programme - Saturday 10 July
FLOATING STAGE: 8.45pm - 10.00pm
Symphonic Queen, The Music of Queen
A sensational concert featuring stars from London’s West End, rock band and the full Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
One of the most successful bands of all time, hear their music afresh, an explosion of sound and light featuring all the classic Queen hits.
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BANDSTAND: 5.55pm - 7.00pm
Dixie Ticklers
The development of jazz has to be one of the most organic and fascinating stories in music. Dom James and his Dixie Ticklers would like to provide the first chapter for you with an atomic Dixieland explosion. Combining some of the brightest young talent in the UK, with the oldest charts from New Orleans archives, their goal is to entertain with skill and charm.
Kid Ory, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton would hopefully have approved of their renditions of "Salty Dog", "I wish I could Shimmie like my sister Kate" and "Wild Man Blues". These guys are so hot, that even New Orleans enthusiast Woody Allen has a copy of their record.
CLUB RENDEZ-VOUS EARLY: 7.00pm - 8.00pm
Australian Music Foundation Showcase
Australian Music Foundation Showcase: more from top young Australian musicians - Nicholas Lester (baritone), Valda Wilson (soprano) and Anne Veinberg (piano)
www.amf-uk.com
LAWN/FLOATING STAGE: 10.30pm - 11.15pm
Trans-Siberian Marching Band
A little dose of musical anarchy goes careering around the Festival Enclosure.
The flavours of the East with a pumping style that includes Balkan Ska, Klezmer Reggae, Ottoman Battle Punk, Yugoslav Mariachi, and Balalikal Brass amongst others.
And it's not just the sound. The visuals are spectacular.
www.myspace.com/transsib
CLUB RENDEZ-VOUS LATE: 10.45pm - 1.00am
Pedro Santos
Hailing from Lisbon Portugal, Pedro Santos and his band show the way to the dance floor ... where you’re likely to stay ... An astonishing range of musical styles and hits from A - Z ...
CAFÉ DU SOIR: 10.45pm - 11.45pm
Miles Jupp
A clever, dead pan, dead funny upper-class bloke. A fabulous rarity on the comedy circuit, Miles Jupp is a regular on radio and the small screen and a former Perrier Newcomer award winner at Edinburgh. "Laugh? I nearly dropped my Debretts" Evening Standard.
www.comedycv.co.uk/milesjupp
CAFÉ DU SOIR: midnight - 12.55am
The Gilded Lili Show
... a little late night sauce. Mademoiselle Lili is the epitome of pin-up girl chic with her doll-like figure and her long raven locks. Let her beguile and seduce you with her nightingale-like tones.
www.lililascala.com
Immediately following the Floating Stage concert the skies above Henley will be filled with fireworks - one of the most loved hallmarks of the Henley Festival. Never an event to be missed, this year's show is quite simply called, ‘Maestro ...'
