Sing simple songs from different cultural traditions, rich in harmony and rhythm. Experienced singers and only-in-the-bath singers of all ages are welcome. Everything will be taught by ear, so just bring your vocal cords and enjoy the sounds we make in this resonant space.

Rowena Whitehead is a Cambridge-based singer and community choir leader who has been running voice workshops since 1991. She is known for her engaging and relaxed approach, and is Musical Director of Talking in Tune and a founder member of the Natural Voice Practitioners' Network (www.naturalvoice.net)

Please feel free to bring food to share for supper half way through the evening.

Free, but please book in advance - Ring 01223 864515,
Email: lothbury@inspire.org.uk.
Website: www.inspire.org.uk/lothbury

WiRME (Women in Rural Music Enterprise) is a tiny off-shoot of WiRE - Women in Rural Enterprise. There are many small WiRE networks in and around rural England, and whilst this one focuses on music related business, there is plenty of opportunity for you to meet like-minded business women with a mission to exchange business enterprise opportunities.

Women are invited to join in this music jam session - so bring along your voice, instrument and business card.

Women who want to come and listen are most welcome. Throughout the evening there will be opportunities for all to mix and mingle and exchange business over a drink.

For more information please contact Moving Tone on 01223 264991 and see http://www.movingtone.com/wirme

Prizewinners in the Early Music Network Young Artists Competition, 2005.
Sumptuous continental settings of the beautiful and erotic texts of the Song of Solomon. This rich selection of music by Victoria, Palestrina, Gombert, Lassus and others explores the way these texts enhanced Marian worship in the sixteenth century.

THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK TO YOUR SUMMER EVENING
Get your dancing shoes on and stretch those vocal chords ready for an exhilarating night of music from the cult film, performed by a sensational company and band. The classic evocative mix of feel-good songs include Do You Love Me, Be My Baby, Big Girls Don't Cry, You Don't Own Me, Love Man, She's Like the Wind, Hungry Eyes, and the immortal (I've Had) The Time of My Life. Drag the men, or go with the girls, but whatever you do, get a ticket!

(This concert is not authorised or endorsed by Dirty Dancing The Musical)

Timothy Brown conductor
Stewart French guitar

Musicke's Praier
Programme includes:
Byrd Laudibus in sanctis
Palestrina Super flumina Babylonis
Graham Ross Precor Te
Lotti Crucifixus
Allegri Miserere
Walton Cantico del Sole (Prayer of St Francis)
Pearsall Lay a Garland
Stanford The Blue Bird
Delius To be sung of a Summer Night on the Water
Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs

Some music sings out for the acoustic of King's, and Allegri's famous Miserere is just one work amongst a luscious programme of Italian and English early and twentieth century choral music in which the English Voices show the supremacy of the choir in a glorious surrounding. The concert is enhanced by the soft addition of guitar to create a perfect summery ending to this year's Festival.

This performance brings together many members of choirs from Cambridge and the surrounding area, including members of Cambridge University Musical Society and Cambridge Philharmonic Choral Society, into a glorious ‘Festival Chorus' under the baton of King's College Chapel's Director of Music, Stephen Cleobury. 

Stephen Cleobury conductor

Miranda Keys soprano
Richard Lloyd Morgan baritone
The Cambridge Orchestra

Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn (St Anthony Chorale) and Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op 45

Brahms's Requiem, his greatest choral work, is deeply personal, moving and expresses great hope, using inspiration from the Lutheran Bible to produce music that sings of human compassion, in German rather than the usual Latin.