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10.30am Lichfield Garrick 60mins
Strange Materials Animate matter is coming: concrete that can communicate when it is about to collapse, hip replacements that self-heal and intelligent wallpaper that changes colour if you become angry. Dr Mark Miodownik, of Kings College, London, provides and introduction to the science that underpins such future innovations. Presented in association with the Lichfield Science & Engineering Society £5 unreserved Book tickets Booking Code: 15A
12noon Ball Room, Swinfen Hall Hotel 120mins
Barbirolli Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op.77 No.1
Beethoven String Quartet Op.95
Brahms String Quartet Op.51 No.1  Formed at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Barbirolli Quartet brings together a wealth of worldwide experience, comprising players from Canada, Wales, Australia and New Zealand. They were recently selected by the European Concert Halls Organisation for inclusion in their prestigious ‘Rising Stars’ series and they will embark on an exciting international tour this year.
"Forthright, full-blooded musicians, afraid of nothing"
The Times
Swinfen Hall Hotel is 2 miles south of Lichfield. If you wish to book a table for lunch, contact the hotel on 01543 481494 £16 (under 18s half price) Book tickets Booking Code: 15B
See the Barbirolli Quartet perform again on Tuesday 14 July
7.30pm Lichfield Garrick 120mins
Ukulele Orchesta of Great Britain presents
Ukulelescope
Performance 2
RETURNS ONLY
The extraordinary Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain returns to Lichfield for the second of two nights of something completely out of the box. They have plundered the British Film Institute’s archives to find a host of unusual and little-seen gems from the early days of silent film, and have sculpted them into a delightfully eclectic evening of music, film, comedy and pathos. This mixed bill combines short films and clips including adverts, singing pictures, dramas, science and nature films, hints, hobbies and documentary footage to amaze, amuse and baffle. All of this, of course, presented in the UOGB’s own inimitable style, and set to a programme of original scores and old favourites from musical history.
Sponsored by  www.ukuleleorchestra.com £22.50, £16, £10 Book tickets Booking Code: 15C
7.30pm Lichfield Cathedral 120mins
Seven Elements James Gilchrist tenor
Philippe Honoré violin
Rustem Hayroudinoff piano
   Over the last three years, audiences have been profoundly moved by Alec Roth’s settings of Vikram Seth’s texts, presented as part of the acclaimed four-year Confluences project. Seth and Roth have led us on a journey of ideas, immersed us in stunningly beautiful music and left a lasting impression on how we perceive the world. Seven Elements is the fourth and final year of Confluences and weaves together the previous years’ themes of China, Europe and India into two enthralling new chamber works. With the stunning voice of James Gilchrist joining the project for the first time, violinist Philippe Honoré and pianist Rustem Hayroudinoff will perform these pieces alongside Schubert’s glorious and rarely performed The Shepherd on the Rock. Schubert’s Violin Sonata in A major and a selection of his songs complete the programme. “Words and music cut through to grasp ears and hearts”
The Times on Confluences III: The Traveller
A Lichfield Festival co-commission presented in partnership with the Salisbury and Chelsea Festivals. Supported by the Lichfield Festival Association £19.50, £12.50 under 25s Book tickets Booking Code: 15D In conversation: Alec Roth, Vikram Seth and Philippe Honore join Festival Director Richard Hawley at 6.30pm in the Lady Chapel. Free entry for Event 15D ticket holders.
7.45pm Lichfield Garrick Studio 60mins
The Happiness Patrol presents
Tales of Terror
based upon the stories of MR James and Lafcadio Hearn
 After its recent sell-out success with The Masque of the Red Death, The Happiness Patrol continues its mission to reinvent classic texts with this selection of English and Japanese ghost stories. Watch as rickety scarecrows and abandoned wives spring terrifying surprises, and savour the spine-tingling horrors lurking at the bottom of a cup of tea.
Recommended for age 12+ happiness-patrol.com Also on Thursday 16, Friday 17 and Saturday 18 July. £10, £8 students Book tickets Booking Code: 15E
10pm Lichfield Cathedral 70mins
Fyfe Hutchins piano
 As Fyfe Dangerfield he leads the hit-making, BRIT- and Mercury Prize-nominated pop band Guillemots; as Fyfe Hutchins he played a Rachmaninov piano concerto while still at school, has composed music for the CBSO and Ex Cathedra and has had two choral pieces premiered at past Lichfield Festivals. For his solo concert this evening, he will improvise at the piano. Expect the unexpected.
Late night events supported by The Foyle Foundation £10 unreserved Book tickets Booking Code: 15F
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