On 4th August STEEL BONES HELD THEIR second celebration day, generously hosted by the British American committee and was attended by 150 amputees and their families. With amputee information stalls, inclusive sports for all and…
Inspired by Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, the production of ‘The Dreaming’ presented in the Hayward Theatre last week was amazing. The logistics of combining two of the most renowned theatre groups in the area, Viva and King’s…
In the midst of so much gloomy news it was a real tonic to go last week to a children's concert held in the Ante Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
King's Junior Voices was a choir founded in 2008 as part of the national project “Sing…
ADeC has taken on board Ely Mayor’s wish for Ely to become a dementia-friendly city and has offered a chance for sufferers and their carers to see a film: ‘Dad’s Army’. The event was entitled ‘Accessible Cinema’ to lose the unnecessary…
The Isle of Ely Arts Festival culminated splendidly with a magnificent concert in Ely Cathedral. Taking part were Ely Choral Society, Ely Sinfonia, Ely Consort and soloists Peyee Chen (soprano), Freya Jacklin (mezzo soprano), Michael…
Cambridge Philharmonic gave a splendid concert in Ely Cathedral on Saturday. Under the baton of conductor Timothy Redmond, choir, orchestra and solo soprano Stephanie Corley, filled the Cathedral with emotive, potent, and effective sounds.…
The ‘Isle Singers’, a small choir of ladies, sang to the patients in Aria Court Care Home in March Cambridgeshire last Thursday. Rosemary Westwell, leader of the choir, said: ‘It was wonderful to see the faces of the patients and their…
For 18 years Chapterhouse Theatre has produced 'warm, traditional and magical theatre in magical surroundings'.
Well this production in the grounds of Ely Cathedral certainly had the magical - one might almost say mystic - ingredient.…
Opera Bohemia’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ in the Hayward Theatre in Ely on Saturday 1st July was wonderful.
The singing was superb, the actions measured and strongly symbolic, and the accompaniment robust and supportive. The underlying…