The programme for the day is available on the EFDSS website, www.efdss.org plus contacts for purchasing tickets. The event was enthusiastically previewed on Mike Harding's Radio 2 programme this week, by Mike and by Shirley Collins.

Here's the programme below (apologies if the formatting disappears when it reaches you – see the website if that happens!)


RVW

A day of events celebrating the folk music legacy of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Saturday 4 October 2008

English Folk Dance and Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Programme

11.30               Doors open. Cafe and Bar open all day. Exhibitions in Storrow all day.

12.15 – 12.45 Vaughan Williams - Then and Now: Collecting and Communities in Norfolk and Suffolk. Katie Howson & Chris Coe.

12.50 – 1.20    Vaughan Williams in Cambridgeshire: Deciphering the Manuscripts. Mary Humphreys & Anahata.

1.40 – 2.20      Vaughan Williams in Sussex. Shirley Collins.

3.00 – 4.45      Concert: Vaughan Williams and Friends. Doors open 2.30.
Tim van Eyken, Mary Humphreys & Anahata, Chris Coe & Katie Howson, Jim Causley, Sam Lee & Lauren McCormick.   

5.00                Music and Song session hosted by John Howson.

8.00 – 10.30    Concert: Bushes and Briars. Doors open 7.30.               
Eliza Carthy, Jon Boden & Fay Hield, Lisa Knapp, Jackie Oates & Jim Causley, Jim Moray. With narrative readings by Shirley Collins and Tim van Eyken.

Bushes and Briars is a soundscape journey through RVW's folk song collecting, with songs from some of England's finest young singers and musicians, with narrative readings by Shirley Collins and Tim van Eyken.

Vaughan Williams and Friends is an afternoon concert of music collected by RVW and his contemporaries.
All proceeds to benefit the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

Day ticket £20.00 (£15.00 concessions). Evening concert tickets £15.00 (£13.00 concessions)
Book now to avoid disappointment!
Tickets from www.theplace.org.uk 020 7121 1100 Click here to book tickets online...
Hope to see you there – should be a great day.

Derek Schofield