The following concerts are taking place during the Hythe Festival
Saturday 3 July at 7.30pm
Cadenza Trio: Ilya Movchan (violin), Alisa Liubarskaya (cello) and Alissa Tavdidishvili (piano) (all prize-winners at Trinity College of Music, London) perform works by Haydn, Schumann and Rachmaninov
Sunday 4 July at 6.30pm
Festival Evensong – combined choirs of St Leonard’s Church and Holy Trinity Church, Folkestone
Monday 5 July at 7.30pm
Norton Knatchbull Jazz and Gower Guitar Ensemble – outstanding and popular groups from Ashford Schools
Wednesday 7 July at 12 noon
Lunchtime organ recital – John Wright plays popular works by Pachelbel, Sibelius, Widor and others (followed by ploughman’s lunch)
Thursday 8 July at 7.30pm
Christine Stevenson (piano) makes another welcome return to perform works by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy and Thomas Hewitt Jones
Friday 9 July at 12 noon
Lunchtime performance – Hythe Bay CofE Primary School (followed by ploughman’s lunch)
Saturday 10 July at 7.30pm
Folkestone Choral Society performs Mozart Requiem, Mozart Litaniae de Beata Virgine; programme also includes Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Sunday 11 July at 6.00pm
Festival of Favourite Hymns – ‘Raise the Roof’ – with the Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas
Tickets for the events on 3, 5 and 8 July are on sale at £7 each at Brandon’s Music Shop, 55 High Street, Hythe, tel 01303 263108, or can be obtained at the door. (Admission free to those under 18 in full-time education.) Tickets at £10 (unreserved) for the Folkestone Choral Society concert on 10 July are also available from Brandon’s Music Shop or from the Society, tel 01303 858347. Other events will be followed by a retiring collection.
