Now in it’s 14th year, the Battle Festival Scarecrow Competition has a new theme – ‘Top of the Crops” – The Music Festival for ‘Popstar’ Scarecrows. The star-struck scarecrows will complement Beautiful Battle’s Summer Flower Displays and act as a curtain-raiser to the wonderful Battle Festival which runs for three weeks. Alongside the colourful creations […]
Bringing a taste of Indian dance, this is a high energy workshop and you will learn various styles, including traditional Indian folk dance and the more modern Bollywood styles. The team will be present in traditional Indian attire and the workshops are planned to be 2 hours in length in which participants can have a […]
Samuel Peacock Studio invites you all to view his “Summer Collection” of artwork at his studio. Based just off Battle High Street in Tills Yard. Samuel Peacock has been working with steel for the past 20 years and creates vivid landscapes using a range of oils and organic materials burned onto steel. He works with […]
Battle’s very own Battle Community Singers will be dressed in Medieval Costume to perform a brand new song “A Town was Built on Blood”, telling the tale of the aftermath of the famous 1066 battle. Music is by local composer Andrew Trunkfield and words by Sakia Wesnigk. Members of Battle Community Singers are “from the […]
A hilarious, interactive comedy walkabout with a tree family looking for somewhere to settle down. As the forests are getting smaller and smaller the tree family decide to live with the humans. Our walking and talking trees blend in with human behaviour, interact and cause gentle chaos by putting down roots in the wrong place, […]
Following their success in last year’s festival, Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra make a welcome return to Battle in a must-see programme for any music lover. Soloist Susanne Stanzeleit joins the orchestra in “Eight Seasons”, Vivaldi’s ever popular set of the Four Seasons interspersed with its companion composition by the great Astor Piazzolla. They will be framed […]
After the national success of his long-running show NEIL BRAND PRESENTS BUSTER KEATON, the composer/writer/broadcaster/ musician returns with an all-new show about the immortal comedy duo so recently portrayed in the hit film Stan and Ollie. From their earliest days on opposite sides of the Atlantic in Music Hall and on the stage, to their […]
This was an age when North African based corsairs joined by renegade English privateers such as John Ward (a Kentish man and inspiration for Jack Sparrow) hounded the South East coast.
Redwoood Productions are proud to present a very special tribute to the Clown Jewels of the Crazy Gang, Flanagan & Allen. Featuring their most loved songs, including Run Rabbit Run, Strolling, and of course, Underneath the Arches. This is a must- see for everyone aged 8-80!
A Special 80th Anniversary Free Screening of this classic animated film, a wonderful film for young families. Own refreshments welcome.
Completely self-taught, vibraphone player and composer Roger Beaujolais originally gained recognition with 80’s jump jive favourites The Chevalier Brothers, whose musicianship & anarchic brand of humour took them all over the world. Pianist Gareth Williams has worked with many international jazz greats and has been the long-standing pianist and musical director for acclaimed jazz singer […]
A jazz quartet unlike any other: this one is led by Mark Cherrie, a steel pannist bringing something unique to the jazz world. His critically acclaimed 2018 album Joining the Dots was very deliberately a jazz album made with musicians who are well known on the UK jazz circuit and with music that is not […]
Alan Barnes/Dave Newton/Andrew Cleyndert Trio Three of the biggest names in British jazz come together to set this afternoon of music off to a terrific start. Between them they have won an astonishing number of major jazz awards. Clarinet player and saxophonist Alan Barnes is a prolific international performer, composer, arranger, bandleader and touring soloist. […]
Starring Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins, The Phantom of the Open is the heart warming true story of Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist. Despite never playing a round of golf before, he manages to gain entry to the British Open Golf Championship in 1976.
The dramatic 100 year race to reach the South Pole with its roots in Sussex. It was a century of incredible episodes by a series of extraordinary explorers which began by chance with a mysterious Irish explorer, reached a climax with Amundsen and Scott and ended with the premature death of Shackleton. And continues to […]
Battle Festival audiences are in for a treat with this concert given by Thomas Kelly, prizewinner at this year’s Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition as well as the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition and numerous others. The programme includes masterpieces such as Bach Partita C minor, Beethoven Eroica Variations, Busoni Toccata, Medtner Sonata and Stravinsky […]
Barefoot Opera, back at Battle Festival after their great success here last summer, will present an unforgettable night at the Opera. Enjoy a glass of something sparkly, and listen to your favourite opera numbers, all sung by superlative young professional talents, newly graduated from the Royal College of Music, the Guildhall and the RCM Wales. […]
A musical afternoon in the beautiful setting of Abbot’s Hall at Battle Abbey, featuring the internationally renowned Primrose Piano Quartet. One of the leading chamber ensembles of the UK with a long string of critically acclaimed CDs to their name, the Quartet will present an attractive programme featuring Fauré’s passionate Piano Quartet in C minor […]