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Garden Celebration DayAs our first event of 2021, we thought we would celebrate being able to welcome people back to Wingfield Barns with a day of celebrating Spring and the great outdoors.
Stalls, talks and demonstrations, workshops, children's snail trail, cream teas, cakes and refreshments. Small entry fee. Jam Jar Posy Workshops with Gabriel's Garden Gabi will be running two workshops throughout the day offering tuition and providing materials for making jam jar posies for you to take home and enjoy. Each workshop will last for approximately 45 minutes, and cost £25. Places for these must be booked in advance please - unfortunately we will not be able to take bookings on the day. To book, please click on the time slot below: 11.30-12.15 14.30-15.15 Sunday 6th June 2021, 10.30am to 4pm |
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Quiz SupperDust off the grey cells and join the team at Wingfield Barns for our first quiz supper evening.
The bar will be open and the ticket price includes a chilli supper (vegetarian available). Prizes for the winning team. Table teams of 4 - £20 per table Thursday 27th May - SOLD OUT *New Date* Friday 18th June, 6.30pm for a 7pm start To book your table, call 01379 384505 or email office.manager@wingfieldbarns.co.uk |
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RoughCast Theatre Co. presents Shakespeare's
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To watch a teaser trailer of the show, click here.
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The Canterbury TalesGreenMatthews present six of the best-loved tales, told in a variety of styles. Taking visual inspiration from medieval mystery plays and complete with a touring set which has been specially constructed to resemble a medieval travelling theatre, the three-man cast use drama, verse, physical theatre and song to bring Chaucer's characters to riotous life, telling tales packed with colourful characters and strange situations. This is definitely not a dry academic take on English literature – the show is fast, furious, occasionally filthy and invariably funny!
Please note: This will be an open air performance, weather permitting. Please bring something to sit on. Sunday 4th July 2021, 7.30pm Tickets £12 Online sales via www.wegottickets.com/event/512814/ |
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Jacob & DrinkwaterUK alt-folk duo Jacob & Drinkwater have been called “stand out new folk” by BBC6 Music and “inventive and thrilling” by R2 Magazine. Jacob's sweeping vocals never fail to captivate, delivering many a spine-tingling moment; the fluidity and precision of his finger-picking underpinned by Drinkwater's nimbly rhythmic double bass; at times sweetly soaring, haunting, percussive and driving, the layers of depth a perfect counterfoil. Featured numerous times on BBC Radio 2, BBC6 Music and lauded by their musical peers as one of the most accomplished acts touring the circuit today.
Saturday 25th September 2021, 7.30pm
Tickets £12 Online sales via ttps://www.wegottickets.com/event/502921 |
“Bursting with invention and full of surprises.” - The Telegraph |
India Electric Co.
India Electric Company are perhaps best described as “a veritable musical magpie’s nest”, (BBC Radio 3). Blending traditional instruments, folk melodies and subtle electronic influences, they’ve extensively toured throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand, including UK shows at The London Palladium and Hammersmith Apollo.
After live sessions with BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music, Glastonbury Festival appearances and BBC Introducing’s backing they released The Gap in 2020 with FRUK declaring them “one of the truly pioneering acts in folk music”. |
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The Wind In The WillowsGreenMatthews
A brand-new musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s well-loved classic by Chris Green. GreenMatthews use music, song, light and sound to bring this timeless tale to sparkling life.
Join Ratty, Mole, Badger and of course the irrepressible Mr Toad as they embark on various adventures – on the river, on the road and in the dark and dangerous Wild Wood. Using traditional English folk melodies set to new lyrics, the show paints a vivid picture of Grahame’s world – from the humble comfort of Mole End to the grandeur of Toad Hall. The Wind in the Willows is the perfect soundtrack to summer – vivacious, sparkling and full of life. Sunday 24th October 2021, 7.30pm Tickets £12 Online sales via https://www.wegottickets.com/event/506055 |
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GigspannerWe are thrilled to be welcoming Gigspanner back to Wingfield Barns this November.
Described since as one of the “most quietly brilliant sets of musicians in the folk world and beyond” (Folk Radio UK), Gigspanner has stayed true to their quest to take self-penned material along with music rooted in the British Isles and beyond, and with the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of a beat, produce richly atmospheric arrangements “with notes seemingly plucked from the stars and rhythms from the equator” (Spiral Earth). In 2013, Gigspanner’s founding member, legendary fiddle player Peter Knight, left Steeleye Span to wholly commit to the trio, and in the process established their reputation as one of the most genuinely ground-breaking forces on the British folk scene, inspiring Maverick magazine to write "Gigspanner are making some of the most beautiful music the genre has to offer" 5***** Saturday 6th November 2021, 7.30pm Tickets £18 Online sales via www.wegottickets.com/event/512878/ |
“Martin Simpson is a superb teller of a song. You just have to listen to the opener on this double album, his own composition, Trouble Brought Me Here, to appreciate how his articulation brings the substance of a song alive, borne on his flowing guitar or banjo accompaniment.” The Scotsman
"Hearing Andy Cutting play is like going through the wardrobe and finding Narnia. His music is glorious, joyful, moving, subtle, emotionally charged, a totally spell-binding experience that is never long enough". June Tabor |
Martin Simpson and Andy CuttingMartin and Andy have both played solo gigs at Wingfield Barns in the past, and we are thrilled to welcome them back, this time as a duo for what will be an extremely rare performance. With most of the planned tour cancelled, this will be the place to see them if you live anywhere this side of London.
The remarkable intimate solo performances Martin gives go from strength to strength - every gig is a masterclass. He travels the length and breadth of the UK and beyond, giving rapt audiences passion, sorrow, love, beauty, tragedy and majesty through his playing. “What’s it like being the best guitar player in the world…?” Martin’s modesty and grace prevented him from answering this BBC Radio 4 interviewer’s question recently, but the facts speak for themselves. 40 years after he recorded his first album, Golden Vanity, in 1976, Martin is known as a guitarist of formidable talent. Equally at home playing English traditional folk, American folk and blues and his own compositions, he is consistently named as one of the very finest fingerstyle guitar players in the world. Andy Cutting is a rarity. A musician's musician (BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winner Best Musician 2008, 2011 & 2016): a soulful and technically outstanding melodeon practitioner with an ear for a fine tune. Many of his tunes have been purloined along the way: some considered contemporary classics on the folk scene. But then, Andy is also a warm and emotive performer, modestly engaging his audiences with his self-deprecating wit and then flooring them with downright staggering musicianship. There are few melodeon players who put so much feeling into their playing, whether it is a set of dance tunes, or accompaniment to a slow English ballad. Saturday 21st May 2022, 7.30pm Tickets £20 Online sales via www.wegottickets.com/event/511568/ |
Drama is a crucial part of the programme of events and includes performances by professional companies. We are also delighted to host plays by local societies and are keen to promote events by students in local schools and by pupils of local music teachers.
Please call 01379 384505 if you would like to discuss Wingfield Barns hosting your community group performance.
Please call 01379 384505 if you would like to discuss Wingfield Barns hosting your community group performance.
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