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BROAD she e p july 2012

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Giving it 110% S

PORT, Sport, Sport, Sport, it’s all over the bloody place.

Olympics, Euros, Eurovision. Even I’m beginning to catch it. I’m particularly amused by the Guardian, who are famous for getting the more intellectual (hmm!) sports persons to write columns for them. They famously came a cropper with Graham Le Saux when he started playing for bully boys Chelsea. When his team mates spotted Graham reading the Guardian instead of talking about tits or the length of his Lamborghini, they decided he must be gay and eventually every team they played spent more time commenting on Graham’s sexual preferences than actually kicking the ball around.

These days their cycling columnist is skinny, chinless, time trial specialist Bradley Wiggins and the Guardian is practically wetting itself because it looks highly possible that our Bradley could win the ‘Tour de France’ which starts on 30th June. He has just polished off wins in the Criterium du Dauphine, the Paris Nice and Swiss tour of Romandie.

So, green with envy, I’ve decided that what Broad Sheep needs is a columnist who is a serious Olympic contender.

I’m prepared to put the full weight of the Broad Sheep inc. behind this bid for gold. I want the best and I intend to get it although some expense will be spared. So here’s a rundown of the contenders.

1. Me. My personal triumphs have mostly been in the pole vault. I picked pole vault at school because nobody else much was interested in it except my mate Geoff Sykes.

This was in the days before carbon fibre poles, before fibreglass poles, before aluminium poles, when we had to use bamboo poles such as you might find down the garden centre. Geoff turned out to be better than me.

So year after year I came second. Then in the fourth form, by a strange twist of fate Geoff sustained a broken wrist the day before sports day and I won. However, the current pole vault Olympic record is six metres plus, so with a personel best of six foot I’m not a serious contender.

2. Roger, the philosopher. Roger is a particularly sad case who claims that hiding in order to miss school sports day four times in a row is his greatest sporting achievement. Not a contender.

3. Hugh, mad columnist. Hugh claims he once sacrificed two knights and a bishop in order to pull off a spectacular chess win over the chess master who wasn’t really concentrating at the time. Since this is not an Olympic event, it’s no use to me. On the other hand, he also was once picked as 11th man in the school cricket team – bowled out for 0.

4. Ian, poet in residence. Surprisingly Ian’s sporting achievements closely mirror Hugh’s. He also was once picked as 11th man for the school cricket team, although unfortunately they declared before he managed to get to the crease.

5. Nicola, ex-owner and proof reader. Nicola seems more hopeful and has a plethora of sporting achievements to her name. She claims to have been good at diving, been in the Farmer’s Arms Darts team and once played goalie for the school hockey team which lost 60. But more fabulous than all of these achievements is her first place in the apple-bobbing at Goodworth Clatford Gymkhana, mounted on her faithful pony, Darkie.

6. Sam, the original Page 4 columnist. Sam as you

might know is a sailing nut so it comes as no surprise that at school his only sporting interest was rowing. The best thing about rowing, he says, was that you could head upstream to the local pub not to mention stopping under the trees to have a quick fag. (Not sure if this is public school slang for having a cigarette or something else).

7. Clare, the person who holds it all together. Clare seems to have an abiding hatred of the school PE teacher who she remembers, sitting in the changing rooms smoking, while the class is sent out in the rain to run cross country. However, later on in her teens she did some oneday eventing, (it’s that thing Princess Anne used to do on a horse stupid) and when she was eight, she got her halfmile swimming badge, so this all looks rather hopeful.

8. Green Rachel, green pages. Rachel wears track suit bottoms around the house, but after I pointed out to her this is hardly an Olympic sport, she remembered that she used to have a very small horse called Goldie that was very good at bending. In fact Goldie was so good at bending that she and Alison someone and Maisie something else were all part of a team that ended up at some unspeakable Thelwell style horsey event at Wembley and were introduced to Prince Phillip. Aha, I’m beginning to see a sort of plan emerging. Nicola pony apple bobbing, Clare one-day eventing, Rachel and Goldie bending, (no I haven’t got a bloody clue what it is either). Let’s see what the others can conjure up.

9. Nicky, keeps the books. Nicky spent all her school career trying to avoid sports, so they just randomly entered her for things. At various times she was forced to do both the high jump and shot putting. “How did you do Nicky?”

“Oh, I see, you were that good”. Not a contender.

10. Mark, film critic. Unlike Nicky, Mark did not spend his time at school avoiding all sports, but did spend a lot of time avoiding rugby. “Sir I’ve forgotten my kit again”.

However, he was good at swimming which is encouraging.

However his only real love is riding motorbikes and enduro racing which definitely doesn’t qualify as an Olympic sport.

Nasty, oily, smelly, noisy things. Not a contender.

11. Mr Pernickety. Aha, why does it not surprise me that Pernickety was a sprinter 100 yards or 200, just as long as it takes to get rid of the pursuing pack of irate chefs and restauranteurs.

So you’ve read about all the possible contenders. What do you think? As far as I can see it’s no contest, we’re gonna have to go with the gee-gees. I’m not so sure about the eventing, it might have to be something a little less strenuous. I think we’ll try for the team dressage, which is basically just poncing about on horseback but first off I need to grab myself a nag so I can join in the fun. My first port of call (as always) is E-bay, but would you believe it they don’t sell horses on E-bay! What kind of stupid oversight is that? They sell everything on E-bay, why not horses? Anyway I’ve found this other site www.horsemart.co.uk. How about this one. Marley is a confident pony with plenty of character. He is more likely to look what’s inside a plastic bag to eat than spook at it. Has been to a Pony Club team show-jumping and completed a pleasing dressage test. (Sounds good to me). Price £950. (Bloody hell, that’s almost as much as an electric bike).

Cover pic: Toy Hearts, Wyeside, Builth Wells - 6 July

hugh’s bit

Swordfishtrombones W

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ORDS, images, phrases rise up in the mind from – well from where? Some psychologists say that thinking can’t happen without words, whereas others maintain that most of the thinking happens before you get to the words. How about the imagery in Tom Waits’ “Swordfishtrombones” the title track of his classic 1983 album? I’ve played it at every Sheep Music (July 20-22) since the Ark and I still have no idea what it means, though I’ve photoshopped what it might look like.

Where do the images come from? What is he saying?

Concentrate!

The verses echo down my years, as also does the chorus of my teachers yelling “Concentrate!” at me. Then they threw blackboard rubbers at my head, resulting in Concussion instead.

I give you two diagrams for “Concentrate!” Both are represented on a dart-board. One is an uptight circle of spears pointing inward to the centre, like - seen from above - New Bornean tribesmen surrounding a lone missionary and pointedly rejecting being turned into Borne-again tribesmen, and the other: concentric patterns of ripples spreading out and multiplying across a silent pool. I imagine the pool as a remote and virgin stretch of water nestling in the Welsh hills where in another song it’s “summertime and the fish are jumping”.

You are half asleep by the pool, rod in hand, there’s a little splash - either a pebble-thought has just dropped into the centre of the pond or a big fishy idea has risen up from the depths to catch a long-legged fly of a phrase, but all you get when you open your eyes are circles of thought-ripples moving silently out from the centre ... or in the other dream the froth of spittle round the mouth of the irate teacher and the exocet-shaped blackboard rubber homing in on your head .... Koncentrate! (Duck!)

The circle of spears method of thinking is psychologically ineffective, and only serves to scatter your brains even further - literally if the teacher scores a bulls-eye with the rubber - but the radiating thought-ripples are a metaphor for the pattern of creative thinking – provided you are far enough away from the teachers. I am comforted by the thought that mine are all dead by now.

I am all for the pool; it’s a place from which my darting shoals of word-fish cannot escape. I can trawl for them with a child’s butterfly net or land them verb by verb, noun by noun with a proper rod and line, then lay them out in a row and read the future from their entrails like a Roman augurer before eating their flesh for supper. Fish are good for the brain.

I trawled the net for “swordfishtrombones”, that vast sump of knowledge, as shallow as it is wide. I dredged up a rare “binders-ronk” which is Norwegian slang for “paperclip wank trombone”, and landed a “rusty trombone” too which is even obscener .... (Google it - you know you will). They were drifting around like fragments in one of those swirls of plastic garbage in the middle of the Pacific, but though the internet is vaster even than the limitless cycles of any ocean, fuller and yet more full of words than there are plankton in the sea, and more diffuse and entropic even than Tom Waits’

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream, his mind moves upon silence. (W.B.Yeats) swarming imagination, it doesn’t bloody know what a swordfish trombone is.

I imagine the thing to be one of those bass instruments with an enormous bell-end which has a handle on the slide so’s you can push the thing right out to the limit, beyond arms length, subsonic, like yer man used to play in Edward II & the Red Hot Polkas, one of Sheep Music’s favourite bands, but its real meaning seems to have sunk without trace, probably in the Tenkiller Lake in the song, adding to the underwater debris of lame shopping trolleys, rusting machetes, bottles of Ballantine’s emptied straight down the throat, and the twisted pipework of cast-off wind instruments that lie about in the mud at the bottom of the human sumpconscious.

When Jon Humphreys asked TW where he got his imagery from he said “They come to me for free and then I sell them on to you.” So probably even Tom Waits doesn’t know what a “swordfishtrombone” is.

Perhaps this enquiry is wrong from the start and poetic imagery is meant to ripple out in an exponential diffusion from the original thought like the mysterious Yeats at the start, whilst day-to-day language merely reduces words to their basic utility. As a further experiment I googled William Blake’s “To see the world in a grain of sand ..” I got. “A world in a grain of sand”: regional metamorphic history from 40Ar/39Ar laser probe analyses of proterozoic sediments from the Canadian shield. Precambrian Research, Volume 91, Issue 3-4, Pages 287-294 Q. I am no further forward but I am enjoying the trip. (c) Hugh Colvin 2012

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The culmination of work of a summer course.

Programme includes Bach. Presteigne Assembly Rooms, 3.30pm, £6 on the door. www.midborderarts.org.uk

Presteigne & Norton Town Council

Montgomery Street and Food Fair Saturday 7th July 2012 Have a great day out from morning till evening in Historic Montgomery.

Street stalls, Taste Montgomery food in the Town Hall, sales of antiques and collectibles in the Dragon Hotel.

Family entertainment including a samba band and Welsh folk dancers.

Town Barbecue commencing at 6.30pm with music from ‘Over the HillBillies’

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THE BOOT INN ORLETON

3rd Beer & Cider Festival Fri 27th July from 5.30pm Sat 28th & Sun 29th July

A selection of 20 + Real Ales & Local Ciders Hobsons, Wye Valley, Ludlow, Purple Moose, Mayfields Brewery, Montys Brewery, Salopian Brewery to name a few

Live music all weekend

Friday 27th from 5.30pm Hobsons Sea Shanty Singers Skint, 9pm Saturday 28th, open 12 noon Wayne Tulsa & The Satellities, 1pm Hot Climate, 3.30pm Rhythm Thieves, 9pm Sunday 29th, open 12 noon Steady Edd And the Boogie Men, 1pm Last Orders, 5pm Sultana Brothers, 8pm Bouncy Castle & Children’s Entertainment

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art POWYS The Rodd, Presteigne 01544 260149 Until 31 July SIR SIDNEY NOLAN OM RA. Open 11am-5pm weekdays, and selected weekends, 2-3, 9-10 June.

Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth 01654 703355 2 July - 8 Sept CHARLES SHEARER. 16 July - 1 Sept TABERNACLE ART COMPETITION 2012.

Open Mon-Sat 10am-4pm.

Radnorshire Museum & Gallery, Temple St, Llandrindod Wells 01597 824513 Until 1 Sept Llandrindod Bowling Club Centenary, 1912-2012. 10am-4pm.

The Beaufort Gallery, Temple St, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 5HG 01597 822777 www.celfogwmpas.com Until 3 July ‘UnLayering’. SHEREE MURPHY. 5 July - 14 Aug JAN BUTLER - site specific installation responding to her residency. Tues-Thurs 10am-4pm.

Shepherd’s Ice Cream Parlour, Hay-on-Wye 01497 821898 Until 18 July LIZZIE HARPER - natural history illustrations. 9.30am-5.30pm, daily.

Wine Bar @ No. 46, High St, Presteigne, Powys 01544 267675 6 July & August ‘New Faces’. EMMA MORRIS, JAMIE MUNRO & CHRIS BUTLER - from abstract paintings to post apartheid photography. Open Mon 12-2, Tues & Thurs 12-2pm & 5-10pm, Fri 12-2pm & 5-11pm, Sat 10am-2pm & 6-11pm.

Treberfydd House, near Brecon 07791 545068 14 - 29 July ‘Welsh Princes and Chinese Legends’. Including three Chinese artists plus twelve other artists including sculpture, ceramics, oils, watercolours and prints. Proceeds from all sales, after costs will go to Arts Alive Wales, Brecon Baroque Festival and Peace Direct.

Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown 01686 625041 7 July - 5 Sept ‘Bathing Beauties’.

More than 100 architectual models of beach huts by various artists and designers.

7 July - 5 Sept ‘Gimme Shelter’.

ANONIA DEWHURST - a series of micro-structures. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

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Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 01544 260777 7 July Arts & Crafts featuring local artisan wares and craft materials.

10am-2pm.

Old School Gallery, The Bleddfa Centre, Bleddfa, near Knighton 01547 550377 Until 28 July ‘Made in Knucklas’ A group exhibition, including CORINNA KENYON-WADE, TONY HALL, LOIS HOPWOOD, MAGGIE JONES, WENDY DAVIES, LOTTIE AND WILL O’LEARY AND 301 DESIGNED paintings, ceramics, pottery, sculpture, stone and letter-carving and decorative glassware.

4 - 28 Aug ‘Three Poets Walking’. An exhibition of drawings, paintings and etchings by ALISTAIR TUCKER and the words of poet DAVID LEWIS. Open Wed-Sun 2-5pm.

Mid Wales Arts, Maesmawr, Caersws, SY17 5SB 01686 688369 www.midwalesart.org.uk 7 July - 12 Aug ‘7 On The Severn and Wye’. Prominent photographers and visual artists present an exhibition capturing their impressions of the Severn and Wye valleys.

29 July - 2 Sept ANGELA & OWEN THORPE - new work.

Open Sun-Thurs 11am-4pm.

The Thomas Shop, Maesyfed, Penybont, Llandrindod Wells 01597 851951 July Local arts and crafts.

Wool Emporium exhibition - wool and textiles. Molas from Columbia.

Celebrating Heritage Penybont and Shop Museum. Fri - Sun 10am-5pm.

Knighton Library, West St, Knighton 01547 528778 Until 7 July ‘Art for Amnesty’. KATE MORGAN-CLARE - works on paper.

Open Tues-Sat, closed Wed and Sat afternoons.

Tower House Gallery, 29 High St, Knighton 01547 529530 July AUDREY BRADLEY. The India & China Tea Company. Refreshments available. Wed-Sat 9.30am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mon & Tues.

Haymakers Gallery, Hay-on-Wye 01497 820556 Until 15 July RICHARD BAWDEN - linocuts, etchings and watercolours.

SALLY AYLING - jewellery, HANNAH WILLIS & MARLENE HOUNAM jewellery. STEPHANIE CUNNINGHAM - sculpture. JULIA SMITH ceramics.

16 July - 16 Sept JULIA MANNING - prints. JANE WELLENS - ceramics.

JANE RYAN - automata. JAN FRYER - jewellery. 10.30am-5pm, closed Tues.

Mistletoe House, Tea Room & Gallery, Coombe, Presteigne 01544 260035 Until 6 Aug ‘Sky West & Crooked’.

BRONTË WOODRUFF - pictures.

Open Thurs-Mon 10am-5pm.

Theatr Hafren, Newtown 01686 614555 Until 16 July ALEXANDRA COOK - pastels, acrylic, oils, pen and ink, digital, photography and textiles.

Open Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm.

Erwood Station Craft Centre & Gallery, Erwood, near Builth Wells 01982 560674 Until 4 July HARRY FOGG paintings. ROSALIND DAVIES & GLENN MORRIS - sculptures.

DAVE BAILEY - photographs.

6 July - 16 Aug Stump work and embroidery by six artists.

14 July ‘Skies, Light & Atmosphere’.

DAVID BELLAMY. New book, new dvd’s and new paintings. Book signing, talk and artist demonstration.

2-4pm, donations to Help For Heroes and Air Ambulance.

27 July - 2 Sept Every Fri-Sun Summer of Great Events. Artist demonstrations, live music and family workshops. Plus handcrafted ornaments to prints and cards.

Open daily 10am-5.30pm.

The Workhouse Studio, Presteigne Industrial Estate 01544 267864 July Interesting and unusual gifts for all. Plus rare antique carpets and kilims. Cafe. Tues-Sat 10am-4pm.

HEREFORDSHIRE Hampton Court, near Leominster 01432 261818 14 & 15 July ‘Design for Living’.

Featuring 50 creative businesses and makers. 10.30am-5pm.

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

Blue Ginger Gallery, Home End Farm, Stiffords Bridge, Cradley, Malvern 01886 880140 July TIA LAMBERT - still life oil paintings. BEVERLEY COURTNEY - drawings.

4 - 8 July JULIE FOUNTAIN - lampwork beads and jewellery.

11 - 15 July JANIS WALDRON - jewellery and teddy bears.

18 - 22 July LYN FOX - silver jewellery.

Open Wed-Sun 10am-5.30pm.

Chrysalis Contemporary Glass Art Studio, Leominster 01568 613116 July Glass art designs: tableware and jewellery. Open by appointment.

BrontĂŤ Woodruff, Mistletoe Gallery and Tea Rooms, Coombe, Presteigne

Cathy Sumner, An Acre of Art Gallery & Cafe, Kings Meadow, Wigmore

Wayne Summers, The Courtyard, Hereford

Richard Corbett, Apple Store Gallery, Hereford

Nick Bailey, Downstairs Gallery, Madley

Elspeth Soper, The Harley Centre, Ludlow Juliet Asher, The Gateway, Shrewsbury

Lisa Ellul, Old Chapel Gallery, Pembridge

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Simon Connolly, The Harley Centre, Ludlow

Suzanna Reynolds, The Courtyard, Hereford

Lion Gallery, Broad St, Leominster 01568 611898 July LOUISE WAUGH - watercolour and acrylic paintings, local landscapes. Alongside a selection of fresh Herefordshire and British art and craft.

Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad St., Hereford 01432 260692 Until 15 July ‘Time Lapse’ by local artist JASON HODGES. Includes visual interpretations from the archaeology, social history, natural science, costume and fine art collections. Also featuring a series of photo montage images of 18th Century Hereford, based on the sketch book of Hereford born artist JAMES WATHEN. 21 July - 2 Sept Treasures from the collections. Open Tues-Sat 10am5pm, Sun 10am-4pm.

Trumpet Corner Art Studios & Tea Room, Trumpet, near Ledbury, HR8 2RA 01531 670082 Until 2 July Artisans on Tour exhibition. Featuring ELAINE MASON - glassware, JO VERITY - decoupage and jewellery, BECKY MILLIKIN - ceramic pots, GARY FULLAGAR - blacksmith. Plus resident artists.

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

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Shieldbrook Sculpture Garden, King’s Caple 01432 840670 Until 16 Sept More than 80 sculptures in various media. Featuring DENNIS FARRELL, JEWELS WILLIAMS, ANDY DODWELL, SUE LOCKE, PETER KING and AMBROSE BURNE. Open every Sun 2-5pm £5, children free.

Fundraising for St Agnes Gokwe Children’s Home in Zimbabwe.

Downstairs Gallery, Great Brampton House, Madley 01981 251094 Until 15 July ‘We One Are Two’.

DOMINIC SAMSWORTH AND NICK SAMSWORTH. Until 15 July ‘Try Outs’. NICK BAILEY THERESA BRUNO, BLUE CURRY, DMITRI GALITZINE, GUY HAYWOOD, RUSSELL HILL, MATILDA MOORS, MURRAY O’GRADY, SOPHIE PERCIVAL, SAM PLAGERSON, SARAH WOODFINE, ELIZABETH WRIGHT. From 21st July “When Shall We Set Sail For Happiness?” CRAIG BARNES and DMITRI GALITZINE. Open Fri-Sun 12-5pm. During Hay Festival open daily 12-5pm.

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

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Parkfields Gallery, Ross-on-Wye 01989 565266 Until 11 July ‘All Creatures’. ALICE ARNOLD - paintings. SELBORNE POTTERY - ceramics. CHRISTINE CUMMING - ceramics.

21 July - 3 Sept ‘The Picturesque Wye Valley’. BARRY HERNIMAN - watercolours. SARAH CHEESE - textiles.

KIM BRAMBLEY - glass. Open MonSat 10am-5pm.

Gallery 54, High St, Ross-on-Wye 01989 567917 July STUART ELLIS, MIRIAM MEEK & DEBBIE GOLDSMITH - contemporary abstract paintings. ISOBEL MITCHELL - very unusual glass objects. Plus new work from gallery artists. Thurs-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm.

Weaver’s Gallery, Church Lane, Ledbury, HR8 1DW Until 8 July ‘Stuff as Dreams are made of’ - Shakespeare’s words interpreted in stitch. Part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Open 10am-5pm.

An Acre of Art Gallery & Cafe, Mortimer Enterprise Centre, Kings Meadow, Wigmore 01568 770110 July CATHY SUMNER - Raku work.

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Open Tues-Sat 11am-4pm.

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All Saints Church Cafe, Hereford 01432 370414 2 - 7 July HEREFORD LEISURE PAINTERS. 9 - 14 July GOLDEN VALLEY CRAFTS SOCIETY - sale of arts and crafts.

16 - 21 July SIAN THOMAS - stained glass. SMALL PRINT - silver jewellery.

23 - 28 July HEREFORD ARTS CIRCLE - local artists.

30 July - 4 Aug - MR RAY - local artist.

6 - 11 Aug JAN BISHOP - silks and saris. Open Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm.

Ross-on-Wye Library, Cantilupe Rd, Ross-on-Wye 01432 383284 Until 16 July FOREST OF DEAN CATS PROTECTION, find out what your local cat charity does.

16 - 30 July Ross in Bloom - a display of work from ROSS ON BLOOM through the year for Heart of England In Bloom judges and also children’s entries.

30 July - 13 Aug GOODRICH VILLAGE ART CLUB. Open library times.

The Courtyard, Hereford 01432 340555 Until 28 July Three Choirs Festival Exhibition. Artists include SUZANNA REYNOLDS - photographs, WAYNE SUMMERS - paintings. PAUL CATON - sculpture. JACK HODGES drawings. RACHEL RICKETTS sculpture and paintings. Open theatre times.

Dorstone’s Front Room 01981 550777 July GILL PERKINS - wildlife and pet photographs. Evening reception on 13 July, 7-9pm. Plus local crafts and foods. Open Mon-Fri 9am-1pm.

South Transept, Hereford Cathedral 01432 374200 Until 17 July ‘Found in the Fields’.

Lithographs and prints connecting the poetry of John Clare with contemporary landscapes. In association with Ledbury Poetry Festival. 9.15am-5pm.

Hereford Cathedral 01432 374261 Until 27 Aug Mappa Mundi & Chained Library special exhibition. Stories of wonder and discovery by pilgrims and explorers from the 14th to 19th centuries, told in books and documents from the Cathedral’s collections. Various admission charges. Open 10am-5pm, last entry 4.30pm.

Apple Store Gallery 3 Bridge St, Hereford 01432 378436 Until 28 July ‘Herefordshire and Music’. Tues-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm, Sat 10am-4pm.

Monnow Valley Arts, Middle Hunt House, Walterstone, 01873 860529 Until 26 Aug WOLSELEY FINE ARTS modern British drawings and paintings.

Until 26 Aug ‘Defining Structure and Space by Line’. BEN NICHOLSON (1894-1982).

Until 28 Oct ‘Image and Word’. The Julian Francis collection of prints and private press books.

Until 28 Oct Sculpture garden and park. Open Thurs & Fri 11am-5pm, weekends 2-5pm.

Mike Gell, Contemporary British Jewellery, 3 East Street, Hereford.

01432 278226 July Jewellery, silverware and studio glass by more than 80 designers.

Open Mon - Sat 10am-5pm.

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Old Chapel Gallery, Pembridge 01544 388842 7 July - 31 Aug ‘Glory of the Garden’. SHAN EGERTON, RACHEL SUDWORTH, MARY WOODIN - new works. LISA ELLUL & SUSAN BRUCE - ceramics.

Throughout the year Garden Sculpture Exhibition 2012. New pieces for the garden in ceramic, stoneware, stone resin, forged iron, stainless steel and mild steel to include GARRY JONES, SIMON GRIFFITHS, DAVID ENGLAND, HELEN SINCLAIR, JOHN WHEELDON, MIRANDA MICHELS, NEIL LOSSOCK, TONY INGARFIELD, SALLY GASTON, PAUL MARGETTS and CHRISTY BOWDLER. Mon-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm.

Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Foregate St, Worcester 01905 25371 Until 7 July ‘Royal Journeys’.

Exploring the stories of escape, pageantry and patronage.

Open Tues-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm.

SHROPSHIRE Assembly Rooms, Ludlow 01584 878141 13 July - 31 Aug SUE CAMPBELL & ANGELA MARTIN - sculpture, collage, printmaking and paintings.

13 July - 31 Aug AMANDA SKIPSEY - an eclectic mix of Welsh and English townscapes. Open theatre times.

Church Stretton School www.strettonfestival.org.uk 01694 724170 23 July - 3 Aug Church Stretton Arts Festival with DI PURSER, guest artist.

Open daily 11am-6pm.

The Gateway, Shrewsbury 01743 367682 2 - 31 July ‘Through the Window’.

JULIET ASHER - paintings and prints, a selection of images reflecting the inner journey and search for self.

Open Mon-Fri 9.30am-9.30pm, weekends vary.

Qube, Oswald Rd, Oswestry 01691 656882 6 July - 6 Aug Shropshire Sporting Exhibition. Local people who have Shropshire sporting or Olympic memorabilia can have their items displayed as part of the exhibition (and will be returned after the exhibtion).

Forthcoming event Qube Open Art Competition ‘Celebrate’ in any medium with £1000 prize, entry forms www.qube-oca.org.uk. Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9.30am-12.30pm.

THEGALLERY, 32 High St, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630555 July “An Eye For Shropshire”. JUDITH MOY. Plus contemporary arts and crafts including glass, ceramics, metal and wood, textiles, paintings, prints and jewellery.

Open Thurs-Sat 11am-5pm.

Aardvark Books, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell 01547 530888 14 July Mortimer Country Food Fair.

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

The Upstairs Function Room, The Castle Hotel, Bishop’s Castle 01588 638403 20 - 30 July Summer Exhibition.

CASTLE ARTISTS - paintings, watercolours, linocuts, artists books and cards. Open 11am-5pm daily.

Cruse Bereavement Care in Herefordshire Foundation training in

Awareness in Bereavement Course (ABC) 2012 This will take place in Hereford at the Friends’ Meeting House. Interviews and introductory morning on Sept 8th.

Followed by: Sept 29th, Oct 13th, Oct 20th, Nov 3rd, Nov10th, Nov 24th, Dec1st, Dec 8th running from 9.30 a.m. - 4.15p.m.

Cost will be in the region of £250, depending on numbers.

(It is hoped there will be bursaries).

This short course is designed to cover all aspects of loss and bereavement. Successful completion of the course is required to become a volunteer with Cruse.

Further information & applications to Cruse Bereavement Care, PO box 166, Herefordshire HR9 9BQ or by email Tina: crusetraining@mjtpservices.com Telephone: 01432 359469

WILL & LOTTIE O’LEARY

ART & ARTISAN

STONECARVING ON TOUR 2012

Books on

‘Made In Knucklas’

Exhibition at Bleddfa Gallery, near Knighton Throughout July

‘Design for Living’ at Hampton Court, near Leominster 14 & 15 July

‘Art In Action’

Specialist Bookshop Art Architecture Design Fashion, Textiles Gardens & Gardening also

Persephone & Eland books

Waterperry House, near Oxford 21 & 22 July

‘Hay Fayre 2012’

The Globe, Hay-on-Wye 25 & 26 August

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

26 High Street, Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire SY9 5BQ

01588 630435

www.artandartisanbooks.co.uk

Gallery and Café now in Wigmore!

Original art, prints, fantastic range of cards OPEN TUES - SAT, 11-4 ► Gift items and jewellery ► Café with garden (light lunches Wednesday-Friday) ► Full disabled access with easy parking www.acreart.co.uk Mortimer Enterprise Centre Kings Meadow,Wigmore HR6 9UX 01568 770110 Artists interested in exhibitng please contact us!

TOMLINS NIS ON N DE STONEMASON ~ BUILDER EXTENSIONS ~ RENOVATION CONVERSIONS ~ WALLS ~ CHIMNEYS ~ FIREPLACES STONE SLABBING ~ RE-POINTING

Wigmore, Herefordshire 078052 95853

ARTS & CRAFTS AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, PRESTEIGNE

Sat 7TH July 9.30AM-3.30PM LOCALLY MADE FURNITURE, HAND PRINTED PAPER PRODUCTS, HAND KNITTING AND WEAVING, PHOTOGRAPHY, WILLOW BASKETS, HAND-MARBLED PAPER & BOOK BINDING

TEA & VEGAN CAKES

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Vicki Norman Studio, 12A Moat St, Bridgnorth 07761 017468 July Summer Show. VICKI NORMAN - new work of local landscapes.

IAN SWITHENBANK - ceramics.

PENELOPE TIMMIS- contemporary studies of flowers. Tues-Sat 10am-5pm.

Acton Scott Historic Working Farm, Church Stretton, SY6 6QN Until 15 July ROBERT DAVIES animal drawings.

The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 Until 21 July ‘Encompass’.

A globe-spanning, digital dance project that connects young people.

Using dance, digital media and film.

Mon-Fri 9am-4pm and theatre times.

Harley Centre, Ludlow 1 July ‘Showing Off’. THE SHROPSHIRE GUILD OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFT. Open 10am-4pm.

Attingham Park, Shrewsbury 01584 891659 Phone for times.

Until 15 July ‘House of Beasts’.

Sandford Gallery, 1 Sandford Place, Church Stretton www.sandfordgallery.org July Gallery artists ROS BURNS, DI PURSER, GILL CROZIER, DAVID MACE, TONY PURSER & STEPHEN VICARY. Open Fri-Mon 11am-5pm.

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The Old Surgery Gallery, 11 High St, Clun, Craven Arms 01588 640506 Until 16 July The Annual Print Show with printmakers. Featuring Royal Academy 2012 Summer Exhibition exhibitor PAUL HIPKISS, plus DAVID HARBAN, LYNN JEFFERY, SHEENA ROGERSON, ANNA RAVENSCROFT, DAVID WHITE, JOHN SCOTT MARTIN and GORDON YAPP. From 19 July Summer exhibition featuring SOPHIE BIGNALL, MARY CAMPBELL, JACQUELINE FLETCHER, PAUL HIPKISS, PAULINE KITELEY, RUSSELL MORRIS, TIM NASH, LINDA PITCHER, ANNMONIQUE STELLINGA and GORDON YAPP. Open daily, including Sundays and Bank Holidays, from 10am - 5pm.

The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury 01743 234970 Until 3 Aug Summer show.

SHREWSBURY SIXTH FORM COLLEGE - art, graphics, photographs, product design and textiles.

Open Tues-Fri 9am-5pm.

Methodist Church, Ludlow 01584 872150 Until 7 July ‘Garments of Gethsemane’. Exhibition exploring hope and suffering. Open Mon-Sat 10am-3pm. Part of Ludlow Fringe.

Silk Top Hat Gallery, Quality Square, Ludlow 01584 875363 Until 7 July KEITH NOBLE - new watercolours and oils. JEMIMA JAMESON - painted wooden boxes.

JENNY PEARCE - willow baskets.

Until 7 July Isaac Smart’s Showcase. RALPH JANDRELL - ceramics.

BRONWEN TYLER-JONES - metal inventions and jewellery.

14 July - 4 Aug ‘Reflections’. JOHN NAPPER - oil paintings.

14 July - 4 Aug SARAH VAN NIEKERK - wood engravings.

14 July - 4 Aug Isaac Smart’s Showcase CAROL HOWSE - silver and ‘jazz’ jewellery. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

Art & Craft Workshops

Single listings are free. Year round, ongoing workshops £40 per year WORKSHOPS BY THE RIVER WYE In woolcraft, from fleece to item: including spinning, plant dyeing, weaving and felting. Also traditional Indian block printing with natural dyes. workshops from April through mid September. Please contact Jane Meredith on jane@plantdyedwool.co.uk

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CREATIVE WILLOW Weekly classes exploring willow weaving techniques for basket-making, garden structures and sculpture.

Gladestry, Clyro and Builth Wells.

Also one and two day workshops throughout the year.

Mary Zammit, 01982 552072, mary@marywillowgarden.co.uk CREATIVE ART WORKSHOPS @ THE TON FARM NEAR HAY ON WYE With a varied and eclectic range of tutors these workshops are for anyone needing to open up the creativity within. They are run over three days from 10am-4pm to include a delicious homemade lunch.

For further information or to make a booking please contact Val Harris 01497 831289 or visit the website www.thetonfarm.com July APPLE STORE GALLERY WORKSHOPS 22 July - Walk and Draw with Richard Corbett, 2-4.30pm. 24 July - Glenn Storhaug on Eric Gill, 3-4.30pm.

26 July - Walk and Draw with Richard Corbett, 10am-12.30pm. More information from Apple Store Gallery, 3 Bridge St, Hereford, 01432 378436.

July & Aug PLANT DYE / WOOL WORKSHOPS 7-9 July Plant dyeing, peg loom weaving, Brinkley loom weaving and feltmaking. 14 & 15 July - Needle felting and story workshop with Skye Meredith. 27-30 July - Summer School (see website). 17-20 Aug - Summer School (see website). 1-3 Sept - Plant dyeing, peg loom weaving, Brinkley loom weaving and felt making.

The Forge, Byford, Hereford, 01981 590370, www.plantdyedwool.co.uk

July EVENTS & ACTIVITY DAYS HEREFORD MUSEUM 14 July - Historic Hereford Day activities in High Town and Old House.

24 July - Roman themed archaeology activity day, 11am-3pm, small charge applies. 1 - 4 Aug. Roman themed craft activities at Market House Visitor Centre, Ross-on-Wye, 11am-4pm, £1.50 per person. 8 Aug - Roman themed craft activities at Ledbury Heritage Centre, £1.50. Details 01432 260692.

July & Aug ASSEMBLY ROOMS WORKSHOPS 7 July - Animation Workshop, for 11-16 year olds, 10am4pm, £30, (part of Ludlow Festival).

August - Art Summer School - for artists at all stages, from beginners to experienced. 3-5 Aug - Portrait Summer School led by Chris Bean. 10-12 Aug - Still Life Summer School led by Angela Gladwell. 17 - 19 Aug - Life Drawing Summer School led by Angela Gladwell. £50 per course, advance booking essential. 01584 841668.

Sat - SmART, art and craft club for 8-14 years, 10.30am-12.30pm, £35 per term, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 878141.

Sun 1 July MAKE IT SNAPPY PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKSHOP Bring your own camera and join photographer, Liz Fleming-Williams on a practical and personal exploration of the Willow Way through your camera lens. Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, 2-5pm, £5, 01597 811487.

Humanist Funerals Individual non religious ceremonies conducted by BHA accredited Celebrants.

Jenny Bullough 01497 831416 Dorothy Quayle 01432 860221

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Fri 20 - Sun 22 July PRINTING AND LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY WEEKEND Broneirion & Mid Wales Art Centre, Llandinam/Caersws. Cost for the weekend, inclusive of meals, materials and entertainment will range from £250 (landscape photography) to £275 (printmaking) per person, 01686 688369.

“NUTTERS” LICENSED WHOLEFOOD COFFEE SHOP

We are a friendly wholefood cafe tucked behind Church St. near Hereford cathedral in our own walled garden which is filled with flowers in the summer. All food is homemade in our kitchen.

Some of the scrummy things we produce are quiche, homity pies, sweet potato slice, Moroccan pie and soup, all served with fresh tasty salads.

Come in for a great coffee and indulge in a piece of cake or a delicious scone. Wheat free and vegan diets catered for too!

Visit us at Capuchin Yard, Church St, Hereford Telephone (01432) 277447

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PAINTING & DRAWING www.suepurcellart.com

PRIVATE TUITION

Tailored to your personal portfolio.

Contact: 01686 440668 or e-mail sue@dragoncollective.co.uk Sat 21 & Sun 22 July LANDSCAPES IN ACRYLICS FOR BEGINNERS With Paul Priestley. Starting with sketching the landscape, short sessions on colour mixing and applying acrylic paint. Gleanings, Crosfields, Gravels Bank, near Minsterley, 10am-4.30pm daily, £120 which includes 2-course, home-cooked lunches plus refreshments, 01743 891412.

Wed 25 & Thurs 26 July CHILDREN’S SUMMER HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS AT EASTNOR POTTERY Olympic Gold’ – A fabulous summer of sporting activity provides the inspiration for our pottery sessions for children in the school holidays. Young pottery enthusiasts are invited to get creative and make a ceramic trophy made from real clay. Not only will participants learn new pottery techniques, they will also get to paint their wonderful creations on the day. We’ll fire your masterpiece for you to collect a few weeks later. 11.30am & 2.00pm and are aimed at 4-8yrs (Wed) and 9-12yrs (Thurs) although younger & older siblings will never be turned away! Places cost £15 with a 10% discount for x3 or more places booked. Booking essential admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk 01531 633886.

Sat 4 August BASIC CAMERA SKILLS With Richard Booth. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Llanidloes, 9.30am-4.30pm, £40, MWA members £38 to include teas/coffees and light lunch, 01686 688369.

THOMAS SHOP ACTIVITIES Every Mon, 7-9pm, Sewing/Textile Group. 2nd Sat of every month - Spinning classes with Rachel Berry. 3rd Sunday - Weaving classes with Rachel Berry.

The Thomas Shop, Penybont, 01597 851951.

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WORKSHOPS BY THE RIVER WYE IN WOOLCRAFT From fleece to item: including spinning, plant dyeing, weaving and felting. Also traditional Indian block printing with natural dyes. Workshops from April through till mid September. Jane Meredith on jane@plantdyedwool. co.uk, www.plantdyedwool.co.uk. 01981 590370.

Mondays SEWING/TEXTILE GROUP Informal open group, (not bank holidays). The Thomas Shop, Maesyfed, Penybont, near Llandrindod Wells, 7-9pm, 01597 851951.

Mondays KNITTING CLUB Trumpet Corner Tea Rooms, Trumpet Crossroads, Ledbury, 1-3pm, £3 per session + materials if needed, 07813 350826.

Mondays LIFE DRAWING Village Hall, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, 01497 831550.

Mondays LIFE DRAWING With John Everett. The Forbury, Leominster, 01568 612646.

Wednesdays ART WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Teme Valley Youth Project and An Acre of Art Gallery in Wigmore are providing free art workshops for young people aged 11-25.

Every Wednesday 4-6pm. Young people are introduced to different art techniques by established local artists.

Registered Charity No: 1062438. 01568 770110, Kings Meadow, Wigmore, HR6 9UX Wednesdays CRAFT CLUB Trumpet Corner Tea Rooms, Trumpet Crossroads, Ledbury, 10am-12.30pm, £3 per session + materials if needed, 07813 350826.

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

Fridays THE FRIDAY GROUP LIFE AND PORTRAIT WORKSHOP Has limited vacancies for new members every Friday Sept-May. The Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 10am-4pm. Live and portrait model provided every week, £10 per day, 01584 841668.

STAUNTON-ON-ARROW VILLAGE FETE Saturday 14th July 1.30 pm – adults £2

The Lusty Garden Furniture Company Huw Morris - Garden Buildings and Benches

Rowing on the lake, Childrens’ Games and Mini Olympics Fun Dog Show and Scurry, Teas and lots of stalls Details 07792 372091

LEOMINSTER LIBRARY Community groups and artists, Did you know that you could rent a display case, exhibition room or wall space at Leominster Library?

For respectively, £5, £20 and £10 per week!

Ample parking facilities nearby.

Building fully accessible for the disabled.

Interested?

Come to our open day 21st July between 11- 2.30 Activities and refreshments.

Info: 01432 383290 or email carolineceverett@herefordshire.gov.uk

Tel: 01547 560225 Mob: 07980 116847

Tower House Gallery Gallery – Shop – Café - Oriel – Siop - Caffi

JULY 2012 AUDREY BRADLEY Now open – THE BACK OF BEYOND at THE GALLERY -

art & craft materials, fairtrade jewellery, clothes, accessories and gifts, textiles and MORE GALLERY SPACE! The India & China Tea Co

HOMEMADE FOOD AND GREAT TEAS AND COFFEES

29 High Street, Knighton, LD7 1AT Tel: 01547 529530 jlr.thg@virgin.net http:/towerhousegallery.blogspot.co.uk/ 19

cinema Marley

7 July BATTLESHIP (12A) 9 & 12 July THE TURIN HORSE (15) 13, 14, 16 & 17 July WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (15) 14 & 15 July AFRICAN CATS (U) 14 July THE DESCENDANTS (15) 13, 16 & 17 July DARK SHADOWS (12A) 20 - 22 July TOP CAT THE MOVIE (U) 22 July THE FAIRY QUEEN (Prerecorded) Glynebourne Season.

Details 01432 340555

FLICKS IN THE STICKS

AARDVARK BOOKS, BUCKNELL 14 July JULIE AND JULIA 6pm. The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell. 01547 530888

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, LUDLOW 2 July WENT THE DAY WELL Part of Ludlow Festival 4 July A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Part of Ludlow Festival 5 July BRIEF ENCOUNTER Part of Ludlow Festival 6 July THE 39 STEPS Part of Ludlow Festival 9, 10 & 14 July THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (12A) 11 & 19 July EVEN THE RAIN (15) 19 July FRANKENSTEIN National Theatre, recorded performance.

23 & 24 July MONSIEUR LAZHAR (12A) 25, 26 & 28 July ALL IN GOOD TIME (12A) A subtitled screening for the hard of hearing 27 July OLYMPICS OPENING Screening on the big screen, free.

28 July TOSCA Royal Opera House, recorded performance.

30 & 31 July GOODBYE FIRST LOVE (15) Details 01584 878141

CONQUEST, BROMYARD 6 July RESISTANCE (PG) 27 July DESCENDANTS (15) 3 Aug THE HELP (12A) 24 Aug THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (12A) All at 8pm. Details 01885 488575.

COURTYARD, HEREFORD

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1 July TALES OF THE NIGHT (U) 2 - 4 July MARLEY (15)

1 July THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (12A) Upton upon Severn Memorial Hall 01684 591044 6 July THE LUCKY ONE (12A) SpArC, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630243 6 July THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (12A) Dorstone VH 01981 550451 7 & 8 July THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (12A) Playhouse Cinema, The Community Centre, Leominster 01568 612583 9 July CARNAGE (15) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 10 July THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (12A) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 720341 14 July WAR HORSE (12A) Lady Emily Hall, Tarrington 01432 890720 16 July THE DESCENDANTS (15) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 17 July TORTOISE IN LOVE (12A) The Talbot Theatre, Whitchurch 01948 660660 21 July WAR HORSE (12A) Tasley Parish Room, near Bridgnorth 01746 764881 28 July BEL AMI (15) Playhouse Cinema, The Community Centre, Leominster 01568 612583 28 July TORTOISE IN LOVE (12A) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 720341 The Turin Horse

31 July WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) The Talbot Theatre, Whitchurch 01948 660660

OLD MKT. HALL, SHREWS. 2 - 5 July SWAN LAKE 3D (PG) 2 - 5 July SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (12A) 6 & 7 July ALL IN GOOD TIME (12A) 9 - 12 July THE ANGELS’ SHARE (15) 13 - 19 July YOUR SISTER’S SISTER (15) 20 & 21 July A ROYAL AFFAIR (15) 20 & 21, 23 - 28, 30 & 31 July, 1 & 2 Aug ICE AGE 4: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (U) 23 - 26 July RED TAILS (12A) 27, 28, 30 & 31 July, 1 & 2 Aug ROCK OF AGES (12A) 3 & 4 Aug THE TURIN HORSE (15) 6 & 7 Aug POLISSE (15) Details 01743 281281

THEATRE SEVERN, SHREWS 11 July BOYS DANCING Film premiere, 7pm, £7.

Details 01743 281281

WYESIDE, BUILTH WELLS 1 & 5 July MOONRISE KINGDOM 1, 3 - 5 July PROMETHEUS 13, 18 & 19 July THE ANGEL’S SHARE 13 - 15 & 17 - 19 July ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER Details 01982 552555

WORKSHOPS

Wednesdays MOVIEDROME Weekly workshop for young people interested in learning and developing skills in digital filmmaking and will cover everything from scripting to final editing. For 13-19 year olds. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 4-6pm, 01743 234970.

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dance Dance Performance

Lady Hawkins School, Kington. Tues - Children’s Class 7-11 years 3.45-4.45pm. Youth Class 11-18 years, 4.45-5.45pm, The Lion Ballroom, Leominster. Wed - Boys Dance Group, Y-Zone, Ross-on-Wye, 8-11 years, 6-7pm.

Thurs - Children’s Class 7-11 years 4-5pm, Youth Class 11-18 years 5-6pm, Queen Elizabeth High School, Bromyard. 01432 276807.

Wed 11 July CHEONG BAE KOREAN DANCE TROUPE. ‘Nonverbal Performance One’ draws on the brilliant rhythms and beautiful performances found in Korean traditional and shaman music.

Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01686 614555.

Mon BELLYDANCE CLASSES WITH ALANYA 8.00-9.30pm, Open Level. St Andrew’s Hall, Presteigne.

June 11-25 Introductory rate 3 classes for £12, Regular class to follow, £25 per 5-week block or £7.00 pay as you go. Alanya JWAAD Dip. Tutor, performer, choreographer 07962 161081 info@alanyabellydance.com www.alanyabellydance.com Happy shimmying!

Wed 4 & Thurs 5 July SUMMERDANCE 2012 WILLIAM BROOKE SCHOOL. Dances include ballet, tap and a range of contemporary styles. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7.30pm, £5/£4, 01952 728911.

Sat 14 & Sun 15 July RIBBONS ANNUAL SPECTACULAR MID WALES DANCE ACADEMY. Over 150 students perform their annual celebration of dance, encompassing a variety of dance styles with the centrepiece being an adaptation of Cinderella. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon.

Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm, £9.50/£8.50, 01874 611622.

Tues 17 - Sat 21 July MYTHICAL MOVES HEREFORD ACADEMY OF DANCE in its entirety, led by principal Sarah-Jane Matthews and Melissa Real, bring a show full of excitement, sentiment and vitality.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, also Sat matinee 2pm, £12, under 15s £10, 01432 340555.

Thurs 19 - Sat 21 July ENCOMPASS Discover dance in different spaces, create a moving kaleidoscope and be surrounded by dance and film!

Using live performance and a digital installation to create a breath-taking show in a huge 360-degree digital igloo, with local and international dancers performing live and on-screen. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7pm, £5/£3, 01952 728911.

Dance Workshops

Single listings are free. Year round entries £40 Sunday 15th July 5 RHYTHMS DANCE WORKSHOP Hereford/Ledbury. Meeting in Motion with Alex Mackay 10.30-4.30 pm. Meeting at the deep end of the dance floor, in vulnerability and shining strength, reluctance and eagerness, in the exact same pulsing beat. Practicing how to open up to someone else, without losing ourselves.

Open to new and experienced dancers. Contact Gail on 01432 840952 for more info.

TANGO IN MID WALES AND THE MARCHES Thematic seminars, small group classes by arrangement and private lessons for individuals and couples. Tango con La Tanagalesa. Professional dancer and teacher recently returned from Buenos Aires, 079 5119 1907.

DANCE CLASSES Latin American, ballroom and freestyle disco dance classes for children and adults in Knighton, Lyonshall, Eardisley and Kington, 01544 239119.

2 FACED DANCE CLASSES Mon - Adult Dance Group 18+ years. Kindle Centre, Hereford, 7.15-8/45pm. Children’s Class 7-11 years 4.15-5.15pm, Youth Class 11-18 years 5.30-6.30pm.

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Mon, Tues & Thurs ZUMBA DANCE Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, Mon 10am, Tues & Thurs 5.45pm, 07740 835673.

Mon ZUMBA CLASS With Mandy. Lingen Village Hall 7.30pm - 8.30pm £4.00.

01544 267418 / 01544 387958.

Mon BELLY DANCE CLASSES For beginners to intermediate. The Shire Hall, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 7-8pm, £5 per lesson, 01568 368122.

Mon COOL MOVES DANCE Cool Moves dance workout, 6-7pm. Pilates 7-8pm.

Beginners Jive 8-9pm. Intermedates Jive 9-10pm.

Bartestree Village Hall. matt@coolmovesdance.co.uk Mon LATINO DANCE Vowchurch Village Hall, 7-8pm, Mely 01981 510143.

Tues DANCE WITHOUT INHIBITIONS All styles of dance for fun and fitness. Powys Dance Centre, Llandrindod Wells, 7-8pm, 07779 281831.

Tues WEOBLEY LINE DANCING You don’t have to be able to dance! Good exercise and great fun. Hopelands, Weobley Village Hall, 7.30-9.30pm, £3 plus 50 raffle ticket, 01544 318650/07855 295518.

Tues BELLYDANCE CLASSES A gypsy fusion style will be taught for 8 weeks. St Mary’s Church Hall, Kington, 6.30-7.30pm, 01981 500113.

Tues ARGENTINE TANGO LESSONS From beginners to intermediate and improvers. Green Dragon Hotel, Broad St, Hereford, 7.45-10.30pm. Lessons and social dancing with established teachers. Hereford Tango Club. www.herefordtango.co.uk, 07977 541446.

Tues DANCE @ THE COURTYARD Herefordshire Junior Youth Dance for 7-11 years 4.15-5.15pm. Hereford Senior Dance for 12-18 years 5.15-6.30pm. 01905 611199.

Tues SHROPSHIRE SALSA With Rohan Brown.

Advanced class 7.30pm, all other levels 8.15pm, social dancing from 9.30pm. Lion Hotel, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury. £5 per class, £2 social dancing (or free with class). No partner needed, 07970 130739.

Tues SALSA/CEROC DANCE A fusion of Salsa, Ballroom, Hip Hop, Tango and Jive, Ceroc is a great way to meet people and keep fit. No partner needed. SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 6-7.30pm, for ages 16+, £5, 01588 630243.

Tues COOL MOVES DANCE Beginners Jive. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30-8.30pm, matt@coolmovesdance. co.uk

Tues DANCE FACTORY All styles of dance, jazz, hip-hop, street and contemporary for ages 6-11 years old.

Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 5.30-6.30pm, £20 per half term, 07504 860774.

Wed BELLYDANCE CLASSES Powys Dance Studio, Llandrindod Wells, 11am, 01981 500113.

Wed COOL MOVES DANCE Beginners Jive, 8-9pm.

Intermediates Jive 9-10pm. Leominster Community Centre. matt@coolmovesdance.co.uk

SIAM SMILE TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE

BY GAN (JANYARAK MORRIS)

Wed CIRCLE DANCING Suitable for beginners and all levels. Leominster Community Centre, 2-3.30pm, £4, towards Transition Leominster, 01568 780886.

Certificates recognized by the Ministry of Education in Thailand

Wed CAPOEIRA Learn the Afro-Brazilian art-form.

SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 6.30-8pm, for ages 16+, £4 per session, 01588 630243.

Thurs COOL MOVES DANCE Pilates, 10-11am, Much Marcle Memorial Hall. Beginners Jive 7.30-8.30pm.

Intermediates Jive, 8.30-9.30pm. Bishop’s Frome Village Centre. matt@coolmovesdance.co.uk Thurs JIVE Learn to JIVE at Craven Arms Community Centre, 7.30-10.15pm, £5, 07738130636.

Thurs JENNY PIPES’ MORRIS Women’s Cotswold Morris Dance side welcome new members. Stoke Prior V.H. near Leominster. 8.30-10pm, 01544 318859.

Fri CHANCE TO DANCE A gentle programme of creative dance for the over 50s. The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.30am-11.30pm, £3.50 per session, 01432 340555.

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

The Courtyard, Hereford. 11.30am-12.15pm, £4 per parent and toddler, 50p for an additional child, 01432 340555.

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Traditional Thai Massage Thai Foot Massage Aromatic Oil Massage Thai Arts and Crafts

An excellent way to unwind and de-stress.

Reducing stiffness and improving flexibility.

3 Broad Street, Knighton, Powys, LD7 1BL

Behind Dudley Building society, 3rd door on the left (Ground Floor) Tel: 07538 572123 or (eve) 01547 550249, www.siamsmile.org.uk Gift vouchers available

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food page John Spice’s at the Green Dragon Hotel, Hereford

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ISTER Pernickety is an optimist – almost irresponsibly so at times – and it hurts him to write unhappy things about restaurants he is reviewing. There have been a few instances, he admits, where he has struggled to find complimentary things to say, and in the case of John Spice’s at the Green Dragon, the potential offered by the building and circumstances of the place make its sins much more grievous.

It is a tragedy in itself that Hereford – a good old city, in Mr P’s view – has so little to offer gastronomically. He feels that if those who run the city were to encourage restaurateurs to invest in big, open-fronted brasseries, two or three of them spilling into the attractive but often empty spaces of High Town, an altogether more attractive and aspirational air would be added to the city.

However, Mr P is not here to grumble about the shortcomings of the Council. The Green Dragon Hotel is the city’s premier hotel, in theory. It has plenty of bedrooms (of a pedestrian nature, available from £30) and some potentially fine public rooms – the Garrick Lounge (now furnished with bulging leather sofas which might have escaped from the lower end of the DFS catalogue), the Ballroom done up like a superior village hall (occasionally occupied by travelling carpet sales people and the odd good music gig), a spacious vestibule, and a large well-panelled dining room with a handsome ceiling. But the hotel has been allowed to decline badly over the last twenty-five years, and ended up being handed around from chain to chain like an unwanted pass-the-parcel. It has been operated independently for the past nine years, and the decline has continued apace. The decision to turn the dining-room into a combination of fifth rate curry joint and low grade works canteen is incomprehensible.

Having read online that, with John Spice’s, the Green Dragon had brought “a new concept in dining to Hereford”, that over 40 dishes were on offer to eat as much and in any order, and that “our international team of chef’s (sic) is reflected in the eclectic menu available on our fixed price buffet”, Mr P and his intrepid son, Master Pernickety set off to explore the international possibilities on offer.

Entering the three-quarters empty dining room Mr P was struck at once by the unmistakable aroma of overboiled cabbage, strongly redolent of distant school dinners. The other customers were seated in a cluster, all of a higher age range and, presumably, members of a coach party staying at the hotel. There appeared to be very few, indeed no other ‘walk-in’ diners. From a sea of empty, faux-woodgrain Formica topped tables with faux-leather high-backed chairs, the Pernicketys chose one by the window looking onto Broad Street.

They were welcomed by a friendly waiter in a colourful waistcoat, who recommended a red wine called ‘Marlow’.

Mr P opted for a Spanish Tempranilla, - adequate at £4.50 for a large glass. Master P, who is ‘into’ India, ordered a pint of Cobra. They were told that for the inclusive price of £11.95 they could go to the canteen-style stainless steel buffet, collect a plate and help themselves from any of the hot containers. The eclectic mix of 40 dishes from the ‘international chef’s’ consisted of a choice roast beef, cottage pie, and three colours of curry – brown, orange

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and beige. Master P opted of course for the Indian dishes, while Mr P reeled from the shock of lifting a stainless steel lid to find a few greyish-brownish thin slabs of what was labelled ‘roast beef’ floating in warm brown water. Gritting his teeth and thinking of his duty to his readers, he helped himself to a couple of slices, to some ‘roast’ potatoes which could only be described by his older farming friends as ‘beethy’, with some green beans as limp as wet string and wrinkled slices of carrot mixed with peas, like Val Doonican’s car, in forty shades of green, from emerald through eau-de-nil to pale grey.

Mr P has to report that the food was worse than it looked.

Eating the alleged beef, he found, was like chewing old dish-cloths, while Master P, a self-proclaimed expert on Indian cuisine, was struggling with the three curries he had piled onto his plate. The orange one –chicken, apparently – he declared bland, but edible; the brown one – possibly lamb, maybe mutton – was just a tasteless, stringy goo while the beige curry, one inch cubes of paneer Indian curd cheese, he pronounced inedible (adding, in fairness that even in India it’s ‘pretty rank’). He also had alloo, curried potatoes with – no doubt to emphasize the international nature of John Spice’s cuisine – mushy peas.

For pudding there was a choice of chewy lemon drizzle cake, small slabs of Bakewell tart and Millionaire Shortbread accompanied by three shades of catering icecream with four types of sprinkles. Master P suggested that at least they helped to take way the taste of the curry, although Mr P had no such luck with the roast beef.

Mr Pernickety can no longer see any good reason for entering the doors of the Green Dragon – still less John Spice’s – not even to use the facilities.

Mr Pernickity

EVENTS

Sat 7 July MONTGOMERY STREET AND FOOD FAIR Local produce during the day with a Street Fair and street entertainment from Welsh Folk dancers and the Bishop’s Castle Samba Band. Followed by a town barbecue with entertainment from Over The Hillbillies. 01686 668166.

Sun 8 July CHEESE AND WINE EVENING Momentum Wines will give a detailed discussion on a selection of six wines and two reserve wines, plus Mr Moyden’s Cheese Co. will talk about their cheeses.

Housmans Cafe Bar, Church Stretton, 7-9pm, 01694 724441.

Thurs 12 July SEAFOOD EVENING Housmans Cafe Bar, Church Stretton, 6-9pm, 01694 724441.

Fri 13 July TINTO TAPAS NIGHT Cookery demonstration with Deli Tinto and Suzanne Beaumont Davies. The Wine Bar, Presteigne, from 7pm, demo, fizz, nibbles and tapas, £15, 01544 267675.

Sat 14 July MORTIMER COUNTRY FOOD FAIR 60 stalls, art exhibition, film (Julie and Julia, 6pm), fashion, live music from 12-3pm, (Little Rumba), actor, John Challis will be in conversation with fellow actor Tim Wallers and more. Aardvark Books, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, £2 adults, children and parking free, 01547 530888.

Wed 25 July THE LUDLOW PUDDING EXPERIENCE Main courses, followed by the pudding selection which includes old favourites and intriguing new desserts to try with a vote for the best. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £16.95 includes main course, glass of house wine, all puddings and coffee, 01584 878141.

Fri 27 - Sun 29 July LOCAL TO LUDLOW - OPEN DAYS Local artisan producers of food and drink in and around Luldow will be opening their doors to the public. Plan your own trips to venues or pay for a mini bus trip or go on the guided bus and walk or cycle ride. Booking essential for organised trips. For more infomation, www.localtoludlow.org.uk/opendays or 01584 872043.

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.

DELI TINTO, 6 HIGH STREET, PRESTEIGNE 0758 4474 169. www.delitinto.com Fine foods from Spain, Wales and The Marches. Tiny deli with a warm welcome, Tinto offers an eclectic mix of regional British produce and Continental deli classics. “The aroma of freshly-baked croissants is irresistible!” Mon–Thurs 9am–5.30pm, Fri 9am–6pm, Sat 9am–5pm.

THE GARDEN TEA ROOM & DELI, KINGSLAND HR6 9QS (opposite the church green) Tel: 01568 709142 Open Tue–Sat 11:00am–6:00pm plus Bank Holiday weekends 11:00–5:30pm. Morning coffee & treats, All day lunches, afternoon tea & cakes. Cake slices, deli pots & picnic boxes to take away. Shaded patio and sunny garden tables with view of the church green, bantams and sleepy cat! Homemade seasonal treats plus vegetarian, wheat and dairy free options. Select ‘Scrummy Bites’ dishes available.

Great venue for summer parties. Two 6m x 4m marquees available to hire. www.thegardentearoom.co.uk THE HARP INN, OLD RADNOR, PRESTEIGNE 01544 350655 An unspoilt 15th century Welsh longhouse pub with fantastic views over the Radnor Valley. Delicious freshly cooked food made from locally sourced, seasonal ingredients which you can enjoy with a glass of wine or one of our traditional cask ales or local organic ciders beside our welcoming log fire. Current menus are on our website www. harpinnradnor.co.uk together with details of special events

such as steak nights, seasonal tasting menu nights and our annual beer festival. Open Tuesday to Sunday from 6pm and weekend lunchtimes from 12 noon.

THE HAT SHOP, 7 HIGH ST, PRESTEIGNE 01544 260017 A small, friendly restaurant, serving highquality, home-made food, mostly locally sourced. We have a full à la carte menu plus a range of kebabs, tapas and take-aways. Open Mon-Sat, lunchtimes and evenings. See our new website: www.thehatshoprestaurant.co.uk HILL COTTAGE MARKET GARDEN, RHOS-Y-MEIRCH, KNIGHTON 01547 528315 Growing a wide range of organic vegetables, salad, fruit and cut flowers. Seasonal organic produce available at our market stalls... Knighton Thurs 9am-1pm. Presteigne Fri 9am-1pm. Knighton Farmers Market 2nd & 4th Sat. Weekly veg bag scheme delivered to collection points in Knighton, Presteigne and surrounding area. CSA membership scheme also available. Able to supply local restaurants and caterers.

Certified by Soil Assoc. Licence No. AB19839. hillcottagemarketgarden@phonecoop.coop HUNDRED HOUSE INN, BLEDDFA 01547 550441 Open; Tues - Sat 11.00 - 11.00 Sun - 12.00 - 10.30.

Lunch 12.00 - 2.00 p.m. Dinner 6.00 - 8.30 p.m. Fully refurbished 16th. Century Free House situated in a beautiful village location, serving freshly prepared meals using locally sourced produce. Now open for afternoon teas, cakes and snacks. Visit our website for menus and forthcoming events. www.hundredhousebleddfa.wordpress.com NO.46 WINE BAR, HIGH ST, PRESTEIGNE 01544 267675 Fine wine merchants. Champagne, wines, Belgian and local beer, hand-made Belgian chocolates. Local cuisine and tapas available at the wine bar. Convivial atmosphere. www.wineonline.uk.com, info@wineonline.uk.com, sales@wineonline.uk.com MISTLETOE HOUSE TEA ROOM & GALLERY, COMBE, PRESTEIGNE 01544 260035 Leaf teas, espresso based coffee, home made and home baked fine food lunches & afternoon teas. Fully licensed to sell wines, beers, cider & perry. Ever changing gallery of art & crafts, including a range of attractive gifts & greetings cards. Open Thursday - Monday inclusive, 10am - 5pm. Groups by arrangement at any time. www.mistletoehouse.co.uk NUTTERS, CAPUCHIN YARD, CHURCH ST, HEREFORD 01432 277447 A friendly vegetarian cafe tucked behind Church St, near Hereford Cathedral. Homecooked food including quiche, homity pies, burgers, pasta, soup and freshly made salads, cakes, scones and a wide variety of wheat and gluten free and vegan foods.

SCRUMMY BITES - made locally with you in mind. www.scrummybites.co.uk STONELEIGH, KINGSLAND 01568 709142. Homemade dishes include delicious desserts, cakes, savouries and pastries using local ingredients. Ideal for family gatherings and special events for 6 to 100. For busy people ‘pick up a dish’ from the 5* approved kitchen at The Garden, Kingsland and Ludlow, Knighton & Presteigne farmer’s markets. Vegetarian, wheat and dairy free options. Weekly deliveries to Eardisland and Yarpole community shops & Deli Tinto, Presteigne. Awarded Ludlow Food Festival’s Graeme Kidd bursary 2010.

The India & China Tea Company at TOWER HOUSE GALLERY, HIGH STREET, KNIGHTON 01547 529530 www.thegalleryknighton.co.uk Homemade soups, breads and cakes, Italian blend coffee and over 20 different varieties of leaf tea. Wed - Sat 9.30 to 5.00, Sun 11-4 Mon & Tues CLOSED. THE WORKHOUSE CAFE, INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PRESTEIGNE 01544 267864 Cafe gallery, light lunches, good coffee, homemade cakes.

Open Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm.

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music

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Thurs 5 July

Sun 1 July

Tues 3 July

J ALEXANDER & THE BLUES DEVILS Lichfield Vaults, Church St, Hereford.

LUDLOW FESTIVAL Featuring Niamh Parsons and Graham Dunne. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £15, 01584 872150.

JACK THE BISCUIT Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm.

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Featuring L’Avventura London, with Zak Ozmo, director. Town Hall, Montgomery, 2.30pm. 01686 207100.

SHROPSHIRE STRUMMERS Ukuleles. Housmans Bar, Church Stretton, 1-2pm.

TONY SKEGGS Singer and guitarist. Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

WILL KILLEEN Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

Mon 2 July CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 01432 274968.

NORRIE’S ARMY Grape Vaults, Leominster, 8.30pm.

POLLY BOLTON & SINGERS Outside if weather good or Church, Hope Bagot, 6.30pm.

CATHY LAMB Lunchtime organ recital. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm-2pm, free.

Wed 4 July LUDLOW FESTIVAL Featuring Wishful Singing, a capella ensemble, St Laurence’s Church, 7.30pm, £16-£12. A Night of American Music, featuring The Rhythm Thieves, Banjanova and Ann Gray. The Unicorn, 8.30pm, free, 01584 872150.

OPEN MIC With Stevie Yeomans. The Wine Bar, Presteigne, 8.30pm, 01544 267675.

KEVIN FIGES TRIO Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

OPEN MIC Hosted by Paul Redman. Baskerville Hall, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm.

STEVE TURNER Folk. Studio Theatre, The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, £10/£8, 01432 340555.

REMI HARRIS TRIO The Retreat, Ledbury.

NEW ROPE STRING BAND An indefinable confusion of music, comedy and circus that manages to please absolutely everybody. Lyde Court, Hereford, 7.30pm, £10, £8 children, £35 family ticket, 01432 357753. Arts Alive.

SNAKESTRINGS Huntingdon Hall, Worcester, 8pm, £15/£13, 01905 611427.

JAZZ JAM NIGHT Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

LUDLOW FESTIVAL Featuring Grey Wolf, Penny Priest, Sam Thomas and Nelson Priest. Since Grey Wolf formed in 2010 they have established a reputation as being amongst the finest and most exciting traditional American music duos in the Midlands. Jim Allen is one of the UK’s finest banjo players, Martin Thomas is a respected multi-instrumentalist.

Penny Priest is a recognized songwriter whose album, Far Water, was released in 2010. Penny has recently featured at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival. Sam Thomas and Nelson Priest are a talented Ludlow based acoustic duo, playing self penned songs and covers.

Fine vocals with superbly played acoustic guitars. The Globe, Ludlow, 8pm, free, 01584 872150. Will Killeen, The Bull Hotel, 8pm, free. Part of Festival Fringe.

OPEN MIC With the Tommy Allen and Wayne Martin Band. Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

Fri 6 July

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SHEELANAGIG A unique blend of Balkan folk mayhem.

Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, £14/£12, 01584 878141.

THREE TUNS BEER FESTIVAL With live music all day. Three Tuns, Bishop’s Castle.

Harare

LISBEE STAINTON A true folk talent. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £6, 01497 821762.

ONE MAN BANNED Ego Café Bar, Ludlow.

THE TOY HEARTS Acoustic band, combining original song-writing, sweet-sister harmonies, hard-driving rhythms and energetic performances. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 8pm, £13/£12, 01982 552555.

HARARE Led by Kuda Matimba, formerly of the Bhundu Boys. Knighton Community Centre, 8pm, £12 including food.

Tickets from Spar or 01547 520871.

HEREFORD CHAMBER CHOIR Summer concert. Programme includes Faure, Sullivan, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Rutter, Quilter, Bach, Carter and Seiber. Weobley Church, 7.30pm, £7.50 on the door or 07939 114452.

LIVE MUSIC Featuring The Endings at 6.30pm and HMV Band at 9pm. Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

THE RAGTIME JAZZ ORCHESTRA Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye.

THE ANIMALS & FRIENDS Featuring original Animals, John Steel and Mick Gallagher. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £16/£15, 01874 611622.

GUTTERSNIPE Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

BEER ON THE WYE Beer and cider festival. Music features Sultana Brothers and Cantina Collective, £5-£3, www.herefordcamra.org.uk

COPY CATS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

LUDLOW FESTIVAL Featuring Stafford Murray, Ego Café Bar, 8pm, free. Open Mic Folk Night, The Unicorn, 8pm, free. Part of Festival Fringe, 01584 872150.

SMOKEROOM Rock covers. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

THE HYPE Malthouse, Ironbridge.

Sat 7 July JUST STEVE Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

THREE TUNS BEER FESTIVAL Featuring Deep Nuclear Weasels, Thin Vision, Laganda Sin Numbre, Pete Keeley Band and more. Three Tuns, Bishop’s Castle.

JC JAZZ Great jazz trio: guitar, bass and drums. Saturday Café, The Courtyard, Hereford, 12-2pm, free, 01432 340555.

LIVE MUSIC Featuring Thin Vision at 2.30pm, Gravy Train at 4.15pm, BC/DC Band at 7pm and Booyaka at 9.15pm. Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

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The brand new album from Little Rumba now available.

13 new songs including ‘The Ghost of Stonewall Hill’ featuring the voice of Lori Campbell.

To buy a copy contact HUGH 01547-520339 or e mail - rumba@landscapera.co.uk Available in Presteigne from The Rowan Tree and The Workhouse

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East Park Reggae Collective

Keymono

The Big BC

Middleman

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Millionway

The Magic Tombolinos

Saravah Soul

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LUDLOW FESTIVAL Featuring Jazz in the Afternoon, The Bull Hotel, 1pm, free. Ludlow Choral Society presents ‘On Broadway’.

Assembly Rooms, 7.30pm, £12, 01584 872150.

JANE PEARL Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

LUDLOW FESTIVAL Featuring Battle of the Bands, Assembly Rooms, 7.30pm, £5, (Festival Fringe).

Plus The Festival Finale with Bjorn Again plus guests Killer Queen and firework display, Ludlow Castle, 6.30pm, £27, 01584 872150.

VINTAGE BALL Evening entertainment provided by Naomi Payne & The Hotsy Totsy Band, a five-piece jazz band and dance teacher. The Royal Oak Hotel, Welshpool, (Powis Suite), 7.30pm, £16.50 per person, includes glass of champagne and light themed buffet.

Themed/formal dress recommended, 01938 552217.

Sergei Podobedov

Sat 7 July SERGEI PODOBEDOV Piano recital. Programme includes Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, David Braid and Schumann. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01982 552555.

DJ DUBWISE AND BAND The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £5, 01497 821762.

MONTGOMERY STREET AND FOOD FAIR Local produce during the day with a Street Fair and street entertainment from Welsh Folk dancers and the Bishop’s Castle Samba Band. Followed by a town barbecue with entertainment from Over The Hillbillies. 01686 668166.

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

BEER ON THE WYE Beer and cider festival. Music features Whiskey River, The Misers, Shamus Oblivion and the Megadeath Morris Men, £5-£4, www.herefordcamra. org.uk GLASS HOUSE The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

AFRICA CALLING Day and night festival, cookery, music, workshops, film. The Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, The Endless Journey, Diassibo Tchiombiano, tuareg, Alhousseini Anivolla and Diabel Cissakho. The Buttermarket, Shrewsbury, 07866 007454.

THE COHEN BROTHERS Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm.

CUSTARD COLLECTION Malthouse, Ironbridge.

NORTH POWYS YOUTH MUSIC Featuring North Powys Youth Band, North Powys Youth Orchestra, North Powys Concert Band, String Team, Training Band and Brass Blowers.

Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7pm, £8, children £4, 01686 614555.

BEER ON THE WYE Beer and cider festival. Music featuresThe Andy Masefield Jazzband, £1, www.herefordcamra.org.uk

KAREN TWEED Gleanings, Crosfields, Gravels Bank, near Minsterley, 01743 891412.

Tues 10 July DR JAZZ Jazz in the Bar, Theatr Brychieiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £6 on the door, 01874 611622.

WHOLE LOTTA LED Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £14/£12, 01874 611622.

ALAN PRICE The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, £19.50/£18.50, 01432 340555.

Wed 11 July

ALAN BARNES/DAVE NEWTON Jazz at the Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £10, members £8, under 16s free, 01743 234970.

Sun 8 July SEAN SAYE Singer and guitarist. Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

STEADY EDD & THE BOOGIE MEN Richmond Club, Edgar St, Hereford, 7.30pm, £8 in advance or £10 on the door, 01432 357859.

Trevor Head Llangunllo School Knighton Powys, LD7 1SR Tel: 01547 550622 Mob: 07971 083089 Email: trevorhead@btinternet.com Training website: trevorhead.co.uk

OPEN MIC WITH TONY SKEGGS White Horse Inn, Clun.

MUSIC SESSION Led by Rhythm Thieves, all styles welcome. Curry and cabaret night, curry buffet £8, puds £3. The Granary Tea Rooms, Leominster, 8pm, please book in advance, 01568 614290.

SILARIUN MORRIS The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford.

CHARITY EVENING Featuring barbecue, and music with Compost Heap and Forest of Dean Morris Men. Broome Farm, Peterstow, near Ross-on-Wye, 01989 567232.

RHYTHM THIEVES

Brass Repair Specialist

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THE COHEN BROTHERS Prince of Wales, Ledbury.

4 July 11 July 14 July 14 July 28 July -

Phone 01568 770134 Ludlow Extra, Fringe Festival, Unicorn, Ludlow (Mark & Jill) Granary, Leominster (Mark & Jill hosting) England’s Gate, Bodenham (afternoon) Royal George, Lingen (evening) The Boot Beer Festival, Orleton, 9pm

www.rhythmthieves.co.uk

THE W FACTOR 2012!

Talent contest evening, being the culmination of weeks of auditions and rehearsals for talented William Brookes School students. The Edge Arts Theatre, Much Wenlock, 7.30pm, £5/£4, 01952 728911.

INSPECTOR GADJIO Housmans Bar, Church Stretton, 8pm.

AIDAN THORNE TRUST TRIO Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

FALL BACK THEORY + RAT FINK Baskerville Hall, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free.

Thurs 12 July JAZZ JAM NIGHT Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

DISCO NIGHT The Retreat, Ledbury.

SINGING HISTORIES A concert that features a special children’s community choir of over 150 voices, accompanied by a professional ensemble conducted by George Vass.

St Andrews Church, Presteigne, 4pm & 5.15pm, free. Part of Presteigne Festival Education Outreach.

BACK ROAD HOME Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

Fri 13 July RATPACK BOYS – THE LEGENDS OF SWING Songs from original swingers, such as Bing Crosby, The Rat Pack and Nat King Cole. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.45pm, £15/£12, 01584 878141.

THE RENALDOS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

CARMINA A superb mix of jazz, folk and Celtic crossover music. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £10, 01497 821762.

WHITTON VOICES Summer concert with a capella world music. Plus Bandamania. Pilleth Church, 8pm, £5. Raising money for Wateraid.

COUSIN JONES Ego Café Bar, Ludlow.

ROYAL GEORGE BEER FESTIVAL Launch party from 6pm. Royal George, Lingen, near Presteigne, 01544 267322.

BRECON BEER FESTIVAL Featuring live music at Brecon Rugby Club.

LUKE AND CATH Workhouse Party, Llanfyllin.

TIN SOLDIERS Covers. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

JAZZ AT THE BONDED WAREHOUSE Featuring Brownfield/Bryne Quintet.

The Bonded Warehouse, Canal St, Stourbridge, 7.30pm, £7, under 16s £3.50, 01384 377797.

HMV BAND Malthouse, Ironbridge.

BLAKE Featuring the greatest love songs of all time, in perfect harmony. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £23/£21, 01743 281281.

LIVE MUSIC White Horse Inn, Clun.

LAST ORDERS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

Sat 14 July BLIND ALLEY Oxford Arms, Kington.

OMEGA TWO Cool swing, jazz and blues vocal and guitar duo. Saturday Café, The Courtyard, Hereford, 12-2pm, free, 01432 340555.

SLIGHTLY DAZED Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

HAY FAYRE A festival of live music, talks, workshops and delicious food and drinks. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 01497 821762.

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Arion Trio

FRUIT MACHINE Malthouse, Ironbridge.

BIG T WEEK St Michael’s Hospice, Hereford is asking people to fundraise in their communities until 22 July. Events can be as traditional or wacky as you like.

Big T packs are available free from St Michael’s 01432 851000.

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY A feast of folk and acoustic music,from Emily Davies and Oli Tatler, plus Bandangle and opening with Tunewrights. Cedar Hall, Dilwyn, 7pm, cabaret seating. £6 adult, £4 child, tickets from 01568 720226.

80’S MANIA Europe’s Official 1980’s tribute concert starring the legendary Top of the Pops and Radio One DJ, Mike Read as your host. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £18.50, 01743 281281.

Sat 14 July ARION TRIO Featuring David Frankel, piano; Clare Jackson, violin and Lucy Bailey, cello.

Programme includes Haydn, Arvo Part, Faure, Dvorak and Piazzolla.

St Michael’s Church, Discoed, near Presteigne, 7.30pm, £10, 01547 560246.

ROYAL GEORGE BEER FESTIVAL All day barbecue and music from The Rhythm Thieves. The Royal George, Lingen, near Presteigne, 01544 267322.

STAUNTON-ON-ARROW VILLAGE FETE Open gardens and rowing on the lake, children’s games and mini Olympics, fun dog show and scurry. Homemade teas and lots of stalls, 1.30pm, £2 adults.

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

IRONBRIDGE GORGE BRASS BAND FESTIVAL Showcasing 19 of the finest brass bands from Shropshire and surrounding counties. Plus evening charity concert with Jackfield Elcock Resen and Tongwynlais Temperance Bands, 7.30pm, £10, book in advance 07980 475335. Outdoors on The Green, Museum of Iron, Coalbrookdale, 11am-6pm, free, 01952 435900.

BRECON BEER FESTIVAL Featuring live music at Brecon Rugby Club.

BLUEY WILLIAMS & THE TOBACCO DOCK BLUES BAND Huntingdon Hall, Worcester, 8pm, £17.50, 01905 611427.

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SULTANA BROTHERS England’s Gate, Bodenham.

LUKE & CATH Old Copper Malt House, Church Stretton.

SULTANA BROTHERS Chapel Lawn Village Hall, near Bucknell, 7.30pm, £4, 01547 530247.

PHOENIX RECORDER ORCHESTRA 35 people who play every size of recorder, down to the monstrous nine-foot subcontrabass. Programme includes 16th century masters, via Grieg, through to jazz. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £10, 01600 719410.

Sun 15 July ROYAL GEORGE BEER FESTIVAL From 12pm onwards, Festival Finale, with barbecue and live music featuring Almshouse Band. The Royal George, Lingen, near Presteigne, 01544 267322.

IRONBRIDGE GORGE BRASS BAND FESTIVAL Showcasing 19 of the finest brass bands from Shropshire and surrounding counties. Outdoors on The Green, Museum of Iron, Coalbrookdale, 11am-6pm, free, 01952 435900.

MIKE HOLLOWAY Singer and guitarist. Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

SLOW BURNER Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm.

HAY FAYRE A festival of live music, talks, workshops and delicious food and drinks. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 01497 821762.

JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY Millennium Green, Ludlow, 2.30pm, free, 01584 874555.

BRECON BEER FESTIVAL Featuring live music at Brecon Rugby Club.

BRIDGET AND THE BIG GIRLS BLUES Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

Wed 18 July ROD KELLY TRIO Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

RHYTHM THIEVES England’s Gate, Bodenham, (afternoon).

OPEN MIC Hosted by Dirty Ray. Baskerville Hall, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, free.

LITTLE RUMBA Playing12-3pm. Part of Mortimer Country Food Fair. 60 stalls, art exhibition, film, fashion etc, £2 adults, children and parking free. Aardvark Books, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, 01547 530888.

INSPECTOR GADJO + THE KLEZMONAUTS + THE RB TRIO Gypsy jazz, eastern European folk and work by singer/songwriters. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Llanidloes, 7pm, £12, £10 MWA members, 01686 688369.

RHYTHM THIEVES Royal George, Lingen, evening.

Thurs 19 July

CALLING CARD Live music at Brecon Farmer’s Market.

FALL BACK THEORY The Cock Hotel, Bronllys, 8.30pm, free.

CHOIR OF NEW COLLEGE OXFORD & OXFORD PHILOMUSICA Programme includes JS Bach. Forum Theatre, Malvern, 7.30pm, £25-£16, 01684 892277.

TWO MAN TING The Retreat, Ledbury.

STEADY EDDIE & THE BOOGIE MEN Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

JAZZ JAM NIGHT Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

BLACK UMFOLOSI This bare-torsoed, hard-hatted group captivate audiences with their sweet sounds of a capella, marvelous harmonies and gospel singing. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £15/£14, 01874 611622.

Fri 20 July SHEEP MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012 Headliner - Lazy Habits, plus Nick Mulvey, Million Way, Cor Y Gors, 4Square, Gable, Saravah Soul, MiddleMan, Junkyard Scientists, Alejandro Toledo and the Magic Tombolinos, Little Rumba Big Band, Sound Assembly, Will Killeen, Rusty Shackle, Aspel Orchid, Little Rumba, Heed the Thunder, Klezmer Kollectiv, Sproatly Smith, Monkey Chuckle, Mikey Kirkpatrick, Dirty Fox Band, Tomorrow We Sail, Jangle, Him He Dead, Thin Vision, Benji Tranter, Jack Harris, BSWS, Sad Collective, Fight The Bear, Samsara, London Afrobeat Collective, The Brass Funkeys, Dirty Ray, Ruby Woo, Golden Feathers, Yes Sir Boss, Rob Chapman, The Big BC, Penny White, The Attic People, Righteous Bees. DJs include Aydio, Lung and Shanti Bass. Workshops include Freestyle Football, Throat Singing, Yoga, Capoeira, Swing and Jive Dance, Five Rhythms, Breakdance, Samba, Circus, Punch & Judy and Stilts walkabout, magicians, ceilidh, children’s area and fire display. Wentes Meadow, Presteigne. Tickets £60 for the weekend from The Salty Dog, Presteigne High St, or www.sheepmusicfestival.com MICRO BABY Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

Black Umfolosi

TITLEY JAZZ Featuring Stan Tracey, Don Weller, Alan Barnes, Peter King, Bobby Wellins, David Newton, Clark Tracey, Art Themen, Toni Kofi, Anita Wardell, Jim Mullen, Mark Nightingale and many more. The Rodd, Presteigne, 01544 260119.

AMBER LIZARD The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

WAYNE MARTIN BAND The Anchor, Shrewsbury.

SKIFFLE RENDEZVOUS Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye.

HIGHLAND CEILIDH The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £6, 01497 821762.

PAUL PARKER & ALL THE RIGHT FRIENDS Malthouse, Ironbridge.

THE ROSE & CROWN BEER FESTIVAL Featuring live music with Sean Saye, Hannah, Acer, The Cellar Boys and more.

The Rose & Crown, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811336.

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THE ROSE & CROWN BEER FESTIVAL See 20 July for details. Rose & Crown, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811336.

Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

THE WORRIED MEN Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm.

THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Featuring Hereford Cathedral Choir in the morning, (Haydn). Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque in the afternoon, (JS Bach). Philharmonia Orchestra in the evening, programme includes Stravinsky, Delius, Debussy and Ravel.

Hereford Cathedral, www.3choirs.org

Fri 20 July AQUARELLE GUITAR QUARTET Concert programme features music from the films Chocolat, The Motorcycle Diaries and Il Postino. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £16/£15, 01874 611622.

DAI ROBS Ego Café Bar, Ludlow.

YOUNG POP THINGS Featuring Soccer 96 from Brighton, Redbook, Answer Back plus more.

The Firefly, Worcester, 7.30pm, free, 078414 88616.

LUCIA NICOLE Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

OPEN MIC Nelson Inn, Ludlow.

Sat 21 July KAKATSITSI MASTER DRUMMERS FROM GHANA Drummers, dancers and singers from the Ga tribe. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 878141. See music workshops.

NICE ‘N’ SLEAZY Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

CATHERINE FEENY American folk singer. Presented by the Wild Hare Club. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £8, 01497 821762.

RESTLESS DOG Malthouse, Ironbridge.

PARTY IN THE PARK Featuring The Strikez, Son of Zebedee, Zoe Hedge, Sam Carty, Alex Pickford & Friends, Arcade Parade, Alex Davies, The Clock Tower, Nuclear Weasels, Thin Vision, Misty Blue Trio, Amy Pugh, Fight The Bear, The Skalinskis and Winner of Battle of the Bands. Music, food and fun. Bishop’s Castle Playing Fields, 12 noon – 10pm, £6 on the gate, under 11s free, 01588 638173.

LIVE MUSIC Three Horseshoes, Groesffordd, 8.30pm, free.

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

JIVEOHOLICS Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

THE ROSE & CROWN BEER FESTIVAL See 20 July for details. Rose & Crown, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811336.

CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra with guest artist, Jacqui Dankworth. Concord College, Acton Burnell, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival. org.uk

SHEEP MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012 Headliner – East Park Reggae Collective. See 20 July for details.

TITLEY JAZZ See 20 July for details. The Rodd, Presteigne, 01544 260119.

NICE ‘N’ SLEAZY Rock and pop. Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

PLASTIC EMPIRE The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Song recital with Dame Felicity Lott in the afternoon. Philharmonia Orchestra and Festival Chorus in the evening playing Haydn. Hereford Cathedral, www.3choirs.org

Sun 22 July SHEEP MUSIC FESTIVAL 2012 Headliner – Keymono. See 20 July for details.

LIVE MUSIC Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

Kakatzitsi Master Drummers

TITLEY JAZZ See 20 July for details. The Rodd, Presteigne, 01544 260119.

Mon 23 July LIONEL ELTON & SAM HUGHES Musical improvisation to photographs.

Apple Store Gallery, 3 Bridge St, Hereford, 4.30pm and 7pm, 01432 378436.

THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Featuring Thomas Trotter, organ recital in the morning at Belmont Abbey, Hereford. Festival Youth Choir and Orchestra of the Swan in the afternoon, programme includes Debussy, Dobrinka Tabakova and Faure. Evening will be Festival Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra, programme includes Mendelssohn, Joseph Phibbs and Vaughan Williams. Hereford Cathedral, www.3choirs.org

Tel: 01568 620120 Mobile: 07501 724663

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.

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DEREK WHITE Ego Café Bar, Ludlow.

Tanya Walker

TANYA WALKER Hauntingly beautiful, contemporary and unexpected, Wales-based awardwinning singer/songwriter will perform songs from her new album. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 8pm, £10/£8, 01584 878141.

AIR BAG Malthouse, Ironbridge.

JAMES HOLLINGSWORTH Acoustic guitar and great vocals.

The Royal George, Lyonshall, 9pm, 01544 340084.

Tues 24 July THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Morning – clarinet recital with Emma Johnson. Afternoon – The King’s Singers. Evening – Three Cathedral Choirs and Music for Awhile Orchestra (JS Bach). Hereford Cathedral, www.3choirs.org WAYNE MARTIN BAND Yorkshire House, Shrewsbury.

CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Haydn Lute Trio. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival.org.uk

Wed 25 July THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Morning – I Fagiolini (Monteverdi and Poulenc). Afternoon – Fretwork (JS Bach). Evening The Canterbury Pilgrims, Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra (Dyson).

Hereford Cathedral, www.3choirs.org STAR OF THE SEA Housmans Bar, Church Stretton, 8pm.

JOHN PAUL GARD & BEN WAGHORN Queen’s Head, St James St, Monmouth.

LOXLEY Baskerville Hall, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, free.

CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Rebecca Vaughan as Elizabeth I. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival.org.uk

Thurs 26 July OPEN MIC The opportunity for local musicians to take to the Hive’s stage. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £2, 01743 234970.

LIVE MUSIC The Retreat, Ledbury.

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ROOTS ORACLE Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Morning – Song recital with Roderick Williams, (Vaughan Williams).

Afternoon – National Youth Orchestra of Wales, (Judith Bingham, Gershwin, Ravel and Beethoven). Evening – Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra (Ireland, Delius and Elgar).

Hereford Cathedral, www.3choirs.org TERRY EVANS DUO Jazz on the lighter side. Apple Store Gallery, 3 Bridge St, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 378436.

CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Haverhill winner, Huw Wiggin, saxophone. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival.org.uk

Fri 27 July THE BOOT’S 3RD BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL Featuring Hobson’s Sea Shanty Singers and Skint at 9pm. The Boot Inn, Orleton, 01568 780228.

THE TRACKS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

NOZSTOCK FESTIVAL Featuring The Proclaimers, The Futureheads, Dread Zone, The Correspondents, Willy Moon, Imperial Leisure, Jake Bugg, Andy C & MC Q, Tricka Technology, Zinc Ed Rush, Camo & Krooked and The Rubberbandits. Plus comedy, theatre, cabaret, cinema, kids area, arts and crafts. Bromyard, www.nozstock.com SAM GOMM Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye. PLAN B FUNDRAISER WITH ALEX VALENTINE Get behind this worthwhile cause and help protect Hay! The Globe, Hay-onWye, 8pm, 01497 821 762.

WAYNE MARTIN BAND White Horse Inn, Clun.

SEAN SAYE Rock ‘n’ roll. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

HOT ROD 55 Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Morning – Piano recital with Mark Bebbington, (Ireland and David Briggs). Afternoon – Dante Quartet with Robert Plane, (Brahms and ColeridgeTaylor). Evening – Festival Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra, (Tchaikovsky, Coleridge-Taylor and Belioz). Hereford Cathedral, www.3choirs.org

Sat 28 July KRAZY LEGZ Malthouse, Ironbridge.

THE BON JOVI EXPERIENCE Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £16.50/£15.50, 01874 611622.

NOZSTOCK FESTIVAL See 27 July for details.

SOFA Funky party band. The Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye. CHAINGANG The Cock Hotel, Bronllys, 9pm, free.

SOFA Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye. OPEN DAY Belmont Abbey, Hereford, 10am-4.30pm, free, 01432 374747.

THE ACCELERATORS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

THE BOOT’S 3RD BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL Featuring Wayne Tulsa & The Satellites, rock and roll, 1pm, Hot Climate, 3.30pm and Rhythm Thieves, 9pm. The Boot Inn, Orleton, 01568 780228.

PHOENIX Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

LUKE & CATH Sustainable Life Festival, Meifod.

THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Featuring The Gathering Wave. This community event brings singers of all ages from across the county of Herefordshire. The concert will feature the south African baritone, Njabulo Madlala. Hereford Cathedral, www.3choirs.org SAM GOMM Hafod, (Devil’s Bridge).

Sun 29 July MARCHES OBOE SCHOOL CONCERT The culmination of the work at this year’s summer course, a concert of ensemble music for double reed instruments including Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 as never heard before! Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 3.30pm, £6 on the door.

SUPER SESSION Open mic. The Retreat, Ledbury.

NOZSTOCK FESTIVAL See 27 July for details.

CHRIS QUINN Singer and guitarist. Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

THE BOOT’S 3RD BEER & CIDER FESTIVAL Featuring Steady Eddie and the Boogie Men, 1pm and Last Orders, 5pm and Sultana Brothers, 8pm. The Boot Inn, Orleton, 01568 780228.

RUBY AND THE ROCKETS Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm.

THE MYERS BROTHERS From Ottawa, Canada. Lichfield Vaults, Church St, Hereford.

Mon 30 July CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Opus Anglicanum – The Country House. St Laurence’s, Church Stretton, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival. org.uk

Tues 31 July CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Pascal and Ami Roge.

Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival.org.uk

AUGUST

Wed 1 August CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Simon Hoggart – ‘Send Up The Clowns’. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival.org.uk

Thurs 2 August OPEN MIC With the Velvet Dukes. Crown & Anchor, Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring a teatime concert, Baroquenroll. Church Stretton Methodist Church, 3pm. Also featuring School’s Out @ The Festival, Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival.org.uk

Fri 3 August RHYTHM ZOO The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

STEVE MARSDEN Classics. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

WAYNE MARTIN BAND The Exchange, Newtown.

CRASH FESTIVAL Folk, jazz and blues. Featuring Dai Robs and The Love, Fight The Bear, The Velvet Dukes, String the Marionette, Halflight, DJ Sonny Wharton and Alex Davies. Abermule (on B4386 between Abermule and Montgomery), www.crashfestival.co.uk BC/DC Malthouse, Ironbridge.

CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Classico Latino.

Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival.org.uk

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Sat 4 August CONCERT: THE CONTEST OF HARMONY & INVENTION Featuring Rachel Podger (violion), Alison McGillivray (cello) and students from the summer school. Programme includes Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto Opus 8 and Bach’s Art of Fugue. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7pm, £12/£9, 01874 611622.

SULTANA BROTHERS Sarn Inn, Sarn.

GOLD ROOM Malthouse, Ironbridge.

CRASH FESTIVAL Folk, jazz and blues. Abermule (on B4386 between Abermule and Montgomery), www.crashfestival.co.uk THE DAGGERS Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Featuring Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe. Concord College, Acton Burnell, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival. org.uk

Sun 5 August A HOT DAY IN AUGUST Featuring Remi Harris Duo, Granny’s Attic, Horizon Lights, Foxtail Soup, Tony Burt & Friends and Ken Crowther. Together with working artist blacksmith Joshua De Lisle, homemade refreshments, stalls and more. Moors Meadow Gardens, Collington, Bromyard, 11am-5pm, £5 adults, £1 children aged 4-16. In aid of St Michael’s Hospice. Guide dogs only.

01885 410318.

VINCENT FLATTS Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm.

FOURTH PAGE Plus guests Five Turnings. London based jazz quartet. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 8pm, £10, 01568 611588.

Mon 6 August CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 01432 274968.

Music Workshops Single listings are free. Year round, ongoing workshops will cost £40 per year for inclusion in the magazine and website.

Mon 2 July SINGING WORKSHOP With Niamh Parsons. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 8.15pm, £10, 01584 872150. Part of Ludlow Festival.

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Sat 7 & Sun 8 + & Sat 14 & Sun 15 July THIS MODERN STUFF: A LIVELY EXPLORATION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC OVER THE LAST 100 YEARS Led by composer Joseph Phibbs, with classical music over the last 100 years or so, from Elgar, Debussy and Mahler through to the present day. No prior knowledge required, just open ears!

The Hall Barn, Bleddfa, near Knighton, 10.30am-4.30pm, £50 for the weekend.

Bring packed lunch, tea, coffee and soup will be provided, 01547 550377.

Sat 21 July KAKATSITSI DRUMMING AND DANCING WORKSHOPS Oscars, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 4pm drumming workshop, 5.30pm dance workshop, £5 each workshop when purchased with a ticket to the show, 01584 878141.

Sat 7 & Sun 8 July GLEANINGS WORKSHOP Karen Tweed, The Piano Accordion.

Gleanings, Crosfields, Gravels Bank, near Minsterley, 01743 891412.

CASTLE VOICES SINGING WORKSHOP Join us to explore vocal harmonies from around the world. Tuesdays 6.30 to 8pm Usually every week in school term in top room at Three tuns, Bishops Castle.

But Special Summer Programme means we may be out and about some weeks. Please ring or email for details:- Anne Loughran 01547 520339 anneloughran@gmail.co.uk Monday FUN & PLAY WITH RHTHYM & HARMONY And songs from all over. All taught by ear so no need to read music! Folk meet 8pm term time Mondays at the Methodist chapel in Leintwardine.

Email charlotte@charlottebulleymusic. info or call 01547 540603.

Monday FFONIC Meets for sociable music making in Newtown. New members always welcome. Phone Mark 01686 412307.

Monday RHYMETIME For babies and young children and their carers. Tenbury Library, 11-11.30am, free, 01584 812585.

Monday BABY BOUNCE & RHYME A fun session of songs, actions and rhymes for you and your under 4 year old. Children’s Library, The Kington Centre, free, all welcome, 10.30am, 01432 260600.

Monday KINGTON CHORAL Large mixed choir specializing major choral works with professional soloists and musicians. No auditions. Baptist Church Hall (upstairs), Bridge St, Kington, 7.30-9.30pm, 01544 231733.

Monday BANDAMANIA Workshop with music from all over the world, all welcome. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7.15pm, details from Sue 01544 267632.

Tuesday NEW AFRICAN DRUMMING CIRCLE & WORKSHOP Beginners welcome and Drums available. Regular guest appearances and possible live gigs. 4 Sessions £20 and if you’re not sure try for a £5. Black Lion, Hereford, 07970 861543.

Tuesday WHITTON VOICES Mixed community choir. Songs from around the world, traditional and contemporary. Raising the roof with rich harmonies in the Presteigne Assembly Rooms, 8-10pm, £5. All welcome Led

by Sue Harris, 01544 267632.

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

Tuesday SING-ALONG SESSIONS Informal sessions for all abilities (no need to read music), with afternoon tea. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, £3.50 including tea, 01584 878141.

Tuesday KNIGHTON TOWN SILVER BAND REHEARSALS Main band practice 7.30-9.30pm, training band practice 6.45-7pm.

Details Cath Mellings 01547 520076.

Tuesday SING FOR JOY Temeside House, Tenbury Wells. For ages 1-4 years 10am, 01584 811483.

Alt Wednesday BLACK SHEEP, WHITE SHEEP Sheep Music Youth Band with John Hymas. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7.30-9.30pm. 01544 260220.

Alt Wednesday LEOMINSTER & HEREFORD ACCORDION CLUB The Black Swan, Leominster. New members always welcome, beginners and experienced, 01584 810101.

Every Thursday HAY COMMUNITY CHOIR PRACTICE A brand new choir for Hay. Under the stewardship of Catherine Hughes. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8-9.30pm, free, 01497 821762.

Every Thursday CANTORION A mixed choir of approx. 35. Enjoy singing unaccompanied music from a wide variety of styles and periods. New members always welcome, particularly tenors. Powys Dance Centre, Llandrindod Wells, 8pm, 01597 822920.

Thursday fortnightly WILD ANGELS Informal community choir led by Sue Harris. Everyone welcome. Traditional songs from around the world with rich harmonies and compelling rhythms.

Definitely good fun and healthy.

Llanidloes, 7.30-9.30pm 01686 625980.

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1st & 3rd Thursdays HEREFORD CHANTING CIRCLE A new devotional chanting and singing group. Beautiful chants from a variety of traditions, no need to be a singer, all welcome. In central Hereford, 10am-12pm, plus occasional evenings, 01432 261222.

Friday PARENT & TOTS MUSIC, The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 2-2.45pm, 01497 821762.

Friday (during term time) TOTS MUSIC GROUP Singing, playing and jumping about at Cusop Village Hall, Hay-on-Wye, 2.15-3pm, £4 per child, 01544 327538.

Friday MUSIC TIME A session of music and movement for the under 5s and their parents or carers. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10.30am-11.30am, £5 per child, siblings £4, parents free, 01743 234970.

Friday FAMILY MUSIC MAKERS Fun sessions for parents and toddlers to explore music making and movement together. Songs, rhymes, music and percussive play. 12.30-2pm, £4 per adult and child pair, 50p for additional child, under 1s free. The Courtyard, Hereford, 0870 1122330.

Third Friday LUDLOW’S FRIDAY NIGHT FOLK CHOIR Ludlow Womens’ Centre, 7.30pm-9pm. Harmony folk songs taught by Polly Bolton and others. A rollicking good sing of turgid, morbid and sometimes even faintly jolly traditional British songs. For details ring 01584 823609, £5. Check www.oak-barn.co.uk for dates.

SESSIONS First Saturday of month 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 HARPSONGS SINGAROUND SESSION Harp Inn, Glasbury-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 847373.

Every Sunday FOLK/ROOTS SESSION Stag, Llanidloes, 4.30pm, 01686 412700.

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

The Sun Inn, Leintwardine.

2nd Sunday FOLK SESSION Powys Arms, Poolquay, near Welshpool, 7.30pm, 01691 831162.

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

Last Sunday OPEN MIC NIGHT All musicians welcome.

The Herbert Arms, Kerry, 8pm onwards, 01686 670638.

Last Sunday OPEN MIC NIGHT All welcome. The Retreat, Ledbury, 01531 632766.

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

Every Monday JAM AT THE RAD Bring along your instrument and join in on our relaxed, creative music sessions, or just listen. All music genres welcome.

Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 01544 267406.

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

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

Every Tuesday BLUES NIGHT The Golden Lion Hotel, Llandysilio, between Welshpool and Oswestry, 01691 830295.

Every Tuesday OPEN MIC NIGHT Kilvert’s Hotel, Hay-on-Wye, 9pm, all welcome.

Every Tuesday TUESDAY JAM SESSION Open to all acoustic musicians from the youngest to the oldest as well as spectators in a comfortable and friendly environment.

The Falcon Hotel, Bromyard, 8-11pm, 01885 483034.

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.

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

The Retreat, Ledbury, 01531 632766.

3rd Tuesday FOLK NIGHTS The Crown Inn, Longtown.

Other folk events on other Tuesdays of the month with folk workshops. Google us on Blackhilltales for full summer programme.

3rd Tuesday BLUEGRASS SESSION, The Harp, Glasbury, 01981 510674.

Last Tuesday of every month JAZZ NIGHT The Golden Lion Hotel, Llandysilio, between Welshpool and Oswestry, 01691 830295.

First Wednesday OPEN MIC NIGHT No 46 Wine Bar, High St, Presteigne, 01544 267675.

First Wednesday FOLK NIGHT The Golden Lion Hotel, Llandysilio, between Welshpool and Oswestry, 01691 830295.

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, all welcome, 01938 580120.

Every Wednesday OPEN MIC NIGHT Sarn Inn, Sarn, near Newtown, 8.30pm, 01686 670757.

For all your replacement Strings and Things Affordable musical instruments and replacement parts.

Guitars, violins, mandolins, ukuleles, harmonicas, Bodhran, shakers, Rico reeds etc.

Distributors of Lag, Aria and Faith guitars.

Unit 12, Orleton Road, Ludlow Tel: 0845 130 2442

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

2nd Wednesday OPEN MIC NIGHT Stockton Cross Inn, Kimbolton, near Leominster, 8.30pm, all musicians welcome, 01568 612509 or 07919 118326.

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

3rd Wednesday FOLK/ACOUSTIC SESSION Any style, all welcome. Crown Inn, Clunton, 9pm, 01588 660226.

FOLK SESSIONS 1st Thurs Riverside, Aymestry. 3rd Thurs The Crown, Dilwyn. 2nd Wed The Cross Inn, Eardisland.

4th Wed The Harp, Old Radnor. Details Bob Aldred 01544 388868.

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

1st & 3rd Thursday ACOUSTIC AND SONG SESSION Crown & Sceptre, Minsterley, 01743 791260.

3rd Thursday FOLK NIGHT Castle Inn, Knucklas, 7pm till late, all welcome, 01547 528223.

4th Thursday ACOUSTIC MUSIC Folk, blues, 60s or any other genre welcome. The Sun, High St, Clun, 9pm.

Contact Dave Wright 01588 640552.

Last Thursday FOLK CLUB Oswestry ex-service men’s club, 01691 831162.

Every Friday LEOMINSTER TOWN BAND Newly formed brass band, new brass and percussion players of all standards welcome. Some instruments available. British Legion Club, South St, Leominster, 7.30pm, 01544 340755.

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

2nd Friday OPEN MIC NIGHT Singers/musicians, all welcome. Nelson Inn, Ludlow, from 9pm, 01584 872908.

2nd Friday FOLK CLUB The Royal Hill, Edgerley, near Melverley, 01691 831162.

3rd Friday SESSION The Nelson Inn, Ludlow, 9pm, all welcome, 01584 872908.

3rd Friday TRADITIONAL SESSIONING, DANCE CLASSES & LIVE BANDS A band will play at the beginning of each night from 8pm and lead an open session afterwards. Llanfyllin Workhouse, 01691 649062.

Last Friday OPEN MIC NIGHT With Big String Music.

Sun Inn, Leintwardine, 8pm, 07885 467673.

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 BAYHORSE INN, BROMYARD 01885 482600.

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

THE BRIDGE, Ludlow 01584 872963 CAFE LOCO, The Station, Old Kerry Road, Newtown, 01686 624477 CARAD, East St, Rhayader, 01597 810192 CHARLTON ARMS, Ludlow, 01584 872813 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, Bell Vue, Shrewsbury, 01743 271227 THE HERDSMAN, Widemarsh St, Hereford, 01432 277330 HOLLY BUSH INN, Near Hay-on-Wye, 01497 847371.

HOPE & ANCHOR, Rope Walk, Wye St, Ross-on-Wye. 01989 563003.

KNIGHTON & DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE, Knighton 07751 221487.

LICHFIELD VAULTS, Church St, Hereford. 01432 266821 LION BALLROOM, Broad St, Leominster. 01568 611588 THE LOWFIELD INN, Marton, Welshpool 01743 891313 THE MALTHOUSE, Ironbridge, 01952 433712 MINER’S ARMS, Priest Weston 01938 561352 NELSON INN, Ludlow 01584 872908 OAKENGATES THEATRE, Telford. 01952 619020 THE OXFORD ARMS, Duke St, Kington 01544 230322 THE PLOUGH INN, Whitecross Road, Hereford 01432 273868 THE RETREAT, Ledbury, 01531 632766.

ROSE & CROWN, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811336 ROYAL OAK, Presteigne, 01544 260842.

TALBOT HOTEL, Tregaron, 01974 298719 THEATR BRYCHEINIOG, Canal Wharf, Brecon 01874 611622 THEATR HAFREN, Llanidloes Road, Newtown 01686 625007 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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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 Wild and wonderful world music, perfect for ceilidhs, local events and special ‘dos’.

Contact Sue 01544 267632.

BETWEEN THE ACTS Top notch country dance band for ceilidhs, barn dances, country dance, jigs and reels from Ireland and Galicia songs from yesterday and today.

Email us at betweentheacts1@googlemail.com telephone Mandy on 07818066075 or Google…

Between the Acts barn dances MARTIN BLAKE Fingerpickin’ good guitar, banjo and vocals, solo or with a variety of great bands, including Blakes III, The Local Heroes and Whiskey River Zydeco Twisters and variations thereof, from duo to six-piece.

Pubs, clubs, weddings, divorces etc. Check out the website on www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/martyblake and www. whiskeyriver.co.uk. 01432 342018, mobile: 07846 669890 email:martyblake@btinternet.com RUTH BOWEN'S Gardenia Swing - smooth vocals/ d.bass led jazz & swing. From duo to sextet. 01874 754565 or email ruthbowenjazz@btinternet.com, website www.ruthbowenjazz.com CANOL folk band. From Welsh and Irish to American old time and French Canadian played on fiddle, mandolin and guitar. Ceilidhs, twmpathau, barn dances, festivals, concerts, parties, birthdays, weddings, anything, anytime, anywhere. www.canolmusic.co.uk. Phone Kevin on 01597 840659 or email: kevin@canolmusic.co.uk 2CV Contemporary and classic female vocal.

(Winehouse, Duffy, Corinne Bailey Rae, Imelda May, Sade, Motown, etc); rousing r ‘n’ b and/or cool Latintinged jazz. 5-piece band or 3-piece with virtual backing for small spaces. Check us out on www.2cvmusic.co.uk.

Call Neil on 07906 691267 or 01584 877559, or email contact via website.

STEADY EDD & THE BOOGIEMEN Boogie Woogie and its best, jazz and soul - let the good times roll! Contact Edd, on 01432 769077.

DEJA VU are a totally live three piece band using guitars, keyboards, electronic drums and vocal harmony to create their unique blend of 60s nostalgia, classic pop, etc. Like the music they play, they have matured well! To see and hear us visit our website www.dejavutenbury.com or contact Bill Pitt on 01584 819394.

THE DETAILS Intriguing four-piece acoustic band 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. Hear more on www.facebook.com/ pages/The-Details/12127146467011 Tel 01531 670623 or email david@carroll.org.uk DIRTY RAY Renegade roots. ‘Gut-bucket, workbench blues’ Mojo. ‘Plug him in and watch him go!’ Sheep Music. 01982 560710 / 07904 079469 www.dirtyray.co.uk DISKAN Irish, Breton & Balkan trio (fiddle/bouzouki/flute/ guitar), available for concerts, private engagements, ceilidhs (with caller & P.A.) Website (with music!) www.myspace.com/diskanuk, 07588 858010.

FFONIC: with foot-stomping rhythms and haunting harmonies, Ffonic plays an uplifting, eclectic repertoire of traditional music from just about everywhere for fairs and festivals, celebratory parties, ceilidh dances, charity events etc. Affordable prices. Contact Mark on 01686 412307 or email: ffonic@lineone.net. Website: www. ffonic.co.uk FLATWORLD Roots ‘n’ grooves from Eastern Europe and beyond. Lively five-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; visit www.flat-world.org.uk or email info@flat-world.org.uk THE FLOK Contemporary roots pop, refreshing and versatile. Classy interpretations of material ranging from Pink and Lily Allen to KT Tunstall and Missy Higgins, alongside older classics by Blondie and The Cranberries.

Kate Thomas sings, ably assisted by Luke, Mills & Jackson. Kate 07816 156020, Dave 07967 029159, Tommy 01686 624289.

HAGGLEBAG Energetic Irish songs and tunes played on banjo, mandolin, flute, melodeon, guitar, double bass and triangle. Great bands for pubs, parties, festivals etc.

Contact Lorna on 01684 899491 / 07854 162748 www.myspace.com/hagglebag THE HERBERT SPLIFFINGTON ALLSTARS featuring SATCH DIXON Excellent ska, reggae, calypso and jazz 5/8 piece with Satch Dixon, charismatic Jamaican vocal/percussionist who has worked with Bob Marley. Also The Art Blank Combo - groove/latin/jazz/reggae 4 piece + Sir Lord Herbert World Music DJ. 0781 2512891, pete.beresford@yahoo. co.uk.

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!

THE JACKHAMMER BLUES BAND 3 piece acoustic blues band, acoustic guitars, resonator guitars, mandolin, washboard & percussion. Playing songs of Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Tampa Red, Sleepy John Estes et al, laid back to foot-stomping. Samples at www.myspace.com/thejackhammerbluesband.

Contact Mark on 07884 242925 or thejackhammerbluesband@myspace.com 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.myspace.com/littlerumba and www.littlerumba.com LUNACY High energy good-time band guaranteed to get the audience dancing. Irish steam powered thrash folk with a little skiffle/rock & roll for good measure. Two/five piece: banjo, fiddle, whistles, guitar, vocals, bass. Contact NAME John Wood. Tel: 01544 230699, mobile 07788 130942 email eurolott@tiscali.co.uk You Tube Channel Lunacybanduk.

BOB MARSHALL "The Entertainer" Solo vocalist/ guitarist/entertainer, performing an assortment of covers from 50s to the 90s, from The Monkees to Meatloaf and all sorts in between. Available for pubs, bars, weddings and parties etc. With over 25 years experience.

“The Entertainer” always delivers a good time. Please phone for more details 01981 250775 / 07990 800217.

Email: bob1marshall@hotmail.co.uk 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, call Marcus on 01531 635650 or Nick on 07938 889976, email info@amos-uk.co.uk, 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. Contact John 01588 661096.

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

5-piece band with caller for ceilidhs, barn dances, weddings, parties, shows, fetes, etc. Contact Alan Oberman 01982 570432, email alan.oberman@gmail. com or Peter Watts 01497 831424, email peterwatts135@btinternet.com. See website www.muchadoband.com OVER THE HILLBILLIES - (Eight-piece redneck skiffle band). Hidden in the hills of the Mid Wales/Shropshire borderlands lives a sect of songwriters who have composed songs for famous artists all over the world in all musical genres! Now, for the first time, hear these songs in their original foot stomping, redneck style!

For more info phone Linda on 01686 670409.

Myspace - Overthehillbillies.

RICKY COOL AND THE HOOLA BOOLA BOYS Steaming rhythm ‘n’ blues and rock ‘n’ roll. Featuring six of the finest musicians from the Midlands, this band have played alongside Jerry Lee Lewis and many more. Their much acclaimed album ‘Live at The 100 Club’ is now available for download on iTunes. Visit www.rickycoolandthehoolaboolaboys.com www.myspace.com/rickycoolandthehoolaboolaboys Facebook and Twitter. hoolaboolaboys@hotmail.co.uk, phone 01584 877418, mobile 07758 002135.

RHYTHM THIEVES Funky, folky and fun, The Rhythm Thieves, who have been gigging locally and nationwide, are a lively ‘must see’ band. Blending exceptional musicianship, intricate melodic counterpoint with John’s banjo to create an unforgettable but highly entertaining night out. Tel: 01568 770 134 www.rhythmthieves.co.uk SILVER BRANCH Ceilidh/folk band, complete with caller and PA system. Multi-instrumental 5-piece band playing traditional Irish/world music and contemporary tunes.

David: 01981 540832, Anna: 07980 961187.

SEAN SAYE Dynamic singer/guitarist with full and varied sound, from silky smooth to wild rockabilly stomp.

Original and crowd pleasing classic songs. www.seansaye.com. Contact seansaye@yahoo.co.uk or 07588 409059.

SOLD ON SOUL Soul music function band available for weddings, parties, pub gigs and more! Playing all the great soul hits with a modern twist! Call 07761 387169 for bookings or email: soldonsoul@gmail.com 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, ear-catching 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 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 SULTANA BROTHERS Fine R & B from one of the best bands around. Not to be missed! The ultimate foot-tappin’, hip-swingin’ party band. 01568 750633.

SUNSPOT Jazz/Latin Trio. Guitar - Double Bass Percussion. Performing their own arrangements of classic songs and instrumentals. Ideal for restaurants and guest greeting for wedding parties etc.

Contact Richie 01584 811500 or 07817 620644.

Email: richie.lund@yahoo.co.uk 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 Thrilling unaccompanied harmonies - this twelve-voice ensemble bring you music from the West Gallery, Folk and Shape-note traditions, all woven together with words and stories from a time gone by performed by local actor Phil Smith. A selection of programmes and West Gallery workshops available to suit your event. “I liked the first song you did, then I liked the second... I kept waiting for one I wouldn’t like but there wasn’t one!” Dave/Cheryl on 01497 847676 or visit www. villagequire.org.uk to find out more.

THE WAYNE MARTIN BAND Guitar slinging, sweat flying, energetic blues/rock ‘n’ roll. Featuring slide guitar, hammond organ, drums, bass and sax.

07747 877011, www.myspace.com/waynemartin.

PAUL WRIGHTSON Professional singer-guitarist with extensive repertoire; pop, rock, blues, standards, instrumentals and original compositions. Accomplished performer with wide experience of functions, parties and festivals. Tel 01584 876584, mobile 07729 059847, email paul.wrightson@gmail.com XL'S Maximum R'n'B, Feelgood Rock & Roll.

01588 650686.

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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Mon 2 - Sat 7 July MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Bespoke production of one of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies staged in the beautiful ruins of Ludlow’s medieval castle. Ludlow Castle, 8pm, £30-21, 01584 872150. Part of Ludlow Festival.

Sun 1 July THE RAILWAY CHILDREN HEARTBREAK PRODUCTIONS present this popular open air theatre. Mysteriously separated from their father, Bobbie and her family relocate to ‘Three Chimneys’.

Burton Court, near Leominster. The parkland is open from 3pm for picnicking and garden games. Performance starts at 5pm, bring low-backed seating/rugs/extra clothing etc, £13 adults, £7 children, 01568 616460 or 01544 388222.

Mon 2 - Sat 7 July & Mon 6 - Sat 11 August VOLCANO THELMA HOT & BILL KENWRIGHT present Jenny Seagrove leading a star cast in Noel Coward’s newly discovered gem. Recently widowed, Adela Shelly finds herself being seduced by the suave Guy Littleton.

2 - 7 July- Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury. Mon-Sat 7.30pm, Wed & Sat matinees, 2.30pm, £26-£16, 01743 281281.

6 - 8 Aug - Festival Theatre, Malvern, 8pm, Wed & Sat matinees 2.30pm, £28.50-£17.50, 01684 892277.

Tues 3 July COLD COMFORT FARM BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL. The heroine, Flora Poste, embarks upon a quest to discover her family roots, and as a result the nice girl from London meets the rough and ready Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £14/£12, 01432 340555.

Thurs 5 July THE COMPLETE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABRIDGED) THE REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY presents the entire history of athletic competition in a marathon of madness and mayhem that sees the world’s great sporting events shrunk down to theatrical size. Is darts really a sport? What does NASCAR stand for? Bog-snorkelling?

The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £17.50/£16.50, 01432 340555.

Thurs 5 & Fri 6 July THE OLD DIC THEATRE COMPANY A spoof of this year’s Festival play, Much Ado About Nothing. 5 July - The Charlton Arms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, free. 6 7 July - The Globe, Ludlow, 7.30pm on 6th, 12.30pm on 7th, free. Part of Ludlow Fringe Festival, 01584 872150.

Fri 6 July THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST MIRACLE THEATRE. Set in 1912 with the Titanic sinking and mass production on the Morris Oxford, this tale is of the strange contents of a handbag found at Victoria station... St John the Baptist, Llanwarne, outdoors, so please dress accordingly. £12/£10 adults, £8 under 16s, 01981 540825 or 01981 580396. Arts Alive.

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Thurs 12 July BARRY & STUART - SHOW AND TELL Stars of BBC1’s The Magicians and winners of the World Magic Awards: Best Comedy Illusionists. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £14/£13, 01432 340555.

The Importance of Being Earnest Fri 13 July THE SLIP REACTION THEATRE COMPANY. Written and directed

by Tiffany Hosking. The Slip tells the story of Zoe’s relationship with her husband Liam; a relationship that is collapsing just as the coastline is collapsing into the sea.

For ages 14+. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 8pm, £10, students £5, 01531 633760. Arts Alive.

Sat 14 July SCARAMOUCHE THEATRE TOURS INTERNATIONAL in association with PASSION PIT THEATRE. Powerful yet enchanting, a glorious story sumptuously told... Ancient clown Scaramouche breaks 50 years silence to give his final performance charting a bizarre odyssey through crumbling empires and comic misadventures, revealing loves, the brutalities, the ecstasies and the tragedies beneath his seven white masks. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 8pm, £14/£13, 01982 552555.

Fri 20 & Sat 21 July THE BATTLE OF SHEPHERD’S BUSH CONQUEST PRODUCTIONS present the extraordinary story of the first London Olympic Games 1908. From the opening ceremony to the marathon, America and Britain, the two greatest nations of the world were at loggerheads, with astonishing and sometimes hilarious results.

Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 8pm, £8/£7, 01885 488575.

Sat 21 & Sun 22 July THE ODYSSEY THE FACTORY. Sat 21 - In open rehearsal for the production of Homer’s Odyssey, 2.30pm, free, but donations welcome. Full performance 6pm, £12 adults, £5 under 12s, bring picnic for supper interval. Sun 22 - 4pm performance, plus concert at 6pm, £7, under 12s £5.

Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, 01597 811487.

Mon 23 - Sat 28 July THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL A romp through the lives and loves of the upper classes in fashionable society of 18th century London. Stars Stephanie Cole. Festival Theatre, Malvern, 8pm, Wed & Sat matinees 2.30pm, £28.50-£17.50, 01684 892277.

Wed 25 July PRIVATE LIVES HEARTBREAK PRODUCTIONS. Divorced couple Elyot and Amanda are inadvertently reunited on their respective honeymoons to second spouses. Believing themselves still in love, they abandon their new partners and run off, but it’s not long before the champagne bubbles burst...

Open air performance, bring a rug or low-backed chairs, picnic, and warm clothes. Burton Court, near Leominster, parklands open 6pm, performance 7.30pm, adults £13, children £7, 01544 388222.

Tues 31 July - Sat 4 August THE CEMETERY CLUB IAN DICKENS PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL LTD present this touching play about three superannuated, feuding Jewish women. Festival Theatre, Malvern, 8pm, Wed and Sat matinees 2.30pm, £24.50-£12.50, 01684 892277.

MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA Sun 1 & Fri 20 July BROADWAY & BEYOND A thrilling and entertaining mix of music and wit from the most popular musicals of all time. Featuring songs from classic productions. 1 July - Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £15/£14, 01874 611622. 20 July - Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, £15/£14, 01584 878141.

July events Friday 6 July, 8pm

Sheelanagig

Balkan Folk Mayhem – a gig not to be missed. £14 (£12) Friday 20 July, 7.30pm

Broadway & Beyond

Music and wit from the most popular musicals of all time. £15 (£14) Saturday 21 July, 7.30pm

Kakatsitsi Master Drummers

Musicians, dancers and singers from Ghana. £12 (£10) Friday 27 July, 8pm

The Yoga Practice Small group classes, individual tuition Jenny Bullough (Hay-on-Wye) 01497 831416 jennybullough@hotmail.com Marie Hudson (Presteigne) 01544 260352 marieh279@googlemail.com

Tanya Walker

Award-winning singer-songwriter and musician from Wales. £10 (£8)

July films The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Even the Rain, Avengers Assemble, War Horse, Monsieur Lazhar, Mirror Mirror, All in Good Time, Tales of the Night, Goodbye First Love

Mike Young (Golden Valley) 01981 541003 mike@yogaskies.co.uk Belinda Jobst (Hereford) 07971 677113 be@nutritionalshift.com Nicky Jaques (Madley/Eaton Bishop) 07817 268689 nixen60@hotmail.com Body. Breath. Mind. Heart.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Box Office 01584 878141

www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk

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Sun 15 & Sun 29 July THE WHEELS ON THE BUS Join Buster the big red bus with all of his friends on their magical adventures journeying through a song book loved by all the family. 15 July - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 12pm & 2.30pm, £12 adult, £10 child, £35 family ticket, 01743 281281. 29 July - The Courytard, Hereford, 11am & 1.30pm, £12 adults, £10 children, 01432 340555.

Sat 4 August THE TALES OF BEATRIX POTTER QUANTUM THEATRE use live music and energetic performance, promising a magical evening for young and old alike. Watch Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny as they pursue their adventures in Mr McGregor’s garden!

Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, 6pm, £9, £5 under 12s, 01597 811487.

DRAMA WORKSHOPS Sat 7 July ON BROADWAY LUDLOW CHORAL SOCIETY presents a celebration of musicals with great songs from Guys and Dolls, 42nd Street and West Side Story. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £12, 01584 878141.

Thurs 12 - Sat 14 July OKLAHOMA CONQUEST PRODUCTIONS presents it’s first musical, where two cowboys vie for the hearts of the women they love. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, £10/£8, 01885 488575.

Sat 14 July FOOTLOOSE SHREWSBURY YOUNG PERFORMERS THEATRE GROUP present an all singing, all dancing, family musical with show stopping numbers. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £12, 01743 281281.

Wed 18 - Sat 21 July THE WIZARD OF OZ GET YOUR WIGLE ON presents all the wonderful songs from the film. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm, £15-£10, 01743 281281.

Sat 21 July THE WIZARD OF OZ IMAGE THEATRE COMPANY. Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion will follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City and Oz. During the light-hearted rehearsal, some children are chosen and rehearsed into their parts while the rest of the audience is taught the choruses of four songs. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 2.30pm, £8, under 26’s go free, 01874 611622.

CHILDREN’S THEATRE

Fri 13 July BERT’S MAGICAL MUSICAL KITCHEN TIDDLY PROM. Bert is having a party for Mayor Daphne Dil. There’s a lot to do as he has to prepare food, organise guests and plan party games. An accessible, interactive and informative pre-school concert and an opportunity to enchant, amaze and inspire young children. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 11am, £5.50, family rate £4.50, group rate (minimum 10) £4.50, 01982 552555.

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Wed 25 - Fri 27 July ADVENTURES AT SEA Come and join in the fun with ex BBC Playaway presenter Janine Sharp at the Globe’s Summer Acting School for children aged 7-11 years. Improvisations, song and dance and a short performance to your friends and family at noon on Saturday. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 10.30am-12.30pm daily, £35, 07733 055430, places limited.

Mon 30 July - Fri 3 August PLAY IN A WEEK PRESENTS ANIMAL TAILS Join SYT for a series of workshops to introduce theatre skills. A chance to devise a new theatre piece, develop performance ability and present your work to family and friends. Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10am-3.30pm, for 8-16 year olds, £75 for a week, 01743 234970.

PLAYHOUSE COMPANY Looking for Actors - Male and female 18 - 29 for roles in “Vacees” a play [with songs, some from the period] about the Second World War evacuees and the people who looked after them. Thursdays 7.30 at Leominster Community Centre. 01568 612583 for more information.

DIZZY DRAMAS LEOMINSTER’S YOUTH THEATRE PRODUCTION - VACEES Are looking for young people 12 years of age and over to play the evacuees and 16 years of age and over to play the mothers and fathers in our production of Vacees. We are starting the cast now. Every Monday 6.30-8.30pm at Leominster Community Centre during term time. Info 01568 612583.

Mondays LIFE SCHOOL OF ARTS DRAMA CLASSES Christian Life Centre, Edgar St, Hereford. Ages 7-13, 7-8pm, ages 14+, 8-9.30pm. First class free, £12 for 6 weeks. Details jennilou19@hotmail.com Mondays DIZZY DRAMAS Leominster Community Youth Arts School 8-15 years. Singing, dance & drama. 6.308.30pm Leominster Community Centre 01568 616411.

Mondays RE-ACT Youth theatre workshops. Ages 5-11, 5-6pm, £40 per term. 11-16, 6.15-8pm, £45 per term.

Ludlow Assembly Rooms, 01588 672910.

Tuesdays THE ITC / IMPROV THEATRE For ages 11-25, develop your skills of clarity, confidence and performing instinctively and spontaneously at our quick-fire comedy theatre groups, £24 for 6 week block. SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 3.45-5.15pm, 01588 630243.

Tuesdays MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE 14-24 years.

7-9.30pm, The Drama Centre, Llandrindod Wells, 01597 824444.

Tuesdays YOUTH THEATRE Drama workshop for 7-14 year-olds after school. Ledbury Market Theatre, 01432 346526 or 01531 633760.

Thursdays LIGHTSDOWN THEATRE SCHOOL At Orleton Village Hall, near Ludlow from 4-7pm, ages 4-18, call 01568 780519 or email ludlow@lightsdown.com.

Tuesdays THEATRE SKILLS FOR ADULTS The Courtyard, Hereford, 8-10pm, £48 term, 01432 340555.

Thursdays IMPULSIVE THEATRE COMPANY Theatre games and performance to develop the fundamental skills of improvisation theatre, including teamwork, storytelling, character development and more. For ages 13-19. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 5-6.45pm, 07916 277928.

Every Wed excluding half term ADULT DRAMA CLUB AT THE GLOBE IN HAY for anyone interested in having a lot of fun trying out some performance skills with professional tuition from Theatre Director, writer performer and ex Childrens TV presenter Janine Sharp. Improvisations, mask work, mime, singing, voice work, text and generally all round team play and confidence building. 7-30pm-9-30pm. £6. Janine on 07733 055430 for details.

Wednesdays LIGHTSDOWN THEATRE SCHOOL In Hereford. Act, sing and dance - led by experienced and qualified professionals from London’s West End. Based at Sutton St Nicholas Village Hall from 4-7pm, ages 4-18, call 01568 780519 or email hereford@lightsdown.com.

Wednesdays KINGTON YOUTH THEATRE With Kington Primary School. Wed - Years 5 & 6, 4-5.15pm.

Years 7,8 & 9 5.30-6.45pm. £36 per term, 01432 340555.

Wednesdays THE COURTYARD COMMUNITY COMPANY Open to anyone aged 14+, £55 per term. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30-9.30pm, 01432 346526.

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.

Thursdays PLAYHOUSE COMPANY We are looking for actors aged 14 and over, no previous acting experience required. Also technical and backstage crew, so if interested come along to Leominster Community Centre, 7.30pm, 01568 612583.

Alternate Thursdays APPLESTROODLE IMPROVISATION THEATRE WORKSHOPS FOR GROWN-UPS! (16 plus). Ludlow Assembly Rooms, every alternate Mon eve, 7.30-9.30pm, £5/session.

No experience required, just sense of humour.

Details on www.appletreetheatre.co.uk Saturdays GREEN TOMATOES THEATRE GROUP Drama club for 5-13 year olds. Llanwarne Village Hall, 10am-12.30pm, £8 per week, reduction for siblings, 01432 353143 or 07811 145609.

Saturdays VOWCHURCH DRAMA AND FUN CLUB Open to all abilities. (Bursaries available). For ages 6-12, 10am-12.30pm. 01432 340555 or 07811 145609.

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.

Thursdays THE LIVING BOOK THEATRE COMPANY For people with or without a learning disability, £3.50-5.50pm.

12-14 Catherine Street, Hereford, 01432 379380.

Royal George Lingen, SY7 0DY

Beer Festival 2012 Friday 13th July

The Rose & Crown Tenbury Wells

Launch Party from 6pm

2nd Beer Festival

Saturday 14th July

Friday 20 – Sunday 22 July

All day BBQ Live Band - The Rhythm Thieves

20 Real Ales, 5 Ciders

Sunday 15th July

Live Music

12pm onwards - Festival Finale BBQ, Live music featuring ALMSHOUSE BAND wide selection of county beers & local food info 01544 267322

Sean Saye, Hannah, Acer & more The Cellar Boys Free Entry

www.whites.cc 01584 811336 47

word Jan Blake, Festival at the Edge

Fri 6 & Sat 28 July JETHRO Cornwall’s ambassador of comedy. For ages 15+.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £19, 01432 340555.

Talks

Poetry & Storytelling Sun 1 July GRAND OPENING OF THE BOOK BURROW With authors including Katy Moran, Paul Dowswell and Barbara Michelhill, with loads of children’s activitities.

Aardvark Books, The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, 01547 530888.

Fri 20 - Sun 22 July FESTIVAL AT THE EDGE The 21st Storytelling Festival. Guests include Chirine El Ansary, Milbre Burch, Blackbeard’s Tea Party, Jan Blake, Peter Chand, Corncrow, Daughters of Elvin, Xanthe Gresham, Ben Haggarty, Nick Hennessey, Rosie Hood, Ursula Holden Gill, Sohan Kailey, Chris Lowe, Jack Lynch, Daniel Morden, Pete Morton, O’Hooley & Tidow, Panic Circus, Emily Protman, Shonaleigh, Tinkerscuss, The Bailey Sisters, The Village Quire, Steve Turner and more.

Stokes Barn, Much Wenlock, adult weekend £90, junior weekend £45, family weekend £230, children aged 7 years and under free, camping £5 per adult, 01939 236626, www.festivalattheedge.org Tues 24 July POETRY EVENING Apple Store Gallery, 3 Bridge St, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 378436.

Comedy

Sun 1 July STAND UP COMEDY The Bull Hotel, Ludlow, free. Part of Ludlow Fringe Festival, 01584 872150.

Fri 6 & Fri 20 July COURTYARD COMEDY CLUB 6 July - Featuring James Sherwood, Kim Hope and MC David Morgan. 20 July - Featuring Phil Butler, Joe Wells and MC Kevin Shepherd. Studio Theatre, The Courtyard, Hereford, 8.30pm, £11.50/£10.50, 01432 340555.

Thurs 19 July THE KEN DODD HAPPINESS SHOW Festival Theatre, Malvern, 7.30pm, £18, 01684 892277.

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Sun 1 - Fri 6 July LUDLOW FESTIVAL 1 July - Director’s Talk; Charlie Walker-Wise, director of Much Ado About Nothing, Ludlow Castle Outer Bailey, 11am, £6. 2 July - Matthew Sweet presents: Went the Day Well; an illustrated talk on the history of British film followed by 1942 classic, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £10. 4 July - Mavis Nicholson shares tales of women during WW2 before the classic film, ‘A Matter of Life and Death. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £10.

6 July - John Challis, Ludlow Brewery, 7pm, free.

01584 872150.

Sat 7 July 125 YEARS OF CIDER MAKING IN HEREFORDSHIRE Learn about the fascinating origins and history of the Bulmers brand. Price includes a complimentary glass of Bulmers at the post-show reception. Studio Theatre, The Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, £10, 01432 340555.

Thurs 5 July FINN MACKAY ON THE FEMINIST RESURGENCE Finn MacKay founded the London Feminist Network in 2004 and revived the Reclaim The Night marches. In association with the Hay Feminists group for a talk and workshop about the feminist resurgence and why it matters. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, free, 01497 821762.

Mon 9 July SIR RANULPH FIENNES Everest, The Eiger and more from the world-renowned Polar explorer. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £18/£16, students £10, 01743 281281.

Mon 23 July ROBERT ROGERS: ORDER! ORDER! Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House of Commons and former Chairman of the Perpetual Trust, recounts some of the drama, invective and hilarity that is the stuff of Parliamentary politics. There will be an opportunity for questions. Green Dragon Hotel, Hereford, 11am, 0845 652 1823. Part of Three Choirs Festival.

Sat 28 July COLIN DEXTER Morse and Me. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, www.strettonfestival.org.uk. Part of Church Stretton Arts Festival.

Workshops & Courses Sat 7 July UNDERSTANDING GENRE By local author Lara Clough. Course includes crime, horror, romance and comedy with group discussion and writing exercises.

Llanfyllin Youth & Community Centre, 10am-4pm, 07795 112431.

Sat 14 & Sun 15 July CREATIVE WRITING WEEKEND ‘MYTHS IN THE MAKING’ Led by award-winning author, Pauline Fisk. Gleanings, Crosfields, Gravels Bank, near Minsterley, 10am-4.30pm daily, £120 includes 2-course home-cooked lunches plus refreshments, 01743 891412.

Fri 27 July - Thurs 2 August THE BLEDDFA ANNUAL STORYTELLING WEEK A week long residential course with evening performances, run by Hazel Bradley and Michael Harvey. Further information, including the names of guest tutors, available in due course. The Hall Barn and Orchard, Bleddfa, near Knighton, 3pm registration, 5pm start, funishes after lunch on 2 Aug. £275, camping in the Orchard, £25, food not provided, 01547 550377.

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

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

Border Poets 01547 530380.

Colin Dexter

Mon RHYME TIMES For the under 2s. Tenbury Library, 11-11.30am, 01584 810285.

Every Tues READING ROOM The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.30am-12.30pm, £48 per term, 01432 340555.

Every Tues STORYTIMES For the under 5s, 10.30am-11am, Leominster Library, 01432 383290.

4th Tues BABE IN ARMS BOOK GROUP Coningsby Children’s Centre, Leominster 11am-12 noon.

01568 780918.

Every Wed STORYTIMES For the under 5s, 10.15-10.45am. BABY BOUNCE & RHYME 11.15-11.45am, Hereford Library, 01432 383600.

First Wednesday of the month POETRY CAFE Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 878141.

Last Thurs READING WITH NUTTERS: Nutters Cafe, Capuchin Yard, Hereford, 6-7.30pm, 01432 379142.

1st & 4th Thurs of each month THE GLOBE PHILOSOPHY CAFE Headed by local philosopher Sean O’Donaghue. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 821762.

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

Every Thurs BABY BOUNCE & RHYME Leominster Library, 10.30-11am, 01432 383290.

4th Sun WINGED WORD Storytelling club, Six Bells, Bishops Castle, 8-10.30pm, free, 01588 680685.

3rd Wed TENBURY READERS’ GROUP Tenbury Library, 01584 812585.

AARDVARK BOOKS & CAFE North Herefordshire’s largest indie bookseller

Specialist in art, design, photography, history, gardening Also open our superb CAFÉ!

From 1st July

The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Grand Opening of The Book Burrow Kids space Bucknell, SY7 0DH Off A4113 Knighton Road.

14th July Tel: 01547 530888 MORTIMER COUNTRY FOOD FAIR aardvaark@btconnect.com www.aardvark-books.com 60 stalls, art exhibition, film, fashion, live music Twitter: @aardvarkethel (featuring Little Rumba) etc, £2 adults, children and parking free.

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

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Wood Fuel in a Changing World W

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OOD fires have been central to people’s lives for hundreds of thousands of years. Then came the march of coal, electric heaters appeared in the thirties, by the sixties people were installing ‘modern’ central heating systems that were quick, easy and cheap to run, but outmoded in turn when new ‘energy efficient’ boilers appeared on the market. Change doesn’t just pause in the way we might like it to pause … it carries right on, sometimes at breakneck speed. There is a balance to be struck with any fuel. You can’t just chop down forests, and forget about the long-term effects, anymore than you can fill the air with coal smog or expect oil wells to refill themselves. In the face of change, what is the place of wood fuel today?

The Hearth At the centre of old Celtic and English life was the ‘Hearth.’ It had social significance … being an excellent place to chew bones, tell stories, drink mead etc ... but was also essential to survival, especially during harsh winter weather. There remains a symbolic importance attached to keeping the glowing embers of the fire alive.

Some people still love the rhythm and security that tending a wood fire or stove brings, but many others have lives that don’t allow for tending a fire all day or sweeping the ashes. With so many people to keep warm in winter and such busy lives, how can wood energy be truly relevant and sustainable today?

“People do understand that wood sources need to be sustainable” says Mandy Brick at Light Foot Energy, “ and some people are still emotionally attached to their stoves and the rhythm that maintaining a fire brings to their lives. But a lot of people under 40 don’t feel they have the finance and time that a stove demands.”

Local Solutions As ‘big oil’ roots around for new supplies, there is a clear need for people to take cleaner and more sustainable energy solutions seriously. You don’t have to think big … small and local possibilities are popping up all over the place. Take a place like South Herefordshire.

Woolhope Woodheat is a 100% community owned wood co-op. It’s also a proper, well thought out enterprise with workable social and environmental objectives and sound economic principals too. By providing a market for wood fuel, Woolhope plans to bring unmanaged woodland back into balanced, productive use, providing fuel whilst increasing wildlife habitat and biodiversity and reducing carbon emissions.

Not only that but the co-operative gathers, dries and chips its own wood fuel to high quality standards and this fuel will be used in clean burn, super efficient boilers, also supplied and maintained by the co-operative.

To qualify for a boiler Your building or premises must meet certain criteria.

The boilers are designed to replace oil, LPG or electricity, where current bills exceed £5,000 per year, and you have to be in Herefordshire. But if you meet the criteria

and you want to work with a green, community-based organisation, Woolhope can offer you a great deal: a heat price 20% less than oil, guaranteed for 20 years and they will install, service and maintain a top quality clean burning woodchip boiler at your premises free of charge and provide it with locally sourced fuel. Even if you don’t qualify for a boiler …

You are eligible to purchase Community Shares The co-operative opened community share offers for the wood supply operation early this May. It is the first scheme of its kind in the UK and the documentation is impressive and beautifully produced. You can get in contact with the team right now and ask to read the share offer.

Eventually the co-operative hopes to use 2,000 tonnes of sustainably sourced local wood annually, saving an estimated 900 tonnes of CO2.

Anyone can join the co-operative. Members have a single vote, however much they invest, and receive a good annual return on their investment. Local investors will be prioritised for co-operative membership.

For more information contact Ben Dodds, Development Manager at Woolhope Woodheat, Tel: 01530 273 312, Mobile: 07816 846 979 woolhopedomeproject@gmail.com

Written by Rachel Francis, Sharpening Pencils

Green Events Sat 7 July EARTH SHARE Skill sharing event with workshops including building with earth and composting, together with networking and social evening. Karuna Permaculture Project, Picklescott, Church Stretton, info and booking www.karuna.org.uk 01694 751374.

Sat 14 July LUDLOW CHALLENGE WALK A 25 or 15 mile long circular walk from Ludlow Castle.

Ludlow Assembly Rooms Fundraising and Events.

Closing date 6 July or earlier if fully subscribed. Entry fee £12.50, includes a certificate, food, water en route and a buffet meal at the finish. To enter contact Joan Birkett, 01584 873249, ludlowchallenge@aol.com

Sun 15 July TABLETOP SALES Hassle-free way to sell surplus items and unwanted gifts.

Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 10am-2pm, tables cost £6, 01547 540477.

Fri 27 - Sun 29 July PERMACULTURE IN 3 DAYS With Angie Polkey, in liaison with Aberystwyth University.

Karuna Permaculture Project, Picklescott, Church Stretton, info and booking www.karuna.org.uk 01694 751374.

Local Environmental Groups

Transition in Hay-on-Wye, Stephen Ainsleigh Rice, 01497 820332 and tthayonwye@googlemail.com Hay-on-Wye Friends of the Earth, meets on 3rd Thursday every month at Kilverts Hotel, Hay-on-Wye. 01497 82153 gareth@cyrusgardendesign.co.uk Hereford Christian Ecology Group, usually meets on 3rd Tuesday evening of the month. 01432 279740.

Transition Town Ledbury meet first Tues every month at The Royal Oak, Ledbury. transitionledbury@gmail.com or 07903 095585.

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

Wasteless Society - www.wasteless.org.uk - WS Office - 01588 630683 or 01588 630760 - info@wasteless.co.uk 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 Green Presteigne - Nigel Griffin - 01544 267437 - nigel. griffin@btopenworld.com www.greenpresteigne.wikispaces.com, a wiki being a website that allows visitors to add, remove and edit content.

Ludlow Cycling Support Group - Peta Sams, 01584 876818, ludlowcsg@gmail.com. Aims to encourage, promote and develop cycling as a safe, healthy and popular means of transport within Ludlow and its environs.

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 - http://www.herefordshirefoe.org.uk - Paige Mitchell - 01432 277857 co-ordinator@herefordshirefoe.org.uk Household Energy Service, The Old Primary School, Church St, Bishop’s Castle - T: 01588 630683, email: info@h-e-s.org, website www.h-e-s.org Herefordshire Action for Mammals (HAM) - Hilary Smith, 8 College Rd, Hereford, HR1 1ED. Tel: 01432 357732, h.smith1@mypostoffice.co.uk, www.hambb.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk 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 Inspired Wigmore - Vanessa Spedding 01568 770460, vs@mortimerpress.com 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 Transition Town Rhayader and District meet on the first Tues of the month, 7pm, Crown Inn, North St, Rhayader.

All welcome. Catherine Lea 01597 810 426 www.transition-rhayader.midwales.org.uk 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 practitioners or healing methods listed. We provide no recommendation and take no responsibility for their content.

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ACCREDITED COUNSELLOR AND THERAPIST, experience of all ages including young people, and of individuals, couples and groups, offers confidential sessions, short or longterm, in the Knighton and Presteigne areas. Richard Lewis MSc (Intergrative Psychotherapy), PG Dip (Supervision), MA, FTCL, FRSA, British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. 01547 510360 or 07951 304457.

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 where appropriate. Hay Acupuncture Clinic, Rose Cottage, Cusop Dingle, Hay-On-Wye 01497 821625/07980 596218 sandysandaver@onetel.com or www.hayacupunctureclinic.co.uk ACUPUNCTURE offered by Petra Werth MBAcC, a fully trained, qualified and registered acupuncturist (a member of the British Acupuncture Council) at the Leominster Natural Health Centre, Community Centre, School Road, Leominster, HR6 8NJ Tel: 01568 613116, http://acupuncture-in-leominster.moonfruit.com ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE in Hay-on-Wye. Philippa Morrell BA MSTAT teaches in Powys and Herefordshire. For more info please go to www.philippamorrell.co.uk or ring 01497 831447 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 TESTING: Susan Hough Dip.A.E.T. qualified 1999, uses the Vega system to test over 100 items. For an appointment or further information call 01584 819507, susanhoughallergy@yahoo.co.uk, www.susanhoughallergy.co.uk BEAUTY AND HOLISTIC THERAPIES with Natalie Hogg and Helen Barnard @ the Herbfarmacy Shop, 22 Broad Street Hay-on-Wye. This month’s offer - 15% off for a whole body detox treatment, more details on our website www.herbfarmacy. co.uk or phone 01497 820749.

BOWEN TECHNIQUE - JOY PEARMAN. Also reflexology, Pilates and Zumba classes. Ledbury, Bromyard, Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford areas. 01432 820484.

THE BOWEN TECHNIQUE The Bowen Technique is a gentle form of bodywork whereby light moves are made over specific points on the body. These moves help the nervous system balance and re-align, helping the body to heal itself. Treatment can help resolve; back problems, sciatica, neck & shoulder problems, arthritic pain, sports injuries, hip/ankle/knee and foot problems digestive disturbances, hormonal imbalance, asthma, hay fever, migraines & headaches and more.. For more information contact: Helen Mawson, Ludlow, Tel: 01584 877 578. Mob: 07904 457 075 helen@complete-balance.co.uk, www.complete-balance.co.uk COMPLEMENTARY PHYSIOTHERAPY Jo Smith Oliver uses energy medicine and reflexology to augment and enhance mainstream care at Rock Park Spa, Llandrindod Wells. Home visits also available. Insurance claims covered. Visit www. josmitholiver.com 07525 005430.

JENNY BULLOUGH Yoga tuition and therapy. Small group classes & individual tuition for special needs. 01497 831416 CLAIRVOYANT MEDIUMSHIP AND TAROT READINGS with Gina Murray, also animal mediumship and animal communication within Hay on Wye tel:07812 /035459 www.ginalmurray.com or email ginalmurray@gmail.com.

CHIROPRACTIC:McTimoney technique Phil Elliott BSc(Hons) Chiropractic MMCA, LCC. Registered with the General Chiropractic Council McTimoney Chiropractic is a gentle whole-body manipulative technique, which aims to realign the body, relieving pain and increasing mobility. For conditions, including back, neck and shoulder pain, that can benefit from chiropractic see the McTimoney Association website at www. mctimoneychiropractic.org. I also use massage techniques to complement the McTimoney technique. Clinic in Leominster. To talk, book or arrange a free 20 min discussion: 07840 733275 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. Based in Hay-on-Wye and Hereford, I can provide services throughout the area. ACP accredited. Valérie Mortin BSc. 07961 885646 or 01981 500500. E: vivalavie@yahoo.com COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY for depression, anxiety, panic, stress, OCD, relationship problems and more!

Also, couple counselling, relationship counselling and individual counselling for most issues. Sessions held in the Presteigne area, Leominster and Hereford. Please contact Gail Venables on 01544 350384 or see webpage for more info www.cbtgail.co.uk. mbacp (Accred).

COUNSELLING... WITH A DIFFERENCE Empathic, confidential counselling from an experienced and fully qualified counsellor using Emotional Freedom Technique to help release blocked emotions and traumas. Sarah Amatt MBACP. E: www.thinkingfreedom.co.uk. T: 07964 448203. Shrewsbury & Bransford (Worcester).

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 COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY. Therapist with 14 years experience working with individuals and couples.

Integrative approach. Short or long term. Available Hereford, Leominster and Presteigne area. Marian Gillett M,A. (Psychotherapy) Dip. (Psychotherapy) Cert. Couple Counselling (Relate), MBACP, UKCP registered 01547 517169.

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY Clare Williams Dip Shi, RCST. Helping the body to heal itself, for both acute and chronic conditions. For appointments or to find out how CST could help you, contact Clare, Bishop’s Castle, 01588 638182 or 07813 826417.

COUNSELLING PSYCHOTHERAPIST. Confidential 1-1 person-centred counselling for all individuals. Short or long-term.

Space for you to look at any aspects of your life that are troubling you. South Shropshire/Newtown area. Home visits available.

Alison Trott FdA (Counselling), CBT (cert), Bereavement (cert), MBACP registered. trott912@btinternet.com or 07791013587.

CREATIVE WORDS FOR WELLBEING This complementary therapy uses creative writing and creative thinking to help you gain a stronger sense of identity and direction in your life.

I practise in Hereford and Ross-on-Wye. For details please contact me. Sally Givertz 01989 563370, mobile 07779 083510, sallygivertz@btinternet.com or visit www.sally givertz.blogspot.com

DOWSING YOUR HEALTH & HOME A tool used to find the CAUSES of ill health and unrest, e.g. inherited problems, toxins, pathogens, emotional trauma, spiritual challenges, geopathic stress among others. Dowsing and energetic restructuring is used to neutralise or eliminate found causes.

20 years experience. Distant treatments also offered. www.healingencounters.co.uk Lynn & Richard Osborne.

Tel 01584 892049, Shropshire.

EMOTIONAL THERAPY Anne Cummings MFET (Cert), BCMA (Reg). 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 ECOTHERAPY & WORK THAT RECONNECTS (based on the work of Joanna Macy & others). Ecotherapy is a recognition that it makes no sense to try and heal ourselves without incorporating the ‘natural’ world, the other-than-human in that healing process - and that it is a two-way process: it is the art of therapy incorporating an interconnected view of all things.

1-1 sessions - based in Presteigne - or elsewhere by arrangement.

Courses and workshops available for your group, event or community. Regular group - please contact for more information.

Jane Cooke, safe, ethical, confidential. 07771 950899 info@heartfeltwork.co.uk ESOTERIC SOUL HEALING in Bishop’s Castle.

A transformational healing method for helping a wide range of spiritual, emotional and physical difficulties. Gentle, safe and nourishing. Contact Philomena Houlihan-Wood B.A., Cert.

ESH, Dip.Couns. Tel: 01588 638242.

Philomena@soul-healing.net Web: www.soul-healing.net GESTALT COUNSELLING & THERAPY 1-1 sessions in Presteigne - space for you to look at aspects of your life that are troubling you. Initial appointment free. This is a creative, experimental approach that can, if you want it to, include movement, sand-tray; creative responses; dream-work. Large, comfortable and welcoming room close to the Workhouse in Presteigne, (LD8 2UF). Also regular therapy group - please contact for more information. Jane Cooke, safe, ethical, confidential. 07771 950899 - info@heartfeltwork.co.uk HAY CLINIC, THE CENTRE FOR NATURAL HEALTH: Acupuncture, Colonic Hydrotherapy, CrainoSacral Therapy, Massage, Reflexology, Hopi Ear Candling, Facials, Waxing, Mediumship, Tarot Readings etc. The Pavement, Hay on Wye, HR3 5SS tel. 01497 847808.

HOLISTIC MASSAGE with Jessica Pailthorpe MTI Helping you to feel more aligned, spacious, looser, grounded and calm.

Can also help with problems/injuries. Jess is an experienced therapist who has studied a range of bodywork approaches which she integrates into her practice. Clinic in Leominster.

To talk or book: 01544 387950 www.touchtreetherapy.co.uk JUNGIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY & ANALYSIS. Qualified analytical psychologist. AJA, UKCP, IAAP. Background in the arts. Interest in creativity. Private practice central Hereford.

Tel: 01432 272170. www.psychotherapy-herefordshire.org.uk HOLISTIC MASSAGE Marian at Silvan Massage and Bodywork (MTI). Therapeutic touch through massage, stretching and releasing techniques. For relaxation of tight muscles, improved circulation, greater flexibility, reduction of stress and the bringing about of a quieter mind. Clinics in Presteigne and Clun with home visits and on-site available. marian@silvanmassage.com or 07816 981454.

HOMOEOPATHY supports the body’s own efforts to heal itself and is effective with both emotional and physical disorders.

Treatment is adapted to the unique needs of each patient, taking all their symptoms into account. If you would like to find out more or to make an appointment please contact Annabel Stacey ACH on 07960 865564, annabel.stacey@theleaffoundation.org (Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Welshpool area).

JENNIFER HODGE DO Registered Osteopath. Cranial Osteopath. The Old Rectory, New Radnor 01544 350241.

KUNDALINI YOGA IN & AROUND KINGTON Yoga and meditation classes for adults, pregnancy, babies, tots and teens.

Beginners welcome! Georgie also teaches in schools, offers private yoga therapy and doula birth and breastfeeding support.

01544 231304 or 07807 550653. www.healingspirits.co.uk.

LEOMINSTER NATURAL HEALTH CENTRE: Qualified therapists offer acupuncture, structural re-alignment, medical herbal medicine, remedial and holistic massage, reflexology, ear candling, reiki, counselling and psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, health kinesiology, shiatsu, colour therapy, spiritual healing/ surgery, NLP etc, at the Leominster Natural Health Centre, Community Centre, Leominster, 01568 616411.

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.

METAMORPHOSIS Transform your life - Change into who you want to be. Assistance with health, emotional and spiritual issues for these changing and challenging times. We use a variety of effective therapies (including Homoeopathy, Bach Flower Remedies, Therapeutic Massage, Life Strategy, Meditation, Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique, Sound Therapy and Yoga) tailor-made to help you return to health and wholeness. Licensed Homoeopath with 15 years experience of helping people of all ages in the maintenance and restoration of their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. Contact Paul A Janke or Lisa Gray on 01568 611994 or morphyourlife@googlemail.com METAMORPHIC TECHNIQUE At the Rock Park Spa, Llandrindod Wells. Release resistant unwanted behaviour patterns from birth and before without having to utter a word! Home visits also available. Visit www.metamorphicassiciation.org and www. josmitholiver.com 07525 005430.

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION combined with NLP, hypnotherapy and healing is a powerful tool for health, wellbeing, problem solving and a better quality of life. I have been teaching individuals and groups for 25 years. One to one or if you prefer a group, we are in Ludlow on Wednesday afternoons. Can visit groups by arrangement. Half day courses available. 01584 874636 M: 07796 596451 or E: julia.walling@btinternet.com NUTRITIONAL THERAPY aims to achieve wellbeing and good health by balancing the function, structure and energy processes of the body. Treatments are tailored to advise and support each person on food and lifestyle choices to support optimum health. Phaedra Bushby FHT. New Radnor 077944 76892. bushbybaby@hotmail.co.uk www.phaedrabushby.webs.com 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 PAMELA SPENCELEY MNIMH Medical Herbalist and Allergy Therapist 01568 770614 / 01584 878123 PSYCHIC READINGS: Clairvoyance, Tarot & Astrology (tape inc). Gifted & compassionate reader with 20 years experience.

Telephone readings available and at Zenith in Leominster on Thursdays. ROWIE: 01432 820684.

SOUND HEALING TRAINING & VOICE WORKSHOPS: UK College of Sound Healing training Parts 1-5; Primrose Earth Centre, near Hay-on-Wye; regular Monday evening Sound and Voice workshops 8-10pm, contact Paul Benham: 01497 847636; paul.benham33@gmail.com www.primroseearthcentre.co.uk

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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 qualifiled in Traditional Thai Massage, Reflexology-Foot 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.siamsmile.org.uk SPIRITUAL HEALER Naturally gifted in releasing emotional grief in present and past lives. 22 years professional experience with physical and mental health. Private healing sessions and talks given. Gillian Williamson, MNFSH. Field House, Kinnerton. 01547 560874.

YOGA and INDIAN ASTROLOGY. Small group yoga classes, individual tuition and therapy, Vedic chanting classes and Indian Astrology readings. Contact Mike Young 07913 864744 info@yogaskies.co.uk www.yogaskies.co.uk

Workshops WORKSHOP LISTINGS - Single listings are free.

Year round, ongoing workshops will cost £40 per year for inclusion in the magazine and website.

Fri 13 - Sun 15 July SOUND HEALING WITH NATURE Primrose Centre. Weekend retreat using the magical vibrations of sacred sound to deepen our connection with nature. £195 including food and accommodation. Details 01497 847636, paul.benham33@gmail.com, www.primroseearthcentre.co.uk Tues 17 & Wed 18 July “WHAT IS THE TRUTH, I COME TO BEAR WITNESS ON THE TRUTH” Brother Martin Sahajananda comes from the Shantivanam Ashram with spiritual guidance from Bede Griffiths, a leading exponent of Hindu-Christian dialogue. All welcome. Adforton, 10am-12.30pm and 6-8pm each day, £10 for charities in India, 01568 770436.

Sun 29 July MEET THE FAERIES WITH NATURE SPIRITS WORKSHOP Do you believe in faeries? Healer and intuitive psychic Semele Xerri helps you to establish a personal connection with the faery and elemental kingdoms, so vividly conjured up in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, 2-5pm, £5, 01597 811487.

Sat 4 August THE BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF GOD A second retreat day led by Paula Jacobs. www.sufiorder.org.

The Hall Barn, Bleddfa, near Knighton, 10.30am-4.30pm,. £25, please bring packed lunch, soup, tea and coffee will be provided, 01547 550377.

Sat 4 & Sun 5 August ANIMAL COMMUNICATION & ANIMAL MEDIUMSHIP Two day workshop. The Black Hill Horse Training, Old Shawls Farm, Craswall, www.ginalmurray.com or 0781 2035459.

Sun 5 August HERBAL MEDICINE WORKSHOP Expert medical herbalist Sally Owen M.N.I.M.H. takes an in-depth look at herbal medicine and the role it plays in Shakespeare, in particular A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, 2-5pm, £5, 01597 811487.

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A BLOSSOMING SANGHA ‘The Sangha’ is a gathering of people that exists to provide a sacred space in which spirituality can be explored both at a personal as well as a communal level.

Up until August we shall be exploring stories collected from a number of faith traditions and welcoming guests to lead some of our gatherings. Dates for the Sangha meetings at Adforton Church are 6th & 20th June; 4th & 18th July; 8th & 22 August from 10.00-12.30. Contact Rev Mike Catling 01547 540235 or mikecat7@btinternet.com for more information.

HEALING WORKSHOPS @ THE TON FARM NEAR HAY ON WYE James Coombes and Val Harris invite you to join them on their Sacred Sound Healing Retreats. These healing retreats, held in a spectacular location 600ft up in the Wye Valley, are for anyone needing to find their way back to a more simple way of being. For further information or to make a booking please contact Val Harris 01497 831289 or visit the website www.thetonfarm.com BEGINNERS TAROT READING CLASSES One evening a week for 8 weeks. Hay Clinic, 0781 2035459.

RITES OF PASSAGE Women’s art psychotherapy groups covering a wide range of issues - menopause/depression/loss/motherhood. Also a mixed group called SURVIVORS OF ABUSE, a safe and confidential group beginning soon to explore safely the trauma of early abuse and domestic violence using imagery and materials to express the unconcious and traumatic memory. Led by art psycho-therapist for many years, specialist in trauma and abuse, Juliet Asher, pg.Dip.A.T. (Bacp) 01588 640491.

HEDGEROW MEDICINE, KITCHEN PHARMACY Practical herbal medicine making courses throughout the year in rural Herefordshire. Taught by experienced herbalist Rowan McOnegal in her herb garden and eco home. Ring 01531 670075 or visit www.rowanmconegal.co.uk Mondays YOGA AT MOCCAS VILLAGE HALL Small group class in the evenings, suitable for anyone, with or without experience. Please contact Nicky Jaques for further details 07817 268689, nickyjaquesyoga@gmail.com Last Monday HEREFORDSHIRE PALESTINE SUPPORT GROUP Usually meet last Monday 7.45 at Friends Meeting House, King St. Hereford. herefordpsc@wyrdweb.com Weds MEDITATION CLASSES IN HEREFORD These practical classes - perfect for beginners show how anyone can use meditation in their daily life to find peace and happiness. Classes are led by Buddhist monk, Kelsang Khechog and consist of guided meditations, some simple explanations on how to practice followed by discussion and refreshments. The Friends Meeting House, 21 King St, Hereford, HR4 9BX. Cost £5 (£3 unwaged), 7.30pm. For more information and dates call 01384 569956 or visit www.meditatejlc.org. Each class is self-contained, so come along to one, several or all.

First and Third Thursday THE BLEDDFA MEDITATION GROUP The Hall Barn, The Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, 01547 550377.

Fridays MEDITATION CLASSES IN LUDLOW New for 2012 these meditation classes are suitable for everyone, including beginners. Classes are led by Kadampa teacher Mandy Nicol and include guided meditations and discussion. 1.00 - 2.30pm at the Friends Meeting House, St Mary’s Lane, Ludlow SY8 1DZ, cost £5 (£3 unwaged). For more information call 01384 569956 or visit www.meditatejlc.org . Classes run throughout March with no class on March 2nd, no need to book - just turn up.