Celebrate Voice is back for its 9th year with tickets going on sale this week.
The festival runs from October 20 to 29. For the second time, all events will be held in Salisbury’s Guildhall, and will see the venue filled with music from opera and jazz to cabaret, and also community workshops.
The festival brings to Salisbury celebrated performers from the West End, from leading opera houses and from the very recent Edinburgh Festival, hand-picked by artistic director Lynsey Docherty.
This year the festival has a ‘best of British’ flavour, in keeping with the Jubilee anniversary, celebrating British performers, composers and writers.
One of the UKs leading jazz stars, multi-award winning singer, Claire Martin OBE performs for the festival for time this year.
Claire Martin Picture by Kenny Mccracken
A leading British opera cast make their home in the city from mid-October with local host families, in preparation for four performances of The Pirates of Penzance.
Between them the singers have performed at English National Opera, the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, WNO and festivals internationally.
Led by William Morgan as Frederic (Candide, Scottish Opera) the show provides an up-close experience to some of today’s leading opera stars.
Olivier Award-winning West End star and actress, Janie Dee, is taking a one-night break from filming a new series for Paramount to bring to Salisbury an evening of ‘Coward & Friends’ with King of Cabaret, Stefan Bednarcyzk.
Janie Dee
In this specially curated show, celebrating the talent of composer, singer and writer Noel Coward, the audience will feel like they are part of a special, intimate concert with their most musical friends.
2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe sensation, Paulus, presents ‘Looking for me Friend – The Music of Victoria Wood, in his critically acclaimed tribute to one of Britain’s sorely missed national treasures.
Paulus Photo by Steve Ullathorne
As part of a special Celebrate Voice cabaret double bill, Caroline Kennedy stars as Bumbleina as an ‘irresistibly funny’ single thirty-something, looking for love via dating app.
Opening the festival this year, and fresh from an acclaimed Edinburgh appearance, Liza Pulman brings her new show ‘The Heart of It’ to Salisbury.
Liza Pulman
Community events include a gala for older people, music workshops for people with memory loss and dementia, a whole day devoted to young adults with SEND creating a show with the festival’s opera singers, and a host of musical family events for all ages.
Tickets go on general sale today (Tuesday, September 6). Celebrate Voice is in partnership with Salisbury City Council. Tickets available at celebratevoice.co.uk
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