{"id":5300,"date":"2013-08-28T12:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2013-08-28T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T11:26:13","slug":"canterbury-festival-festival-with-in-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2013\/08\/28\/canterbury-festival-festival-with-in-tent\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury Festival: festival with in-tent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the\u00a0<a title=\"Festival website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Canterbury Festi<\/strong><\/a>val celebrates its thirtieth birthday from <strong>19th October to the 2nd November<\/strong> with its usual dizzying array of music, theatre, comedy, literature, lectures and family events, and tops its usual <em>pot pourri <\/em>by bringing the travelling dance-hall, the Spiegeltent, to the county cricket ground as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5310\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5310 \" alt=\"Sally-Beamish1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/08\/Sally-Beamish1-233x300.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/08\/Sally-Beamish1-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/08\/Sally-Beamish1.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Beamish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Highlights to watch out for this year include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/classical-music\/nova-music-opera.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">the new opera <\/a>from composer Sally Beamish, <em>Hagar in the Wilderness<\/em>, from Nova Music Opera \u00a0(recently premiered across the Severn at the Presteigne Festival) in a\u00a0double-bill with Britten&#8217;s <em>Curlew River<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>pianist Yevgeny Sudbin<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/classical-music\/yevgeny-sudbin.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> in a programme <\/a>including Debussy&#8217;s vibrant <em>L&#8217;Isle Joyeuse<\/em> and Scriabin&#8217;s <em>Sonata no.5;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Canterbury choral society continues the Britten centenary celebrations running throughout the Festival with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/classical-music\/canterbury-choral-society.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">performance of the <em>War Requiem<\/em><\/a> in Canterbury Cathedral; whilst <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/classical-music\/albert-herring.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Mid Wales Opera bring <em>Albert Herring<\/em> <\/a>to the Theatre Royal, Margate;<\/li>\n<li>oboist Nicholas Daniel (recently appointed Artistic Director of the Dartington International Summer School in 2014)\u00a0and pianist Julius Drake in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/classical-music\/nicholas-daniel-julius-drake.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">programme including Bach, Britten, Thea Musgrave and Helen Grime<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>the Tallis Scholars bring the Festival to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/classical-music\/the-tallis-scholars.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">glorious finale <\/a>with music by Byrd, Tavener, White and Tallis;<\/li>\n<li>ventriloquist<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/comedy\/nina-conti.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> Nina Conti <\/a>and comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/comedy\/adam-hills.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Hills<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>poet Dan Simpson and a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/literature\/dan-simpson-city-of-voices.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> crowd-sourced poem\u00a0celebrating the city of Canterbury<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>historian and BBC regular\u00a0Lucy Worsley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/talks\/lucy-worsley.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">explores the history of home life<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>Science Centre Stage &#8211; &#8216;where science meets the arts!&#8217; &#8211; returns for a third year, supported by the University;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/exhibitions\/perfect-lines-old-masters-in-print.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Perfect Lines: Old Master in Print<\/em> <\/a>at the Beaney presents rare Canaletto etchings;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/08\/knee_deep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5302\" alt=\"knee_deep\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/08\/knee_deep-300x192.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/08\/knee_deep-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/files\/2013\/08\/knee_deep.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>The Speigeltent itself will host Sunday morning events, morning concerts, and <em>Knee Deep<\/em>, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterburyfestival.co.uk\/whats-on\/theatre-cabaret\/knee-deep.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">acrobatic display <\/a>from Casus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; 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