Back for its third year, the Fringe’s Evening of Spoken Word has become a ‘must do’ on the schedule. City Place Coffee, at the heart of the High Street, transforms … Continue reading "An Evening of Spoken Word"
Join award-winning composer - and Wanstead resident - Simone Spagnolo for a unique blend of chamber music and mystery drama soundtracks. This concert will present Low Strings Drama, a musical drama for viola and violoncello in eleven variations that alternates tense and turbid moments to frantic passages and dreamy melodies. Recently release on all music platforms, this … Continue reading "Concert: Simone Spagnolo’s Low Strings Drama"
A FREE lunchtime time recital of fine music from brass musicians of The Brook Ensemble. Performing as a quintet with a programme of music that includes original compositions and arrangements. Let the rich sounds of this brass group take you on a fabulously interesting journey for the start of Autumn in the fine acoustic of … Continue reading "Autumn Gold – FREE concert"
A performance of Dickens' short story, by the Woodhouse Players
Local saxophonist, Melanie Henry and the Opus Sax quartet, present a programme of trios, quartets and quintets written, or transcribed, for the saxophone. With influences of Baroque, Medieval, folk and jazz … Continue reading "St Mary’s Music Festival: Sax Collective"
Celebrating St Mary’s organ and the organists of the Parish, past and present The afternoon will begin with a talk about the Parish of Wanstead organists of the past – some famous, some with “interesting” lives, one buried in the church yard at St Mary’s, two who are relatives of current choir members This … Continue reading "St Mary’s Music Festival: Celebrating St Mary’s organ and organists"
Specially commissioned for 2024 St Mary’s Music Festival, All Rest will offer an itinerant, site-specific performance portraying a fictional dreamscape about the people dwelling in St Mary the Virgin, Wanstead. Six characters and a chorus of ghosts will take the audience on a journey through the grounds, the graveyard and St Mary’s Church, offering a … Continue reading "St Mary’s Music Festival : All Rest"
Have you ever been lost in a moment of time? Bewildered and confounded by the complexity of the connections we make within our daily lives. New Memories being formed whilst … Continue reading "Unknown Connections Magic Show"
Have you ever been lost in a moment of time? Bewildered and confounded by the complexity of the connections we make within our daily lives. New Memories being formed whilst … Continue reading "Unknown Connections Magic Show"
