This year’s Lichfield Festival starts on 3 July and closes on the 13th with a programme of music, theatre, visual arts and film.
A nice touch (cos I look for this things) is a blog by the Festival Director, Richard Hawley, who has been posting his thoughts up all this week.
You can see the festival programme but it’s worth highlighting the local talent on show:
- Dancer, director and chereographer, Rosie Kay, will perform her current project, The Wild Party, for the last time at the Garrick Theatre on Sat 5 July.
- Thomas Trotter, Birmingham’s city organist, will play at Lichfield Cathedral on 7 and 9 July.
- PolarBear, described as ‘one of Britain’s foremost performance poets‘, is doing a late night session at the Garrick Studio on 9 July. I’m listening to the tracks on his MySpace as I type this and he’s really (really) good.
Polar Bear is brilliant. One of my favourite ’07 4Talent Award winners. Wish I weren’t seeing Maginetic Fields on the 9th! Well, not really, Magnetic Fields are brilliant and I can’t wait. Revised: wish Polar Bear’s show wasn’t on the 9th.
thanks for the wee plug on your site. it’s worth pointing out that the Sabri Ensemble (10 July) and the Bryan Corbett Quartet (6 July) are also local talent.
Polarbear is extraordinary. If you can’t make 9 July, he’s at London’s Southbank Centre on 18&19 July and back at The Rep in Brimingham 14-16 October.