Ticket Sales
Detailed information and ticket sales from Festival Office at St Mark's Church, Telephone (0114) 267 0362 or (0114) 266 3613, festival@stmarkssheffield.co.uk, and Williamson Hardware shop in Broomhill.
Please note that unless stated otherwise, concessionary tickets are available to those who are unwaged including students and children.
7:30pm Cousin John
A musical on the life of John the Baptist by John Earwaker
Producer : Valerie Monti Holland
Musical Director : Andy Thomas
Stage Manager : Clare Essam
Musical Director : Andy Thomas
Stage Manager : Clare Essam
Tickets: £7 and £5 (full time students)
Sponsored by Winning Pitch Plc, 15 Aizlewoods Mill, Nursery Street, S3 8GG, tel: 0114 2823252, www.winning-pitch.co.uk
2:00pm - 3:00pm Matt Black
Author Matt Black reads from his book, “The Goblin in the Frig”, followed by a question and answer session with the children of Lydgate Junior School. For children aged 8 -11 yrs, booking through local schools.
7:30pm Cousin John
A musical on the life of John the Baptist by John Earwaker
Producer : Valerie Monti Holland
Musical Director : Andy Thomas
Stage Manager : Clare Essam
Musical Director : Andy Thomas
Stage Manager : Clare Essam
Tickets: £7 and £5 (full time students)
3:00pm - 5:00pm Students on the streets!
at Broomhill
The Students Union of the University of Sheffield will bring the fun of the festival into the heart of Broomhill on Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th June from 3 - 5pm.
There will be a range of student societies showcasing their various talents outside Somerfield and Natwest.
10:30am Piano Recital
Piano Duet: Amanda Downing and Chris Andrew
Refreshments served from 10.00 am
Admission £1; pay on the door
3:00pm - 5:00pm Students on the streets!
at Broomhill
The Students Union of the University of Sheffield will bring the fun of the festival into the heart of Broomhill.
There will be a range of student societies showcasing their various talents outside Somerfield and Natwest.
7:30pm University of Sheffield Festival Concert
Performed by members of the Department of Music
The Department of Music, of the University of Sheffield has resided in its current premises on Taptonville Road, Broomhill for nearly 40 years. In September 2008, the department will move to its new premises at the heart of the developing main university campus.
As the Department of Music leaves Broohill, this concert is an opportunity to say thank you to the Broomhill community for your continual support throughout the past 40 years.
Prepare for a musical extravaganza, representing all aspects of the department’s work ! The programme will include Mozart’s Coronation Mass, a new work by Tom Owen commissioned specifically for this occasion, music for Piano Trio, Indian & Chinese classical music and much more.
Performers to include The University of Sheffield Chamber Choir, members of The University of Sheffield’s Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, Alan Brown organ, Trio Elegiaque, a number of world music performers and will feature Nigel Simeone as conductor.
Tickets available from the Department of Music, (0114 222 0499) all festival outlets and on the door.
Tickets £8, £5 (concessions) £2.50 (students – on production of valid student ID).
This concert is sponsored by the University of Sheffield.
7:30pm Vulcan Varieties
Vulcan Varieties present an Old Time Music Hall
Tickets £7 Festival outlets and on the door
7:30pm Live Music Night
at Fox & Duck
featuring a selection of musical styles and audible treats
12:00pm Ploughman’s Lunch
Come and enjoy food and drink before the recital (£2.50)
1:00pm - 2:00pm Music Recital: Cello and Piano
Including
French Suite for Cello and Piano: Paul Bazelaire Op.114 comp. 1933
Russian Cello Music (Rimski-Korsakow, Mussorgski,Scriabin, Blumenfeld etc
French Suite for Cello and Piano: Paul Bazelaire Op.114 comp. 1933
Russian Cello Music (Rimski-Korsakow, Mussorgski,Scriabin, Blumenfeld etc
Violoncello: Yukari Boller
Piano: Yang Guo
Admission: £3
Tickets available from Festival outlets and on the door.
7:30pm Festival Gala Dinner
at Hilton Hotel
7.30 pm Drinks reception
sponsored by the Rutland Hotel Sheffield
8.00 pm Dinner
sponsored by the University of Sheffield
Music from renowned jazz singer, Rosie Brown and her musicians:
“Eloquent and intelligent singer on whom the word is fast spreading” Guardian Guide
£28.00 from the Festival office
2:00pm - 5:00pm Family Fun Afternoon
Enjoy an afternoon in the beautiful Botanical Gardens with entertainment for all the family featuring the Birkdale School Big Band, World Ball with Dale LeFevre (author of “New Games”), children’s entertainment, Pullins amusements, face painting and lots more
Admission £1, children free
Sponsored by Lloyds TSB Bank & Beech Hill Nursery
7:30pm Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra
Toccata and Fugue D minor BWV 565 (arr. L. Stokowski) -Bach
Canzona di Barocco - Henryk Czyz
Les Preludes – Liszt
Symphony – Franck
Musical Director: Ewa Strusinska
Leader: Chris Lee
The SPO is a friendly, welcoming and enthusiastic amateur orchestra for players of all ages. Established over 60 years ago, the SPO has continuously aimed to improve its standards and has successfully performed some very challenging works.
Recent summer tours have taken the orchestra to The Heraklion Festival in Crete and The Malta Festival.
Ewa Strusinska was born in Poland and studied at the Frederic Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw .
Ewa has worked with many orchestras including the National Polish Radio Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw, Sinfonietta Baden, Polish Orchestra Jeunesses Musicales, Torun Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Frederic Chopin Music Academy and Symphony Orchestra of Music Academy in Katowice. Since 1997 she has been conductor and artistic director of the Polish Choir Jeunesses Musicales. Since 2005 Ewa has worked as assistant conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in Czestochowa and as conductor of the Symphony Orchestra in the Karol Szymanowski Music School in Warsaw.
In 2006 Ewa Strusinska took up her two year Junior Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has recently been offered the post of Assistant Conductor to Manchester's Hallé Orchestra, a two year appointment commencing in the Summer of 2008.
In 2006 Ewa Strusinska took up her two year Junior Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music. She has recently been offered the post of Assistant Conductor to Manchester's Hallé Orchestra, a two year appointment commencing in the Summer of 2008.
Tickets available from Calow Classics tel. 255 3440, Broomhill Festival Box Office or tel: 230 4435
Prices: £7, Concessions £6, Student/Under 18 £3.
10:30am Jazz Praise Service
Spirituals, Gospel Songs and Hymns led by the Silver Leaf Jazz Band from Barnsley
Admission free - collection for expenses and the Festival charities
1:00pm - 5:00pm Five A Side Football Tournament
University of Sheffield Goodwin all weather pitches. Teams (boys and girls) invited in sections Y1/2, Y3/4, Y5/6, Y7/8, Y9/10. Entry fee £10.00 per team. Trophies and medals awarded. Trophies presented by the Lord Mayor of Sheffield
Booking forms available from Festival Office, Williams Hardware, local schools and on the festival website.
Closing date for entries : 19 May
Further information click here
This event is sponsored by Patak’s Original and the University of Sheffield
8:00pm Summer Concert for viola and harpsichord
Robin Ireland and Alan Brown
The hour long programme will include sonatas by Corelli, Bach and Handel, and the Chaconne from Bach's Partita in D minor arranged for viola
Admission £4 and £2 (students)
12:00pm Ploughman’s Lunch
Come and enjoy food and drink before the recital (£2.50)
1:00pm Highly Strung
Directed by Martin Cropper and Liz Hanks
Programme to include works by Bach, Tavener, Karl Jenkins’ Palladio and work written by young composers.
Highly Strung (one of Music in the Community’s education and outreach projects) provides high quality string ensemble coaching for talented musicians aged between 11-18 years. Each year over 100 young string players, between Grade 3 and 8+, based at four Sheffield secondary schools explore small and larger ensemble playing on a weekly basis with Martin and Liz.
Admission: £4 and £2 for school students
Tickets available from Festival outlets or on the door
6:30pm An Evening With Alastair Campbell
The Broomhill Festival is delighted to welcome Alastair Campbell, former press secretary to Tony Blair and official spokesman and director of communications and strategy from 1994 to 2003. 2007 saw the publication of The Blair Years, extracts from the Alastair Campbell diaries. Campbell is chairman of fundraising for Leukaemia Research and we appreciate his support of our charitable fund raising. Come and enjoy meeting and listening to Alastair Campbell who will also be signing copies of his books.
Admission by ticket: £10.00, including a glass of wine (students £5)
6:00pm Broomhill Architecture Walk
A walk round architectural highlights of Broomhill with Roger Harper, formerly of the School of Architecture, the University of Sheffield. The walk will start and finish at St. Mark’s Church, Broomfield Road entrance, and will last approximately one and a half hours.
The event will be by advance ticket only, price £3, with a maximum of 12 people.
Tickets from Festival outlets.
7:00pm Schools Concert
Come and enjoy music and singing performed by local schoolchildren from Birkdale Preparatory, Broomhill Infant, Lydgate Infant and Lydgate Junior Schools, Westbourne School
Admission: Adults: £2, children free. Pay on door. (Tickets not sold in advance)
7:00pm - 9:00pm Is Green Still Beautiful?
A poetry and writing workshop around “green” themes. We will look at poems that have found subtle (and less subtle) ways of weaving politics in, and explore our own thoughts and feelings, in prose and poetry, about nature and a world where climate change is a daily presence. Let’s expect a healthy mixture of celebration, despair, ignoring the situation, irony and laughter.
Matt Black has written a short poetic novella, Plot 161, (Spout publications) set on the allotments in Sheffield, and writes serious and entertaining poems for adults and children, including poems with green concerns at heart.
Admission £3. Numbers limited
Tickets from Festival outlets
8:30pm Supper and Swing Night
at Cipolla
Enjoy a three course meal and fantastic music from Black Coffee
Tickets £22.50
Sponsored by Wake Smith Solicitors
7:30pm - 9:30pm Unthemed Cream - An evening of poetry and music
at Cream Café
A group of celebrated local poets will read from their work:
Liz Barrett, Bryony Doran, Shelley Roche-Jacques, Ann Sansom, Kathy Towers, Lisa Wallace & Linda Lee Welch.
Open mic. session after the readings. Live music during the intervals. Admission free, collection for the Festival charities.
7:00pm Schools Concert
Come and enjoy music and singing performed by local schoolchildren from Ashdell, Nether Green Infant, Nether Green Junior and Sheffield Junior High Schools.
Admission: Adults: £2, children free. Pay on the door. (Tickets not sold in advance)
9:00pm Band Night featuring Silver Wheel
at Fox & Duck
Silverwheel mix the beauty and power of traditional music with the imagination and dynamics of rock. Five experienced, soulful musicians blend harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, bass and drums, fronted by a singer who commands the stage.
We welcome them back for their fifth visit to the Broomhill Festival.
10:30am Musical Entertainment
Soprano: Anne Hughes
with refreshments served from 10.00 am
Admission: £1 on the door
7:30pm The Muskoka Wind Quintet
Kathryn Hathaway - Flute
Martin Lightowler - Oboe
Jane Taylor - Clarinet
Dawn Allenby - Bassoon
Tom James - Horn
Martin Lightowler - Oboe
Jane Taylor - Clarinet
Dawn Allenby - Bassoon
Tom James - Horn
Music to include
Three Bagatelles Gyorgy Ligeti
Dance Suite Norman Hallam
Hungarian Dances Farkas Ferenc
I Got Rhythm George Gershwin (Arr. A Skirrow)
Dance Suite Norman Hallam
Hungarian Dances Farkas Ferenc
I Got Rhythm George Gershwin (Arr. A Skirrow)
Tickets £6.00/£4.00(conc)
The Muskoka Quintet was established in 2002 and take their name from the street in Sheffield where they first rehearsed. The members are all active musicians and teachers who share a love of chamber music. The Quintet regularly take part in charity events and concerts in the North Derbyshire and Sheffield areas but also enjoy performing at garden parties, weddings and other special events. The quintet have a wide musical repertoire including original compositions for the ensemble and arrangements of popular works.
6:30pm Treasure Hunt and Pie and Peas Supper
Teams of four or less all welcome, start at 6:30pm from St Mark's green, finish at the Fox and Duck pub.
£5 per person includes pie and pea supper
To register your team please fill in form or contact festival office
£5 per person includes pie and pea supper
To register your team please fill in form or contact festival office
Prizes sponsored by the Yorkshire Bank in Broomhill
7:00pm Organ Recital given by Dr Francis Jackson, C.B.E.
Organ Emeritus, York Minster on the historic 1863 three manual ‘Father’ Willis organ.
This famous Father Willis organ has survived the Sheffield Blitz and is the earliest known such organ in the country.
Dr Jackson is esteemed worldwide for his musicianship and returns to Broomhill 35 years after playing on this historic organ in 1973.
Tickets £5 from festival outlets or at the door.
1:30pm Childrens Fancy Dress Parade
Calling all children to come in fancy dress ready for the Parade,with the New Orleans Strollers; children sporting all kinds of fanciful outfits and the sounds of the Strollers herald the opening of the Garden Party. Children wishing to take part should come to the school at 1 pm. There will be grand prizes awarded for the most original outfits especially for those on the theme “The World in Broomhill”. All the children who enter will receive a prize.
2:00pm Festival Garden Party
Opened by the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University, Professor Keith Burnett.
New Orleans Strollers, Sheffield Concert Band, Eglantine Consort, Café, Art and Photography Exhibitions, Stalls and Sideshows, Children’s Entertainment, Licensed Bar with special Festival ale, Pullins Slidesand Rides, Grand Raffle
MENCAP film: Colours of the Rainbow shown throughout the afternoon.
Admission £1 adults, children free.
Beer tent sponsors: Abbeydale Brewery
7:30pm Sheffield Symphony Orchestra
Gershwin - An American in Paris
Prokofiev -Piano Concerto no. 3 Peter Foggitt, piano
Elgar -'Enigma' Variations
Three seminal composers of the 20th century: Gershwin's symphonic poem is his largest-scale orchestral composition (three saxophones are added to the standard symphony orchestra). Prokofiev's 3rd concerto is a favourite of many a virtuoso pianist for the final round of an international competition – come and hear why! Elgar's Variations on a yet unsolved ‘Enigma' of a theme are always a treat to the ear – an imposing end to this year's concert programme.
Tickets: £8.50, £6.50 (unwaged), £4.50 (student/child)
Tickets available from: Calow Classics: tel 255 3440, Eurolink Courses: tel 262 1522 and Festival outlets
7:30pm Shades of Harlequin
Tickets £7 and £5.Featuring the internationally acclaimed Harlequin Brass Ensemble and the Sternadle Singers.
Including:
Shostakovich Fugal Symphony
Debussy Masques
Fanfare from Janacek’s Sinfonietta
Chick Corea’s Spain
Plus the world premiere of Closure
10:00am Festival Service in the presence of the Lord Mayor
Refreshments served