PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release May 18th 2017
With almost 50 different events crammed into 19 busy days, audiences will have some tough choices to make as they pick from the Buxton Fringe Music category this July.
The glorious wonder that is the human voice can be heard in a full range of settings and styles. For those seeking big full-hearted choirs, the Ordsall Acappella Singers bring cake to add to the pleasure, the Kaleidoscope Community Choir promises African melodies and the Buxton Studio Choir will be making its Fringe debut following a successful charity event recently. Fringe-goers can even become part of a choral event thanks to Richard Navarro’s Firewatching, which aims to bring together 40 local singers.
Smaller in scale, but no less heart-felt, will be the South African singers Entsha who won many friends when last in Buxton. From the geographical north comes Enkelit – a small choir singing songs from Finland. MUHA meanwhile brings songs from the east of Europe and beyond, demonstrating how music travels. Rather closer to home, the Raintown Seers is an English folk-inspired group drawing on the history and stories of the Peak District. A local trio, Drowsy Sleepers, promises a set of familiar and much-loved folk songs and, originally from Oxford, Close Enough is a barbershop quartet that will cheer audiences with a wide-ranging programme of songs for all to relish.
There is also historic breadth to be heard. The Eisenach Ensemble brings a programme of Baroque masterpieces to Eyam Church. At New Mills – via Chicago – is a production of a musical drama based on Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Back in Buxton, audiences can hear a recently re-discovered Neapolitan one-act opera La Zingarella or a programme of songs inspired by Shakespeare’s verse, sung and played by Sue Morgan & Espérance. The great jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald was born 100 years ago and Annette Gregory will be marking the centenary.
The Buxton Fringe would not be the same without the visits of much-loved and appreciated stalwarts. Soprano Margaret Ferguson will give a solo recital – drawing on opera and musicals. Margaret is also part of Voci – a quartet of singers who also have an extensive repertoire. The City of Manchester Opera calls its programme for 2017 Amore and promises songs by Verdi and Bernstein plus favourites from musicals.
Darren Poyzer is celebrating 30 years as a performer and his infectious approach to songwriting and singing has won him many friends in Buxton and across the north-west. Sam Dunkley has not been to Buxton for a couple of years – he is a hard-working and successful music educator – but his easy-going charm has been missed. Happily he returns. As does Egriega – an award-winning trio – with a set of original songs that will be witty, contemporary and healthily provocative.
The Fringe wishes to thank its sponsor The University of Derby as well as financial supporters The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust and High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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