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What
A look at 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012
When
Events throughout 2012
Wonga
See the links provided for costs
Where
Throughout the UK
The Fanfare - 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012
As London prepares to pull out all of the stops as hosts of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, here are 12 Great Reasons to GoUK in 2012.
What
Savoy guests can record at Abbey Road
When
Starting in 2012
Wonga
See the Savoy website below for details
Where
Savoy Hotel in central London, Abbey Road Studios in north-west London
The Fanfare
Guests of London’s Savoy hotel will soon be able to record themselves at Abbey Road, Britain’s most famous recording studios.
What
The Battle Proms Concert Series
When
- Burghley House, Lincolnshire – Saturday 7 July 2012
- Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire – Saturday 14 July 2012
- Hatfield House, Hertfordshire – Saturday 21 July 2012
- Highclere Castle, Berkshire – Saturday 4 August 2012
- Althorp Park, Northamptonshire – Saturday 11 August 2012
- Ragley Hall, Warwickshire – Saturday 18 August 2012
Gates open 4.30pm, events finish 10-10.30pm approx
Wonga
£33 per adult, £16 per child. Early bird and group discounts available.
Where
See above
The Fanfare
This July and August, thousands of people are expected to pack up the picnic hampers and the champers and come together for the hugely popular Battle Proms picnic and firework concerts.
What
Opera North is presenting its first production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
When
2 to 19 May 2012
Wonga
Tickets £17.50–£65
Where
Grand Theatre, 46 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NZ
The Fanfare - Opera North sings Carousel
Opera North is presenting its first production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel in May 2012.
What
Battersea Festival
When
Sunday 3 June 2012
Where
Battersea Park, London
The Fanfare
The free Battersea Festival offering music, dancing, design and dressing up through all the sixty years of the Queen’s reign will take place in the riverside Battersea Park on the day of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant.
What
Sweeps Festival
When
5 to 7 May 2012
Where
Sweeps Festival, High Street, Rochester, Kent ME1 1LX
The Fanfare
Every year thousands of people visit the Kent town of Rochester for the annual Sweeps Festival in May.
The parklands of the ancient Glastonbury Abbey will host the 2012 Orchestra in a Field music festival in July.
Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will headline the 2012 Isle of Wight Festival.
Dame Gracie Fields (1898-1979), one of Britain’s most successful and best loved performers, is honoured with a blue plaque at 72a Upper Street, Islington, where she lived during the years 1926 to 1929.
Here’s a look at our top 12 picks of things to do in Manchester.
The UK celebrates London 2012 with a 12-week nationwide London 2012 Festival of the world’s best music, theatre, dance, visual art, literature, film and fashion
Nokia Lumia 800 and deadmau5 Illuminate London
A look at the top 12 things to do in Cardiff by GoUK.com
Nokia hosts an after-hours complimentary evening of art, music and entertainment at BALTIC gallery on Thursday November 24th
Grayson Perry late at the British Museum on Friday 11 November 2011 from 18:00-21:00
The Definitive Collection of Timeless Hed Kandi Anthems
SATURDAY 26TH November, PACHA – LONDON
Ocean Colour Scene @ The Spa, Scarborough – the band are touring their most influential album & will be performing it live at The Spa this Christmas in our newly refurbished Grand Hall
Tales of Terror at London’s Royal Exchange will be an evening of chilling Halloween stories and cabaret from Tricity Vogue.
The Science Museum is hosting ‘Oramics to Electronica’ exhibition, exploring the history of electronic music through the people who it.
Here is our take on the top 12 free things to do in London. If you’ve got any other ideas, leave your suggestions on the comment form at the bottom of this page.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra opens its Glasgow concert season on Thursday 29 September with the Scottish premiere of James MacMillan’s St John Passion.
We’ve had Anarchy in the UK and now we’re going to get Anarchy in the National Trust. Yes, that quintessential paragon of conservation and property preservation is going all punk with the release of Never Mind the Dovecotes – Punk Collection.
The Battle Proms are a series of rip-roaring open air concerts held in the grounds of various English stately homes over the summer months each year.
Leith On The Fringe – a family focused venue with the Leith and wider Edinburgh community at its heart – has launched its Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme.
Lionel Richie will be headlining Radio 2 Live In Hyde Park in what will be an exclusive UK performance for the star for 2011.
This year’s sixth Malcolm Arnold Festival in October marks what would have been the English composer’s 90th birthday.
From Mediterranean cuisine to family fun days, here are some of the options for days out in the South East this month….
The International Craft Cider Festival 2011 is the first of its kind, and is set to become a highlight of any real cider-lovers calendar.
An exhibition, called Elvis and Us, is to open Liverpool in September exploring the connections between the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
Elvis and Us is jointly curated by The Beatles Story in Liverpool and Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc, the parent company of Graceland in Memphis.
The exhibition will be a multimedia, interactive experience with music, [...]
A dance ensemble from Derby representing Ukraine, who triumphed at Llangollen Eisteddfod in 1986, will return to this year’s event with the latest generation of dancers. This time, members of the successful Hoverla Ukrainian Dance Ensemble will be watching from the sidelines as their children take centre stage in the hope of glory and success [...]
Acclaimed electronic act Pretty Lights will be opening for Pendulum at their Eden Session on June 25 (Thursday).
Pretty Lights is the alter-ego of Colorado-based producer and DJ Derek Vincent Smith. Smith uses samples and synthesisers to create an ambient mixture of electronica, hip-hop, soul and funk.
The act releases its music as a free [...]
BBC launches Music Nation – a celebration of UK’s orchestral and live music community as part of countdown to London 2012 Festival
The BBC today announced Music Nation, a weekend of live music events taking place across the UK on 3 and 4 March 2012, with related performances and community activities in the week leading [...]
A highlight of London’s live music calendar, the Summer Series open–air gigs return to the courtyard from 7 – 17 July, with artists ranging from iconic to breakthrough.
Somerset House will also host London’s best-loved outdoor cinema, as Film4 Summer Screen returns 27 July – 7 August, showing a mixture of contemporary, classic and cult [...]
Musical maverick, Ruth Palmer, is to visit the magnificent 13th century timber-framed Coggeshall Grange Barn on the next stop of her ground-breaking UK tour.
In great demand since winning the Young British Classical Performer Award at the 2007 Classical BRITs, violinist Ruth Palmer, has been researching unique buildings that stretch beyond the standard [...]
Here We Go Again – hot summer concert dates at Trentham Estate in Staffordshire this July and August.
From Mamma Mia to Motown and the Rat Pack to Grease, it will be hard to resist making a date to enjoy an outdoor film or live music in a superb lakeside setting at The Trentham Estate [...]
The city of Derby is holding its fifth annual festival of outdoor music, dance, performance and pyrotechnics on 23–25 September.
Derby Festé is a three-day celebration of street theatre bringing international and local artists to the East Midlands city. Most events are free and suitable for the whole family.
This year’s programme includes the return [...]
The Science Museum is launching a unique chance to experience opera this summer, by announcing an exciting partnership with Glyndebourne to show a series of live opera link-ups on its giant cinema screen.
The screenings commence on 26 June with Glyndebourne’s new sell-out production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, to be shown live. Further, [...]
The 47th Cambridge Folk Festival – one of the oldest and most famous events on the folk, country and world music scene – takes place on July 28–31 this year.
Since it was first held in 1965, the Cambridge Folk Festival has always taken place in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, just [...]
The annual Brass: Durham International Festival, a celebration of all types of brass band music, takes place this year from 1 to 17 July.
The festival, which showcases both traditional and new music, is gaining an international reputation for original collaborations with amateur and professional musicians.
Highlights this year include a collaboration between Jan Garbarek [...]
Acclaimed singer-songwriters Badly Drawn Boy and Seth Lakeman have been announced for the Biotik stage at the Eden Sessions.
Badly Drawn Boy, otherwise known as Damon Gough, will be playing the stage in the picturesque Mediterranean Biome on June 30, before the evening headliner The Flaming Lips take to the main stage.
This is the [...]
Welsh Chart Topping Opera Star Wynne Evans will be touring with Welsh Superstar Mezzo Soprano Katherine Jenkins who is ‘A big fan of his voice’.
Wynne has also been working with comedians Jimmy and Alan Carr in the run up to the Channel 4 Comedy Gala at The O2 and will be performing at the [...]
A vibrant day devoted to British and world folk music is being launched at this year’s International Eisteddfod in Llangollen. For the first time, a special line-up of folk artists will entertain crowds gathering on the field on Friday 8th July. The programme aims to compliment the competitive performers drawn from around the world.
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‘…An adventure as much as a piece of theatre’ - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, on Mapping The Edge (an earlier piece by Louise Ann Wilson)
Fissure is a unique weekend-long, site-specific theatrical experience, created by acclaimed performance maker Louise Ann Wilson, who will be working with a rich and diverse team of artists and scientists [...]
Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod celebrates its 65th birthday with a massive giveaway for people from Bangor to Birmingham and Liverpool to Llangethi.
July will mark the 65th anniversary of the world famous Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod and to celebrate this milestone the Eisteddfod has a special offer for the ‘local’ community.
The first 65 people, [...]
Pupils from schools across North Wales and Liverpool have begun rehearsals for their upcoming performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera for children on Thursday 7th July at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod.
Llangollen Pavilion’s vast interior looks set to swallow up an ark and 75 pairs of animals, an orchestra and 300 young singers in what will [...]
Rick Astley and Kiki Dee will perform alongside Lulu at Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod as part of the Lulu and Friends concert on Monday 4th July.
Three legendary artists performing at the opening concert of the eisteddfod will set a high the standard for the festival week. Lulu, Rick Astley and Kiki Dee will be [...]
Folk by the Oak, one of the newest folk music festivals on the scene, is returning to Hatfield Park in Hertfordshire for its fourth year on Sunday 24 July 2011 with another smasher of a line-up.
As well as a list of stellar folk performances there’s plenty for all the family to enjoy at the [...]
There are many outdoor concerts in Britain through the summer – but the Battle Proms are the only ones that include nearly 200 cannons fired to music.
The artillery features in Beethoven’s Battle Symphony and Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. The concert programme also includes Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor and works well known to [...]
If you’re off to the Brighton Festival (7–29 May) it is worth noting that it includes a lot of free events. Can you get better value for money than that?
Train operator Southern is running a late fast train which leaves Brighton at 11 pm [...]
This year’s Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod will be held on 4–10 July.
More than 4,000 competitors from over 50 countries will take part, including performers from South Korea, China, Moldova and Slovakia. This year’s headline acts include Lulu, Russell Watson, McFly and Ruthie Henshall.
Every day throughout the week international singers, musicians and dancers [...]
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