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Chester Festivals
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Chester Food, Drink and Lifestyle Festival 2010
Saturday April 3 - Monday April 5
Chester Food and Drink Festival has received an exciting makeover and as of 2010, the festival will be called, Chester Food, Drink and Lifestyle Festival. The new festival still features all of the wonderful food and drink stalls but will now appeal to an even wider audience by introducing a lifestyle show and camper van event to its line up.
Chester Food, Drink and Lifestyle Festival includes three jam packed days of activities set within Chester Racecourse. Included in this year’s festival are the ever popular celebrity chef demonstrations. Chefs already confirmed for the festival are Simon Rimmer, Michael Caines, Andrew Nutter and Thomasina Miers.
This is already an outstanding line-up of World class TV chefs and shows the drawing power of Chester to attract such huge names to our event. More exciting names are to be confirmed in the coming months.
Chester Food, Drink and Lifestyle Festival will showcase over 120 food and drink stalls offering festival goers the chance to see, taste and buy the very best produce the region has to offer. From award winning sausages and delicious home grown vegetables to tasty food to taste and eat, as well as a champagne tent and a beer tasting marquee, making this the festival for the truly appreciative pallet.
New for 2010, Chester Food, Drink and Lifestyle Festival welcomes a Homes and Garden exhibition, which will make the festival the largest lifestyle event the county has ever seen. Over 50 stalls are expected to be at the exhibition including home interiors, art galleries and furniture stores.
Over 300 campervans are expected to join in the fun too, in what will be the only campervan get together in the UK during the spring. Campers can look forward to a beer festival, which will include music and a marquee of tasty local beer and ale. Campervans are invited to park within the racecourse, surely making this the most exclusive campsite address in town.
And children need not feel left out, as there is a dedicated Children’s cookery marquee where children can get messy with food and learn through play. They can join in making pasta, cakes and bread all to take home for mum and dad, that’s if they haven’t eaten it already!
Tickets are on sale now, please click here. Web site
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Chester Summer Music Festival
WEDNESDAY 30 JUNE - WEDNESDAY 14 JULY
To see all this years events and to book tickets click here.
The 33rd annual Chester Summer Music Festival, once again, promises to be a great line up of established names and rising stars, set in the beautiful surroundings of Chester.
Artistic Director, Andrew Cornall, has once again put together a programme that showcases the finest in festival music - this year with a hint of France. At the heart of the festival remains the joy of choral music, whether it’s performed by international choirs – the Choir of King’s College Cambridge (with Faure’s Requiem) or the Tallis Scholars or performed by yourself in the BIG SING, the love of music for the voice will always be present throughout the two weeks culminating in a performance by our very own Chester Festival Chorus.
But that’s not all. For lovers of orchestral music, we have the European Union Chamber Orchestra with the stunning Nicola Benedetti as soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Poet Andrew Motion will also be on hand to read new poems inspired by the pictorial music of Vivaldi’s great masterpiece, a must see concert. Also David Hill conducts the Opera North orchestra in Saint-Saen’s great Organ Symphony in the glorious ambience of Chester Cathedral.
There is a cabaret evening with Melanie Marshall, the re-formed Penguin Café bring their quirky and hugely entertaining music, Kathryn Tickell brings the beautiful sound of the Northumbrian pipes and an evening of the best folk music. We’ll hear chamber music concerts from the Heath Quartet, the guitar quartet Aquarelle and from Holland the wind ensemble Calefax. Our popular lunchtime concerts in St Mary’s Centre will run right through the festival showcasing some of the best young talent.
If you love inspiring music you’ll find something you want to see at this years festival, come and join in the fun. Web site
