12th New England Bach Festival
All tickets may also be purchased at branches of Regional Australia Bank or by posting booking form and cheque to 21 North Street, Armidale 2350.
10.30am – Hanna’s Arcade, 126 Beardy Street (East Mall) – free
- The Peasant Cantata – A dramatized version of the cantata that explores the vagaries of dealing with the taxman.
12.30pm – Uniting Church, 114 Rusden Street – $20, $15 – www.trybooking.com/CYQTC – booking fee applies
5. EphenStephen with William Grose – Stephen Tafra and Stephen Thorneycroft joined by baroque mandolinist William Grose in a program of Bach, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Baron, in mostly new arrangements for for two guitars and two guitars and mandolin.
For those of you who are New England Bach Festival veterans, you will be familiar by now that a concert involving one, other, or both of EphenStephen often means that you will be hearing fresh transcriptions and insight into some favourite pieces. For those of you who are new to this, we do love to feature a new transcription challenge in our Bach festival concerts, as well as some interesting guitar combinations, so we are continuing to uphold and expand on those traditions for this concert.
We always welcome collaboration and thank William for being totally up for the ride and open to what we have thrown his way after the opportunity arose to play together in this concert.
2.30pm – Uniting Church (114 Rusden Street), St Paul’s Presbyterian Church (137 Faulkner Street), St Peter’s Anglican Cathedral (Dangar Street), Saints Mary and Joseph Catholic Cathedral (cnr Dangar and Barney Streets), – $30, $20 – www.trybooking.com/CYQTE – booking fee applies
- Armidale Organ Crawl – An ambulatory concert featuring four organs (Uniting Church, St Paul’s, St Peter’s, Saints Mary and Joseph) featuring Lena Schmalz, David Drury and Warwick Dunham. Like a pub crawl but with an organ recital in each church rather than a beer in each pub.
7.30pm – Uniting Church, 114 Rusden Street – $30, $20 – www.trybooking.com/CYQTG – booking fee applies
7. Elysian Fields – Baroque Plus! Australia’s only electric viola da gamba band! Jenny Eriksson, Matt Keegan and Matt McMahon. Mostly original works written by the band members, fusing together elements of Baroque and Jazz music. Piano, voice, violin, saxophone and bass create new sonorities as they blend with the electric viola da gamba in Matt McMahon’s setting of Renaissance poetry by Sir Thomas Wyatt in the Song Cycle, “What Should I Say”.
