Herne Hill Music Festival

With 26 fresh performances dotted all around Herne Hill from Brockwell Park to the Half Moon Pub, and music ranging from Klezmer, Classical to Country Soul, it is guaranteed there will be a performance to your liking taking place as part of this year’s Herne Hill Music Festival,

7th -16th October 2022.

Freddie Benedict and Friends will be bringing you the traditional festival opening night lineup of Jazz with the Junction at the Half Moon Pub with breezy Brazilian tunes, jazz standards, some modern classics as well as original songs where you can enjoy alongside a few pints on Friday 7th October at 8pm. That same evening, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the 1620 sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers the Mayflower, The Friends’ Musick Choir invite you to hear the tale in words and music, that fateful 66-day voyage across the Atlantic with full period costume, in Herne Hill United Church at 7:30pm. The following morning at 11am at Herne Hill Baptist Church, Mrs H and the Sing-along Band bring a unique and infections blend of musical fun for children, which they guarantee adults will want to join in on too! Be prepared for you and your young kids to sing and dance along to a mixture of Folk, Soul, Afro, Latin and Dub music being performed on guitar, banjo, bass, accordion and trumpet! Later that day on Saturday 8th October at 3pm, Herne Hill will be singing on at St Faith’s Church with 4 local choirs invited to perform, including Vocallective, the unauditoned, selfproclaimed “friendliest choir in London”, the Note-Orious Dulwich Choir, who pride themselves on raising funds for youth health charity Redthread, Raise the Roof who are now based in the Carnegie Community Hub following a 20-year residency at the Horniman Museum and Sing4All who are a friendly and welcoming choir for over 60s in South London. The choirs will be singing hits from Classic Pop, Musical, and Medieval to Millennial! Do be sure not to miss out on this as the atmosphere will be buzzing and tremendously fun! That evening in St Faith’s Church at 7:30pm, the first classical concert of the festival will be brought to you by another local South East London gem, enSEmble26. Eleanor Meynell on piano and Ellie Fagg on violin will no doubt bring some outstanding performances of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas which they had begun working on together during lockdown. Funds raised from ticket sales will proceed directly to developmental charity ‘Practical Action’. At 8pm over in the Prince Regent Pub, local band Casino Moon will be making a much-longed return to the festival with their own indie-folk and Americana-inspired songs with energetic and addictive tunes on voice, rhythmic picking guitar, mandolin and lap steel. Sunday 9th’s events take place outdoors in the local parks, with All Saint Concert Band bringing you a free concert at 2pm outside Brockwell Hall with classical, pop and film hits where you are encouraged to sing along, as well as donate generously to the Brockwell Park Management Advisory Committee who will be there with collecting buckets! More outdoor bandstand music will also be taking place in nearby Ruskin Park where King Groovy and the Hornstars, one of London’s premier big bands will be bringing you the music of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Quincy Jones. Back over at Brockwell Park at 3:30pm in the Community Greenhouses, the Siobhán Parr Duo will bring you some well-chosen classics by the likes of Van Morrison, Lucinda Williams, John Prine and Sam Cooke. Later at 6pm the Choral Evensong at St Faith’s Church will be making a return, inviting