28-609: ENF may refer to: East Neuk Festival , an annual music festival Eclaireurs Neutres de France , a French Scouting association Electrical network frequency analysis Elks National Foundation , in the United States Enfield Town railway station , in London Enontekiö Airport , in Finland Europe of Nations and Freedom , a former political group in
56-525: A Bowling Green and Club Elie has a cricket club who are based in The Ship Inn pub on the beachfront. The team arrange all their home fixtures in line with the tides and play them on the beach when the tide is out. Elie's harbour was expanded in 1850. The nearby railway, part of the Fife Coast Railway , was built in 1857, and extended through Elie to Anstruther in 1863. The villages opened up to
84-509: A churchyard burial ground. Elie House is an interesting Scots vernacular extended tower house, standing close to the waterline. It dates back to 1697 with additions in 1770. In the 1770s the Lady's Tower was built in Ruby Bay, on the east side of Elie Ness, for Janet, Lady Anstruther. It incorporated a vaulted chamber at sea level as a changing room. It is said that Lady Anstruther would bathe in
112-525: A devised performance with the musicians of the Tullis Russell Mills Band in Fife, led by trumpeter John Wallace and his The Wallace Collection musicians. Inspired by the stories of Fife's miners, and the music they made in their brass bands, it was called De Profundis and was premiered in Fife on 1 July 2017. 2018's commission saw Scanner work with students from Waid Academy , Anstruther to create
140-456: A flavour of their historical identities. In recent decades, the town has become a very popular destination for wealthy residents of Glasgow and Edinburgh . In the summer months the town's population is several times higher than it is during the winter. A survey in 2018 found that half of the houses in the town were not the owners first residences. Attractions include the beach, golf, restaurants, surfing and sailing. Elie won an award as one of
168-404: A local building boom, which would have provided work for stonemasons. There were also golf club makers in the village for many years. Various support trades existed in the villages over the years and persisted until the advent of modern road transport around 1970. Elie and Earlsferry were formally merged in 1930. The modern villages now largely share shops and other facilities, but they do retain
196-547: A population of 861 (in 2011). Earlsferry, the older of the two villages, was first settled in time immemorial . It is said that MacDuff , the Earl of Fife, crossed the Forth here in 1054 while fleeing from King Macbeth . In particular the legend tells of his escape being aided by local fishermen, an act which may have led directly to the village being promoted to royal burgh status due to MacDuff's later influence over Malcolm III . By
224-478: A range of venues including churches in villages such as St Monans , Crail , Kilconquhar , Kilrenny and Cellardyke as well as unusual spaces such as Scotland's Secret Bunker an aircraft shelter at RAF Leuchars , gardens, caves, dells, local attractions and notably, The Bowhouse , a centre for food production and promotion on the Balcaskie Estate which is transformed into a performance venue especially for
252-407: A royal burgh in 1373 but its original charter was destroyed in a fire. Earlsferry became a trading port for merchants and remained so until the 18th century, and was also an important calling point on the pilgrims' route from the south to St Andrews. A new charter was granted in 1589 by James VI . In 1871 Earlsferry had a population of 406. Little is known of the foundation of Elie, but in 1599 it
280-541: A sound memorial to men lost at sea in the fishing industry. East Neuk Festival has twice been awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Audience Development - in 2007 and in 2017. In 2019 it won a Scottish Awards for New Music for its Big Project, Lost at Sea. Elie and Earlsferry Elie and Earlsferry is a coastal town and former royal burgh in Fife , and parish, Scotland, situated within
308-491: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages East Neuk Festival The East Neuk Festival is an annual music festival that takes place over five days around 1 July in the area known as the East Neuk of Fife . Established in 2004 it was the brainchild of Donald and Louise MacDonald and founding artistic director Svend McEwan-Brown. The festival concerts take place in
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#1732851098939336-767: The Belcea Quartet , the Pavel Haas Quartet , the Castalian Quartet, Leipzig String Quartet , The Tallis Scholars , pianists Elisabeth Leonskaja and Llŷr Williams . The 2021 festival programme includes 7 live concerts, pop up events throughout the area, installations and broadcasts online and on BBC Radio 3. The 2022 Festival will take place 29 June - 3 July. The Festival offers young artists special opportunities to develop their musicianship and projects in chamber music through its ENF Retreat programme. Retreat residencies and seminars culminate in performances at
364-518: The East Neuk beside Chapel Ness on the north coast of the Firth of Forth , eight miles east of Leven . The burgh comprised the linked villages of Elie ( / ˈ iː l i / EE -lee ) to the east and to the west Earlsferry , which were formally merged in 1930 by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929 . To the north is the village of Kilconquhar and Kilconquhar Loch . The civil parish has
392-551: The Golf House Club , was founded in 1875 with the building of the clubhouse. An unusual feature is the periscope from the submarine HMS Excalibur . It was installed in the starter's hut after the submarine was scrapped in 1968; players and visitors may use it to view the golf course. Golfers, clubmakers and course designers James Braid , Archie Simpson , Bob Peebles and Isaac Mackie were born in Earlsferry. Neighbouring
420-544: The Scottish Gaelic ealadh which means 'tomb', or èaladh which means 'a passage for boats between two rocks', or ail plus the suffix in which means 'rock-place'. Elie has an unusual parish church, dating from 1639. It has a tall octagonal tower, topped with a belvedere detail, centrally located on the church. It is approached on axis from the High Street, increasing the drama of its architecture, and surrounded by
448-564: The Scottish Reformation , pilgrimages and other traffic waned in Earlsferry. Elie and Earlsferry are about ten miles due south of St Andrews. Golf is believed to have been played on Earlsferry Links as early as the 15th century, and the layout evolved over time into the current magnificent 18-hole course which has remained largely unchanged since 1895. There has been a formal golf club here in Elie and Earlsferry since 1832. The current club,
476-570: The tinker inhabitants reminded her of her own family's origins. This may have been Walter Scott 's inspiration for a similar incident in Guy Mannering . A curse is said to have been placed on the Anstruther family by an old woman whose house had been demolished. Elie Primary School dates to 1858 and is in a Category C listed building . Elie and Earlsferry Town Hall was completed in 1873 but contains elements of an earlier town house. After
504-519: The Elie Chain Walk passes down the cliff faces to the tidal beaches. The route, which should only be used during low tides, has chains fixed to the cliffs and rocks of the shore to assist progress, and is sometimes referred to as Scotland's secret via ferrata (Iron path). The chains were first installed in the 1920s, and were replaced in 2010. The film The Winter Guest , starring Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law , directed by Alan Rickman ,
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560-548: The Golf House Club is the Elie Sports' Club which encompasses a multi-sports facility available 7 days of the week, 364 days of the year. Its facilities include a 9-hole golf course (2080 yards long), a putting course, a driving range with covered bays and outdoor hitting areas and a short game practice area with 2 bunkers and a 50-yard pitching fairway. There are also 5 full size tennis courts and 4 short tennis courts along with
588-412: The affluent tourist trade of Victorian times in the 1870s, which saw regular steamers from North Berwick and Leith . The explosion of modern communications saw the nature of the local economy change. Coal mining dwindled after the railway came to the area. Cotton weavers abandoned their trade after the switch to linen made from imported flax. Fishing gradually declined. The growing tourist trade caused
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#1732851098939616-614: The best managed beaches in Scotland in 2018. The railway line fell under the Beeching Axe in the 1960s and the station and tracks were subsequently closed and dismantled, leaving Elie with only road and sea transport links. The Times included Elie and Earlsferry as one of the best places to live in the UK in 2020. On the coast, 1 km west of Earlsferry, beneath the Fife Coastal Path ,
644-499: The event. Musicians and ensembles join together in residencies for practically the duration of the festival playing core chamber music repertoire alongside new commissions, contemporary works, jazz and world music. Storytelling, poetry, literature, exhibitions, films and other art and installation projects also feature. Regular guest artists include the Scottish Chamber Orchestra , conductor/pianist Christian Zacharias ,
672-664: The festival but are primarily focused on the personal and musical development of the participant. The Retreat takes place in the village of Elie in Fife . In 2021 guitarist Sean Shibe explores guitar quartet repertoire, while violinist Benjamin Baker works towards the realisation of multimedia recital project entitled Sei Solo. Further residencies will be announced in July 2021 ENF is committed to commissioning new works by major figures that are intended for performance by professional and community musicians side by side. The first work in this series
700-580: The middle of the 12th century, the Earls of Fife had instituted a ferry for the use of pilgrims en route to the shrine of Saint Andrew the Apostle at St Andrews . The ferry crossed the Firth of Forth to North Berwick , a distance of 7 miles, and it is this ferry that led to the naming of the place. There are the remains of a small chapel on Chapel Ness, built for the use of these pilgrims. King Robert II made Earlsferry
728-465: The nearby waters, a servant ringing a bell all the while to ensure locals stayed away. The daughter of Provost Charles Fall of Dunbar , she was mentioned by Thomas Carlyle as Jenny Faa ("Faa" being purportedly the Fall family's ancient name) "a coquette and a beauty". She caused the hamlet of Balclevie, to the north of Elie House, to be razed ostensibly "to improve the view" but widely thought to be because
756-755: Was Across the Distance for 32 horns by John Luther Adams in 2015. In 2016 this was followed by David Lang 's Memorial Ground for amateur and professional singers, a choral commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme . This was commissioned jointly by the East Neuk Festival and 14-18 NOW , with the support of Creative Scotland . Premiered on 2 July 2016, it was then made available for free to choirs to create their own performances, and more than 40 performances have taken place by April 2017. In 2017 ENF commissioned
784-405: Was made a burgh of barony by King James VI and it had become sufficiently important to merit the building of Elie Parish Church in 1639. Its harbour was more sheltered than that of Earlsferry, it began to poach trade away from Earlsferry and after a great storm in 1766 filled it with sand, Earlsferry harbour was no longer used. The etymology of the name Elie is unclear. The name may derive from
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