This table gives a summary of the Festival events. Click on any venue or event for full details.
Friday May 18 boarding at 6.45 pm from Mayflower Steps, Barbican, Plymouth, departing 7 pm
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PMA Jazz Cruise with Trevor Meen and his Broadway Syncopaters
Tickets (supper included) £15 (PMA members £13.50) from Rainbow's End, 21 Mayflower Street, tel: 01752 669641 or online from We Got Tickets
Organiser: Plymouth Music Accord |
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Saturday May 19 at 7.30 pm at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth. Doors open 6.45 pm |
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University of Plymouth Choral Society and the Ten Tors Orchestra
with Denise Leigh - soprano (star of Operatunity)
James Laing - countertenor
Daniel Auchincloss - tenor
Adrian Powter - baritone
Handel: Suite no. 2 from The Water Music
Handel: solos and choruses from Judas Maccabeus
Handel: Utrecht Te Deum
Tickets £15 (£5 students & Children) from Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, or Rainbow's End, 21 Mayflower Street, tel: 01752 669641
Organiser: University of Plymouth Choral Society. Sponsored by Plymouth Music Accord |
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Sunday May 20 at 8 pm at The Mermaid, Eggbuckland. Doors open 7 pm
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Plymouth Jazz Club
present Sussex Jazz Kings
Dave Stradwick - Trumpet & vocals, Harry Brampton - Clarinet & vocals, John Howlett - Trombone & vocals, Phil Durrell - Banjo, Graham Wiseman - String Bass, and Brian 'Dipper' Duddy - Drums
Tickets £7, (members £5, students £3) from 01752 847611, from Maestro's, Ebrington St. and at the door
Organiser: Plymouth Jazz Club |
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Monday, May 21 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Guildhall. Doors open at 6.45 pm
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World Music Night
Real Steel, Chinese Lion Dancers, Omanye Ghanaian music, dance, voice & acrobatic ensemble.
Tickets: balcony £12 (conc. £10), stalls £10 (conc.£8), students £5, from Rainbow’s End, 21 Mayflower Street, tel: 01752 669641 or online from WeGotTickets
Organiser: Plymouth Music Accord. Sponsored by Vospers |
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Tuesday May 22 at 7.30 pm at St Andrew’s Church, Plymouth |
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Summoned by Bells
Bell ringers in the tower and handbell ringers in church. Following last year's unfortunate simultaneous bell ringing practice and Guildhall concert, we have organised a special bellringing event on a different night!
Admission free - retiring collection
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Wednesday May 23 at 8 pm at Plymouth Guildhall. Doors open at 7.15 pm
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Stephen Hough (piano) - Celebrity Recital
Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses, Op. 54
Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
Weber: Invitation to the Dance
Chopin: Waltzes
Saint-Saëns: Valse Nonchalante
Chabrier: Feuille d'Album (Valse)
Debussy: La plus que Lente (Valse)
Liszt: Valse Oubliée No. 1
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Tickets: Balcony £18 (conc. £16), stalls £15 (conc. £13), students £5, from Rainbow’s End, 21 Mayflower Street, tel: 01752 669641 and online from We Got Tickets
Organiser: Plymouth Music Accord. Sponsored by Gerrard Investment Management Ltd |
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Thursday May 24 at 1 pm at City of Plymouth Museum & Art Gallery. Doors open 12.30 pm
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Mark Kesel - trumpet, Sally Anne Goodworth - piano
“The Square on the Hippopotamus” - lecture recital exploring the world of the trumpet from the time of Pythagoras to the present day.
Tickets £5.50 from Museum Shop, tel: 01752 304779 (10am-4.30pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am-4pm Saturday and Bank Holiday Mondays)
Part of the 2007 Plymouth Music Accord May Music Festival
Organiser: Plymouth City Council. Sponsored by Davies Johnson and Company (shipping and commercial solicitors). |
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Friday May 25 at the New Continental Hotel Ballroom, Plymouth
(Bar open 7 pm, Doors open 8 pm,, Concert 8.30 pm) |
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Waterson:Carthy in Concert SOLD OUT!
Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson, Eliza Carthy, Saul Rose.
Tickets £16 on the door; £14 in advance (under 16 £8) from Rainbow’s End, 21 Mayflower Street, tel: 01752 669641 or from Fran Patterson 01752 669598
Seated concert with Bar
Organiser: Plymouth Folk Roots. Sponsored by Form Design Group
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Saturday May 26 at 2.30 pm at the Sherwell Centre, University of Plymouth |
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Schools Workshop with O Duo (Oliver Cox and Owen Gunnell percussionists)
For information contact Clive Jenkins, tel: 01752 863348
Organiser: Plymouth Chamber Music Trust
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Saturday May 26 at 7.30 pm at the Sherwell Centre, University of Plymouth. Doors open 6.45 pm |
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O Duo (Oliver Cox and Owen Gunnell percussionists)
Tickets £12, students £5 from Alice Li (University) 01752 233988 or Rainbow’s End, 21 Mayflower Street, tel: 01752 669641
Their programme will include works by Bach, Chopin and Ravel, alongside Minoru Miki’s dazzlingly virtuosic Marimba Spiritual.
Organiser: Plymouth Chamber Music Trust. Sponsored by Plymouth Music Accord |
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Sunday May 27 at 7.30 at Plymouth Guildhall |
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Jacqui Dankworth and her ensemble
with the strings of the South West Sinfonietta, guest director Peter Fisher - violin.
Warlock: Capriol Suite
Vivaldi: "Summer" from the Four Seasons
Fisher: arrangement of the folk song "Widecombe Fair"
Plus jazz arrangements by Jacqui Dankworth
Tickets: Balcony £18 (conc. £16), stalls £15 (conc. £13), students £5, from Rainbow’s End, 21 Mayflower Street, tel: 01752 669641 or online from WeGotTickets
Organiser: Plymouth Music Accord. Sponsored by Gill Akaster (solicitors) |
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Ticket Payment |
Please note that cheques in payment for tickets must be made payable directly to the event organisers.
The PMA has organised four events itself this year: the Jazz Cruise on Friday May 18, World Music Night on Monday May 21, Stephen Hough on Wednesday May 23 and Jacqui Dankworth/South West Sinfonietta on May 27. |
