The multi award winning Stacey Kent to headline
the 6th Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues Festival
July 6th,
7th and 8th 2012
The Burton Agnes Jazz and
Blues Festival returns for its sixth year set in the award winning grounds and
Elizabethan Hall of Burton Agnes, East Yorkshire, YO25 4NB. Organised by the
Hall’s sax-playing owner, Simon Cunliffe-Lister,
the festival runs over three days showcasing some of the UK’s hottest jazz and blues
acts in the most stunning and serene of surroundings.
“Possibly the most enjoyable jazz concert I've ever
attended.” The Independent
Grammy nominated and
multi award winning Stacey Kent,
including the British Jazz Award
and BBC Jazz Award for 'Best Vocalist', is a sublime singer, rightly famed for her peerless
interpretations of the Great American Songbook, but equally adept singing in
French or Portuguese. Her beautiful tone and wonderful phrasing bring a fresh
beauty to everything she sings and she sings from the soul. She tells us her stories with faultless
phrasing and a lucid, enchanting voice and it is her beautiful version of Hushabye Mountain that has bewitched TV viewers
on the recent Dreams Bed campaign. After eight studio albums, her current album Dreamer In Concert is
her first live album and the first album that captures her magical onstage
persona.
Burton Agnes Jazz and Blues
Festival are delighted to announce that Stacey will headline their festival on
the main stage - Saturday 7th July.
"Stacey Kent is a revelation. There is nobody singing
today who can compare with her. She has the style of the greats, like Billie
Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald. And she sings the words like Nat Cole - clean,
clear and almost conversational with perfect phrasing. And that's as good as it
gets." Three-time Oscar-winning songwriter, Jay Livingston
"Devastatingly stylish...a beauty in any
circumstances" The Observer
"A delight" The Guardian
More
artists are to be confirmed over the coming weeks.
Held over three days,
with performances both inside the stately Elizabethan Hall and outside in the Hall’s beautiful
grounds, the Burton Agnes Jazz & Blues festival presents a varied line up
of funk, traditional jazz, hard blues, dreamy vocals and everything in between.
“Tis the musical equivalent of a Sunday stroll through
the grounds of a stately home… you won't find more beautifully serene
surroundings this side of Woodstock for such an experience” All Gigs - Festival
review
The
main stage on the lawn hosts the festival’s headline acts. With rolling fields behind and pristine woodland to
the side, you couldn’t ask for a more stunning setting for some of the
UK’s top Jazz and Blues artists to perform. Inside the Hall, intimate
acoustic performances mix with original Elizabethan carvings and French
Impressionist art to create an inimitable festival experience.
On Friday and Saturday
evening the Wolds Top beer tent plays host to the Beverley Arts Trust’s
late night sessions of folk, jazz and rhythm ‘n’ blues.
Local food and drink
feature heavily at the festival. At the tea tent and food lawn, festivalgoers
can indulge in home-baked treats, barbecued local meats, freshly prepared
curries, and salads grown in the neighbouring walled garden. In the beer tent
award winning Wold Top beer is on tap, brewed just five miles away from the
festival site.
A campsite in the field
adjacent to the Hall offers welcome hot showers and panoramic views of the
Yorkshire Wolds for those wishing to pitch a tent for a night or the whole
weekend.
Burton Agnes Jazz &
Blues Festival welcomes families of all ages with its safe, easy-going vibe.
There is plenty on offer for children including a Children’s Corner with
play area, 15 acres of magical gardens to explore including a walled garden
with maze, jungle garden and giant games and a woodland walk with forest
creatures to find. Free
face painting and balloon artistry caps off the entertainment.
Built between 1598 and
1610 by Sir Henry Griffith, Burton Agnes Hall is an Elizabethan stately home
that has stayed within the Cunliffe-Lister family for more than four hundred
years. Fifteen generations have filled the Hall with treasures, from
magnificent carvings commissioned when the Hall was built to French
impressionist paintings, contemporary furniture, tapestries and other modern
artwork in recent years.
The charm of the house is
that it is clearly a loved and lived in home and visitors are welcomed openly
by the family in joining them to spend many enjoyable hours at Burton Agnes
Hall.
‘Burton Agnes Hall
ranks among the finest, and best presented, houses in England. It is the perfect
English house, embodying the climax of the final great age of domestic
architecture’
Simon Jenkins, Chairman of the National Trust, journalist and author of England's Thousand Best Houses
Simon Jenkins, Chairman of the National Trust, journalist and author of England's Thousand Best Houses
2012
Festival Tickets info:
Weekend Advance Ticket
Friday 6pm –
midnight, Saturday 11am – midnight, Sunday 11am – 6pm
£40 before 1st
June / £50 after 31st May (Concessions £38 / £48)
Concessions: OAP’s, Season ticket holders, students,
children 12-15 years
Children under 12: FREE with an adult
Day Ticket: Saturday 11am – midnight
£30 before 1st
June / £35 after 31st May (Concessions £28 / £32)
Day Ticket: Sunday 11am – 6pm
£25 before 1st
June / £30 after 31st May (Concessions £23 / £28)
Evening Ticket: Friday 6 pm – midnight or Saturday 6pm –
midnight
£20 EACH DAY before 1st
June / £25 EACH DAY after 31st May (Concessions £18 / £23)
Camping Voucher: Camping open Friday 3pm – Monday noon
£30 before 1st
July / £35 after 31st May
Or Visit Burton Agnes Hall and its
courtyard shops.
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