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08 April 2008
 Wrexham's Arts Festival to Have Liverpool Links
The 2008 Wrexham Arts Festival celebrates as its theme the links between Liverpool and North Wales. Liverpool is the 2008 European Capital of Culture and the link with Wrexham will be celebrated in drama, music, dance, literature and the visual arts.
The Festival opens on May 2nd with a concert by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The Phil has been a regular visitor to Wrexham over the past eight years and brings an exciting and melodic programme including Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Weber’s Concertino for clarinet and orchestra played by Wrexham clarinettist, Katherine Lacy.
The Liverpool musical links continue with two concerts on May 10th.
Ian Tracey, Liverpool Cathedral and Liverpool City organist will be giving an organ recital in St Giles Parish Church. His programme includes works by Bach, Haydn, Franck and Tchaikovsky. In 1980 Professor Tracey became the youngest cathedral organist in the country and over the past 23 years he has conducted 190 concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. In 2006, the University of Liverpool conferred upon him the Degree of Doctor of Music in recognition of his services to music in Liverpool and of his international reputation as a church musician.
The recital starts at 7.30pm and tickets (£7.50 Concessions £5.00) will be available on the door
On the same evening the Froncysyllte male voice choir conducted by Ann Atkinson will be giving a concert in the Stiwt Theatre, Rhos. The programme includes a musical tribute to the 2008 European Capital of Culture and to reinforce the Liverpool link, the choir will be joined by a special guest artiste, Kathryn Rudge, winner of the Merseyside Young Singer of the Year 2004. Now studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, Kathryn has sung in concerts with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and is now working with international Conductor, Carl Davis.
The tickets (Balcony £10.00 / Stalls £6.00) are available from the Stiwt Box Office
On May 17th Salop Musica will present a concert in aid of MS (Wales), featuring David Boarder, organist, Eleri Lloyd, harp, Cantatina chamber choir, Saxafaction (saxophone quartet), Keith Downing baritone, Marion Murdoch coloratura soprano and the choir and instrumentalists from Yale College. The programme includes songs from Liverpool, a selection of sea songs, a Beatles selection and the Suite for organ by Noel Rawsthorne, formerly organist of Liverpool cathedral and Artistic Director of St George’s Hall, Liverpool. The concert takes place at 7.00 pm in St Giles Parish Church, Wrexham
Tickets (£7.00 concessions £5.00) can be bought from the shop at St Giles
Jazz is on the menu on May 22nd with an International Jazz Concert.
A line-up celebrating the links between the USA, the birthplace of jazz, the Port of Liverpool and North Wales, stars universally acclaimed American tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton, with Liverpool's Les Bolger and Wales's Trefor Owen on guitar, plus Bill Coleman (double bass) and Dave Hassell (drums).
The concert starts at 8.30 pm in the William Aston Hall and
tickets (£10.00 / Concessions and £8.00) can be bought from the Wrexham Tourist Information Centre (01978-292015)
The final music event of the Festival sees local orchestra, the Cambrian Philharmonic, team up with soloist, Carol Bennett, violinist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. The programme also includes Mendelssohn’s – Intermezzo and Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”
The concert is at 7.30 p.m. in St Giles Parish Church and tickets (£8.00 and £6.00) can be purchased from The Shop at St Giles or on the door
A specially commissioned play about evacuees in the Second World War will be one of the Festival’s main highlights. The play, “We’ll keep a welcome” has been written by local playwright Michel Stevens, following extensive research and interviews with former evacuees and their hosts. It will have its première at the Stiwt Theatre, Rhos on June 5th with a second performance there on June 6th. It will later be performed at Clwyd Theatre Cymru, Galeri Caernarvon and the Unity Theatre, Liverpool.
Dance is also featured in the Festival when a dance celebration, “Linkage” is presented at the Stiwt Theatre, Rhos on May 23. WISP Dance Club and Dance Alive Community Dance will be dancing to Beatles music played live by musician and composer Geoff Scott plus there will be a performance by special guest artistes the Afro/Caribbean Youth Dance Group from Liverpool’s Mersey Dance Initiative
A top tribute band The Merseybeatles top the bill in this celebration of Wrexham’s links with Liverpool 08. The show is at 7.00 p.m. and tickets (£9.00 / Concessions £7.00) can be bought from the Stiwt Box Office
A brochure featuring all the events in this year’s Festival; is available on this website www.wrexham.gov.uk/leisure from the Tourist Information Centre and all libraries.
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