Festival programme begins to take shape
Events are being organised for this summer's Hungerford and District Community Arts Festival (HADCAF)
THE PROGRAMME for this summer's Hungerford and District Community Arts Festival (HADCAF) is already starting to take shape.
And this year is extra special, as it marks the event's 20th anniversary.
HADCAF 2011 launches on Friday, July 1 with By George! in which actor, singer and pianist Michael Lunts casts a witty eye on the subject of Englishness in an intimate revue of comedy songs and light verse by such masters as Noel Coward, Gilbert and Sullivan, Flanders and Swan, John Betjeman, Ogden Nash and other observers of the national character.
Michael Lunts is well known to Hungerford audiences through his one-man shows about composers including The Last Ballade and Winter in Majorca, etc and revues such as More Tea, Vicar? and Pass the Port.
Other events already lined up include jive with King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys, a poetry evening with Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate 1999-2009), a play about Queen Elizabeth 1 using her own words, Benjamin Britten's comic opera Albert Herring, a Variety Show, and much more.
The festival will draw to a close on Sunday, July 24 with a recital by talented young pianist Kausikan Rajeshkumar.
If you would like to open your garden during HADCAF - for a charity of your choice if you wish - phone Beryl Fowler on 01488 684901.
If you would like to take part in the Art, Craft and Photography Exhibition on July 2 and 3 in the Corn Exchange, contact Catherine Hill via email at catherine@1littlehidden.org.uk or by telephone on 01488 683719.
Meanwhile the hunt is on for local performers to take part in the Variety Show, to be held at John O'Gaunt Community Technology College on Saturday, July 23.
If you can sing, play an instrument, dance, juggle, perform a sketch or do magic, contact Louise Marshall by telephone on 01488 685301 or via email at marshall.lou@btinternet.com
Programmes will be available from June 1 from the box office (Newbury Building Society, Hungerford branch), the library and many other outlets around the town.
For more information visit the Festival website by clicking on the link below, email info@hadcaf.co.uk or telephone Elizabeth Davis on 01488 684038.
