OAKHAMFESTIVAL2008

June 13th - June 29th

 

Programme of Events

Date

Act

Venue

Price

Time

Friday 13th June

Festival Launch with Abi Moore

Castle

Free

7.00pm

 

Cinema at the castle - West Side Story

Castle

£6.00 (adv)

£7.00 (door)

9.30pm

 

Bridget Hardy Concert

Oakham School Chapel

£6.00

7.30pm

 

Blue Juice at Nick's

Nick's Restaurant

Free

7.00pm

 

Saturday14th June

The Westenders bring Songs from the Shows

Outside stage at the Castle

  £15.00 (adv)   £17.00 (door)

8.00pm

 

Street Theatre & Craft Fair

Mill St & around Oakham

Free

 

 

Flower Festival

Methodist Church

Free

9.30pm to 6.00pm

 

The Mystic Harmony

Music & Images with Richard Adams

Methodist Church

£3.00

7.30pm

 

Sunday 15th June

Rutland Synfonia Prom

Castle

   £9.00 (adv)    £10.00 (door)

6.30pm

 

Battle of the Bands

Outside stage at the Castle

Free

12 noon

 

Flower Festival

Methodist Church

Free

12.30pm to 6.00pm

 

Stan Stanley - Comedian

Merry Monk

Free

8.00pm

 

Monday 16th June

Morcott Youth Theatre present,

Needle in a haystack

Castle

£5.00

7.30pm

 

Tuesday 17th June

Ensemble 360 present Dirty Beasts

Oakham School Chapel

£2.00

1.30pm

 

Professional Concert given by Ensemble 360

[part of our Music in the Round series]

Schubert - Trochne Blumen Variations

Howells - Rhapsodic Quintet

Schubert - Octet

Oakham School Chapel

£15.00 (adv) £17.00 (door)

7.30pm

 

Sophie Hannah - Crime Writer

Castle

£3.00/£2.00

7.30pm

 

Wednesday 18th June

Lunchtime Concert:

Oakham School Chamber Choir

All Saints' Church

Free

1.30pm

 

Paul Leegan

Wheatsheaf

£17.50 (inc food)

7.30pm

 

Concert with Fraser Graham

All Saints Church

£7.50

7.30pm

 

Thursday 19th June

André Mangeot - Poetry

Castle

£5.00

7.30pm

 

Riding Hard - Country and Western

Merry Monk

£2.00 on door

8.30pm

 

Friday 20th June

Festival Orchestral Concert ,

Elgar - Romance for Bassoon & Orchestra,

Schumann - Symphony No. 4,

Walton - Suite: Henry V

Strauss - Morgen

Oakham School Chapel

£6.00

7.30pm

 

Rutland's Got Talent Competition

Rutland College Library

£3.00

7.00pm

 

Saturday 21st June

Short Story Writing

Museum

£3/£2

2.00pm

 

Lars Tharp

Museum

£10

7.30pm

 

Rutland Choral Society Concert

Methodist Church

£5.00

Child (U16) free

4.00pm

 

Honk - Jerwoods Production

QET

Free (tickets required)

7.45pm

 

Jive Night Workshop

Victoria Hall

Free

2.00 pm

 

Jive Night with One Eyed Cats

Victoria Hall

£15.00

8.00pm

 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Community Cast plus Oakham School pupils

QET

£5.00

10.15pm

 

Sunday 22nd June

Honk - Jerwoods Production

QET

Free (tickets required)

7.45pm

 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Community Cast plus Oakham School pupils

QET

£5.00

10.15pm

 

Monday 23rd June

Honk - Jerwoods Production

QET

Free (tickets required)

7.45pm

 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Community Cast plus Oakham School pupils

QET

£5.00

10.15pm

 

Tuesday 24th June

Honk - Jerwoods Production

QET

Free (tickets required)

7.45pm

 

Stool Pigeon

Wheatsheaf

£10.00

7.30pm

 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Community Cast plus Oakham School pupils

QET

£5.00

10.15pm

 

Wednesday 25th June

Lunchtime concert: Soraya Vermeulen (harp)

All Saints

Free

1.30pm

 

Big Band Bonanza

Marquee

£10.00

7.30pm

 

Pinters Briefs

QET

£5.00

7.45pm

 

Jeremy Hardy

Victoria hall

£20.00

Book 10 pay for 9

8.00pm

 

Thursday 26th June

Karaoke

Merry Monk

Free

7.30pm

 

Pinters Briefs

QET

£5.00

7.45pm

 

The Hi & Lo

VCC Catmose Gallery

£5/£3

7.30pm

 

Friday 27th June

J'Oakham with Alexis Dubus, compare

Zoe Lyons and Mark Maier

Victoria Hall

£6.00

8.00pm

 

Aston & Davies

Castle

£8.00

7.30pm

 

Houndogs

Noel at Whitwell

FREE

8.30pm

 

Saturday 28th June

Oakham Choral Society Concert

Music for a summers evening

Oakham School Chapel

£8.00/£5.00

7.30pm

 

Festival Ceilidh with Chalktown

Victoria Hall

£6.00

8.00pm

 

Sunday 29th June

RUTLAND BELLE CRUISE,

WITH music from PICA PICA

Rutland Belle

£12.00

6.45pm

 

Carnival

Cutts Close

Free

1.00pm to 5.00pm