Concerts featuring the music of Penguin Cafe and Glyndebourne opera stars will raised funds for Hammersley Homes
THE stunning grounds of a Lymington home will provide the backdrop for a charity weekend of music featuring Penguin Café and four world class opera singers.
A popular fixture of the local calendar, the fundraising open-air performances will take place in the grounds of Kingfishers on Normandy Lane on 6th and 7th September.
Penguin Café will be performing music from the Penguin Café Orchestra. Founded in 2009 by Arthur Jeffes, Penguin Cafe brought together a talented and disparate group of musicians, including members of Suede and Gorillaz, to perform his late father Simon’s legacy of world-renowned music. Soon after, Arthur began to create new and unique genre-defying music, with the spellbinding philosophy of his father always in mind.
With a beguiling blend of melodic instrumental pop absorbing folk, minimalism, and world music influences, Penguin Café Orchestra had a knack of producing the catchiest of ear-worms, much-loved by advertisers ever since, including Telephone and Rubber Band, Perpetuum Mobile, and Music for a Found Harmonium.
Now, Arthur’s collective recreates their signature sound, performing a collection of PCO classics – a slice of 70s musical counterculture recreated for the 2020s.
On Sunday 7th September, Milford tenor Colin Judson will be joined by soprano Ellen Pritchard, baritone Emyr Wyn Jones and mezzo Victoria Simmonds for an evening of opera in the garden.
Billed as a unique open-air performance by four world-class singers, the special charity evening will bring a taste of Glyndebourne to Lymington, with picturesque views of the Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve and Solent shore across to the Isle of Wight. The garden will be open from 3pm, with the performance starting at 5pm.
Attendees should bring chairs and rugs, so they can relax and enjoy a picnic on the lawn before the performance. Food and drink will also be available to buy.
Tenor Colin Judson is a frequent guest soloist at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Festival and English National Opera, and is regarded as one of the most sought-after character tenors of his generation.
It is hoped the weekend will raise in excess of £40,000 for the local mental health charity Hammersley Homes, which was established in 2018 to offer life time support to adults who suffer from enduring mental stress.
The Lymington-based charity is set to use proceeds to support its outreach programme, and to advance its plans to establish a network of homes for life for people with enduring mental illnesses who will not recover. Tickets are priced £45 per concert or £85 for both dates. To find out more visit hammersleyhomes.org/tickets
