Ashdown Music Festival

Dear All 

Tomorrow – Saturday 11th November – we go LIVE with our Day of Music. If you haven’t got your tickets yet we still have them available to purchase online here. You can also call Festival Director Reinoud Ford (who has had a trendy haircut especially for the occasion… come and see it for yourselves) on 07764 681777 for tickets. Any remaining tickets will be available to purchase on the door. 

Choose from our Family Concert featuring the amazing and inspiring Thorne Trio at 11:30am or our Afternoon Concert with the charismatic Cassius Trio at 4.30pm. If you’re feeling indulgent why not come to both? A rich, varied and top-notch day it will be. Both concerts take place in the Christian Community Church in Forest Row. 

As ever we will have delicious homemade treats for sale at both concerts. 

Hope to see you there! 

TICKETS for the ASHDOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL “A Day of Music” are on sale!

All tickets are available to purchase via credit card here or you may reserve tickets by calling: 07764 681777. 

We are very excited to be bringing you a day jam-packed with two brilliant and very different programmes on Saturday 11th November, 2017. 

Our Family Concert (generously sponsored by the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust) will be performed by the Thorne Trio. Filled with fantastic music, great games and informative instrument demos, this concert is a must for any young music fans and indeed any older ones too! Join us for what has become one of the Festival’s highlights each year. 

Keen crafters out there have the option to join us for an hour of creativity and fun before the Family Concert and can take home their self-made treasures afterwards!  

Our Afternoon Concert features the award-winning Cassius Trio. Franz Schubert, Ernst Von Dohnanyi and Johannes Brahms are all on the line-up. Featuring world-class musicians Ann Beilby, Reinoud Ford, Martyn Jackson and Sam Armstrong for a phenomenal price, this afternoon will be filled with a LOT of sparkling notes and is really not-to-be-missed! 

Please tell your friends and families and do book your tickets early to avoid disappointment. We always value your support for what we do. Here’s looking forward to a real AMF high note in November. 

See you there! 

Reinoud Ford
Director AMF Reinoud Ford

Dear All 

As you make fun family/ friendly plans for this coming weekend don’t forget about our Friends Concert on Saturday 16th September at 3.30pm in the Long Room at Michael Hall School. 

Delight in about an hour’s worth of Bach performed by two hunky cello men, to be followed by an array of (free!) refreshments served (we hope) on the terrace (fingers crossed the weather plays ball!) 

Contributing Friends of the AMF can attend the afternoon free of charge (and can bring a Plus 1 free of charge also). All others keen too attend can purchase tickets here or by calling Reinoud on 07764 681777 or on the door. We hope to see you there! 

Dear Audiences and Supporters of the AMF,

Our countdown clock is ticking away: only ONE week to go until our Super Saturday.

On Saturday 5th November at 11am (Christian Community Church, Forest Row) the Magnard Wind Ensemble will host our FAMILY CONCERT. Also featuring Piano and Narrator, these talented musicians will delight families with stories, musical snippets and informative instrument demos (including Tales of Mother Goose by Ravel).

At 4.30pm on Saturday 5th November (Christian Community Church) the Brook Street Band – one of the country’s foremost interpreters of Baroque music – will guide us on a musical Grand Tour, taking in Handel, Bach, Telemann and Vivaldi along the way. Delicious non-alcoholic Baroque-tails available at interval.

Lend us your ears and generous support because without each of you there can be no Festival!

See you there! Reinoud Ford

Our concert countdown has started! This time next week we’ll be warming up for our Opening Concert (Friday 4th November, 7.30pm, Christian Community Church, Forest Row).

A beautifully balanced programme pulled from the solo and chamber repertoires. Award-winning English pianist Sam Armstrong performs solo Schubert and will be joined by Festival Director Reinoud Ford and Violinist Oscar Perks to deliver the rousing melodies of Beethoven’s iconic Archduke Trio and Dvorak’s delicious Dumky, laced with Eastern European folk tunes.

“Remember, Remember…!” Without an audience there can be no Festival. We hope to see you there! Book online or call 07764 681777.

Reinoud

Dear Friends of the AMF, Music Lovers and Festival Supporters,

This past weekend has been a busy behind-the-scenes one for the AMF as kitchen surfaces were given over to mixing bowls and baking tins. We’ve been tweaking our bakes and cakes for our Big Bang Gala Concert on Sunday 6th November and we think you’re going to LOVE the results! Succulent spiced carrot cake, lemon-scented almond loaf and not to mention our mega choc-dipped oaty biscuits for the young (at heart)!

Our Gala is offering much more besides bakes: music to delight the senses and something unique for the area. For the first time in a LONG time Forest Row will be treated to uplifting ORCHESTRAL strains as the brilliant 12 Ensemble (an un-conducted 12 person string ensemble from London) takes to the stage, to be joined by 4 wind players for two concertos. Walton, Mozart and Haydn: I can think of no better friends to share a slice of something sweet with.

Our Festival weekend also features an intimate evening of chamber works for piano and strings (Friday 4th November) and an afternoon of “Grand Tour” Baroque music played by the award-winning Brook Street Band. Treat yourself to a Season Ticket to enjoy all three concerts! We’ve got a Family Concert for our younger ones on Saturday 5th November.

Please book now to show your support and we will bring you some magical musical times.

Reinoud Ford