Little Missenden Festival 2008

 

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About the Festival

 

The Little Missenden Festival has a very intimate and special feeling.

 

    "England's best-kept secret festival"

    (composer David Matthews).

 

The Festival features promising young talents as well as nationally and internationally famous artists and composers.

 

The programme ranges from classic masterworks through less familiar (but not less intriguing) territory.  It includes something for all – early, baroque, classical and contemporary music rub shoulders with jazz, folk music, art lectures, poetry and children's events.  

 

Most events take place in the church of St John the Baptist, a small Saxon-cum-Norman building enriched with 12th-17th century wall paintings, dominated by a famous St Christopher (featured on the Festival's programmes and publicity for the past 48 years).

 

 

A concert here is a unique experience.  This lovely building has a fine immediate acoustic, and music heard at this intimate range has real impact and presence.  The small and unspoilt village is in beautiful Chiltern countryside - yet not far from London, just beyond Betjeman's Metroland.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to visit the church website, with pictures.

 

Click here for another picture of the church interior.

 

Little Missenden Festival 2008