Gloucestershire Performs: The High Sheriff celebrates county talent

Massed voices…blazing brass…a Chinese X-factor winner…folk treasures…Gloucestershire Dance…and Giffords Circus

The High Sheriff of Gloucestershire celebrates the county's performing arts talent

Gloucester Cathedral hosts a spectacular array of locally resident talent in this showcase event produced by Cheltenham Festivals in association with Mark Heywood, the county's High Sheriff.

Some of the highlights include:

• Singer Mary-Jess, winner of China's version of X-factor
• Johnny Coppin, one of the UK's foremost folk singer-songwriters
• The Flowers Band, who will close the evening with Mars from Holst's The Planets
• A specially commissioned site-specific dance piece from Gloucestershire Dance
• Kwabana Lindsay, one of Giffords Circus' favourite acts
• Tenor James Gilchrist, who will sing Purcell, Handel and Britten with the Corelli Orchestra.

Gloucestershire Performs 

(in performing order) 
 

Combined Youth Choirs 
Cheltenham Youth Choir, Cathedral Junior Choir, Tewkesbury Youth Choir

Rob & Gillian Guest – Pipe, tabor and hurdy-gurdy

Giffords Circus presents Kwabana Lindsay

Cheltenham Racecourse Centenary Choir

Mary-Jess

Schola Cantorum Tewkesbury Abbey

James Gilchrist & The Corelli Orchestra

GYJO Combo

Gloucestershire Dance    & Ashley Grote – Organ

Johnny Coppin & Paul Burgess

Alex Kirk – Piano

Cathedral Youth Choir

Flowers Band

Supported by the Honourable Company of Gloucestershire, The Dean and Chapter, and the Three Choirs Festival.