Broad Sheep April 2015

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What’s On - Herefordshire & The Marches

Who’s Driving This Plane?

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O lets cut through the bullshit and look at the evidence.

1. THEY know where you are all the time because of your bloody mobile phone. (Tip: I navigate round this problem by not carrying my mobile phone with me. This means they think I’m sitting at home when I’m actually in Pembroke Dock. The downside of this is nobody can phone me and I can’t phone them).

2. THEY know what you like, buy and lust after from your Google searches. They know who your friends are from your Facebook account. They know all about your repugnant views from your Twitter account. They know how much money you owe from your online banking and where you went on holiday (Disneyland Florida? Get a grip!).

3. THEY know all about your viewing and listening habits from the internet connection to your Freeview box, which means they know I watch Mystery Diners every night.

Have you seen it? It’s brilliant. They get a call from some uptight restaurant owner and they fill the restaurant, kitchen, and the car park up with hidden cameras and then sit back and watch what goes on when the owners are not there. The cooks are spitting in the food and the waiters are nicking money from the tills and the barmaid’s boyfriends are a gang of Hell’s Angels who are coming in after hours and drink all the ‘top shelf’ booze and shag in the toilets. The manager is selling off the fresh fish in the car park and they confront them “Hi, I’m Charles somebody or other from Mystery Dinners and we have been filming you for the last three days” It’s great! Now where was I. Ah, yes.

4. THEY are slowly cutting off all Arts Funding except to the National Theatre and The Royal Opera House and forcing us to watch live theatre in our local village halls piped straight from that lot in London. That and global streaming of major pop concerts and sporting events will soon be our only source of culture - live theatre and live bands? Hey man, that’s so last century!

5. THEY are just on the brink of another revolution in robotics and driverless cars. So that will probably mean we become extraneous extras in the world of travel and the workplace.

CONCLUSION So there you have it. We have arrived at the year 2000019 hundred and eighty four. The Brave New World is upon us and THEY have got us all trussed up into moronic, constantly electronically surveyed, drone package. But here are my questions. Now they’ve got us what do they intend to do with us? Who are THEY and are they happy with the strange new world they have created?

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4 Lets see who’s in the frame for the evil mastermind behind all this.

Hugh’s bit 6 1. First Stop, Silicone Valley - Google, Apple, Microsoft and the gang: I think Art 8 despite being the brains behind a lot of this stuff they aren’t really sure what to Art workshops 11 do with it all now they have it except follow the American Dream and make a shit load of money.

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18 2. FBI, CIA, or some bit of American government: Although happy to paraDance 22 site off the back of all this information gathering, my feeling is that the American Food

24 government is too slow and stupid to have thought all this up from scratch unless...

Music 26 some twisted genius in the 60’s saw it all coming and said ‘Well, we’ve sold the Music workshops 41 world rock ‘n’ roll and Coca Cola now it’s time for something really nasty”.

Venues 43 3. The Chinese: Undoubtedly the yellow peril have most to gain from selling us endless quantities of electronic paraphanelia, but why they would want to turn Band directory 44 us all into identical mindless lego men when as a society they are busy creating Theatre 46 their liberal mass consuming middle class.

Word 50 4. Natural Selection: Just look at the bees, one queen and a load of soldiers Grass roots 54 and workers. Maybe nature is just pushing us in that direction in order to cope Comp therapies 56 with the ravages of global warming and we’ll end up with one big fat Royal ruling over us all!

We take no 5. God: Maybe he’s behind all this. I’ve never trusted him and it’s just the sort of responsibility for mass, worldwide blind acceptance he seems to specialise in. Ah well, it’s almost the veracity of the information herein time for Mystery Diners. I just need to check my Facebook page and send Pete Mustill my mobile phone off for a quick trip to Glasgow in someone else’s car.

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Robots and Mushrooms T HE Great War is 100 years old: the first automated conflict; 16 million mass-produced deaths. Welcome to the modern world.

Sci-fi plots often feature rogue computers and dysfunctional robots, self-aware automata who turn against their human masters, liquidate scores or millions and take over the world. Hal in 2001, Yul Brynner in Westworld, Maria in Metropolis, Enola Gay at Hiroshima.

Ray Kurzweil thinks that machines will soon acquire consciousness. I am not looking forward to the selfconscious machine-gun. How will its violent software distinguish between the good, the bad, the innocent and the ugly?

Robots are a short-sighted idea; they are only distinct from machines in that they fulfill our abiding desire to create obedient “life-as-we-know-its” that we can control without the obstruction of morality – imitation humans, puppets, blow-up dolls, slaves. The dead give-away is that for no good reason we give them arms and legs and creepy eyes. Thats not how real robots operate, the Mars Rovers have wheels, not feet and 4 of them to boot. No wonder we shrink from the results of our illicit desire for a mechanical domestic slave and fear that our submissive will come alive, turn on us and become a dominatrix.

At its most theatening it’s the Terminator; at its most ridiculous the Japanese have created a robot that plays the violin. Unsurprisingly it plays that most expressive of human instruments - like a robot.

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These images express our deep unease but they distract us from the real thing. Self-perpetuating, selfaware, artificial automatons, “malign ...systems that advance their own logic to the detriment of human freedom and autonomy “ (Max Weber) are already embedded all around us; indeed they took over the world long before WW 1. The robots that we should truly fear are covert - the multi-nationals, the churches, internet corporations, governments and Al-Qaedas. Their influence is much more invasive, insidious and widespread than the individual clanking one-place-at-a-time old-fashioned knights in armour, the half man, half machine Robocops that are the stuff of

our comic-book archetypes. They don’t need mere arms and legs – instead they have hidden mycelial networks.

Through the centuries systems with the right evolutionary ground rules have outlived their creators and their original purposes and outstripped their founding morality. Once shot of those limitations they have found ever more effective ways of crippling our bodies with wage-labour, addling our brains with drugs, keeping a cyber-eye on us and defeating our consciousness with formulaic pap, all in the supreme interest of their own self-perpetuating software. They evolve according to Thatcherite logic and twisted neo-Darwinian rules in stock exchanges, law courts, laboratories and boardrooms and only where necessary do they use obvious force: The ground rules - the sociopathic primacy of the individual, human nature red in tooth and claw - often incorporate a multi-cellular design like Al-Qaeda, early Christianity or the prerevolutionary Communist party. Each cell/ franchise is self-governing and adapted to its local conditions, so that the organisation is doing many things in many places and its relations with the shadowy core are only encrypted to a very few agents, Lenin, St.Paul, the CEO, or Osama BinLaden Mk4. The cellular structure develops into nests of offshore companies in the capitalist network, or individual guerrilla cells which can be lost without damage to the core - like the “independent” catholic dioceses which can each go bankrupt so as to avoid paying paedophile damages. Their products now permeate our bodies and our minds, like drugs and like viruses, like religion: Pfizer, G4, Google, Sky(-net), Apple, Scientology, Trafigura, Monsanto, the NSA, Centrica, (is there an Eccentrica?).

We are all caught in their subliminal webs. The systems herd us like sheep, and twine themselves into the human mind like ivy, like heroin, like the multi-valent mycelia of a fungus. They are parasites that have market-evolved to outlive their dazed feed-stuff, their exhausted customers, as well as the individual regimes of their temporary Popes, PMs and CEOs. Their willing servants are ciphers like Cameron, Obama, and Merkel, and the Miliband that is to come.

They feed us, at least in the developed world, and farm us into our dotage (Big Pharma’s big opportunity) - but the worst aspect for the fattened-up western consumer is that their crafted viruses infect our consciousness from birth. They change who we are, and how we think, and what we feel, minute by minute.

The largest biological entity on the planet is a parasite - a honey fungus, 3.5 miles across and approx. 5,000 years old, that lurks underground in the Malheur (= bad luck) National Forest in Oregon with just a few tell-tale mushrooms showing on the surface. It has cyclically nurtured and destroyed the forest above it many times in its long and malicious life. In parallel : the oldest and original multi-national is the Catholic Church. Fuelled by self-hate, (what else is the doctrine of sin, celibacy and the catch-all Original One of just being born?), revelling in torture and masochism (Christ on the Cross and all those martyrs and heretics) it has nurtured and devoured countless lives in the last 2,000 years as it

has evolved from a humanist liberation cult to being the distilled mumbo-jumbo of government, and an analog of pyramidal Capitalism acording to the usual ground rules and structures, including its own secret police - the Inquisition. There it still squats like Smaug, atop its pile of ancient treasure, deep in the vaults of the Vatican, putting up churches like mushrooms across the globe - the original market-evolved, supra-national control system, still paying homage to its new testament leftist founder in the same twisted way that the Chinese government still pays homage to Mao, whilst violating nearly everything he stood for.

There have been brief periods when a privileged few gained some independence of thought, if not action, and rose above the colonialisation of the mind. However we are again losing that hard-won freedom to the extended viral reach of cloud-based capitalism and its culture, which is increasingly unfettered by any national, legal or technical boundaries or vestigial religious morality, because there is no longer enough resistance from communities, borders and countries, from socialism, the enlightenment or humanism, and there are too few places left either to speak or to hide.

We’re damned, we’re doomed, We are no longer consumers, we are the consumed.

Yippee! I feel like a machine-gunner in WW1 100 years on, there are so many soft targets still out there.

Hugh Colvin (c) 2015

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April ‘A Strange of Stillness’. JEB LOY NICHOLS - prints.

April ‘A Response to the Holocaust’.

KARL SYLVESTER - paintings. Open Thurs-Sun 10am-4pm.

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Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth 01654 703355 Until 11 April ‘New Views of Old Hills’.

IAN PHILLIPS - lino prints.

Until 18 April - PROFESSOR OVENDALE. Until 18 April ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’. An exhibition to mark William Morris’ visit to Machynlleth 140 years ago.

Until 9 May ‘Patagonia’. KYFFIN WILLIAMS. Until 25 April DAVID NASH RA sculpture.

Until 25 April ‘30 British Portraits’.

2 April - 30 May LOUISE YOUNG natural and botanical paintings.

18 April - 27 June ‘Land Marks’ D. ALUN EVANS. 25 April - 20 June ‘Rural Narrative’ PHILIP HUCKIN. 25 April - 20 June ‘Bron Yr Aur’ JIM STALLINGS. Open Mon-Sat 10am4pm.

Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown 01686 625041 Until 13 May CRAIG WOOD - recent work.

Until 13 May ‘Sound Books’ - AMY STERLY & THOM SNELL. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

The Lion Street Gallery, 6 Lion St, Hay-on-Wye 01497 822900 Until 10 May Spring Group Show.

Twenty-five artists and sculptors exhibiting, in a wide range of media and materials. Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm.

Shepherd’s Ice Cream Parlour, 9 High Town, Hay-on-Wye 01497 821898 Until end of April ‘Back to Colour’.

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The Globe, Hay-on-Wye 01497 821762 www.globeathay.org 10 April - 4 May ‘Paperfields’.

An exhibition of work by emerging artists based in the area.

The Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells, www.wonderwoolwales.co.uk 25 & 26 April Wonderwool Wales 2015.

Exhibitions, demonstrations and havea-go sessions. With demonstrations by members of the WELSH GUILD OF WEAVERS, SPINNERS & DYERS & THE INTERNATIONAL FELTMAKERS ASSOC. Open Sat 10am-5.30pm, Sun 10am-4.30pm, £9 adults, under 16s free.

Theatr Hafren, Newtown 01686 614555 Until May TACT art exhibition.

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From 4 April Contemporary craft and applied arts, along with paintings and sculpture. 60 exhibitors taking part.

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Tower House Gallery, 29 High St, Knighton 01547 529530 April Japanese Shibori. Homemade soups, breads and cakes, Italian blend coffee and over 30 different varieties of leaf tea. Wed-Sat 9.30am-5pm.

Theatr Brycheiniog, Canal Wharf, Brecon 01874 611622 Until 11 April ‘Agincourt 1415 The Brecknock Connection’.

17 April - 16 May ‘Triskelion’ PATRICIA MEARS, JOAN HUGHES AND PAT JOHNSON - textile and mixed media work. Open theatre times.

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Leg of Mutton, 17 Duke St, Kington 01544 231563 17 - 19 April SHANNON DONOVAN AND ANDREW EASTWOOD original artwork. With guest artist LAURA ROWLATT. Open 10am-5pm or by appointment.

Andrew Eastwood, Leg of Mutton, Kington Carolyn Blake, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye

Seren Bell, Forge Framing & Gallery, Hay-on-Wye

Jay Luttman Johnson, Erwood Station Gallery, Builth Wells

Lottie O’Leary, Aardvark Books, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan

Daisy Rickards, The Globe, Hay-on-Wye

Grange Court, Pinsley Rd, Leominster, HR6 8NL 25 April Craft Fair. Various crafts including Jenni Stuart-Anderson demonstrating rag rug making.

Open 10am-4pm.

Wellington Community Room 01432 830097 11 & 12 April Wellington Easter Art Show. Open Sat 10.30am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm.

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Hereford Cathedral 01432 374261 Until Dec ‘15 ‘Flags of Freedom’.

CHRIS WHITE - evocative calligraphic banners.

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Old Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, Church St, Hereford 6 - 12 April CLEHONGER ART GROUP. A range of media including bronze, glass, egg tempera, oil, acrylic and watercolour. Open daily 10am-5pm.

Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad St., Hereford 01432 260692 Until 25 April ‘Shades of White’.

NANCY HILLS. A display of reproduction costumes from the 18th to the 20th century. Several original costumes from the museum’s collection will also be on display.

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YEAR TWO FINE ART STUDENTS from Herefordshire College of Arts. 15 April - 24 May ‘Nature’s Magic’. MARY EDWARDS & GEOFF JENNINGS - paintings and ceramics. Wed-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm, Sat 10am-1pm.

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FLEEN DORAN - ceramics. STUART HOUGHTON - pots. Open 10am-5pm.

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Lion Gallery, Broad St, Leominster 01568 611898 April An eclectic mix of English arts and crafts. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

All Saint’s Church, Hereford 01432 370414 6 - 11 April Craft Sale organised by Marion Butler.

13 - 18 April SIAN THOMAS handmade stained glass. Exhibition and sale of Nepalese handicrafts PREETI THAPA. 20 - 25 April JAN BISHOP - Indian silks and saris.

27 April - 2 May LOVE ZIMBABWE - fairtrade arts, crafts and charity information.

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Gallery 54, Ross-on-Wye 01989 567917 April A wide selection of abstract pieces by gallery artists. A picture framing service is also available.

Open Thurs-Sat 10am-4pm.

Weavers Gallery, Church Lane, Ledbury, HR8 1LP 01531 633325 13-19 April ‘DISLOCATION TOO’ a display of contemporary art quilts 28 April - 10 May fiftiesart.com Open 10am - 4pm admission free.

Tobias James Art & Framing Gallery, St Owen St, Hereford 07760 316959 April Works by local artists and from artists further afield.

Market House Heritage Centre, Ross-on-Wye 01432 260675 April Various arts and crafts from local artists. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10.30am-4pm.

The Courtyard, Hereford 01432 340555 Until 17 May ‘No is E Screenprint’.

Contemporary and recent posters and flyers from the Dutch underground music and club scene. Open theatre times.

Tinsmiths, Ledbury 01531 632083 Until 25 April NEIL BOUSFIELD - wood engraving. Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm.

Dorstone’s Front Room (across from The Pandy Inn) 01981 550722 April ANDREA WORBOYS - unique, handcrafted waistcoats and tie-dyed T-shirts. Mon-Fri 9am-1pm.

Hereford Art College, Folly Lane Campus, Hereford 01432 273359 Until 10 April ‘Digital Lines’. DARREN WILLIAMS & JASON MOUYIARIS. Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm.

King’s Head, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8EG 4 April Easter Craft and Vintage Fayre.

Hereford Art College, College Road Campus, Hereford 01432 273359 Until 17 April Staff exhibition.

Until 17 April WILLIAM GOLDSMITH - artist and illustrator.

Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm.

Blue Ginger Gallery, Home End Farm, Cradley, WR13 5NW 01886 880240 April ‘Conversation’. An exhibition examining memory, connection, freedom and testament. MOLLIE MEAGER - stained glass. Plus five other artists from the Forest of Dean, including printmakers, potters, jewellers and experimental artists.

Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm.

Old Chapel Gallery, Pembridge 01544 388842 Until 30 April Spring exhibition.

‘Be Still and Listen, the Earth is Singing’. Featuring fine art and craft in a variety of media. Including paintings, collographs, etchings, wood sculpture, pottery, jewellery and automata.

Open Mon-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm, Tues by appointment.

Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Foregate St, Worcester, WR1 1DT 01905 25371 Until 6 June ‘England’. STANHOPE FORBES. Open Mon-Sat 10.30am4.30pm.

SHROPSHIRE Gallery 3, The Gateway Arts Centre, Shrewsbury 01743 355159 Until 6 April KATE McKENNAN paintings.

13 April - 18 May BORDERLAND VISUAL ARTS - artwork. Mon-Fri 9am-4.30pm.

Silk Top Hat Gallery, Quality Square, Ludlow 01584 875363 Until 18 April ‘Facing the Sun’.

EDWARD BELL - new oil paintings.

DEBORAH WALKER - watercolours.

27 April - 23 May CHARLES MacCARTHY - new paintings.

LOIS HOPWOOD - new work.

Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

Aardvark, The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, SY7 0DH 01547 530744 4 - 19 April ‘Paper Wraps Stone’.

Prints from the Annamult Press.

LOTTIE O’LEARY - stone carvings.

Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm.

The Gallery, 32 High St, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630555 Contemporary arts including glass, ceramics, metal and wood, textiles, paintings, prints and jewellery.

Thurs-Sat 11am-5pm.

Ludlow Period House Shop, Corve Land of Lost Content, Craven Arms, SY7 9NW 01588 676176 National Musuem of British Popular Culture. 11am-5pm daily, closed Wed. The Old Surgery Gallery, Clun 01588 640506 April Spring exhibition. Open Fri-Sun 10m-5pm.

The Harley Centre, Ludlow College, Castle Square, Ludlow 4 - 13 April Spring exhibition.

LUDLOW ART SOCIETY. Open 10am-5pm daily.

Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury 01743 281281 Until 11 April The ‘Charting History’ exhibition traces the history of the ancient Shrewsbury Borough through documents dating from the 1190s to 1830s. Open theatre times.

Coalbrookdale Gallery, Coach Rd, Coalbrookdale, near Ironbridge, 01952 433424 www.ironbridge.org.uk 30 April - 10 Sept ‘To Check the Tide of Prejudice’. JOHN COOKE BOURNE - lithographs, original sketches and painting of the construction of the London & Birmingham Railway.

Open Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, free entry.

Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LH 01743 258885 11 & 12 April Anglo-Saxon thegns, ladies and craftspeople demonstrate techniques from weaving to manuscript writing, plus craft demonstrations.

Until 26 April ‘Discover Secret Egypt’.

Until 17 May Treasures of the Staffordshire Hoard. Open Tues-Sun 10am4.30pm.

Admission £4 adults, £2 per child, free aged 0-4years.

Town Hall, Bishop’s Castle www.bishopscastletownhall.co.uk 01588 630023 4 April Flea & Antiques Market, 9am-4pm.

Until 18 April ‘In Wilderness is Paradise Now’. ANDREW FUSEK PETERS - photographs. Mon-Sat 10.30am-3pm.

From 25 April LIN BROWN. Open Mon-Sat 10.30am-3pm.

Qube Oswald Rd, Oswestry SY11 1RB 01691 656882 Until 3 May A digital installation celebrating the story of Sir Robert Jones and Dame Agnes Hunt, pioneering partners who revolutionised modern orthopaedics and nursing rehabilitation.

Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9.30am-12.30pm.

Art & Craft Workshops Single listings are free. Year round, £40 per year

THE LUDLOW FRINGE FESTIVAL is putting out a call for artists to exhibit as part of the Fringe Art Trail, which runs from 13th June to 5th July, and to take stalls at the Ludlow Fringe Festival Artists’ Market, which takes place in Ludlow Town Square on the 20th and 21st June. Exhibiting artists will be offered space in abandoned rooms, cafes, galleries, public spaces and historic buildings. All media welcome - painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, applied arts, film makers, performance etc. The Artists Market provides an opportunity for all artists to showcase and sell their work. It’s a lively and vibrant market with demonstrations and entertainment taking place all weekend around the town. For further information and application forms, please see the Fringe website www.ludlowfringe.co.uk

HEREFORD RIVER CARNIVAL WORKSHOPS Community carnival club making workshops. Get involved, build a raft, take part in a carnival/drumming club.

Making Workshops: - 1 & 8 April - The Kindle Centre, 10am-1pm. 2, 9 & 16 April - The Courtyard 1-3pm.

4 & 18 April - Hinton Community Centre 10am-1pm. 7 April Tupsley Scout Hut, 10am-1pm.

10 & 25 April - The Left Bank, 10am12.30pm. Drumming Workshops:4 & 18 April - Hinton Community Centre, 2-4pm. 10 April - The Kindle Centre, 10am-12pm. 13, 20 & 27 April - Saxon Hall, 7-9pm. 7 April - The Left Bank, 2-4pm. 15, 22 & 29 April - The Courtyard, 11am-1pm. Further details www.rivercarnival.org or email info@rivercarnival.org WESTHOPE COLLEGE, NEAR CRAVEN ARMS Two exciting print workshops with Christine Bradshaw and Jacqui Dodds: Collagraph printing on 7th and 8th March. Beginners Lino prints on 15th April. Full details in our exciting new course brochure at www.westhope.org. or call us on 01584 861293.

GINN’S CREATIVE WORKSHOPS Fun, recreational art sessions for EVERYONE. Start painting, drawing, printing & textiles. Guided by Ginn with 25 years in teaching & inspiring art & design. PLUS Ginn’s School of Sewing Tel: 01432 760961 www.ginnscreativeworkshops.co.uk THE BIG ART SHOW Held at the West Mids Showground in Shrewsbury, 3-5 July is looking for volunteers to help. For more information contact 01694 771446 or email david@thebigartshow.co.uk

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POP UP STONE CARVER available for demonstrations, workshops, have a go sessions or childrens birthday parties. Can be from our workshop in Knucklas or at your own location. Stone and tools are all supplied and all ages can catered for. Starting every Thursday from 16 April - evening classes.

Contact Lottie on 01547 528 792 or email her at info@stonecarving.co.uk CREATIVE BREAKS Learn a new skill and explore your creativitiy with experienced tutors. We offer a wide range of art and craft courses throughout the year:- Basketmaking, dyeing, spinning and weaving, earth ovens, glass fusing, green woodworking, hand and machine knitting, hedgerow medicine, jewellery, painting, photography, pottery, printmaking, rag rug making, stained glass, story telling, upholstery and woodworking.

Visit our website: www.creativebreaks. co.uk for full details of our courses.

Make it yourself - take it home - keep it, treasure it: give it with pride!

CREATIVE WILLOW Weekly classes for beginners and intermediates, exploring willow weaving techniques for basketmaking and garden structures.

Clyro, Builth Wells and Crickhowell.

Mary Zammit, 01982 552072, mary@marywillowgarden.co.uk

ART WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Free Art sessions, for 11-18 year olds.

Wednesdays 4-6pm. With different art techniques by local artists. Teme Valley Youth Project, Wigmore.

Email: youthtvyp1@yahoo.co.uk or call 01568 770110.

WILD WICKER Basket weaving workshops. Learn to make an attractive willow basket using various colourful willows and hedgerow materials, for beginners and more experienced. clyde@wildwicker.com or 07866 138436, www.wildwicker.com THE PRINT SHED, MADLEY SPRING COURSES April and May Print and Painting workshops at The Print Shed. Safer Etching: Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th March 10 - 4pm both days, £110. Linocut, 3 Monday mornings 10 - 12.45pm, start date Monday 13th April, £68. Experimental Print, Thursday 16th April 10am - 4pm, £55.

Abstract Painting, Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd 10 - 4pm both days, April £110. www.theprintshed.net 07796 673123.

BASKET MAKING COURSES With Jenny Crisp. 25 & 26 April Oval Washing Basket, Stripped Willow (some experience necessary), £200.

23 & 24 May - Simple Round Basket, suitable for beginners, £180.

27 - 28 June - Square Picnic Tray (some experience necessary), £180.

25 - 26 July - Round Lidded Basket (suitable for beginners), £180.

22 - 23 Aug - Fitched Oval Arm Basket (some experience necessary), £180.

20 - 21 Sept - Round Log Basket (some experience necessary), £200.

Tools, materials and lunch included. Accommodation available for all courses £25 per night. 135 Bargates, Leominster (except Hoops course), 01568 615079, 07840 780618.

April INTRODUCTION TO PRINTMAKING WORKSHOPS Aimed at adults, suitable for artists and non-artists alike, no previous printmaking experience needed.

18 April - Intaglio Colour Inking, 10am-4pm. 19 April - Embossed Prints, 10am-4pm. £40 per workshop.

Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne, 01544 260149, www.sidneynolantrust.org

celebrating 21 years

in business from knucklas

Humanist Ceremonies Individual non-religious ceremonies conducted by BHA accredited celebrants.

Will & Lottie O’Leary Upper House, Knucklas, Knighton, Powys

TEL: 01547 528 792 www.stonecarving.co.uk

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Jenny Bullough (Hay-on-Wye) 01497 831416 Victoria Denning (Bishop’s Castle) 01588 638996 Dorothy Quayle (Hereford) 01432 860221

Namings, funerals and weddings/partnerships

ARTS & CRAFTS AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, PRESTEIGNE

MINERVA ARTS CENTRE,

monthly fair local artists and makers

LLANIDLOES, POWYS, SY18 6BY

Wood, wool, stone & silver

30th May – 27th June 2015

paintings and jewellery in the green room

A celebration of sustainable fibre crafts and textiles in beautiful mid-Wales featuring an exciting range of exhibitors.

Sat 4th april 10.00AM - 3.00PM

Open 7 days a week.

Free entry 10.30am – 4.30pm Offering a wide range of exciting wool and willow workshops: 30 May 31 May 1 June 2 June 4 June 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 18 June 19 June 20 June 21 June 22/23 June 25 June 26 June 27 June

Design for Hand Knitting Off-Loom Weaving Improvers Crochet Weaving at Warp Speed Crochet Corsages Willow Sculptures Needle felted Panda Wet felted picture Felt hats for beginners Braided Rag Rugs Introduction to up-cycling Willow Frame Basket Making Needle felted Rabbit Willow Plant Support Spinning: Compare & Contrast Crochet with Wire Willow & Paper Star Lantern 3D Hollow Felt Wet Felt Scarf Willow Baskets Up-cycling 2 Rag Rug Sunflowers Wet Felt Handbag

Sasha Kagan Sue Terrey Margaret Hughes Dunja Roberts Sasha Kagan Cassandra Lishman Olwen Veevers Ali Scott Cassandra Lishman Sue Clow Samantha Boulanger Mel Bastier Olwen Veevers Beryl Smith Dunja Roberts Margaret Hughes Beryl Smith Sue Terry Su Pascoe Lois Grindey Samantha Boulanger Sue Clow Su Pascoe

workshops in new radnor OPEN DAY SUNDAY 12 april 11.00am - 5.00pm spinning, dyeing, knitting,

One day workshops £38 Two day workshops £70

creative writing, upholstery

Details: www.woolandwillowfestival.org

and more subjects to be added

Enquiries: admin@woolandwillowfestival.org 01873 821 205

throughout the year

Bookings: workshops@woolandwillowfestival.org 01597 851 109

www.radnorshireartsandcraftsfoundation.org

see website for details

ENQUIRIES 01544 260777

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April ASSEMBLY ROOMS WORKSHOPS Sat - SmART, art and craft club for 8-14 years, 10.30am-12.30pm, £35 per term. First Thurs every month - Ludlow Arts Society, talks and demonstrations, 7.30pm, £4. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 878141.

April EASTNOR POTTERY Children’s Easter Holiday Pottery Workshops ‘Rabbit rabbit rabbit!’ 1 April. Come and make pottery Easter bunnies out of real clay with the Eastnor Potters.

11.30am-1pm (4-8yrs) and 2-3.30pm (9-12 yrs) £15 per child with a 10% discount for x or more places booked.

Family pottery fun in the Easter holiday telephone to book or just turn up and choose from an exciting menu of pottery projects using real clay. Nominimum order of participants required and projects start at just £5. A brilliant indoor activity for individuals, families and friends. Eastnor Pottery Potter’s Wheel Workshop Sat 25 April Spend the day relaxing and creating pots on the potter’s wheel. £120, Includes all materials, refreshments and lunch. Please tel 01531 633886 or email admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk for more details.

Mon 6 April BIG SKILL CRAFTS Demonstrations, free workshops, walks, animals.

Something for everyone. Hereford Community Farm, Breinton, 10am-4.30pm, www.thebigskill.com Sat 11 April LAMP MAKING WORKSHOP Jessca will guide you through everything you need to know to make your very own bespoke, upcycled table lamp. Woodwork, soldering, wiring and pipe bending.

10am-4pm, £90 includes all materials and light lunch.

JessicaFoundit, 01588 660880, www.jessicafoundit.com

We ALFI

furniture makers

Made to Measure Kitchens & Traditional Furniture

Marcus Field & Sarah Redway CALL 01544 260033 EMAIL enquiries@wealfi.co.uk VISIT www.wealfi.co.uk

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Tues 14 April & Wed 20 May THE BIG SKILL Free workshops and demonstrations including basket weaving, clay sculpting, drop spin weaving, foraging, glass pendant making and needle felting. The Courtyard, Hereford, 10am-4.30pm, 01432 340555, www.thebigskill.com Sat 18 April CALLIGRAPHY Pressure & release. One day workshop with Marion McKenzie creating pencil letters using pressure & release - a lovely technique. Monkland V.Hall 10-4pm. £18 members/ £21 visitors. Please ring 01544 327657 for details/booking. Marches Scribes.

18 April, 16 May, 20 June & 18 July EXTRA LIFE DRAWING CLASSES Fun, tutored sessions encouraging individual strengths, using a variety of materials in a relaxed and creative atmosphere. Beginners welcome, materials provided.

Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, booking essential, 01686 625041.

Sun 19 April BRUSH LETTERING ON PAPER & FABRIC A day spent learning the technique of edged brush lettering & its potential on fabrics for banners, bunting, bags, t-shirts & as basis for embroidery. 10-4pm at Brooms Green V. Hall near Ledbury HR8 1RZ. Cost £38.

For details or booking ring 01531634571 or email mcfot@hotmail.co.uk

Forge Framing & Gallery Studio 6, The Craft Centre, Oxford Road, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5DG JONATHAN BUCK Tel: 01497 820053 j.buck12@btinternet.com www.forgeframing.co.uk

EXHIBITION

SEREN BELL

Zebras at Dungeness - Seren Bell In pen, ink and crayon

Saturday, 16 May - Saturday, 13 June

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Sat 25 April BEAR NECESSITIES Come and join us for free expert advice on Teddy Bear maintenance, repair and restoration. Bring along your cuddly friend! The Round House, The Kymin, Monmouth, 11am-4pm, 01600 719241. Normal National Trust entrance fees apply.

Wednesdays VISUAL ART WORKSHOPS For 11-16 year olds. Mortimer Enterprise Centre, Kings Meadow, Wigmore, 4-6pm, 01568 770110.

Mon 27 April CRAFT WORKSHOP Make a willow basket with John Hart. Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 6.30pm, £5 + cost of materials, 01588 630023.

Wednesdays KNITTING GROUP At the Workhouse Cafe, Presteigne, 2-4pm, 10% discount on food and drinks. All welcome, 01544 267864.

April IRONBRIDGE GORGE MUSEUM WORKSHOPS 1 - 3 & 6 - 10 April Decorate your own mug. 11am-1pm, 2-4pm, Coalport China Museum. 1 - 11 April - Easter Themed Tile Decorating Workshops, 10am-5pm, £5. 14, 21 & 28 April - Tile Decorating Workshops, 10am - 5pm, £5. Both at Jackfield Tile Museum.

1 - 12 April Light Workshops, 10.30am-3.45pm, Enginuity, Coalbrookdale. 1 - 12 April Easter-Themed Shadow Lamp Making, 11am-1pm and 2-4pm. The Great Easter Bunny Hunt, 10am-5pm. Traditional Easter Celebrations, 10am-5pm daily. All at Blists Hill Victorian Town, near Ironbridge. Further details www.ironbridge. org.uk 01952 433424.

Mondays KNITTING CLUB Trumpet Corner Tea Rooms, Trumpet Crossroads, Ledbury, £3 per session + materials, 01531 634047.

Tuesdays ART HEALS CREATIVE MORNINGS With Tania Pearson. No previous art training necessary.

For more info visit www.artheals.co.uk or phone Tania on 01584 831157.

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Wednesdays POTTERY CLUB All ages and abilities. Materials and refreshments included. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown, 7-9pm, 01686 688369.

Every Thursday STONE & LETTER CARVING Letter Carving with Will O’Leary and Stone Carving with Lottie O’Leary 7-9pm, £10, Upper House, Knucklas, Knighton, Powys, 01547 528792. www.stonecarving. co.uk Thursdays (4-6pm) VISUAL ART WORKSHOPS Designed to suit 11-16 year olds. In these sessions young people will be introduced to different art techniques by established local artists. Refreshments and snacks are available. Workshops run by enthusiastic volunteers from TVYP at Mortimer Enterprise Centre, Kings Meadow, Wigmore, HR6 9UX, 4-6pm. Workshops are free of charge. Tel: 01568 770110.

Fridays AFTER SCHOOL ART CLUB For children aged 5 - 12 years. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown, 3.45-5.15pm, 01686 688369.

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cinema ABERGAVENNY FILM SOC. 1 April OF HORSES AND MAN (15) Followed by AGM Melville Theatre, Pen-y-pound, Abergavenny. All showings start at 7.30pm, www.abergavennyfilmsociety. com 01600 780263

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, LUDLOW 1 April INTO THE WOODS (PG) 1 - 3 April BIG HERO 6 (PG) 2 & 3 April KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (15) 3, 6 - 8 April SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (U) 5 & 6 April INHERENT VICE (15) 7, 8, 13 & 14 April TRASH (15) 15, 16 & 20 April LOVE IS STRANGE (15) 21, 22 & 24 April SELMA (12A) 25 & 26 April FIFTY SHADES OF GREY(18) 27 & 28 April STILL ALICE (12A) Details 01584 878141

ASS. ROOMS, PRESTEIGNE 8 April A FAIRLY GRIMM EVENING Free screening of the video of the 2014 hit pantomime. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7pm. Promoted

by Presteigne Players.

BISHOP’S CASTLE FILM SOC. 1 April THE DOUBLE 15 April BOB LE FLAMBEUR 29 April ALL IS LOST Three Tuns, Bishop’s Castle. All showings start at 8pm 01588 680445

BRECON FILM SOCIETY 13 April CALVARY (15) 4 May REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (PG) Brecon Coliseum Cinema, 7.15pm, £6 per film 01874 623166

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BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP 2 - 6 April SHAUN THE SHEEP (U) 4 April IDA (12A) 6 April AU REVOIR LES ENFENTS (12A) 10 - 12 April BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (15) 17 - 19 April SUITE FRANCAISE (15) 24 - 26 April STILL ALICE (12A) Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye. Films every weekend.

Full programme www.boothbooks. co.uk 01497 820322

24 - 30 April THE WATER DIVINER (15) 25 & 26 April THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (PG) 27 April BASHU, THE LITTLE STRANGER (15) 27 - 30 April X + Y (12A) 27 & 29 April BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (15) Details 01432 340555

CONQUEST, BROMYARD 3 April PADDINGTON (PG) 15 April HOW THE WEST WAS WON (PG) Bromyard Film Society 17 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) 15 May THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd, Bromyard. Details 01885 488575

COURTYARD, HEREFORD Until 4 April SHAUN THE SHEEP (U) 1 April FANTASTIC MR FOX (PG) Until 2 April GUYS AND DOLLS (U) 2 April CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (PG) 3 - 9 April KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (15) 7 -9 April FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18) 10 - 16 April STILL ALICE (12) 10 - 15 April MY NAME IS SALT (U) 13 April UNDER THE SKIN OF THE CITY (15) 17 - 23 April MORTDECAI (12A) 17 - 23 April SUITE FRANCAISE (15) 18 April PADDINGTON (PG) 20 - 23 April SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG)

TRASH (15) Echoing feel-good elements of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and certainly not to be confused with Andy Warhol’s similarly-titled 1970 sleazerama, this joint Brazilian/ British production seamlessly directed by Stephen Daldry (BILLY ELLIOTT) centres on three young ragamuffins who stumble across a cash-filled wallet in the garbage dump they forage to help support their families. The boys, played by uniformly charismatic unknowns, naturally spend the loot but then discover that the wallet holds considerably greater value to a corrupt politician who naturally wants it back. Badly. Helping the youngsters achieve what they suspect is political justice are Martin Sheen as an American priest and his assistant (Rooney Mara), with a nifty cameo by CNN’s famous international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour.

All reviews by Mark Williams

1 April JERSEY BOYS (15) Cardington VH 01694 771295 2 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Goodrich VH 01600 890609 2 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 2 April BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (15) Brilley VH 01544 327227 2 April PADDINGTON (PG) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 3 April THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 4 April WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY (12A) Belmont Hall, Wellington, www. theclifton.org 4 April THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST (18) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 720341 5 April PADDINGTON (PG) Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 616460 7 April MR TURNER (12A) Lydbury North VH 01588 680302 7 April VIOLETTE (15) All Stretton VH 01694 723378 8 April MR TURNER (12A) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 8 April MR TURNER (12A) Hope Bowdler VH 01694 723648 8 April MR TURNER (12A) Cuddington & Sandiway VH 01606 888931 8 April PADDINGTON (PG) The Talbot Theatre, Whitchurch 01948 660660 9 April MAO’S LAST DANCER (12A) Whitley VH 01925 730773 10 April MR TURNER (12A) Colwall VH 01684 540926 10 April PRIDE (15) Abermule Community Centre 01686 630240

INHERENT VICE (15) In a role utterly unlike Theodore in last year’s HER, Joaquin Phoenix plays stoner private dick, Doc Sportello, tracking down ex-girlfriend Shasta Fay (a luminous Katherine Waterston) and the property magnate she’s been screwing (Eric Roberts) in late ‘60s California. Based on Thomas Pynchon’s picaresque novel it coalesces a hippie-hating cop (Josh Brolin), a spaced-out snitch (Owen Wilson), Sportello’s uptight DA lover (Reese Witherspoon), a philosophising marine lawyer (Benicio Del Toro) and laugh-out loud Martin Short as a sex-addicted coke-head: it all inevitably becoming borderline baffling. But it’s director Paul Thomas Anderson’s funniest work yet and just as compelling as his last, THE MASTER – also starring Phoenix. As with BOOGIE NIGHTS, an ensemble cast clearly having a ball and authentically seedy post-hippie La-la land add considerably to the massive entertainment value.

10 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Kelsall Methodist Hall 01829 752548 10 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Knighton Community Centre 01547 520602 10 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Lingen VH 01544 260865 10 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Staunton-on-Wye VH 01981 501031 10 April NIGHT MOVES (15) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 11 April PADDINGTON (PG) Belmont Hall, Wellington www.theclifton.org 11 April INTERSTELLAR (12A) Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 616460 11 April WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY (12A) Upton upon Severn Memorial Hall 01684 591044 11 April MR TURNER (12A) Eastham Memorial Hall 01584 781255 11 April MR TURNER (12A) Clun Memorial Hall 01588 640254 11 April TWO MEN WENT TO WAR (PG) Bayston Hill Memorial Hall 01743 873940 11 April WEST SIDE STORY (PG) Ripple Parish Hall 01684 592060 13 April MR TURNER (12A) Church Stretton School 01694 724330 13 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) The Edge Arts Centre 01952 728911 13 April PADDINGTON (PG) Welshpool Assembly Room 01938 552043 14 April GONE GIRL (18) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 720341 14 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Acton Scott VH 01695 781260 14 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Much Birch Community Hall 01981 580298

14 April THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Ashford Carbonell VH 01584 874684 14 April NEBRASKA (15) Garway VH 01600 750465 15 April HERE AND NOW (12A) Escleyside Hall 01981 510696 15 April THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (15) Myddle VH 01939 290872 15 April MY OLD LADY (12A) The Red House, Albrighton 01902 373854 15 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Weobley VH 01544 318522 16 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Gorsley VH 01989 720358 16 April MY OLD LADY (12A) Kinnerley Parish Hall 01691 682282 16 April THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Claverley VH 01746 710528 16 April THE GREAT BEAUTY (15) Pudleston VH 01568 760606 16 April BELLE (12A) Perton Civic Centre 17 April TRACKS (12A) Stoke Prior VH 01568 760423 17 April MR TURNER (12A) Bosbury Parish Hall 01531 640415 17 April MR TURNER (12A) All Stretton VH 01694 723378 17 April MR TURNER (12A) Cound Guildhall 01743 761451 17 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Great Witley VH 01299 896412 17 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Bodenham Parish Hall 01568 797451 17 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Little Dewchurch VH 01432 840333 17 April PADDINGTON (PG) Jessie Hughes VH, Eaton 01829 760619 17 April PADDINGTON (PG) Dorstone VH 01981 550943 17 April PADDINGTON (PG) Dilwyn Cedar Hall 01544 319363

18 April BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (15) Belmont Hall, Wellington wwwltheclifton.org 18 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Cleobury Mortimer Parish Hall 01299 270830 18 April THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Ryton VH 01743 718237 18 April THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Cawley Hall, Eye 01568 615836 18 April THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Everest Hall, Llanfair Waterdine 01547 510672 18 April MR TURNER (12A) Chapel Lawn VH 01547 530530 18 April THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED (15) Bicton VH 01743 850495 18 April THE CHORUS (12A) Hanley VH 01886 853195 18 April MONUMENT + THE GREAT DICTATOR In 1941, the National Picture Theatre cinema in Hull was bombed, all 150 people survived.

Commemorating this event, these black and white movies will be shown with live music. Clun Memorial Hall, 01588 640254 19 April PADDINGTON (PG) Lingen VH 01544 260865 20 April GONE GIRL (18) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 23 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Bagley Sports and Social Club 07773 983963 23 April MR TURNER (12A) Castlemorton Parish Hall 01684 833549 23 April MR TURNER (12A) Almeley VH 01544 327195 24 April MR TURNER (12A) Clungunford Parish Hall 01588 660159 24 April CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (12A) Marton VH 01938 580116 24 April WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY (12A) Little Wenlock VH 01952 505888 24 April WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY (12A) Whitchurch & Ganarew Memorial Hall 01600 890640 24 April PADDINGTON (PG) Sarn VH 01686 671205 25 April PADDINGTON (PG) Clifton on Teme VH 01886 812238 25 April WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY (12A) Withington Parish Room 01743 709236 25 April THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 616460 25 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Belmont Hall, Wellington www.theclifton.org

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THE WATER DIVINER (15) The WW1-based drama is also co-star Russell Crowe’s directorial debut and a fine piece of work it is. Crowe plays Australian farmer Joshua Connor, whose four sons are missing, presumed dead in the monumental Battle of Gallipoli.

Connor travels to Turkey to bring their bodies back home where we’ve seen him searching for water on his arid farmland, the metaphor for his sorry quest. In Constantinople he falls for his beautiful hotelier (Olga Kurylenko) and receives unexpected help from Turkish army officer (Yimaz Ergodan) who despite having been on the opposing side, has sympathy for “The only father who came looking” for his sons. Crowe’s own performance is his most nuanced for years, matched by the overall tone of this beautifully photographed film.

25 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Aston on Clun VH 01588 660545 25 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Trefonen VH 01691 657011 25 April BELLE (12A) Clifton on Teme VH 01886 812238 27 April MR TURNER (12A) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 28 April PRIDE (15) Loppington VH 01939 236240 28 April THE IMITATION GAME (12A) Chetton VH 01746 789257 30 April MR TURNER (12A) Goodrich VH 01600 890609 30 April SET FIRE TO THE STARS (15) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125

HAFREN, NEWTOWN 10 April THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (15) Details 01686 614555

PHOENIX THEATRE, R-O-W 12 April MR TURNER (12A) 25 April PRIDE (15) Details Phoenix Theatre, Ross-on-Wye 01989 564570

PRESTEIGNE SCREEN 10 April ST VINCENT (15) The Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm www.presteignescreen.org.uk

OLD MKT. HALL, SHREWS.

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1 & 2 April INTO THE WOODS (PG) 3 - 9 April WHIPLASH (15) 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 - 11 April SHAUN THE SHEEP (U) 9 April BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL Following the expeditions of some of today’s most incredible adventurers.

10 - 16 April SELMA (12A) 12 April SHOWBOAT 17 - 21 April CAKE (15) 19 April BLADE RUNNER (15) 22 & 23 April STILL LIFE (12A)

24 - 30 April SUITE FRANCAISE (15) 1 - 7 May A LITTLE CHAOS Details 01743 281281

REGAL CINEMA, TENBURY 4, 6 & 7 April BIG HERO 6 (PG) 7 & 8 April KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (15) 10 & 11 April BLACKHAT (15) 13 - 15 April SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) 17 April FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18) 20 & 21 April CHAPPIE (ctbc) 22 April STILL ALICE (12A) 27 & 28 April JUPITER ASCENDING (12A) 29 April UNFINISHED BUSINESS (ctbc) 1 & 2 May HOME (ctbc) 2 & 6 May KILL THE MESSENGER (15) Regal Cinema, 47 - 49 Teme Street, Tenbury Wells. Details 01584 811442

ST MICHAEL’S TENBURY 23 April THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) A big-screen showing with live improvisation by internationally acclaimed organist, David Briggs on the ‘Father Willis’ Organ. St Michael’s Church, Tenbury Wells, 7pm, £25, 16s and under £5 to include a drink and hot supper before concert, 01905 426998

WYESIDE, BUILTH WELLS

Wyeside, Builth Wells 01982 552555

LIVE EVENTS ON SCREEN 1 April BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS National Theatre (encore). Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7pm, 07967 517125.

1 April THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHOGONNY Royal Opera House. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.15pm, 01584 878141. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 7.15pm, 01982 552555.

Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7.15pm, 01600 719401. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7.15pm, 01952 728911. Market Hall, Shrewsbury, 01743 281281. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.15pm, 01885 488575.

Courtyard, Hereford, 7.15pm, 01432 340555. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7.15pm, 01584 811442. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 7.15pm, 01497 820322.

2 April A VIEW FROM A BRIDGE National Theatre (encore). Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.15pm, 01885 488575.

4 April BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS National Theatre (encore). Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 616460.

4 April HAMLET National Theatre live. Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, 01432 340555.

9 April TITUS ANDRONICUS Globe on screen. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 7pm, 01497 820322.

14 April VINCENT VAN GOGH: A NEW WAY OF SEEING Exhibitions on Screen. Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 878141.

Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, 01432 340555. Market Hall, Shrewsbury, 01743 281281.

16 April THE HARD PROBLEM National Theatre. Conquest Theatre, 7.15pm, 01885 488575. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7pm, 01584 878141.

Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, 01432 340555. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7pm, 01600 719401. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7pm, 01584 811442.

The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7pm, 01952 728911. SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 7pm, 01588 630321.

Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 7pm, 01497 820322.

18 April THE HARD PROBLEM National Theatre (encore). Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 616460 19 April IVAN THE TERRIBLE Bolshoi Ballet. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 3pm, 01885 488575.

23 April LA TRAVIATA English National Opera. SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 7pm, 01588 630321.

25 April CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA + PAGLIACCI The Metropolitan Opera.

Double bill. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 5.30pm, 01885 488575. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 5.30pm, 01600 719401. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 5.30pm, 01952 728911.

5 May LA FILLE MAL GARDEE Royal Opera House. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.15pm, 01885 488575.

Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7.15pm, 01600 719401. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.15pm, 01584 878141.

Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7.15pm, 01584 811442. Market Hall, Shrewsbury, 01743 281281.

Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 616460.

6 May LA FILLE MAL GARDEE Royal Opera House. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7.15pm, 01952 728911.

WORKSHOPS Wednesdays INTERMEDIATE FILM MAKING The Courtyard, Hereford, 5-7pm, £70 per term, 01432 340555.

Thursdays BEGINNER FILM MAKING CLUB Courtyard, Hereford, 5-7pm, £70 per term, 01432 340555.

Learn 2 Jive

Beginners Classes

Monday, 8-9pm, Bartestree Village Hall, Hereford, HR1 4BY CALL FOR ARTISTS to exhibit as

part of the Fringe Art Trail, which runs from 13 June to 5 July, and to take stalls at the Ludlow Fringe Festival Artists’ Market, which takes place in Ludlow Town Square on the 20 and 21 June.

Exhibiting artists will be offered space in abandoned rooms, cafes, galleries, public spaces and historic buildings. All media welcome - painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, applied arts, film makers, performance etc.

During the Fesitval, Ludlow becomes a dynamic and cultural hub of creative activity! For further information and application forms, please see the Fringe website - www.ludlowfringe.co.uk

Tuesday, 8-9pm, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, SY8 1AZ Tuesday, 8-9pm, Stretton Sugwas Village Hall, HR4 7PT Wednesday, 8-9pm, Tenbury Pump Rooms, WR15 8BA Wednesday, 8-9pm, Leigh & Bransford Memorial Hall, Malvern, WR13 5DE Thursday, 8-9pm, Bishops Frome Community Centre, WR6 5AZ Contact Matt or Sarah on 01989 750354 or info@coolmovesdance.co.uk www.coolmovesdance.co.uk

Coolmoves Dance & Fitness for Adults

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dance Dance Performance Sat 18 April ANGLES IN LIFE

NEW - Wednesday, 8-9pm, Tenbury Pump Rooms, WR15 8BA. Wednesday, 8-9pm, Leigh & Bransford Memorial Hall, Malvern, WR13 5DE. Thursday, 8-9pm, Bishops Frome Community Centre, WR6 5AZ. Contact Matt or Sarah on 01989 750354 orinfo@coolmovesdance.co.uk www.coolmovesdance.co.uk Coolmoves Dance & Fitness for adults.

MELY’S ZUMBA Mon - Dorstone, 7pm. Tues - Zumba class at St Peter’s Centre, Peterchurch, 10am. Mely 01497 820991, 07837 160505.

VANHULLE DANCE THEATRE. A gritty, slick contemporary dance and film production with international influences, which questions the concept of reality in our world. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555.

Mon DIZZY DAZZLERS DANCE CLASSES For 4 - 7 year olds. With Powys Dance. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 4pm, £2-£3.50, 01982 552555.

Tues 28 April EDGE 2015 LONDON CONTEMPORARY DANCE SCHOOL. Performing four dramatically different dance works by internationally-renowned and up and coming choreographers. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555.

Mon RIPPLERS DANCE CLASSES For 8-11 year olds.

With Powys Dance. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 4.45pm, £2-£3.50, 01982 552555.

Wed 29 April ALADDIN BALLET THEATRE UK. An exotic world full of daring adventure, enchanting spells and of course true love. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01874 611622.

Tues DANCE @ THE COURTYARD Contemporary Dance for Adults 6.30-7.30pm, £48 per term or £5 per week.

Junior Youth Dance for ages 7-11 4.15-5.15pm, Senior Youth Dance for ages 12-18 5.15-6.15pm, 01905 611199.

Wed 13 May BROKEN MOTIONHOUSE. Examining our precarious relationship with the earth, Broken submerges highly athletic dance with intricate digital imagery and original music. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £15/£13.50, 01874 611622.

Dance Workshops

Single listings are free. Year round entries £40 Sat 11 April CEILIDH WITH THE FLYING TOADS Traditional Celtic music at it’s best. Dance caller Jane Altman. Three Tuns, Bishop’s Castle, 8pm, £8 o the door, 01588 638159.

DANCE ARTIST, TEACHER AND PILATES TRAINER Deborah Greenfield soon moving to the Welsh Borders.

I will be setting up Adult Ballet, Flamenco dance & Pilates classes in Ludlow and Presteigne about mid-April. Please feel free to let me know which class/es would interest you. rosanegra8@gmail.com

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Mon BREAKDANCE With 2Faced Dance Company.

4-5pm 4-7 year olds, 5-6pm. 7-11 year olds, 6.15-7.15pm 11+ year olds. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 276807.

LEARN 2 JIVE BEGINNERS CLASSES Monday, 8-9pm, Bartestree Village Hall, Hereford, HR1 4BY. Tuesday, 8-9pm, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, SY8 1AZ. Tuesday, 8-9pm, Stretton Sugwas Village Hall, HR4 7PT.

Mon YOUTH DANCE CLASSES For ages 11 and over.

With Powys Dance. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 5.45pm, £2-£3.50, 01982 552555.

Tues LEARN TO JIVE Fun, easy to learn and no partner/ experience needed. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £5, 01989 750354.

Weds CIRCLE DANCING Leominster Community Centre 2.00-3.30pm All welcome, £4 per session. Transition Leominster 01568 620180.

Thurs URBAN DANCE CLUB WITH 2FACED DANCE COMPANY Ages 7-11 years 4-5pm, ages 11+ 5-6pm.

Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 813711.

Fri CHANCE TO DANCE A gentle programme of creative dance for the over 50s. The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.15am-11.15pm, £3.50 per session, 01432 340555.

Fri DANCING TOTS Drop-in sessions. No need to book.

The Courtyard, Hereford. 11.30am-12.15pm, £4, £1 for an additional child, 01432 340555.

HEREFORD ARGENTINE TANGO CLUB We are running a course of classes and practicas over 16 weeks from Monday 13 April BEGINNERS: 7.30pm INTERMEDIATES: from 9.15pm Classes £7, Practicas £5

Breinton Village Hall, Hereford, HR4 7PJ No partner necessary.

Contact Cathy Lusher: 07969 091786 Email: cathyltango@yahoo.com

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Momo No Ki, Shrewsbury

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EFORE Mr Pernickety launches into this month’s tale of disappointment and unfulfilled promise, he would like to draw the attention of his readers to the possibly exciting news that the once Michelin-starred La Bécasse in Ludlow’s Corve Street is to reopen.

After the place had been traded – it has to be assumed unsuccessfully – by receivers on behalf of the creditors of the company which had previously owned the restaurant, the former proprietor, Alan Murchison, who also cooked at its sister restaurant, L’Ortolan in Berkshire, has now reacquired the lease and is moving to Ludlow to be head chef and to operate La Bécasse himself. Perhaps he will benefit from the recent announcement that Ludlow has been named one of the ‘50 Best Places to Live in Britain’ by the Sunday Times and the resulting influx to the town of pensioners seeking Nirvana and fine cuisine.

Back to the realities of the present, and the irritating way in which some new restaurants launch themselves on a skilfully managed rising tide of hype, which attracts large numbers of well-disposed punters to come and sample their fare. At last year’s Ludlow Food Notveryfestival Mr Pernickety saw the Executive-Head-Chef of Momo No Ki, Christopher Burt, demonstrating his new style of far eastern cuisine while talking convincingly about it and the ingredients involved. Mr P noted Mr Burt’s trade-mark butcher’s-boy hat and the heavy tattoos on his forearms (over which he speculated whether or not Mr Burt could peel them off and put them in a drawer before going home to visit his mum). Although Mr P is wary of trade marks and any other indicators of ‘brand’, to the point of paranoia, Mr Burt’s chat suggested he knew what he was talking about; his new ramen noodle bar sounded fresh, original and exciting, especially for out here in the sticks, and Mr P made a note to visit the restaurant next time he was going that way.

One of the Pernickety issue had given their father and his Lovely Companion tickets to see Paul Foot (the standup comedian, not the late investigative journalist) who was appearing at Theatre Severn in what the locals call Shoes-Bree. They took the opportunity to have an early supper before Mr Foot started strutting his stuff (and strut he did!).

Even at half-past six, Momo No Ki was filling up.

The place is wedged in a complex of interconnecting, co-owned eating and sluicing venues – C21 Bar/Night Club, The Peach Tree (a well thought of restaurant in its own right) and Havana Republic – and punters are free to roam from one to the other.

Mr P and the LC were seated near the front, which overlooks Abbey Foregate. They couldn’t see how far in the restaurant extended before morphing into one of the other elements of Mr Burt’s eclectic domain.

Generally, the decorative effect was that of Habitat meets somewhere in the Far East, with small, semi-stylish uncomfortable chairs, grumpy-looking staff wearing headsets, all busy in a clackety-clack sort of way. The menu looked fun but tricksy, with an exhaustive key to contents, while offering a choice of noodle type, choice of sauce, topping and ‘protein’ (like bellypork, chicken or tofu). Mr P, not wanting to be late for the stand-up gig

thought it would take too long to work through these unfamiliar elements, so he and the LC decided (mistakenly, as it turned out) that they would get a better overview of the kitchen’s capabilities if they opted for the ‘Platter of the Day’, containing, the menu claimed, ‘sweet’n’sour ham hock, firecracker steamed rice, togarashi tempura monkey tunk pork ribs, sushi of the day and shrimp cracker nachos’.

A large tray of stuff arrived and took up most of the small table at which Mr P and the LC were perched. They were given chopsticks, dishes and finger bowls (Mr P could have used a broad headed power shower to deal with the mess he got himself into dealing with the Platter).

The three sushi’s each were delicate and delicious – a good start, he and the LC agreed. But it went downhill from there.

With his chopsticks Mr P clumsily extracted lumps of ‘protein’, whose identity on the menu he had forgotten, from a pond of sickly sweet brown goo. He guessed it was chicken – it might have been anything. Only when he looked at the menu afterwards was he reminded that it was ham hock.

The same sauce, with the addition of a binding agent which looked like sawdust, also coated the chunky spare ribs. This made them extra chewy and contained an additional strange and not in any way enhancing flavour, which Mr P failed to identify, unfamiliar as he is with togarashi tempura monkey tunk. He and the LC didn’t finish their allotted portions.

The presumably once crisp shrimp crackers were served in a salad which had rendered them soggy and not at all enjoyable, while the indecipherable goo in which the protein languished was beginning to cloy. It being the season of abstinence Mr P and his LC weren’t drinking alcohol, but they felt that no wine would have had the muscle to mitigate the experience of eating at Momo No Ki, which was one of major disappointment after the artful media campaign and presentation of the place and its concept.

They were charged £28 for the platter, £3.50 for Extras – in their case, a jug of tap water; Fizzy water came at £4.95 a litre, and apple juice at £3.80 a pint. The menu says nothing about a service charge. Mr P left a tip with a woman at the till, who called him, ‘My Love’, which is, he feels only just a little better than being called ‘Mate.’ www.misterpernickety.com

EVENTS

April & May FORAGING COURSES Find out about the fine foods growing all around you this Spring with this hands on foraging and wild food tasting.

18 April, 9 & 31 May, 12pm meet at the Temeside Inn, Little Hereford, Ludlow, the course finishes at 3.30pm.

8 May meet at The Farmer’s Arms, Ledbury, 12pm, finishes 3.30pm. £30 adults, £15 for under 16s, under 12s free, 01584 711646, www.wildfooduk.com

Foraging Courses Sat 9 & Sun 10 May LUDLOW FOOD SPRING FESTIVAL Real ales, food and drink stalls, live music and more.

Inside Ludlow Castle, 01584 873957, www.ludlowspringfestival.co.uk £1 off with advert or using code SHEEP. First Sat of every month FARMER’S MARKET The Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, 9am-1pm.

First Sat of every month PRESTEIGNE LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET Memorial Hall, Presteigne, 9am-1pm, 01544 262773.

3rd Saturday of every month FARMER’S MARKET Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 01588 630023.

3rd Saturday of every other month PRODUCE MARKET Hightown Community Rooms, Vicarage Rd, Clun, 10am-2pm, 01588 641145.

Every Thurs STEAK NIGHT Castle Inn, Wigmore, 01568 770203.

Last Friday of every month PIZZA NIGHT The Old Mill, High Street, Llanidloes. To book, call 01686 807 506.

Every Fri KINGTON LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET Market Hall, Kington, 9am-2pm, 07765 404759.

Every Fri FISH ON FRIDAY NIGHT Castle Inn, Wigmore, 01568 770203.

FOOD BYTES Why not advertise? Only £40 per year.

AARDVARK BOOKS LTD, THE BOOKERY, MANOR FARM, BRAMPTON BRYAN, BUCKNELL 01547 530888 Cafe serving refreshments, cakes etc. Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm.

THE CIDER BARN IN PEMBRIDGE 01544 388161 www.the-cider-barn.co.uk Serving the best that Herefordshire growers produce in imaginative and inspired dishes cooked by Sophie Griffiths-Goddard the young chef patron. Full à la carte menu and lunchtime specials.

POTS & CROCKS to hire for any occasion. Reasonable rates. 01568 709142. Classic white plates, cups & saucers, tea pots (silver & vintage), jugs, sugar bowls, cutlery, cake stands, carafes, large saucepans, table cloths, tea urn etc. Stored in Kingsland. Collection or delivery plus wash up service.

THE GREEN BEAN CAFE, WEOBLEY 01544 318865 Good, locally sourced, homemade food. Soups, all day light lunches, cakes and scones. Set in the heart of Weobley. Free wifi. Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm, Sat 10am-2.30pm. With The Green Bean Shop/Deli under the same roof.

THE LION RESTAURANT BRIDGE STREET KINGTON 01544 231002. Offering modern English food. Open for lunch Wed-Sun 12 - 2.30 and open for dinner Tues-Sat 6-9.30pm.

THE OLD STATION TEA ROOM, THE OLD RAILWAY STATION, NEW RADNOR, LD8 2SS 01544 350543.

Visit us at the Old Station Caravan Park for hot drinks and homemade cakes. Superb views and free Wi-Fi. We can cater for small groups, meetings and other events.

Accommodation also available. Open daily 10am-5pm.

The India & China Tea Company at TOWER HOUSE GALLERY, HIGH STREET, KNIGHTON 01547 529530 www.towerhousegallery.blogspot.co.uk/ We serve homemade soups, breads and cakes, Italian blend coffee and over 30 different varieties of leaf tea. Wednesday to Saturday 9.30 to 5.00, (Sunday, Monday & Tuesday - CLOSED).

THE WORKHOUSE CAFE, INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PRESTEIGNE 01544 267864 Cafe gallery, light lunches, good coffee, homemade cakes. Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm.

RHOS MARKET GARDEN, KNIGHTON 01547 528315 Growers & providers of organic veg, fruit & flowers. Old Garage Shop, Knighton. Tues-Sat. Free parking, opposite library. Friday monring market stall in Presteigne. Veg boxes delivered to local area weekly. Restaurant orders welcome. info@rhosorganic.co.uk www.rhosorganic.co.uk SCRUMMY BITES ‘made locally with you in mind‘ Local chef Sam Bruce produces delicious food for any occasion using ingredients from our great Herefordshire producers. Now cooking at the newly refurbished Oak at Wigmore. Bookings: 01568 770424 or Kitchen: 07837 848923. Awarded Ludlow Food Festival’s Graeme Kidd Bursary 2010.

UNCLE G’S ICE CREAM PARLOUR, BRIDGE STREET, KINGTON 01544 231002 Open daily from midday, offering a variety of our own home made ice creams available in cones and party tubs of different sizes.

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Thurs 2 April

Naomi Payne

OPEN MIC King’s Head, Tenbury Wells.

Sun 5 April WARREN JAMES SKIFFLE Housmans Bar & Cafe, Church Stretton, 7.30pm.

OPEN MIC Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

GROOVE CITY Malthouse, Ironbridge.

THE ENDINGS Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 01952 610888.

EASTER FAMILY FUN Follow the Eliza Trail. Start at Hay Cheese Market and look for Eliza’s little white dog to find your way around.

Returning explorers receive a bag of mini eggs. 2pm-5pm.

Fri 3 April THE WISH PIGS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

THE ENDINGS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

EASTER EGG HUNT Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-onWye, 10am-4pm, £1, 01497 820322.

BEN SMITH The Stag, Llanidloes.

JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Simon Deeley and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass.

Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 820841.

BCDC The Haygate, Wellington, Telford, 9pm.

EASTER FAMILY FUN Follow the Eliza Trail. Start at Hay Cheese Market and look for Eliza’s little white dog to find your way around.

Returning explorers receive a bag of mini eggs. 11am-2pm.

FRUIT MACHINE Malthouse, Ironbridge.

ANIMATORS Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

TOMORROW WE SAIL Post rock band. CARAD, East St, Rhayader, 7.30pm, £5, bring your own drinks.

Sat 4 April THE BLACK ‘N’ BLUES BAND Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

STIFF WITNESS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

OHM BOMBS King’s Head, Tenbury Wells.

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OPEN MIC Ledbury Community Hall, 7pm, £5, bring a bottle, 01531 632968.

THE WAYNE MARTIN BAND The Wrekin Beer Festival.

EASTER EGG HUNT Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-onWye, 10am-4pm, £1, 01497 820322.

NAOMI PAYNE’S HOTSY TOTSY BAND Great swing and jazz classics.

Saturday Cafe, The Courtyard, Hereford, 12-2pm, free, 01432 340555.

TWO THINGS WITH STRINGS Violin and guitar duo. Aardvark Books, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, 11am-2pm, free.

CHRIS GREVE The Stag, Llanidloes.

LEDBURY ROTARY CLUB CHARITY CONCERT Featuring singers Deborah Rose, Carlos Alonso and Ledbury’s Livia King.

Plus The John Masefield High School Jazz Band. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7.30pm, £10, under 12’s free, 07967 517125. In aid of Acorn Hospice.

ADAM HODSON BAND Malthouse, Ironbridge.

JOHN STOREY & THE RHYTHM METHOD Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

EASTER FAMILY FUN Follow the Eliza Trail. Start at Hay Cheese Market and look for Eliza’s little white dog to find your way around.

Returning explorers receive a bag of mini eggs. 11am-2pm.

TONY SKEGGS The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

TOMMY ALLEN & JOHNNY HEWITT Chicago blues duo. Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4.30pm.

Mon 6 April ROEBUCKANEERS FOLK CLUB The Roebuck Inn, Brimfield, near Ludlow, 8pm, 01584 711854.

DANILA MUSIKHIN & ALESSANDRO FORTUNA From Milan Conservatoire, playing clarinet and piano. St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, 7.30pm, £10 on the door, 01497 822525.

LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT Peter Dyke. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15-2pm.

JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051.

OPEN DAY Belmont Abbey, Hereford, 10am-4.30pm, free admission, free guided tours, 01432 374747.

CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen’s St, Hereford, 01432 274968.

Wed 8 April DAY LEVEL Housmans Bar & Cafe, Church Stretton, 8pm.

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BLUZE BOX The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Benji Kirkpatrick

RHYTHM THIEVES Chindit Inn, 113 Merridale Rd, Wolverhampton.

KAYTOWN White Horse Inn, Clun.

JANIE MITCHELL & BENJI KIRKPATRICK An evening of words and music for the Save Pontesford Hill Appeal. Illustrated talk by Gladys Mary Coles and Gordon Dickins with readings by Pontesbury Players; second half performance by Janie and Benji from folk band, Bellowhead. Pontesbury Public Hall, 7pm, £10, from Hignetts, Pontesbury, 01952 419078.

Wed 8 April CHUCK MICALLEF Canadian singer/songwriter with guests.

The Duke’s Arms, Presteigne, 8.30pm, £3.

OPEN MIC Hosted by Wayne Martin. White Horse Inn, Clun.

DANILA MUSIKHIN & ALESSANDRO FORTUNA From Milan Conservatoire, playing clarinet and piano. College Hall, Hereford Cathedral, 7.30pm, £10, from Outback, Church St, Hereford.

01497 822525.

Thurs 9 April IAN LUTHER Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 8pm.

NUCLEAR WEASELS Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

CHRIS QUINN The Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 01952 610888.

Fri 10 April ULTIMATE ELTON & THE ROCKET BAND Tribute band. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £20/£18, 01874 611622.

TROY REDFERN Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

PAUL HENSHAW & THE SCIENTIFIC SIMPLETONS The Stag, Llanidloes.

JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Simon Deeley and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass.

Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 820841.

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COLORAMA The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, 01497 821762.

THE INSTILLERS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

TRAVATORI IN CONCERT Grand opera to intimate love songs, to West End classics. Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 8pm, £8 in advance or £10 on the door, 01588 630023.

THE WAYNE MARTIN BAND The Exchange, Newtown.

BANDAMANIA SPRING CEILIDH A fun-packed evening of dance and music with Sue Harris and Presteigne’s community band. Nibbles and glasses provided, bring your own drinks.

Eardisley Village Hall, 7.30pm, £6, accompanied under 16s free, tickets from Eardisley Village Stores or 01544 327841.

HALF OF PHOENIX Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

LOST THE PLOT Malthouse, Ironbridge.

BLACK COUNTRY NIGHT OUT Featuring musical comedian, Jonny Cole, plus husband and wife duo, Dandy. Also featuring Kaylee Cropper and The Ronaldos and Peter Lee. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £16, 01584 878141.

B Naturals

GREYWOLF Playing bluegrass and old time Americana. King’s Head, Tenbury Wells.

Sat 11 April MARTIN HARLEY Renowned for his prowess as a slide guitarist. A life long devotee of acoustic guitar music, especially blues/roots sounds. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm, £10 from the Workhouse or Courtyard Antiques and www.wegottickets.com B NATURALS IN CONCERT One of the leading a capella quartets in the UK. Snailbeach Village Hall, 7.30pm, £10 (£8 if you come to the workshop the next day). Tickets from Stiperstones Inn, 01743 791327.

BCDC Also Hotrox supporting. The Bull, Ludlow, 8pm.

FOREVER IN BLUE JEANS With music from Jerry Lee Lewis and the rock ‘n’ roll 50s. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £21-£19, 01743 281281.

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Sat 11 April HOT ROD 55 The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

NOW! THAT’S WHAT I CALL 90S The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, 01497 821762.

TINTAGEL ORPHEUS MALE VOICE CHOIR Charity concert for The Bracken Trust.

Builth Male Voice Choir and Builth Ladies Choir. The Pavilion, Llandrindod Wells, 7.30pm, £8 door or 01597 823646.

BLACK COUNTRY ROCK Malthouse, Ironbridge.

CALLAGHAN Folk concert from Ross Roots. Phoenix Theatre Palace Pound, Ross-on-Wye, 7.30pm, 01989 564570.

TASHA The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

BRACKEN The Stag, Llanidloes.

OUT OF THE LAND OUR STORIES ARE BORN

By Gill McEvoy and Polly Bolton. An evening of stories in word and song, performed by a a women’s choir from the Marches, telling the stories of three remarkable women. Llanymynech Village Hall, 7.30pm, £6, children free, 01584 823604.

Sun 12 April

ENVY OF THE STATE Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

DAVE WILSON & KIP WINTER ‘Winter Wilson herald the spring’.

Folk ranging from melting to belting!

Birchmeadow Centre, Brosley, 7.30pm, £9 in advance from WeGotTickets.com; £10 on the door.

SOUL PREACHERS Dance, soul, funk and reggae. Priest Weston Village Hall, 7.30pm, DJ from 8pm, £8, 01938 561499.

EASTER CONCERT Gregorian Chant and organ music featuring Stasio Sliwka and the Monks of Belmont Abbey. Abbey Church, Belmont, 7.30pm, free, 01432 374747.

LADY SINGS THE BLUES A tour celebrating the centenary of the greatest jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7.45pm, £15/£13, 01686 614555.

DENNIS ROLLINS’ VELOCITY TRIO Jazz. The Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 8pm, £17 or 4 tickets for £60, 01584 878141.

SLOW BURNER Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4.30pm.

BLUES BUSINESS The Barrels, St Owen’s St, Hereford, 4pm.

JIMMY WEBB Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £23.50, 01743 281281.

Mon 13 April THE RACK PRESS Presents Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, AC Bevan, Damian Walford Davies and Nicholas Murray. No. 46 Wine Bar, Presteigne, 7.30pm, £3, booking advised, 01544 267675.

JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051.

Tues 14 April ARTHUR EBELING New Inn, Pembridge, 8.30pm, 01544 388427.

BRECON JAZZ CLUB Featuring Atsuko Shimada Quartet.

Brecon Jazz Bar, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £6, 01874 611622.

QUIET RANTERS & SKYLARK Tabernacle, Talgarth, 7pm, £6, £3 Friends, 01874 611529. MIND. THE NOTORIOUS BROTHERS Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

Wed 15 April

THE FLYING TOADS Irish and Celtic music and song, ranging from lively jigs and reels to heartwarming songs and haunting ballads.

Three Tuns, Bishop’s Castle, 4-6pm, £7 on the door, £12 to include later ceilidh from 8pm, 01588 638159.

SHREWSBURY JAZZ NETWORK Presents Andrew McCormack Trio with Julian Siegel. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £14, members £12, under 18s £7, 01743 234970.

CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET Programme includes Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven.

Maidment Hall, Shrewsbury School, 3pm, £16 adults, 25’s and under free, 01743 367482.

JAMES HICKMAN Housmans Bar & Cafe, Church Stretton.

THE SEARCHERS Combining anecdotes with legendary hits. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £23.50-£20.50, 01743 281281.

Dennis Rollins Velocity Trio

Thurs 16 April LIVE MUSIC The Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 01952 610888.

‘WEOBLEY MUSIC’ Sat 9th May, 7.30pm at Weobley Village Hall, HR4 8SN Local band Alive and Pickin’,

The REMI HARRIS Quartet, and The SONS OF NAVARONE

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Promoted on behalf of the South Shropshire Green Party

by Janet Helen Phillips, 1 Walcot Avenue, Lydbury North SY7 8AA

(‘Best European Bluegrass Band’ in 2012) Bar. Tickets £10. Call 01544 318513 or email weobleymusic@hotmail.co.uk

ALTERNATIVE ROOTS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

Will Barnes’ Inspector Gadjo Band

THIN VISION The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

WILL BARNES’ INSPECTOR GADJO BAND Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 7.30pm, £10, 01588 630023.

Sat 18 April MERSEY BEATLES Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £17-£15, 01743 281281.

CLAYTON BLIZZARD The Majors Arms, Canon Frome.

Thurs 16 April DANGEROUS & CO Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

LIMEHOUSE LIZZY Wyeside, Builth Wells, 01982 552555.

JOHNNY CASH ROADSHOW Clive John stars. Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555.

Fri 17 April JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION With guest pianist to be announced.

Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 820841.

HMV BAND Malthouse, Ironbridge.

STEELYARD BLUES BAND Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

JAZZ @ THE BONDED WAREHOUSE Featuring Tim Amann xTet. The Bonded Warehouse, Canal St, Stourbridge, 7.30pm, £7, £3.50 students on the door, www.jazzbw.org.uk

GARY HALL Superb solo blues/country/Americana singer-songwriter. Saturday Cafe, The Courtyard, Hereford, 12-2pm, free, 01432 340555.

Gary Hall

LONESOME STAMPEDE The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, 01497 821762.

MONTERAY JACK & THE MALCONTENTS The Stag, Llanidloes.

AN EVENING WITH BILL CADDICK Silvester Horne Institute, Church Stretton, 7.30pm, £8, 01694 720132.

TOO COOL

The life and music of Chet Baker

SATURDAY 25 APRIL 7.30PM

Coronation Hall Kingsland, Leominster HR6 9QS Between sell-out appearances at Ronnie Scott’s famous jazz club, Sue Richardson brings her quartet to Kingsland. She has written new material to highlight his life and sings Chet Baker classics, including “My Funny Valentine”.

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Tickets £15. Kingsland Post Office or 01568 709579 / 07905 589830

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Of One Accord & Shrewsbury Male Voice Choir

STEVIE YEOMANS Greyhound Inn, Llangunllo, 01547 550400.

JOHN HARDMAN BAND + MISS-LED Churchstoke Community Hall, 7.30pm, real ale bar, £5, 01938 561305.

Churchstoke FC fundraising gig.

THE KAMAKAZEE MILLIONAIRES Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

DAVE SHERIFF Country and Western singer/songwriter.

Birchmeadow Centre, Brosley, 7.30pm, £9 in advance from WeGotTickets.com; £10 on the door.

Sat 18 April MARCHES BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Programme includes Handel and Purcell. St John’s Church, Bishop’s Castle, 7.30pm, £10, students/children free, 01588 650448.

KRAAK & SMAAK The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, 01497 821762.

GERARD COUSINS Welsh and Spanish acoustic guitar music. St Mary’s Church, Brecon, 7.30pm.

SIMON BLIGHT The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

VO & TYLER The Barrels, St Owen’s St, Hereford.

GREGYNOG YOUNG MUSICIAN COMPETITION The chosen finalist will compete for prize money and the Peter GarbettEdwards trophy. Gregynog Hall, near Newtown. Free admission during the day to listen to semi-final round.

Evening concert 7pm, £12.50 and a two-course pre-concert dinner is £15.50 at 5.30pm, 01686 650224.

Please book. www.gregynogymc.co.uk STU GITTENS + THE 4 COFFS Birmingham Children’s Hospital fundraising night. King’s Head, Tenbury Wells.

HEREFORDSHIRE YOUTH ORCHESTRA Programme includes Wagner, Faure, Mendelssohn and Dvorak. St Mary’s Church, Ross-on-Wye, 7.30pm, £5/£4, children free, 01432 853219.

Red Moon

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RUSS HUGHES The Stag, Llanidloes.

CENTENARY WEEKEND Step back in time with a programme of house tours, re-enactment and concert to commemorate the opening of Stokesay Court as an Auxiliary Military Hospital in 1915. Open 1pm-4.30pm, £8, under 16s £4, www.stokesaycourt. com OF ONE ACCORD + SHREWSBURY MALE VOICE CHOIR Holy Trinity Church, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £7 in advance, £7.50 on the door, 01743 358698. In aid of Severn Hospice.

RED MOON ROAD A trio of diverse and compelling musicians from Canada playing folk music. Bodenham Parish Hall, 7.30pm, £8/£5, 01568 797404. Arts Alive.

THE LICHFIELD VAULTS 11 CHURCH STREET, HEREFORD

Sunday 26th April

HAUNTED SOULS Sunday 31st May

SLOW BURNER Sunday 28th June

OTIS MAC Traditional Sunday lunches served until 3pm Greek food PLUS SPECIALS Choice of five Real Ales Music starts approx 4pm, music free.

01432 266821

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Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

ENSEMBLE 360 ‘Crazy Creatures’. With narrator Polly Ives. Two children’s stories, ‘The Duck with No Luck’ and ‘A Cat Called Scratch’. Suitable for ages 3+.

Maidment Hall, Shrewsbury School, 2.30pm, £6, under 18s £3, 01743 367482.

ENSEMBLE 360 Programme includes Mozart and Dvorak. Maidment Hall, Shrewsbury School, 7.30pm, £16, under 25s £8, under 18s £1, 01743 367482.

Sat 18 April VENTURAS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

AIR BAG Malthouse, Ironbridge.

Sun 19 April SONS OF DELTA Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4.30pm.

CENTENARY WEEKEND Step back in time with a programme of house tours, re-enactment and concert to commemorate the opening of Stokesay Court as an Auxiliary Military Hospital in 1915. Sunday concert 5-7pm, £15, advance only, Sunday afternoon + concert £18 advance only, www.wegottickets.com www.stokesaycourt.com

Mon 20 April JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051.

Wed 22 April KATHRYN ROBERTS & SEAN LAKEMAN Husband and wife folk duo. Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555.

FOCUS WALES 2015 150+ bands, 15 stages, 3 nights of stand-up and 20 interactive sessions.

Wrexham. Further details www.focuswales.com SARAH SMITH TRIO Housmans Bar & Cafe, Church Stretton, 8pm.

DORNER/LASH/TURNER Wednesday Jazz Special. Queen’s Head, Monmouth, 01600 712767.

Thurs 23 April QUILL Unique violin inspired interpretations of classics by Fleetwood Mac and Thin Lizzy, alongside plenty of their own songs. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £16, 01743 281281.

DAVID BRIGGS ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame’, 1923 film - big-screen showing with live improvisation by internationally acclaimed organist on the ‘Father Willis’ organ. St Michael’s Church, Tenbury Wells, 7pm, £25, 16s and under £5 to include drink and hot supper before concert, 01905 426998.

SULTANA BROTHERS The Vaults, Bishop’s Castle, 9pm.

FOCUS WALES 2015 150+ bands, 15 stages, 3 nights of stand-up and 20 interactive sessions.

Wrexham. Further details www.focuswales.com LIVE MUSIC The Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 01952 610888.

RHYDIAN ROBERTS Double platinum selling, Classical Number 1 artist. Theatr Hafren, 7.30pm, £26, 01686 614555.

SWINGIN’ WITH THE GREATS Featuring

THE SIMON DEELEY TRIO With special guest

STEVE HOLLINGHURST (vocalist) An evening celebrating the music of the Great American Song Book with vocalist Steve Hollinghurst and the swing jazz of the Simon Deeley Trio.

Come and enjoy easy-swinging interpretations of these all-time classic numbers.

Cabaret seating available.

Saturday 25th April, 7.30pm St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne Proceeds from the concert will go to the St Andrew’s Church Development Appeal.

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£10 incl. glass of wine.

Tickets from Winnies, Presteigne 01544 267777 or 07890 303681

TWO FACED TOM & THE BOOTLEG BOYS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

WINTER VILLAINS The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, 01497 821762.

HAY CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL The world-renowned Fitzwilliam String Quartet are the guests of honoour.

Organised by Hay Music. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, £15 per concert or £36 for all three, 01497 820322.

THE WHISKEY RIVER BOYS The Angel Inn, Grosmont, 8.30pm, free.

MICRO BABY Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

Sue Richardson

STAGGERED EDGE The Stag, Llanidloes.

AN EVENING OF DIRTY DANCING A tribute show featuring all the hits from the movie. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555.

SUE RICHARDSON ‘Too Cool - The Life and Music of Chet Baker’. Supported by Jazz Services.

Birchmeadow Centre, Brosley, 8pm, £9, £10 on the door, 07759 799037.

Arts Alive.

Fri 24 April

Sat 25 April

Thurs 23 April

FOLK IN THE FOYER Featuring Pete Morton and John Taylor.

Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, £7, 01885 488575.

LIVE MUSIC White Horse Inn, Clun.

JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Simon Deeley and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass.

Plus special guest Steve Ajao on tenor saxophone. Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 820841.

ALTERNATIVE ROUTE Malthouse, Ironbridge.

FOCUS WALES 2015 150+ bands, 15 stages, 3 nights of stand-up and 20 interactive sessions.

Wrexham. Further details www.focuswales.com

XL5 Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

PIG DAZE King’s Head, Tenbury Wells.

OPEN MIC Hosted by Mark and Jill (Rhythm Thieves). Sun Inn, Leintwardine.

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THE MAYOR OF BRECON’S CHARITY CONCERT Featuring The Gwent & Powys Cadet Band, Cor Dathlu Cwmtawe Male Voice Choir, Welsh folk band Rusty Shackle along with local favourites!

Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £15/£12, 01874 611622.

ANDY FAIRWEATHER LOW Famous for his iconic songs, Bend Me Shape Me, Hello Suzy and Half as Nice.

Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 8pm, £20, 01584 878141.

JAMES HICKMAN The Stag, Llanidloes.

FLATWORLD With Tyler Massey, Connie Gordon and Dave Young. An evening of European folk music, Balkan and klezmer standards and tunes from France and elsewhere. St Peter’s Church, Cowleigh,, Malvern, 8pm, £6 advanced, £8 on the door, tickets from Carnival Records or www.flat-world. org.uk THE WAYNE MARTIN BAND The Plough, Pontesbury.

LITTLE RUMBA With Jess Hall. Lydbury North Village Hall, 7.30pm, £10, £5 under 16s.

Cabaret seating with room for dancing, 01588 680302.

BORDER BEAT The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

OUTLAWED Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

HAY CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL The world-renowned Fitzwilliam String Quartet are the guests of honour.

Organised by Hay Music. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, £15 per concert or £36 for all three, 01497 820322.

DAVE RAE (Dangerous Dave). The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

PUMA CREEK The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, 01497 821762.

MINNIE’S MOOCHERS Jazz, swing and jive favourites.

Saturday Cafe, The Courtyard, Hereford, 12-2pm, free, 01432 340555.

FOCUS WALES 2015 150+ bands, 15 stages, 3 nights of stand-up and 20 interactive sessions.

Wrexham. Further details www.focuswales.com SULTANA BROTHERS The Hundred House Inn, Purslow.

SWINGIN WITH THE GREATS Simon Deeley Trio and Steve Hollinghurst. Music fom the great American Songbook. Saint Andrews Church Presteigne 7.30pm £10 tickets fom Winnies, 01544267777 or 07890 303681 RAINBREAKERS Malthouse, Ironbridge.

NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01743 281281.

YESTERDAY’S JAM The Vaga Tavern, Hereford, 9pm.

SUE RICHARDSON ‘Too Cool - The Life and Music of Chet Baker’. Supported by Jazz Services.

Kingsland Coronation Hall, 7.30pm, £15, 01568 709579. Arts Alive.

Sun 26 April THE VELVET VIOLIN Cabaret featuring Little Rumba and their new collaborator Jess Hall, along with Remi Harris and bassist Mick Green. Plus the house band John Hymas, Dave Luke and Ian Marchant.

Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7pm, £10 from Courtyard Antiques and 01544 267163.

WARREN JAMES Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4.30pm.

HAY CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-onWye, £15 per concert or £36 for all three, 01497 820322.

HAUNTED SOULS LIchfield Vaults, Church St, Hereford, 4pm, 01432 266821.

THE ROCK OF AGES EXPERIENCE TRIBUTE BAND

The tribute to the music of the smash-hit Hollywood musical and film. The big, bad eighties never left us and now the part goes from strength to strength. Stadium rock, power ballads, lycra, lace and liquor. The hair is big , the costumes small, anything goes and is FUN, FUN, FUN.

www.therockofagesexperience.com Mob: 07736-816136 (Ian)

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LANDED FESTIVAL Festival of music, arts and entertainment for all ages. Featuring Fjokra, Electric Swing Circus, Jed is Dead, Hawnt the Woods, The Hurricanes, X-Ray Junction.

Plus Panic Circus with shows and workshops. www.landedfestival.co.uk

Ruth Watson & John Hymas, An Evening of Tunes and Dances

ELO AGAIN Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, 01600 719410.

JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Simon Deeley and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass.

Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 820841.

PAUL PARKER Malthouse, Ironbridge.

THE FUREYS Legends of Irish music and song.

Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 8pm, £18/£17, 01686 614555.

Mon 27 April JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051.

Tues 28 April AN EVENING OF TUNES AND DANCES With Ruth Watson and John Hymas.

An evening of cheerful and entertaining music from around the world to welcome spring. St Michael’s Church, Discoed, near Presteigne, 7.30pm, £10 on the door, 01547 560246.

Wed 29 April YOUTH BRASS BAND AND CONCERT BANDS The Shirehall, Hereford, 7pm, £4/£2, children free, 01432 853219.

Thurs 30 April BOLLYWOOD BRASS BAND Bollywood meets brass, meets Bhangra. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555.

YOUTH STRING ENSEMBLES, STARTER CONCERT BAND & UKULELE ENSEMBLE The Shirehall, Hereford, 7pm, £4/£3, children free, 01432 853219.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Hosted by Howard and Clare.

The Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 01952 610888.

PAUL PARKER Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

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FRIGG Frigg has developed a blend of their own folk called Nordgrass, a mix of Nordic folk and American bluegrass.

Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £18/£15, 01874 611622.

MAY Fri 1 May MARINA LASLO IN DIETRICH LETTERS Songs, archive materials and letters from Dietrich estate with a live jazz orchestra. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 01600 772467.

THE DELRAY ROCKETS Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

UNDERCOVER The Stag, Llanidloes.

THE MOJO FESTIVAL Live music. Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

Bollywood Brass Band

Sat 2 May OPEN MIC Ledbury Community Hall, 7pm, £5, bring a bottle, 01531 632968.

CATCH 22 The Stag, Llanidloes.

THE MOJO FESTIVAL Featuring The Endings, Electric Blues Reaction, Ebenezer Weazel and Chris Quinn. Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

LANDED FESTIVAL Festival of music, arts and entertainment for all ages. Featuring Eat Static, Zubzub, Fasta Benj, A Man About A Dog, The Lonesome Stampede. Plus Panic Circus with shows and workshops. www.landedfestival.co.uk GENERATION GAP Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

SOUTHERN CROSS Malthouse, Ironbridge.

CLUN GREEN MAN FESTIVAL Events throught the day in Clun. www.clungreenman.org.uk

Little Rumba + Sam Thomas Passionate tango music, witty songs with an East European twist and delicious beer.

Fri 8 May BLACKHEART Fownhope New Memorial Hall, 7.30pm, £10 on the door or 01432 860584.

Sat 9 May THE REMI HARRIS QUARTET + THE SONS OF NAVARONE Weobley Village Hall, 7.30pm, £10, 01544 318513, weobleymusic@hotmail.co.uk

Saturday 9 May Ludlow Brewery - doors 7.30 £6 in advance from Ludlow Brewery £8 on door AN EVENING WITH STEVE HOLLINGHURST Singing his kind of music. St Mary’s Church, Kington, 7.30pm, £6 on the door.

CLUN GREEN MAN FESTIVAL Johnny Cash tribute. Memorial Hall, Clun, 8pm, 01588 640305.

THE BOX BAND Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

THE FORTUNES Celebrating 51 years in show business.

The Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, £16, 01885 488575.

Sun 3 May THE BOHEMIANS Queen tribute band. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £18.50, 01743 281281.

THE WHISKEY RIVER BOYS The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm, free.

Music Workshops

LANDED FESTIVAL Festival of music, arts and entertainment for all ages. Featuring Phat Bollard, Bombskare, Beneath the Reef and Thin Vision. Plus Panic Circus with shows and workshops. www.landedfestival.co.uk THE NOTORIOUS BROTHERS Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4.30pm.

CLUN GREEN MAN FESTIVAL Events during the day, Whalebone evening. www.clungreenman.org.uk FRIGG Frigg has developed a blend of their own folk called Nordgrass, a mix of Nordic folk and American bluegrass.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

Mon 4 May CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen’s St, Hereford, 01432 274968.

FRUIT MACHINE Malthouse, Ironbridge.

ROEBUCKANEERS FOLK CLUB The Roebuck Inn, Brimfield, near Ludlow, 8pm, 01584 711854.

THE MOJO FESTIVAL Featuring Rainbreakers, Wayne Martin Band and Joe le Taxi. Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051.

Trevor Davies Music

For all your musical needs 87 Etnam Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 8AE tel: 01568 613611

We stock Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, ESP, Fernandez, Epiphone, Indie, Aria, Ovation, Adamas, Martin, Taylor, Yamaha, Crafter, Burns, Washburn, Jackson, AER, Marshall, Hartke, Carlsbro, Laney, Zoom, Digitech, Tama, Casio.

Plus many other brands.

Approximately 500 guitars in stock and Brass, Woodwind, Drums, Keyboards, accessories and thousands of music books and sheet music.

April BRASS INTRUMENT REPAIR COURSES 6 - 10 April - Brass Repair (foundation) £617. Trevor Head, Llangunllo School, Llangunllo, Knighton, 01547 550622.

April WOODWIND INSTRUMENT REPAIR COURSES 13 - 17 April General Woodwinds (foundation), £617.

18 & 19 April - Saxophone (specialist), £326. Trevor Head, Llangunllo School, Llangunllo, Knighton, 01547 550622.

Sun 12 April CAN’T SING? WON’T SING? WANT TO SING? LOVE TO SING? A day of singing in four part harmony for fun, led by the B Naturals.

No experience necessary, no need to read music. Snailbeach Village Hall, 10.30am-4pm, bring and share lunch, £18, 01743 791327.

Sat 25 April SACRED MUSIC Peter Johnson explores the beauty and effect of this musical style.

Shire Hall, Hereford, 10am-4pm, £20, 01432 830208. Hereford WEA. Sat 9 May A BMEMF WORKSHOP FOR SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS Tutor: David Hatcher. Missa in fletu solatium. The Pavilion, Spa Rd, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, LD1 5EY. 1am-5pm. £14 for Early Music Fora members, £16 for non-members, £5 for students. Prior booking essential. 01597 829072.

Langstaffe Violins John Langstaffe

Maker & Restorer of Violins, Violas & Cellos Repairs, Fitting Up, Tonal Adjustments etc Room 12, 2nd Floor, Lion House 15, Broad Street, Leominster HR6 8BT

We also stock a selection of new and antique instruments and accessories T: 01568 620120 M: 07501 724663

www.langstaffe-violins.co.uk

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Monday ALIVE & KICKIN’ CHOIR Coleg Powys (now NPTC), Brecon, 7-9pm, £5 public, £3 students/staff. tanyawalkermusic@hotmail.com Monday FUN & PLAY WITH RHYTHM & HARMONY All taught by ear so no need to read music! Meet 8pm term time Mondays at the Methodist chapel in Leintwardine.

Email charlotte@naturalvoice.net or call 01547 540603.

Monday BANDAMANIA Traditional dance music from far and wide. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 7.15pm, Sue Harris 01547 550158.

Mondays and Wednesdays BRING AN INSTRUMENT, LEARN A TUNE Play jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes & slow airs with expert tutor, Kitty Greenwood. Tunes will be taught by ear (sheet music/recordings also available).

If you’ve never learned this way before don’t worry, you won’t be the only one! Expand your repertoire, improve your technique. All melody instruments welcome, Craven Arms, Interested? Call Kitty: 01584 841564 or email: folkfiddleteacher@gmail.com Tuesday BANG ON DRUMS Drum circle. Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford, 7-9pm, bring your own hand drums or drums and percussion instruments provided, 07870 747248, www.bangondrums.co.uk

First Saturday OPEN MIC Greyhound Inn, Llangunllo, 9pm, 01547 550400.

First Saturday FOLK & IRISH SESSION Harp Inn, Glasbury-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 847373.

First Saturday of month PICKIN’ AT THE BIRD Acoustic session. The Bird in Hand, Coton Hill, Shrewsbury, 01743 357484, 9pm onwards.

3rd Saturday OPEN ACOUSTIC NIGHT Harp Inn, Glasbury-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 847373.

Every Sunday FOLK/ROOTS SESSION Stag, Llanidloes, 6.30pm, 01686 414824.

Every Sunday SESSION The Old Mill, High Street, Llanidloes, 8pm. With tunes from many traditions, anything is welcome. 01686 412 008. www.oldmillbar.co.uk 2nd Sunday FOLK SESSION Powys Arms, Poolquay, near Welshpool, 7.30pm, 01691 831162.

2nd Sunday ACOUSTIC MUSIC SESSION Jill and Mark (from the Rhythm Thieves) hosting. All styles welcome.

The Sun Inn, Leintwardine.

Tuesday WHITTON VOICES Mixed community choir.

Songs from around the world, traditional and contemporary.

Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8-10pm, £5. All welcome.

Led by Sue Harris, 01547 550158.

2nd & 4th Sunday OPEN MIC NIGHT George & Dragon, Knighton, 01547 528532.

Tuesday DOLAU MIXTURES Mixed choir. Dolau Community Hall, near Llandrindod Wells, 8pm, 01597 851427.

Last Sunday OPEN MIC NIGHT All welcome.

The Retreat, Ledbury, 01531 632766.

Wednesdays BISHOP’S CASTLE EARLY MUSIC GROUP Singing renaissance and baroque music a cappella. All music readers welcome, 7.30pm, £1.

Details contact Mark, 075385 68378 or email jacquelinesw@hotmail.co.uk Wednesdays PLAY IT BY EAR Series 3: Irish tunes, starts April 15th Expand you repertoire, improve your technique, develop musicianship with expert guidance from Kitty Greenwood. All melody instruments welcome. Craven Arms 7.30 p.m. £5 per week or 5 weeks for £20 booking essential: 01584 841564 folkfiddleteacher@gmail.com Wednesday ROCKSPRING COMMUNITY CHOIR All welcome particularly men! Minimal charge. Rockspring Community Centre, Ludlow. 01584 529053.

Wednesday LUDLOW LARKS COMMUNITY CHOIR Led by Polly Bolton. Songs from around the world - from the Beatles to Bulgaria. Ludlow Women’s Centre, 7.30pm9.30pm. Polly on 01584 823609 or info@oak-barn.co.uk or check our website www.jollypages.co.uk/larks Thursday COME SINGING IN CLUN New group meeting in the mornings. For everyone who fancies singing.

Uplifting Songs drawn from many traditions around the world, all taught by ear. Meet in Hightown Hall –along from the church, 10am–11.30am starting Feb 5th. Led by Sue Harris 01547 550158. sumarieharris@btinternet.com Thursday CANTORION LLANDRINDOD Mixed choir, early/classical music. Howey VH, 7.45pm, 01874 754774.

First Thursdays BLACK HILL TUNE CLUB 2pm at the Crown Inn Longtown. Free. 01432 263495.

Friday MUSIC TIME A session of music and movement for under 5s and their parents. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10.30am-11.30am, £5 per child, 01743 234970.

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Friday FAMILY MUSIC MAKERS Fun sessions for parents and toddlers 12.30-2pm, £4 per adult and child pair, under 1s free. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

Last Sunday OPEN MIC The Herbert Arms, Kerry, 8pm, all welcome, 07970 135378.

Every Monday ACOUSTIC NIGHT The Golden Lion Hotel, Llandysilio, near Welshpool, 01691 830295.

Every Monday BLUES & COUNTRY JAM NIGHT The Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 9pm, 01952 610888.

Every Monday OPEN MIC NIGHT Bull Inn, Shrewsbury, 01743 344728.

Every Monday nights BRECON TOWN BAND Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7-9pm. 07779 390954.

First Monday IRISH NIGHT The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 01568 611404.

Every Tuesday BLUES NIGHT The Golden Lion Hotel, Llandysilio, 01691 830295.

Every Tuesday TUESDAY JAM SESSION The Falcon Hotel, Bromyard, 8-11pm, 01885 483034.

Every Tuesday OPEN MIC All welcome, from about 9pm.

The Retreat, Ledbury, 01531 632766.

Every Tuesday OPEN MIC NIGHT Hosted by Pete Keeley and Dangerous Dave. The Back Bar, The King’s Head, Bishop’s Castle, 9pm onwards, 01588 630770.

1st Tuesday IRISH NIGHT Volunteer, Harold St, Hereford, 01432 276189.

3rd Tuesday FOLK NIGHTS The Crown Inn, Longtown.

Register for e-Newsletter john.baxter87@btinternet.com Last Tuesday ACOUSTIC LIVE SESSIONS Hafren, Newtown, £2 on the door, 01686 614555.

Last Tuesday JAM SESSION Beer In Hand, Eign St, Hereford.

Last Tuesday JAZZ NIGHT The Golden Lion Hotel, Llandysilio,Oswestry, 01691 830295.

Every Wednesday MAINSTREAM JAZZ NIGHT The Dragon Hotel, Montgomery, 8pm, 01686 668359.

Every Wednesday ACOUSTIC NIGHT Baskerville Hall Hotel, near Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm, 01497 820033.

First Wednesday SONG AND GUITAR SESSION Red Lion, Llanidloes. 07445 338949.

First Wednesday JAZZ NIGHT The Golden Lion Hotel, Llandysilio, 01691 830295.

Every Wednesday TELFORD ACOUSTIC CLUB The Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 9pm, 01952 610888.

First Wednesday HEREFORD BLUEGRASS SESSION The Victory, 88 St Owen St, Hereford, 8pm, details from Martin 01432 342018 or 07846 669890.

Every Wednesday FOLK SESSION Railway Inn, Forden, near Welshpool, 8pm, 01938 580120.

Every Wednesday ACOUSTIC SESSION Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 8.45pm, 01531 632250.

2nd Wednesday STRANGE KIN BLUES SESSION Raven, Welshpool, 8pm, email blue.raven@hotmail.co.uk 2nd Wednesday OPEN MIC NIGHT Stockton Cross Inn, Kimbolton, near Leominster, 8.30pm, 01568 612509.

2nd Wednesday JAM SESSION White Horse Inn, Clun, 8.30pm onwards. 01588 640305.

4th Wednesday FOLK/ACOUSTIC SESSION Any style, Crown Inn, Clunton, 9pm, 01588 660226.

Every Thursday JAZZ JAM Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth, 01600 712767.

1st Thursday SESSION The Alma, Linton, 8.30pm, all welcome, 07779 144005.

1st Thursday MUSIC SESSION All styles welcome.

Horse & Jockey Inn, Knighton, 8.30pm. 01547 520062.

1st Thursday OPEN MIC NIGHT The Bridge, Tenbury Wells, call to book your slot, all welcome, 01584 810434.

3rd Thursday FOLK SESSION King’s Head, Cross St, Tenbury Wells, 07721 58766.

3rd Thursday OPEN MIC NIGHT Tarrington Arms, Tarrington, Hereford. Details ne-services@hotmail.co.uk 3rd Thursday FOLK NIGHT Castle Inn, Knucklas, 7pm, 01547 528223.

3rd Thursday OPEN MIC Spread Eagle, King St, Hereford, phone to book a slot, 01432 272205.

Every Friday THE HOTSPUR SESSIONS Join in on our relaxed, creative music evening, or come along to listen.

Aero-Club, Shobdon Airfield, 7.30pm, 01568 708783.

1st Friday ACOUSTIC SESSION The Unicorn, Corve St, Ludlow, 8:30pm. Contact: Ann Gray 01584 879 348.

1st Friday FOLK SESSION Led by The Pedigrees, Spread Eagle, King St, Hereford, 01432 272205.

3rd Friday BUSKING NIGHT Play a song, read a story, it’s your pavement! Free to enter, free drinks for performers. The Sitting Room, 4 Upper Galdeford, Ludlow, thesittingroomludlow@gmail.com 3rd Friday TRADITIONAL SESSIONING Llanfyllin Workhouse, 01691 649062.

3rd Friday ACOUSTIC FOLK MUSIC & SONG SESSION The New Inn, Bartestree, Hereford.

Last Friday TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC SESSION The Yew Tree, All Stretton, 8.30pm, all welcome. Contact Keith 07971 661615.

Last Friday OPEN MIC NIGHT With Mark from the Rhythm Thieves. Sun Inn, Leintwardine, 8pm, 07885 467673.

5th Friday SESSION Nelson Inn, Ludlow, 01584 872908.

VENUES ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Mill Street, Ludlow 01584 878141 BARRELS, St Owen Street, Hereford 01432 274968 BASKERVILLE ARMS, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye 01497 820670.

BASKERVILLE HALL HOTEL, Clyro Court, near Hay-onWye 01497 820033.

BELL HOTEL, Commercial St, Newtown 01686 625540 BELL INN, Etnam St, Leominster 01568 612818 THE BRIDGE HOTEL, Tenbury Wells 01584 810434.

THE BRIDGE, Ludlow 01584 872963 BLACK LION, Bridge St, Hereford, 01432 266000 CARAD, East St, Rhayader, 01597 810192 CHARLTON ARMS, Ludlow, 01584 872813 CONQUEST THEATRE, Bromyard, 01885 488575 THE COURTYARD, Edgar St, Hereford. 01432 340555 THE DUKES ARMS, Presteigne 01544 267318 DUN COW, Shrewsbury 01743 356408 THE EXCHANGE, Newtown 01686 621814.

GARWAY VILLAGE HALL, Hereford 01981 580056 THE GEORGE & DRAGON, Knighton 01547 528532 GLEANINGS, near Bishop’s Castle, 01743 891412 THE GOLDEN CROSS INN, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford 01432 880274.

GRAPE VAULTS, Broad St, Leominster 01568 611404.

THE GRANARY, Leominster 01568 614290.

THE GROVE HOTEL, Belle Vue, Shrewsbury, 01743 271227 THE HARP INN, Glasbury-on-Wye 01497 847373 THE HERDSMAN, Widemarsh St, Hereford, 01432 277330 HOPE & ANCHOR, Rope Walk, Wye St, Ross-on-Wye. 01989 563003.

HOTSPUR CAFE & BAR, Shobdon Airfield 01568 708783.

HUNDRED HOUSE INN, Purslow, 01588 660541 KNIGHTON & DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE, Knighton 07751 221487.

THE LAKESIDE CAFÉ, Llandrindod Wells, 01597 825679 LICHFIELD VAULTS, Church St, Hereford. 01432 266821 LION BALLROOM, Broad St, Leominster. 01568 611588 THE LOWFIELD INN, Marton, Welshpool 01743 891313 LUDLOW BREWING COMPANY, The Railway Shed, Ludlow 01584 873291 THE MALTHOUSE, Ironbridge, 01952 433712 MINER’S ARMS, Priest Weston 01938 561352 NELSON INN, Ludlow 01584 872908 OAKENGATES THEATRE, Telford. 01952 619020 THE OLD MILL, High Street, Llanidloes 01686 412008 THE OXFORD ARMS, Duke St, Kington 01544 230322 THE PLOUGH INN, Whitecross Road, Hereford 01432 343360 THE RETREAT, Ledbury, 01531 632766.

ROSE & CROWN, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811336 ROYAL FOUNTAIN, Cleobury Mortimer 01299 272720 ROYAL OAK, Presteigne, 01544 260842.

THEATR BRYCHEINIOG, Canal Wharf, Brecon 01874 611622 THE HAFREN, Llanidloes Road, Newtown 01686 614555 THE THREE ELMS, Hereford. 01432 273338.

THREE TUNS, Bishop’s Castle. 01588 638797 THE VICTORY, 88 St Owen St, Hereford 01432 274998 VOLUNTEER, Harold St, Hereford 01432 276189.

WHITEHORSE INN, The Square, Clun. 01588 640305.

WHITE SWAN, Eardisland, 01544 388577 WYESIDE ARTS CENTRE, Builth Wells, 01982 552555 YORKSHIRE HOUSE, St Mary’s St, Shrewsbury 01743 362622

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APPLEBY KINSEY 4-piece acoustic jazz, contemporary folk, singer-songwriter group: acoustic guitar, saxophones, flute double bass, beautiful female lead vocals.

Collectively we produce a different kind of purely acoustic sound, one that is familiar enough to be instantly accessible, while being original, sophisticated, and played with great instrumental skill, to grab and hold on to the audience’s attention. Perfect for your special occasion. Visit www.applebykinsey.com for music/details/contact.

ARTHUR MILLS & THE BLACK EYE FRIDAYS Acoustic/Folk 4 piece band playing lively original songs, with varied influences, and given an original edge. Please visit our website to watch our videos and enjoy 4 songs recorded in the ‘Shed of Dreams’. www.arthurmills.com Contact: info@arthurmills.com or phone Eggy : 07976 433753.

THE BAGGAGE HANDLERS - acoustic duo playing classic covers from the likes of R.E.M. to Johnny Cash, Snow Patrol to The Jam. We can be contacted at www.facebook.com/thebaggagehandlers www.myspace. com/baggagehandlersmusic or simply ring 07824 787168.

BANDAMANIA Community band playing wild and wonderful traditional music. Perfect for ceilidhs, parties and all sorts of local events. Sue Harris 01547 550158 sumarieharris@ btinternet.com MARTIN BLAKE: Fingerpickin’ good guitar, banjo and vocals, solo or with a variety of bands from duo to six piece, including Whiskey River (5/6 piece playing swamp music from America’s Deep South with fiddle, Cajun accordion and sax), The Whiskey River Boys (duo version of the same), The Grass Snakes (5 piece trad bluegrass band with high lonesome harmony vocals), Blakes III (an eclectic acoustic trio with fiddle, clarinet, guitar and 3 part harmony) and The Blake Plowman Hot Band (red hot 4 piece rocking country band). Pubs, Clubs, Weddings, Divorces, etc. Contact: 07846 669890 or 01432 342018.

Email: info@martinblake.org Website: www.martinblake.org THE CASTLE STREET QUARTET: Vocal and sax led combo playing all of your favourite jazz standards. From ballads to boogie-woogie and samba to swing, we can provide the perfect music for wedding receptions, parties and fundraising concerts. Check out our repertoire and hear some samples on castlestreetquartet.co.uk or call Jon Weller on 07850 019489.

CUCKOO ALE CEILIDH BAND Not just an ordinary ceilidh band, but an extraordinary ceilidh band! Squeeze box, keyboard and percussion with expert calling. See www. cuckooaleband.co.uk or email bev.langton@talk21.com or phone 07799 408297.

CUCKURIOSITY A dynamic Ceilidh duo featuring Bev calling and Ray on his digital melodeon. A classy act which is versatile, flexible, requires minimum space and can set up in double quick time. Ideal for weddings, corporate events, marquees and venues without a stage. See and hear more on www.raybevlangton.com For bookings contact us at bev. langton@talk21.com THE DETAILS Acoustic Folk-Art band formed around highly original songwriters Andy Morton and Dave Carroll.

Songs to savour range from the heartfelt to the hilarious; from delta blues through wistful ballads to pacey rockers.

A listening band (or duo) for pubs, clubs, arts centres, book fairs, festivals. See and hear more on www.thedetails.org. uk and www.facebook.com/thedetails2 Tel 01531 670623 or email david@carroll.org.uk DREWS BREW – hear the harmony, feel the beat.

3 piece band bringing you songs from Eagles, Lady Antebellum, Queen, Blondie, Amy Macdonald, Alan Jackson, KT Tunstall and more. So, sit and listen or party the night away. Contact: drewsbrew@icloud.com Richard on 01885 489119 or Peter on 0777 0851450.

FLATWORLD Roots ‘n’ grooves from Eastern Europe and beyond. Lively 5-piece band with magnificent tunes and kicking rhythm for your festival, wedding, party or pub. Also circle dancing with caller. Contact Neil on 01684 569611 or 07866 021489; www.flat-world.org.uk or email info@flat-world.org.uk THE FLOK Duo/Trio/Band suitable for most occasions. Kate Thomas lends her stunning voice to a refreshing mix of material from the likes of KT Tunstall, Pink and Mumford & Sons, ably supported by Dave Luke (guitar/mandolin/vocals) and a solid but subtle rhythm section. Dave 07967 029159 Kate 07817 019918 daveluke1@hotmail.com - or like us on Facebook!

THE HANNAH BAILEY BAND play soul, classic rock, pop and blues. Featuring Hannah, the queen of midland soul on vocals and guitar. Double keyboards, guitar, bass and electric drums (they can be turned down - or up!) and vocal harmonies provide their funky sound. You just “gotta, gotta, gotta” book them for your party or pub. Contact Bill Pitt on 01584 819394.

HOT CLIMATE Ultimate party band, best 6-piece line up ever.

For top musical entertainment at your party/wedding/festival or corporate function. Book now! New footage on www.hotclimate.co.uk. Contact Charlie 01568 613895 or mobile 07702 528088 anytime!

HOTSY-TOTSY If you’re seeking musical entertainment with a vintage twist from the golden age of swing, delivered by experienced performers, dancers and musicians who exude elegance, sophistication and glamour, also specializing in strict tempo for ballroom, latin and fun sequence dancing, then Hotsy Totsy Entertainment Inc. can help. Different line ups for different occasions, tailor made entertainment for your event.

Parties, Weddings and Corporate Events catered for.

Contact Naomi 01588 674823 or email npayne14@yahoo. co.uk www.hotsytotsyentertainmentinc.co.uk KEYGREEN Original music featuring vocal harmonies, guitar, piano sax, and clarinet. Herefordshire based brother and sister duo Tom and Nicky Jaques. A unique full sound for live music venues, festival gigs and private bookings. Contact Nicky or Tom for more info. www.keygreenmusic.co.uk nickyjaquesmusic@gmail.com www.facebook.com/KeyGreenMusic 07817268689 / 07837713384 LE FREAK Upbeat party covers band. Great 5-piece outfit for any dance event. Hear us on soundcloud.com/lefreak357066067 or phone Nick on 01981 540348 or 07952 415487.

LITTLE RUMBA A classy four piece band featuring Hugh, John, Jacqui & Pete, from The Tango Band and The Rumbajax, playing moody, melancholy music everything from East European and South American to the Blues. Viola, violin, accordion, saxophones, guitar, vocals and bass.

01547 520339 www.littlerumba.com MELOMANICS Really fun duo, trio, or full Ceilidh band, more than just great music - stilts as well if appropriate!

Modern, traditional and original tunes with a cosmopolitan flavour. (Specialité: Timoléon pour vos soirées Françaises).

Ideal for parties, weddings, fund raising events, festivals, shows, pubs, restaurants etc. For info call Tim on 01743 719438 or Rich 01743 718612, email tim@melomanics. co.uk, website www.melomanics.co.uk A MONTH OF SUNDAYS With electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, harmonicas, pipes, percussion and vocals, this Ledbury-based four/five piece ensemble plays fresh interpretations of folk, jazz and blues classics with a sprinkling of effulgent originals thrown in for good measure.

For festivals, parties and pub bookings, Nick Trigg on 07938 889976, email isoundprooftrigg@hotmail.co.uk or efsl.porter@btinternet.com website amos-uk.co.uk facebook.com/amonthofsundaysuk

MOSTLY JOHN CEILIDH BAND Cast aside that economic gloom. Why not let our merry minstrels, aided by the lovely Pammy (“no, no, no!”) restore your joie de vivre at your party, wedding or knees-up. John 01588 661096.

MUCH ADO - The band for your ceilidh or barn dance.

4-piece band with caller for ceilidhs, barn dances, weddings, parties, shows, fetes, etc. Alan Oberman 01982 570432, email alan.oberman@gmail.com.

See website www.muchadoband.com OVER THE HILLBILLIES - Lively, foot stomping, rip-roaring band performing everything from Led Zep to Kylie, Dolly to Motorhead, and Blur to the Bee Gees. With a look fashioned straight from “Deliverance”, playing on a banjo, fiddle, tea-chest bass, drums, harmonicas, geeetar and a suitcase(!) we are perfect for pubs, festivals and anything else that involves drinking and dancing. For bookings call Linda on 01686 670409 or find us on Facebook.com/ Over-the-Hillbillies. YEEEEEEHAAAAAA! PIANIST FOR ALL OCCASIONS BAFTA winning composer Ric Lloyd (founder member of The Flying Pickets) will play for all your corporate events, weddings, functions, parties, restaurants and other celebrations. A wide repertoire of standards, jazz favourites, pop and boogie-woogie.

Many pro years experience in the music and theatre world, which includes playing shows and accompanying singers.

I can also do gigs with a female vocalist and trio. Wearing my other hat I am Musical director for The Hornettes (female trio) who sing Tamla Motown and 60’s songs. Dust off your beehives and bring your dancing shoes for this one! www.facebook.com/riclloydhornettes Phone: 01974 282515. E-mail: pianist@mm.st RAY STROUD Respected electro-acoustic finger style guitarist/singer. Huge repertoire of songs and tunes from 60s-90s and originals plus ragtime and country picking.

Sets to suit venue - folk, roots, jazzy pop, soft rock, or a mixture. Also available in the duo Thyme Bandits and four piece power pop Hush. Friendly and professional. Call 07962 916333 or email raystrack@talo5.plus.com http:// www.bandmix.co.uk/ray-stroud RHYTHM THIEVES Funky, folky and fun. Firm favourites at festivals, pubs, parties and events around the Midlands and beyond, Rhythm Thieves are a lively must-see band who deliver an unforgettable and highly entertaining night out.

“Full of fire and enthusiasm” Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2 “Great, super, lovely - our resident band” Genevieve Tudor. BBC Radio Midlands Folk Show.

“If they don’t make you smile, you’re probably dead.”

Wheaton Aston Folk Festival Tel: 01568 770 134, e-mail rhythmthieves@hotmail.com SEAN SAYE Music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.

Great party music, capturing the retro vibe. Contact tel: 07734 399497 or email seansaye@yahoo.co.uk.

Website www.seansaye.com.

SLIPPERY SLOPE Silly, melancholy and beautiful music played on accordion, fiddle, guitar and steel pan. From ska to klezmer via a Parisian cafe and a Russian vodka bar. For more info please call Jo or Ben on 01981 510136 see www.slipperyslope.org.uk or email slipperyslope@ hotmail.com SOUL SUPPLY 6-piece soul, Motown and R & B Party Band. Guaranteed to turn your event into a hive of nonstop dance floor activity. Available for weddings, parties and corporate events. Full PA, lights, staging and disco as required. 079905 75531 or 01568 708868 www.soulsupplyband.co.uk info@soulsupplyband.co.uk

SPIRIT OF TANGO Stylish café-jazz trio with a Latin/ French flavour featuring Phil Bond (accordion), Dave Carroll (guitar), and Mike Green (double bass).Polished, earcatching performances in styles from samba to Django unfailingly provide a lively ambience at private parties, weddings and corporate functions. Check us out at www.spiritof tango.co.uk Tel 01531 670623 or email david@carroll.org.uk STASH Rockin’ good folk. Firey fiddle, souring guitar, pounding rhythms, with bouncing energy. Folk rock at its best. Please phone Mick on 01432 840475, Wizzy on 01432 263317 or Will on 07960 569784.

STOMPING GROUND Lively 3 piece covers band. Classic soul, rock ‘n’ roll, funk, classic pop (Tom Jones, Spencer Davis etc). Fronted by drummer vocalist Richie Lund ex Soul Survivors. Just give us a corner of your bar or lounge and we WILL entertain you. Ideal for parties.

Contact Richie 01584 811500 / 07817 620644 www.stomping-ground.co.uk STONED CHERRIES Are: Dave Evans, guitar, mandolin, vocals; Roger Pugh, guitar, mandola, vocals; Aly May, whistles, vocals and Matt Donaldson, bass, percussion and vocals. A dynamic folk / rock fusion of original, traditional and modern songs and tunes. Roger 01885 483425 / 07779 694615 / pugh@live.co.uk or Dave 01886 822132 / 07817 220016 / dgand2@btinternet.com www.dgand2.wix.com/thestonedcherries THE ROCK OF AGES EXPERIENCE BackTrack to the 80s with The Rock Of Ages Experience Tribute Band.

See our live video on our website www.therockofagesexperience.com Ian: 07736 816136.

THE SULTANA BROTHERS Fine R&B from one of the best bands around! The ultimate hip swingin’, foot tappin’ party band - guaranteed to help you dance the night away. For bookings/enquiries contact Phil 07791 129391 or Adam 07855 037092. Website www.thesultanabrothers.vpweb. co.uk or find us on Facebook.com/thesultanabros STEADY EDD & THE BOOGIEMEN Boogie Woogie and its best, jazz and soul - let the good times roll!

Contact Edd, on 01432 769077, www.steadyedd.co.uk TROVATORI Classical singers Darren and Caroline perform opera and musicals through to modern ballads and folk accompanied on guitars. Live, stylish and bespoke entertainment. www.trovatori.com Tel: 07971 880794 or email mail@trovatori.com THE TRENSETTS ROCK BAND: Good dancin’ good listenin’. Real authentic music. For parties, weddings, clubs, pubs. Reasonable fees. Contact Gwyn on 01686 625665 /07831 557292.

THE VILLAGE QUIRE - a reputation for spine-tingling harmony singing with all the emotional clout, subtlety of expression and love of life that you get when voices are raised together in song. Music from and inspired by the folk harmony, west gallery and shape note traditions all woven together with words and stories performed by actor Phil Smith. New show for 2014. ‘Precious Bane’ by Mary Webb: “Phil Smith injects a gamut of humanity ... The Village Quire deliver with conviction and gusto ... authentic passion and the enduring quality of the original prose.”

(Mike Lewis) (01497) 847676 www.villagequire.org.uk TRIO TANGENTE Violin and vocal led spicy fun energetic Latin/Tango/Hot Club/ Gypsy influenced band.

For all occasions. Contact Faith 07870 320022.

ZIGGY STARDUST EXPERIENCE The Spiders from Kington play early Bowie; from “Space Oddity” to “Aladdin Sane” in full costume! Available for festivals, gigs and parties. Release Your Inner Starman Let All The Children Boogie! Call Richie Cotterill on 07777 661252.

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Sat 11 April THE ALL ENGLAND THEATRE FESTIVAL Western Division Quarter Finals. A competition of one act plays. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 2pm and 6.30pm, £12 for both sessions (6 plays), £8 for one session (3 plays), 07967 517125.

Sat 11 April BETA TESTING CIRCUS GEEKS. An hilarious mix between a juggling show and a TED talk. With mind-boggling projections, bizarre Heath Robinson-style contraptions and a smattering of mild fish-based violence. For ages 8+.

Kinokulture Cinema, Oswestry, 3.30pm, £8/£5, 0845 250 0517. Arts Alive.

PERFORMANCE

Sat 4 April THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF COMEDY THE REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY tackle the subject it was born to reduce. From the high-brow to the low, The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) covers comedy through the ages. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 8pm, £16/£15, 01584 878141.

Mon 13 & Tues 14 April BOUNCERS Written by John Godber, a high impact stylised view of today’s urban nightlife. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £17-£15, 01743 281281.

Wed 8 April DEREK ACORAH The pioneer for spiritualism and mediumship on television. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, for ages 16+. £17.50/£16.50, 01874 611622.

Thurs 9 & Fri 17 April THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY EUROPEAN ARTS COMPANY. Set in the decadent world of Victorian London, a beautiful, narcissistic young man becomes infatuated by the exquisite portrait that Basil Hallward has painted of him. 9 April - Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7.45pm, £10, 01686 614555. 17 April - The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555.

Thurs 9 & Fri 10 April THE WIZARD OF OZ: THE SILVER SLIPPERS THE CONQUEST SENIOR YOUTH THEATRE. An original production of Dorothy’s adventures in Oz. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7pm, £5, under 16s free, 01885 488575.

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Fri 10 - Sun 12 April DOROTHY’S WAR THE HARMONETTES. Spring 1919: the war is over, a day of celebration. But for Annie and Elizabeth this is also the day when a woman arrives in the village who will change their lives forever. Suitable for ages 12+.

10 April - Cawley Hall, Eye, £10/£5, £25, 01568 615836.

11 April - Welshampton Parish Hall, £10/£6, 01948 710586. 12 April - Aymestry Parish Hall, £10/£5/£25, 01568 709251. All at 7.30pm. Arts Alive.

Mon 13 & Tues 14 April BOUNCERS Lucky Eric, Judd, Les and Ralph are the original men in black. All the gang are out on the town tonight and all of them under the watchful eyes of the Bouncers. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £17/£15, 01743 281281.

Fri 17 April BACK DOWN BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE. Three boys set off to conquer Snowdon, but when their jaunt takes an unexpected turn they are forced to face up to the reality of why they needed the trip in the first place. For ages 13+.

Wem Town Hall, 7.30pm, £9/£7/£5, 01939 238279. Arts Alive.

Fri 17 April DALLOWAY DYAD PRODUCTIONS. While Clarissa Dalloway prepares a party in Westminster, Septimus Smith is diagnosed with shell-shock, their membories and dreams magically intertwining with those of 15 other disparate souls. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £15/£13, 01743 281281.

Beta Testing

Dirty Dusting

Fri 17 April A REGULAR LITTLE HOUDINI DANIEL LLEWELYN WILLIAMS. Set in the heavily industrialised docklands of South Wales between 1905 and 1913, we follow a boy, obsessed with Houdini. For ages 10+. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 8pm, £10/£6, 018448 700887. Arts Alive.

Sat 18 April MY APPLE DUMPLING ABOUT FACE THEATRE COMPANY. The play explores issues of growing up, falling in love and making new relationships in an entertaining and colourful way.

Performed by learning disabled actors and features puppets, shadows and a stunning set designed by Purvin.

Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7.30pm, £8/£4 from The Workhouse or Courtyard Antiques, Presteigne or www.wegottickets.com Thurs 23 April & Fri 8 May DIRTY DUSTING Three cleaning ladies who are about to be ‘put out to pasture’ by their overzealous office manager feel they have little chance of gaining employment elsewhere...

For ages 16+. 23 April - Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £20, 01874 611622. 8 May - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £21, 01743 281281.

Thurs 23 April THE ASTOUNDING WORKS OF SIMON TROUT & NO MAN’S LAND A pair of original one-act plays. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, £10/£8, 01743 281281.

Thurs 23 - Sat 25 April TARTUFFE LADS production of Moliere’s most entertaining and enduring play has been translated and adapted by David Pollard. It tells the comic story of scheming hypocrite, Tartuffe, whose attempts to seduce Elmire result in hilarious consequences. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 8pm, £10, students £6, 07967 517125.

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My Dearest Girls

MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA Sat 4 April A NIGHT OF DIRTY DANCING Re-live the passion, indulge in romance and celebrate the greatest movie soundtrack of all time... Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £21.50, 01874 611622.

Thurs 23 April MY DEAREST GIRLS: THE LETTERS BOOK A brand new piece based on the real letters sent between a group of six Shropshire women between 1917-1920.

Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 8pm, £12/£10, 01584 878141.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 April THE STRANGE CASE OF JEKYLL AND HYDE FISSIPAROUS THEATRE COMPANY. Love, betrayal and murder combine in this chilling adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of good and evil. The Courtyard, Hereford. Fri 1.30pm & 7.30pm, Sat 7.30pm, 01432 340555.

Mon 27 - Wed 29 April AN INSPECTOR CALLS TIN SHED THEATRE. A prosperous family’s evening is interrupted by a man making enquiries about a young girl’s suicide. The pleasant mood is crushed by the implication that everyone has played a vital part in her death. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, Tues & Wed 2.30pm, £15/£13, 01743 281281.

Tues 28, Thurs 30 April & Fri 1 May WITH CRUEL TIMES IN BETWEEN THEATRE NEWFOUNDLAND LABRADOR. Nostalgic and tender human stories of pioneering lives, growing up in an era of tough hardships and strong communities.

28 April - Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster, 8pm, £8/£6/£25, 01568 616460.

30 April - SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle, 7pm, £10/£7/£30, 01588 630321. 1 May - Market Theatre, Ledbury, 8pm, £12/£8, 07967 517125. Arts Alive.

Thurs 30 April BRED IN HEAVEN: THE ROAD TO TWICKERS FRAPETSUS PRODUCTIONS present a new and exciting comedy based on the Rugby world cup. We go on tour with a rugby-mad group of friends making the journey along the M4. Our Welsh regulars are joined by the only Englishman in the village... Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7.45pm, £10, 01686 614555.

With Cruel Times In Between

Thurs 16 - Sat 18 April 42ND STREET NEWTOWN MUCIAL THEATRE COMPANY. Broadway, 1934, Julian Marsh is doing a show. Newcomer Peggy Sawyer misses auditions, but catches the eye of lead actor Billy Lawlor, who sees to it that she is spotted... Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, plus 2.30pm matinee Sat, £12, family of four £44, 01686 614555.

Fri 17 April BACK TO BROADWAY All-singing, all-dancing theatre that invites you to take a journey through the magical world of musicals. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £15, 01600 772467.

Sat 18 April FAUST SWANSEA CITY OPERA. This dark Gothic tale is widely regarded as a magical and tuneful tour de force.

Sung in English. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £19.50/£17.50, 01874 611622.

Fri 24 April BLOOD BROTHERS A moving tale of twins who, separated by birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with tragic consequences. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 01743 281281.

Sat 25 April THAT’LL BE THE DAY TREVOR PAYNE PRODUCTION. Variety show with classic gold hits from the 50s to the 70s, plus hilarious comedy. Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, £23.50/£22.50, 01686 614555.

CHILDREN’S THEATRE

Thurs 2 April BASIL BRUSH Britain’s most loveable fox is back on the road, along with his TV chum Mr Stephen. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 11am & 2.30pm, £14/£12, family £42, 01874 611622.

Thurs 2 & Sat 25 April HUGLESS DOUGLAS Hugless Douglas is a huggable, lovable young brown bear in need of a hug. Full of laughter, sing along songs, puppetry and storytelling for ages 3-7 years. 2 April Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, £14/£12, family £44, 01743 281281. 25 April - Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 12 noon, £9 adults, under 16s £7, family £28, 01600 772467.

Wed 8 - Sat 11 April JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH THE COURTYARD YOUTH THEATRE present an adaption of this Roald Dahl classic. The Courtyard, Hereford, 2pm & 7pm, 01432 340555.

Thurs 9 April PANIC FAMILY CIRCUS A fantastic day of circus fun for all the family. Learn the tricks of the trade. Suitable for ages 4+. Workshops 10.15am, 11.30am and show 2pm. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, £5 workshop, £5 show, £9 for both.

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Thurs 9 April MERLIN THE SWORD IN THE STONE IMAGE MUSICAL THEATRE. A young squire is destined to become king. Guided by Merlin, he has many adventures, pulls the sword from the stone and unwittingly fulfills the legend’s prophecy. For ages 4+. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 2.30pm, £8, 01874 611622.

Fri 10 April MILKSHAKE LIVE Presenters are preparing Milkshake Monkey’s surprise birthday party with the help of the Little Princess, Noddy, Pip, Bello, Chloe, Tommy and Tallulah. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 1pm, £13-£11, family of four £44, 01743 281281.

Mon 20 & Tues 21 April THE SNAIL AND THE WHALE TALL STORIES. A tiny snail longs to see the world, so she hitches a lift on the tail of a humpback whale, but when the whale gets beached, how will the tiny snail save him?

The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

Thurs 30 April & Fri 1 May JUNGLE BOOK ST RICHARD’S SCHOOL. Not the Disney Jungle Book, but an adaptation by Hugh Farey of Rudyard Kipling’s original story. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7pm, £7 & £5, 01885 488575.

Sat 2 May PITSCHI - THE KITTEN WITH DREAMS KOMEDIA presents this classic Swiss story using a rich mix of story-telling, physical theatre, music and song to tell the story of a kitten that learns to be happy being exactly what she is. Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 11am & 2pm, £4, 01686 614555.

Sat 2 & Sun 3 May FLYING THE NEST HANDMADE THEATRE. Filled with a fantastic mix of music, puppetry, facts and fun, this humorous show brings to life native bird characters in a unique and interactive theatre experience. For children aged 4-9 years and their families. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury. Sat 1pm & 3pm, Sun 11am, 1pm & 3pm, £8.50, 01743 281281.

DRAMA WORKSHOPS HAY SENIOR YOUTH THEATRE For 12-17 year olds.

The Globe, Hay-on-Wye. Call Janine Sharp on 07733 055430 for details or to express an interest.

MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Tuesdays Junior Youth Theatre 8-11, 4.15pm-5pm. 11-14 years, 5.15pm-6.15pm.

Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells Senior Youth Theatre 14+ 7pm-9.30pm. The Drama Centre, Llandrindod Wells.

Contact Ralph Bolland on 07810 350994.

Mondays NO STRINGS ATTACHED Puppetry and Mask Theatre with The Fetch Theatre Co. 11-16, 6.30-8pm.

Ludlow Assembly Rooms, 01584 878141.

Mondays APPLETREE THEATRE Junior Youth Theatre for children 7-11 years, 4.15pm-5.30pm. Senior Youth Theatre for 11-16 years, 5.45pm-7pm. The Appletree Studio, 15 Lower Galdeford, Ludlow, SY8 1RU. £60 per term. office@appletreetheatre.co.uk or phone 01584 318015.

Mondays YOUTH THEATRE Conquest Theatre, Bromyard. Ages 6-11 4.30-5.30pm, ages 11-14 6-7.30pm, ages 14-18 7.30-9.30pm, 01432 340555.

Mondays (during term time) BRYCHEINIOG YOUTH THEATRE Led by Andrew Sterry and Gareth Williams.

Ages 9-12 6-7.15pm, ages 13-25 7.30-9pm.

Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

Tuesdays SENIOR YOUTH THEATRE The Courtyard, Hereford, £62 term, 01432 340555.

Tuesdays DAI Y BANNAU Focussing on acting, scriptwriting, singing and dancing, storyboarding and set design. Dai Y Bannau is a Welsh medium multimedia theatre group. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 4pm, for ages 7-12 years, 01874 611622.

Tuesdays THE ITC / IMPROV THEATRE For ages 11-25, £24 for 6 week block. SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 3.45-5.15pm, 01588 630243.

Tuesdays YOUTH THEATRE IN WIGMORE Wigmore group runs at Teme Valley Youth Project, 3.30-4.30pm for 6-11 year olds, 5-6.30pm for 11-16 years old. £40 per term. 01568 770110 or visit www.courtyard.org.uk Tuesdays YOUTH THEATRE Drama workshop for 7-14 year-olds after school. Ledbury Market Theatre, 01432 383663.

Wednesdays KINGTON YOUTH THEATRE With Kington Primary School. Wed - Years 5 & 6, 4-5.30pm.

Years 7,8 & 9 5.30-7pm. Senior 7.15pm-8.45pm, £40 per term, 01432 340555.

Wednesdays THE COURTYARD KIDS For reception Year 2, led by Helen Durant, £65 per term. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

Wednesdays and Fridays INTERMEDIATE YOUTH THEATRE Year 10s Wed and Year 11s Fridays.

The Courtyard, Hereford, £60 per term, 01432 340555.

Thursdays and Saturdays SHROPSHIRE YOUTH THEATRE Providing training in a range of theatre skills for ages 5-25. All abilities welcome. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury. Contact Maggie Love: 07813 026367.

Every Thurs ADULT DRAMA CLUB AT THE GLOBE IN HAY for anyone interested in having fun trying out some performance skills with Janine Sharp. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7-30pm-9-30pm. £6. Janine on 07733 055430.

Thursdays LEINTWARDINE YOUTH THEATRE Run by Teme Valley Youth Project. For ages 11+. Leintwardine Community Centre, 4-5pm, 01568 770110.

Every other Thursdays in term time HAVE A GO SHAKESPEARE For the over 50s. CARAD, Rhayader, 01597 810192.

Thursdays LUDLOW DRAMA WORKSHOP For all ages: 16 + and adults, 7.30-9.30pm at Appletree Theatre, 15 Lower Galdeford, Ludlow SY8 1RU. No experience needed. www.ludlowdramaworkshop.org.uk Contact 01588 673219.

Thursdays IMPULSIVE THEATRE COMPANY For ages 13-19. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 5-6.45pm, 07916 277928.

Fridays and Saturday JUNIOR YOUTH THEATRE For Year 3 - 9 led by either David Durant or Ellen Dorsett.

The Courtyard, Hereford, £75 per term, 01432 340555.

Saturdays PETERCHURCH DRAMA AND FUN CLUB Open to all abilities. For ages 6-12, 10am-11.30pm, £3 per session, 01432 340555.

Every Saturday HAY YOUTH THEATRE AT THE GLOBE IN HAY for ages 7-11. Excl. half term, 10.30-12.30pm, £6.

Loads of fun! Call Janine Sharp on 07733 055430.

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word Poetry & Storytelling

Henning Wehn

Sat 11 April

OUT OF THE LAND OUR STORIES ARE BORN

By Gill McEvoy and Polly Bolton. An evening of stories in word and song, performed by a a women’s choir from the Marches, telling the stories of three remarkable women, Sarah Burton, Molly Morgan and Katherine More.

Llanymynech Village Hall, 7.30pm, £6, children free, 01584 823604.

Fri 24 - Sun 26 April WENLOCK POETRY FESTIVAL A weekend of poetry, art, music and film. Headline performances from Michael Rosen, Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker and Kei Miller, alongside performances from Hollie McNish, Kathleen Jamie, Maurice Riordan, David Whyte, Johnathan Edwards, Liz Berry, Hannah Lowe and Luke Kennard. With book launches from Jo Bell, Robert Peake and Mark Niel. Full programme and tickets at www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org Tues 28 April BEAUTIFUL LIES AND STARTLING TRUTHS Helen East and Rick Wilson, stories and rhymes from around the world. Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 8pm, £7 or £20 for four people, 01588 630023.

Sat 9 May THE FORBIDDEN DOOR THE DEVIL’S VIOLIN COMPANY. This is storytelling with live music for adults; expect impossible quests, heart-stopping twists, love, loss, high drama, low comedy and pure moments of total abandonment from the real world. For ages 12+. Garway Village Hall, 8pm, £10/£5/£28, 01981 580056. Arts Alive.

Tues 14 April TELFORD COMEDY CLUB Comedy and Curry. Featuring Colin Harris, Freddie Farrell, Patrick Draper, Daniel Fitzhenry, Salvator Monello, Joey Cannon, Paul Mutjegga, Colin Hayward, Liam Mitchell, Chris Shaw, Roger Swift and Nick Clarke. The Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 8pm, £5, 01952 610888.

Comedy

Fri 24 April COURTYARD COMEDY CLUB Featuring Hayley Ellis, Paul McCaffrey and Jack Barry.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 8.30pm, 01432 340555.

Sat 11 & Sun 19 April KEVIN BRIDGES A Whole Different Story. 11 April - Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £17.50, 01600 772467. 19 April The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, 01432 340555.

Sat 25 April HENNING WEHN - EIN, ZWEI, DIY The German comedy ambassador hasn’t lost his sense of Westphalian wonderment at the foibles of British society.

For ages 16+. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £15, 01874 611622.

Kevin Bridges

Sat 18 & Sun 26 April JEREMY HARDY LIVE 2015 18 April - Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £14, 01600 772467. 26 April - The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, 01432 340555.

Thurs 23 April COMEDY AT THE EDGE Lakin McCarthy presents Susan Calman - ‘Lady Like’.

The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 8pm, £14/£12, 01952 728911.

Fri 24 April TELFORD COMEDY CLUB Featuring Steve Haze, Dave Dinsdale and Paul & Andy Nightingale. The Elephant & Castle, Dawley, 8.30pm, £4 in advance, £6 on the door, www.telfordcomedy.webs.com

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Fri 24 April ANDY PARSONS - LIVE AND UNLEASHED, BUT NATURALLY CAUTIOUS Star of BBC’s Mock the Week and Live at the Apollo.

Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 8pm, £15, 01686 614555.

Sat 25 April RICHARD HERRING - LORD OF THE DANCE SETTEE ‘The King of Edinburgh’ is in a frivolous mood with this show about daftness. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £15, 01600 772467.

New collection of overheard conversations

JUST a few more WORDS ROGER KITE

Talks

April WEA HEREFORDSHIRE WORLD WAR 1 LECTURES 15 April - Medicine in WWI, 2-4pm, Hereford Archive & Record Centre, Rotherwas.

22 April - Country Women in WWI, 10.30am-12.30pm, Bosbury. 22 April - Agriculture for ex-Servicemen, 2-4pm, Bosbury. 29 April - Women in the Hereford Munitions Factory, 2-4pm, Hereford Archive & Record Centre, Rotherwas. More info call 01432 350349, email herefordbranch@wea.org.uk April & May WEA WORKSHOPS & STUDY DAYS 14 April - Magna Carta and the men who made it.

All 10am-12pm, £8 per workshop. 28 March - Art & Literature of the Railways. 18 April - Blanche Parry.

25 April - Sacred Music. 13 May - The Market Town of Leominster. All 10am-4pm, £20 per study day. Hereford Museum Resource & Learning Centre. 01432 830208, email herefordbranch@wea.org.uk

Available in Presteigne at The Rowan Tree, Winnie’s Newsagents and The Workhouse Gallery. Grandad’s Shed at Kington and The Thomas Shop at Penybont. Price £4.

“Everything you wanted to know about death but were afraid to ask” A light hearted talk about death for those that are dying to know more about, err, death. The aim is to demystify, inform and entertain.

All welcome except Vampires, Undertakers and the Undead.

Sense of humour, pen & pencil are essential.

Presteigne, Assembly Rooms, 7.30pm, 15th May, free Knighton, Community Centre, 7.30pm, 22nd May, free Hereford, Courtyard Theatre, 18th May 2pm and 7pm £7.50 per ticket + extra free sessions All proceeds and donations to St Michaels Hospice, Hereford.

For more information email khesh3663@gmail.com or phone 07976 617 657

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Thurs 2 , 9 & 16 April POLITICAL DEBATES 2 April - Economy. 9 April - Health. 16 April - Power.

The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7.30pm, 01497 821762.

Ash Dykes

Sat 4 April EASTER GARDEN EVENT Three authors, Kim Hurst, RHS judge (11am), Claire Austen (12pm) and Noel Kingsbury (2pm) give illustrated talks about their new books; garden and plant stalls; children’s activities. Aardvark Books, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, 10am-5pm, free entry, please reserve places for the talks, 01547 530744.

Tues 7 April THE NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME A talk by Penny Usher. Lingen Village Hall, 7.30pm, £1 members, £4 visitors. Lingen Gardening Club. www.lingen.org.uk Tues 7 April & Tues 5 May BRECKNOCK DECORATIVE & FINE ART SOCIETY 7 April - ‘Here’s one they prepared earlier; first efforts of Britain’s greatest architects.’ 5 May - ‘Wanderings among the Nomadic Tribes of Iran & Afghanistan’.

Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 2.30pm, £7.50, visitors welcome, £40 subscriptions for the year, 01874 625679.

Wed 8 April THE ADFORTON LECTURES ‘Wealthy and Wise?’ A talk given by Alan Laurie. Adforton Community Hall, 7.30pm, 01568 770437.

Fri 10 April ROSS ARTS APPRECIATION SOCIETY Annual General Meeting followed by a film on The Life and Paintings of David Jones, presented by Derek Shiel.

Larruperz Centre, Grammar School Close, Ross-on-Wye, 7pm, £2.50, visitors £4.50, 01432 840670.

Fri 10 April A CELEBRATION OF PONTESBURY WITH MARY WEBB An evening of words and music for the Save Pontesford Hill Appeal. Illustrated talk by Gladys Mary Coles and Gordon Dickins with readings by Pontesbury Players; second half performance by Janie and Benji from folk band, Bellowhead. Pontesbury Public Hall, 7pm, £10, from Hignetts, Pontesbury, 01952 419078.

Mon 13 April LINGEN HISTORY GROUP ‘Historic Houses of Lingen’. An illustrated talk by Duncan James. Lingen Village Hall, 7.30pm, £4.50 on the door, 01544 267469.

Wed 15 April LEOMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY A talk on Thomas Telford by Tony Crowe. Grange Court, Leominster, 7.30pm, members free, visitors welcome £3 on the door. (A follow up visit to Llangollen to see Telford’s aqueduct is planned for 11 June).

Wed 15 April NADFAS TEME VALLEY DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS SOCIETY LECTURES Adventures and Misadventures in Museums. Mr David Phillips, former lecturer in Museum Studies and Art History.

Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 2.15pm, £8 on the door, visitors welcome, 01584 811088.

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Wed 15 April LUDLOW CIVIC SOCIETY Immersion in Nature: wild swimming and wildlife photography - Andrew Peters. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 6.30pm, £2 members, £4 non-members per meeting, 01584 878141.

Thurs 16 April RHODODENDRONS AT HERGEST GARDENS Stephen and Melanie Lloyd will give an illustrated talk on the gardens. Wigmore Village Hall, 7.30pm, £2 for non members, all welcome, 07813 733240. Wigmore & Distric Gardening Club.

Thurs 16 April MAGNA CARTA AND ENGLISH HISTORY Professor Nigel Saul will give the first of two Magna Carta lectures, hosted by Life and Learning. College Hall, Hereford Cathedral, £5 on the door, please book, 01432 374225.

Thurs 16 April ASH DYKES - BREAKING MONGOLIA , THE LONELY SNOW LEOPARD From the Altai Mountains, across the Gobi Desert, Ash Dykes walked Mongolia solo and set a new world record.

This lecture covers the challenges he faced and his determination to achieve this incredible feat. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01874 611622.

Mon 20 April PAUL DUKAS (1865-1935) Professor John Pickard will talk about Paul Dukas, known for ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’. Christ Church, Edde Cross St, Ross-on-Wye, 7.30pm, £6, visitors welcome, 01989 567750. Ross-on-Wye Classical Music Society.

Tues 21 April TAKING THE LID OFF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH A talk by Bob Milner. Bob is a local landscape historian who enjoys delving into the stories, rumour and scandal behind the great (and small) events and people of the past, Bob is well known for discovering the quirky bits of history nobody ever told you. 7:30pm at The Friends Meeting House, St Marys Lane, Ludlow, SY8 1DZ. 01568 770282.

Tues 21 April HEREFORDSHIRE FIELD NAMES A talk by Dr Ruth Richardson. Garway Village Hall, 7.30pm, £3, all welcome. Garway Heritage Group.

Wed 22 April WILDLIFE TALK ‘50 Years on the Long Mynd’ by Peter Carty of the National Trust. Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 8pm, £3.50, 01588 630023.

Sun 26 April MY TRAVELLER’S TALES David Hughes in conversation with Bryan Podmore.

Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 3pm, £5 includes tea and cakes, 01588 630023.

Workshops & Courses Sat 4 & Sun 5 April BOOK SALE DVD,s CDs, paperbacks and hardbacks. Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 01588 630023.

Sat 18 & Sun 19 April ANNUAL MEGA BOOK SALE Thousands of second-hand books, CDs and DVDs at bargain prices! Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, £5 before 11am, 50 thereafter. Open 10am-4pm.

April, May & June CREATIVE WRITING 11 April - ‘Beyond the Image’ (writing from art). Willow Art Gallery, Oswestry, 11am-2pm, £12. 18 April - ‘Healing Words for Spring’. Centre for Integral Health, Shrewsbury, 10am-4pm, bring a packed lunch, £40. 2, 9 & 23 May ‘Healing Words for Spring’. Poems, music and quotes to put a spring in your step. Peacehaven, Berriew, 10am4pm, £100 for all three days, bring a packed lunch with you. 30 May - ‘Healing Words for Spring’, 10am-4pm, £40, Centre for Integral Health, Shrewsbury. 30 June - ‘Healing Words for Clients’. Aimed at counsellors and professionals who want to know more about how to use creative writing and poetry as a therapeutic tool. Shrewsbury Centre for Integral Health, 9.30am-4pm, £45. Enquiries and bookings: Bethany Rivers M.A. bethanyrivers77@hotmail.co.uk Starting April POPULAR WRITING COURSES run in association with University of Aberystwyth Lifelong Learning by local author Lara Clough.

8 sessions DEVELOPING A VOICE IN WRITING starting Wed 29 April 10.15am-12.45pm at Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown. 10 sessions NOVEL WRITING 1 starting Thurs 30 April 10.30am-12.30pm at Wyeside, Builth Wells.

8 sessions SCRIPTWRITING 1 Friday 1 May 10.00am12.30pm at Crickhowell Resource and Information Centre, Crickhowell. 2 sessions WRITING FROM NATURE Sat 9th and Sun10th May 10.30am-4.30pm at Paradise Farm, Presteigne (see website www.paradisefarmhouse.co.uk for

location). Intensive weekend plus further distance learning.

For details 07795112431. All courses with Uni. Of Aberystwyth Lifelong Learning. Course Full Fee £100 Concession £80. .Forms and Brochure 01970 621580 or www.aber. ac.uk/sell Last Tuesday each month HOMEND POETS Icebytes Café, The Homend, Ledbury. 6.30pm-8.30pm.

Friendly, relaxed group of poets and musicians. Food available. Mixture of original verse and whatever takes your fancy, both thematic and free range! All welcome, 01684 310553.

Every Tues in March GET WRITTEN! Creative writing with Pat Tromans. Trumpet Art Studios and Tea Room, near Ledbury, 10.30am-12.30pm, £60 for 5 week course.

Booking and information 07773 868006 or email pat.justwrite@gmail.com Every Thurs SPANISH CLASSES Relaxed conversation to prepare for holidays abroad. The Wine Bar, Presteigne, 7-8pm. Maire 07967 428703. Payments on donation.

STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS at the Story Space Studio at Grange Court in Leominster. Day workshops, Community Arts Days, Birthday Parties, Pre-Schools, Forest School, KS 1 and 2 Projects and CPD training.

Tai Chi Movements for Well Being sessions (one to one).

For more information see www.storyspace.co.uk Every Tues READING ROOM The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.30am-12.30pm, £48 per term, 01432 340555.

First Wednesday of the month POETRY CAFE, Charlton Arms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 872813.

Last Wed of each month POP UP POETRY - GRIOTS ARTS Tomatitos, 38 Lion St, Hay-on-Wye. Also featuring a visiting poet with an open mic. Page and performance poets, call 07961 589616 to register for the open mic.

Admission by donation, www.griotsarts.com 4th Thurs of each month HAY-ON-WYE AMNESTY GROUP The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7-8pm, 01497 821153.

International Poetry Writers’ Collective: Abergavenny 01873 856350 Leominster Writers' Circle, Leominster Community Centre, 01568 610451.

Mid-Border Arts Writers’ Circle, Presteigne 3rd Tues, Assembly Rooms, 7.30pm. 01544 260255 Tenbury Writers’ Group Tenbury Library, 01584 812585.

Border Poets 01547 530380.

AARDVARK BOOKS & CAFE New website: www.aardvark-books.com

50,000+ titles; North Herefordshire’s largest indie bookseller; EASTER GARDEN EVENT We buy books Specialist in art, design, photography, history, gardening

Also open our superb CAFÉ!

The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, SY7 0DH Off A4113 Knighton Road.

Tel: 01547 530744 OPEN EVERY DAY aardvaark@btconnect.com www.aardvark-books.com Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm

Sat 4 April 10am - 5pm (Reserve seats for talks) Celebrate spring with three leading garden writers, Noel Kingsbury, Claire Austen and Kim Hurst. Kids activities and live music from Two Things with Strings. Free entry.

PAPER WRAPS STONE: EXHIBITION

Sat 4 - Sun 19 April: Private view 2 April, 5.30-8pm Prints from the Annamult Press by Michael & Innis Ellis-Jones and Stone Carvings by Lottie O’Leary.

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EOPLE who watch “Country File” on TV may have seen a recent episode following the story of a newly qualified farm vet called Oliver, who couldn’t afford to buy a local house on the open market. For people working with animals and on the land, living close by is essential.

You can’t buy a cheap house in a town many miles out of the area and then ‘commute’ to an emergency calving at 2.30 in the morning. A farm vet will be on 24-hour call regularly and in an emergency, has to be within easy reach of local farms.

So the much talked about affordable-housingshortage is a growing problem for people who are young, possibly paying back university fees and working in rural communities. In this case, Oliver found an affordable house in the area through the Addington Fund – a small social trust that provides a small number of houses for people working in and for agriculture. It was originally set up by church groups in the wake of the Foot and Mouth epidemic. ____ In Herefordshire, Canon Frome Court is both housing association and farming coop. The farm itself seems much as a well-organised mixed farm would have been back in the 50s and 60s, with a mixture of dairy, sheep, chickens, orchards, goats, ducks, arable crops and walled garden. The tractors are quite small and old fashioned, but on the other hand a large array of solar panels and a substantial woodchip boiler/green heating system brings the community bang up to date.

In all there are 19 self-contained living units ranging from 4-bed family homes to small, single apartments.

These homes are not too expensive, but again they’re not available on the open market. You have to apply and attend workdays before being invited to buy a home here. And Canon Frome is more for the diggers than the dreamers … most people of working age have a full time job and/or a young family to look after, but even so everyone helps regularly on the farm and also attends meetings and a weekly shared meal. It’s a system that works beautifully for the right people. ____ Home Presteigne is a cooperative organisation for housing. It provides a framework for people to plan, build and refurbish homes at a local level with a focus on making homes more energy efficient and affordable to live in for people on low/local incomes. It was registered as a Community Benefit Society (coop) in 2013.

To build affordable houses you either need funding, or a resourceful Plan B. In the absence of funding, Home Presteigne have come up with Plan B. It began with a proposal from a member of Home Presteigne who originally joined the coop as a representative of the town council. In 2014, Nicola Humphries offered Home Presteigne a piece of land in exchange for refurbishment work on her house.

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Ivy House was an ‘unimproved’ property with no insulation or draught proofing anywhere. Home Presteigne’s work on the property included clearing and then lining the loft

No draughts now for ‘Fat-Cat’

with 300mm depth of Eco Loft insulation, provision of an insulate cover for the top of the loft stairs, improving the kitchen and installing a more efficient heating system including new radiators that are especially popular with the cat.

Much of the work was carried out by volunteer labour with paid assistance from Presteigne based tradesmen.

More technical work was carried out by a local plumber, and electricians who all live and work in the town.

In exchange for the improvements made to Ivy House, the far end of the garden will be donated to Home Presteigne to provide a building plot for two houses. The next stage will be to prepare a planning application. If successful, Home Presteigne will make two 2-bed houses to be sold or let at affordable rates to local people. Again, local tradesmen and building materials will be used wherever possible and the homes will be built with maximum insulation for very cheap heating bills and minimal energy waste. A covenant will allow Home Presteigne coop to keep these houses ‘in perpetuity’ as affordable homes for use by local people. www.canonfromecourt.org.uk www.home-presteigne.co.uk Rachel Francis, www.sharpeningpencils.co.uk

Green Events Fri 3 - Mon 6 April THE KYMIN ADVENTURE TRAIL Join the Adventure Trail and win prizes. Fun for all the family. Tea and homemade cakes too. The Round House, The Kymin, Monmouth. National Trust entrance fees, £1.50 per trail, 11am-4pm, www.nationaltrust.org.uk/kymin Sat 18 April HEREFORD WILDLIFE TRUST GUIDED WALKS The Trust’s annual fritillary guided walk. Lower House Farm, Ledbury Rd, Tupsley, Hereford, 10am-2pm, half-hourly intervals, £3.50 adults, children free, 01432 356872.

Wed 22 April HANGING BASKETS A practical demonstration by Marion Stanton. Lydbury North Village Hall, 7.30pm, £3, 01588 620055. South West Shropshire Gardening Club.

Sun 26 April CHERRY BLOSSOM WALK View the cherry trees in blossom on Sidnall Farm, Ullingswick, near Bromyard, 11.30am-4pm, £15 for tour and pre-booked lunch, £5 guided tours, children under 12 free. Guided walks by experts (with transport available), refreshments served under cover; open picnic area and free parking. All proceeds to to Friends of Herefordshire Samaritans. 01432 269000.

April & May FORAGING COURSES Find out about the fine foods growing all around you this Spring with this hands on foraging and wild food tasting.

18 April, 9 & 31 May, 12pm meet at the Temeside Inn, Little Hereford, Ludlow, the course finishes at 3.30pm.

8 May meet at The Farmer’s Arms, Ledbury, 12pm, finishes 3.30pm. £30 adults, £15 for under 16s, under 12s free, 01584 711646, www.wildfooduk.com Fri 1 - Mon 4 May POWER TO THE PEOPLE FESTIVAL 1 May - Arrival, camp fire and social. 2 May - Eco workshops and site tour. Entertainment from midday.

3 May - Bushcraft workshops, energy co-op lecture and entertainment from midday. 4 May - Free canoeing for campers, bushcraft and dinner, £5. £6 adults, per day, under 12s free. Camping £10 per night per adult, £5 per child. Hollybush Inn, Hay-on-Wye, 01497 847131, hollybushcamping@gmail.com Sat 2 & Sun 3 May SPRING GREENS FAIR - THE LAND Round Table Transition talks, arts, crafts and music.

Family friendly activities. Court of Noke, Pembridge, 10am-6pm, www.springgreens.org.uk

Local Environmental Groups Knighton Tree Allotments Trust (KTAT): Christine Baker 01547 529990.

Presteigne Freegle (formerly Presteigne Freecycle) Terry Wells 07766 097600 www.freegle.in/presteigne Transition in Hay-on-Wye, Stephen Ainsleigh Rice, 01497 820332 and tthayonwye@googlemail.com Hereford Christian Ecology Group, meets occasionally for talks and outings. 01432 279740 Transition Ledbury Paul/Beverley Kinnaird 01531 634788 or transitionledbury@googlemail.com.

Transition Leominster, Regular meetings, contact Ann Ashley, 01885 420473 or Anne Adams, 01568 780886.

Knucklas Castle Community Land Project (KCCLP), secretary Kevin Jones, 01547 520266, www,knucklascastle.org.uk, info@knucklascastle.org.uk Hereford Carbon Rationing Action Group www.carbonrationing.org.uk - Vey Straker - T: 01432 840955 - M: 07961 125470 - vey.straker@virgin.net Kington Local Environment & Energy Network (KLEEN) meets regularly 2nd Thursday of every month, 7.30pm, The Oxford Arms, Kington. Planning local action, supporting initiatives, open to all. Contact kleen@momentary-lapse.co.uk Teme Valley Environment Group - Anne-Mary Davies 01547 528833 Will O’Leary - 01547 528792 amdskyborry@hotmail.com www.tveg.org.uk Transition Presteigne meets first Thurs of every month, (except Jan, April & Aug), Wine Bar, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 01544 267768 or email transitionpresteigne@gmail.com Ludlow LA 21 - David Currant - 01584 875501 davidcurrant@phonecoop.coop, www.ludlow21.org.uk Shrews. Friends of the Earth - http://www.shrewsfoe.org. uk- Frank Oldaker 01743 260971 frankoldaker@yahoo.co.uk Herefordshire Friends of the Earth - Paige Mitchell 01432 277857 - www.herefordshirefoe.org.uk co-ordinator@herefordshirefoe.org.uk Lightfoot Enterprises - The Old Primary School, Church St, Bishop’s Castle, Tel 01588 630683, E mail info@lightfoot.org.uk, www.lightfoot.org.uk Herefordshire Action for Mammals (HAM) Dave Smith, 7 Primrose Close, Hereford HR2 7QX. Tel. 01432 266937 davetreesmith@aol.com https://sites.google.com/site/herefordshiremammals/ Abergavenny & Crickhowell Friends of the Earth www.monmouthshiregreenweb.co.uk - Barry Greenwood 01873 852245, bgreenwood@ntlworld.com LLES – Llanidloes Energy Solutions - www.lles.co.uk Diana Berriman - 01686 411128 - office@lles.co.uk Brilley Mountain Eco - (Brilley and Michaelchurch Environment Group) - Peter Davies, 01497 831376, peterandgilldavies@hotmail.com Golden Valley Environment Group - Vanessa Hembling, 01981 550377, golden_valley@mail.com, www.goldenvalleyenvironmentgroup.org.uk Transition Hereford - Charlotte Lake 01432 343577 www.transitionhereford.org Rea Valley Environmental Group (ReaVEN) Aims to promote sustainability and environmental concerns throughout the Rea Valley. reaven@live.co.uk.

Radnorshire Wildlife Trust - 01597 823298, info@rwtwales.org, www.rwtwales.org Presteigne Freecycle for Presteigne and surrounding area, groups.yahoo.com/group/presteignefreecycle.

For other areas www.freecycle.org Upper Onny Wildlife Group. Meetings at The Crown Inn, Wentnor, Bishop’s Castle. Species surveys, recording and training (mostly summertime).

John Muller email: jmuller983@gmail.com

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complementary therapies Disclaimer. We would like to emphasise that these listings relate to COMPLEMENTARY medicine practitioners. Broad Sheep does not endorse any of the practitioners or healing methods listed. We provide no recommendation and take no responsibility for their content.

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A RANGE OF THERAPIES AVAILABLE IN LEOMINSTER including Indian Head Massage; Aromatherapy Massage and Reflexology. Humphrey Clement Bsc MFHT offers an holistic personal approach using organically sourced products where possible. On-site Chair Massage available for groups or in the workplace. To enhance your mental or physical wellbeing call 07702 038063 for a consultation or email healing.rose@icloud.com www.healing-rose.co.uk ACCREDITED COUNSELLOR REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND CLINICAL SUPERVISOR, offers supportive, non-judgemental, face-to-face, skype and telephone sessions to individuals, couples and groups. Richard Lewis MSc Integrative Psychotherapy, Post-Grad Dips - Consultative Supervision and Children and Young People. BACP Sen. Accred., UKCP Reg. 01547 510360.

A is for ACUPUNCTURE with Joanna Bruce RGN, B.Ac, M.B.Ac.C. Traditional Acupuncture for pain management, acute and/or chronic health problems. Phone for free initial discussion on 01568 709142. Stoneleigh, Kingsland, HR6 9QS. registered and insured with the British Acupuncture Council since 1986.

ACUPUNCTURE. Sandy Sandaver Lic Ac MBAcC. I practice an integrated style of acupuncture using 5 element and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and am a member of the British Acupuncture Council. I also carry out home visits. Hay Acupuncture Clinic, Rose Cottage, Cusop Dingle, Hay-On-Wye 01497 821625/07980 596218 sandysandaver@onetel.com or www.hayacupunctureclinic.co.uk ALEXANDER TECHINIQUE in Hay-on-Wye. Learn to eliminate and avoid aches and pains by becoming more aware of how the whole body works. Philippa Morrell BA MSTAT. Please ring me or go to my website for more information. www. philippamorrell.co.uk 01497 822967.

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE in Hereford. Individual lessons and small groups with Ann Rowan MSTAT. BA. ARCM, 01432 279536.

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE in Leominster HR6 8QJ. Individual lessons with Janet Jameson MSTAT. 01568 613467.

ALLERGY &/OR FOOD INTOLERANCES? Find out the complete picture by having a blood test to help you make the best choices for your health. Enquiries: 01568 709142.

AROMATHERAPY & REFLEXOLOGY TREATMENTS OFFERED IN LUDLOW. Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils extracted from plants, which have a number of properties, that may, when used, help improve overall emotional health.

Reflexology can be a wonderfully relaxing treatment that in turn may help relieving everyday tension. Both treatments may aid you in your overall sense of well being. Contact Emily Baker BA Hons, MIFPA, MAR and CNHC registered, on 01584 529053 or 07775 652993.

HILARY FOXWELL BTAA, AHSC, GWCG. Recovery, self-maintenance, health & well-being for your individual needs. Bowen technique treatment for muscle, skeletal, nerve, respiratory, intestinal conditions. Alexander technique tuition to retrain muscle action, breathing, body-mind reactions. Energy and emotional healing release for stress, grief, old trauma.

Practitioner since 1984. Clinics in Tenbury Wells and Tenbury Wellness Centre. 01584 819010.

COMPANY IN THE WILD - Emotional and spiritual coaching. Walking outdoors, healing of the wild, or indoor locations to suit. Nature based healing traditions. Individual basis, group work and workshops. Contact Katrinn on companyinwild@gmail.com or 01544 388689 for further details.

CHARLOTTE HALL COUNSELLING based in LUDLOW. I work in a quiet central office in Ludlow, offering you space to explore and understand whatever may be troubling you. I am here to help you seek empowerment. Enable self development and awareness through empathic listening and support. I work with a wide range of issues: communication, relationship breakdowns, depression, anxiety, loss, work stress/bullying and low self esteem to name a few. BACP Accredited. www.charlottehallcounselling.co.uk 07855 299579 charlottehallcounselling@gmail.com CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY Specialist in treating & assessing children & young people with mental health or behavioural issues or dealing with distressing situations. I also offer support to parents, carers and adopters (providing them with a space to think separately about their children) or work with parents/carers and children together. I am also able to help mothers and babies with attachment issues. I can provide supervision to other therapists, consultations and training to professionals. I can provide services at the Family Place in Hay-on-Wye and Hereford, I can provide services throughout the area. ACP accredited. Valérie Mortin BSc. 07961 885646 or Email: vivalavie@yahoo.com COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY for depression, anxiety, panic, stress, OCD, relationship problems and more!

Couple counselling, relationship counselling and individual counselling for most issues. Sessions held in the Presteigne area, Leominster and Hereford. Contact Gail Venables on 01544 350384 or see www.cbtgail.co.uk. MBACP (Accred).

COUNSELLING/PSYCHOTHERAPY. Jane Cooke Dip Gestalt Therapy, CSS, RCN Cert Group & Family Work, Registered Member MBACP, CAPO. Presteigne & Llandrindod. Safe, creative, equal approach. I have wide life & work experience; I work to support your increased understanding of yourself, & do not judge or try to change you – change comes through your awareness & when you are ready. jane.cooke@heartfeltwork.co.uk 07771 950899.

COUNSELLING IN LUDLOW area. Talk in complete confidence, with warmth and without judgement, with Julia Walling BA(Hons), PGCE, Dip.EH.P.NLP (BHR), MAC. In private practice for 25 years, I am trained in a wide variety of therapies and combine them to meet your needs. Clients consistently report improvements in wellbeing within a few sessions. Panic/anxiety specialist. Short and long term for individuals, couples and families. 01584 874636 07796 596451 julia.walling@btinternet.com and www.juliawalling.co.uk CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY with Karen Gunn RCST So much in life can cause stress, anxiety, injury, trauma, headaches, depression…..CST is a whole-body therapy to help restore vitality, health & well-being. Safe & effective for all ages. You listen to your thoughts, now come along & listen to your body! Clinics in Hay-on-Wye, Brecon, Llandrindod Wells.

Please call to find out how CST can help. 01497 821894.

Find me on FB: Karen Gunn Craniosacral Therapy CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY with Jess Pailthorpe RCST. Safe, effective, light-touch treatments to help you heal & repair.

Muscle/joint problems, stress, anxiety, fatigue, trauma….Clinics in Leominster, Kingsland and Hereford. Phone to talk or book: 07981 866 667 / www.touchtreetherapy.co.uk CRYSTAL THERAPY Touchstones School of Crystal Therapy provides fully accredited training in Crystal Therapy in Mid Wales. Principal Lauren D’Silva is Chair of the Affiliation of Crystal Healing Organisations (ACHO), she is fully qualified

and experienced teacher, therapist and author of Touchstones Manual for the Crystal Therapist. Whether you want to learn more about crystals for your own enjoyment and well-being, or work as a Crystal Therapist, Touchstones has a course for you.

Lauren is also available for Crystal Therapy sessions and can offer Hypnosis and Colour Therapy. Call 01597 822749 or visit www.crystal-therapy.co.uk EMOTIONAL THERAPYAnne Cummings MFETC (Adv Dip) BAoG (Dip). Safe, effective therapy to improve and enhance personal potential. Specialist knowledge and experience with panic attacks, anger issues, severe anxiety, bullying, bereavement and depression. If you have difficulty relating to others, or persistent, troublesome emotions call Anne on 01547 530977. See also www.thewritetofeel.com See also www.thewritetofeel.com EXPERIENCED THERAPIST based in Bleddfa. Treatments for:- Back, neck and joint pain, weight issues, including hypno gastric banding) fears, phobias, stress, anxiety, addictions, alcohol and nicotine dependency etc. Contact JAN LLOYD B.Ed Hons, DHyp, CPNLP, DEMDR. Bowen Therapist (ECBS and US Bowen trained), Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master and Teacher. 01547 550215 or email oghanlloyd@msn.com HEALING and COUNSELLING in Bishops Castle.

Energy healing can help you create Positive Change by relieving blockages which may be causing physical, emotional or spiritual difficulties. Such blockages may prevent you from living a full and nourishing life. I also offer individual counselling sessions. I am a fully qualified personal counsellor and accredited CRUSE bereavement counsellor. Contact Philomena Houlihan-Wood BA, Cert. ESH, Dip. Couns. Tel : 01588 638242. Email : Philomena@soul-healing.net Web : www.soul-healing.net.

HEALING-SHIATSU. WITH CHRISTOPHER SHEEHAN. Over 20 years healing experience. Clinics in Hereford, Hay-onwye, Maitreya House. chris@eryritai-ji.co.uk 07870 149745. www.eryritai-ji.co.uk MASSAGE THERAPY, INDIAN HEAD MASSAGE, LUXURY FOOT MASSAGE, ORGANIC FACIAL with Marian Hardiman (MTI CNHC). No set routine, just careful attention to what the individual needs. Clinics in Presteigne (The Retreat) and Hereford (Neal’s Yard Remedies) or at your workplace or event. 07816 981454, marian@silvanmassage.com or www.silvanmassage.com.

JENNIFER HODGE DO Registered Osteopath. Cranial Osteopath. The Old Rectory, New Radnor 01544 350241.

HOMOEOPATHY Sandy Underhill RSHom. Homoeopathy is a system of medicine which involves treating the individual with highly diluted substances, given mainly in tablet form, with the aim of triggering the body’s natural system of healing.

Based on their individual symptoms, the homeopath will match the most appropriate medicine to each patient. Clinics in Llandrindod Wells, Kington and Presteigne. 01597 851021.

SIAM SMILE

TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE • • • • • • •

Thai Herbal Compress Traditional Thai Massage Thai Foot Massage

Aromatic Oil Massage Thai Crafts & Handmade Jewellery Facial Massage Hand Spa

3 Broad Street, Knighton, Powys Tel: Gan on 07538 572123 or (eve) 01547 550249 www.siamsmilettm.webs.com

LEOMINSTER NATURAL HEALTH CENTRE: Qualified therapists offer acupuncture, structural re-alignment, medical herbal medicine, remedial and holistic massage, reflexology, ear candling, reiki, psychotherapy, cognitive behaviour and couple counselling, hypnotherapy, health kinesiology, nutrition at the Leominster Natural Health Centre, Community Centre, Leominster, 01568 616411, www.leominstercommunitycentre.com.

MARIE HUDSON. Yoga classes in Presteigne and Titley.

One-to-one tuition available for individual needs. Registered Association for Yoga Studies practitioner. Registered with Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council for Yoga Therapy. 01544 260352.

MASSAGE THERAPY Injuries, stress, relaxation. Claire Williams I.T.E.C. / N.I.M. 01544 267172. Clinics in Presteigne, Ludlow and Hereford.

PAMELA SPENCELEY MNIMH Medical Herbalist and Allergy Therapist 01568 770614 / 01584 878123 PATHS OF HEART – Bio-Energy Healing Practitioner of 20 years experience. Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual Wellbeing.

Physical Healing / Pain Relief & Emotional Clearing.

Counselling & Psychotherapy.- Child Centred Art Therapy & Person Centred Art Therapy For Adults. Supervision. M.A A.T (B.A.C.P) (B.A.A.T) Informal enquiries welcome 01588 640491 PHYSIOTHERAPY, CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY, REFLEXOLOGY & YOGA with Hermione Evans, Chartered Physiotherapist at Radnor Physiotherapy. For all back and neck pain, headaches, sports injuries, RSI, stress related illness and more. To discuss your needs or to make an appointment, please phone 01544 350691 or email contact@radnorphysiotherapy. co.uk or view www.radnorphysiotherapy.co.uk PSYCHIC READINGS: Clairvoyance, Tarot & Astrology (tape inc). Gifted & compassionate reader with over 20 yrs professional experience. Personal and telephone readings (pre-booked) available. ROWIE 01432 820684.

REFLEXOLOGY Helping to relieve stress, regulate hormonal imbalances, sleep and eating patterns. Aid the release of toxins and restore energy levels. Over 20 years experience - Jo Davies ITEC 01544 267100 or 07876 796885. Clinic in Presteigne, home visits available.

SIAM SMILE TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE BY (GAN) JANYARAK MORRIS. Stressed out? Neck and shoulders tension from too much time on computer? Low back pain? Or just want to pamper yourself? I can help! I am qualified in Traditional Thai Massage, Reflexology-Foot Massage, Facial Massage and Aromatherapy. Certificates recognized by the Ministry of Education in Thailand. Ground Floor, 3 Broad Street, Knighton LD7 1BL. Tel: 07538 572123 or (eve) 01547 550249 www.siamsmilettm.webs.com SPIRITUAL HEALER Naturally gifted in releasing emotional grief in present and past lives. 24 years professional experience with physical and mental health. Private healing sessions and talks given. Gillian Williamson, MNFSH. Field House, Kinnerton. 01547 560874.

SPIRITUAL MEDIUM - Emily Baker, clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient, spiritual art, offering individual or party bookings. For more information call Ludlow 01584 529053 or 07775 652993.

YOGA IN PRESTEIGNE

Group classes and individual tuition Marie Hudson 01544 260352 www.theyogapractice.org.uk

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Workshops WORKSHOP LISTINGS - Single listings are free.

Year round, ongoing workshops will cost £40 per year for inclusion in the magazine and website.

Sat 11 & Sun 12 April DRAGON IN THE LAND & WIZARD IN THE STONE Geopathic and Energy workshops with Martin Wood.

Broadmeadow, Leebotwood, 07907 909810.

Starting Tues 14 April TAI CHI MOVEMENTS FOR WELL BEING Learn a simple sequence that can promote health and reduce stress. Weekly class starts in Hereford at RVS Riverside Centre for 8 weeks. 4.30 - 5.30pm. £7 per session. Contact Carol carol.florence@tmwtraining.com or 01432 507703.

Sun 26 April MAKE YOUR DREAM CATCHER

For children with special gifts and their mums. Broadmeadow, Leebotwood, 10am-1pm, booking essential, 077952 01522.

INTRODUCTION TO ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE: (Small group course) Learn to train your mind-brain & body with 5 Principles. How to improve everyday activities wherever you are -- computer, gardening, driving, sewing, walking, sports etc. Regain flexibility, reduce tension & prevent discomfort or pain. Also CHI GONG & TAI CHI classes 5.20-6.20pm & 6.30-7.45pm start Weds 15th April. For more details phone Hilary Foxwell 01584 819010.

ORGANICALLY BRED OPEN-POLLINATED SEEDS CANNOT BE PATENTED OR OWNED BY A PERSON OR COMPANY. ORGANICALLY PROPOGATED AND NON-ORGANIC CMS HYBRID SEEDS CAN BE PATENTED AND OWNED BUT ALSO THE PROCEDURE TO CREATE CMS HYBRIDS AND GM LEAD TO CRITICAL LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY AND GENETIC DIVERSITY.

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SCARAVELLI INSPIRED YOGA With Dorothy Watkins. Mon - Adult yoga, Home Studio, Lower Castre, Garway Hill, 10am-11.30am. Tues - Parent & Baby/Toddler yoga, 9.30am-11am. Adult yoga, 11.45am-1.15pm, Miro Cafe, St Owen’s St, Hereford.

Thurs - Adult yoga, 9.30am-11am. Pregnancy yoga 11.45am-1.15pm, Miro Cafe, St Owen St, Hereford.

Fri - Adult yoga, Home Studio, Lower Castre, Garway Hil l, 10am-11.30am. Details dorothyopentheatre@live.co.uk HEDGEROW MEDICINE, KITCHEN PHARMACY: Herbal Medicine Making Courses with Rowan McOnegal, Medical Herbalist. Practical weekend courses which explore identifying, growing, harvesting, drying, storing and using herbs. Covers the basic principles of herbal medicine, and making and using teas, tinctures, infused oils, ointments, creams, syrups, inhalations and baths. www.rowanmconegal. co.uk or 01531 670075.

YOGA CLASSES AND ONE-TO-ONE LESSONS An integrated and holistic approach to working with movement, breathing and mindful, restorative practice. Classes in Moccas, Hereford, Eaton Bishop and Peterchurch. Yoga therapy and one-to-ones at Hereford Centre For Natural Health, Belmont, Yeleni Support and Therapy Centre, Hereford and from my home in Eaton Bishop.

Contact Nicky at www.nickyjaquesyoga.co.uk or 07817268689 for more info.