Acknowledgements

Stour Music is grateful to the Vicar & PCC of All Saints’ for allowing the festival to be held in the church; to Mr & Mrs Hugh Summerfield of Boughton Court for (amongst many acts of kindness and support) use of their land to accommodate the festival marquee; to Mr & Mrs Bay Green for use of their field for car parking; to Rosemary Nicholson for the floral displays in the church, and the Friends of Stour Music for their continued support. In particular this year, we wish to thank the following for generous financial support in sponsoring specific concerts: Mrs Rene Batchelor, Paul & Janet Batchelor, Mr & Mrs Alastair Hume, The Nancy Hadwen Charitable Trust, The Sir John Swire 1989 Charitable Trust and the Stour Festival Company.

All information on this site was correct at time of preparation, but Stour Music reserves the right to make changes without prior notice, where unforeseen circumstances dictate.

Stour Music is a member of the British Arts Festivals Association.

With thanks (for 2008 material) to Ricardo Alcaide (La Serenissima), Marco Borggreve (Mark Padmore), Lewis Brockway, Helmut Engelke (Simon Standage), Mark Harrison (The Sixteen), Richard Haughton (Elizabeth Kenny), Christine Hodgson & Zohar (Eclipse), Kent Messenger, and Pete Thomas for use of photographs. Elizabeth I, Armada portrait, Private Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library; Fishermen upon a lee-shore in squally weather by JMW Turner, Southampton City Art Gallery/The Bridgeman Art Library; Maids and Winged Hearts, by The Master of Lyons, British Library/The Bridgeman Art Library; The Battle of Trafalgar, Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library.

With thanks (for 2007 material) to Lewis Brockway, Pete Thomas, Richard Beaugié, Malcolm Crowthers, Oylin Ozmete, Eric Richmond, Hanya Chala, Paul White and Kentish Express (Dave Downey) for the use of photographs. Also for kind permission to use artwork: Fabian Negrim/Bloomsbury The Selfish Giant and Robert Lawson/Hamish Hamilton Ferdinand.