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Worcestershire Cover Online.qxp_Worcestershire Cover 01/03/2017 10:01 Page 1 Your FREE essential entertainment guide for the Midlands ISSUE 375 MARCH 2017 LAURA WHITMORE Worcestershire AT THE BELGRADE ’ WhatFILM I COMEDY I THEATRE I GIGS I VISUAL ARTS I EVENTSs I FOOD On worcestershirewhatson.co.uk inside: Yourth 16-pageelist week by week listings guide Belgrade (FP- March 2017).qxp_Layout 1 20/02/2017 09:42 Page 1 Contents March Warwicks_Worcs.qxp_Layout 1 20/02/2017 11:34 Page 2 March 2017 Contents Swingamajig - the Midlands most distinctive music festival returns to Digbeth feature on page 28 Robert Fonseca Laura Whitmore Cinderella the list Cuban jazz pianist at joins Shane Ritchie in Not Dead Vienna Festival Ballet on tour Your 16-page Warwick Arts Centre Enough at The Belgrade with classic fairytale week-by-week listings guide page 17 page 24 page 33 page 51 inside: 4. First Word 11. Food 17. Music 20. Comedy 22. Theatre 36. Film 40. Visual Arts 43. 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We endorse the recycling of our magazine and would encourage you to pass it on to others to read when you have finished with it. All works appearing in this publication are copyright. It is to be assumed that the copyright for material rests with the magazine unless otherwise stated. No part of this publication may be reproduced, or stored in an electronic system, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopied, recording or otherwise, without the prior knowledge and consent of the publishers. FIRST WORD February Warwickshire.qxp_Layout 1 20/02/2017 11:35 Page 1 First Word Top female artists set to star at Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2017 This year’s Cheltenham Jazz Festival will feature star turns from top female vocalists Laura Mvula, Mica Paris, Earl, Camilla George and Meshell Ndegeocello, to name but a few. The well-established annual event returns next month to present a programme that brings together classic and contemporary jazz, blues, soul and pop with a range of world premieres, festival commissions and unique collaborations. Other performers making a welcome contri- bution to the event include Gregory Porter, Ben Folds, Jamie Cullum, Rick Wakeman Jack Savoretti, Will Young and Paul Carrack. The festival is hosted in a tented village in Cheltenham’s Montpellier Gardens and takes place from 26 April to 1 May. For more information and to book tickets, visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/jazz Gold accolade for popular Lifelong learning at Wilder’s legendary film, is being presented by Leicester’s Curve theatre and will star Ria Warwickshire destination British Motor Museum Jones as faded silent-screen goddess Norma Warwickshire gallery and park Compton Desmond. Welsh singer Ria was Glenn Verney can proudly declare itself one of the Close’s West End understudy in the role last best visitor destinations in England after year, receiving rave reviews and standing receiving a prestigious Gold award from the ovations when she country’s official tourist board. took over the part The VisitEngland accolades are allocated after the Hollywood through a scoring system based on an annu- star had fallen ill. al assessment, with Gold being given only to Sunset Boulevard top-scoring attractions. runs at the “We are now accredited as being as good as The British Motor Museum has launched a Hippodrome from we say we are!” says Compton Verney’s series of motoring-related workshops as part Monday 13 to delighted Front of House Manager, Emily of its on-going lifelong learning programme. Saturday 18 Ria Jones Medcraft. “The assessor looked at every part The workshops will enable participants to November. of the visitor journey, from marketing, exhi- learn valuable skills in photography, draw- bitions and interpretation to the admissions ing and classic car ownership. process, welcome, cleanliness and also our Among the sessions available are Cars Female performers on the retail and catering offer.” Through The Lens (18 March) - offering hints Rise in Coventry show Compton Verney will now receive an official and tips on taking the ‘perfect photograph’ certificate confirming its new status and will of a car - and Lights, Camera...Cars (19 Some of the Midlands’ brightest young be able to display the scheme’s logo on its March), providing the opportunity to develop female performers are starring in a brand website, comptonverney.org.uk. photography skills and experiment with new production on the Coventry Belgrade lighting. Theatre’s B2 stage this month. For more information about these and other Aged from nine to 25, the all-female cast are workshops, visit britishmotormuseum.co.uk appearing in Rise, a play which explores what it’s like to be a young woman growing up in the 21st century. The production runs from Monday 13 to Sunset Boulevard set to Saturday 18 March. Tickets are free but with return to Birmingham a request for donations to support the work of the Belgrade Community & Education Andrew Lloyd Webber’s award-winning Company. Seats are unreserved but must be musical Sunset Boulevard is returning to the booked through the box office on 024 7655 Birmingham Hippodrome in the autumn. 3055 or via belgrade.co.uk The Tony Award winner, based on Billy 4 whatsonlive.co.uk FIRST WORD February Warwickshire.qxp_Layout 1 20/02/2017 11:35 Page 2 Entertainment news from around the region Festival winner inspired by Asian folklore A story inspired by Asian folklore has won this year’s Stratford-upon- Avon Literary Festival & Salariya Book Company Prize. The winning tale, submitted by Camille Whitcher (pictured below), a 2016 graduate of the Cambridge School of Arts Illustration MA, was based on the Far Eastern folk legend of the Moon Rabbit. “It was my mother who told me about the Otsukimi (moon-viewing) festival,” explains Camille. “The fes- tival honours the autumn moon, and people ‘offer’ food to the moon. She wasn’t sure about whether this involved any rabbits, but as a rabbit lover myself, I had to put them into my story!” Camille’s prize for winning the com- petition, which was open to debut writers and illustrators, includes having her book published later this Slam Dunk favourites return for a record fourth year year by Salariya imprint Scribblers, a £5,000 advance against royalties Slam Dunk Festival favourites Zebrahead are making a record-breaking return to the event. The from Salariya and advice from a American punk-rap party outfit’s 2017 appearance will mean they’ve performed at the festival for leading illustration agent. more consecutive years than any other band. “We’re damn excited to be coming back for the fourth straight year,” says Zebrahead’s Ben Osmundson. “It’s the one festival where everyone feels like family and friends, and we can't wait to have a drink with all of you!” Slam Dunk Festival takes place at the Genting Arena and NEC on 27 May. For tickets, visit thetick- etfactory.com or call 0844 33 88 222. Blood cancer Kenilworth Arts Festival organisers charity in new launch crowdfunding campaign campaign Organisers of Kenilworth Arts Festival have launched a crowdfund- launch ing campaign to help finance this year’s event. The 2017 edition of the festival runs from 17 to 23 September and will Blood cancer charity see musicians, poets and writers appearing at a selection of venues Cure Leukaemia has across the town. launched a campaign Last year’s inaugural event attracted more than 5,000 people, with to raise £1million to organisers eager to ensure this year’s festival is bigger and better. Birmingham actor fully fund the £3.5mil- Commenting on the campaign, Chairperson Lewis Smith said: lion expansion of bags role in new “Crowdfunding is a great chance to be a part of the festival and to Birmingham’s Centre Indo-British movie receive some exclusive rewards in the process. There are plenty of for Clinical A young Birmingham actor is to other ways to get involved, too. We’d love to hear from businesses Haematology (CCH). appear in an international movie interested in sponsorship opportunities, new volunteers and, of CCH is one of the inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus course, artists and performers.” Andronicus. world’s leading centres The Kenilworth Arts Festival crowdfunding campaign runs until 12 Twenty-one-year-old Antonio Aakeel for the development of March. To find out more, visit kenilworthartsfestival.co.uk is the only British actor in the Indo- new drug and trans- British co-production The Hungry, a plant treatments for film that was given the green light last year as part of the 400th patients with blood anniversary commemorations of cancers.