Rockhampton Festival

Have you seen our friendly scarecrows out and about again, smiling in the local lanes?

It’s not long now until the Rockhampton Folk and World Music Festival, on Saturday June 17 from 2pm.

This year we have top quality Gaelic folk from two of the best young musicians of their generation - Ainsley Hamill and Toby Shaer - plus music from the Balkans with Bristol Troyka, traditional African harpist Alain Rouamba from Burkina Faso, the Dovetail refugee and asylum-seekers orchestra, Bach and Bubbles and more.

There’ll be participation workshops for all ages with the musicians and our new 'Field Art Gallery' where you can try Street Art on a large board wall using aerosol paint.

It all happens in a small field by the church in Rockhampton and is simply about quality music and having fun in a safe, relaxed friendly atmosphere.

More information and tickets are available from rockhamptonfolkfest.org.uk.

The following day the field will be given over to open-air opera for touring company Opera in a Box's production of Don Giovanni, organised by Armstrong Arts Group and starting at 2.30pm. Tickets for the opera are available from AAGThornbury@gmail.com.

Chris White-Horne

TMTG Juniors off to see the Wizard

THORNBURY Musical Theatre Group

Juniors are looking forward to performing classic colourful, fantasy musical The Wizard of Oz in July.

The well-known family favourite includes such much-loved numbers as Somewhere over The Rainbow and Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

The Wizard of Oz will be performed from Thursday July 13 to Saturday July 15 at Redmaids High School in Bristol.

It tells the story of Dorothy and her dog, Toto, who find themselves over the rainbow in Munchkin Land following a tornado.

Her house has squashed the Witch of the East causing her to make an enemy of her sister, the Wicked Witch of the West.

Dorothy is helped by the good witch of the North and is instructed to journey on the yellow brick road resulting in her making friends with a brainless Scarecrow, a heartless Tinman and a cowardly Lion.

The four travel on to the Emerald City where they meet the Wizard, but he isn’t everything that they expect!

Please join us for this timeless classic, great entertainment with a moral twist.

Tickets, from £10, are available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/tmtg or 07305

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Rachel Bray