Welcome to the Trinity Arts Festival website
43rd Season - 10th-25th May 2008
The Festival aims to raise the profile of Holy Trinity Church, Southport; to enrich the community and to inspire a sense of awe and wonder through the promotion of a wide variety of art forms.
With Easter falling early in 2008, the Trinity Arts Festival will be held in May and it promises to be an exciting affair.
The Trinity Sunday Festival Family Eucharist will be held on 18th May and, as usual, will include a short Mass setting sung liturgically through the service. The music will be Schubert’s Mass in G, Haydn’s Te Deum and Mozart’s Laudate Dominum.
The very popular Art Exhibition will be held again this year (10th & 11th May) and will include a demonstration and display of spinning and weaving as our craft event in the small hall.
We have three flagship events this year. The first is is a singing group, Lyra, from St Petersburg in Russia in concert on Saturday, 10th May.
Our second big event is on Saturday, 17th May, with a concert by the Welsh male voice choir, Côr Godre'r Aran. We have enjoyed many fine singing groups at Trinity and this promises to be among the best, as the choir, who come from a village near Dolgellau, won the Llangollen International Eisteddfod Male Choir prize in 2000 and again in 2005. Under their Conductor & Accompanist Eirian Hughes they have made a number of recordings which are available commercially. We believe we're set for an exciting evening's music.
The third major event is on Saturday, 24th May when the renowned Leyland Band visit us. They were formed in 1946 as the Leyland Motors Band and have since become famous both locally and throughout the country having won the National Brass Band Competition in 2005. Brass always sounds good in the fine acoustic of our church and we are confident that the Leyland Band will give us a thrilling concert.
This year we are to revive a series of lunchtime recitals - a popular feature of the early years of the Trinity Festival some forty years ago. These will take place in Church between 1 and 1.45 pm on 12th to 16th May. Nick Tudor and his young friends will play for us on Thursday and Dr Sue Garner Jones has promised us a literary event on the Tuesday. The series will also include an Organ Recital by the Director of Music at Holy Trinity, David Williams, plus two more recitals yet to be confirmed.
We are to continue with the recent years practice of holding a craft workshop and this will be on Friday, 23rd May when James Fray will lead us in a workshop on sketching and artistic techniques.
Another chance for a "Hands on" evening will be on Friday, 16th May when we shall hold a Medieval Banquet in the Parish Centre; we shall be joined by a real live Lord & Lady and there will be various entertainments.
Our own Hesketh Trio will present a recital of Chamber Music from around the British Isles on Tuesday, 20th May.
The Festival will close with the now traditional Festal Evensong on Sunday, 25th May when we invite everyone associated with the Festival and all our friends to join us.
The Festal Evensong will includ Stanford in A, Let All The World by Vaughan Williams and I was Glad by Parry.
If you would like any information on any of our activities, please do get in touch.
Access For The Disabled - All events are wheelchair accessible