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Three Choirs Festival

Third full week in August

One of Europe's oldest continuing music festivals, the Three Choirs Festival alternates among the three English cathedral cities of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford. The festival traditionally opens at the host cathedral with a performance by a choir and orchestra. Concerts during the rest of the week-long event take place either in the cathedral or in local theaters and historic homes.
Records show that the festival was founded before 1719, and that it was held, as it is now, in succession at the three cathedrals. In the early days of the festival, it was customary for two or more wealthy patrons—called stewards—to underwrite the cost of the event. Today, subscribers to the festivals are still referred to as stewards, and money collected at the doors of the cathedral following a performance still benefits the Charity for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Clergy, which has been affiliated with the festival since 1724.

CONTACTS:
Three Choirs Festival Association
Community House
7C College Green
Gloucester, GL1 2LX United Kingdom
44-14-5252-9819
www.3choirs.org

SOURCES:
GdWrldFest-1985, p. 91
MusFestEurBrit-1980, p. 61
MusFestWrld-1963, p. 27

Celebration days:
2011: Aug 21 - Aug 27
2012: Aug 19 - Aug 25
2013: Aug 18 - Aug 24
2014: Aug 17 - Aug 23
2015: Aug 16 - Aug 22

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David was organ scholar at the Queen's College, Oxford and then at Gloucester Cathedral where he also spent periods as Acting Director of Music and Acting Assistant Organist and was closely involved with the Three Choirs Festival.

Musical lunch break; Organ concerts by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)

Elin will also be appearing in the Hereford Three Choirs Festival and two productions at the Edinburgh Festival after the Eisteddfod before rounding the summer off with an appearance at Proms in the Park Swansea.

Pundit to presenter - Elin's in her element by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

Cathedral Choir at the 281st Three Choirs Festival.

Worcester's All Saints choirs to discuss U.K. performances by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

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