Welcome to the 2010 Petworth Festival.
As you scan the following pages I hope and believe you will be struck by the variety and quality of what we have on offer this year. There is simply nothing more exciting than to be present at a great performance and I am confident that we have a great series of those in prospect.
There is plenty that is new to the festival this year and I urge you to dip your toes into something you might not ordinarily go to. That's what the best festivals are about: journeys of discovery. For this reason I recommend particularly our Looking further... events, performances that take us into sound worlds that can hopefully broaden our horizons. And then come along to a unique evening of exquisite French chamber music given by the Consort Trio where wine expert Charles Metcalfe will additionally tell you about another aspect of that great country's culture – its wines. Take in a concert by arguably the UK's most accomplished early musicians, Philip Pickett’s Musicians of the Globe, sample Shakespeare's The Tempest, a new series of comedy events, Sir Willard White! I could go on.
Stewart Collins
Artistic Director
'Trivelino' painting © Copyright Jake Sutton
- see 'At the drop of a Hippopotamus' (23 July) and 'Harry the Piano' (30 July)’
- Sat 17 July - Come Sing Day with John Rutter
- Sun 18 July - Town Walk
- Mon 19 July - Town Walk
- Wed 21 July - Nocturne
- Fri 23 July - Jazz Double Bill
- Fri 23 July - At the drop of a hippopotamus (first show)
- Sun 25 July - Matthew Barley – solo cello suites
- Mon 26 July - Amy Dickson
- Wed 28 July - Joe Stilgoe Trio
- Thurs 29 July - Pluck
- Fri 30 July - Harry the Piano (first show)
- Sat 31 July - Brian Sewell
- Sat 31 July - Sir Willard White
- Sat 17 July - Voces 8
- Sun 18 July - Artur Pizarro
- Tues 20 July - Allegri String Quartet
- Thurs 22 July - Ronnie Scotts Allstars
- Fri 30 July - Harry the Piano (second show)
