Broad Sheep June 13

BROAD she e p

june 2013

What’s On - Herefordshire & The Marches

Vintage History I

WAS poking around in my cupboard yesterday, looking for a large to small jack plug adapter, when I stumbled across the first published issue of Broad Sheep. To my horror, I realised it was dated December 1992 and we’d just missed a fabulous marketing opportunity. ‘The 20th Anniversary Facsimile Memorial Issue of Broad Sheep Magazine’ blah, blah, blah. Still, since I’m not that clever about years and dates and things it’s not surprising that it skipped my mind, but better late than never and anyway it’s high time we jumped on the vintage bandwagon.

The first issue is a photocopied four-page affair. It contains three adverts and although it’s layed up in black and white with prit-stick and photocopied illustrations, courtesy Robert Crumb, it does look like the print was produced by Nicola on some early word processor (BBC, Sinclair?). The listings are just music gigs, but it’s comforting to see some familier names there - Blake III, The Hoola Boola Boys, Joe Le Taxi and strangely enough Johnny G, who although I haven’t seen him for years, I’ve just booked to play at The Fair in the Square in Hay next week.

Anyway here is the first ever editorial which serves two purposes. 1. To show how little our philosophy has changed. 2. It saves me writing one this afternoon - (writer’s block!)

sheep

BROAD Contents

Small Ads 4 Hugh’ bit 6 Art 8 Art workshops 12 Cinema 18 Dance 22 Food 24 Music 26 Music workshops 41 Venues 43 Band directory 44 Theatre 46 Word 50 Green pages 54 Comp therapies 56 We take no responsibility for the veracity of the information herein

Pete Mustill Mayfield, Stapleton, Nr Presteigne, Powys LD8 2LS Tel: 01544 260051 Email: info@broadsheep.com Website: www.broadsheep.com

Cover pic: Puppet Extravaganza, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow - 14-16 June

3

small ads

4

BUILDING PLOT FOR SALE Full planning permission for detached house of 154 sq. m. Site is 572 sq. m., elevated and with ancient stone walls and in Kington Conversation Area. Tel: 01584 711106.

FOR SALE 5-STRING ELECTRIC BASS GUITAR IBANEZ EDB-405 £180 o.n.o. Double bass 1/2 size by A.Zellor with bow, pirastro strings and soft case. Quality student instrument. £950 o.n.o. hugh@landscapera.co.uk 01547 520339.

THE VINYL SPINNER, ANDY RAINBOW, DJ DISCOS 70s, 80s, 90s. Also blues, rock, folk, funk, punk, jazz, lounge. Vast vinyl collection. Needs to be played.

Call me:- 07969 857639.

EDITING, PROOFREADING, REWRITING, COPYWRITING, PUBLICITY. Professional standards, reasonable rates. Simon Gwynn MSfEP. 01547 550329.

THERAPY/TREATMENT ROOM IN PRESTEIGNE – Lovely room; privacy, parking, etc. Available Mondays and Thursdays plus some times on Tuesdays. Also good space for evening and weekend small groups, meetings etc. Reasonable rates. Jane.cooke@heartfeltwork.co.uk 07771 950899 DRUM LESSONS @ KJM STUDIOS Professional setup, fully equipped rooms, all styles covered, beginners welcome! FREE LESSON WHEN YOU QUOTE ‘BROAD SHEEP’. Call 07969 168921 or couchslouch_@hotmail. com MUSIC LESSONS Learn to play the piano accordion or piano. All ages welcome, no previous experience necessary. Contact Angela Whitlock (Cert Ed.) Tel: 01497 847422 or email enquiries@celtic-hay.co.uk REHEARSAL / RECORDING, GREAT LOCATION. Lots of space. Email for details: ralph. whitehead213@btinternet.com ODD-JOBBERS AVAILABLE for house cleaning; sorting/ reorganising cupboards, sheds and garages; light decorating; gardening; laundry; house and pet sitting.

Honest, reliable, hardworking females. Reasonable rates.

Call Sarah: 07931 302219 or Val: 07972 462887 email: bailval@yahoo.com BEEKEEPING TUITION Want to keep bees but don’t know where to begin? Our Bee Ready weekend course aims to give you the basic information, experience and confidence to keep your own bees in 2013. Small groups allow opportunities to handle bees under supervision and time to answer your particular questions. Held on our family smallholding on the Worcestershire/Herefordshire border. Places available for our next course on June 1st and 2nd. Email hill_phillipson@btinternet.com or ring 01886 884752 for more information.

LEARN TO PLAY THE PIANO ACCORDION. All ages and abilities welcome, from total, absolute, can’t-read-anote-of-music beginners up to grade 5. For more information call Ed Moseley, any day or time on 01694 724 729 or 07813 520 282.

VIOLIN LESSONS from qualified, experienced teacher.

All ages and abilities. John Hymas, 01544 260220.

WOMEN’S WALKING GROUP for seasonal day hikes around the Borders on weekdays or occasional weekends.

An opportunity to connect with nature and each other.

Contact Carol womenwalktheborders@gmail.com JAZZ PIANO TUITION A specially created course for beginners through to intermediate level students.

Also coaching for Associated Board jazz exams.

Now taking students in Presteigne and surrounding area.

Simon Deeley, 07890 303681. simon.deeley@cooptel.net

GUITAR LESSONS jazz, rock, funk, pop, metal. Finn Francis, diploma in music, gigging musician, Presteigne.

T:07971 369845 E:finn_francis@yahoo.com WANTED: GARAGING FOR CLASSIC CAR in or (very) near Presteigne. Must be secure, dry and if possible with electricity. Can rent long-term or buy the right property and would consider other storage options. Call Mark on 01544 260889.

PRESTEIGNE.ORG.UK ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS FROM ONLY 50P PER WEEK 1000 direct unique hits per month, top of the page on Google when you type in Presteigne, all administrative work done by volunteers, project is not for profit. SUPPORT YOUR TOWN WEBSITE. Very cheap rates: 50p per week, or full page £1 per week. For more information go to Website Presteigne.org.uk, email jtennanteyles@gmail.com or Telephone James Tennant-Eyles on 01544 267363.

PROOFREADING documents, books, publicity material, websites; AUDIO TYPING (send your MP3 file via email); COPY TYPING and editing (CVs, theses, no job too small). For professional and reliable work at reasonable rates contact Christina tel. 01432 853159 mob 07759978302 email cjfoxmoonfleet@gmail.com.

HARMONY CLASSES Classically trained musician offers tuition for all ages and stages. Individual and group lessons to start in Presteigne in the spring. Expressions of interest to nicholasbenda@hotmail.com or 01544 260139.

TWO BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY PROPERTIES IN NEW RADNOR Sleep 10 & 14, both with wood-burners, hot tubs, trampolines and extensive grounds. Ideal for group holidays and family reunions. Full white linen service and 5* graded. Tel: 01544 350456. www.radnorhillsholidaycottages.com

BROAD sheep check out the web site �� ���������

�� ���� �����

����������

��������

���������������������������������������

���������������������������������������

www.broadsheep.com ADVERTISE IN BROAD sheep and you will now automatically appear in the online magazine as well!

1/16 page 1/8 page 1/8 page colour 1/6 page 1/4 page 1/4 page colour 1/3 page 1/2 page 1/2 page colour Full page Full colour ads

£20 £30 £38 £45 £55 £75 £80 £90 £120 £160 £210

FOOD BYTES DIRECTORY, BAND DIRECTORY & COMP. MED. DIRECTORY £40/year SMALL ADS 15p /word One Year’s Subscription £20 All cheques made out to Broad Sheep For more details phone our Sales Hotline 01544 260051 or email info@broadsheep.com

Make sure you get your adverts and free event details to us by the 15th of the preceding month and send them to our email info@broadsheep.com 5

hugh’s bit

Wipe Out: a digital delirium FIT THE FIRST: Last night’s nightmare. My world was deprived of the 3rd dimension, i.e. depth, and everything went flat. Flatworld had come to pass. My inner space turned into a screen, an interface. Web-sites, documents, films, spread-sheets, out of focus jpegs, news clips and wave-forms vyed for space and flashed across my synapses like an indiscriminate music video made by a brat on speed. The browser reeled off strings of random symbols and took me off to an obscure band from Powys(http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=aQ6vFyVPc9s) whilst fragments of a photoshop image I’d been working on rained down like the after effects of a tornado in a city dump. Windscreen wipers were then attached to my lobe-to-lobe visual dream-field and after each pass of the blade a different scene appeared – Mexican mesas (never been there), wipe, Manhattan (never been there either), wipe, caves in the Pyrenees (nope) plus other Google Earth sites I have never visited, but more and more often the M1 came through, wipe, near Watford, wipe, as though my car was a simulator rather than an actual XJ6, at which point the nightmare became all too fully 4 dimensional and I crashed into an oncoming panda bear the size of Westminster Bridge, Wipe-out and I woke up ..... at home, partly in my own bed.

So after a nice cup of tea I pulled out my internet connection.

FIT THE SECOND: Last month I briefly owned a DumbPhone. To be sure you could text, you could call, you could e-mail on the move, if you had that much to say, and you could doodle away on its apps. It played music very badly; it took inadequate pictures and through a tiny window I could reach a billion flatworld Internet sites, exposing myself to the unremitting blizzard of halfbaked information that forms the entire surface (and there is only surface in a 2 dimensional universe) of the flatscreen world. Which is when my hand-held spending device came into its own, inviting me to impulse buy all the other superficial tat I didnt need.

The real seduction, the real secret of its marketability is not its valid uses in the physical world, which I don’t deny, but because it is a Tamagotchi phone, an electronic pet, a distraction device, a highly-evolved fiddle gadget with just enough real functions to justify the owner petting and stroking it all day for the timid little pleasures it provides. It replaces the shamed cigarette as a cool accessory. You’re never alone with an iPhone.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, says: “Smartphones are emasculating”; another commentator says they are onanistic. Meanwhile your mechanical pet has an invisible umbilical siphon to psychobankers’ accounts domiciled on a fleet of asteroids beyond the Cloud in off-planet tax-worlds, with a navel /port so discrete that you hardly notice its effects until the monthly vertigo overtakes you when you are forced by cloven-hoofed bailiffs to look down into the pool of red hot debt that boils and spits and threatens to engulf you in the Etna – like financial abyss of your loans and mortgages.

6

FIT THE THIRD: Looking back through my life I have found it hard enough to concentrate, so I do not want to be seduced into a new addiction, a new distraction. I gave up smoking 20 years ago, I threw out the TV 25 years ago, and I’ve fought with alcohol for 50; now I am putting up the barricades a fourth time, to stop myself from being colonised yet again. I keep a nasty little netbook for my e-mail, and a mobile that cost £5 from Woollies’ way back in the 20th C., whose battery incidentally lasts weeks without recharging. I am retreating from the 21st C. - to the tune of Jerusalem: ♫ Bring me my horse, my horse a-and cart, bring me my errors of de-sire ♫ .... receding line by line into the sunset.

I have been trying to understand the extraordinary thing that has happened over the last 20 years. A Pied Piper has led my children and then me into a digital labyrinth with signs and wonders, icons, sigils, key strokes, jingles and twitches of the mouse and then vanished, leaving no Ariadnian thread of escape. I’m marooned in a version of Portal 2 which has more dead-ends than the maze at Hampton Court. But you will never find the key to the Universe, the secret of eternal life, your raison d’etre, or the Holy Grail as you search the labyrinthine net, despite all the entries in Wikipedia, nor will you find a Minotaur to kill, squatting at its heart, guarding the Origin of the World, because he has already vanished from these shrunken dimensions with sackfuls of asteroidal loot to return to the good life back in the 10th C. BC, back when maidens were briefly maidens and a psychopath could enjoy himself naked and drunk, huntin’, shootin’, and rapin’ throughout the great Arcadian outdoors, in a midsummer dream, without all the moral deodorants and the inhibiting zootsuits that are required of 21st C. digital psychobankers.

Coda: I have now recovered the 2 or 3 hours that the Internet stole from me each day. I have pulled out the plug. I have returned my DumbPhone with its ring of power to the Orange pit from whence it came. Thus I will save approx. 1,000 hours of waking consciousness p.a., which I can dedicate to keeping the holy water of my indignation permanently boiling, while watching the infinite variations of the River Teme as it flows past my house, all in that most challenging format 4 dimensions.

As if to punish me for my low attitude to 2D virtuality and my out-of-date adherence to spatial intelligence, so much older than words, and the multidimensional riches not only of this world, but of the imagination too, the drains at my gaffe all broke down between the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs and I spent the next 12 hours up to my hocks in slurry, which is uniformly unpleasant in all dimensions, up, down, sideways and on-going. I now have a domestic hero gold star awarded by the wife, stuck like a postage stamp on the only 5 sq. cm. of me which is not clart, which just might make it all worthwhile.

The question remains: Does your TV, smartphone, tablet or computer take more than it gives?

Here endeth the lesson.

Hugh Colvin (c) 2013

LETTERS Dear Pete I moved from Birmingham to beautiful Shropshire twelve years ago, which I guess makes me a man from off.

Birmingham’s cultural scene was extensive, my entertainments calendar was crammed and friends despaired over the fact that I was moving to a cultural desert. Well: you know how short-sighted they were. There’s much to occupy me here as there ever was in the big city and Broad Sheep proved to be a better guide to the overall entertainment scene than anything I’d used before. Many thanks for an excellent publication.That’s the good news. Now read on...

I realise that without you, there’s no Broad Sheep, and that you can do pretty well what you like with it, but you really ought to farm out your editorials to a disinterested critic before they go to print. To be brutal, they’re not funny, despite what your friends and family might think. April’s Peter and the Silver Train was embarrassing and likewise May’s Another Country, which had the added disadvantage of being loaded with left-wing misinformation about Margaret Thatcher. You’ll throw your hands up at this point and howl ‘Oh God, not another Disgusted of Shropshire’, because I’ll bet you’ve had quite a mailbag. Nevertheless, I want my turn, so here goes, with a few facts and observations...

• The Falklands have been in dispute for centuries and Argentina came fairly late to the table. Whatever, these days it’s just not done to sail mob-handed into sovereign Territory and say ‘It’s ours now’. Were we supposed to say ‘Okay, it’s only a bit of rock with a couple of thousand inhabitants loyal to GB: take it, it’s yours’. A dangerous precedent.

• You clearly don’t remember the miners’ strikes, the three-day week and the millions of lost working days occasioned by endless strikes in the sixties and seventies.

When I lived in Birmingham it became a regular sight, driving down the dual carriageway of Bristol Road South, opposite The Austin (it was always The Austin, despite the various guises the factory took on) to see thousands of workers gathered on the central reservation, out again at the behest of Derek Robinson – Red Robbo – whose avowed intent, like that of Arthur Scargill, was to bring down the Thatcher government – or any government, for that matter. The demonstration of union muscle was all and that’s why Thatcher fought them. Too late, though, to repair the damage that union action had caused: who, do you imagine, would invest in an industry that couldn’t guarantee its workers to the production line? I lived a couple of miles from The Austin, and had friends who worked on that line who were unanimous in their view that union action, not Margaret Thatcher, had destroyed Longbridge. And incidentally, do you know that while the Thatcher government closed 160 pits, the Wilson government closed 290?

• The £10 million Thatcher funeral cost was a kneejerk initial suggestion. Latest – rational – estimates hover around £3.5 million. That’s still a lot, I admit, but set against a prime minister who fought for and won an annual £3.5 billion rebate from the feckless EU, it’s a bargain. A bargain, too, to celebrate the last prime minister we will ever see who spoke her mind, stuck to her principles and never relied on focus groups or UKIP protest votes to tell her what to say to the electorate.

There – that’s got that off my chest. A final point: if you really want to go political in your fine magazine, take a swipe at the cuts to arts funding promoted by successive governments. You, too, could be threatened...

With best wishes John Eden

KING OF THE SESSION (Sung to the tune of ‘King of the Swingers’) I’m a bit of an anarchist and music’s in my blood I’d play reggae, Vivaldi and a tango if I could A bit of folk, a bit of blues, a bit of razzma tazz But I never seemed to master the art of playing jazz When I go to sessions it always surprises me If I meet someone who sings a song and then will disagree, If someone else sings out of turn or just not quite in key He’ll pull a face and then he’ll say he’s not as good as me Chorus u u u wanna be like you u u I wanna be a muso too I saw someone the other day that acted like the queen And wanted to place some order on a rather informal scene.

We’re are all here to enjoy ourselves and not be downright mean and Must congratulate Will and Fay for the session in Presteigne Chorus Oh OH OH wanna be like you u u I wanna be a muso too

Norrie Davies

Huw Morris Unique Garden Buildings & Benches all made from locally sourced and reclaimed materials

Tel: 01547 560225 Mob: 07980 116847 www.designswithnature.co.uk

7

art POWYS St Michael’s Church, Discoed, near Presteigne 01547 560246 Until 2 June Ceramic Exhibition.

Offsite event as part of Hay Festival. SUE BINNS, JASON BRAHAM, CLARE CROUCHMAN, LOWRI DAVIES, STUART HOUGHTON, CORINNA KENYONWADE, GILL LAVERICK, WENDY LAWRENCE, SOPHIE MACCARTHY, SUSAN O’BYRNE, BRYONY RICH, NICOLA RICHARDS, COLIN SAUNDERS AND KATE SCHURICHT. Open daily 11am-5pm. Full details at www.discoed.org. Ceramics from £20 available for purchase.

Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes SY18 6BY 01686 413467 8 July 0 7 Sept The Quilt Association Summer Show. A mix of antique and contemporary quilts with fabric, books and sundries for sale. There is also a full programme of workshops and talks. Mon-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm, £3.50/£3, www.quilt.org.uk The Old School Gallery, Beddfa Centre, near Knighton 01547 550377 www.bleddfacentre.com 1 - 22 June ‘Celebration of Being’.

JOAN BAKER - paintings.

29 June - 27 July ‘Journeys Through Life and its Souvenirs’. ROB FOUNTAIN & BRIAN LAMMAS ceramics, drawings, paintings and prints. Open Wed-Sun, 2-5pm.

Knighton Library 01547 528778 18 June - 6 July Art for Amnesty 2013.

MARIA CLAYFIELD - bird photographs. Tues 9.30am-7pm, Wed & Sat 9.30am-1pm, Thurs & Fri 9.30am-5.30pm.

Hay Makers, St John’s Place, Hay-on-Wye 01497 8200556 Until 13 July Festival Exhibition.

LIZ TOOLE - prints. JAMES BURNETT-STUART - ceramics.

NANCY PICKARD & SARAH PACKINGTON - jewellery.

CORNELIUS VAN DOP - jewellery boxes. Open Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm.

Kate Modern Gallery, Lion St., Hay-on-Wye 07778 516705 Until 2 June Exhibition of KATE FREEMAN’S new abstract paintings ‘Dancing Through the Fire’. Open daily 11am - 7pm and by appointment.

8

The Little Gallery, Montgomery 01686 668866 8 June - 30 July DAVID WHILEY landscapes. Mon-Sat 10am-5.30pm.

Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth 01654 703355 Until 8 June ‘Synthesis’. MARTIN HERBERT. Until 22 June ‘In My Father’s Eye’.

MARGARET SMITH. Until 26 June WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY OF WALES. 17 June - 7 Sept DAPHNE HURN 1 July - 7 Sept ARTHUR CHARLES KEMP - from the Tabernacle Collection. Mon-Sat 10am-4pm.

Radnorshire Museum & Gallery, Temple St, Llandrindod Wells 01597 824513 Until 20 July LLANDRINDOD WELLS ART CLUB. Tues-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm, Bank Holidays 10am-4pm.

The Lion Street Gallery, Hay-on-Wye 01497 822900 Until 30 June Hay Festival Show.

Work on show from twenty-five artists working in Wales today. Open seven days a week during festival. Open Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm, closed Sun. The Thomas Shop, Maesyfed, Penybont, Llandrindod Wells 01597 851951 June Local arts and crafts, wool emporium, cafe, shop and museum.

Open Fri - Sun 10am-5pm.

Shepherd’s Ice Cream Parlour, 9 High Town, Hay-on-Wye 01497 821898 June SEREN BELL - drawings using pen, ink and crayon of animals in the landscape. Open 9.30am-5.30pm.

The Salem Gallery, The Salem Baptist Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay-on-Wye Until 2 June RICHARD GREATREX - photographs.

Oscar-nominated and BAFTA winning cinematographer, presents his latest still photographic work. 10am-6pm.

Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells 01982 552555 Tues - Sun 5.30pm-9pm.

Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown 01686 625041 Until 14 June ‘Lens & Feather’.

JUSTINE COOK. Until 14 June ‘Call the World Brother’.

ABERYSTWYTH ARTS CENTRE & PANOS PICTURES - photographs.

29 June - 4 Sept ‘Be Our Guest’.

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

Ivy House Gallery, Montgomery 01686 668746 June Local artists and locally produced crafts. Open daily 9am-5pm.

Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 01544 260777 1 June Arts & Craft Fair. A selection of gifts made by local artisans. 9am-3pm.

Tower House Gallery, 29 High St, Knighton 01547 529530 June PHIL LANE - photographs.

The India & China Tea Company.

Refreshments available. Wed-Sat 9.30am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mon & Tues.

Mid Wales Arts Centre, Maesmawr Art Gallery, Caersws 01686 688369 Until 18 Aug ‘Relative Vaules’. NICKY & PETER ARSCOTT, AMY STERLY, ELLEN THORPE, STEFAN & IVAN KNAPP. Until 27 Oct ‘Past, Present, Future’.

New sculpture trail. Carved stone sculptures by 3 generations of master sculptors with local connections: JOHN PADDISON, NICK LLOYD, RHYS JONES, JEAN LAWLEY MAITLAND, SAFFRON WAGHORN AND RICHARD BROWN. Other sculptures by JOHN LAVRIN, DAVID WADE, AMBROSE BURNE, GEMMA HUGHES, MARJA BONADO, DAWN HARRIS AND STEFAN KNAPP. From 2 June ‘Astronomical Landscapes’. CHRIS WILLIAMS - sculptures made from wood-sourced and inspired in Mid Wales.

2 June - 7 July New Felt Design.

NICOLA KNAPTON - felt picture making.

From 11 July ‘Farming The Old Kingdom’. CHRIS CLUNN photographs. Thurs-Sun 11am-4pm.

Rhayader Museum & Gallery 01597 810561 Until 18 Aug ‘Finding Rhayader 2 People and Places’. Open 10am-4pm.

The Andrew Lamont Gallery, Theatr Brycheiniog, Canal Walk, Brecon 01874 611622 Until 30 June ‘Dynamic Visions’.

HELEN & STUART ABSALOM paintings. Mon-Sat 9.30am-5pm.

The Gallery, Theatr Hafren, Newtown 01686 614555 Until mid June ANTHONY BUTTERFIELD - paintings.

Open theatre times.

No. 46 Wine Bar, High St, Presteigne 01544 262675 From 13 June New art exhibition with new resident artists. Open bar times.

The Workhouse Studio, Presteigne Industrial Estate 01544 267864 Interesting and unusual gifts for all.

Plus rare antique carpets and kilims.

Cafe. Tues-Sat 10am-4pm.

Alison McGregor Grimley, Llanfair Waterdine Arts and Garden Festival Phil Lane, Tower House Gallery, Knighton

Seren Bell, Shepherd’s Ice Cream Parlour, Hay-on-Wye

Doug Eaton, Apple Store Gallery, Hereford

Norrie Davies, Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell

HEREFORDSHIRE Dots Gallery, 41 Broad St, Bromyard, HR7 4BT 01885 483458 Original art, ceramics and jewellery.

Plus bespoke picture framing service.

Open Mon-Sat 10am-4pm.

Dorstone’s Front Room (across from The Pandy Inn) 01981 550777 June SALLY CORRICK - photographs of the Golden Valley. Open Mon-Fri 9am-1pm.

Fabazaar, St Leonard’s Church, Yarpole, HR6 0BD www.fabazaar.co.uk 1 & 2 June Artists, makers and designers. Textiles, metals, ceramics, edibles, usables and objet du monde.

Open 10am-4.30pm.

Wyevale Garden Centre, Hereford 07713 693018 June THE PEDLARS TRAY suppliers of craft materials, doll’s houses and accessories, and local hand-crafted gifts. Grand reopening on Saturday 1st June 9am.

Tinsmiths, Tinsmith Alley, 8 High St, Ledbury 01531 632083 www.tinsmiths.co.uk Until 16 June KATE FARLEY - printed textiles and limited edition prints.

Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm.

Hereford Cathedral 01432 374261 Until 2 June Palace Art Fest.

An exhibition of work by over 40 artists staged in The Bishop’s Palace.

Open 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm.

May Mappa Mundi & Chained Library exhibition. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, last admission 4.30pm.

Lion Gallery, Broad St, Leominster 01568 611898 June TAMSIN ABBOTT - stained glass, alongside sheep-themed work for Leominster Festival. Plus an eclectic mix of English arts and crafts.

Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

Kington Festival, town centre, www.kingtonfestival.co.uk 8 June ‘Kington Past and Present Day - Back to the Future’. The town centre is closed to traffic and the whole place will be a day of crafts, events, exhibits and a festival of rural, environmental and renewable energy. 10am-4pm, free.

Hereford Arts College, Folly Lane, Hereford 01432 273359 15 - 19 June Hereford College of Arts Summer Show 2013. Sat & Sun 11am-3pm, Mon-Wed 11am-8pm.

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

10

National Trust Croft Castle & Parkland, near Leominster, HR6 9PW 01584 891659 www.meadowarts.org, www.nationaltrust.org.uk/croftcastle Until 3 Nov ‘Time Will Tell’. A Meadow Arts exhibition of contemporary art.

6 May ‘The House of Fairy Tales’.

‘Artchaeologists’ in a day of surreal adventure and mystery making.

Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad St., Hereford 01432 260692 Until 19 June ‘Alchemy of Stone’.

DAVID ENGLAND - sculpture and drawings.

29 June - 1 Sept ‘River Life: Angling on the Wye’. Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm.

All Saints Church Cafe, Hereford 01432 370414 1 June Exhibition by local artist. Open Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm.

Leominster Library 01432 383290 1 - 7 June ‘Sheepscape 11’. Wool and sheep related art and craft displays.

Part of Leominster Festival. Open Tues & Fri 9am-5.30pm, Wed & Thurs 9am-7.30pm, Sat 9.30am-4pm, closed Mon. Market House Heritage Centre, Ross-on-Wye 01432 260675 June Various arts and crafts from local artists. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10.30am-4pm.

Blue Ginger Gallery, Home End Farm, Stiffords Bridge, Cradley, Malvern 01886 880140 June ‘A Passion for Stitch & Textiles’.

ANGIE HUGHES, KATHLEEN MURPHY, ANITA HUNT & MARIETERESE KING. Wed-Sun 10am-5.30pm.

Hampton Court, near Leominster 01432 261818 6 & 7 July Design for Living Show 2013. High quality makers, creative industries and specialist businesses, all designing for the home and garden.

The Courtyard, Hereford 01432 340555 Until 14 July BETH RICHARDSON - paintings.

Until 14 July GARETH EVANS - acrylic and oil on wooden and found objects.

Throughout the year ALLOY JEWELLERS - exciting range of jewellery and silverware.

Open theatre times.

St Hellens, Much Marcle 01531 828664 3 & 4 July Textile Bazaar. Plus workshops and lectures, £1 entry to bazaar, email bailey@baileycurtis.com

British Legion Hall & Central Bakery, Leominster 1 - 9 June ‘Portrait of Leominster’.

Leominster in 30 images: HEREFORD COLLEGE OF ART Photography students and lecturers.

Open 2.30-5.30pm daily. Part of Leominster Festival.

Barber & Manuel, Leominster 1 - 8 June BRONTE WOODRUFF & JULENNE BRAHAM. Exploring the Leominster Festival’s sheep theme.

Open shop opening hours.

Granary Cafe & Tea Room, Leominster 01568 614290 1 - 8 June ‘Musical Monster Retrospective’. Revisit 1998 musical extravaganza in Corn Square.

Brainchild of Hugh Colvin. Part of Leominster Festival.

Leominster Priory 1 - 9 June ‘Mixing It Up’. Multimedia art with exhibits for sale.

Part of Leominster Festival.

Weavers Gallery, Church Lane, Ledbury, HR8 1DW Until 9 June KAREN BERZACK & GILLIAN HANCOCK - crafts and paintings. Open daily, 10am-5pm.

Parkfields Gallery, Ross-on-Wye 01989 565266 June New work by gallery artists.

Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

Monnow Valley Arts, Middle Hunt House, Walterstone, Hereford, HR2 0DY 01873 860529 Until 30 June ‘Material Words’.

RICHARD KINDERSLEY - new ideas and definitions of letterforms.

Until 30 June ‘Illuminated Optimism’. TASHI MANNOX Buddhist inspired calligraphy.

Open Wed - Fri 11am-5pm, weekends 2pm-5pm.

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

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

Open Mon - Sat 10am-5pm.

Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Foregate St, Worcester 01905 25371 Until 8 June ‘Treasure Me: Worcester’s Art Collection’.

Until 8 June ‘Top 10 Treasures’.

Until 8 June ‘My Generation’ Pictures from the fifties to the noughties.

22 June - 31 Aug ‘Secret Egypt: Unravelling Truth From Myth’.

Until 2 Nov ‘A Pint In The Museum’.

History of Worcester’s pubs and publicans. Open Tues-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm.

Old Chapel Gallery, Pembridge 01544 388842 Throughout the summer Garden Sculpture. Work in a variety of media to include stoneware, stone resin, forged iron and carved stone.

June Hay Festival Exhibition. FRANS WESSELMAN, ALAN PERCY WALKER, KUMAR SARAFF, MARY RICH, IRIS MILWARD & RUTH SHELLEY - etchings, stained glass, watercolours, ceramics and glass.

Mon-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm.

Apple Store Gallery 3 Bridge St, Hereford 01432 378436 Until 1 June ‘Woman to Woman’.

VIVIENNE SOLE & JANE TUDGE. Plus MAZ WINSTANLEY - paintings.

4 June - 6 July Exhibition of paintings, drawings and ceramics by MICHAEL B EDWARDS & FRIENDS, including DOUG EATON, NIGEL LAMBERT & MARIETTE VOKE. Tues-Fri, 9.30am4.30pm, Sat 10am-1pm.

Hereford College of Technology, Folly Lane, Hereford 0800 032 1986 25 - 27 June Creative Crafts exhibition.

Furniture, design, fashion, blacksmithing, soft furnishing, millinery. Open Tues 10am-8pm, Wed 10am-4pm, Thurs 10am-2pm.

SHROPSHIRE Assembly Rooms, Ludlow 01584 878141 Until 22 June Gwasg Gregynog, The Harmony of Art and Craft.

HILARY PAYNTER, RIGBY GRAHAM, COLIN SEE-PAYNTON & KYFFIN WILLIAMS - limited edition prints.

Plus a selection of hand-bound Gwasg Gregynog Private Press books.

Open theatre times.

Everest Hall & St Mary’s Church, Llanfair Waterdine 01547 510672 www.llink.org.uk/art.html 29 & 30 June Llanfair Waterdine Arts and Garden Festival. Featuring many local artists with the emphasis on affordable art. Also MARCHES BOOK ART GROUP will be exhibiting in the church. Six gardens open along the Teme Valley and refreshments available in the Everest Hall.

Open Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm.

Aardvark Books, The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell 01547 530888 June NORRIE DAVIES - paintings of local scenes. Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm.

THEGALLERY, 32 High St, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630555 June Contemporary arts and crafts including glass, ceramics, metal and wood, textiles, paintings, prints and jewellery. Thurs-Sat 11am-5pm.

The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury 01743 234970 Until 22 July ‘Creative Cure’. Two Shrewsbury based designers, who’ve been flexing their graphic and illustrative skills to create a fresh playground portfolio to showcase. Open Tues - Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-1pm.

The Old Surgery Gallery, 11 High St, Clun, Craven Arms 01588 640506 1 - 24 June JACQUELINE FLETCHER, DAVID HARBAN, PAUL HIPKISS, PAULINE KITELEY, WENDY LANTOS, TIM NASH, ANN-MONIQUE STELLINGA, NOEL SHEPHERDSON, JACQUE WAKELY AND DAVID WHITE. Ceramics; RALPH JANDRELL AND ANDREW MATHESON ceramics, LIN BROWN - jewellery.

From 26 June The Annual Print Show; see next month’s Broad Sheep for details of exhibitors. Open daily.

Rockfield Road, Hereford, HR1 2UA Open Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9am-5pm & the second Saturday in every month, 10am-3pm

An Aladdin’s cave of creative ideas and resources. Selling donated and reclaimed fabrics, modern and vintage; haberdashery, wools and textile miscellanea. www.greeneyedmonster.org.uk Tel: 01432 880862 / 01568 620307 Email: echo.info@echoherefordshire.co.uk Charity Number: 1096499

11

Twenty Twenty Gallery, 3-4 High St, Much Wenlock, TF13 6AA 01952 727952 Until 1 June Printmakers exhibition. A mixed exhibition of British printmakers.

8 June - 27 July Garden exhibition.

JANE ASKEY, HILARY MEE and more - mixed exhibition of contemporary art and craft. Open 10am-5pm, closed Sundays.

Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury 01743 281281 Until 16 June Shrewsbury International Cartoon Festival. This retrospective exhibition shows some of the best themed cartoons from previous years alongside photos and memories of the Festival’s first ten years.

Until 15 June DEAN ALSTON cartoons.

20 - 21 June ‘Emerge: S-CAT’.

Fashion show bringing together the work of the fashion students at SHREWSBURY COLLEGE OF ARTS & TECHNOLOGY. 7.30pm, £7.

Open Mon-Sat 11am-7pm.

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

Silk Top Hat Gallery, Quality Square, Ludlow 01584 875363 20 June Top Hat Tour to Chagall exhibition at Tate Liverpool, coach £20/£18 plus exhibition.

Until 22 June GRAHAM & ANN ARNOLD - recent paintings, drawings and collages.

Until 22 June DAVID HOWORTH garden and indoor sculptures.

Until 22 June MAX SUFFIELD. Until 22 June Isaac Smart’s Showcase JEMIMA JAMESON - decorated boxes.

OWEN THORPE - pots. MARIAN WATSON - silver jewellery. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.

Art & Craft Workshops Single listings are free.

Year round, ongoing workshops £40 per year

DROP-IN POTTERY SESSIONS AT EASTNOR POTTERY Through-out the Summer Eastnor Pottery will be offering individuals and families the chance to make pots on the potter’s wheel, model animals or make a plate, mug or clay sculpture. No minimum order and projects start at just £5. Just contact the Pottery to check availability, turn up and choose from our selection of inspiring projects. Tel 01531 633886 admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk

PRINTMAKING AND CREATIVE WORKSHOPS Day, weekend and weekly courses in Lino cutting, Etching, Drypoint, Embossing and Monoprint. Courses also available in collage, papermaking and left-handed knitting for beginners.

Contact Rebecca Davis, Almeley, Herefordshire, atelier.r00@gmail.com 01544 340688.

ART WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FREE OF CHARGE Are you 11 - 18 years old? Are you bored? Why not to try our Free Art sessions? Come to our art sessions on Wednesdays 4-6pm and you will be introduced to different art techniques by established local artists. Teme Valley Youth Project, Kings Meadow, Wigmore. Email: youthtvyp1@yahoo. co.uk, or call 01568 770110.

CREATIVE WILLOW Weekly classes exploring willow weaving techniques for basketmaking, 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 ASSEMBLY ROOMS WORKSHOPS Sat - SmART, art and craft club for 8-14 years, 10.30am-12.30pm, £35 per term, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 878141.

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 until mid September. Jane Meredith on jane@plantdyedwool.co.uk, www. plantdyedwool.co.uk. 01981 590370.

Sat 1 June LETTERING WORKSHOP With Richard Kindersley. Monnow Valley Arts, Walterstone, Hereford, 01873 860359.

Sat 8 June OFF THE WALL CREATIVE WORKSHOPS Photography for craftspeople with Brian Griffiths. Learn how to take studio quality photos of your work at home. Suitable for complete beginners. Either morning 10am-12.30pm or 1.30-4pm, £25 per session, includes refreshments. The White House Studio, Llangarron, Ross-onWye, 01989 770776, info@OffThe WallWorkshops.org.uk

12

13

Sat 15 June MEETING WITH TREES Creative day with Rebecca Hubbard and Jane Knott. The Hall Barn, Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, 10.30am-4.30pm, £35, 01923 266948, rebeccahubbard19@gmail. com, www.bleddfacentre.com Sat 15 June FINE ART PICTURES AND WALLHANGINGS IN FELT Led by Nicola Knapton. With the aid of Nicola, create a stunning picture in felt and fabric. if you can, bring a digital camera or mobile phone to capture the beautiful landscape, flora or fauna as inspiration. Suitable for anyone. Bring packed lunch, wellies and a change of shoes. The Bales, Brynmawr Farm, Newcastle on Clun, SY7 8QU, 10.30am-4.30pm, 01588 630666 or 07789 488657, jackyharrison51@hotmail.com to book. www.clunvalleyorganics.co.uk June TEXTILE WORKSHOPS 10 June - ‘Twinkling Brooches’ with Angie Hughes, 10am-12pm. 24 June - ‘Taking a Thread for a Walk’ with Kathleen Murphy, 10am-1pm. Blue

Ginger Gallery, Home End Farm, Stiffords Bridge, Cradley, Malvern, 01886 880240. www.blue-ginger.com

free, Leominster Museum. Part of Leominster Festival, 01568 616460, www.leominster-festival.co.uk.

June & July SIDNEY NOLAN TRUST 21 - 23 June - Intensive Book Arts Weekend with tutor Lin Charlston, £185/£125. 3-7 June & 1 - 5 July - Etching At the Rodd. With aluminium plate and copper sulphate.

Tutor Liza Harding. £35/£30 per day.

The Rodd, Presteigne, 01544 260149, info@sidneynolantrust.org, www.sidneynolantrust.org

June & July MID WALES ARTS CENTRE WORKSHOPS 5 & 6 June - Enamelling Master Class with Edward Heath, Cathy Knapp and Elizabeth Turrell. Supported by Glasu. Free tuition.

8 June - Enamelling Workshop Taster Session with Edward Heath and Cathy Knapp.

13 June - Felting Workshops with Nicola Knapton and Karen Gomm, £25 per session, materials included.

29 June - All Day Felting Workshop with Nicola Knapton and Karen Gomm, £40, materials included.

6 July - Basic Skills Photography with Richard Booth, lunch included £40.

13 July - Introduction to Landscape Photography with Richard Booth, lunch included £40. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Maesmawr, Caersws, 01686 688369.

June LEOMINSTER FESTIVAL 1 June - Storytelling, parachute games and crafts. Plus make a giant Art Attack sheep. Grange Court, Leominster, from 10am, free.

1 June - Have A Go Woolly Activity, Sheepshed, School Lane, Leominster, 11am-3pm, free. 3 June - Sheepthemed creative arts workshop.

Leominster Learning Centre, 11am-3pm. 6 June - Messy Church on sheep theme. Leominster Priory, 4-6pm, £2. 8 June - Make a Shepherd, craft workshop for children with spinning demonstration, 2-4pm,

arts & crafts

We ALFI

furniture makers

AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, PRESTEIGNE

Sat 1st june 9.30AM-3.30PM

Made to Measure Kitchens & Traditional Furniture

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

14

LOCAL ARTISTs WORKING WITH WOOD, WILLOW, WOOL, STONE, PAPER, silver and semi-precious stones Tea & vegan cakes

for details contact RosAmund 01544 260777

15

June GLEANINGS WORKSHOPS 22 & 23 June - Beginner’s Watercolour with Paul Priestley. £120 includes home-cooked lunches, plus refreshments. Booking essential.

29 & 30 June - Wildscape Photography with Jason Smalley.

Includes classroom sessions, location shoots and plenty of time exploring how to optimise and perfect images using Photoshop and Lightroom. £120 includes home-cooked lunches plus refreshments. Booking required by 10 June. Gleanings, Gravels Bank, near Minsterley, 01743 891412.

June WOOL & WILLOW FESTIVAL WORKSHOPS 2 June - Felt Hare Making with Ruth Packham.

3 June - Colour Your Knits with Sasha Kagan.

4 June - Nuno Felted Bowl with Chrissie Menzies.

6 June - Locker Hooking with Sue Clow.

7 June - Introduction to Upcycling with Samantha Boulanger. 8 & 9 June - Traditional Basket Making with Beryl Smith.

MORE THAN MEMORIALS

10 June - Felt Jewellery with Pat Johnson.

11 June - Willow Garden Baskets with Lois Grindey.

11 & 12 June - Weaving Loom with Steve Attwood Wright.

12 June - Needle Felting with Olwen Veevers.

13 June - Introduction to Feltmaking with Ali Scott.

14 June - Design & Colour with Sue Terry.

15 June - Plant Dyeing with Jane Meredith.

15 June - 3D Hollow Felt with Sue Terry.

16 June - Brinkley Loom Weaving with Jane Meredith.

17 June - Spinning with Lin Lorien.

18 June - Tunisian Crochet with Margaret Hughes.

19 June - Dyeing Wool with Acid Dyes with Steve Attwood Wright.

20 June - Introduction to Upcycling Part 2 with Samantha Boulanger.

21 June - Rag Rug Flowers, Garlands and Frames with Sue Clow.

22 & 23 June - Willow Frame Baskets with Mel Bastier.

24 June - Nuno Felted Scarf with Chrissie Menzies.

25 June - Weaving with Rush with Beryl Smith.

26 June - Willow Sculpture with Catherine Pudner.

27 June - Knitting in the Round with Lin Lorien.

28 June - Bavarian Crochet with Margaret Hughes.

29 June - Going Around with Maureen Preen.

All workshops run from 10.30am4.30pm and are mainly held at The Minerva Centre, Llanidloes, but check when booking. One day workshops £35, two day workshops £70. www.woolandwillowfestival.org Mondays & Wednesdays KNITTING CLUB & CRAFT CLUB Trumpet Corner Tea Rooms, Trumpet Crossroads, Ledbury, £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.

ART & ARTISAN Specialist Bookshop Books on Art Architecture Design Fashion, Textiles Gardens & Gardening also

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

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

16

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

01588 630435

www.artandartisanbooks.co.uk

17

cinema LINCOLN Like the recent HYDE PARK ON THE HUDSON, Steven Spielberg’s laudable but thoroughly involving LINCOLN is less biopic and more political thriller as the soon-to-beassassinated American president struggles with his adversaries, and indeed his own conscience, to abolish slavery as the Civil War still rages. Daniel Day Lewis, well versed in portraying formidable American characters – think GANGS OF NEW YORK– rises magnificently to the occasion portraying LINCOLN as a cunning, intellectual man operating behind a folksy façade, with Sally Field as his nervously supportive wife and a phalanx of fine actors playing characters ranged both for and against him including Tommy Lee Jones, Hal Holbrook, and David Strathairn. Dramatically intense and period-perfect to behold, LINCOLN rates as one of Spielberg’s finest achievements.

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, LUDLOW 3 & 4 June SPIRIT OF ‘45 (U) 4 - 6 June LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (15) 7 & 8 June THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (15) 10 & 11 June FIRST POSITION (U) 11 & 12 June A LATE QUARTET (15) 15 & 17 June IN THE HOUSE (DANS LA MAISON) (15) 18 & 19 June THE LOOK OF LOVE (18) 20 June BEYOND THE HILLS (DUP A DEALURI) (12A) 25 & 26 June PROMISED LAND (15) 29 June A HIJACKING (15) Details 01584 878141

BRECON FILM SOCIETY 3 June RUST AND BONE At Brecon Coliseum Cinema. Doors open at 7.15pm, start at 7.30pm 01874 623166

CONQUEST, BROMYARD 7 June LIFE OF PI (PG) 21 June LINCOLN (15) 5 July THE IMPOSSIBLE (12A) All at 8pm. Details 01885 488575.

29 & 30 June THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST (15) Details 01432 340555.

3 June THE SWEENEY (15) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 3 June THE SAPPHIRES (PG) Church Stretton School 01694 724330 3 June UNTOUCHABLE (2011) (15) Playhouse Cinema, The Community Centre, Leominster 01568 612583 7 June LES MISERABLES (2012) (12A) Fownhope Memorial VH 01432 860717 8 June QUARTET (12A) Cleobury Mortimer Parish Hall 01299 270830 8 June LES MISERABLES (2012) (12A) Clun Memorial Hall 01588 640254

COURTYARD, HEREFORD

18

Until 5 June I’M SO EXCITED (15) 1 & 2 June JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (12A) 3 & 4 June THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS (15) 9 June MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN (15) 10 June CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: WORLDS AWAY (PG) 14, 15 & 17 June IRON MAN 3 (PG) 14 - 17 June STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (12A) 24, 25 & 27 June THE GREAT GATSBY (12A) 24, 25 & 27 June MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (12A)

Circue Du Soleil: Worlds Away

8 June LES MISERABLES (2012) (12A) Playhouse Cinema, The Community Centre, Leominster 01568 612583 8 June ARGO (15) Ripple Parish Hall 01684 592060 10 June HYSTERIA (15) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 11 June LINCOLN (12A) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 720341 12 June QUARTET (12A) Market Theatre, Ledbury, 01531 633760 12 June QUARTET (12A) The Red House, Albrighton 01902 373854 12 June LES MISERABLES (2012) (12A) Hope Bowdler VH 01694 723648 14 June THE MISFITS (PG) Market Theatre, Ledbury, 01531 633760 14 June OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (PG) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 15 June THE IMPOSSIBLE (12A) Hanley VH 01886 853692 15 June THE IMPOSSIBLE (12A) Upton upon Severn Memorial Hall 01684 591044 17 June AMOUR (12A) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 20 June LINCOLN (12A) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 21 June DJANGO UNCHAINED (18) Priest Weston VH 01938 561425 22 June LINCOLN (12A) Lady Emily Hall, Tarrington 01432 890720 22 June SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (15) Playhouse Cinema, The Community Centre, Leominster 01568 612583 22 June QUARTET (12A) Trefonen VH 01691 657011 24 June THE IMPOSSIBLE (12A) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 25 June QUARTET (12A) Loppington VH 01939 236240

Mid

Stagg Meadow, Titley, 22/23 June 2013 A celebration of Herefordshire landscape and gardens Talks and interviews

Anna Pavord, Anthony Woodward, Clare Foster, Mirabel Osler, Nigel Dunnett, Noel Kingsbury, Peter Clay, Robert Myers, Stephen Anderton

Gardens to visit

12 gardens will be open nearby

Guided walks

in flower meadows, green lanes and environmental farmland

Cycle routes

arrive at the gardens by bike

Stalls

Plants, furniture and ornament, local food, crafts

Demonstrations and children’s events

BORDER

ARTS FRIDAY 7 JUNE

KLEZMER KOLLECTIV

Ultra-tight live sound and foot-stomping Balkan rhythms.

Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 8pm.

Tickets £10 from www.wegottickets.com or cash/cheque in person from The Judge’s Lodging, Presteigne.

FRIDAY 14 JUNE www.gardensinthewild.org for information and to book tickets

www.castleringoakframe.co.uk

THE MORGAN & WEST SHOW

Roll up! Roll up! for Edinburgh Festival’s favourite dashing duo of deception, Morgan & West, the world’s finest Time Travelling Victorian magic act.

The Magicians present dazzling deceptions, unparalleled precognitive powers and a totally genuine ability to travel through time. Come and be Amazed!

Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 8pm Tickets £8 from www.wegottickets.com or cash/cheque in person from The Judge’s Lodging

SUNDAY 30 JUNE

PERIGRINE PIANO QUARTET

Beautifully crafted traditional and contemporary timber frames.

From self-build homes to log stores.

Competitive pricing from a friendly, family run business.

Rob Dawson T 01547 560 231 M 07828 819 149 E castleringwood@btinternet.com

Programme includes works by Shostakovich and Schubert. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 3pm. Tickets £10, £2 for under 18s, 01544 350317.

www.midborderarts.org.uk charity no. 1011108

Presteigne & Norton Town Council

19

IRON MAN 3 The third outing for Marvel Comic’s chameleon action hero finds sardonic billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jnr.) undone by a mercilessly ingenious foe known only as The Mandarin (a marvellously sinister Ben Kingsley). Naturally, as his ironclad alter ego, Stark fights to put his world back together again and inflict maximum retribution. Now directed by LETHAL WEAPON veteran Shane Black, but with IRON MAN regulars Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) and Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) in tow and double Oscar-winning cinematographer John Toll (BRAVEHEART, CLOUD ATLAS) behind the lens, it’s an exhilarating, optically awesome ride. And in the process our hero finally manages to assuage his nagging doubt as to whether the man makes the suit, or the suit maketh the man?!

27 June ARGO (15) Goodrich VH 01600 890609 27 June SONG FOR MARION (PG) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 28 June LES MISERABLES (2012) (12A) Market Theatre, Ledbury, 01531 633760 28 June LES MISERABLES (2012) The Red House, Albrighton 01902 373854 29 June GREAT EXPECTATIONS (2012) (12A) Clun Memorial Hall 01588 640254 29 June LIFE OF PI (PG) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 720341 1 July QUARTET (12A) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 6 July SONG FOR MARION (PG) Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 612583

1 & 2 July A LATE QUARTET 3 & 4 July SOMETHING IN THE AIR 5 - 8 July THERESA Details 01743 281281

REGAL CINEMA, TENBURY 3 - 5 June GI JOE: RETALIATION (12A) 4, 18 June & 2 July MINICINE MONKEYS Free film fun for the under 7s 10 & 11 June PROMISED LAND (15) 11 & 12 June THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE (15) 14 June IRON MAN 3 (12A) 24 & 25 June THE GREAT GATSBY (12A) 1 - 3 July STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (CTBA) 4 July WENT THE DAY WELL? 8 & 9 July TRANCE (12A) Regal Cinema, 47 - 49 Teme Street, Tenbury Wells. Details 01584 811442

WEOBLEY CINEMA 19 June THE HOBBIT Hopelands, Weobley Village Hall, Weobley. Sunday films - doors open at 1.45pm, start at 2pm. Wednesday films - doors open at 7pm, start at 7.30pm. Details 01544 318322

WYESIDE, BUILTH WELLS 1 & 2 June THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST 1 & 2 June I’M SO EXCITED 4 - 6 June OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN 4 - 6 June NO 7 - 9, 11 - 13 June THE GREAT GATSBY 7 - 9 June ALL STARS 11 & 12 June A HIJACKING 14 - 16, 18 - 23, 25 - 27 June MAN OF STEEL 14 - 16, 19 & 20 June THE HANGOVER PART III 21 & 23 June MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 25 - 27 June FAST & FURIOUS 6 28 - 30 June, 2 - 4 July AFTER EARTH 28 - 30 June, 2 - 4 July EPIC Details 01982 552555

LIVE EVENTS ON SCREEN 4 June ARIADNE AUF NAXOS Glyndebourne live screening, 7pm.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555 Cinema at Booths Books, Hay-on-Wye, email cinema@boothbooks.co.uk SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 Aston on Clun VH 01588 660545

MKT. THEATRE, LEDBURY 8 July PATIENCE AFTER SEBALD (12A), 8.30pm, £6. Market Theatre, Ledbury. 0845 458 1743. boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk.

Part of Ledbury Poetry Festival.

OLD MKT. HALL, SHREWS. 1 June THE CROODS 3D (U) Until 6 June THE EYE OF THE STORM (15) 7 - 10 June CHIMPANZEE (U) 7 - 13 June I’M SO EXCITED (15) 14 - 18 June OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (PG) 14 & 15 June WELCOME TO THE PUNCH (15) 17 - 19 June BROKEN (15) 19 & 20 June REALITY (15) 21 - 24 June THE PAPERBOY (15) 25 & 26 June STOKER (18) 28 & 29 June ME AND YOU (15) 29 June ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (U)

20

IN THE HOUSE Melding the comedy of sexual manners that was his POTICHE and the emotional darkness of SWIMMING POOL, Francois Ozon delivers a wry thriller about a gifted student who beguiles his jaded Literature teacher with essays chronicling the bourgeois doings of a fellow student’s family … and whose mother he aims to seduce. Handsome newcomer Ernst Umhauer is the manipulative Claude, the ever-peevish Fabrice Luchini his teacher whose spikey, art gallerist wife is pitilessly realised by Kristin Scott Thomas, and the yummy mummy is played with flattered confusion by Emmanuelle Seigner. Whilst Claude’s motives may not be clear, the consequences and the insights into the lives of those he affects provide an edgy drama into which Ozon and his cast cleverly thread a hank of brittle social satire.

All reviews by Mark Williams

6 June SWAN LAKE Mariinsky Theatre. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911.

SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 13 June + 21 & 27 June THE AUDIENCE National Theatre live.

Cinema at Booths Books, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, email cinema@boothbooks.co.uk Plus an encore screening on 21st & 27 at 7pm.

Aston on Clun VH 01588 660545 Wyeside, Builth Wells, 01982 552555 Assembly Rooms, Ludlow 01584 878141 SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 16 June THE AUDIENCE, ENCORE National Theatre live, 3pm. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 01982 552555 17 June FALSTAFF A recording from the 2009 Glyndebourne Festival. Cinema at Booths Books, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, email cinema@boothbooks.co.uk

18 June POMPEII LIVE From the British Museum, 7pm.

Cinema at Booths Books, Hay-on-Wye, email cinema@boothbooks.co.uk Wyeside, Builth Wells, 01982 552555 Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811442 19 March LIVE OPERA From Moscow’s Red Square with Anna Netrebko and Dimitri Hvorostovsky.

Cinema at Booths Books, Hay-on-Wye, email cinema@boothbooks.co.uk 23 June FALSTAFF Glyndebourne recorded screening, 7pm. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555 24 June GLORIANNA Royal Opera House live. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 6.45pm, 01982 552555 Assembly Rooms, Ludlow 01584 878141 Market Theatre, Ledbury 01432 383663 7 July LE NOSSE DI FIGARO Glyndebourne recorded screening, 6.15pm. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555

13 July ANDRE RIEU’S 2013 MAASTRICHT CONCERT The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911.

WORKSHOPS Starting Sat 8 June REGAL FILM UNIT Run by Flying Machine Media, these workshops are for local people of any age. All you need to know to create a feature length film. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells. Further details 07980 692302.

Wednesdays INTERMEDIATE FILM MAKING Aimed for those with slightly more advanced skills than beginners.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 5-7pm, £70 per term, 01432 340555.

Thursdays BEGINNER FILM MAKING CLUB Learn to direct, edit and even star in your own short film. The Courtyard, Hereford, 5-7pm, £70 per term, 01432 340555.

21

dance Dance Performance Sat 8 June VIVA FLAMENCO Illustrating this passionate and seductive form with rhythmic and vigorous movements, hand-clapping and foot-stamping. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £16, children £8, 01743 281281.

Sat 8 June LEOMINSTER MORRIS + MELODY DANCE COMPANY With performances round town, along with other Morris Dance Groups. Round Leominster, including Corn Square, from 11am. Melody Dance Company display their latest street/freestyle and contemporary choreography with 4-18 year old performers. Corn Square, 2pm.

01568 616460. Part of Leominster Festival.

Sat 15 June DANCEFEST DAWNS POWYS DANCE. An opportunity for community class members to perform the dances in a professional venue that they have been creating over a term.

Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

Thurs 20 & Fri 21 June FRESH 2013 2FACED DANCE & THE COURTYARD CENTRE FOR THE ARTS. Showcasing break, street, contemporary and fusion performance. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, £8/£7, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Sat 22 June THE CALLING 2FACED JUNIOR AND YOUTH DANCE COMPANY. These elite young dancers will showcase their versatility as urban and contemporary young dancers.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £10/£8, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Fri 28 June SWANS ‘N’ DOLLS MONNOW BALLET. Local dance students from Monnow Ballet School present their own mini version of Swan Lake and Coppelia. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7pm, £10/£5, 01600 719401.

22

Sat 29 June LOVELY BUGS EVERYBODY DANCE. Created for disabled and nondisabled audiences of all ages; it’s interactive and exciting.

The performance is set on a spectacular six metre high dome rig and giant spider’s web. The trilogy of ‘stories’ each with a quest/adventure/problem to solve are based upon rhymes. Longlands Farm, Whitbourne Estate, Whitbourne, www.everybodydance.org.uk 07870 429528.

Sat 29 June FABLES AND FAIRY TALES THE WYE VALLEY DANCE SCHOOL. From the children’s classic tales such as The Ugly Duckling to the modern favourites created by Julia Donaldson.

Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 6pm, £7.50, children £5, 01600 719401.

Thurs 4 July JUGNI Jugni is an explosion of dance, music and meaning with soaring live vocals and percussion inspired by Qawaali, and powerful contemporary choreography driven by the passion in folkloric dance styles. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £12.50/£10.50, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Sat 6 July ONE WAY OR ANOTHER POWYS DANCE, a vibrant, community dance organisation for Powys whose groups will slam you to the floor, swing you from the ceiling and turn you upside down whilst tugging at your heart strings. Youth, children and adults shout their coolest moves. Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7pm, £5/£3, 01686 614555.

Thurs 11 July ANALIA REGO The first lady of tango guitar, direct from Buenos Aires.

Includes dance exhibition by Sudestada Tango.

Doldowlod Hall, Newbridge to Rhayader road (A470), 7.30pm, £15 includes glass of wine and nibbles, 079511 91907. Limited numbers, please reserve, sudestadatango@gmail.com

Dance Workshops

Single listings are free. Year round entries £40 Wed 5 June EXTEND DANCE CLASS TASTER Try out some gentle dance for over 60s through simple chair based exercises to music. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 10.30-11.30am, free, but please book.

01568 616460. Part of Leominster Festival.

Wed 5 June LEOMINSTER MORRIS OPEN REHEARSAL Come and learn a dance for Saturday’s celebrations round the town of 30 years of Leominster Morris: men and boys welcome. Forbury Chapel, Leominster, 8pm, free. 01568 616460. Part of Leominster Festival.

Thurs 6 June JENNY PIPES OPEN REHEARSAL Learn a dance with this friendly women’s Morris side for Saturday’s celebrations. Women, girls and musicians welcome. Leominster Priory, 8pm. 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

Sat 6 July 5 RHYTHMS DANCE WORKSHOP Hereford/ Ledbury. “Response” with Andrew Holmes, 11- 5 pm. This is a day for exploring different ways of responding to the life around us - meeting it with heart, truth, skill and presence. Open to new and experienced dancers. Contact Gail on 01432 840952 for more info.

DANCE CLASSES AT GYM & TONIC, HAY-ON-WYE Creative, contemporary and street dance classes.

Learning new routines, creating own dances and the chance to perform. Saturdays: 8-11 yrs 9.15am-10.15am.

3-7 yrs 10.30am-11.15am. 12-16 yrs 11.30am-12.30pm.

Please contact Lauren on: 07825 914493 to find out more or to book a place.

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

Leominster, Bodenham Parish Hall, Thursdays 7.309.00pm Improvers/ Returners. £25.00 per 5-week block or £7.00 pay-as-you-go. For information & other classes/ workshops visit www.alanyabellydance.com or call Abbie on 07962 161081.

Mon BREAKDANCE With 2Faced Dance Company.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 813711.

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

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

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

23

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

THE GARDEN TEA ROOM & DELI, KINGSLAND HR6 9QS (opposite the church green) Tel: 01568 709142 Open Tuesday – Saturday 11:00am – 6:00pm and Bank Holidays 11:00 – 5:30pm. Shop/deli for tasty treats. All day lunches, desserts, cakes & speciality teas and coffee.

Handmade, seasonal food including many vegetarian, wheat and dairy free options. Select ‘Scrummy Bites’ dishes always available. Great venue for special celebrations. Two 6m x 4m Marquees plus crockery hire available. Vintage setting with peaceful garden and log fire.

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 12pm.

THE HAT SHOP RESTAURANT, PRESTEIGNE 01544 260017 A friendly Bistro Style restaurant offering lunches and evening meals, Monday through to Saturday.

We use quality local produce all sourced within the local area together with an extensive hand picked wine list.

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

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

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

THE POP UP CHEF Email chrisric7@yahoo.co.uk or Phone 01544 267802 www.thepopupchef.co.uk WE TAKE CARE OF THE CATERING ARRANGEMENTS, SO YOU ENJOY THE EVENT! We take away the stress of organising and delivering your event. Leaving you free to get ready and enjoy. If you need to host a dinner party or a catering event we would be happy to help, hiring the thepopupchef. we would consult with you on your chosen menu, shop, cook, serve & clean up afterwards. Whether an intimate meal for two people or a dinner party for twenty or more, we can create and deliver. Special and Affordable — Your Personal Chef’s. Let personal chef’s Maria & Christina present to you a luxurious and distinctive approach to entertaining family and friends in your own home.

24

SCRUMMY BITES - made locally with you in mind. www.scrummybites.co.uk STONELEIGH, KINGSLAND 01568 709142. Handmade dishes include delicious desserts, savouries and pastries. Ideal for busy people, family gatherings. Special menus for events of 6 to 100 people. Available from The Garden, Kingsland, HR6 9QS plus Knighton, Ludlow and Presteigne farmers markets.

Many vegetarian, wheat and dairy free options. Awarded Ludlow Food Festival’s Graeme Kidd bursary 2010.

Why not advertise? Only £40 per year.

SETONAIKAI, 25 THE PARADE, SHREWSBURY. SY1 1DL 01743 343517 www.setonaikai.co.uk.

Specialists in authentic ingredients, cookware and tableware from Japan and the Far East, along with a range of cards, gifts and kimonos. We also have a growing range of the exotic, eclectic and the unusual from all four corners of the world. A vast selection you may not find anywhere else. Take a look at our range of Japanese kitchenware and tableware to buy online at www.cookingjapanese. co.uk. Open Tues - Sat, 10am - 5pm.

SUGAR & SPICE CAFE BISTRO, Park Crescent, Llandrindod Wells 01597 824442 Friendly, family run cafe bistro located near the entrance to the beautiful Rock Park. Homemade locally sourced breakfast and day menus, carte de jour, fresh ground Italian coffee and a warm welcome offered daily. Evening bistro specialising in Mediteranean and World cuisine from Mid May onwards. booking recommended, unlicenced - BYO, free wifi, disabled access, hire us for your special occasion evening!

The India & China Tea Company at TOWER HOUSE GALLERY, HIGH STREET, KNIGHTON 01547 529530 www.towerhousegallery.blogspot.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. Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm.

RHOS MARKET GARDEN, KNIGHTON 01547 528315 Growers & providers of organic veg, fruit & flowers.

Morning Market stalls Knighton Thursday & Presteigne Friday Veg boxes delivered to local area weekly. CSA Scheme. Restaurant orders welcome info@rhosorganic. co.uk www.rhosorganic.co.uk

EVENTS Sat 1 June DISCOVER TASTES AND FLAVOURS Samples and tempting offers on new red and white house wines of the season. No. 46 Wine Bar, High St, Presteigne, from 10am, 01544 262675.

Tues 4 June A SWEET AND STICKY EVENT All welcome. No. 46 Wine Bar, Presteigne, 11am.

For further information call 01544 267675 or email No.46winebar@hotmail.co.uk Thurs 6 June CHEESE CIDER FOLK EVENING Tom Oliver (of Olivers Cider) & Monkland Cheese will giving a tasting supper accompanied by music from Bandangle. To be held at Monkland Cheese Dairy 7.30pm start, ticket only (£12.00) which can be purchased from Monkland Cheese Dairy. 01568 720307 (cards accepted) or e-mail info@monklandcheesedairy.co.uk.

25

music

JUNE

THE 2013 WEEKEND OF ENGLISH SONG Celebrating English Song promoted by the Finzi Friends. Concerts, talks and recitals. Artists include the King’s Singers, Paul Spicer, Elizabeth Watts, Iain Burnside and more. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow. Full programme www. ludlow-english-songs-weekend.org.uk 01584 878141.

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN Acoustic sessions feature Jesse and Charlie, Justin Beynon, Simon Pettifer, Chris Pattemore, Bill Goddard, Linda Lamb, Aspel Orchid, Anthea Neads, Dai Prichard, Alan Cooper, Ria Parfitt, Beth Prior and Jake Hughes.

The Shooting Star Party features Joe Volk, Shellanagig, Miss Maud’s Folly, Stealing Sheep, Abigail Wyles and Woodpecker. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 01497 821762, www.howthelightgetsin.org

SYNERGY The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford.

SULTANA BROTHERS Cock & Magpie, Bewdley.

BEER FESTIVAL & LIVE MUSIC Featuring Chord Rush, Skin and The Bones, Perfect Strangers and more.

White Lion, Leominster, from 1pm, 01568 612422.

LLANFAIR SINGERS & THE STOUR VALLEY SINGERS St Edward’s Church, Llanfair Waterdine, 7.30pm, 01547 530530.

Sat 1 June

COMMUNITY FUN DAY Storytelling, spinning, music, parachute games in and around the newly refurbished Grange Court (inside if wet!). Grange Court, Leominster, 10am. Part of Leominster Festival, 01568 616460, www.leominster-festival. co.uk TELFORD SOUL CLUB Elephant & Castle, Dawley, Telford, 07786 008714.

BLACK COUNTRY ROCK Malthouse, Ironbridge.

MARCUS Elton John tribute. Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

BUDDY HOLLY TRIBUTE BAND British Legion, Leominster, 8pm, £8.

Part of Leominster Festival, www.leominster-festival.co.uk, 01568 616460.

ARTHUR EBELING Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye. COMPANY OF FOOLS Featuring Angarad, Keith James, Adam Fuest & Sonia Hammond, Shortfatbaldwhiteman. Parish Hall, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, £10/£5. Hay Fringe Festival.

PLETHIAD Three days of Eastern European party music in the Brecon Beacons.

Featuring The Klatsh, 6pm, The Hours, Brecon. The Moors, 9pm, The Gremlin Inn, Brecon, www.plethiad.org

RHYTHM THIEVES Phone 01568 770134

Saturday 22nd June (7.30pm) MID SUMMER BALL

Wigmore Hall, Wigmore (inside the walled garden); tickets £35 to include Pimms, canapes, dinner and dancing to the Rhythm Thieves. Tickets £35 each (dress code: black tie optional).

26

www.rhythmthieves.co.uk

Sun 2 June PLETHIAD Three days of Eastern European party music in the Brecon Beacons.

Featuring Klezmer Brunch with Klezmer Rays at The Hours, Brecon, 11am.

Clarion 1pm, Carucha 2pm, Klezmer dance workshop with Judith Plowman 2.30pm, The Klezmer Keilidh at 3.30pm and The Plethiad Gala Concert featuring The Elgar School of Music Ensemble and Klezmer Kollective at 6.30pm, all at Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon. www.plethiad.org BANDEMONIUM Herefordshire’s people’s Band’.

Hay Festival, 7pm.

SHROPSHIRE STRUMMERS Housmans Cafe Bar, Church Stretton, 1pm.

CHORAL EVENSONG Leominster Priory, Leominster, 6.30pm, free. Part of Leominster Festival, www.leominster-festival.co.uk, 01568 616460.

HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN Acoustic sessions include Llew Watkins, Loxley Trio, Jess & Charlie, Paul Solcombe, Dorothy Watkins, Rob Lear, Mark Stevenson, Vaginapocalypse, Black Mountain Bluegrass. Sunday Showdown features Blaenavon Male Voice Choir, 5.30pm, £8. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 01497 821762, www.howthelightgetsin.org

June events Saturday 15 June, 8pm Fetch Theatre presents:

Puppet Cabaret

Fantastic Music Every Friday Food served EVERY day & evening of the week Sunday Lunches ~ Senior Citizen Specials Curry Nights ~ Steak Nights ~ Italian Nights NEW TO THE GOLDEN CROSS...

VEGGIELICIOUS TUESDAYS! an ever changing menu, dedicated to vegetarians

Sutton St. Nicholas, Hereford HR1 3AZ Tel. No. 01432 880274 www.goldencrossinn.com

Puppetry for adults in the Fetch Theatre’s inimitable style. Audience members must bring a puppet with them!

Sunday 16 June, 12noon - 6pm

The Secret Gardens of Ludlow

Spend a leisurely Sunday afternoon discovering some of the beautiful gardens hidden behind the houses in Ludlow town centre.

Friday 21 June, 7.30pm

Mid Wales Chamber Orchestra

Wales’ foremost chamber orchestra with works by Wagner, Britten and Brahms.

Friday 28 June 7.30pm

Blazin Fiddles

A group of the hottest contemporary fiddle players from the highlands and islands of Scotland - one of the best live bands around.

June films

Spirit of ’45, Love is All You Need, The Place Beyond the Pines, First Position, A Late Quartet, The Audience (Live broadcast from National Theatre), In the House (Dans la Maison), The Look of Love, Beyond the Hills (Dup ă Dealuri), Gloriana (Live broadcast from the Royal Opera House), Promised Land, A Hijacking (Kapringen)

Box Office 01584 878141

www.ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk

27

Sun 2 June BARE BONES BOOGIE BAND Prince of Wales, Ledbury.

Tom McConville

TIN SOLDIERS Rock covers. The Chequers, Leominster, 8pm, free.

LADY AND THE SAX The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

THE 2013 WEEKEND OF ENGLISH SONG See 1 June for details.

THE BOOGLIES The Stag, Llanidloes.

Mon 3 June WE’LL MEET AGAIN Featuring comedian Adam Daye, Marily Hill Smith singing Vera Lynn and the music of Ivor Novello, Tony Leyton singing Bing Crosby, Formby favourites with host Mervyn Francis. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 2pm, £12.50/£11.50, 01743 281281.

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

ANDREW MORRIS & TIM CRANMORE Programme includes Vaughan Williams and Britten. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 12.30pm, £6/£4. Part of Leominster Festival, www.leominster-festival. co.uk, 01568 616460.

BLUES, JAZZ & COUNTRY Bring along your instrument or come and listen. Radnorshire Arms Hotel, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 01544 267406 or 07811 587501.

NORRIE’S ARMY Bring and play folk night. Grape Vaults, Leominster, 8pm. Part of Leominster Festival, www.leominster-festival. co.uk, 01568 616460.

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

Tues 4 June OPEN MIC The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

THE GARRICK SINGERS A chance to hear the thriving new choir for the over 60s, then enjoy a taster session. No need to read music. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 2-4pm, free. Part of Leominster Festival, 01568 616460.

JULIAN ROBBINS Acoustic guitar music from baroque to the Beatles with a curry buffet and puds.

The Granary, Leominster, 8pm, £12.50, please book, 01568 614290.

PETER DYKE Gala organ concert. Hereford Cathedral, 7pm, £7, £3 students.

Tickets from the Cathedral shop or at the door.

Wed 5 June

28

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

Fri 7 June

Thurs 6 June TOM MCCONVILLE BAND Nightjar presents this most entertaining and exciting four-piece band. Studio, The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, £10/£8, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

GREY WOLF Rose & Crown, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811336.

FAMILY ACTIVITIES Introductory workshop for chhildren and families: find out about Signalong, join in with songs and rhymes and try sheep based craft activities. For ages 0-5 years. Coningsby Children’s Centre, Leominster, 1-3pm, free, 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

LITTLE RUMBA Featuring John Hymas, Pete Mustill, Hugh Colvin and Jacqui Savage playing their instantly recognisable style with debts to East Europe and South America also jazz and blues. The Granary, Leominster, 8pm, Creole meal and puds, £18 please book, 01568 614290. Part of Leominster Festival.

MID BORDER ARTS AGM Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7.30pm, all welcome.

WEAVING WORDS AND SPINNING A LINE A summer evening programme of poems, words and music, mixing the familiar with the unknown with the Marches Poets. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 7.30pm, £5, 01686 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

CHEESE CIDER FOLK EVENING Tom Oliver (of Olivers Cider) & Monkland Cheese will be giving a tasting supper accompanied by music from Bandangle. To be held at Monkland Cheese Dairy 7.30pm start, ticket only (£12.00) which can be purchased from Monkland Cheese Dairy. 01568 720307 (cards accepted) or e-mail info@monklandcheesedairy.co.uk.

CEILIDH Charity event for Rainbow Community Nursery featuring Sheila’s Reels live band, food and cash bar available.

Shire Hall, Hereford, 7.30pm, £5 entry, (£6 on the door), 07968 360673.

WHISKEY RIVER Top-notch Cajun, zydeco, blues, bluegrass, roots and good ol’ country rock ‘n’ roll. Silvester Horne Institute, High St, Church Stretton, 7.30pm, £9, 01694 720132.

LIVE MUSIC Malthouse, Ironbridge.

MARTIN ALVARADO Argentina’s finest tango singer.

Accompanied by Latin-American dancers. Lyde Court, Hereford, pre-show meal 7pm, performance 8pm, £15, under 18s £8, 01432 357753, www.LydeCourt.com RICHIE LUND Wine Bar, Quality Square, Ludlow, 01584 878000.

PAUL PARKER AND FRIENDS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

RAT PACK VEGAS SPECTACULAR Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £20, 01600 772467, www.monmouth-savoy.co.uk THE BAGGAGE HANDLERS Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

THE PELICAN REAL ALE FESTIVAL 22 real ales and 8 ciders and perries.

Music from Remi Harris Trio, Flatworld, Rev Ferriday & Owen Bray and Nikki Rous. Food. The Pelican, 4 St Mary’s St, Gloucester, 12-11.30pm, free, 01452 387877.

LIVE MUSIC Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

KLEZMER KOLLECTIV Ultra-tight live sound and foot-stomping Balkan rhythms. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm, £10 from the Judge’s Lodging or www.wegottickets.com.

In partnership with Sheep Music.

HOWLIN’ MAT Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 01952 610888.

MAGIC OF THE BEE GEES The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, £19.50, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Klezmer Kollectiv

Fri 7 June SINGING PILGRIMAGE GROUP A service of music directed by Geoff Weaver of the Royal School of Church Music. St Michael’s Church, Discoed, near Presteigne, 4pm, 01547 560005, chrisgreen990@btinternet.com SULTANA BROTHERS The Plough, Whitecross Rd, Hereford.

CHRIS QUINN The Exchange, Newtown, 9pm, free.

MARTIN ALVARADO Argentina’s finest tango singer. Lyde Court, Hereford, 8pm, £15, under 18s £8, pre-show meal served at 7pm, 01432 357753, www.LydeCourt.com

Sat 8 June KRAZY LEGZ Malthouse, Ironbridge.

CHOIRS & VOICES NEEDED G8 ALL THE PIES Every local choir is being invited to take part in a massed sing outside Hereford Cathedral at 9 o’clock. All part of the IF campaign, a huge coalition of UK-based organisations including Concern Universal and the Church of England, who share the vision of a world where everyone has enough to eat. Details, beth.williams@concern-universal.org, 01432 355111, www.concern-universal. org JOEL’S WISH PRESENTS The Fabulous Bordellos supported by PigDaze. Ludlow Brewing Company, 01584 876203. Tickets £6 in advance from the brewery. All profits to Severn Hospice.

FAIRPORT CONVENTION Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm, 01584 811442.

ANDREW MORRIS Programme includes Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 12.30pm, £6/£5 or £15 for all concerts.

01568 616460. Part of Leominster Festival.

BAGGAGE HANDLERS Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye. FLEURS DE LYS Medieval music and song. Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, 7pm, 01597 811487, www.willowglobe.co.uk BENJI TRANTER Singer/songwriter and guitarist. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 2.30pm, £6/£5 or £15 for all concerts. 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

THEO CRANMORE Flute. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 4pm, £6/£5 or £15 for all concerts.

01568 616460. Part of Leominster Festival.

30

THE PELICAN REAL ALE FESTIVAL See 7 June for details.

THEO JOBST & HELENA DUDHILL Saxophone and clarinet. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 12.30pm, £6/£5 or £15 for all concerts. 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

JENNY HALLAM Singer/songwriter. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 12.30pm, £6/£5 or £15 for all concerts. 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

LIVE MUSIC Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

BRID RADIO MIKE KIRKPATRICK Flute/electronics. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 9pm, £6/£5 or £15 for all concerts. 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

SKIN ‘N’ BONES Onesie party night. Black Swan Hotel, Leominster, 8pm, free.

Part of Leominster Festival.

Barron Knights

KRIS DOLLIMORE Prince of Wales, Ledbury.

SONS OF THE DELTA Lichfield Vaults, Church St, Hereford, 4pm free, 01432 266821.

Mon 10 June BLUES, JAZZ & COUNTRY Bring along your instrument or come and listen. Radnorshire Arms Hotel, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 01544 267406 or 07811 587501.

SHREWSBURY JAZZ NETWORK Featuring Simon Spillet with the Tom Hill Trio. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £10, members £8, under 16s £5, 01743 234970.

Tues 11 June

Sun 9 June

Wed 12 June

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL BINGO Crown Inn, Oakengates, 8.30pm, 01952 610888.

LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT

By Steven Grahl from New College, Oxford. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm-2pm, retiring collection.

TELFORD ACOUSTIC CLUB Crown Inn, Oakengates, 9pm, 01952 610888.

CHRIS QUINN The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

OPEN MIC With Dave Rea. White Horse Inn, Clun.

LUNCHTIME RECITAL Featuring Claire England (mezzo) and Kirsty Ligertwood (piano). Programme includes Verdi, Schubert and Britten.

Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 12.30pm, £6/£5. 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

SCHOOL STEEL BAND Barbecue and limbo competition.

The Chequers, Leominster, 12-4pm.

LIVE MUSIC Crown Inn, Oakengates, 01952 610888.

THE NEW HONEYCOMBS Plus Everly Brothers tribute, Walk Right Back. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 5pm, £16/£15, 01743 281281.

BIRMINGHAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Programme includes Mozart, Britten and Sibelius. Pre concert talk 6pm at Grange Court, concert 7.30pm, £12/£8, Leominster Priory, 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

WILL KILLEEN No. 46 Wine Bar, Presteigne, 7pm, £2.50, 01544 267675.

JAMES HUNT Jazz on a summer’s day, on the river bank behind Ludlow Castle. Dinham Millennium Green, Ludlow, 2.30-5pm, free, 01584 487555.

CHRIS QUINN Housmans Cafe Bar, Church Stretton, 8pm.

Thurs 13 June BARRON KNIGHTS The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £17.50£16.50, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Fri 14 June JAZZ @ THE BONDED WAREHOUSE Featuring Brownfield/Byrne Quintet.

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

ALTERNATIVE ROUTE The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

LIVE MUSIC Malthouse, Ironbridge.

HEREFORD SOUL CHOIR Herefords 2012 ‘Last Choir Standing’.

Vibrant vocals and dynamic harmonies with upbeat vibes. Lyde Court, Hereford, 01432 357753, www.LydeCourt.com

SULTANA BROTHERS Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

Celtic Fiddle Festival

JACKSON LIVE IN CONCERT Starting Ben and his incredible live band and dancers. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £18.50, 01743 281281.

PARISH FETE Belmont Abbey, Hereford, 2pm, 01432 374747.

NIGHTJAR PRESENTS Celtic Fiddle FEstival. With acclaimed guitarist Nicholas Quemener. Studio Theatre, The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Sun 16 June Fri 14 June FLASH BACK Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

WHAT THE F! Glass-walking workshops followed by music and dancing. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £5, 01597 821762.

GET BACK Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

BACK TO BROADWAY The best of Broadway and London’s West End. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £18.50/£17.50, 01432 340555.

TOMMY ALLEN BAND White Horse Inn, Clun.

CHORD RUSH Fusion of jazz, funk and Latin. With Hereford Soul Choir. Lyde Court, Hereford, 6.45pm, 01432 357753.

BRENIG The Stag, Llanidloes.

FOLK BEHIND BARS Featuring Sam Thomas, Elish Gilbert, P&P Gilbert, Sambuca and Beth Prior.

Ludlow Brewery, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £7.50 on the door. In aid of Amnesty International.

SKYNT The Exchange, Newtown, 9pm, free.

STEVE EDWARDS Wine Bar, Quality Square, Ludlow, 01584 878000.

Sat 15 June THE UPBEAT BEATLES Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £17.50, 01600 772467, www.monmouth-savoy.co.uk ADAM HODSON BAND Malthouse, Ironbridge.

KINGTON FESTIVAL Featuring their famous wheelbarrow race. Kington, 6.30pm, 01544 231097.

32

CELTIC FIDDLE FESTIVAL Traditional masters showcase their regional repertoires. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01432 340555.

PENYARD SINGERS ‘Love Makes the World Go Round’.

Baptist Church, Broad St, Ross-onWye, 7.30pm, £7.50/£5 on the door or 01989 564442, www.penyardsingers. org.uk WENDY MANTLE QUINTET Favourite jazz tunes and great players.

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

OCCUPY THE SPREAD Electronic music fest with 20+ DJs in four zones. The Spread Eagle, King St, Hereford, from 3pm, £5, 01432 272205.

COMPANY OF FOOLS The best in local talent, hosted by Dirty Ray. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, donation entry, 01597 821762.

KINGS CAPLE VILLAGE FETE AND SCARECROW TRAIL Traditional village fete. Sorry, no dogs. 2-5pm, 01432 840694 allatjubilee@hotmail.co.uk JAMES HICKMAN Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye. RHAYADER & DISTRICT MALE VOICE CHOIR With Emma Bradford (Mezzo) and Llandrindod Wells Chamber Choir, Ffrindiau. New Radnor Community Hall, 7.30pm, 01544 350790.

All proceeds to Dragon Fire After School Club, New Radnor.

SHREWSBURY CANTATA CHOIR Present Vivaldi’s Gloria, with a selection of madrigals and lighter pieces.

Holy Trinity Church, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £8 to include refreshment during the interval, students and under 18s free, 01952 432286.

CHRIS NIBLOCK Housmans Cafe Bar, Church Stretton, 1pm.

THE MARTIN HARLEY BAND Ironworks, Oswestry, £8, www.seetickets.com/event/martin-harley-band/theironworks/705431 JAMES HICKMAN The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

IAN D MONTFORD With support from Ivan Brackenbury.

The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7.30pm, £8. 01952 728911.

VINCENT FLATTS FINAL DRIVE Prince of Wales, Ledbury.

WYE VALLEY MUSIC CONCERT The Great Barn, St Hellens, Much Marcle, 3pm, www.wvm.org.uk, 01531 660504.

CARA LUFT Folk. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 7.45pm, £10, 01743 234970.

Mon 17 June BLUES, JAZZ & COUNTRY Bring along your instrument or come and listen. Radnorshire Arms Hotel, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 01544 267406 or 07811 587501.

Tues 18 June THOMAS BOWES Solo violin playing JS Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas. St Michael & All Angels, Kingsland, 6.30pm, £15 each or £50 to reserve a pew (4-5 adults) includes pre performance wine and canapes.

Email tickets@SMAAAK.co.uk or from Kingsland Post Office. Launch of Friends of St Michael & All Angels.

ELAINA HOSS QUINTET With Dominic Norcross on baritone sax. Top jazz and swing vocals and oustanding piano, sax, bass and drums team playing a mix of modern standards. Jazz in the Bar, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £6 on the door, info@jazzinthebar.com. Brecon Jazz Club.

LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT

By Jeremy Cole from Trinity College, Cambridge. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm-2pm, retiring collection.

Harmonie Universelle, Gregynog Festival

Wed 19 June OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

BLUES OPEN MIC The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford.

THE GRASS SNAKES 5-piece traditional bluegrass band, including Martin Blake on banjo. Dukes Arms, Presteigne, 8.30pm, £3, Sheep Music gig.

ACOUSTIC CLUB Crown Inn, Oakengates, 9pm, 01952 610888.

Thurs 20 June GREGYNOG FESTIVAL: GREAT BRITTEN Celebrating the Festival founders with biographer Trevor Fishlock and poet Menna Elfyn. Plas Dinam, Llandinam, 2pm, £10, 01686 207100.

COUSIN JONES Crown Inn, Oakengates, 01952 610888.

Fri 21 June PAUL EDWARDS & ROBIN TUDOR Wine Bar, Quality Square, Ludlow.

KENT DUCHAINE Blues legend. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £6, 01597 821762.

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Featuring Harmonie Universelle, Florian Deuter. The German ensemble plays Purcell and John Blow. Gregynog, 7.30pm, £15, 01686 207100.

LIVE MUSIC Malthouse, Ironbridge.

THOMAS BOWES Bach’s solo Sonatas and Partitas.

St Michael’s Church, Discoed, near Presteigne, 7.30pm, suggested minimum donation £5, 01547 560246. www.discoed.org FX Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

THE HARP INN BEER FESTIVAL A great range of real ales, local ciders and perries. Live music and delicious food. The Harp Inn, Old Radnor, near Presteigne, 01544 350655.

WILL KILLEEN The Spread Eagle, King St, Hereford, 8pm, free.

ROCKING BLUES NIGHT Featuring Steve Day Blues Band, supported by top musicians.

Woodberry Down Inn, Victoria Rd, Bridgnorth, 8.30pm. All profits to Cancer Research UK, 07896 676189.

33

Fri 21 June THE ENDINGS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S MUSIC Jazzy/Bluesy/Funky stuff played by Casey Green, Erica Lyons, Simon King, Jim Bashford, Liam Dunachie and Stuart Kingston, in aid of Hope House Children’s Respite Hospice.

Doldowlod Hall, Llandrindod Wells, 7pm for 7.30pm, £15 to include welcome drink, and puddings during the interval, are available from Herb Garden Cafe, Van’s Good Food Shop, or 01597 823252.

OK BROTHER The Exchange, Newtown, 9pm, free.

SIN-EATER FESTIVAL Folk, music, art, craft, film and ale.

20+ live bands including Trembling Bells, Rm Hubbert, Mary Hampton, Alexander Tucker, Joynes & Hladowski, Dead Rat Orchestra, Richard Dawson and Daniel Bachman. Workshops and craft stalls. The Bridges, Ratlinghope.

Information and tickets www.sineater. co.uk

34

OPENING NIGHT GALA SHOW! Featuring Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert. Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. Big Top Theatre, Ludlow, 7.45pm, £24, www.ludlowartsfestival. co.uk

Sat 22 June 10CC Part of Ludlow Festival. Outdoor stage, The Castle, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £28, 0844 2485165, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk BLACKMOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS Harp Inn, Glasbury-on-Wye, 8.30pm, free, 01497 847373.

KINGTON FESTIVAL Carnival parade and gala day. With stalls, entertainment, beer festival and much more. Kington, 1pm, 01544 340598, www.kingtonfestival.co.uk THE BIG GLOBE QUIZ Free chips for competitors, the winner takes the pot. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £2, 01597 821762.

THE HARP INN BEER FESTIVAL A great range of real ales, local ciders and perries. Live music and delicious food. The Harp Inn, Old Radnor, near Presteigne, 01544 350655.

MID SUMMER BALL Wigmore Hall, Wigmore (inside the walled garden). 7.30pm, tickets £35 to include Pimms, canapes, dinner and dancing to the Rhythm Thieves.

Tickets £35 each (dress code: black tie optional). 01568 770642.

SIN-EATER FESTIVAL See 21 June for details.

MIDSUMMER JAZZ Featuring The Tom Lindsay Quartet, young, dynamic performers. Pembridge Church, 7.30pm. Picnics will be available before the concert from 6pm at £5. Licensed wine bar. Information contact Meryl, 01544 340381.

Tickets £15 from The Olde Steppes, Pembridge or 01544 340381.

ELECTRIC BLUES REACTION Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Featuring at 2.30pm Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord and virginals, £10. 4.15pm Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot, £15.

7.30pm Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford, countertenor and lute, £20.

Gregynog, 01686 207100.

MID WALES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Programme includes Wagner, Britten and Brahms. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

THE FORTUNES PAST & PRESENT Hit band of the 60s and 70s. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm, 01584 811442.

SOUNDS OF SIMON Tribute to the music of Simon and Garfunkel. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 8pm, £12/£10, 01885 488575.

La Bordello Boheme

Sat 22 June ADRIAN THOMPSON Accompanied by John Moore.

Benjamin Britten Anniversary concert.

The evening also features an art exhibition by local painter, Penelope Timmis. Maidment Auditorium, Shrewsbury School, 7.30pm, £10 from Salop Sheet Music, 01743 365561. In aid of the Lingen Davies Cancer Centre.

JAMES HOLLINGSWORTH Original contemporary acoustic folk/ blues. The Swan Inn, Kington, 9pm, 01544 230510.

RESTLESS DOG Malthouse, Ironbridge.

LA BORDELLO BOHEME AND THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS Internationally renowned act will showcase some of the world’s greatest cabaret, circus, variety and Burlesque talent. Ludlow Fringe Festival. www.ludlowfringe.co.uk BORDERLINE BLUES BAND The Fighting Cocks, Stottesdon, 9.30pm, free.

JAZZ AT THE EDGE Featuring Sarah Gillespie. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 8pm, £13/£11, 01952 728911.

Sun 23 June

LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS Plus fireworks. English National Philharmonic Orchestra, presented by Gyles Brandreth. Outdoor stage, The Castle, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £28, 0844 2485165, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk THE HARP INN BEER FESTIVAL Real ales, local ciders and perries. Live music and food. The Harp Inn, Old Radnor, near Presteigne, 01544 350655.

THE RELICS The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

SIN-EATER FESTIVAL See 21 June for details.

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, 2.30pm, £25. Montgomery Church, 01686 207100.

SIMON DEELEY & STEVE GALEY Classic jazz, Latin and blues.

Radnorshire Arms Hotel, Presteigne, 4.30pm, £3, 01544 267406.

JAZZ BRUNCH Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. Big Top Theatre, Ludlow,12-3pm, £7, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk THE LUKE DOHERTY BAND Prince of Wales, Ledbury.

FLEURS DE LYS A special mix of instrumental skill, exquisite vocal harmony and historical anecdote from accomplished singers and musicians. Methodist Church, Broad St, Ludlow, 2pm, £10, www.ludlowfringe.co.uk

Mon 24 June

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Workshop for singers and instrumentalists 2.30pm, £10.

The Mellstock Band, 7.30pm, £10.

Kerry Church, 01686 207100.

RICHARD & JESS ARROWSMITH Folk duo. Spread Eagle, King St, Hereford, 8pm, £6, limited numbers, 01432 272205.

BLUES, JAZZ & COUNTRY Bring along your instrument or come and listen. Radnorshire Arms Hotel, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 01544 267406.

SIMON DEELEY PIANO TUITION

*Beginners to advanced standards *Preparation for Associated Board Exams *Tuition for the Associated Board Graded Jazz Exams *Also tuition for students learning electric keyboards Enjoy learning classical music or jazz, pop and easy listening music

JAZZ PIANO COURSE

A specially created course for beginners through to intermediate students. *Understand jazz chords and how to use them *Learn how to improvise *Play classic jazz tunes *Learn how to improvise in four important styles: blues, swing, mainstream/modern and Latin

For further details contact Simon Deeley A.L.C.M. Mobile: 07890 303681 email: simon.deeley@cooptel.net

36

Wed 26 June

STEVE GIBBONS in Concert Performing selections from the Dylan ProjectSupport from GREY WOLF - Hot Old-Time band.LUDLOW ASSEMBLY ROOMS 1 Mill St,Ludlow,SY8 1AZ, 7.30,£12,01584 873229

ROCKSPRING COMMUNITY CHOIR A variety of songs including folk and show tunes. Ludlow Buttercross, just outside the Church Inn, 7pm. Part of Ludlow Fringe Festival. ejbaker732007@yahoo.co.uk

Fri 28 June

OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Escher String Quartet. Music by Britten and his American composer contemporaries. National Museum, Cardiff, 6pm, £10, 01686 207100.

Mellstock Band, Gregynog Festival

Tues 25 June GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Screening of films with music by Britten and Grace Williams. National Library, Aberystwyth, 12.45pm, free, LITTLE RUMBA Humour, satire, skill and musicality all wrapped up in an infusion of Parisian Cafe Style – Meets Latin America 7.30pm Tickets £20 to include music and light supper. Tarc Gallery, Mill Farm,Stanford Bridge call us 01886 853800 LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT

By Daniel Cook from St David’s Cathedral. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm-2pm, retiring collection.

DAY LEVEL Housmans Cafe Bar, Church Stretton, 8pm.

Thurs 27 June

YOUNG-CHOON PARK PIANO RECITAL Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. Big Top Theatre, Ludlow, 2pm, £15, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk CUSTARD COLLECTION Malthouse, Ironbridge.

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Nicholas Daniel, oboe, playing Britten, 6pm, free. Britten Oboe Quartet, 7.30pm, programme includes Mozart, Elgar and Britten, £15.

Gregynog, 01686 207100.

VIRG CLENTHILLS & COMFORT OF THE STATE Country music with humour. You’ll laugh & cry ‘til the tears fill your cowboy boots.

Appletree Theatre, Lower Galdeford Ludlow 7.30, £5, 01584 878282

SOUL NIGHT Malthouse, Ironbridge.

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Guy Johnston, cello playing Bach, Britten and Hilary Tann. Manafon Church, 7.30pm, £15, 01686 207100.

OPEN MIC NIGHT Hosted by Howard & Clare. Crown Inn, Oakengates, 01952 610888.

ADEY MARSHALL Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

Coffee, Tea, it’s

Take some �me out on a Sunday a�ernoon and listen to some relaxing, easy-swinging jazz in the company of popular Midlands pianist Simon Deeley, accompanied by fine and trusty double-bass player Steve Galey. Partake of a cup of coffee, tea or something stronger from the bar while you listen to a selec�on of classic jazz, La�n and blues numbers.

Sunday 23rd June Sunday 14th July Sunday 18th August from 4.30pm at

The Radnorshire Arms Hotel, High St, Presteigne, LD8 2BE £3 entrance Tel: 01544 267406 Email: info@rahwales.com Website: www.radnorshirearmshotel.com

37

ELKIE BROOKS Performing some of her classic hits, blues and jazz. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £21.50-£20, 01743 281281.

Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra

SHREWSBURY CHORAL SOCIETY Presents an evening of 20th century Broadway music. St Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £12/£10, £5 students/children, 01743 443146 or on the door.

SARAH MOULE Jazz singer. Ludlow Brewery, £10. www.ludlowfringe.co.uk

BRUISE Highly reputed, unique folk duo.

The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £4, 01597 821762.

SYD GREENFIELD’S SWING TIME Superb acoustic ‘Hot Club’ jazz and swing. Saturday Cafe, The Courtyard, Hereford, 12-2pm, free, 01432 340555.

GARY HALL Rootsy folk music. The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford.

THE MAGNETS Glorious harmonies and jaw-dropping beatboxing all sung totally a cappella.

Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

SACCONI QUARTET Influences on Britten. Programme includes Shostakovich, Haydn, Bridge, and Britten. Tithe Barn Gallery, The Rodd, Presteigne, 7.30pm, £12, £5 students includes refreshments, 01544 260149, www.sidneynolantrust. org

SYNERGY The Exchange, Newtown, 9pm, free.

WORRIED MEN Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

LLANFYLLIN MUSIC FESTIVAL Featuring the Allegri String Quartet.

Programme includes Beethoven, Roth and Brahms. St Myllin’s Church, Llanfyllin, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01686 614555, www.llanfyllinfestival.org.uk

YOUNG PERSON’S CONCERT Featuring the local talent from Llanfair Waterdine and surrounding area, 6pm, 01547 510672. Part of the Llanfair Waterdine Arts and Gardens Festival.

LUCIDITY BOBBY The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

PAUL PARKER Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

SARAH SMITH TRIO Wine Bar, Quality Square, Ludlow.

PICKFLOYD Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £15, 01600 772467, www.monmouth-savoy.co.uk THE RELUCTANT SINNERS White Horse Inn, Clun.

JOHN EYRE Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye. GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Catrin Finch, harp, 2.30pm, £15.

Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Andrew Kennedy, tenor. Programme includes Elgar, Britten and Pärt, 7.30pm, £25. Gregynog, 01686 207100.

OPEN DAY & CONCERT Belmont Abbey, Hereford. Open day 10am-4.30pm, free. Concert by violinist, Michael Gruber, 7.30pm, Abbey Church, 01432 374747.

LITTLE HEREFORD VOICES COMMUNITY CHOIR Together with the Tenbury Teme Valley Band. Music for a summer evening.

Charity event. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm, 01584 811442.

THE ELYSIAN SINGERS Concert performance of Henry Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas. Dore Abbey, Abbeydore, 7.30pm, £20-£10, 01981 510332, enquiries@concertsforcraswall. org, www.concertsforcraswall.org.

RAT PACK LIVE The swingsational Dean, Sammy and Frank spectacular. The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, £20, 01432 340555, www. courtyard.org.uk.

GREY WOLF Cracking Old-Time & Americana.

Support from SAM, quality singer-songwriter.Globe Lounge Bar 3 Market StLudlow SY8 1BP 8.00pm, FREE

LIAM DUNACHIE Playing a range of jazz and great American songbook standards. Ludlow Brewery, £10, www.ludlowfringe.co.uk

Sat 29 June

JOOLS HOLLAND & HIS RHYTHM & BLUES ORCHESTRA Outdoor stage, The Castle, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £35, 0844 2485165, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk GET BACK Malthouse, Ironbridge.

BENJI KIRKPATRICK Bellowhead star Benji plays a solo show. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £5, 01597 821762.

38

Sacconi Quartet

Tenebrae, Gregynog Festival

J ALEXANDER & THE BLUES DEVILS Lichfield Vaults, Church St, Hereford, 4pm free, 01432 266821.

LUDLOW SAXOPHONE QUARTET Dinham Millennium Green, Ludlow, (on the river bank, behind Ludlow Castle), 2.30-5pm, free, 01584 874555.

LLANFYLLIN MUSIC FESTIVAL Featuring the Allegri String Quartet.

Programme includes Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven.

St Myllin’s Church, Llanfyllin, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01686 614555, www.llanfyllinfestival.org.uk SHROPSHIRE STRUMMERS Housmans Cafe Bar, Church Stretton, 1pm.

JAZZ BRUNCH Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. Big Top Theatre, Ludlow,12-3pm, £7, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk

Sun 30 June 10TH ANNIVERSARY BASH Featuring from 2.30pm, The Bar Flys, Mumbo Jumbo, Babajack and The Misers. Prince of Wales, Ledbury.

THE PEREGRINE PIANO QUARTET Laurence Kempton (violin), Gillian Bradley (violin), Justin Lingard (viola) and Sonia Hammond (cello).

Programme includes works by Shostakovich and Schubert. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 3pm, £10, £2 for under 18s, 01544 350317.

PHILLIP DYSON A sensational show of piano music classic hits including Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Scott Joplin and Gershwin. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 2.30pm, £15/£14, 01743 281281.

GREGYNOG FESTIVAL Featuring Tenebrae, Nigel Short.

Choral masterpieces by Parry, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Britten and Paul Mealor.

Gregynog, 2.30pm, £20, 01686 207100.

MUSIC FOR A SUMMER’S EVENING With the Llanfair Singers and guests.

St Mary’s Church, Llanfair Waterdine, 6.30pm, 01547 510672. Part of the Llanfair Waterdine Arts and Gardens Festival.

TASHA The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

SHROPSHIRE UNSIGNED Featuring the best unsigned bands in Shropshire featuring Fight The Bear, Arcade Parade, Fight The Dice & Portlights. Hosted by BBC 6 Music DJ, Chris Hawkins. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £5 in advance, £7 on the door (standing), 01743 281281.

39

Sun 30 June THE HOLLIES & THE SEARCHERS Plus firework display. Outdoor stage, The Castle, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £28, 0844 2485165, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk

JULY Mon 1 July ROEBUCKANEERS FOLK CLUB The Roebuck Inn, Brimfield, Ludlow, 8pm, 01584 711854.

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

BLUES, JAZZ & COUNTRY Bring along your instrument or come and listen. Radnorshire Arms Hotel, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 01544 267406 or 07811 587501.

Tues 2 July

ROB HERON & THE TEA PAD ORCHESTRA Eighty Six’d Cafe, Ironbridge.

LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT

By Nigel Morris, St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm-2pm, retiring collection.

Wed 3 July OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

WILLIAM BROOKES GOT TALENT A showcase for dance, vocal and drama. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7.30pm, £5/£4, 01952 728911.

Thurs 4 July HEED THE THUNDER The Retreat, Ledbury.

REMI HARRIS & PETER CABARRA Guitar and bass play jazz. Granary Tea Rooms, Leominster, 8pm. Two-course meal £16, ticket for music only £5, please phone to book, 01568 614290.

Whiskey River, Beer On The Wye Festival ROB HERON & THE TEA PAD ORCHESTRA SpArC, Bishop’s Castle

Fri 5 July BEER ON THE WYE FESTIVAL Featuring Crowsaw 6pm, Fight The Bear 7.30pm, Shamus O’Blivion and the Megadeath Morrismen 9.30pm.

Hereford Rowing Club, Greyfriars Ave, Hereford, £3 2-5pm, £5 5-11pm, www.herefordcamra.org.uk/festival MICRO BABY Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

BLUES BOX The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

LLANFYLLIN MUSIC FESTIVAL Featuring the Allegri String Quartet.

Programme includes Schubert, Verdi and Beethoven. St Myllin’s Church, Llanfyllin, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01686 614555, www.llanfyllinfestival.org.uk JAM SESSION Hollybush Inn, near Hay-on-Wye. JAMES HICKMAN The Exchange, Newtown, 9pm, free.

DEREK EYNON Wine Bar, Quality Square, Ludlow, 01584 878000.

Sat 6 July LIMEHOUSE LIZZY Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £15, 01600 772467.

BEER ON THE WYE FESTIVAL Featuring Whiskey River 3pm, The Misers 6pm and The Kustom 9pm.

Hereford Rowing Club, Greyfriars Ave, Hereford, £4 12-5pm, £5 5-11pm, www.herefordcamra.org.uk/festival THE HYPE Malthouse, Ironbridge.

POETRY & JAZZ With Julie Boden, Steve Tromans and jazz legend, Dutch Lewis. Hellens, Ledbury, 7-9pm, £10, 0845 458 1743. boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk.

Part of Ledbury Poetry Festival.

ON TOUR WITH ELVIS Featuring Michael King. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £18/£17, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Sun 7 July LLANFYLLIN MUSIC FESTIVAL Featuring the Allegri String Quartet.

Programme includes Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn. St Myllin’s Church, Llanfyllin, 7.30pm, £16/£15, 01686 614555, www.llanfyllinfestival.org.uk CBSO ON YOUR DOORSTEP String players from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra play Haydn and Mozart. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 3pm, £12. 0845 458 1743. boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk.

Part of Ledbury Poetry Festival.

40

The Hollies

POEM AND SONG With Mike Heron, founding member of the Incredible String Band, Mike Hastings, Georgia Seddon and John Wilson. Baptist Church Hall, Ledbury, 7.45pm, £8. 0845 458 1743. boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk.

Part of Ledbury Poetry Festival.

THE SARAH WARREN BAND Prince of Wales, Ledbury.

BEER ON THE WYE FESTIVAL Featuring Faithful City Morris 1pm and The Andy Masefield Jazz Band 2pm.

Hereford Rowing Club, Greyfriars Ave, Hereford, £1, 12-5pm, www. herefordcamra.org.uk/festival

Music Workshops

Sat 1 June SOUNDS LIKE FUN! Singing with Ros Thomas. A day of fun, relaxed harmony singing at Canon Frome Count, nr Ledbury, 10.30am - 4.30pm. Workshop £28, workshop and lunch £36. Please book online at http://simplysinging.eventbrite.co.uk or email fromesociety@canonfromecourt. org.uk Sat 8 June VERSE ANTHEM WORKSHOP Led by Bill Hunt, founder member of Fretwork. Sing or join a viol or recorder consort to study pre-Restoration verse anthems. Earl Mortimer College & Sixth Form Centre, Leominster, 9am to start at 10am-5pm. Refreshments included but bring a packed lunch. BMEMF members £14, non-members £16. For details and to register, 01544 267397 or fjjohnstone@btinternet.com

Sat 29 June SPEM ON THE BORDER A one-day workshop for singers and instrumentalists on Thomas Tallis’s famous 40-part motet. With tutor David White. St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, registration 10am, sessions 10.45am-4.30pm. The Border Marches Early Music Forum. £14 members of BMEMF or other EMF, £2 singers aged under 25, £16 others. Bookings, john. wren1@hotmail.co.uk or 01544 350636.

Sat 29 June CARA LUFT SONGWRITING WORKSHOP A songwriting workshop hosted by singer/songwriter/guitarist extraordinaire Cara Luft. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 2pm, £6 each, 01982 552555.

Sat 29 June TRADITIONAL WELSH MUSIC WORKSHOPS Come along and give it a go! All abilities welcome. The Globe, Hay-onWye, 2.30pm, £7.50, 01597 821762.

Fri 12 - Sun 14 July RECORDER PLAYING WEEKEND Paradise Farmhouse, Slough Lane, Presteigne. With tutor Margaret Westlake, in large and small ensembles. £60 for tuition only, also residential. You will be expected to play S, A, T and B recorders and sight-read. Details/application form Fran Johnstone, 01544 267397, fjjohnstone@btinternet.com

Sat 13 & Sun 14 July FIND YOUR FOLK VOICE With Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham. Harmony singing for the driven but petrified. Booking required by 15 June. Gleanings, Gravels Bank, near Minsterley, 01743 891412.

Mon 22 - Fri 26 July SONGWRITING FOR THE UNSUSPECTING With George Papavgeris. Booking required by 1 July. £240 includes tea on Sunday and home-cooked lunches, plus refreshments. Gleanings, 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.

Details:- Anne Loughran 01547 520339 anneloughran@gmail.co.uk Monday FUN & PLAY WITH RHYTHM & 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 BANDAMANIA Traditional dance music from far and wide. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 7.15pm, Sue Harris 01547 560950.

THE LICHFIELD VAULTS 11 CHURCH STREET, HEREFORD LIVE MUSIC TWICE A MONTH SECOND AND LAST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH

Sunday 9th June

Sunday 30th June

SONS OF DELTA

J ALEXANDER & THE BLUES DEVILS

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

01432 266821

41

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, 01547 560950.

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

Wednesday LUDLOW LARKS COMMUNITY CHOIR Led by Polly Bolton. Songs from around the world - from the Beatles to Bulgaria. Ludlow Women’s Centre, £3-£5 per session, 7.30pm-9.30pm. For dates contact Polly on 01584 823609 or info@oak-barn.co.uk or check our website www.jollypages.co.uk/larks First Thursdays BLACK HILL TUNE CLUB 2pm at the Crown Inn Longtown. Free. 01432 263495.

Thursday fortnightly WILD ANGELS Informal community choir led by Sue Harris. All welcome. Traditional songs from around the world. Llanidloes, 7.30-9.30pm 01686 625980.

Every Sunday SESSION Crown & Sceptre, Bromyard, 8.30pm, 01885 483425.

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

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 The Herbert Arms, Kerry, 8pm, all welcome, 07970 135378.

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.

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.

Every Monday JAM AT THE RAD Blues, jazz and country.

Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 07531 300697.

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

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

SESSIONS

First Saturday of month OPEN MIC NIGHT The Greyhound, Llangunllo, 9pm, 01547 550400.

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.

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

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

Every Tuesday TUESDAY JAM SESSION Open to all.

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

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

The Retreat, Ledbury, 01531 632766.

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

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.

42

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

3rd Tuesday FOLK NIGHTS The Crown Inn, Longtown.

Other occasional folk events organised by Folk Workshops.

Register for e-Newsletter with john.baxter87@virgin.net.

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

Every Wednesday OPEN MIC NIGHT Baskerville Hall Hotel, Clyro Court, near Hay-on-Wye, 7pm for bar, restaurant and bar snacks, music from 8.30pm, free, 01497 820033.

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

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

Every Wednesday OPEN MIC NIGHT Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford, 01432 266000.

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

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

Every Wednesday ACOUSTIC, CONTEMPORARY & TRADITIONAL FOLK SESSIONS Knighton Hotel, Broad St, Knighton, 8.30pm, details from Terry, 01547 530588.

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

2nd Wednesday STRANGE KIN BLUES SESSION Primarily blues, but all styles welcome. Raven, Welshpool, 8pm, email blue.raven@hotmail.co.uk free.

2nd Wednesday OPEN MIC NIGHT Stockton Cross Inn, Kimbolton, near Leominster, 8.30pm, 01568 612509.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contact Dave Wright 01588 640552.

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

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

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.

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

Last Friday OPEN MIC NIGHT With Big String Music. Sun Inn, Leintwardine, 8pm, 07885 467673.

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

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

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

BELL HOTEL, Commercial St, Newtown 01686 625540 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 HARP INN, Glasbury-on-Wye 01497 847373 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 LUDLOW BREWING COMPANY, The Railway Shed, Ludlow 01584 873291 THE MALTHOUSE, Ironbridge, 01952 433712 MINER’S ARMS, Priest Weston 01938 561352 NELSON INN, Ludlow 01584 872908 OAKENGATES THEATRE, Telford. 01952 619020 THE 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

43

band directory BABY BOOM MUSIC. Respected electro-acoustic guitarist/ singer with huge repertoire of songs and instrumentals from the 60s and 70s, especially Beatles, Paul Simon, James Taylor. Available for birthdays, anniversaries, functions.

Friendly and professional. Call Ray Stroud 07962 916333 or email raystrack@talo5.plus.com 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 Bright and Breezy traditional music for ceilidhs, local and special events. Multi-instrumental community band with own caller Contact Sue Harris 01547 560950 MARTIN BLAKE: Fingerpickin’ good guitar, banjo and vocals, solo or with a variety of bands from duo to six piece, including Whiskey River (5/6 piece playing swamp music from America’s Deep South with fiddle, Cajun accordion and sax), The Whiskey River Boys (Aidan & Martin - duo version of the same), The Grass Snakes (5 piece trad bluegrass band with high lonesome harmony vocals), Blakes III (an eclectic acoustic trio with fiddle, clarinet, guitar and 3 part harmony) and The Blake Plowman Hot Band (red hot 4 piece rocking country band). Pubs, Clubs, Weddings, Divorces, etc. Contact: 07846 669890 or 01432 342018.

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

2CV Contemporary and classic female vocal. (Winehouse, Duffy, Corinne Bailey Rae, Imelda May, Sade, Motown, etc); rousing r ‘n’ b and/or cool Latin-tinged 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, www.steadyedd.co.uk 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

44

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 DR. JAZZ Trad jazz at it’s best. Guarranteed to get those feet tapping. Available for bookings 01544 350646. Musicians wanted, age immaterial. sosvisionary@hotmail.com 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 Duo/Trio/Band suitable for most occasions.

Kate Thomas lends her stunning voice to a refreshing mix of material from the likes of KT Tunstall, Pink and Mumford & Sons, ably supported by Dave Luke (guitar/mandolin/vocals) and a solid but subtle rhythm section. Dave 07967 029159 Kate 07817 019918 daveluke1@hotmail.com - or like us on Facebook!

THE 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!

HOT FEAT Sensational seven-piece soul band performing covers of all the soul greats, including Aretha, James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Sam and Dave. As well as more recent artists like Adele and Amy Winehouse.

Tel: 07984 816847 or www.hotfeat.org.uk 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 THE JOHN HARDMAN BAND Uncompromising power rock and heavy blues. Featuring the legendary John Hardman on guitar and vocals. We play some originals + Tull, The Stones, The Who, Hendrix and much more. We’re a hungry new band made up of experienced musicians. We play pubs, halls, weddings, festivals. Give Tim a ring on 07581 420869. See on myspace.com/johnhardmanband.

JON WATSON - Boogie Woogie, jazz and blues piano and vocals. Taking bookings now. Solo or trio available 01432 266591 or 07954 288163 jon.watson4@talktalk.net LITTLE RUMBA A classy four piece band featuring Hugh, John Jacqui & Pete, from The Tango Band and The Rumbajax, playing moody, melancholy music everything from East European and South American to the Blues.

Viola, violin, accordion, saxophones, guitar, vocals and bass. 01547 520339 www.littlerumba.com

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, Nick Trigg on 07938 889976, email isoundprooftrigg@hotmail.co.uk or efsl.porter@btinternet.com website amos-uk.co.uk facebook.com/amonthofsundaysuk MOSTLY JOHN CEILIDH BAND Cast aside that economic gloom. Why not let our merry minstrels, aided by the lovely Pammy (“no, no, no!”) restore your joie de vivre at your party, wedding or knees-up. 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 PICKIN’ IN THE KITCHEN PITK presents acoustic bluegrass music from the ‘Appalachian Mountains of Herefordshire’, featuring tight harmony singing, sparkling foot-tapping instrumentals and plenty of witty banter. This is a traditional six piece band, featuring fiddle, mandolin, 5 string banjo, guitars and double bass, playing classic American bluegrass (“folk music in overdrive”). Contact: pitk@banquo.co.uk or Bob on 01544 318513 or Ian on 01432 860221.

SEAN SAYE Music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Great party music, capturing the retro vibe. Contact tel: 07588 409059 or email seansaye@yahoo.co.uk.

Website www.seansaye.com.

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.

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 SOUL SUPPLY 6-piece soul, Motown and R & B Party Band. Guaranteed to turn your event into a hive of nonstop dance floor activity. Available for weddings, parties and corporate events. Full PA, lights, staging and disco as required. 079905 75531 or 01568 708868 www.soulsupplyband.co.uk info@soulsupplyband.co.uk

SPIRIT OF TANGO Stylish café-jazz trio with a Latin/ French flavour featuring Phil Bond (accordion), Dave Carroll (guitar), and Mike Green (double bass).Polished, 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 THE SULTANA BROTHERS Fine R&B from one of the best bands around! The ultimate hip swingin’, foot tappin’ party band - guaranteed to help you dance the night away. For bookings/enquiries contact Phil 07791 129391 or Adam 07855 037092. Website www.thesultanabrothers.vpweb. co.uk or find us on Facebook.com/thesultanabros TAFRAF (formerly A Band ‘n Hope). This long established local Youth Ceilidh Band can provide all you need for your Charity Ceilidh, wedding or private party. Contact Caller, Dave Rogers, on 07776 395070 for availability and rates.

THE BOY & THE FLATPACK BAND: The Boy (aka Clive Williams) casts his ironic, lazy eye over the burning issues of today, whilst the Flatpack Band backing rummages through the toybox of pop with intricate horn & woodwind arrangements. Zany, relevant and danceable, this sustainably funny band is ideal for a party, festival or any environmentally conscious event. We can also offer a pedal-powered, off-grid PA option that won’t cost the Earth!! Telephone Richie on 01544 231236 or email: richie@momentary-lapse.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.

WHEN IN ROME Female fronted 4-piece. Songs to dance to from 60’s to present day. Available for pubs, parties and weddings. https://www.facebook.com/WhenInRome TheBand email:when-in-rome@hotmail.co.uk 07929 367366 or 07811 819871.

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.

45

theatre PERFORMANCE Sat 1 June ALL WALES FINAL - ONE ACT PLAY FESTIVAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY DRAMA ASSOCIATION. Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7pm, £7, 01686 614555.

Sat 1 June I WAS A RAT! BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY THEATRE CO., in association with NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE THEATRE CO., THE NEW WOLSEY THEATRE IPSWICH & TEATRO KISMET. A magical story about a scruffy page boy who turns up one evening on the doorstep of old married couple: Bob and Joan. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, Sat matinee 2pm and 7pm, £12.50/£10, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Mon 3 June SEEING IS BELIEVING An evening of mind-blowing magic and illusion with Magic Circle magician, Mark Townsend. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 7.30pm, £7/£5. Tickets from Leominster TIC or on the door. Part of Leominster Festival, www.leominster-festival.co.uk, 01568 616460.

Tues 4 & Wed 5, Sat 8 & Mon 10 - Wed 12 June THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST LONDON CLASSIC THEATRE. Oscar Wilde’s theatrical masterpiece with sparkling dialogue, gloriously improbable plot twists and a sprinkling of romance.

4 & 5 June - The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £17.50/£16.50, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

8 June - Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

10 - 12 June - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, plus matinee 2.30pm on Wednesday, £14-£12, child/student £10, 01743 281281.

Wed 12 June A LETTER FROM SHAKESPEARE PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY, COLEG POWYS will take you into a world of love, conflict, revenge and ambition through a modern day retelling of the works of William Shakespeare. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

Fri 14 - Sun 16 June PUPPET EXTRAVAGANZA Performances for adults, young people and children.

Fri 14 June - ‘Puppetry Masterclass with Purvin’, 6-7.30pm, £4. ‘The Shop of Little Horrors’, PICKLED IMAGE THEATRE, 8pm, £6.50. Sat 15 June - ‘Street Puppetry’, 10am-1pm, free, Ludlow Town Centre. ‘Nice’, FOLDED FEATHER THEATRE, 2pm, £5/£3.50. ‘Puppet Cabaret’, FETCH THEATRE, 8PM, £6.50. Sun 16 June - ‘Puppetry Skills Workshop’ for young people, 10.30am12pm, plus street puppeteering 12-1pm, £5/£3.50. ‘Street Puppetry’, 12-4pm at the Secret Gardens of Ludlow and to the markets in town. All other events at Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 878141, info@thefestch.co.uk Sat 15 & Sun 30 June ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL WILLOW GLOBE COMPANY. Breaking hearts, verbal fireworks, drums, trumpets and magical charm; this mysterious and beguiling play offers love, laughter and music - heady alchemy for summer. 15 June - Tretower, Llanfihangel Cwmdu, 7pm. 30 June Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, £10, under 12s £5, 01597 811487, www.willowglobe.co.uk Tues 18 June THE ADVENTURES OF SANCHO PANZA A son, grieving for his father, lonely in his thoughts until one day, he remembers stories his dad used to tell him about Don Quixote. A boistrous, contemporary adaptation of Cervantes’ classic tale. Studio Theatre, The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.45pm, £8, 01432 340555.

Thurs 20 - Sat 22 June ONE ACT COMEDIES OFF CENTRE THEATRE presents two one-act comedies including Last Tango in Little Grimley, a tale about an amateur dramatics group who, with only four surviving members, have decided that ‘the one thing that sells tickets these days is sex!’. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £8, 01600 772467, www.monmouth-savoy.co.uk Sat 22 June THE FACTORY This dynamic company honours spontaneity and creative risk. No two performances are ever the same.

Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, 7pm, 01597 811487, www.willowglobe.co.uk

Thurs 13 & Fri 14 June PERSEPHONE CONQUEST JUNIOR YOUTH THEATRE. Persephone is an engaging and exciting story based The Morgan & West on the Ancient Greek myth of Show Persephone. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7pm, £4, 01885 488575, www.conquest-theatre.co.uk Fri 14 June THE MORGAN AND WEST SHOW Great Scot! Victorian magicians Morgan and West bring a magical extravaganza to a millennium near you! The plucky prestidigators present dazzling deceptions, unparalleled precognitive powers and totally genuine ability to travel through time.

Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm, £8 from The Judge’s Lodging or www.wegotttickets.com

46

Mon 24 June THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY. Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. Big Top Theatre, Ludlow.

7.45pm, £18, www.ludlowartsfestival. co.uk Tues 25 June CAFÉ GENÉRICA LUDLOW COMMUNITY THEATRE. A day in the life of the people who work and visit the cafe. Appletree, 15 Lower Galdeford, Ludlow, 6pm & 8pm, £5 on the door, 01584 876203.

Nightjar Folk

Summer Drama

#Courtlaughing

47

The Circus of Horrors

MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA Sat 1 June MISS SAIGON THE VIV KELLY YOUTH THEATRE GROUP. The School Edition of this West End musical brought to the stage by this vibrant young company. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £12, 01743 281281.

Wed 26 June THE CIRCUS OF HORRORS Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. Big Top Theatre, Ludlow.

7.45pm, £20, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk Thurs 27 & Fri 28 June TEECHERS BLACKEYED THEATRE COMPANY present a fastmoving, inventive and highly entertaining take on life at a modern Comprehensive. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £17.50/£16.50, 01432 340555.

Fri 28 June & Fri 5 July EVERY BRILLIANT THING PAINES PLOUGH & PENTABUS. You’re six years old.

Mum’s in hospital. You start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own. Based on true and untrue stories.

28 June - Ludlow Women’s Centre, 8pm, £6, 01584 856564. Part of Ludlow Fringe Festival.

5 July - Market Theatre, Ledbury, 9pm, £6.

0845 458 1743. boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk.

Part of Ledbury Poetry Festival.

Sun 30 June ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL SHAKESPEARE LINK & WILLOW GLOBE COMPANY. Breaking hearts, verbal fireworks, drums, trumpets and magical charms; this mysterious and beguiling play offers love, laughter and music. Willow Globe Theatre, Llanwrthwl, near Rhayader, £10, under 12s £5, 01597 811487, www.willowglobe.co.uk Fri 5 July 4 BRANCHES FERAL PRODUCTIONS. A spellbinding re-telling of The Mabinogion using sound, music, scent, light and texture.

Burgage Hall, Ledbury, 8pm and 9pm, £6. 0845 458 1743. boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk. Part of Ledbury Poetry Festival.

Sat 1 & Sat 8 June DON PASQUALE SWANSEA CITY OPERA presents a production of Donizetti’s popular and uproarious comic opera.

1 June - Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

8 June - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £22.50-£15, 01743 281281.

Wed 5 & Thurs 6 June SPRING AWAKENING SHREWSBURY COLLEGE OF ARTS & TECHNOLOGY presents a rock musical, based on the controversial German play ‘Awakening of Spring’, which was banned in Germany for some time due to its frank portrayal of adult themes. For ages 15+. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, Wed 7.30pm, Thurs 1.30pm & 7.30pm, £7.50, 01743 281281.

Sun 9 June ALBERT HERRING TEA PARTY With cakes, tea and jelly galore. Join the Friends of Mid Wales Opera to celebrate Albert’s Triumph. Members of the cast, including Albert himself, tenor Christopher Turner will introduce you to the opera, as well as sing favourite arias from some of the greatest operas. Berriew Community Hall, £10, www.midwalesopera.co.uk, 01686 614555.

Wed 12 & Thurs 13 June SHREWSBURY COLLEGE SHOWCASE 2013 Excerpts from Cabaret and Spring Awakening, interpersed with examples of solo and ensemble work in singing, dancing and acting. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury. Wed 7.30pm, Thurs 1.30pm & 7.30pm, £7.50, 01743 281281.

Fri 14 June BACK TO BROADWAY Combines captivating performances with stunning lighting effects and a New York setting. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £18.50/£17.50, 01432 340555.

Fri 5 July CLAIRVOYANCE & MEDIUMSHIP With Jackie Mecke and Susan Moss. Craven Arms Community Centre, 7.30pm, £8 in advance or £10 on the door, 01588 672847, www.note-events.co.uk Sat 6 July POILU AND TOMMY Poilu and Tommy follows two boys from the bucolic house of their childhood to a cellar in no-man’s land, where they unexpectedly meet as young men caught up in the battle of the Somme. For ages 7+. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 11am and 2.30pm, £6, £3 under 16s. 0845 458 1743. boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk. Part of Ledbury Poetry Festival.

48

Teechers

Wed 19 - Sun 23 June ANNIE GET YOUR WIGLE ON present the rags to riches storiy of the young red-headed orphan. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, Wed & Fri 7.30pm, Thurs 6.30pm, Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm, Sun 2.30pm, £15-£10, 01743 281281.

Fri 21 June MAGIC OF THE MUSICALS M&G PRODUCTIONS in association with THE CHORUS LINE present a razzle-dazzled show featuring West End and Broadway showstoppers. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

Fri 21 June & Sun 7 July RITA/LA SERVA PADRONA POP-UP-OPERA. Two one-act comic operas will be uniquely intertwined to tell stories of love, lust, risk and reconciliation. 21 June - Lyde Court, Hereford, 8pm, £20, includes pre-show entertainment with jazz pianist and fresh-baked pizza from 6pm, 01432 357753.

7 July - Broome Farm, Peterstow, Ross-on-Wye, teas and bar open from 2pm, performance 4pm, £17.50, 01989 567232.

Fri 28 June FASCINATING AIDA Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. Big Top Theatre, Ludlow.

7.45pm, £24, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk

CHILDREN’S THEATRE

Sun 2 June ASTON’S STONES TEATER PERO PRODUCTION. An exquisite and heartwarming story about the little dog who wants to take care of all the stones he can find. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

Sat 8 June BO BEEP SEALEGS PUPPET THEATRE presents this nursery rhyme based show for under 7s. Leominster Community Centre, 12pm, £5/£3, family £14. 01568 616460.

Part of Leominster Festival.

Sat 15 June PINOCCHIO Steve Tiplady as Geppetto, uses the objects of a carpenter’s workshop to tell the tale of the puppet that wants to be a real boy. Puppetry, shadows, illusion and especially composed music combine to create a show with something for all ages. The Courtyard, Hereford, 11am & 2.30pm, £7.50/£6.50, Kids Club £6, 01432 340555.

Fri 21 - Sun 23 June GRUFFALO’S CHILD Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. Big Top Theatre, Ludlow.

Fri 2pm, Sat 11am & 2pm, Sun 11am, £12, OAP £3 off Sat & Sun, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk

DRAMA WORKSHOPS

HAY SENIOR YOUTH THEATRE For 12-17 year olds. Will start in September at The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, time and date to be confirmed.

Call Janine Sharp on 07733 055430 for details or to express an interest.

Mondays YOUTH THEATRE Conquest Theatre, Bromyard. Ages 6-11 4.30-5.30pm, ages 11-14 6-7.30pm, ages 14-18 7.30-9.30pm, £25 & £30 per term, 01432 340555.

Mondays during term time PLAYHOUSE YOUTH THEATRE for 10-16 year olds. Develop performance, drama skills and confidence. New members welcome.

6.30-8.30pm at Leominster Community Centre. Full term/ half term fees, 01568 612583.

Mondays APPLETREE MUSICAL THEATRE DRAMA CLUB Youth theatre workshops. Ages 7-11, 5.30-6.30pm, 11-16, 6.30-8pm. £50 per term. Ludlow Assembly Rooms, 01584 878141.

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

Tuesdays YOUTH THEATRE IN WIGMORE Wigmore group runs at Teme Valley Youth Project, 3.30-4.30pm for 6-11 year olds, 5-6.30pm for 11-16 years old. £40 per term. 01568 770110 or visit www.courtyard.org.uk Tuesdays YOUTH THEATRE Drama workshop for 7-14 year-olds after school. Ledbury Market Theatre, 01432 346526 or 01531 633760.

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

Alternate Wednesdays APPLESTROODLE IMPROVISATION THEATRE WORKSHOPS FOR GROWN-UPS! (16 plus). Elim Church Hall, Lower Galdeford, Ludlow, SY8 1RN. 7.30-9pm, £5/session.

No experience required, just sense of humour.

Details on www.appletreetheatre.co.uk Wednesdays KINGTON YOUTH THEATRE With Kington Primary School. Wed - Years 5 & 6, 4-5.30pm.

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

Wednesdays THE COURTYARD KIDS For reception - Year 2, led by Helen Durant, £65 per term.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

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

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

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

Tuesdays SENIOR YOUTH THEATRE The Courtyard, Hereford, £62 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.

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

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

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

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

Loads of fun! Call Janine Sharp on 07733 055430.

49

word Mon 1 - Sat 6 July WRITE ON FESTIVAL 2013 Herefordshire’s new writing festival celebrating creative talent in the county. All of the works will be making their premiere debut as part of the festival. 1 July - Checking Out. The House Keeper. 2 July - Closure. Speedy Exit.

3 July - Einstein & The Horse Girls & Clausewitz & The Talk. 4 July - Scratch Night. 5 July - Fair Game.

Land of Mines. 6 July - Death of a Beauty Sales Woman.

The Studio, The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Benjamin Zephaniah, Ledbury Poetry Festival

Poetry & Storytelling

Thurs 6 June LEOMINSTER FESTIVAL John Elmes: Poet of Herefordshire. John Elmes’ poetry is inspired by the Herefordshire countryside. Simple, lyrical and descriptive, in the great tradition of English rural poetry. Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 3pm. Weaving Words and Spinning a Line. An evening programme of poems, words and music, mixing the familiar with the unknown, with the Marches Poets, 7.30pm, £5, 01568 616460.

Wed 19 June PAM AYRES With hair-trigger timing and an eye for the detail of everyday life. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm, 01584 811442.

Thurs 20 June MIDSUMMER MADNESS An evening of poetry with local poets. Apple Store Gallery, Bridge St, Hereford, 7pm, £5 to include a glass of wine or juice, 01432 378436.

Fri 21 - Sun 23 June LUDLOW FRINGE POETRY PARTY Internationally renowned poet Helen Ivory will judge the competition, theme - ‘The Longest Day’. There’s a quirky children’s Poetry Competition judged by poet Angela Topping with the theme ‘Poetry in Pants!’. Ludlow Mascall Centre, www.ludlowfringe.co.uk

Fri 5 - Sun 14 July LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL Music, art, poetry and drama. Headlining are Juliet Stevenson reading Sylvia Plath. Poetry and jazz at Hellens. Jacob Polley, Sean Borodale, Emily Berry, Owen Sheers. Poet in residence Naomi Shihab Nye. Forrest Gander, C.D. Wright, Singer Cerys Matthews. Actor Sam West reading Auden with music Andy Kershaw. Family event – Benjamin Zephaniah. Tony Benn and his Desert Island Poems. Roald Dahl Museum Story tellers, Mr Gee Anne Stevenson, Christopher Le Brun. Buy tickets in person 10am-4pm, Tues–Sat at the Shell House Gallery, 36 The Homend, Ledbury, Herefordshire. Online bookings www.poetry-festival.co.uk, 0845 458 1743 or email boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk for a programme.

Comedy

Fri 7 - Sun 9 June COURT LAUGHING 7 June - Phill Jupitus, 8pm, £17.50. Comedy Club featuring Iain Stirling, Robin Morgan and MC Hayley Ellis, £11.50/£10.50. 8 June - Take Part, Wye Valley Open Mic Night. Rich Hall, 8pm, £17.50. James Campbell Comedy 4 Kids!, 2.30pm, £7.50. Comedy Club featuring Carl Donnelly and MCs Hayley Ellis and Mark Cooper Jones, £11.50/£10.50. 9 June - Life of Brian (Court Laughing Film), 7.30pm, £5. Josh Widdicombe, 8pm, £14. Kieran Powell, award-winning teenage ventriloquist, 2.30pm, £7.50. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

Tues 11 June COMEDY & CHILLI Telford Comedy Club, 8pm, £5, show-only and meal-only options available, 01952 610888.

Sat 22 June WYESIDE COMEDY A new monthly stand-up comedy night showcasing the best in Stand-Up from around the country. Featuring Will Hodgson, Geraint Evans, Tash Bartlett and special guest.

Wyeside Arts Centre, Castle Street, Builth Wells, 7.30pm, £7 in advance, £9 On the door. For more info contact Owen Griffkin - Email - powyscomedy@gmail.com Sun 23 June SEVERN JESTERS With MC Dan Nightingale, Joe Lycett and Paul Ricketts.

Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £8 in advance, £9 on the door, 01743 281281.

James Campbell, Court Laughing

50

Mon 24 - Wed 26 June LUDLOW FRINGE FESTIVAL Featuring Lucy Porter, Alfie Moore and Gary Delaney. The Victory Club (British Legion), Mill St, Ludlow, £8 per show or £20 for all three shows. www.ludlowfringe.co.uk

Tues 25 June PAUL MERTON’S IMPRO CHUMS Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. The Big Top Theatre, Ludlow, 7.45pm, £24, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk Thurs 27 June REGINALD D HUNTER Part of Ludlow Arts Festival. The Big Top Theatre, Ludlow, 7.45pm, £24, www.ludlowartsfestival.co.uk Fri 28 June COURT LAUGHING Staring Joel Dommett, David Trent and MC Matt Green.

The Courtyard, Hereford, 8.30pm, £11.50/£10.50, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Sat 6 & Sat 13 July JETHRO Turning everyday events into farcical stories. Contains adult humour. Ages 15+. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £20.50, 01432 340555, www.courtyard.org.uk.

Sun 7 July SPLIT SCREEN TEATIME Comedy and poetry with The Pub Stuntman. The Retreat, Ledbury, 01531 632766.

Talks

Until Sun 2 June HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN FESTIVAL The world’s largest philosophy and music festival returns to Hay-on-Wye for another packed programme of inspirational debates, world-class live music, comedy, cabaret and of course, legendary parties. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 01497 821762, www.howthelightgetsin.org

5 – 14 July 2013

www.poetry-festival.co.uk The Best Poets from Across the Globe: Eavan Boland, C.D. Wright, Naomi Shihab Nye, Anne Stevenson, Gillian Clarke, Liz Lochhead, Machi Tawara, Andrew Greig, Judy Brown, William Letford, Deryn Rees-Jones, Sinead Morrissey, Jacob Polley, Sean Borodale

Thrilling Performers: Kate Tempest, Mr Gee, Benjamin Zephaniah

Josh Widdicombe, Court Laughing

Poetry and Music: Jah Wobble and Philip Jeck, Cerys Matthews, Mike Heron, Newspaper Taxis: Poetry and Music after the Beatles, Andy Kershaw, Little Machine

Famous Faces on their Favourite Poets: Tony Benn, Alexandra Shulman, Christopher Le Brun

Open Mics and Slams: Bang Said the Gun Theatre: 4 Branches a spellbinding retelling of the Mabinogion by Feral Productions and Every Brilliant Thing by Pentabus

Actors Read Poetry Greats: Sam West reads W.H. Auden with music by Utter:Jazz, Ronald Pickup reads John Masefield and Juliet Stevenson reads Sylvia Plath Families and Children: Roald Dahl Museum, Revolting Pottery, Cerys Matthews sing-along

Request a programme by calling 0845 458 1743 or email boxoffice@poetry-festival.co.uk

51

Until Sun 2 June HAY FESTIVAL 2013 Hay Festival runs for ten days with a packed programme of debates and conversations with poets and scientists, novelists and historians, artists and gardeners, comedians and musicians, film makers and polititians.

Featuring Rupert Everett, John le Carré, Miranda Hart, Lionel Shriver, Noah and The Whale, Carl Bernstein, Cath Kidston, Michael Morpurgo, Julia Donaldson, Jon Klassen, Melvyn Burgess, Dara O’Briain, Mary Beard, Jonathan Dimbleby, Ruby Wax, Alexander McCall Smith, Danny Abse, Alan Davies, Antonia Fraser, Phill Jupitus, Lee Mack, Jeremy Bowen, Jules Hudson, Justine Roberts, Paul Theroux, Amadou & Mariam, Fabulous Baker Brothers, Maggie O’Farrell, Will Self, Manu Dibango, Philip Glass, Alison Weir, Robert Lindsey, Hans Blix, Irvine Welsh, Mark Haddon, Google co-founder Eric Schmidt, Selfridges creative director - Alannah Weston, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jodie Williams, Waterboys front man Mike Scott.

Hay-on-Wye, 01497 822629. www.hayfestival.com Sat 1 - Sun 9 June LEOMINSTER FESTIVAL 3 June - Leominster In Stitches, a talk by Wendy Rulton on the history of 31 embroidered panels. Grange Court, Leominster, 11am. The Ups and Downs of a Short Story Writer. A short talk and readings by local author Fay Wentworth. The Granary Tea Rooms, Leominster, 3pm. 4 June - Ryeland Sheep, a Sheep Shearer’s experience, a talk

by Cllr Peter McCaull. Grange Court, Leominster, 11am.

Poems from those with Dementia, The Granary, Leominster, 11.45am, free. Self Publishing - What is it and How Do You Do It? Leominster Community Centre, 12-2pm. Gripping Yarns - Four Novels and Five Novelists, Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 8pm, £4. 5 June - The Making of a Market Town by Peter Holliday, Lion Ballroom, 7.30pm, £5/£4. 7 June - On Learning in General and Music in Particular: a music teacher reflects. Lion Ballroom, 11am. She Was The Sun of My Life: illustrated one-woman show on Jane Austin’s early life, Lion Ballroom, 7.30pm, £8/£6. Leominster Festival, www.leominsterfestival.co.uk, 01568 616460.

Mon 3 June FAY WENTWORTH The ups and downs of a short story writer. A short talk and readings. Granary Cafe, Leominster, 3pm, free. Part of Leominster Festival, www.leominster-festival.co.uk, 01568 616460.

52

Salley Vickers

Tues 4 June BRECKNOCK DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS SOCIETY AGM 2pm, then lecture, Strawberry Hill and it’s Place in the Gothic Revival. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 2.30pm.

Annual membership £40, visitors £7.50 per lecture, 01874 731221, www.bdfas.org.uk Thurs 6 June 3D COMPUTERS A talk by Roman Iwancuk. Blue Ginger Gallery, Home End Farm, Stiffords Bridge, Cradley, Malvern, 7pm, £7.50 includes a drink and snack, 01886 880240.

Sat 15 June ONLY FOOLS AND BOYCIE An intimate evening with John Challis. He will reveal secrets from the set with stories and anecdotes from his dazzling career. The show celebrates the launch of the second volume of Challis’ autobiography. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01885 488575.

Fri 21 June THE SECRET LIVES OF WILD BEES A talk by Bridget Strawbridge. Blue Ginger Gallery, Home End Farm, Stiffords Bridge, Cradley, Malvern, 7pm, £7.50 includes a drink and snack, 01886 880240.

Mon 24 June SALLEY VICKERS Meet the very popular author of Miss Garnet’s Angel in Ludlow’s Cathedral of the Marches as she speaks about her new book, The Cleaner of Chartres. Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, 7pm, £5.00 available from Ludlow Library.

Credit card bookings 01584 875053. Further info 01584 813600. Email: ludlow.library@shropshire.gov.uk Thurs 27 June STEPHEN VENABLES - THE EVEREST STORY Venables weaves his own experience, the 1988 ascent with supplementary oxygen into the bigger picture of Everest exploration from Captain Noel’s first illegal trespass of 1912 to the pre-war attempts.

Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622.

Thurs 27 June TALK!! TACKLING THE TABOO - BRUCE JONES ‘Talk’ aims to get people who may be suffering in silence to talk and find help to start to overcome their depression.

Bruce Jones from TV’s Coronation Street has enjoyed a long career and his personal battles with depression were well documented. Bruce pulls no punches in tackling this topic and deals with depression in an honest and entertaining way. Savoy Theatre Monmouth, 7.30pm, £12, 01600 772467.

Sat 29 & Sun 30 June FROM BECOMING TO UNFOLDING The Adforton Sangha with Brother Martin. Adforton Church, 10am-12.30pm, 6.30-7.30pm, £5 each session, 01568 770436, gooldena1@btinternet.com

Workshops & Courses

Sun 2 June WRITER’S BASH Writers get together to read and promote work with musical breaks and impromptu competition. Leominster Community Centre, 5pm, £3.

Part of Leominster Festival, www.leominster-festival. co.uk, 01568 616460.

Sat 8 June WRITING WORKSHOP: CREATING CHARACTERS Explore ways to create convincing and engaging characters in a practical and supportive workshop with Mark Woodward. Leominster Community Centre, 2-5pm, £5. Part of Leominster Festival, 01568 616460.

Fri 14 & Sat 15 June WRITING FROM NATURE Suitable for both beginners and experienced writers, will look to the magnificent natural surroundings of rural Wales as inspiration. Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, 10.30am-4.30pm, 01686 625041.

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

First Wednesday of the month AYMESTREY POETRY GROUP Bring a poem to share or your own or an old favourite. The Riverside Inn, Aymestrey, 8pm.

Tony Walton 01568 770177 or Meg Cox 01568 708160.

First Wednesday of the month POETRY CAFE Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7pm, 01584 878141.

Every Thursday PHILOSOPHY EVENING Falcon Hotel, Bromyard, 7.30pm.

1st & 4th Thurs of each month PHILOSOPHY CAFE With 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.

4th Sunday of each month (excluding Bank Holidays) WINGED WORD Storytelling club, venue for the spoken word at the Six Bells, Bishop’s Castle, 8.00p.m. Free.

Mike 07816 133372.

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.

AARDVARK BOOKS & CAFE 50,000+ titles: North Herefordshire’s largest indie bookseller We buy books. Specialist in art, design, photography, history, gardening

Also open our superb CAFÉ!

Sat 13 July MORTIMER COUNTRY FOOD FAIR The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, 60 stalls, art exhibit, bar, hot food, live music Bucknell, SY7 0DH Off A4113 Knighton Road.

(Cider City Jazz Men). Kid’s Cooking Tel: 01547 530744 Bus, £3 adults, kids and parking free aardvaark@btconnect.com www.aardvark-books.com Sun 14 July MORTIMER COUNTRY Twitter: @aardvarkethel ANTIQUE FAIR Open 10am-4pm OPEN EVERY DAY INCLUDING ALL BANK HOLIDAYS

53

green door

End of the Line?

T

HE story of the People’s Design Lab begins with a popular local recycling project called Zero Waste Presteigne & Norton. The project drew to a close this March with Powys CC taking on the recycling.

But the story doesn’t quite end there.

54

It’s a waste The stuff that’s still at the bottom of the bin after people have recycled, re-used, repaired and composted is called residual waste. Typically, its a blend of cat food pouches, decorative things, broken gadgets and toys, polystyrene trays, plastic sleeves and little bits of foil stay fresh packaging. But behind waste are the designs. Designs with a brief that somehow became disconnected from the forest the paper came from, the effects of Day-Glo inks on recycled pulp, the fact that most fruits have skins of their own which are not plastic coated.

People don’t like waste.

The point is most people don’t like waste. They are more than willing to take part in local recycling if its friendly and simple and they can see the good in it. Landfill is just another dirty word. Like Poo. And Jimmy Saville.

Anyway, for three years, Cwm Harry managed Zero Waste Presteigne and Norton and it was jolly good, but as recycling rates rose to a terrifically good 74%, local attention turned disapprovingly to the subject of residual waste. The trouble is, whole systems of production, packaging and distribution have evolved without proper consideration of what will happen at the end of the line.

Then team zero waste discovered that in Italy some fellow recyclers were having a good idea called the Museum of Bad Design. This group had focused on Lavazza coffee capsules. They worked out that 12,000 tonnes of nonrecyclable Lavazza coffee capsules went to landfill each year and decided to take the issue back to the company.

Ta da!

Lavazza responded, inviting them to help design a solution and two years on, they are about to launch a pilot for the new design. Zero Waste Presteigne thought it was a great idea.

Think circular The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has estimated that the EU could save at least £220bn a year if industries were to re-design products for resource recovery. But how do you start to address the complicated and systemic design issues such as distribution, shelf life, marketing and linear thinking that have led to residual waste?

Companies like Lavazza and Orange Box may hold the key … Orange Box is a company specializing in office furniture and fittings. They have their own recycling centre, where they offer a take back service on all their products.

These returns are either sent for re-use or disassembled for raw materials and so it makes sense to design for durability and ease of recycling from the outset.

Katy Anderson at Cwm Harry has been busy with a new project that follows on from the project in Presteigne.

They had started to talk about creating a feedback loop between what we consume, what we manufacture and what we throw away. It ties in nicely with the concept of a circular economy, and takes inspiration from Zero Waste

Presteigne, the Museum of Bad Design and some great ideas coming out of the U.S. In 2012 the freshly named People’s Design Lab won a place in the finals of Nesta’s Waste Reduction Challenge.

Their website launched this April and people have begun to nominate and vote for products that need a re-design.

A panel of waste experts, designers, consumer groups, university researchers and people from industry will help take the best ideas forward.

Look, we’re doing our bit, what about you?

What this is, is a chance for people who recycle carefully to talk to the industries who create ‘stuff’ in the first place and to say ‘look, we’re doing our bit, what about you?’

Katy and team are inviting designers and manufacturers to engage with it as well, so we, the recyclers can work with them, the manufacturers who make waste in the first place, to come up with better designs. So it’s not the end of the line.

The People’s Design Laboratory, going national from Radnorshire, is online at http://www.thepeoplesdesignlab. org.uk Here you can nominate products that you can’t recycle, compost, re-use or repair for a redesign. And you can also nominate the best zero waste designs you know of, to contribute to the good design debate. Then, over the summer, you can join the team on-line and at workshops to work out how the top voted products could be redesigned.

Rachel at www.sharpeningpencils.co.uk

Sat 8th June, Kington Festival’s Past Present & Future Day The popular Kington Past day with a new twist. Kington town centre closes to traffic and becomes a dressed-up outdoor playground of past, present and future displays! Lots of fun entertainment and great displays. Free parking.

Official opening at 10am.

www.kingtonfestival.co.uk

Green Events Sat/Sun 1 & 2 June BEE READY Learn the basics of beekeeping to enable you to start in 2013. A practical weekend course on our family smallholding with opportunities to handle bees under supervision. £90 to include lunch on both days. Woodruff Bank, Suckley, on Worcestershire/Herefordshire border.

01886 884752/ email hill_phillipson@btinternet.com Wed 5 June GENTLE WOOLLY BIKE RIDE A leisurely ride with Transition Leominster (about 8 miles): stops include Luston and Yarpole. Meet in Corn Square, Leominster, 10am-3pm. Part of Leominster Festival, 01568 616460.

Sat 8 June KCS OPEN GARDENS Three beautiful gardens close to St Mary’s Church, Kington. Plant and produce stalls, tea, 2-6pm, £5 for all gardens, children free. Kington Choral Society.

Sat 8 & Sun 9 June THE GARDEN FESTIVAL A mix of speakers, exhibitors, allotments, balconies, woods and hedgerows. Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm, £6.00 adults, £2.50 children, family of four £12.00 with all profits going to the St Michaels Hospice. Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, 01531 660504, www.thegardenfestival.co.uk Sun 9 June LEOMINSTER ALLOTMENT ASSOCIATION Open day from 2pm - 6pm at Ginhall Lane Allotments.

Afternoon teas available, Signed car parking. In conjunction with the Leominster Festival and Leominster Open Gardens. All welcome.

Tues 11 June & Tues 9 July THE CART SHED GARDENING CLUB Course to take place in the beautiful walled garden at Newport House, Almeley. £35 per session, includes lunch, use of tools and other equipment, tuition and handouts. www.thecartshed.co.uk Wed 12 June THE WONDERS OF WALCOT A short 1.5 miles guided walk with raconteur Keith Pybus followed by lunch. Part of Bishop’s Castle Walking Festival, £25, www.walkingfestival.co.uk 01588 630531.

Fri 21 June AWARD WINNING GARDENS OPEN Cathedral & Bishop’s Palace, Hereford, gardens open in support of the National Garden Scheme, 10am-4pm.

Sat 22 & Sun 23 June GARDENS IN THE WILD Talks and interviews by Anna Pavord, Anthony Woodward, Clare Foster, Mirabel Osler, Nigel Dunnett, Noel Kingsbury, Peter Clay, Robert Myers and Stephen Anderton. Gardens to visit, guided walks, cycle routes, stalls, demonstrations and children’s events. Stagg Meadow, Titley, nr Kington. www.gardensinthewild.org WOODS FOR WELLBEING Provides a variety of exciting, imaginative, good value, all year round nature activities and retreats for all in beautiful locations in and around the Shropshire hills and borders.

Our 2013 programme includes a New Year Retreat, Forage & Feast, Herbal Heaven, Festival of Lights Retreat and many more. For details please contact Julia Walling on 01584 874636, 07796 596451 or via www.woodsforwellbeing.com

55

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.

ACCREDITED COUNSELLOR AND THERAPIST, experience of all ages including young people, and of individuals, couples and groups, offers confidential sessions, short or long-term, 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. Hay Acupuncture Clinic, Rose Cottage, Cusop Dingle, Hay-On-Wye 01497 821625/07980 596218 sandysandaver@onetel.com or www.hayacupunctureclinic.co.uk A.P. VET LTD Veterinary Acupuncture and Physiotherapy, broad range of conditions treated including Musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, respiratory and skin. Team approach to rehabilitation for horses and dogs to get your athlete back into action. www.ap-vet.co.uk, 01497 851608.

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.

ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES combined with energetic healing enhance own ability to heal oneself. Background in nursing and midwifery. Works from Eardisley, Herefordshire, HR3 6NJ. Reflex therapy (Reflexology), Baby reflex, preparation for a gentle birth (Geyarani method), Crystal therapist, Flower and Crystal remedies. Ring Judith Davies 01544 327022. Creative-healing@talktalk.net AROMATHERAPY & REFLEXOLOGY TREATMENTS OFFERED IN LUDLOW. Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils extracted from plants, which have a number of properties, that may when used help improve overall emotional health.

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

ATHENE COUNSELLING - specialising in issues related to baby loss, infertility, chronic ill health, rape, abuse, accidents, other traumas and crises. Leominster, can do home visits locally. Alison Sutton (PG Dip Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, MSc in Advanced Nursing, RGN).

07789 322771 or athene.counselling@gmail.com BOWEN TECHNIQUE - JOY PEARMAN. Also reflexology, Pilates and Zumba classes. Ledbury, Bromyard, Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford areas. 01432 820484.

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.

56

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).

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 COUNSELLING: Space for you to explore issues that are troubling you in a confidential, safe, supportive and nonjudgemental environment. I offer short and long term, low cost, individual integrative counselling. I have experience of working with a range of issues including anger, anxiety, bereavement, depression, disability, eating disorders, low selfesteem and confidence, illness, relationship problems, selfharm, sexuality and stress. South Shropshire/Powys borders.

Alison Trott FdA (Counselling), MBACP registered. Contact space4ucounselling@yahoo.co.uk 07791 013587.

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; JANE COOKE Presteigne. Safe, creative, equal approach. I have wide life & work experience; I work to support your increased understanding of yourself, and do not judge or try to change you – change comes through your awareness & when you are ready. jane.cooke@heartfeltwork.co.uk 07771950899.

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY with Mike Hadden RCST, based In Hereford, a gentle but profound way to reconnect to Health and well-being. To find out more tel: 01432 261222 or email: mike@herefordcraniosacral.co.uk EMOTIONAL THERAPY Anne Cummings MFET (Adv Dip) BAoG (Dip). Safe, effective therapy to improve and enhance personal potential. Specialist knowledge and experience with panic attacks, anger issues, severe anxiety, bullying, bereavement and depression. If you have difficulty relating to others, or persistent, troublesome emotions call Anne on 01547 530977.

See also www.thewritetofeel.com 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

FLOWER ESSENCES THERAPY. Essences provide us with a readily accessible means to support and maintain our emotional well-being. One-to-one sessions for personal development, and small group workshops (introductory and advanced) in Ross-on-Wye. I work with a wide range of essences from the UK and around the world. Contact: Jill Stern, BFVEA (adv), KFRP : 01989 563147 www.bfvea.com FOOT HEALTH PRACTITIONER Fully Registered CRB checked and also RGN, diabetes / wound care experience. Home visits in Herefordshire area. Discount of 25% if 65 or over. 10% discount with this magazine for under 65s. Prices start at £13.00 nails cut and filed. Many foot ailments treated, price agreed prior to visit. No surprises! Tel 01568 613298, Mob 07816 988196.

HEALING ENCOUNTERS: Soul Realignment, Soul Profiles, clearing restrictions at a Soul level. House Healing - geopathic stress, earth energies. We can tune-in to you and change energies. Tel 01584 892049. Healingencounters.co.uk 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 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: Annabel Stacey ACH. Homoeopathy supports the body’s own efforts to heal itself and can be used effectively to treat both emotional and physical disorders.

Treatment is adapted to the individual needs of each patient, taking all their symptoms into account. If you would like to find out more or make an appointment please contact me on 07960 865564 or annabelstacey@yahoo.co.uk (clinics in Ludlow and Shrewsbury).

HOMOEOPATHY Sandy Underhill RSHom. Homoeopathy is a system of medicine which involves treating the individual with highly diluted substances, given mainly in tablet form, with the aim of triggering the body’s natural system of healing.

Based on their individual symptoms, the homeopath will match the most appropriate medicine to each patient. Clinics in Llandrindod Wells, Kington and Presteigne. 01597 851021.

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

MASSAGE THERAPY Injuries, stress, relaxation. Claire Williams I.T.E.C. / N.I.M. 01544 267172. Clinics in Presteigne, Ludlow and Hereford.

LEOMINSTER NATURAL HEALTH CENTRE: Qualified therapists offer acupuncture, structural re-alignment, medical herbal medicine, remedial and holistic massage, reflexology, ear candling, reiki, psychotherapy, cognitive behaviour and couple counselling, hypnotherapy, health kinesiology, nutrition at the Leominster Natural Health Centre, Community Centre, Leominster, 01568 616411, www.leominstercommunitycentre.com.

LIFE COACHING RELATIONSHIPS... loving living together... Are you unhappy or dissatisfied in your relationship?

Struggling to get on well with your partner or not seeing eye to eye? Do you want to make your relationship work but don’t know where to begin? Would you like to have a more fulfilling and loving relationship? Karen Robinson ACMC, PNLP. Shobdon. Call: 01568 709194 or 07792 256451, Email: karenrobinson67@live.co.uk 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.

MEDITATION FOR WELLBEING Meditation is a gentle but powerful tool for health, wellbeing, problem solving and a better quality of life. I have been teaching meditation for 25 years to individuals and groups and can now offer A UNIQUE TRAINING for you to set up and run your own group. Easy organisation, minimal cost, ongoing support. I can visit you by arrangement. For info. please contact Julia Walling on 01584 874636, 07796 596451, julia.walling@btinternet.com or via www.meditationforwellbeing.co.uk NEW HAY OSTEOPATHS Ian Wright is a Registered Osteopath with 20 years experience in Ireland and Harley Street.

He is now practicing in Hay-on-Wye. Ian treats all conditions and all ages and gives clear and detailed feedback. For more information take a look at our website www.hayosteopaths.co.uk and to make an appointment telephone Heloise on 07772 000728.

NUTRIONAL THERAPY Would you like to know how to make the most of what you eat? Would you like help with choosing the foods that might suit you best? Would you like to understand why your food choices are important? Do you simply have an interest in how foods may affect you and your body? Phaedra Bushby 07794 476892. Consultants available in Leominster, New Radnor and Worcester. bushbybaby@hotmail. co.uk, www.phaedrabushby.webs.com PAMELA SPENCELEY MNIMH Medical Herbalist and Allergy Therapist 01568 770614 / 01584 878123 PHYSIOTHERAPY, CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY, REFLEXOLOGY & YOGA with Hermione Evans, Chartered Physiotherapist at Radnor Physiotherapy. For all back and neck pain, headaches, sports injuries, RSI, stress related illness and more. To discuss your needs or to make an appointment, please phone 01544 350691 or email contact@radnorphysiotherapy. co.uk or view www.radnorphysiotherapy.co.uk PSYCHIC READINGS: Clairvoyance, Tarot & Astrology

The Yoga Practice Small group classes, individual tuition Marie Hudson (Presteigne) 01544 260352 marieh279@googlemail.com Mike Young (Golden Valley) 01981 541003 mike@yogaskies.co.uk Belinda Jobst (Hereford) 07971 677113 be@nutritionalshift.com Nicky Jaques (Moccas) 07817 268689 nixen60@hotmail.com Jill Bonner (Ross-on-Wye) 01989 750410 healthyspineyoga@gmail.com Louise Griffiths (Brecon/Sennybridge) 07891 689957 yogalouise@live.co.uk

Body. Breath. Mind. Heart. www.theyogapractice.org.uk

57

(tape inc). Gifted & compassionate reader with over 20 yrs professional experience. Personal readings from home (near Hereford); at Zenith in Leominster on Thursdays; & telephone readings. ROWIE (M.BPRB) 01432 820684.

REFLEXOLOGY including auricular reflexology and fertility/ maternity reflexology. Qualified 2003. Experience of working with people with physical and learning disabilities. Catherine Brown, FHT MA, 07960 989894. Home visits available, (Ludlow area).

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, Facial Massage and Aromatherapy. Certificates recognized by the ministry of education in Thailand. Ground Floor, 3 Broad Street, Knighton LD7 1BL. Tel: 07538 572123 or (eve) 01547 550249 www.siamsmilettm.webs.com 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 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.

SPIRITUAL MEDIUM - Emily Baker, clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient, spiritual art, offering individual or party bookings. For more information call Ludlow 01584 529053 or 07775 652993.

Workshops WORKSHOP LISTINGS - Single listings are free.

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

Sat 1 June BUDDHIST VIPASSANA MEDITATION DAY With Gaia House teacher Jake Dartington. Powys Dance Centre, Llandrindod Wells. Suitable for experienced meditators and beginners. 10am-4.30pm, 01597 860327.

Wed 19 & Wed 26 June MEDITATION PRACTICE AND PRAYER With Paula Noor Jacobs. The Hall Barn, Bleddfa Centre, 10.30am-12pm, £10, 01547 550377, www.bleddfacentre.com Sat 29 June FINDING THE QUIET PATH IN DAILY LIFE A Sufi retreat day with Paula Norr Jacobs. The Hall Barn, Bleddfa Centre, 10.30am-12pm, £25 per day, 01547 550377, www.bleddfacentre.com

SIAM SMILE

TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE

BY GAN (JANYARAK MORRIS)

• • • • •

Traditional Thai Massage Thai Foot Massage Aromatic Oil Massage Thai Crafts & Handmade Jewellery Facial Massage

3 Broad Street, Knighton, Powys

58

Tel: 07538 572123 or (eve) 01547 550249 www.siamsmilettm.webs.com

6 WEEK YOGA COURSE At Rocket Cafe, 43 St Owen’s St, Hereford. Saturday mornings 9.45am-11am starting 19th May. An introduction to yoga postures, breathing and reflective practice.

Suitable fro anyone with or without experience. £4 per session, £24 for 6 weeks. Contact Nicky Jaques for details 07817 268689. nickyjaquesyoga@gmail.com SAMATHA MEDITATION Encourages calming, stilling the mind, towards greater well-being and understanding. A class for newcomers to Samatha now meets at Greenstreete, Llangunllo, near Knighton. Everyone welcome. Classes include instruction, group practice and Dhamma discussion.

Classes by donation. Please contact Mary for more details.

Tel: 01686 669600. Email: isybryn@hotmail.co.uk HEALING YOGA AND MEDITATION SATURDAYS Georgie holds monthly Saturday morning yoga and meditation workshops at the beautiful Brilley Village Hall. These workshops focus on different themes, e.g. anger release, grief & acceptance, loving and healing the self, stress release, living with energy and purpose and lots more. They are always healing and tailored to those who attend. Homemade cake, yogi tea and fruit are served in the breaks. Investment between £15-£20. Call 07807 550 653 or visit www.healingspirits.co.uk to book or for info about workshops as well as regular Kundalini Yoga and Meditation classes in your area.

TAI CHI AND CHINESE YOGA from the Li family system of Taoist Arts led by a well qualified and experienced instructor.

Suitable for people of all ages and levels of fitness. Enjoyable, relaxing and improves physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Classes held at The Monty Club, Broad St, Newtown on Tuesdays at 3.30pm and 6.30pm. Also MEDITATION GROUP meets in Bishop’s Castle, fortnightly on Thursday at 8pm. All welcome whether an experienced practitioner or a beginner. Contact Dave Phillipps on 01588 638614 or email to taichiatbc@phonecoop.coop

KINGTON OSTEOPATHS RICHARD MANN B.Sc (HONS),B.Sc (Ost.) DIANA MANN B.Sc (Ost.)

9 THE SQUARE, KINGTON, HR5 3BA

01544 239210 www.westherefordosteopaths.co.uk