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Shenington with Alkerton’s Music & Literature Festival
The 2019 Programme
Shenington with Alkerton’s Music & Literature Festival
Welcome to Shenfest 2019
We are again pleased to welcome our community together, with their family
and friends, to have fun, to enjoy quality music and literature events and to
help raise money for great local causes.
Help and encouragement has come from many sources but we would
particularly like to thank our sponsors and advertisers. Their kindness and
generosity has allowed our costs to be covered and thus we are able again
to make entry to all events FREE.
We would like to encourage everyone attending to make donations at each
event to help maintain our two beautiful Norman churches and to support
the inspiring work of the Banbury Young Homelessness Project (BYHP).
The programme summary for Shenfest 2019, complete with timing and
location details, is on the back page of this brochure.
The festival begins with an evening of jazz and swing from the Great Central
Big Band, followed by more contemporary music in The Bell.
Little Shenfest has a Narnia theme at lunchtime on Saturday and is followed
by a talk in Alkerton church by Jacqui Furneaux about her extended trip
through Asia and South America on a Royal Enfield Bullet motorbike.
We are then very fortunate to have a quintet from the London Mozart
Players as our main musical event on Saturday evening. In contrast, The Bell
will then host The Popes until late into the evening.
On Sunday afternoon the Sloggers again take on The Authors at the cricket
ground in Wroxton. The ‘book talk on the boundary’ this year will be given by
bestselling author Tom Holland.
Thank you for coming and supporting our festival and we hope you have a
great weekend.
The Shenfest Team
Shenfest Patrons
Ken Bruce, Sir David Gilmour, Aubrey Powell, Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Sponsors The Great Central Big Band
We are extremely grateful to a number of generous villagers and 7.30pm Friday 14th June
local business owners who have kindly sponsored Shenfest 2019. This
group has included all our headline sponsors, advertisers and;
The Bell Helen Marsden
Rob and Claire Bryan The Rose and Crown
Alun Hindle Sally and Finlay Scott
Laws and Fiennes – Mark and Vanessa
Land Agents & Petterson
Chartered Surveyors The Great Central Big Band is a Northamptonshire
based 20 piece Jazz ensemble. Although it does
sometimes stray further afield it mainly plays concerts
in the area, including the Summertime Jazz Festival at
Upton House.
Save the Date! It will be playing a selection of classic pieces from
Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glen
Miller and the great Buddy Rich plus some original
Dinner by Candlelight at St Michael and All Angels, Alkerton. material from the bands’ pianist, the outstanding
Mike Kemp.
Saturday 21st September 2019
With uptempo swing to lush jazz ballads we hope to
present an evening with something for everyone .
The cost will be around £40 per head, depending on numbers, to include
canapes, dinner, a glass of fizz and half a bottle of wine. The band, which was only formed in 2015, is led by
drummer Lee Smith and for this event will feature a
To reserve a place number of guest vocalists.
please email
Tim Clarke on: This concert is dedicated to the memory of George
timthegourmetchef@ Gilbert, Shenington’s very own jazz trumpeter, who
yahoo.co.uk sadly died this April.
The event is a non-
religious event of Sponsored
informal and convivial
dining. by
Little Shenfest
“Whether your daughter is
headed for fashion design
1pm Saturday 15th June
or Oxbridge...
You are invited to a Narnia themed
...Tudor Hall family picnic on the Green where
deserves a place Aslan and the White Witch may
on everyone’s provide some Turkish Delight for best
fancy dress and also to the best
shortlist.” performers in the games.
Good Schools Guide
Tudor Hall School
Wykham Park, Banbury OX16 9UR
The weather forecast
www.tudorhallschool.com
suggests it will be ‘always
winter, never Shenfest’ but
Aslan will be beavering
away to sort that out.
You will be able to faun over
a great pizza from our very
own Two Fat Gits at any
point from lunchtime through
to the evening, but only if
you are brave enough to
enter the wardrobe.
Co-educational day school
for boys aged 3 to 8 yrs and girls aged 3 to 11 yrs
www.carrdusschool.co.uk
phone - 01295 263733
email - admissions@carrdusschool.com
Carrdus School, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX17 2BS Sponsored by
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Jacqui Furneaux London Mozart Players Ensemble
4pm Saturday 15th June 7:30pm Saturday 15th June
Regular Alkerton visitor Jacqui Furneaux wrote her book ‘Hit the Road, Jac!’ to The London Mozart Players (LMP) is celebrating its 70th birthday in 2019 and is the
chronicle her motorcycle travels across Asia, Australasia and The Americas. longest established chamber orchestra in the UK. It is also the first chamber orchestra to
be player led, both artistically and managerially.
She travelled 42,000 miles on a Royal Enfield 500cc Bullet motorbike across 20
countries in the seven years between 2000 and 2007. The 70th Anniversary programme for the full orchestra includes performances at St
John’s Smith Square, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Fairfield Halls and Buckingham
‘Hit the Road, Jac!’ is an inspiring personal odyssey and a manual for self-discovery Palace.
with a writing style that is punchy, candid and involving. TV presenter Suzi Perry
comments that the book “makes you think about the pleasures of nature and We are delighted that these five of their number are finding time in their busy schedule
of celebrations to join us at Shenfest;
simplicity, about taking the time to just stand and breathe life in.”
Sebastian Comberti (cello) studied at the Royal Academy of Music before becoming
On her travels Jacqui encountered the Amarnath Yatra massacre in Kashmir, was principal cello with the LMP in 1983.
knocked off her bike, breaking her leg, in the mountainous Hindu Kush and felt the
need to sleep with a knife under her pillow while on a voyage through the Straits of Julia Desbruslais (cello) studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She is LMP’s co-
principal cello and, since 2016, its Executive Director.
Malacca.
Antonia Kesel (violin) plays chamber music with the Trio Derazey, LMP and others having
“I hope the book appeals to everyone. It’s not meant to be a travel guide or graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2015.
something just for motorcycle fanatics. I’ve been able to travel in my own way –
Sophie Renshaw (viola) was the principal viola with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra,
slightly aimless but also wanting to get involved and meet local people. I would
amongst others, before joining the LMP.
also like the book to help dispel some myths and fears about Islam. The Pakistanis I
met were the most generous and hospitable people that I found anywhere in the Ruth Rogers (violin) studied at the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded the
world.” Tagore Gold Medal, and became a leader of the LMP in 2015.
The Alkies (Friends of Alkerton Church) are kindly providing refreshments from The programme will include much loved pieces by Mozart, Boccherini and Schubert.
3.30pm
Sponsored by
Sponsored by
The Authors vs Tom Holland
The Shenington Sloggers At or after 3.30pm Sunday 16th June
2pm Sunday 16th June
This years’ Book Talk on the Boundary’
will be given by award-winning historian,
biographer and broadcaster Tom
Holland.
His books include ‘Rubicon: The Triumph
and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic’,
which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for
History and was shortlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize, ‘Persian Fire’, which won
the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman
Award in 2006, and ‘In the Shadow of
the Sword’, which covers the collapse of
Roman and Persian power in the Near
The Authors are one of the world’s oldest wandering cricket sides.
East, and the emergence of Islam.
Emerging from the Authors’ Club, founded in 1891 as a place for writers
to meet and talk, the original team featured the likes of PG Wodehouse, Tom’s biography of Æthelstan, the
Arthur Conan Doyle and AA Milne. first King of England, was published in
2016 and his biography of Æthelflæd,
The Authors were revived in 2012 and since then have played around the England’s Forgotten Founder, was
world, against opposition that has included the Vatican, the Rajasthan published in 2019.
Royals, the national team of Japan … and the Shenington Sloggers!!
In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to ‘the
Their book, The Authors XI: A season of English Cricket from Hackney to individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature
Hambledon included chapters from squad members such as Tom Holland and civilisation of Ancient Greece and Rome’.
and previous Shenfest speakers William Fiennes, Peter Frankopan and
Anthony McGowan. Tom has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC and is
the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. He has written and presented a
number of TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging
The Sloggers managed to restrict the Authors to 197 from their 35 overs last
from ISIS to dinosaurs.
year (Hutton 50 n.o., Owen 38, Fiennes 29) but our batting crumbled again
under pressure despite a heroic Captain’s innings of 36 from Stuart Burgess His latest book ‘Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind’ will be published in
(Hinchman 2 wickets for 12 runs). Will our batsmen do better this year? September 2019.
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