Includes catered lunch, morning & afternoon teas plus ball entry

Ticket price includes historic regency era refreshments, a special card room, photographer and more! To save money, we recommend you purchase a full day ticket that includes dance classes, entertainments and the evening ball in one low price.

VENUE: Historic St John's Church Consitution Ave, Reid, Canberra 17 April 2011, 2pm - 3pm Part of the Jane Austen Festival and the ACT Heritage Festival Gardens, flowers, trees and country life feature prominently in many songs of the late 18th and early 19th century, and soprano Gillian Dooley has devised a program of music on these themes from Jane Austen’s family music collections. She will be accompanied by Fiona McCauley on piano, and with guest artists Charlotte Fletcher (Canberra) and Chris Rawlinson (Adelaide) on violin. The concert will take place at 2pm on Sunday 17 April in St John’s Church, Reid, as part of the Jane Austen Festival in Canberra in April. Most of this music is rarely heard today. Alongside music by better known composers such as Handel and Thomas Arne, there are rousing comic songs by Charles Dibdin (1745-1814), and folksongs, parlour songs and theatrical songs, by composers including Stephen Storace, William Field and James Hook. The instrumental pieces include popular dances and melodies of the day. Gillian Dooley has been organizing and performing in concerts of this repertoire since 2007. She presented concerts at the Canberra Jane Austen Festival in 2009 and 2010, and in the Adelaide Fringe in 2008 and 2010. In September 2010 she travelled to England to research the Austen music collections held in Chawton and Winchester, and performed at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath and the Jane Austen Conference in Harrogate. Bookings for the Canberra concert should be made via the Jane Austen Festival website at http://www.janeaustenfestival.com.au/ For enquiries please contact Gillian Dooley on 0413 625 560 or email gillian.dooley@flinders.edu.au.