Sunday 25th July - Saturday 31st July 2010
E-mail: enquiry@holtsummerfestival.org
Monday 26th – Saturday 31st July
Street Theatre sponsored by Byfords Café, Deli and Posh B&B
Monday 26th July
Urban Canvas – Pavement Art
10.30am – 4.00pm – Fish Hill
Internationally acclaimed artists and Masters of Visual Pavement Art, Urban Canvas create works that would grace any gallery. Involving up to hundreds of people everyone has the opportunity to leave their mark and creatively play on the streets. Given the opportunity, everyone can become an artist, so come along and make you mark on the streets of Holt!
Website >Carpet Man & Lino Boy
11.00am – Appleyard, 2.30pm – Chapel Yard
Visionary fashion gurus Carpet Man & Lino Boy bring their inimitable 21st century couture creations to the catwalk of the pavements. Having lived through the colossal highs and the bottomless lows of the retail carpet trade, Carpet Man has seen the future of fashion.
Website >Maynard Flip Flap – Daft as a Brush
11.30am – Chapel Yard, 2.00pm – Appleyard
Contemporary clown seeks audience for playful interactive nonsense! Gasp as he struggles through a coat hanger and as the audience race biscuits, all for the honour to join Maynard Flip Flap in his now legendary egg catapulting stunt as seen on four continents!
Website >Tuesday 27th July
The Surreal World of Edmond Tahl
11.30am – Chapel Yard, 2.30pm – Appleyard
Edmond accidentally finds himself trapped in a perpendicular world of absurdity, where the bizarre is always close on his heels. Amidst a reality of swarming bees, spaghetti western gun fights, squeaky prams and improbably large monsters, he attempts to keep his composure. Using only a remotely controlled amplified suitcase, Edmond combines music, sound effects and mime, as he explores his self absorbed world of misfortune and adventure.
Website >The Sam Smith Singers
3.00pm – Appleyard
The Sam Smith Singers perform barbershop style, four part unaccompanied harmony concert programmes with a mixture of songs and humour. Formed over 30 years ago and named after the Samuel Smith Brewery, they sing songs old and not so old with jokes and monologues in similar vein.
Maynard Flip Flap – Man in a Box
11.30am – Appleyard, 2.00pm – Chapel Yard
Curiosity is aroused by the arrival of two characters with
a box. Despite his size, one manages to climb in and shut the lid. Suddenly the box grows legs, leaps into life and totters off, creating an astounding and amazing illusion. Carefully guided by his companion, the box then meets and greets the amazed onlookers.
Boulevard Bard – The Festival Rep
11.30pm – Around the town
“My horse, my horse...” who said that? We all know it as a famous line from Shakespeare, but would you expect to hear it when out shopping? You may well find yourself listening to snippets from any one of the Bard’s well-known works as you innocently go about your day in Holt. For those who may have been victims of surprise opera last summer, bring your friends and maybe you’ll be treated to some impromptu Shakespeare!
Wednesday 28th July
Random Acts of Jazz
11.00am, 2.00pm, 4.00pm – Around the town
The streets of Holt will be transformed into a comedy musical as Random Acts of Jazz serenade innocent passers by with their extraordinary repertoires of the swinging jazz hits. Sure to raise a smile wherever they go come and be surprised by this magnificent Jazz Juju Duo!
Website >Tricks ‘n’ Sticks
11.00am and 2.30pm – Lees Yard
This superb drumming and percussion
group offers an extravaganza of movement
sound and fun.
Thursday 29th July
Razz the Clown & Auntie Pearl
All day – Around the town
Razz & Auntie Pearl are well known Norfolk clowns and members of Clowns International, with appearances all over the county. Razz is very proud to be the adopted clown at both the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital and Norwich City Football Club. They will be clowning around somewhere in Holt, come and join in with some good ol’ fashioned slap-stick humour.
Bob Percy – Close-Up Magic
11.30am and 2.30pm – Around the town
Close-up magician Bob Percy is armed only with a regular deck of cards and a few coins, yet creates incredible, memorable magic out of almost nothing. Bob’s magic is a mixture of psychological illusion, a dash of pick pocketing (the honest variety), skilled sleight of hand with a genial demeanor. Funny, disarming, charming and amazing – contemporary magic at the cutting edge, the kind of magic grown-ups can believe in.
Website >Boulevard Bard – The Festival Rep
11.30pm – Around the town
“My horse, my horse...” who said that? We all know it as a famous line from Shakespeare, but would you expect to hear it when out shopping? You may well find yourself listening to snippets from any one of the Bard’s well-known works as you innocently go about your day in Holt. For those who may have been victims of surprise opera last summer, bring your friends and maybe you’ll be treated to some impromptu Shakespeare!
White Shoe Brown Shoe
11.00am and 2.00pm– Around the town
White Shoe Brown Shoe, made up of four graduates from the famous Berklee College of Music, is one of Boston’s (Massachusetts!) leading indie rock bands. Making their UK debut, the songwriting team behind the band, Alex Britten and Pat Gochez, will perform an acoustic set, including songs from their new album.
Website >Friday 30th July
Bob Percy – Cabaret Magician
11.00am – Nat West and 2.00pm – Lees Yard
Join Bob Percy as he wows his audience with his world famous line in flim flam and hookum. Be amazed at his dazzling displays of sleight of hand, thrilled by the impossibility of it all, and dazzled by the fast talking genial magician. An entertaining magic show for adults that the kids can also enjoy.
Website >Mythical Creatures & The Elf Herder
11.30am – Appleyard and 2.30pm – Chapel Yard
Meet Brian and Maisie, two extremely rare and totally gorgeous mythical creatures who’ve come to visit the town and make sure everybody still believes in faeries. Their helpful Elf Herders are on hand to keep them in line in case they’re naughty, and to answer your questions – Where do mythical creatures live these days? What do they eat? And do they have a category in Crufts? You can even give them a therapeutic pat – go on, it’s good luck!
Website >Random Acts of Jazz & The Pop-up Choir
2.00pm – Around the town
A unique opportunity to experience singing on the street on a scale never seen before in North Norfolk! As if from nowhere, Corpusty Community Choir will join Random Acts of Jazz for an afternoon of surprise singing and musical adventure which is guaranteed to get Holt swinging!
Website >Fanno Meglio
12.30pm – The King‘s Head
Fanno Meglio is a group of talented, young musicians who are better at playing music than choosing the name of a band. No musical genre is considered ‘off limits’ – their repertoire spans rhythm and blues, jazz, soul, funk, improvised jams and even a pretty silly ska-version of Cheryl Cole’s hit, ‘Fight For This Love’. Expect a vibrant and varied show!
Website >Norfok Dance – Daphne & Apollo
4.00pm – Holt Country Park
Free shuttle bus from 3.00pm to 3.50pm running from the Holt War Memorial to the Holt Country Park and returning to the War Memorial at the end of the performance.
‘Full Tilt’ and ‘Big Sky Dance’, Norfolk Dance’s two youth dance companies have joined forces to perform at this year’s Festival. Using the Greek myth of Apollo & Daphne this contemporary dance performance will be a delight for the senses. Set in the atmospheric Holt Country Park this site-specific piece will explore themes of metamorphosis and the thrill of the chase. Dancers will appear as if from nowhere with a raw energy and engaging physicality as for the first time both youth dance companies come together for an exciting youth dance performance.
Website >Saturday 31st July
Fairly Famous Family – The Demonstrators
11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm – Around town
Roll up, roll up! Barry and Bev are in town to sell their hilarious line of ‘wonder products’! Take part in their demonstrations which are highly-comical yet unconvincing as they fail to sell an astonishing array of gadgets, gizmos and gimics including ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not an iPod’: personal listening system with new t.a.p.e. technology; ‘Unbreakable Crockery’: smashing stuff; Bison 01: bagless vacuum – it beats as it sweeps as it maims and ‘Killet Wallop’: a multi-purpose cleaner/hangover cure.
Website >Mythical Creatures & The Elf Herder
11.30am – Appleyard and 2.30pm – Chapel Yard
Meet Brian and Maisie, two extremely rare and totally gorgeous mythical creatures who’ve come to visit the town and make sure everybody still believes in faeries. Their helpful Elf Herders are on hand to keep them in line in case they’re naughty, and to answer your questions – Where do mythical creatures live these days? What do they eat? And do they have a category in Crufts? You can even give them a therapeutic pat – go on, it’s good luck!
Website >