LFA Newsletter
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“Just Us” – A Revue
Don’t let the approach of winter get you down! Get your weekend off to a great start and enjoy an evening of sparkling cabaret-style entertainment, complete with supper, songs and sketches which are sure to amuse. The doors will open…
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A Night Cap with Ian Bostridge
Enjoy post-concert refreshments with acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge after his Cathedral recital. He will also be signing copies of A Singer’s Notebook. Please use the booking form to order Night-Cap tickets. Concert tickets will need to be booked separately from…
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AGM & Vicarish Allsorts
The LFA AGM this year was, as usual, well-attended, and the presence of Trevor, the Festival pig, on the platform was a happy reminder of the pleasures of the Festival last year. It was all a marked contrast to the…
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Bella Italia
Ninety folk filled The Guildhall for an unusual and fascinating evening of music and good fellowship. Oliver Broad from event sponsors Robert Broad Travel and Bishop David Bentley welcomed us, Barry Cheeseman spoke of Kirker Music events. It was no…
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Chairman’s Message: November 2011
Dear Friends, Welcome to the first edition of the LFA Newsletter to be sent out via email. This is a major turning point in the history of the LFA and you will have had notice of this in our September…
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Chairman’s Message:April 2012
The following is a precis of David Bentley’s Chairman’s Report to the AGM at Friary School on Friday 30 March. It is very encouraging to see such a good attendance at the AGM. The Treasurer reported that in the last…
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Festival Director’s Message
Dear Friends, Back in March, if we can bear to take ourselves back to the programme launch and AGM, things looked bad. Along with many other organisations, we had lost our Arts Council funding, one of the key things that…
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Jen’s View
With a crack in the window, dips in the floorboards and a draught blowing across my desk as I write, my office does sometimes resemble a scene from a BBC Dickensian adaptation. Yet life up here in the garret room overlooking the…
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Just Us Revue
This well-organised evening in Whittington back in November provided the LFA’s usual mix of splendid buffet (courtesy of the wonderful Jane Steeley) and lovely flower arrangements, all produced with that well-tried combination of hard work, expertise and flair. However, the…
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LFA Events Calendar 2011/12
Booking Now: Music for a New Age Friday 11 May 2012 St Chad’s Church, Lichfield A entertainment to celebrate the great spirit of the age of the Enlightenment with a marriage of the words of Josiah Wedgwood, and his reflections…
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LFA Festival Drinks Party
New LFA Members are particularly encouraged to come along to this informal social occasion and to meet other Members and their guests. Drinks will be served in advance of the lively concert by the Armonico Ensemble of Too Hot to…
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Lichfield Literature
I’ve decided on my New Year’s resolution for 2012. It is to be in Lichfield for the whole of next year’s Literature Festival. This year, I was around for only the final weekend – but what a weekend it proved…
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Music for a New Age
An entertainment to celebrate the great spirit of the age of the Enlightenment. A marriage of the words of Josiah Wedgwood, and his reflections on some of the luminaries of the time who were his contemporaries, with the most famous…
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Visit to Bletchley Park
The LFA is delighted to have been able to arrange a visit to Bletchley Park, the top secret centre for WW2 codebreaking activities, in the course of which Alan Turing and others developed pioneering equipment which was the foundation for…
