MAY 8th – 17th PROGRAMME GUIDE
“Echoes from Northamptonshire”
BRIXWORTH ONLINE MUSIC FESTIVAL
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What is “Echoes from Northamptonshire”?
Echoes – Minerva Scientifica has been touring the UK for four years celebrating the histories of the UK’s forgotten female scientists, through the medium of song, music, performance and spoken word. This special programme (NOW ONLINE!) features music by women composers and local connections with flight, from the bats and moths at Pitsford Water to Women Flight Engineers like Northamptonshire’s Lilian Bader – one of the first black women to join the WAAF – and whose family had 3 generations serving in the armed forces. Our researchers have found fascinating women from across the county whose exploits will astonish you and – if you are from Northamptonshire – make you very proud indeed!
PROGRAMME FOR THE FESTIVAL
make sure you check back every day from 11am & find out how to join in live events
Fri May 8th VE DAY
Premiere of our first Lockdown Recording of a song by Amanda Ira Aldridge – who taught the singer Paul Robeson who was in turn a favourite singer of Engineer Lilian Bader to whom it is now dedicated.
Sat 9th Find out more about ECHOES at the BRIXWORTH ONLINE MUSIC FESTIVAL and listen to “Echoes” by Madeleine Dring (1923 – 1977) our adopted signature song! 
Sun 10th Echoes projects are all about women composers so we are delighted to be joining BRIXWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL for a look back at their annual Competition for Women Composers – that’s after recording some music with our singers in their homes for you to listen to/and sing on Tuesday
Mon 11th find out why a composer links Doctor Who to Northampton
Tues 12th Let’s make a ZOOM CHOIR for the story of a young Lace Maker and Hymnodist from Piddington
Wed 13th when we will be contemplating nature with Brixworth Country Park
Thurs 14th Poetry from Northamptonshire with BRIXWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL on FACEBOOK
Fri 15th We would have been performing at BRIXWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL today but instead we will PREMIERE A NEW WORK online “Bats, Moths and Bi-planes – Part 1” which combines the amazing Women’s Meeting at Sywell Aerodrome in 1931 with the wildlife at Pitsford Water Nature Reserve
Sat 16th – More flight today! AT 7PM we will PREMIERE the second part of “Bats, Moths and Bi-planes ” Here’s one of the pieces we would have performed for you, it’s about ecology and 2 women working in the north of Scotland a century apart “Tystie and the Primrose”
JOIN US AT 7pm TODAY FOR THE PREMIERE OF
“Bats, Moths and Bi-planes – PART 2″
by Frances M Lynch
(supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund)
for voices, vintage plane engines, moth wings and bat echolocation
Sun 17th – for the final day of “Echoes from Northamptonshire” We will look back at the last 10 days and forward to 2021 and the next LIVE BRIXWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL
JOIN US AT 6PM ON ZOOM
Live discussion with the Festival Directors
hear more about their Women Composers Competition
enjoy some live Music
meet some special guests
contact us for details of how to join
Practice Singing “Echoes from Northamptonshire” today with Frances so you can join in the singing tomorrow
Echoes from Northants, Echoes from Northants,
Engineers, Doctors, Scientists, Composers
So many lived here, Some very near here,
We could be just like them
We hear their echoes from Northants, We hear their echoes from Northants
Echoes from Northamptonshire!
BRIXWORTH ONLINE MUSIC FESTIVAL
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BRIXWORTH MUSIC FESTIVAL 2021 – SEE YOU THERE!
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