Community Sings and Swings

Martha Hayes of Shipston High School is pictured here in rehearsals for[nbsp]an ambitious co-production of a community opera.

Students from the school are among the cast performing with the Orchestra[nbsp]of the Swan for Benjamin Britten’s community opera Noye’s Fludde – Noah’s[nbsp]Flood – which forms part of this year’s Shipston Proms starting next week.

There will be three performances of the opera at Townsend Hall, Shipston,[nbsp]on Friday and Saturday 28th and 29th June.[nbsp]The work is part of celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the[nbsp]composer’s birth.

Also staging the production is Shipston Music Society. Pupils from[nbsp]Shipston Primary School are also taking part, as well as the town’s Amateur[nbsp]Dramatic Society, Shipston Town Council, Shipston Town Band, Cantamus, Community
Arts and individual local musicians.

Information on all the Proms events is on the website[nbsp]http://www.shipstonproms.org/[nbsp]You can also follow Shipston Proms and Orchestra of the Swan on Facebook[nbsp]and Twitter.

Proms highlights also include Loyd Grossman and his band The New Forbidden[nbsp]at Townsend Hall next Friday, 21st June.[nbsp]Headline act on the Last Night of the Proms on 6th July will be the David[nbsp]Bowie tribute band ‘Ultimate Bowie’ plus the ukulele supergroup, Rinky[nbsp]Dinks.