JAM on the Marsh, 4-14 July 2024

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JAM on the Marsh brings its 11th festival to Romney Marsh, with an array of outstanding international and local artists lighting up the Kent coast with music, theatre, art and poetry. The festival will unfold in a variety of locations; from the famous mediaeval churches to local gardens; steam railway carriages to the Marsh Academy Theatre and Cinemarsh; bringing the arts to unexpected places. Music is at the core of JAM on the Marsh, but the festival also features exhibitions, plays by Shakespeare and Coward, a one-man show about Derek Jarman & much more. Tickets on sale in April.

Church Lane
New Romney
TN28 8EU
United Kingdom

JAM on the Marsh 2024, 4-14 July

Romney Marsh, Kent

JAM on the Marsh brings its 11th festival to Romney Marsh, with an array of outstanding international and local artists lighting up the Kent coast with music, theatre, art and poetry. The festival will unfold in a variety of locations; from the famous mediaeval churches to local gardens; and steam railway carriages to the Marsh Academy Theatre, Leisure Centre and Cinemarsh; bringing the arts to unexpected places. Music is at the core of JAM on the Marsh, but the festival also features five exhibitions, plays by Shakespeare and Coward, a one-man show about Derek Jarman and much more. Nicholas Cleobury in his second year as Festival Curator has put together a programme of sensational events:

  • International tenor Mark Padmore makes his festival debut alongside Ben Goldscheider (horn) and London Mozart Players, one of three visits by the orchestra this year. They will perform the world premiere of John Frederick Hudson’s largest work to date, alongside stellar works by Elgar (Introduction & Allegro), Delius (Aquarelles) and Holst (St Paul’s Suite), under the baton of Nicholas Cleobury.
  • Celebrated conductor Stephen Layton makes his festival debut in a concert by the Holst Singers, Onyx Brass and organist Jeremy Cole featuring British masterpieces from Britten (Hymn to St Cecilia), Howells (Hymn for St Cecilia) and Walton (The Twelve) alongside a world premiere for choir, brass quintet and organ by Joseph Phibbs.
  • Chamber music plays a big part in the festival, with a concert celebrating composers who were born and died in 1934 – Holst, Delius, Elgar, Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies – performed by David Campbell (clarinet), Madeleine Mitchell (violin) and Anna Tilbrook (piano); a concert of Viennese music including Haydn and Strauss in which the JAM Sinfonia is led by Simon Blendis. Simon returns with his wife Saoko Blendis (piano), and their son Aki (violin) – a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year at the age of 14.
  • JAM’s new Festival Orchestra, made up of members of the London Mozart Players alongside amateur community players, also features Aki Blendis as soloist in Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and John Frederick Hudson joins the orchestra as piano soloist for Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue.
  • Rosie Moon brings a fascinating performance of 12 Dragonetti Waltzes, played on a 3-string bass by Gagliano (c. 1760). It will be the first time this instrument has been heard in public in the last 100 years.
  • Stephen Farr makes his festival debut with Bach’s glorious Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord.
  • Nicholas Cleobury’s final weekend as Festival Curator includes the Canterbury Cathedral Choir and London Mozart Players performing Fauré’s Requiem and the JAM Sinfonia performing Mahler’s 4th Symphony – a JAM on the Marsh first.

For more information, please contact Sarah Armitage at sarah@jamconcert.org.
www.jamconcert.org





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