A BIG NIGHT OUT AT THE HENLEY FESTIVAL
Starlit nights in your best bib and tucker for only £35 per head
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The Henley Festival (6th – 10th July) billed by VOGUE.COM as ‘one of 2011’s most unmissable events’ hits their Diary Dates for this year. ‘The five-night grown-up affair is the perfect reason to dress up in your black tie best for performances from Tom Jones and Rumer – as well as sculpture gardens to admire, candelit picnics and classical music’.
THE SUNDAY TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE’s Ultimate Social Calendar puts Henley on their ‘hip happenings cool guide’. ‘Get dressed up to get down’ - ‘Head to the Henley Festival for music from Tom Jones and Jools Holland, food by Michel Roux, a pop-up Chinawhite and gazebos aplenty. And it’s strictly black tie, darlings.’
London revellers can boogie until 1.30am and still get home (Henley’s luxe hotel rooms have all but gone). Share a taxi for £10 (from the Festival’s fleet) to Reading Station, trains to London Paddington take 45 mins (last leaves 0410am).
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Henley Festival Box Office: 01491 843404 or book via www.henley-festival.co.uk
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Notes for editors
Legendary Welsh singer Tom Jones opens this year’s sizzling Henley Festival. Now in it’s 29th Year, the festival is the UK’s best summer party - a five night, star-studded, strictly black tie event on the banks of the river Thames in the beautiful town of Henley-on-Thames. Tom Jones and the other headline acts, including Jools Holland, Alexandra Burke, Rumer, Blake, Classical Brit Award winner Tasmin Little with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and ABBA Symphonic will entertain fans from a floating stage on the river, against the serene backdrop of the Oxfordshire countryside.
The riverside setting provides an intimate environment for festival-goers to experience magical summer nights, filled with music, art and fine dining. Watch dazzling firework displays, acts from the world of jazz, opera, pop, comedy and theatre, from the UK and abroad, and then follow the revellers to Chinawhite Club – NEW FOR 2011 – and party late into the night. The Roving Company of Eccentrica will entertain guests with roving street cabaret as they wander through the festival’s incredible art galleries and sculpture lawns.
All proceeds from the Henley Festival go to local charities, distributed by the festival’s parent charity; the Henley Festival Trust. This year’s recipients include Headway (a brain injuries charity) and the Henley Festival Orchestra – a youth orchestra providing instruments, and music tuition to 50 young musicians from the region who might not otherwise be able to afford it. – ends -
