National Festival – Society of Recorder Players

SOCIETY OF RECORDER PLAYERS NATIONAL FESTIVAL 2018

The 2018 Festival will be held over the weekend of 14th and 15th April in Barton Peveril College, Eastleigh, Hampshire SO50 5ZA. Click on map here.

Conductors: Tom Beets – Helen Hooker – Lyndon Hilling – Christopher Burgess – Moira Usher – David Burgess – Ann Marshall – Steve Marshall – Alyson Lewin – Sheila Richards – Sandra Foxall with Julia McKinley – Glyn Evans – Mary Steele – John Kitcher and Penny Smith.

Wessex is known for its beautiful scenery and its historic significance. The gentle coastline gives way to the New Forest to the west and the South Downs to the east. At its centre is Winchester, the capital of the kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great. Some of its beauty spots are almost as well-known for the significant events which took place there as for their beauty. The New Forest was created by William the Conqueror, but his son, William II, was murdered there. Cheriton, known today for its brewery, is a pretty village, but it was the site of a major battle in the civil war. The picturesque Solent is famous for recreational sailing, but has seen soldiers sail away to fight from the Hundred Years’ War in the fourteenth century through two World Wars to the Falklands War in the twentieth.

Join us here for the Society of Recorder Players’ National Festival 14^th to 15^th April 2018. Stay a few more days and turn the weekend into a holiday. Walk in the New Forest; discover the historic dockyard and the Mary Rose in Portsmouth; explore Winchester Cathedral; visit Jane Austen’s home in Chawton, spend a day on a cruise ship in Southampton.