I’m returning to Thaxted Festival on Saturday 21 June with my regular co-stars Paul Sheehan (baritone) and Stephen Dickinson (piano) in a rich programme of works from composers from the golden age of mid-twentieth-century popular song, centred around the complex personality of Noël Coward. Coward travelled to the US with the intention of making his fortune on Broadway as a playwright and songwriter and, although he is not usually considered part of the group whose songs became known as the Great American Songbook, Coward collaborated and partied with the best of them. Expect numbers such as: Mad about the Boy, Puttin’ on the Ritz, I Got Rhythm, Speak Low, If Love were All as well as songs by Kay Swift, whose relationship with George Gershwin was recently the subject of the BBC radio play Gershwin and Miss Swift.
Tickets available from the Thaxed Festival website. Concert starts at 3.00pm.