Head of Outdoor Events and Participation  Consultants Global Local The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors Google The Worshipful Company of Musicians Gresham College The Worshipful Company of Security Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation  Professionals How to Book Land Securities The Worshipful Company of World Traders Morgan Stanley Book online at colf.org (reduced booking fee applies) or call the Usborne Publishing Barbican box office on 0845 120 7502 (booking fee applies). Arts Partners John Hornby Skewes Book in person at the Advance box office in the Barbican, or at the City Korea Tourism Organization Information Centre, south of St Paul’s Cathedral (no booking fee). Arsenal Football Club Korean Cultural Centre Artizan Street Library To make the Festival as accessible as possible to a wide range of audiences Mansion House Bank of England we heavily subsidise all ticketed concerts to ensure that prices are as low as Music In Offices Barbican possible. Tickets start from just £5 for our Cathedral concerts. [re]design Barbican Film Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Barbican/Guildhall Creative Learning Shoe Lane Library Follow the Festival BBC Radio 3 Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health Institute Simmons & Simmons @CoLFestival City of London Festival Central School of Ballet Song in the City City of London Open Spaces Department Join our mailing list and discover more about us at colf.org City Music Foundation St Paul’s Cathedral Clifford Chance LLP Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Crystal Palace Football Club Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Deutsche Bank City of London Festival is run by The City Arts Trust Limited, registered charity no. 204828 Music & Dance Drake Music Fitz Eylwin House, 25 Viaduct, London, EC1A 2BP The Worshipful Company of Brewers Guildhall Connect Admin: 020 7583 3585 Email: [email protected] The Worshipful Company of Musicians Guildhall School of Music & Drama President The Rt Hon The Chairman Lady Brewer JAM 2 3 Book online at colf.org Orchestral concerts

Orchestral concerts Wren’s awe-inspiring St Paul’s Cathedral and the opulent Georgian Mansion House are transformed into concert venues for the City of London Festival. Experience these architectural jewels in the City’s crown, alongside London’s newest, state-of-the-art concert hall, Milton Court, for our renowned orchestral series.

Thursday 3 July 8.00pm St Paul’s Cathedral London Symphony Orchestra Daniel Harding conductor Bruckner Symphony No 9 Penderecki Threnody for the Victims St Paul’s Cathedral of Hiroshima Bruckner’s stirring symphonies have been described as ‘cathedrals in Monday 30 June 7.30pm Sunday 22 June 7.00pm sound’. The combination of St Paul’s Cathedral, Bruckner’s magnificent Mansion House Milton Court, Silk Street ninth Symphony and the charismatic The Academy of St Martin Barbican Young Orchestra leadership of young conductor Myung-Whun Chung in the Fields Edward Gardner conductor Daniel Harding make for a very Michael Petrov cello special occasion. Inon Barnatan piano/director Sibelius Finlandia The brilliant LSO were commended Tuesday 15 July 8.00pm narrator Tomo Keller violin Walton Cello Concerto for their recent live recording of St Paul’s Cathedral Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919) Bruckner’s masterpiece, playing London Symphony Orchestra Beethoven Coriolan Overture Op 62 with ‘a transparency and poise that This fine young orchestra is a welcome Beethoven Romance No 2 cuts through even the most climactic, in F major Op 50 recent addition to the Barbican family brass-laden fortissimos’ **** The Myung-Whun Chung conductor Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 Op 58 and is rapidly establishing a reputation Kathleen Kim soprano for outstanding musicianship. For their Guardian. Don’t miss the chance Join us for a theatrical exploration of Songmi Yang mezzo soprano first Festival appearance they are to hear them perform it live in the Beethoven through his music stunning setting of St Paul’s. Yosep Kang tenor conducted by the Music Director of and letters. , Edward Gardner. Tickets £48, £42, £32, £25, £15, £10 Jongmin Park bass Tickets £30, £20 and £10 Although tickets are free, they and £5 Beethoven Symphony No 9 Bank or Mansion House must be booked in advance for St Paul’s The Music Director of the Seoul this performance. Philharmonic, Myung-Whun Sponsored by Barbican or Moorgate Free Chung and four virtuosic Korean soloists join forces with the London Presented by This concert is being recorded for Symphony Orchestra and London future broadcast by BBC Radio 3 Symphony Chorus for an Anglo- Korean performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9. An anthem to peace and reconciliation, this work carries a particular resonance given the current situation on the Korean Peninsula. Experience this monumental symphony inside one of the world’s great icons. Tickets £50, £42, £32, £25, £15, £10 and £5 St Paul’s Sponsored by

Daniel Harding SEOUL IN THE CITY Simon Callow

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The City’s Great Halls Quintessential Monday 14 July 7.30pm Quintets: Guildhall Great Hall, A key feature of the Festival has long been the concerts held in the Gresham Street City’s opulent Livery Halls – the ancient headquarters of the City’s The Nash Ensemble trading bodies, which still thrive today as Worshipful Companies. Two performances that revel in Commonwealth Connections These intimate performances offer an exclusive chance for you to the glory of the piano quintet, with Nicola Benedetti explore the glorious surroundings of venues not usually open to combining the intimacy of the string Special guests include: the public. quartet with the expressive quality of the piano. The Festival is delighted Duncan Chisholm Quartet that the Nash Ensemble is joining us Mzansi Youth Choir for these two special concerts in its Monday 23 June 7.30pm Wednesday 25 June 7.30pm As Glasgow puts the final touches 50th anniversary year. to preparations for the 2014 Drapers’ Hall, Throgmorton Street Stationers’ Hall, Commonwealth Games, a taste of The Fateful Voyage Sunwook Kim piano Monday 7 July 7.30pm Scotland and the Commonwealth comes to the City of London. James Gilchrist tenor Scriabin Sonata No 3 in F sharp Merchant Taylors’ Hall, Nicola Benedetti’s latest musical Iain Burnside piano minor Op 23 Threadneedle Street adventure is both a departure and Franck Prelude, Choral et Fugue Matthew Cammelle narrator Stravinsky Three pieces for a homecoming: learning fiddle Schumann Piano Sonata No 1 Op 11 This unique recital, structured string quartet technique from Aly Bain and around the story of a voyage to the Seoul-born Sunwook Kim came Mozart Piano Concerto K 449 triumphantly opening this year’s front, pays homage to composers, to international recognition when (arranged for piano quintet by Celtic Connections festival in some now almost forgotten, who he won the prestigious Leeds Mozart) Glasgow, here Nicola collaborates enlisted and were killed in the First International Piano Competition in Brahms Piano Quintet with some of Scotland’s top 2006, aged just 18, becoming the traditional musicians, including World War. The programme focusses Tickets £23, £12 on the friendship between two competition’s youngest winner for 40 vocalist Julie Fowlis, multi- Bank composers and a poet – FS Kelly, years, as well as its first Asian winner. instrumentalist Phil Cunningham William Denis Browne and Rupert After a making a huge splash at the and fiddler Duncan Chisholm. To Brooke – who sailed together to the BBC Proms 2013, his star is rising at Thursday 10 July 7.30pm open the show, Duncan leads his own Dardanelles and died soon after. Their the speed of light. The Festival quartet in a selection of fiendishly extraordinary creative friendship is thrilled to be welcoming him into Goldsmiths’ Hall, Foster Lane catchy dance tunes, before South and their deaths generated forgotten the handsome surroundings Milhaud Création du Monde, Africa’s leading show choir take poems and music, and had a lasting of Stationers’ Hall. arranged for piano and string quartet the stage with an assortment of impact on surviving contemporaries. Tickets £20, £10 Ravel Piano Trio traditional music, pop and jazz. Franck Piano Quintet Programme devised by Dr Kate Kennedy. St Paul’s or Mansion House Tickets £25, £18, £10 Tickets: £23, £12 Bank or Mansion House Tickets £22, £12 SEOUL IN THE CITY Bank or Moorgate St Paul’s In association with This concert is being recorded for

future broadcast by BBC Radio 3 a UNESCO Creative City

Drapers’ Hall Sunwook Kim Nicola Benedetti

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The Bowler Hat Justice, Money, Power Wednesday 2 July 6.00pm This series of debates focuses What is the Cost of Breaking An all-new pop-up theatre in Paternoster Square for the duration of the on the financial, political and up Britain? Festival, featuring an eclectic mix of children’s theatre, stand-up comedy, ethical implications of life in the circus, cabaret, live poetry and much more. This September will see a vote on Square Mile, curated by cultural whether Scotland should become an St Paul’s or Mansion House commentator Tiffany Jenkins. independent country. What are the benefits to Scotland voting ‘Yes’? All tickets £8 Children’s Theatre Speakers include: Joyce MacMillan – Political commentator, The Scotsman, All tickets £6.50 Pat Kane, Rory Stewart MP Tuesday 24 June 6.00pm Who Runs London? Monday 23 June – Monday 7 July – London’s machinery of government Thursday 3 July 6.00pm Friday 27 June Friday 11 July is large and complex, with multiple Who Needs Legal Aid? 11.00am & 1.30pm 11.00am & 1.30pm interests at play. Who has the power Legal aid is under threat with a series of when it comes to running London? Peut-être Theatre cuts proposed by the Lib-Con coalition Dogs Don’t Do Ballet The Tin Soldier Speakers include: Ben Rogers – government. What is the role of legal aid, Director, Centre for London, Sarah Sands and is it worth defending? The sublime and the ridiculous A newly-minted tin soldier stands on – Editor, Evening Standard, Tony Travers Speakers include: Peter Hughman – combine in this hilarious story of a a single leg, having been the last one – London School of Economics small dog with a big personality and cast from an old tin spoon. Nearby, Criminal lawyer, Hughmans Solicitors even bigger dreams, brought to life by he spies a paper ballerina, also Little Angel Theatre using beautiful standing on one leg, and the soldier Wednesday 25 June 6.00pm puppets, well-loved ballet music and falls in love. But the course of true Tuesday 8 July 6.00pm dazzling comedy. love never did run smooth and the Is Money the Root of all Evil? Law in Literature soldier falls into an adventure to test Suitable for ages 2-6 Would the world be a better place How are legal systems depicted in and melt the bravest of hearts. and we better people, if we didn’t love No 1.30pm show on Fridays literature, and what does it tell us Suitable for ages 3+ money so much? about how we see the law? No 1.30pm show on Fridays Speakers include: Julian Baggini Speakers include: Lisa Appignanesi Thursday 3 July – Philosopher, Claire Foster-Gilbert – – Author ‘Trials of Passion’, Joshua Director, Institute, 11.00am Rozenberg – Legal commentator and Monday 14 July – Thursday Brendan O’Neill – Editor, Spiked-online journalist, Maria Aristodemou – Senior James Campbell 17 July 11.00am & 1.30pm Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck University, James Campbell is a stand-up David Bowden – Institute of Ideas comedian for children, who proves Half Moon Theatre Thursday 26 June 6.00pm that comedy for kids is much more Misunderstood Monsters Should the Human Rights Act than toilet humour. Saint Georgie, a professional monster be Scrapped? Wednesday 9 July 6.00pm ‘Both kids and adults alike spent the catcher, and his faithful sidekick, The Conservative party manifesto for Does Emotion or Reason whole show chuckling or laughing out Squeezy, are on their most dangerous the next general election will scrap the Dictate the Financial Markets? loud’ Primary Times mission yet. They are unstoppable Human Rights Act. What – if anything Traditional economic models assumed heroes who use the latest digital – is wrong with it? Suitable for ages 5+ technology to battle vile beasts. that the markets could be run on reason Speakers include: Emily Thornberry MP, and rationality. Behavioural economics Suitable for ages 4-9 Martin Howe QC, Philip Leach – Professor argues instead that emotion is more of Human Rights Law, Richard Bacon MP important in financial decision-making. Chair: Anne McElvoy - Economist Public Policy Editor and Presenter of Tuesday 1 July 6.00pm BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking programme Can the City be Socially Useful? about arts and ideas What would a socially useful financial Speakers include: Frances Hudson – sector look like? Is there danger that Global Thematic Strategist at Standard such demands could burden and Life Investments, Daniel Ben-Ami – disorientate The City? Financial journalist, author ‘Cowardly Speakers include: Tony Greenham Capitalism’, Greg Davies – Head of – Head of Finance and Business, Behavioural and Quantitative Investment New Economics Foundation, Aditya Philosophy, Barclays Dogs Don’t Do Ballet The Tin Soldier Chakrabortty – Senior Economics This discussion is being recorded for Commentator, broadcast on Thursday 17 July on BBC Radio 3 at 10.00pm 8 9 The Bowler Hat Book online at colf.org Paternoster Square

Comedy & Cabaret All tickets £15, unless otherwise stated

Monday 23 June 7.30pm Wednesday 25 June 9.30pm Hats Off! Highlights Bridget Christie To celebrate the opening of our An Ungrateful Woman exciting new venue, the Bowler Hat, Bridget Christie does not wear her come and join us for an evening of feminism lightly. She wears it heavily, circus, comedy, cabaret and dance, like a suit of armour. Enjoy an evening featuring preview performances of talk about Michael Gove and from Acrometria, Rhythm Town, violations of human rights. Silver Lining, Judy & Liza and guest ‘One of the finest comedians around’ compere Rob Deering. ***** Independent The Noise Next Door Julie Madly Deeply

Monday 23 June 9.30pm Thursday 26 June 9.30pm Tuesday 1 July 9.30pm Thursday 3 July 9.30pm Armstrong & Stilgoe Tim Fitzhigham The Noise Next Door Julie Madly Deeply Comedian, TV presenter and baritone & Duncan Walsh Atkins Comedy Lock In This charming yet cheeky cabaret Alexander Armstrong joins the stage Flanders & Swann takes an engaging look at the fame with dazzling jazz pianist and singer Comedy improv quintet The Noise and fandom surrounding Dame Julie Joe Stilgoe. Their one-off sell-out Lifelong fans around the world and Next Door transform audience Andrews, performed by Fascinating cabaret in 2013 received rapturous the uninitiated alike have delighted suggestions into fantastically funny Aida star Sarah-Louise Young, one praise; whether you are a fan, in seeing Tim, Duncan and the Hippo scenes and songs in the blink of an eye. of London’s top cabaret performers. comedy fan or music fan, there’ll be breathe new life into Flanders & ‘Hilarious... a superior kind of chaos’ something to entertain everyone when Swann’s wonderful witty songs ****Daily Telegraph ‘Dame Julie, you suspect, would they are reunited under the Bowler Hat. including: The Hippopotamus, The Gas approve. This is an evening that ends in Man Cometh and The Gnu. triumph, not in tears.’ Tickets £19 ‘Muddy marvellous’ Evening Standard Wednesday 2 July 9.30pm **** Andy Zaltzman Tuesday 24 June 9.30pm Satirist For Hire Friday 27 June 9.30pm Friday 4 July 9.30pm Jenny Eclair Acclaimed comedian and writer Andy Alex Horne Zaltzman brings his unique take on Eclairious Flaws Jenny Eclair has been a stand-up comic Monsieur Butterfly current affairs to the Bowler Hat. Winner of five major comedy awards. for donkey’s years. She was the first Stupidly ambitious, logistically Andy is best known for appearing on 24-hour-show luminary. Novelist. woman to win the coveted Perrier problematic, potentially disastrous BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and Watson (host of BBC’s We Need Award and hasn’t stopped banging on – this is the show Alex Horne has Armando Iannucci’s Charm Offensive. Answers, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, about it ever since. Here she is, louder wanted to make for a decade; he is ‘Probably the best satirical comic we’ve Mock The Week regular and star than ever, taking the Bowler Hat by Monsieur Butterfly. produced in the last two decades. of cult Radio 4 series Mark Watson storm with her new show Eclairious. Intelligent, biting and silly’ Time Out ‘A terrific, high-concept comedy show, Makes The World Substantially intricately constructed and forever Better) comes to the Bowler Hat. whipping the rug out from under us’ ‘The highest achiever the The Guardian Festival has seen this decade. A huge comic presence’ The Times Saturday 28 June 9.30pm Richard Herring We’re All Going To Die! Herring tackles the taboo subject of our own mortality. Death is inevitable, so let’s laugh in its face while our hearts still beat and our jaws are still attached. ‘A solid hour of big laughs’ ****Chortle Bridget Christie Andy Zaltzman Mark Watson

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Thursday 10 July 9.30pm Saturday 12 July 9.30pm Adam Kay Doc Brown Amateur Transplants: Adam The Weird Way Round Kay’s Smutty Songs Doc Brown, famed for his collaboration Adam Kay’s cutting-edge, darkly with Ricky Gervais on YouTube hit humorous re-imaginings of pop and Equality Street, is appearing in the rock classics, including the iconic Bowler Hat fresh from a sell-out UK London Underground Song, have tour, with his tongue-in-cheek take on gained him three number one albums hip-hop culture. in the iTunes comedy charts and over ‘A seamless mix of truly inspired hip- 20 million hits on YouTube. hop and stand-up. He’s a total star… ‘Fast-paced, filthy and incredibly an utter joy’ Time Out funny’ ***** ThreeWeeks Monday 14 July 8.00pm Friday 11 July 9.30pm Henry Blofeld Rob Deering TMS and All That Musicface Legendary cricketing broadcaster One-man pop-rock stand-up Henry “Blowers” Blofeld is the legend Rob Deering brings his recognisable voice of Test Match brand new show to his home town, Special and one of the best-known Russell Kane cramming more charm, laughs and and best-loved sports journalists of tunes into one Bowler Hat than you’d all time. The irrepressible Blowers think possible. takes a wander down memory lane Saturday 5 July 9.30pm Wednesday 9 July 9.30pm ‘An evening in his company is in a show packed full of genuine, uncomplicated fun and laughter. Russell Kane Formidable Vegetable nothing less than a joy’ Smallness Sound System Independent on Sunday What is it with us and smallness? We Permaculture: ‘brilliant musical comedian’ Brits love it – being tiny but fierce, close A Rhymer’s Manual Time Out but distant. Russell Kane, the winner of Formidable Vegetable Sound System the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award is the world’s most successful pioneer 2010, who has firmly established himself of ecological edutainment. The lively as one the best comics in the UK today, ensemble promotes sustainability and returns with a blisteringly big-small show. permaculture through songs, pumped Kane’s fast-paced comedy ejaculates through the Formidable Beet-Box. Their thoughts about smallness; on keeping infectious electro-swunk will move even things small when life gets big. the most ardent climate sceptic from the ‘If he keeps making shows this smart, dance floor to the veggie-garden. and this funny, he’s going to be very big indeed. **** The Telegraph Tickets £17.50

Monday 7 July 9.30pm Tuesday 8 July 9.30pm Emma Dears & Lucy Williamson Judy & Liza More than 45 years since Judy Garland and her daughter Liza Minnelli performed together at the London The Bowler Hat - Paternoster Square Palladium, these iconic performers are reunited in this new musical experience. Featuring West End stars Keep up-to-date with everything happening in the Bowler Hat Emma Dears (Miss Saigon) and Lucy @CoLFestival #COLFbowler City of London Festival Williamson (End of the Rainbow). Judy & Liza

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Circus and Dance Swinging and bouncing with the greatest of ease across the Bowler Hat, the Festival presents a spectacular showcase of aerial, circus and dance performances.

Tuesday 24 June – Friday Saturday 28 June & Sunday 27 June 7.30pm 29 June 2.00pm & 7.30pm PSiRC Ballet Central Acrometria The highly talented graduate A UK première from Catalan company from the Central School company PSiRC. Three people of Ballet showcase their talents in are trapped. A triangle of friends a diverse performance of newly abandoned by the world create commissioned works and celebrated human geometry to survive using revivals. From ballet and jazz, to neo- an exquisite combination of dance classical and contemporary, there at height, acrobatics, music, silent will be something to please every corners, mysterious perpendiculars dance fan. and infinite circles. Tickets £12.50 Tickets £16.50 Tuesday 1 July Wednesday 2 July 11.00am & 1.30pm Laban Dance Katherine Ryan Short dance works created by students of contemporary dance from Trinity Monday 14 July 9.30pm Wednesday 16 July 9.30pm Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance represent a broad range of Katherine Ryan The Only Way Is Downton creative processes and choreographic Glam Role Model Written and performed by investigations, resulting in a diverse and The fresh, dangerously fierce, pop- Luke Kempner exciting programme. culture-obsessed Katherine Ryan is As celebrities start appearing at Tickets £6.50 fast becoming a recognisable face the Abbey, cultures clash and eras on British TV, with appearances on hilariously collide in this brilliant Acrometria Mock the Week, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats parody, which takes in many popular and Live at the Apollo. The feisty TV shows and familiar modern voices Canadian will bring her innovative, to help the cast of Downton save the original comedy to the City, in a show estate from financial ruin – again! that explores the murky world of ‘A fine impressionist, giving a splendid glamour modelling. display of Downtonry.’ Stephen Fry ‘Warped wit...striking presence...killer lines...calm confidence’ Scotsman Thursday 17 July 9.30pm Tuesday 15 July 9.30pm Joe Stilgoe Songs on Film Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope Pianist, singer, songwriter and film Quentin Crisp was an extraordinary nerd Joe Stilgoe pays tribute to raconteur and wit. In this show, 100 years of Hollywood cinema West End actor Mark Farrelly through its iconic music. Joe and draws on Quentin’s own writing and his outstanding band will get toes performances to show him in his tapping with live renditions of Chelsea flat as the 1970s dawned, and Casablanca, Catch Me If You Can and in his final years in New York, with the other cinematic classics. new century just months away. London Première Ballet Central

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Tuesday 1 July 7.30pm Wednesday 2 July 7.30pm Cie Nuua Lento A peculiar universe populated with white helium balloons, where two artists communicate through object manipulation. Far from being ordinary, the balloons have their own life. Cie Nuua uses the physical will of these transient tools to create imagery and poetry, inviting their spectators to Silver Lining celebrate the miracle of flight. Tickets £16.50 Monday 7 July 8.00pm Tuesday 8 July 7.30pm Friday 4 July 7.30pm Ella Robson Guilfoyle Saturday 5 July Echoes 2.00pm & 7.30pm Echoes, by choreographer Ella Rhythm Town Robson Guilfoyle, is a breath-taking Silver Lining combination of contemporary Silver Lining features some of the dance and circus. This spectacular Wednesday 9 July 7.30pm Tuesday 15 July – Thursday UK’s finest young circus artists – the performance explores the Thursday 10 July 7.30pm 17 July 7.30pm company of acrobats, aerialists and extraordinary in the journeys and jugglers balance, hang, sing, fly, catch, routines of our daily lives via a full Keziah Serreau Pirates of the Carabina spin and throw their way through this size trampoline, a trampowall and Strike! FLOWN fast-paced, feel-good, explosive show. Chinese poles. Keziah Serreau’s Strike! delves A stunning troupe of 10 masterful Tickets £12.50 Tickets £12.50 into a Kafka-like world where man acrobats, aerialists, musicians and breaks free from bureaucracy and daredevil stuntmen stage a dazzling the constraints of work. The line show. Irreverent and silly, bold and between circus and theatre is blurred breathtaking, FLOWN is a captivating and the lives of the office workers show packed with thrills, laughs are upturned as they struggle to and extraordinary feats all set to a maintain a system that is constantly live soundtrack. collapsing and colliding with their ‘Skin-tinglingly good’ **** Time Out personal freedoms. The tipping point is coming… ‘imaginative and risk-taking’ Evening Standard Tickets £12.50 Tickets £21.50

Friday 11 July 7.30pm Saturday 12 July 2.00pm & 7.30pm Juggling On Tap Rhythm Town Rhythm Town is a one hour physical theatre show like no other. Five performers at the top of their game each bring a unique talent to the table. With percussive energy they move swiftly from instrument to instrument, throwing around crossed and complicated rhythms to create this new circus performance not to be missed. ‘five piece cast put on a five star show’ This Is Cabaret Lento Tickets £14.50 Crying Out Loud presents FLOWN

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Music, Animation and Poetry Storybook World Cup Saturday 28 June Football takes centre stage in the With Tottenham Hotspur A Bowler Hat and an Bowler Hat as the City’s libraries Football Club Umbrella: Lyrics in London – Shoe Lane Library, Barbican Free Poet in the City presents a series Children’s Library and Artizan showcasing of some of the most Library – unite with the Festival Saturday 5 July exciting new and established voices in and Premier League football clubs With Arsenal Football Club poetry. These three events will throw to present Saturday morning Free Apollo5 a fresh and surprising spotlight on city storytelling. Special guests from life and London living. Acclaimed UK the football world will read stories Saturday 12 July and international poets come and interact with the audience, Saturday 28 June, With Crystal Palace together in a unique celebration of engaging primary school children Football Club Free Saturday 5 July & the power of words. and parents around the great Saturday 12 July 4.00pm sporting topic of the summer… Tickets £8 Guildhall Vintage Jazz Series the World Cup! The very best graduate and Storytelling in the Bowler Hat will undergraduate performers from the Monday 30 June 6.30pm begin at 11.00am, with other family Guildhall School’s renowned jazz City Lyrics fun and games in Paternoster Square department showcase favourites A showcase of three rising stars from from 10.30am – 12.30pm. from the swing era in three concerts, acclaimed poetry publishers Carcanet. Tickets are free, but must be booked directed by Head of Jazz Studies Sheri Benning, Joey Connolly and Martin Hathaway. in advance. Call the Box Office on Free Katharine Kilalea will explore city life 0845 120 7502. and city living through brand new work. Monday 30 June 8.00pm Apollo5 Monday 7 July 6.30pm Paternoster Square British a cappella ensemble Apollo5’s Living London In the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, we present a diverse programme repertoire ranges from retro jazz and A celebration of some of London’s of music, circus and general mischief. pop to classical arrangements. The own poets, writers and performance stunning vocal quintet will get toes St Paul’s artists, in collaboration with Tilt. tapping in the Bowler Hat with their From the sounds of the streets to engaging, eye-catching performance. the secrets of its citizens, London is Thursday 26 June 12.00pm, Thursday 17 July 5.30pm ‘We were blown away with Apollo 5’s everybody’s story. Stacy Makishi, 1.30pm & 5.30pm soundscape. It was thrilling to hear how Antosh Wojcik and Femi Martin will Electric Swing Circus their brilliant voices weaved.’ explore London from all angles, from Acro Chaps This six piece electro-swing troupe Vodafone UK the surreal to the sublime. City Slickers fuse cool 1920s swing with fiery Tickets £15 Forget about balancing the books, electro beats in a dazzling live show. these guys are able to balance on just ‘One of the highlights of Glastonbury Monday 14 July 6.30pm about anything. Expect incredible Festival’ Official Glastonbury Friday 4 July 1.00pm London Calling acrobatics from these agile gents. Guide 2013 Free Under the Bowler Hat Outstanding contemporary poetry Free Two secondary schools, working with written in three languages widely spoken a leading digital animator, have created in London: Arabic, Persian and Somali. Friday 27 June 5.45pm a 2D computer animation about the International poets Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi history of the bowler hat. The students from Sudan, Caasha Lul Mohamud Factoria Circular come together for a screening of their Yusuf from Somalia/ Somaliland and Rodafonio work, alongside several award-winning Reza Mohammadi from Afghanistan, A four metre high wheel holding three short animations from the London will be joined by UK poets and rotating musicians rolls through the International Animation Festival. translators of their work, Sarah Maguire, Square. Rodafonio is a mobile musical Clare Pollard and Maura Dooley. In Free spectacular which will carry jazz-rock- celebration of the publication of My world fusion through the heart of the Voice: A Decade of Poems from The City. It has to be seen to be believed. Poetry Translation Centre. Free Event series in association with Series sponsored by

Factoria Circular

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Seoul in the City South Korea is developing a reputation as one of the world’s great cultural centres. We are delighted to present a snapshot of Korean culture in the City of London, from some of the most gifted young artists emerging from the rich classical music scene to the brilliant mix of traditional and contemporary Korean music with Ensemble Sinawi. Street dance in the form of B-Boys has such popularity that the City of Seoul have their own representative team – the Gamblerz Crew, who will be lighting up the streets of our City. Add to this an extraordinary production of and an Anglo-Korean performance of Beethoven 9 (p.4) and you have some idea why South Korea is emerging as a major cultural powerhouse.

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Yohangza Theatre Company Two anonymous donors Monday 14 July 7.00pm Thursday 17 July 7.00pm Great Hall, Bishopsgate Institute Great Hall, Bishopsgate Institute Monday 30 June 1.15pm Yeol-Eum Son piano The Gift St Paul’s Cathedral West Steps Schumann Kreisleriana Ha-Young Choi cello Seoul Metropolitan B-Boys Alkan Le Festin d’Esope Soo-Been Lee violin Stravinsky Three Movements from Gamblerz Crew is the representative Chamber ensemble from Petrushka B-boy team of Seoul city. The Trinity Laban Conservatoire Strauss/Godowsky Symphonic world-class B-boys have won more Metamorphose on Wein, of Music and Dance than forty competitions in the past Weib und Gesang Haydn Cello Concerto No 1 decade, taking on rival crews across the Vivaldi Concerto Nos 1 – 4 Op 8 globe. Renowned for their incredible Since winning the Silver Medal at the The Four Seasons flexibility and powerful body moves, 2011 XIV Tchaikovsky International the Korean B-boys will animate Music Competition, Yeol-Eum Son is a Marvel at the astonishing skill of some the famous steps of St Paul’s with pianist in great demand. This season of Korea’s youngest virtuosi, featuring energetic, captivating dance. sees her perform with the Mariinsky 16 year-old cellist Ha-Young Choi and Seoul Metropolitan B-Boys Theatre Orchestra and the Czech 14 year-old violinist Soo-Been Lee. See the crew perform again at The Philharmonic Orchestra under Gherkin (p.37) and Peter’s Hill, Old Street Tickets £12, £5 Valery Gergiev. Millennium (p.31). Free Pre-Concert Talk – Join us at 5.30pm Tickets £12, £5 Saturday 12 July 7.30pm as Dr Claire Mera-Nelson, Director Liverpool Street of Music at Trinity Laban, leads a Tuesday 8 July 7.30pm , Portugal Street discussion with young Korean artists LSO St Luke’s, 161 Old Street Yohangza Theatre Company on Korea’s rise as a powerful force in Hamlet Wednesday 16 July 7.00pm classical music and how their music Ensemble Sinawi education system differs from our own. Shakespeare’s iconic tale of tragedy, Great Hall, Bishopsgate Institute Ensemble Sinawi combine traditional Liverpool Street Korean folk music and pansori, an epic revenge and intrigue is given a Kumho Asiana Soloists magnificent Korean twist. Yohangza chant, with a contemporary edge Jae-Young Kim violin to create a sound that it is entirely faithfully recreate the tragedy and Hanna Lee viola new. Their exploration of Korea’s drama of Shakespeare’s original Hamlet musical heritage led them to discover in contemporary Korean language. Sang-Eun Lee cello the potential in adapting traditional The staging, costumes and music Yeol-Eum Son piano rhythms and melodies. Authentic integrates Korean tradition and Han Kim clarinet Korean sounds are juxtaposed in shamanism. This is Hamlet like you Chamber music of the highest order the context of chamber-jazz to have never seen it before. from some of Korea’s brilliant new create new and authentically Korean Yohangza’s recent reworking of generation of soloists, including: improvisational musical forms – an A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time extraordinary new form of traditional Globe was described as ‘a colourful music for the 21st century. revelation’ The Telegraph Tickets £12, £5 Tickets £18 Tickets £32, £28, £22, £15 Liverpool Street Yeol-Eum Son 20 21 Book online at colf.org Jazz

Jazz with a View Ellington at the Temple Set against the backdrop of breathtaking City vistas, the Festival Masonic Temple, Andaz Liverpool Street presents some of the world’s hottest jazz artists inside London Duke Ellington was possibly one of the more surprising Freemasons. landmarks. Inspired by Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Lincoln Center The Masonic Temple at the Andaz Liverpool Street Hotel remained in New York, where great music is complemented by a view of forgotten and walled off for decades before its rediscovery during a Manhattan, here the City skyline will compete for your attention. 1990’s refurbishment. Enjoy the best of Ellington in this enchanting hidden venue. Thursday 26 June 7.30pm Sunday 29 June 7.30pm Liverpool Street Unilever House, 100 Victoria The Gherkin, 30 St Mary Axe Embankment Kit Downes Trio Friday 4 July 7.00pm Wednesday 25 June, Clare Teal Following on from Kit’s Mercury & 9.30pm Wednesday 2 July, Award nominated album Golden and BBC Radio 2’s Clare Teal brings Tommy Smith saxophone Wednesday 9 July her classy renditions of jazz standards the critically acclaimed Quiet Tiger, piano to Unilever House, with stunning this is an exclusive opportunity for Brian Kellock 6.00pm – 8.30pm views looking down the Thames to fans to catch Kit Downes in an intimate Tommy Smith’s Scottish National Jazz Eastway Restaurant, Bridge. space at the iconic Gherkin’s tip. Orchestra received rapturous reviews Andaz Liverpool Street for their Spirit of the Duke album. Here ‘bright and adventurous’ Tickets Limited availability – check Tommy teams up with fellow Scot Gin O’Clock Jazz Series colf.org for more details Brian Kellock for a more intimate Put the stresses of the working day Tickets £25 Bank or Aldgate series of Ellington renditions. behind you with some outstanding Blackfriars Tickets £25 jazz over a drink and a bite to eat at Andaz Liverpool Street’s Eastway Tuesday 8 July 7.30pm restaurant. Free , Friday 11 July 7.00pm Roberto Pla & 9.30pm Colombian timbalero Roberto Pla Julian Joseph piano brings his vibrant, highly danceable Hailed as one of the finest pianists mix of Latin rhythms and punchy to emerge this side of the Atlantic, brass to this outdoor gig, set for over two decades Julian Joseph against the perfect view of has been a towering figure in St Paul’s Cathedral. contemporary jazz. A prodigious Roberto Pla recently won the composer and arranger, an admired award for Best Concert at the Latin and respected bandleader, an UK Awards for his appearance at inspirational collaborator and Glastonbury Festival in 2013. educator he is, essentially, a true champion of the music. Tickets £23 Tickets St Paul’s £25

Masonic Temple Clare Teal

The Roof Terrace at One New Change Tommy Smith Julian Joseph

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Choral Capital The City of London enjoys a density of choral music unrivalled almost anywhere in the world. It is the base for many leading professional choirs and hosts performances by many more: there are over 100 amateur choirs who meet here, and the growing phenomenon of the office choir has very strong representation in the City.

Sunday 22 June 11.30am Saturday 28 June 7.30pm St Paul’s Cathedral Southwark Cathedral, Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral Andrew Carwood director Girl choristers from Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor Southwark, Guildford and Howells Come my soul St Albans Cathedrals Voces8 Festival Service to mark the opening Choral Revolution of the 2014 Festival. Stephen Disley director Tuesday 1 July 8.30pm Tuesday 15 July 1.00pm St Paul’s Free Katherine Dienes-Williams St Bartholomew-the-Great, Gresham Centre at St Anne director Cloth Fair & St Agnes, Gresham Street Tom Winpenny director Tuesday 24 June 7.30pm Peter Wright organ Voces8 – Into the Night How to Start an Office Choir St Andrew Holborn, Anne McAneney trumpet Voces8 is fast building a reputation Office choirs are currently enjoying 5 St Andrew’s Street as a dynamic young vocal ensemble, a high profile, making working Judith Bingham Les Saintes Maries de with their album Eventide recently environments all over London more National Youth Choirs of la Mer (World Première) topping the classical charts. Opening cohesive, creative and fun. Why not Great Britain Chamber Choir Leighton An Easter Sequence with Byrd’s Sing Joyfully, and start your own? Our panel of experts Fauré Messe Basse Twenty-something… including motets by Monteverdi, will provide guidance on the best way There has been a quiet revolution to go about recruiting, managing and Ben Parry director Gabrieli and Bach, this programme taking place in cathedrals over recent in the atmospheric St Bartholomew- developing a successful choir in your The National Youth Chamber Choir years, with the centuries-old tradition the-Great ends, as night descends, workplace. – all outstanding young singers of boys’ choirs being complemented with Tallis’s setting of Te Lucis St Paul’s or Bank Free under 25 – perform a programme by an ever-increasing number of girls’ Anteterminum – ‘before the closing of music written by composers choirs. This special concert brings of the day’. when they themselves were in their together three leading cathedral girls’ Tickets £15 20s. From Handel’s masterful Dixit choirs and features a new piece by Wednesday 16 July 7.30pm Dominus, written when he was only Judith Bingham, commissioned by the Barbican or Farringdon St Bride’s, 22, to A.M.D.G. by the 26-year-old Festival especially for the occasion. Mousai Singers Benjamin Britten, this performance Tickets £20, £15, £10, £5 will demonstrate the talents of these Wednesday 9 July 7.30pm Onyx Brass London Bridge Daniel Cook conductor wunderkind singers and composers. St Bartholomew-the-Great, Tickets £15 Supported by Cloth Fair Handel The King Shall Rejoice The Idlewild Trust Giles Swayne The Yonghy Bonghy Bo Chancery Lane The Chapel Choir of Selwyn (English Première) College, Cambridge Handel Let Thy Hand Be Sarah MacDonald conductor Strengthened Handel My Heart is Inditing James Weeks Orlando Tenebrae John McCabe Songs of the Garden Rachmaninoff Vespers Handel Zadok the Priest Tickets £15 (under 18s free) Tickets £15, £10 (under 18s free) Barbican or Farringdon Blackfriars In partnership with In partnership with

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Sing in the City Gresham Lectures Gresham Centre, St Anne & St Agnes, Gresham Street Gresham College has been providing free public lectures within the City of London since 1597. Established through the Will of Sir Thomas St Paul’s Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange, Gresham College today hosts nearly 150 free public lectures and events each year, all of which are made available online: gresham.ac.uk Friday 27 June Wednesday 9 July 7.00pm – 9.30pm 7.00pm – 9.30pm Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall, Holborn Gospel Workshop Choral Jazz Workshop Chancery Lane Cecelia Wickham-Anderson is a Great rhythm, harmony, classic vocalist with the female a cappella standards and funky bass – jazz has quintet Black Voices. She leads an made its mark in the choral world, Monday 30 June 6.00pm evening workshop in ‘Singing in the with international jazz a cappella Professor David Howard Black Tradition’. Explore the evolution award winners Voces8 leading The Science of Singing of slave songs (spirituals) and their the way. Join them for an evening Singing affects us all in some way, relevance and impact on western workshop of music-making in a fun, but what is the science behind it music forms, as well as traditional interactive and creative environment all? Professor Howard, Head of the songs from Africa and the Caribbean, – a session for anyone who loves any University of York’s Electronics and Gospel. style of jazz. department and an expert in the Tickets £12 Tickets £12 analysis and synthesis of singing, Lucy Winkett explains how singers gain a wide pitch range, greater volume and sing Wednesday 2 July Saturday 12 July in different styles. Free 7.00pm – 9.30pm 10.30am – 4.30pm Tuesday 24 June 6.00pm Choral Beatboxing Workshop Choral Workshop Day Rev Lucy Winkett Faith in Women Wednesday 2 July 6.00pm Ever wondered how beatboxers Chorus master Greg Beardsell – Timothy Long produce such amazing beats, presenter of BBC Radio 3’s The Choir Walk into any church or cathedral rhythms, and musical sounds using and Deputy Artistic Director of today and you might hear women The History of the Bowler Hat only the mouth, tongue, lips and voice? the National Youth Choirs of Great singing, preaching and praying An icon long associated with the Discover the secret of beatboxing during Britain – leads this day-long choral publicly. In a society where the City of London, the unmistakable this evening workshop with some of workshop. Keen choral singers will relevance of the church is constantly bowler hat was an essential part of the talented members of Voces8, and have the opportunity to learn useful questioned, has this change made every City worker’s uniform – by learn how to add beats into well-known warm ups, breathing techniques, any difference and does it matter? the 1950s businessmen wouldn’t be songs, create new harmonies and stylistic advice, tuning and vocal Free seen in the Square Mile without one. extend your choral range. blend, as well as delving deeper into Timothy Long, Curator of Fashion & Tickets £12 the day’s repertoire – Handel’s Four Decorative Arts at the Museum of Coronation Anthems. Friday 27 June 6.00pm London, explores the history of this Sir Thomas Harris fascinating hat. Tickets £15 Free Friday 4 July Britain’s Relations with Korea: a Personal View 10.00am – 4.00pm Tuesday 8 July 6.00pm Sir Thomas Harris has a long and Health and Harmony distinguished career in the Diplomatic Professor Philip Murphy Conference Service, but nothing tested his skills The Queen’s Commonwealth: Recent research has shown the very more than the years he spent as Monarchy and the End of real benefits of singing on a myriad British Ambassador to South Korea. E mpire, 1945-2011 health conditions, from asthma In this special lecture he reflects upon As Glasgow prepares to host the to Alzheimer’s. Join researchers, Britain’s relations with Korea and Commonwealth Games, Professor practitioners, healthcare professionals gives a personal, but very learned, Philip Murphy, Director of the and choral participants for this special view of this key international partner. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, conference day exploring how singing explores the history and importance can change our lives. SEOUL IN THE CITY Free of the Commonwealth and asks, In association with the Sidney ‘what next?’. Free De Haan Research Centre for Arts In partnership with and Health. Supported by The Rushworth Charitable Trust Sing in the City Tickets £40 26 27 Book online at colf.org Rising Stars

Rising Stars Friday 27 June 1.05pm Friday 4 July 1.05pm Friday 11 July 1.05pm St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate, St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, St Andrew Holborn, Guildhall School of Bishopsgate St Andrew’s Street Music & Drama Ricky Gore violin, Moira Bette viola Ann Gogava piano Hannah Watson piano Toby White cello, Yoanna Rachmaninoff Etudes - Tableaux Op Messiaen Vingt regards sur l’enfant- These 15 recitals in enchanting Prodanova cello, Rebecca Griffiths 33 No 3, Op 39 No 2, Jésus (extracts) City churches showcase some of flute, Rebecca Carson flute, Jessica Op 39 No 9 JS Bach Preludes and Fugues from Kabirat flute, Grace Warren oboe our finest young talent, all from Scriabin Etude Op 2 No 1; Six The Well-Tempered Clavier, Rebekah Carpio clarinet, Jamie the Guildhall School of Music Preludes Op 11 book II White bassoon, Molly Flanagan & Drama, for fifty minutes of Rachmaninoff Sonata No 2 Op 36 Sibelius Six Finnish Folksongs lunchtime bliss. horn, Zuzanna Olbreys harp St Paul’s Free St Paul’s Free In partnership with Villa Lobos Quintette Instrumental Villa Lobos Assobio a Jato The Jet Whistle Tuesday 15 July 1.05pm Villa Lobos Quintette en forme Tuesday 8 July 1.05pm de choros St-Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside St Stephen Liverpool Street Free The Jane Manning Oliver Cave violin, Ionel Manciu Tuesday 24 June 1.05pm Birthday Project violin, Francesca Gilbert violin, May Dolan viola, Sophie Haynes St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, Singers and pianists from the viola, Toby White cello, Iurii Tuesday 1 July 1.05pm Guildhall School perform 20th St Andrew’s Hill Gavryliuk double bass, Bryony and 21st century song repertoire Alex Lomeiko violin, Luba St Margaret Pattens, Rood Lane Keyse piano, Hannah Watson piano especially selected and prepared by Tunnicliffe viola, Toby White cello Duncan Anderson viola, Romana soprano Jane Manning in celebration Mozart Piano Quartet No 1 K478 Iurii Gavryliuk double bass, Ausias Kaiser cello, David Ruff flute and of her 75th birthday. Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet Garrigos Morant clarinet, Gareth alto flute, Oliver Pashley clarinet, Humphreys bassoon, Jonathan George Barton marimba, Siwan St Paul’s or Bank Free Bank Free Quaintrell-Evans horn Rhys piano Beethoven Septet Op 20 Sir Ave Maris Wednesday 9 July 1.05pm Wednesday 16 July 1.05pm Blackfriars Free Stella Op 63 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Hymnos St Lawrence-Jewry, Gresham Street St Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street Monument Free Jean-Selim Abdelmoula piano Wednesday 25 June 1.05pm Amarins Wierdsma violin, Esther Debussy Selections from Preludes Kim violin, Francesca Gilbert viola, St Bride’s Fleet Street, Fleet Street Books 1 &2 Wednesday 2 July 1.05pm Thomas Marlin cello, Alasdair Leander Kippenberg cello, Chopin Sonata Op 58 Macaskill piano St Giles , Fore Street Jean-Selim Abdelmoula piano, Bank Free Schnittke Piano Quintet Hannah Watson piano, Oscar Marina Koka piano Medtner Piano Quintet Op posth Alabau cello Beethoven Sonata Op 2 No 3 Thursday 10 July 1.05pm Blackfriars Free R Strauss Cello Sonata Op 6 Brahms Intermezzo Op 118 Chopin Cello Sonata Op 65 Nos 2 & 6 St Vedast-alias-Foster, Foster Lane Blackfriars Free Brahms Rhapsody Op 79 No 2 Curated by pianist Eugene Asti, Thursday 17 July 1.05pm Chopin Ballade No 3 Op 47 Guildhall School singers and pianists St Michael Cornhill Barbican or Moorgate Free perform a lieder programme: Thursday 26 June 1.05pm Toby White cello, Schumann Gedichte der Königin Luba Tunnicliffe viola, St Olave Hart Street, Hart Street Maria Stuart Op 135 Archos Quartet, Filip Jeska violin, Thursday 3 July 1.05pm Schumann Liederkreis Op 39 Guildhall Voices Maria Laskowska violin, Igor St James Garlickhythe, Garlick Hill (extracts) Michalski viola, Marta Lagoda cello Vocal students from the Guildhall Berg Sieben frühe Lieder School present a programme of Songs from the Asylum Wolf Mignon Lieder Dvořák String Sextet Op 48 Haydn String Quartet Op 33 song, devised and directed by This programme, devised by Song in the Free St Paul’s or Bank No 2 Joke Armin Zanner. City Artistic Director and pianist Gavin Monument Free Roberts, profiles the songs and poetry of Bank Free composers and poets who have battled with mental illness and yet produced some of their most creative work - Schumann, Wolf, Gurney, Smetana, Donizetti and more. Monument Free 28 29 Book online at colf.org Walks and Tours Around the City

Walks and Tours Around the City

Saturday 28 June Monday 30 June 11.00am 11.00am & 4.00pm Mansion House, Walbrook Sunday 29 June 2.00pm Mansion House Art Tour Shakespeare: the City Tickets Sold Out and its Liberties In Shakespeare’s own lifetime, the theatre was widely regarded as Tuesday 1 July 6.30pm disreputable or dangerous. Aldermen, Clifford Chance, concerned that plays would corrupt 10 Upper Bank Street their apprentices, restricted their performance within the City. Yet Clifford Chance Art Tour just outside the City walls were the Tickets Sold Out ‘Liberties’, where theatre flourished alongside other forbidden pleasures. Join John Constable for a walk to Wednesday 2 July 6.00pm celebrate the 450th anniversary Simmons & Simmons, CityPoint of Shakespeare’s birth, traversing the heart of the City, and visiting Simmons & Simmons places where The Bard and his Art Tour contemporaries lived and worked. Tickets Sold Out Children’s Parade Tickets £10 Saturday 5 July 2.00pm Friday 27 June 12.45pm Saturday 28 June 2.00pm Saturday 28 June 2.00pm Sunday 6 July 2.00pm Route: Guildhall Yard, Cheapside, Barbican Children’s Library, Sunday 29 June 2.00pm Singing the City Paternoster Square and West Steps Shopping and Eating: a An ever-popular walk in the Festival of St Paul’s Cathedral. Visit Football Shorts consuming passion programme, join guides Cwti Green and colf.org for full route details. Andrew Chew for a fun-filled musical Children and their families are invited to Throughout the City’s history its tour of the City. Bring your voice for Festival Children’s Parade join in creative storytelling inspired by shops and eating-places have been an impromptu singalong on this walk Escape into the world of children’s one of the summer’s most anticipated subject to continuous change, visiting historical sites across the Square literature as over 1,400 participants sporting events – the World Cup. Led dictated by shifts in consumer Mile, combining fascinating facts with present the theme ‘Off the Page!’. by Dr Pat Ryan, children will listen to tastes and fashion, social upheaval, songs ranging from the Cries of London Dozens of schools have chosen classic and take part in traditional storytelling fluctuating economic circumstances, to London Bridge is Falling Down. children’s stories to bring to life through activities and have the chance to invent technological advances and the costume, puppetry, music and dance, their very own sporting tales. impact of disasters like the Great Fire Tickets £10 using tons of the City’s recyclable waste. and wartime bombing. Join Francis Suitable for ages 3-9 Come cheer them on and spot your Pugh for this fascinating walk that Barbican Free favourite book in the troupe. There will includes some hidden survivors of Monday 7 July 6.00pm also be a special performance from changing fortunes still to be found on Deutsche Bank, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s our City streets. Winchester House production of Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Tickets £10 Musical to round off the event. Deutsche Bank Art Tour Moorgate or St Paul’s Free Tickets Sold Out

Saturday 28 June 12.00pm & 1.30pm Peter’s Hill, Millennium Bridge (north side) Seoul Metropolitan B-Boys (Gamblerz Crew) See p.20 for details. Royal Exchange Festival Walk Blackfriars Free Matilda (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

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Monday 30 June, Monday 7 Thursday 3 July July & Monday 14 July 1.10pm 3.30pm – 9.00pm Southwark Cathedral (live music from 12.30pm) Daniel Cook organ Guildhall Yard Vierne Organ Symphony No 1 City Beerfest (30 June) After last year’s merry debut, the Vierne Organ Symphony No 2 City Beerfest returns to Guildhall (7 July) Yard for another round. More than Vierne Organ Symphony No 3 a dozen of Britain’s most popular (14 July) breweries gather together to serve up a selection of beers, along with Sub-organist of Westminster Abbey delicious food and live American Daniel Cook performs one of Vierne’s bluegrass, folk and Old Appalachian masterful organ symphonies in each of music onstage throughout the day. these three lunchtime recitals. For special offers and to purchase London Bridge Free advance beer tokens, please visit citymusicfoundation.org/event Music: Wednesday 2 July 12.30pm Ragged Out String Band Guildhall Yard 12.30pm – 1.45pm Tir Eolas Lunchtime Jazz 5.30pm – 6.15pm Enjoy laidback lunchtime jazz brought Ramshackle Union Band to you by the Worshipful Company of 6.30pm – 7.15pm Musicians, with the impressive backdrop Police Dog Hogan Brazil Meu Amor Trio of the City of London’s HQ, 7.30pm – 9.00pm the Guildhall. Free Thursday 10 July 5.30pm Thursday 10 July 7.00pm St Paul’s or Bank Free Grange City Hotel courtyard St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Brazil Meu Amor Trio Holborn Viaduct Wednesday 2 July 7.30pm Saturday 5 July Argentine vocalist Guillermo The of London Mercers’ Hall 10.00am – 4.00pm Rozenthuler, joined by the finest The Recorder of London, a programme Brahms at Lake Thun Bank of England, musicians, will ignite the courtyard of music and words telling the story City Music Foundation provides support Threadneedle Street at the Grange City Hotel with fiery of the , performed by Brazilian beats. Inspired by Samba, Bossa Miriam Nerval on recorder (City Music to aspiring professional musicians in the Bank of England Open Day early stages of their careers. Nova and MPB rhythms, hotel chefs Foundation Artist) with special guests The Bank of England will once again have put together a menu of food and including the Recorder of London, Judge A visit to Brahms’ lake house in a unique open its doors to the history and art in drink which celebrates piquant Latin Brian Barker QC. evening of chamber music performed by passion. Bring your dancing shoes and parts of the building usually inaccessible The concert will be followed by a drinks City Music Foundation Artists Mikhail to the public. Guided tours lasting 30 get ready for an all-night fiesta. Nemtsov (cello) and Mari Poll (violin). and canapé reception in the Grand Hall minutes will run throughout the day ‘Catch a Latin vibe without a Latin cliché of the Old Bailey. Guided tours of Court The historic Mercers’ Hall will become (last entry 3.30pm). an intimate salon for the evening, in sight’ One will be available and an encore providing a beautiful setting for Brahms’ Advance booking not required Free Tower Hill Free will be performed by Miriam under the most famous sonatas and trios. Bank dome of the Grand Hall. For more information and to Concert Tickets £15 Thursday 10 July 6.30pm purchase tickets visit Concert and reception ticket £75, citymusicfoundation.org/event St Paul’s Cathedral available from Tickets £30 including drinks reception Thomas Trotter organ citymusicfoundation.org/event Bank Thomas Trotter is one of Britain’s St Paul’s Presented by most widely admired musicians. He Presented by is Organist at St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, in London and Visiting Fellow in Organ Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. Tickets £10 (£7 concs) cash on the door City Beerfest St Paul’s

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Friday 11 July 7.30pm Barbican Film Rock the Boat St Andrew Holborn, Barbican Centre, Silk Street St Andrew’s Street Street Guitars Red Note Ensemble Wednesday 16 July 6.30pm Michal Rogalski oboe Barbican Cinema 1, Barbican Centre John Adams Shaker Loops Cinema and the Barber Adagio First World War Judith Bingham The Hythe Filmmaker, writer, historian and Judith Bingham Oboe Concerto: Academy Award winner Kevin The Angel of Mons(World Première) Brownlow presents this talk about the Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto response of directors and studios in Tickets £15, £10 (under 18s free) Europe and America to the Great War. Chancery Lane or St Paul’s Using film clips and archive extracts, the talk examines the fact that by In partnership with 1914 cinema was embedded in the cultural life of communities throughout Britain, and for many people, films and newsreels provided their main source To book tickets go to of information about life at the front. jamconcert.org/season Tickets £7.60 - £9.50 (booking fees or call 0800 988 7984 apply – 60p online and 70p by phone) Barbican or Moorgate Saturday 12 July 10.00am – 4.00pm Wednesday 16 July 8.00pm Locations: Bank of England, Barbican Cinema 1, Barbican Centre Tuesday 1 – Thursday Threadneedle Street 17 July Paternoster Square, EC4 The Four Horsemen of the One New Change, EC4 Bank of England Open Day Apocalypse PG We brought you the Street Pianos, now here’s our latest shared street New Street Square, EC4 See p.32 for full details. Free Rex Ingram’s anti-war silent landmark established the unknown Rudolph art… Rock the Boat Street Guitars! Devonshire Square, EC2 This summer you’re invited to play Valentino as a symbol of masculine Finsbury Avenue Square, EC2 Wednesday 16 July 10.45am romance and sexuality, set against twelve acoustic guitars sheltered Guildhall Yard war-time notions of bravery and inside brightly coloured upturned Peter’s Hill, Millennium Bridge, EC4 sacrifice. The film is presented in a rowing boats dotted across the Old , Riverside Walk, EC3 Cart Marking Ceremony beautifully restored 35mm print, Square Mile. Whether you enjoy a From handcarts to horse-drawn accompanied by Carl Davis’ recorded quiet strum or you’re a rock star , carriages, and steam-driven vehicles to score based on Liszt’s piano sonata in the making, join the two million West Exit, EC2 the new London bus, see this parade of Après une Lecture du Danté. people in the UK who regularly St Paul’s Churchyard, EC4 vehicles old and new as they come into US 1921 Dir. Rex lngram 132 min play guitar by visiting our Rock the , EC3 Guildhall Yard to be marked with a red Boat Street Guitars! hot iron by the Master Carmen and the Tickets £7.60 - £9.50 (booking fees Royal Exchange, EC3 apply – 60p online and 70p by phone) A book of boating songs and sea Lord Mayor. Station, EC3 Bank or Mansion House Free Barbican or Moorgate shanties is available to play at each In partnership with Photoplay site. Visit colf.org/streetguitars Productions and to tune up, upload your photos and videos, and access the map. Boat launches and naming ceremonies with guest guitarists take place Designed and made by [re]design, across the City on Tuesday 1 July with Pilgrim guitars supplied from 12.30pm. by John Hornby Skewes.

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34 35 Book online at colf.org Broadgate The Gherkin

Broadgate The Gherkin Finsbury Avenue Square at Broadgate is one of the most welcoming You are cordially invited to 30 St Mary Axe for a celebratory series of spaces in the City. Come and see it brought to life with music, dance, concerts at the foot of this most iconic building. and a hearty dose of slapstick. 30, St Mary Axe Finsbury Avenue Square, Broadgate Aldgate or Liverpool Street Liverpool Street

Monday 23 June 12.30pm Wednesday 25 June 1.00pm The Ballina Whalers Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer The wildly popular shanty band sings On a mission to introduce hip-hop to ballads, shanties and seafaring songs the Queen’s English, Mr B performs in three-part harmony. rhymes about high society, as well as ‘Stunning voices that blend so pieces from the world of hip-hop, re-worked in ‘chap-hop’ fashion. beautifully, a real knock out’ Free Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 Free Oompah Brass Thursday 26 June Tuesday 24 June 1.00pm & 5.45pm Thursday 26 June 12.30pm Wednesday 9 July 12.30pm 12.00pm & 1.30pm Factoria Circular Si Cranstoun Septet Colomboloco C-12 Rodafonio Si Cranstoun and his band have climbed This theatrical five-piece band from Trolleys A mobile musical spectacular. Inside the retro scene ladder with their blend Italy and Spain create a powerful and Part street dance, part ballet, part a four metre high wheel sit three of spiritually soulful vocals and upfront uplifting blend of joyous beats deriving outdoor spectacle, this high-octane musicians, playing jazz-rock-world rockin’ rhythms to become a top name from Spanish, Italian, gypsy and ska contemporary dance merges with fusion from wheels which turn inside at vintage events and dance clubs music, guaranteed to electrify and get across the country. everyone dancing. acrobatics in Trolleys, a performance it as it rolls through the City streets. Free Free with five supermarket trolleys. Free Free Tuesday 1 July 12.00pm Wednesday 16 July 12.30pm Wednesday 25 June 12.30pm Friday 27 June & 1.30pm Melodians Steel Orchestra Musical Meeting Place 1.00pm & 5.45pm Seoul Metropolitan B-Boys Fresh from their performance at the Local employees from law firm Haywood Hix Gamblerz Crew is the representative 2013 Venice Biennale Festival, as part Trowers & Hamlins will team up with As sculptural machinery meets B-boy team of Seoul city. The of Turner prize-winner Jeremy Deller’s students from Moreland Primary slap-stick clownery, a contraption world-class team has won over forty installation English Music, the hugely School for this special concert as is pieced together with everyday competitions since they were formed acclaimed 25-piece Melodians Steel part of the Festival’s major singing objects taken from a garden shed in in 2002. Their slick performances Orchestra bring their catchy steel initiative. Musical Meeting Place this evolving chain reaction of a show. combine skill, speed and the highest rhythms to the Gherkin. This year also sees nine City offices partner level of discipline, to capture the audience sees their 25th anniversary celebration, Free with nine local primary schools to with energetic and powerful dances. so what better excuse to get up and dance! join together in song, within the Series sponsored by Free workplace and for the public. Free Free Wednesday 2 July 12.30pm Oompah Brass Oompah Brass are the world’s leading exponents of ‘oom-pop’: Bavarian-style re-workings of classic pop, rock and soul music. Melodians Steel Orchestra ‘The Legends in Lederhosen.’ Free Series sponsored by Chris Evans

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Devonshire Square Wednesday 2 July 12.30pm Wednesday 9 July Musical Meeting Place 12.00pm & 1.30pm Join us in the grand sprawl of Devonshire Square for the Festival’s colourful mix of music, dance and theatre, as part of Devonshire A performance from the Festival’s Acro Chaps major singing initiative which sees Square Summerfest. City Slickers nine City offices partner with nine Firm believers that there is nothing Devonshire Square local primary schools to join together in life that cannot be improved by in song, within the workplace and Liverpool Street the application of a good moustache, for the public. Local employees who these three intrepid fellows set out to sing as the Devonshire Square Choir entertain, dazzle and amaze... partner with Rotherfield Primary School to sing hits from London Free musical Oliver! Free

Wednesday 2 July 1.00pm Ayanna Witter-Johnson Ayanna Witter-Johnson is a vocalist, cellist, pianist, songwriter and composer. Nominated for a 2012 MOBO Award, she is a performer of extraordinary versatility and her live shows are intimate journeys that chronicle her experience as a woman in the 21st century. Free Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer Thursday 3 July Tuesday 24 June 12.30pm Tuesday 1 July 12.30pm 12.00pm & 1.45pm Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer Silk and Bamboo Ensemble Mimbre Bench Aiming to dazzle with dignity, Mr B The enchanting sound of silk (strings) Bench takes to the stage with his banjolele and bamboo (flutes) will transport A woman sits and watches the world pass and stiff upper lip to perform ditties you to China. The Ensemble’s virtuosi by… Bench is an acrobatic performance of pipe-smoking, high society and musicians have played in London’s about the dance of life and the theatre cricket, as well as some more Purcell Room and Europe’s WOMEX around us. Brides and bag-ladies, fitness well-known pieces from the world and WOMAD festivals. Expect to hear freaks and fantasies form a cavalcade of hip-hop, re-worked in true the pipa luta, erhu fiddle, yangqin of comedy, tragedy and poignancy, ‘chap-hop’ fashion. dulcimer and dizi flutes. reflecting on who we are and how we connect with others. ‘There has never been a rapper ‘...perfect, vibrant performances... Free like Mr B’ Sunday Times Free technical perfection and brilliant playing...’ Songlines Free Tuesday 8 July 12.30pm Wednesday 25 June BeauBowBelles 12.30pm & 1.30pm Citing musical influences that span gypsy, folk, country, blues and George Orange classical, the close-part harmonies, Man on the Moon driving rhythms and soulful melodies George Orange is an eccentric clown of the BeauBowBelles have attracted and slack-rope dancer from Chicago. a dedicated fan-base and have He has come via the moon, and seen them great success on both brought a bit of it with him. Using his the festival circuit and the London charm and extensive clowning skills, alternative music scene. Ayanna Witter-Johnson he performs clever comedy routines ‘An ejaculation of celestial music… to music including contortionism and loved it!’ Russell Kane bottle balancing. Truly one of a kind; Free take a trip with George down the rabbit hole of his show. An experience not to be missed. Free George Orange

38 39 Book online at colf.org Devonshire Square One New Change

Thursday 10 July Wednesday 16 July 12.30pm One New Change Friday 11 July Manière des bohemians A lively line-up of swing, folk and country will see you bop while you 11.00am – 2.00pm Manière des bohemians play Django shop at London’s newest shopping destination. Super stylish London & 4.00pm – 7.00pm Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli- influenced gypsy jazz and Eastern bands performing in the City’s designer paradise! Guixot de 8 European swing. Downright amazing! Sculpture Scribble One New Change Free St Paul’s or Mansion House Guixot de 8 creates sculptures out of old wasted materials, inspired by the works of the great sculptors of Thursday 17 July 1.00pm the 20th century – Dali, Picasso, Miro Stefano di Renzo and Duchamp. But these sculptures On My Way are games, designed to challenge participants of all ages. This extraordinary circus piece Free explores the struggles of a man who, flung far from his mother country, desperately tries to create a normal Tuesday 15 July existence for himself in a new world. 12.30pm & 1.30pm Using object manipulation and Acrojou physical theatre, this innovative production deals with our struggle to The Wheel House adapt when we’re wrenched from our BeauBowBelles Natalia Tena, Molotov Jukebox A gently comic dystopia, set in a comfort zone. different time where everything has Free a new value and endurance relies on Thursday 10 July 6.00pm Sunday 13 July 3.00pm Series sponsored by sharp eyes, quick hands, and, above BeauBowBelles Molotov Jukebox all, friendship. Join these traveller- gatherers on the road to nowhere: Known for their flawless Molotov Jukebox are a relentlessly treading lightly, surviving quietly, harmonies and skilled musicianship, fiery London-based six-piece with and always, always moving onwards. BeauBowBelles have burst on to a large home-grown following and A moving piece of visual theatre. the London music scene with their a rapidly expanding international distinctive fusion of soul, western fanbase. They have played sell-out Free folk, blues and classical music, pulling gigs to packed crowds and festivals together a mass of followers with a across Europe, the UK and Latin shared love of experiencing live music America. They are fronted in at its very best. stunningly flamboyant style by the ‘A four-piece, multi-instrumental, multi-talented singer, actress and nostalgia-bedecked harmony- fashion icon Natalia Tena (Harry Potter, Game of Thrones). machine… fiendishly catchy examples Free of the finest songwriting you will ever hear.’ The Phono Vault Free Thursday 17 July 12.30pm Swing Ninjas Saturday 12 July 3.00pm A wild swing orchestra in a Cut-A-Shine Hoedown tiny package, the Ninjas perform Collective original and classic songs in a unique This London-based troupe of style which mixes New Orleans’ musicians, dancers and crazy callers Cajun swing with 1930s and 40s will bring a thigh-slapping, pavement- Parisian jazz. Free stomping barn dance creation to One New Change, instructing audiences through do-si-dos and strip the Series sponsored by willows, until all are involved! Free

Take a trip to One New Change’s stunning Rooftop Terrace for an exciting evening of Latin jazz with the world-famous percussionist Roberto Pla and friends. See p.22 for more details. The Wheel House

40 41 Book online at colf.org Canary Wharf

Canary Wharf A rich blend of circus tricks, vintage flair and live music pop up for a week throughout Canary Wharf. Enjoy the grandeur of Cabot Square, the lush greenery of Jubilee Park and the metropolitan buzz of Canada Square Park. Programmed for Canary Wharf’s Random Acts and Twilight Delights series. Canary Wharf

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Monday 7 July 12.30pm Cabot Square Jay’s Jitter Jive This five-piece band evokes the style and panache of the 30s and 40s era of jazz music, playing the likes of Canary Wharf Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw and Cab Calloway. Free Hackney Colliery Band Wednesday 16 July 7.00pm Canada Square Park Tuesday 8 July 12.30pm Central Band of Royal Jubilee Park Thursday 10 July 12.30pm Jubilee Park British Legion Hackney Colliery Band Wartime in the West End The Askew Sisters Featuring trumpets, trombones, The Central Band is the flagship saxophones, sousaphones and Using fiddle and melodeon, Emily band of The Royal British Legion. marching percussion, the Hackney and Hazel Askew play and sing with Under the baton of Captain David Colliery Band is East London’s unique infectious enjoyment. From rhythmic Cole the Band of civilian and Central Band of Royal British Legion take on the brass band. Their set-list, foot-stomping tunes to powerful ex-forces musicians, amateurs and which is as diverse as the borough interpretations of ballads, their professionals has established itself that gave them their name, appeals energetic brand of English folk music as a respected and in-demand to the feet as much as to the ears. is making waves on the folk scene. ensemble. Free Free In this one-off concert the band will go on a journey through West End Wednesday 9 July 12.30pm Friday 11 July 12.30pm classics from, or influenced by, the First and Second World Wars, in the Cabot Square Jubilee Park year of the Great War’s centenary. Guillermo Rozenthuler Hot Potato Syncopators Featuring stars from the West End, Scarlett Strallen, Simon Green and Tango Quartet Three eccentric gentlemen present Norman Bowman. Weaving together heartfelt and tip-top jazz in this comedy swing Free humorous songs with colourful whoopee band, featuring ukuleles, storytelling from the intriguing world a musical saw and a tea-chest bass. Series sponsored by of Argentine tango, Guillermo and Since the end of the Second World his all-star band will take you on a War they have taken the world by journey to a late-night café in storm, playing your favourite tunes Buenos Aires… of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Free ‘Guillermo’s singing is special… exquisitely sung Argentine music’ Scarlett Strallen The Guardian Free 42 43 Book online at colf.org New Street Square Summer Sundays

New Street Square Summer Sundays New Street Square springs to life with an eclectic mix of acrobatics, Escape into the green and leafy surroundings of the City’s open spaces jazz, installation pieces, comedy and general monkey business. beyond the Square Mile. New Street Square Chancery Lane

Tuesday 8 July Tuesday 15 July 12.00pm, Wednesday 9 July 1.30pm & 6.00pm 11.00am – 2.00pm Fairly Famous Family & 4.00pm – 7.00pm An all-action musical comedy thriller. Guixot de 8 Two sharp-suited performers arrive Sculpture Scribble with five mysterious flight cases. Inside each case is a new comedy Guixot de 8 presents versions of adventure including an unforgettable sculptures made by renowned tribute to the Sound of Music and a artists of the 20th century, such as juggling version of Hamlet. Picasso and Duchamp. Here’s the Free twist – the sculptures have been playfully converted into unique and Wednesday 16 July 1.00pm challenging games. Free Stefano di Renzo On My Way Thursday 10 July 6.00pm Circus theatre artist Stefano di Renzo Hot Potato Syncopators tells the narrative of a man who is Straight from the golden era of the desperate to deal with changes in roaring twenties, this comedy swing his behaviour due to the distance whoopee band, featuring a brace of from his mother country, to create a ukuleles, musical saw and tea-chest normal existence in a new place. bass, present a musical revue of jazz Free and dance band melodies. Free Thursday 17 July 6.00pm Sunday 6 July Sunday 13 July Friday 11 July Si Cranstoun Septet 12.00pm – 4.00pm 12.00pm – 6.00pm 12.30pm & 1.30pm Si Cranstoun and his band are The View, Rangers Road, Hampstead Heath, Parliament Hill performers at the top of the retro Chingford Acrojou music scene. Their rockin’ rhythms The Alternative The Wheel House and punchy horns will make you want Folk in the Forest Commonwealth Games The Wheel House is a moving piece to dance. An afternoon of bright and breezy Join us for a different kind of Free of visual theatre which unfolds inside ‘timeless classic voice’ British folk music in . Commonwealth Games. Try your and around a circular set as it rolls, John Kennedy, XFM Radio Featuring Tir Eolas, Bridie Jackson hand at Scottish Shinty, Welly with the audience walking alongside. & The Arbour and Monster Ceilidh Wanging, or the classic Aussie game, Join these traveller-gatherers in a Band onstage, with a hog roast, local Two Up! Brush up on your South gently comic dystopia on the road to cider and beer, wood carving and African peg-throwing with Jukskei or nowhere: treading lightly, surviving plenty more Forest-inspired arts and Jamaican dodgeball, Dandy Shandy. quietly, and always moving onwards. crafts activities to entertain Melodians Steel Orchestra presents ‘So touching it has moved audiences the family. Free Jeremy Deller’s English Magic, plus to tears’ The Times Chingford Brass for Africa and lots more music Free on the bandstand throughout the day. Tasty foods, arts, crafts and Series sponsored by storytelling from across the globe complete this unique family event. Tufnell Park Gospel Oak Overground Free

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