The Village Green Preservation Society Event
- Time:
- 20:00
- Date:
- 3 May 2019
- Venue:
- Turner Sims Salisbury Road Southampton SO17 1BJ
For more information regarding this event, please telephone 023 8059 5151 or email info@turnersims.co.uk .
Event details
Harvey Brough director, The University of Southampton Voices. With special guests Clara Sanabras vocals, guitar, harmonium; Rick Leigh vocals, flugelhorn
Harvey Brough returns with the University of Southampton Voices and special guests to perform his new choral and orchestral arrangement of The Kinks’ 1968 album, by invitation of Ray Davies.
Ray Davies and the Kinks have left an indelible mark on the work of artists ranging from David Bowie to Blur and Lily Allen (just for starters).The Village Green Preservation Society is a unique musical fusion of vaudeville, oompah, music hall, palm court and the blues, all bound together by the inimitable Kinksian rock with a tongue in its cheek. Coming at a time when we are questioning what it is to be British and what our relationship with Europe will be in the future, the album’s 50th anniversary offers a poignant mirror image of the optimism of the late 60’s, when we were contemplating making a move in the opposite direction – joining the Common Market.
