Events at Postlip
Don't miss 2012's first Postlip concert...
We start the New Year at Postlip Hall with a magnificent concert of classical chamber music performed by the Bochmann Trio, Michael Bochmann, Carol Hubel-Allen and Nella Hunkins. We are so lucky to have musicians of such high calibre living nearby, and we are delighted and proud to be welcoming them here. The concert is at 7.30pm in the Great Hall at Postlip on Sunday 26 February, with beautiful music by Bach, Ravel and Mozart. Details are on the attached copy of our flyer. Tickets are £12 including a glass of wine, or something soft. The bar will be open before the performance and in the interval. The wood-burning stove will have warmed the room to make you as comfortable as we can in our intimate, rather magical room.
Early notice of a welcome return
Their many fans will remember the wonderful Wrigley Sisters, the internationally acclaimed fiddle and guitar duo, who will be returning to Postlip Hall on Sunday evening 15 April. Please put the date in your diary and we will be in touch soon.
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Happenings at Postlip
The
biggest event of the year is the annual Cotswold Beer Festival, organised in
partnership with CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) and now in its 35th year. The
2011 Festival was on July 29th, 30th & 31st and was a cheerful, relaxed and
enjoyable weekend, with lots of laughter, music and good drinking.
Go to www.gloucestershirecamra.org.uk for more on this, on other beer festivals and on the excellent work they do for beer drinkers everywhere.
Other Postlip events
Barn dances and folk music events including the English Country Music weekend sometimes happen at Postlip. Here are the Wrigley Sisters in the great hall, and we've also enjoyed the music of the Fagans, Eric Bogle and many others.
For the last few years we have been programming events to take place by the fireside in the ‘great hall’ during the colder months. Favourite events include the telling of the Odyssey and the Iliad by leading storytellers Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden, one woman plays about Aung San Suu Kyi and Rachel Carson, poetry from U A Fanthorpe, a talk on Robert Frost’s formative years nearby, recollections from Sonia Rolt and Emma Smith about working on the canals during the war, Christmas concerts and classical recitals.
And
in the past we have hosted Cromwellian banquets, held a butterfly festival,
exhibited tribal rugs, held a 2CV race, and filled the grounds with sculpture
– Postlip's pretty versatile! We
are always open to new ideas and opportunities which appeal to us or have the
promise of raising money to help maintain and restore the house and tithe barn.
If you'd like to be on our mailing list, or want to suggest an event then contact us.
The
woods and grounds are regularly used, both recreationally and educationally, by
local school parties and organisations such as the Scouts and Forest School.
We
do hire the Tithe Barn out, chiefly for wedding parties but sometimes for other
big occasions such as significant birthdays more
.