Reading Minster festival brings music to the Minster

Published 17 Jun 2013 07:30   0

READING Minster Festival begins on Friday, June 28, with an organ recital, 12.15-1pm, a communion service with live jazz band at 6.30pm, and jazz classics from the Julie McKee Duo at 8pm.

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  Martin Denny, Windsor Festival Director, shares what the Festival has in store

  The Festival season is kicking off again soon, and I write this on the day we have completed the programme for September and sign-off on the brochure. It is always an exciting moment as we send the brochure off to the printers and we can sit back after all the hard work of fundraising and programming. We now start looking at the logistical details of each of the 50 events, and building up the schedule of the whole fortnight, while we wait for the brochures to be delivered to us in a couple of weeks' time.

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  Comedian Phill Jupitus talks stand up, audience participation and jazz

  Phill Jupitus, who after 23 series is the last man standing from the original line-up of BBC2's widely adored pop quiz, Mind The Buzzcocks, is an immensely popular comedian.