The Snape Maltings Concert Hall will be hosting live music again by the summer
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Britten-Pears Arts, formerly Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival, has announced plans for reopening the site which it hopes will lead to live performances on site by May.
Chief executive Roger Wright, in a letter to supporters, has laid out the organisation’s own roadmap out of lockdown and although many details are still to be confirmed he says it wants to be producing live music again by the summer.
He said: “We are excited about the prospect of starting concerts and events again and re-opening our sites and shops.
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7:00 PM March 9, 2021
Tom Appleton and Elenor Bowers-Jolley, founders of the Come and Sing Company who plan to stage an outdoor production of Noye s Fludde on Aldeburgh Beach this summer
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Aldeburgh Beach will be a hive of activity this summer as the town and wider community celebrate escaping lockdown with outdoor performances of Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde.
The event will bring together enthusiastic schoolchildren and talented amateur musicians and singers.
The event, being staged opposite Crag Path, between the lifeboat station and the Moot Hall, will be within view of Britten’s beachside residence where he wrote the opera for young people in 1958.
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Letty Stott at Britten Pears Arts Festival of New, Snape Maltings
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From ancient horns to ‘fractured punk’, Britten Pears Arts is offering audiences a lockdown mini-festival of music this weekend.
Festival of New is a whirlwind annual showcase of new projects in development, created on residencies at Snape Maltings by musicians representing a large breadth of musical genres.
Usually, it takes the form of a live weekend at Snape in September but, because of Covid, this year it will be broadcast online.
It takes place on Saturday, February 27 on YouTube Live and tickets are free.
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Norma Procter performing at a Fish Trades Concert. Her life and career is chronicled in a new book by local author Lucy Wood (Image: Submitted)
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