Everyone is invited to come and enjoy this annual event with live music, children’s activities, stalls and entertainment for all. Admission is free.
Pond Square will reverberate to the carnival sounds of The Hornsey School for Girls Steel Band and local amateur choirs, dancers and musicians will perform on the stage in Pond Square as well as the cast from ‘The Blond Bombshells of 1943’ at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Over 120 charities, societies, Highgate shops and small businesses are taking part this year. No one need go hungry as there will be stalls serving an international selection of delicious foods. The popular Country Fair, arranged in conjunction with the Highgate Horticultural Society, will showcase the baking and horticultural skills of local people and entry is open to all.
There will be lots for the younger visitors to enjoy with roundabout and train rides, a creative play tent, Punch and Judy shows, circus skills workshops, stilt walkers and an unmissable Sheep Shearing Show.
Everyone is invited to come and enjoy this annual event with live music, children’s activities, stalls and entertainment for all. Admission is free.
Pond Square will reverberate to the carnival sounds of The Hornsey School for Girls Steel Band and local amateur choirs, dancers and musicians will perform on the stage in Pond Square as well as the cast from ‘The Blond Bombshells of 1943’ at Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Over 120 charities, societies, Highgate shops and small businesses are taking part this year. No one need go hungry as there will be stalls serving an international selection of delicious foods. The popular Country Fair, arranged in conjunction with the Highgate Horticultural Society, will showcase the baking and horticultural skills of local people and entry is open to all.
There will be lots for the younger visitors to enjoy with roundabout and train rides, a creative play tent, Punch and Judy shows, circus skills workshops, stilt walkers and an unmissable Sheep Shearing Show.
Highgate Choral Society’s carol concert is always an event, with plenty of audience participation! Everyone is welcome, especially young children who enjoy this magical time.
Highgate Choral Society‘s annual Christmas concert invites the whole community to join us, with the St Michael’s School junior choir and also the New London Children’s Choir and make merry. Carols and music will include some old favourites as well as some you may not know. It’s just the event to begin the run up to Christmas, so join us!
karen lane presents the music of nancy wilson & cannonball adderley
thursday 4 may
With Martin Hathaway | alto, Steve Fishwick | trumpet
Graham Harvey |piano, Simon Woolf | bass, Matt Fishwick | drums
Arriving from Australia in 2000 after performing at many of the big Asian Festivals, Karen has released five albums to critical acclaim. She’s worked with some of our finest musicians including Tom Cawley, Andy Hamill and Robin Aspland and has found herself performing in exotic places she’d never imagined she’d see including Sicily, Portafino, Nice, Monte Carlo, Berlin, Cape Town and Bucharest.
Her visit to Lauderdale House will be a unique date on the London scene when she recreates the music of Nancy Wilson. Had she not coincided with the advent of rock and soul, Nancy Wilson would have been considered one of the greatest female jazz singers of them all. Luckily she did record a number of albums with one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Cannonball Adderley and Karen thinks it’s high time Nancy’s music was reassessed. This is going to be a concert you should not miss!
“.. a fine and distinctive singer” Dave Gelly, The Observer
“.. as accomplished.. as I have heard this year” Peter Quinn, Jazzwise
Time: 20:30
Venue: Lauderdale House
£7 STUDENT CONCESSION
| Price band | A | B |
| Standard | £12.00 | |
| Concession | £10.00 | |
| Child | £7.00 |
Concessions are available for students, people on benefit and over 60s. Proof must be provided when collecting tickets.
to book
Box office: 0208 348 8716
Email: enquiries@lauderdale.org.uk
Website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk
Highgate Choral Society’s annual family carols concert has become an unmissable event, with plenty of variety and audience participation! Early booking is advised as this is always a sell-out.
Bellway hosts Highgate Art Exhibition to showcase local talent – local residents invited to enjoy some culture, carols and canapes
On Thursday 14th December, from 6.30pm until 9.00pm, local developer, Bellway Homes is hosting an exhibition of captivating, vibrant paintings by local artist, Michèle Janes – one of the UK’s leading original abstract artists. This free exhibition will take place at Bellway Homes’ prestigious new development on Bishops Road, Highgate, where local residents are invited to attend a festive evening of culture, canapés and carol singing.
The exhibition will be opened by Councillor Stephen Mann, Mayor of Haringey, and a selection of paintings will be available to purchase at the event – 10% of the proceeds will be donated to The Mayors’ Special Fund Appeal ‘Making a Difference for Mental Health’.
The exhibition will deliver an ‘abstract Christmas’ to leafy Highgate – a selection of paintings with vibrant colour as the dominant theme – showcasing Michèle’s love of London life and “the feline world big and small”. It will
feature a range of both paper framed and canvas art work. ‘Abstract freelance’ pieces will include colour integrations with a high gloss finish (on paper framed), combining minimalist and full on colour effects. This selection of
images are destined to brighten up the most mundane of environments, by adding a true WOW factor.
‘Abstract defined’ pieces will include colour integrations with a more delicate feel – allowing greater scope for interpretation – featured on canvass. These abstract images represent the artist’s emotion at any given time (Michèle’s work is often acclaimed for her honesty of expression).
A festive selection of carols and music to get you in the mood for Christmas. The award winning Highgate Choral Society Choir will be joined by New London Children’s Choir and New London Performing Arts Centre.
Edward Batting on the organ and Alexander Wells will be accompanying on the piano all conducted by the illustrious Ronald Corp OBE.
Benjamin Britten’s much-loved work for voices and harp is the centrepiece of this year’s Christmas concert, which will also feature atmospheric sacred music from across the centuries and popular secular Christmas songs. You’ll also have the opportunity to raise the roof by joining in with a couple of well-known carols!
With Voxcetera chamber choir, Olivia Jageurs (harp), Paul Ayres (organ and piano), conducted by Jane Hopkins.
BAR: open from 7pm selling wine and mince pies.