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AMA DR C I S U M T R WANTAGE Jazz Band’, the ‘Chris Walker Quintet with Dave Shepherd’ and A the ‘Big Bear Stompers’. Bring a picnic and enjoy the atmosphere SUMMER FESTIVAL and surroundings of Lains Barn with three of the UK’s top bands. This Summer Festival again offers entertainment for the whole LAINS BARN £14 (advance from the Museum or phone 01993 family and is very successful as it offers a low cost platform for 811678), £16 on the door. Children of School age free the abundant creative talent in Wantage, Grove and communities TUESDAY 19THJUNE 10.00am-12.00pm across the south of the Vale. As well as performances, there are THE STAMP ATTIC workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions and historical walks. Sweatbox Rock in the Park Making Cards with Also there is a large input from the young people in the Rubber Stamps community with Rock in the Park. TUESDAY 12THJUNE 10.30am-12.00pm Come and learn how much fun cardmaking with rubber stamps I am certain you will enjoy this month long Festival and I RIDGEWAY HANDBELL RINGERS can be. Make approx. 4 cards to take home with you and meet thank our sponsors, all the participants and those who Demonstration Of other crafty people for a fun morning. THE STAMP ATTIC, 9 work long and hard putting the programme together. Arbery Arcade, Wantage Market Place £10 (Book direct with Handbell Ringing Jim Moley - Festival Chairman The Ridgeway Handbell Ringers is a group of ladies who enjoy shop or 01235 760821) making music. They play on handbells especially made for them by TH TH Whitechapel Bells in London. They obtained a grant from “Awards TUESDAY 19 JUNE 7.30pm FRIDAY 8 JUNE 8.00pm WANTAGE CAMERA CLUB FOLK FOR MS/WHITE HORSE CEILIDHS for All” in 2002 which celebrated the Queen’s Golden Jubilee. VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, Wantage FREE Audio Visual Spectacular Folk for MS Ceilidh A firm favourite in the Festival calendar. The Audio Visual group As a warm up to Wantage Festival the first Folk for MS TUESDAY 12THJUNE 7.30pm of the Wantage Camera Club presents a highly entertaining Ceilidh features nationally renowned English Ceilidh Band WILTS AND BERKS CANAL TRUST programme of images set to voice and music. The subject matter ‘Random’ with caller Will Hall. Their gutsy, melodic, folk- Guided Canal Walk - is often of local interest but some guest productions may be rock interpretation of tunes with traditional roots, creates included. All the AV’s will be presented digitally and will include scintillating but subtle ceilidh music that will make you want West Challow to Grove Join us for a guided walk from West Challow to Grove, along some award wining sequences. METHODIST CHURCH HALL, to dance - a ‘not to be missed’ event! OLD MILL HALL, Grove the historic Wilts & Berks Canal. Learn on the way a little of the Newbury Street, Wantage £2.50 (no Concessions) £7.50 Adults, £5 under 16 years history of the canal and current plans for its restoration. Please TH SATURDAY 9 JUNE 11.00am wear suitable shoes for walking. MEET AT WEST CHALLOW WEDNESDAY 20THJUNE 2.30pm FESTIVAL OPENING VILLAGE HALL FREE THE VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM TRUST Wantage Silver Band & Morris Men in front of the Faces Of Oxfordshire - BEAR HOTEL, Wantage FREE WEDNESDAY 13THJUNE 7.00pm Family Faces Project THE DOLPHIN GALLERY SATURDAY 9THJUNE 8.00pm-12.00am Find out more about the Oxfordshire Family History Society FOLK FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Picture Framing AND and its exciting 2007 family history project for the Oxford Folk For M.S. Charity Concert Mount Cutting Workshop Millennium Celebrations. Speaker: Tony Hadland. THE VALE FESTIVAL TOWN MAP Magnificent folk music concert featuring UNLEDGED, SPIRE Bring along a picture or photograph and learn how to mount and & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, Wantage FREE (space limited so frame. Get ideas - perhaps enhance your old pictures/photographs. please book in advance from the Museum Reception Desk) Oxford via A338 Map Key: and others to be announced (check website for details). An 11 14 15 Footpath evening of top quality entertainment with some of the country’s To book - telephone Patrick O’Leary on 01235 763030 Letcombe Brook TH top folk performers. 18th Annual Folk for M.S. charity concert THE DOLPHIN GALLERY, Wantage Market Place WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 7.00pm Oxford via A338 Road Price: Cost of Materials THE DOLPHIN GALLERY Roundabout

– over £30,000 raised to date. Licensed bar, Raffle, Hot & Cold Didcot via A417 Picture Framing and 8 Food available. (www.FolkforMS.org) OLD MILL HALL, Grove FRIDAY 15THJUNE 9.00pm Mount Cutting Workshop 19 5 12 £10 Adults, £5 under 16 years Faringdon FOLK IN THE ABINGDON ARMS Bring along a picture or photograph and learn how to mount via A417 7 13 TH Come along to this traditional music ‘jamming’ session to join in or 17 SUNDAY 10 JUNE and frame. Get ideas - perhaps enhance your old pictures/ 6 4 just listen. Everyone welcome, singing or playing, anything goes, 3.00-5.00pm Workshop / 7.45pm Concert photographs. To book - telephone Patrick O’Leary on 01235 2 18 CHRISTMINSTER SINGERS even if it’s not traditional! THE ABINGDON ARMS PUBLIC 763030 THE DOLPHIN GALLERY, Wantage Market Place 1 9 The West Gallery Story HOUSE, Wantage FREE Price: Cost of Materials 16 P 3 The Christminster singers are Oxfordshire’s ‘West Gallery’ TH choir, performing the style of village church music popular in SATURDAY 16 JUNE 10 10.15-10.45am for pre-walkers and 11.15-11.45am Newbury Thomas Hardy’s Wessex. It is robust and rhythmic singing with 18 for pre-school family session (babies up) 20 via B4494 harmonies and counterpoint, and relates more to folk music Letcombe Regis Hungerford via A338 than later composed church music for chancel choir and organ. NCT WANTAGE NCT Singalong for pre-walkers and pre-school families. Your local Our programmes are tailored to suit the audience and occasion, NCT is running Saturday Singalong for children and parents/ Wantage Town Square 8 Abingdon Arms 15 Grove Village Hall including local, seasonal and historical items, musical interludes carers. Come along, have fun singing and make lots of noise! 1 Vale & Downland Museum 9 Methodist Church Hall 16 King Alfred’s Centre Site and accompanied pieces. The Workshop will give participants the WANTAGE CIVIC HALL £2 per family per session, on the door 2 Dolphin Gallery 10 Wantage Recreation 17 Masonic Hall opportunity to try singing in harmony, music will be provided, no 3 Wantage Civic Hall Ground 18 The Stamp Attic 11 Millbrook School Hall previous experience necessary. WANTAGE PARISH CHURCH SUNDAY 17THJUNE 2.30-5.00pm 4 Wantage Parish Church 19 West Challow 12 £8 Concert (£6 Con), £6 Workshop (£5 Con), £12 both (£9.50 Con) LETCOMBE BROOK (WANTAGE) CHARITABLE TRUST 5 Wantage Library Charlton Centre Village Hall 13 20 6 Betjeman Park Lairns Barn Letcombe Regis TH Promenade in the Betjeman Park 14 Old Mill Hall, Grove Village Hall TUESDAY 12 JUNE 10.00am-12.00pm Partake in events including a storyteller to capture your imagination. 7 St John Vianny Church THE STAMP ATTIC There will be opportunities for children to draw and learn about the Making Cards with Rubber Stamps history of the area. From 2.30 there will be people on hand from the Come and learn how much fun cardmaking with rubber stamps local community who will be relating information about the flowers TICKET SALES 01235 760176 can be. Make approx. 4 cards to take home with you and meet and trees you see around you. Cream teas will be on sale nearby. other crafty people for a fun morning. Vale & Downland Museum BETJEMAN MILLENNIUM PARK behind the Lamb Public THE STAMP ATTIC, 9 Arbery Arcade, Wantage Market Place Monday to Saturday 10.00am - 4.30pm House, Mill Street FREE Wantage Silver Band £10 (Book direct with shop or 01235 760821) Photographs by Peter Kent & Greta Thornbory.

wsf07_prog_v03.indd 1 13/4/07 22:56:45 WEDNESDAY 20THJUNE 8pm The Bear Hotel, 9pm TUESDAY 26THJUNE 7.30pm TUESDAY 3RDJULY 10.00am-12.00pm The Abingdon Arms, Wantage WILTS AND BERKS CANAL TRUST THE STAMP ATTIC ICKNIELD WAY MORRIS MEN Guided Circular Walk - Wantage, Making Cards with Icknield Way Morris Men will dance outside the Bear, Grove & East Challow Rubber Stamps EXHIBITIONS Wantage at 8pm then move on to the Abingdon Arms at Join us for a guided circular walk around Wantage, Challow and Come and learn how much fun cardmaking with rubber stamps SATURDAY 9THJUNE TO SATURDAY 23RDJUNE 9pm for more dancing, music, singing and drinking. Come Grove taking in the historic route of the Wantage arm and main can be. Make approx. 4 cards to take home with you and meet (Library opening times) along and join in with the fun. For more details see line of the historic Wilts and Berks Canal. Learn some of the other crafty people for a fun morning. THE STAMP ATTIC, 9 WANTAGE CAMERA CLUB www.icknieldwaymorrismen.org.uk FREE history of the canal and the current plans for its restoration. Please Arbery Arcade, Wantage Market Place An Exhibition of wear suitable shoes for walking. MEET AT WEST CHALLOW £10 (Book direct with shop or 01235 760821) Photographic Prints THURSDAY 21STJUNE 10.30am-3.30pm VILLAGE HALL FREE Wantage Camera Club will exhibit a variety of colour and WANTAGE FLOWER CLUB black & white prints produced by members in recent years. WEDNESDAY 27THJUNE 2.30pm THURSDAY 5THJULY 7.45-10.00pm Demonstrations of Floral Art THE VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM TRUST Apart from prints obtained by traditional means the club VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, Wantage FREE WANTAGE FOLK DANCE CLUB Wantage In Pictures has many members whose work will illustrate the high The Dances of Jane Austen’s quality of print that can be obtained at home using digital ST Well known local historian, Irene Hancock, gives an illustrated THURSDAY 21 JUNE 7.45-10.00pm ‘Pride and Prejudice’ camera and ink jet printers. WANTAGE LIBRARY FREE WANTAGE FOLK DANCE CLUB talk on Wantage in bygone days. THE VALE & DOWNLAND An opportunity to try the dances of Jane Austen’s time in MUSEUM, Wantage FREE (space limited so please book in Strictly Come Country a friendly atmosphere with live music and including light SATURDAY 9THJUNE TO SUNDAY 8THJULY Dancing - an introduction advance from the Museum Reception Desk) refreshments. A workshop of dances researched from the time in WANTAGE FLOWER CLUB to Country Dance WEDNESDAY 27THJUNE 7.30pm period atmosphere. No previous experience needed. Period dress Floral Exhibits Our traditional dance is probably the most varied in the world. PANDEMONIUM, DOMINO PLAYERS, optional. CHARLTON CENTRE, Harcourt Road, Wantage VALE ISLANDERS, ICKNIELD MORRIS both Traditional Come along to this introductory session led by specialist caller, £1.50 no Concessions. Pay at Door Celebrating 1000 years of and Contemporary Ivan Aitkin with live music and including light refreshments. If Exhibits of Floral Art both traditional and contemporary Oxfordshire - with traditional you can put one foot in front of another you can become a dancer FRIDAY 6THJULY 7.30pm will be displayed in the foyer at the Wantage Civic Hall in an enjoyable friendly atmosphere. CHARLTON CENTRE, music, dance and readings THE LETCOMBE SINGERS throughout the festival. WANTAGE CIVIC HALL FREE Join in the fun, celebrating Oxfordshire’s millennium, with Harcourt Road, Wantage £1.50 (no Concessions) Pay at Door Concert Version of traditional music, dance and readings from the County: TUESDAY 12THJUNE THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL THURSDAY 21ST TO SATURDAY 23RDJUNE 7.30pm Pandemonium singing Oxfordshire ballads and rounds, Gilbert & Sullivan’S THE VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM TRUST STAGELIGHTS THEATRE GROUP traditional dance with Icknield Morris and the Vale Islanders, ‘the Pirates Of Penzance’ Faces Of Wantage A Tomb With A View - Norman and the Domino Players sharing a selection of readings from with Supper Paintings by local artists together with contemporary Robbins the wealth of Oxfordshire literature. Audience participation The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert’s story of a young man and historic photographs of local people will be ‘A tomb with a view’ is a comedy thriller. In a sinister old library encouraged! LAINS BARN £5 (Concessions £4) accidentally apprenticed to the trade of piracy, has everything: exhibited alongside 200 wooden character spoons Rollicking Pirates, Plodding Policemen, a Modern Major presided over by a portrait of a mad-eyed old man, a dusty lawyer FRIDAY 29THJUNE 7.30pm created by the Oxfordshire Spoon Race Project. An reads a will to a sinister looking family. By the end of the play WANTAGE MALE VOICE CHOIR & BLUE TONES General, a coloratura soprano, elaborate muddles over leap imaginative celebration of the Vale of the White Horse’s there are more corpses than live members left. (MILLBROOK SCHOOL CHOIR) years and an improbably happy ending, washed down with inhabitants, this exhibition is the Museum’s contribution OLD MILL HALL, Grove £6.00 (£5 Concessions) Blue Tones & Four Part wonderful, lively music. to the Oxfordshire 2007 Festival. THE VALE & A concert featuring the combined talents of two well known METHODIST CHURCH HALL, Newbury Street, Wantage DOWNLAND MUSEUM, Wantage FREE SATURDAY 23RDJUNE 7.30pm local choirs, with voices which span two generations. £8 (£6 Concessions) including supper THE WANTAGE ORCHESTRA MILLBROOK SCHOOL, Grove £4 (£3 Senior Citizens & MONDAY 25THJUNE TO SATURDAY 7THJULy Wantage Young Soloists Students) under 12 years Free SATURDAY 7THJULY 12.00-3.00pm (Library opening times) A concert featuring young soloists from Wantage and the THE MAD HATTERS WANTAGE ART GROUP TH surrounding area accompanied by the Wantage Orchestra. SATURDAY 30 JUNE 10.30am-12.30pm So What Does Wantage PANDEMONIUM Music in the Museum Wantage is a musically rich area and many young people play The Mad Hatters are a four piece barn dance, ceilidh and Art Group Do? at a very high level and excel at festivals like the Wantage Music Pandemonium At The Museum concert band with a musical line up that includes cello, guitar A self portrait of Wantage Art Group showing what we Foot-tapping tunes, soulful ballads, chorus songs and lots Festival. You will have the opportunity to hear some of these and two multi-musicians playing fiddle, melodeon, accordion, do. There will be examples of our work and details of our of audience participation, with Wantage’s own folk band people tonight. PARISH CHURCH, Wantage £7 (£5 Concessions) concertinas, mandola and mandolin. We will entertain you with activities. WANTAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FREE Pandemonium. Come along and join in the fun over a cup of traditional music mainly from English origin but also Irish, TH coffee. Traditional music played on melodeon, concertina, guitar, TUESDAY 26 JUNE 10.00am-12.00pm Scottish, European and American. VALE & DOWNLAND THE STAMP ATTIC mandolin, fiddle, flute and recorder. Fabulous vocals too! Not to be TH MUSEUM, Wantage FREE SUNDAY 8 JULY 10.00am-4.00pm Making Cards with missed! VALE & DOWNLAND MUSEUM, Wantage FREE WANTAGE SILVER BAND TH Brass Music Workshop Rubber Stamps SATURDAY 30 JUNE 12.30-2.00pm SATURDAY 7THJULY 1.00pm-11.00pm Come and learn how much fun cardmaking with rubber stamps ST DENYS’ HANDBELL RINGERS THE SWEATBOX The Wantage Silver Band presents a Brass Music Workshop led can be. Make approx. 4 cards to take home with you and meet A Workshop with St Denys’ Sweatbox Rock in the Park by Philip Harper, the internationally renowned conductor and other crafty people for a fun morning. THE STAMP ATTIC, 9 Handbell Ringers Wantage Sweatbox present the very best of live local jazz, blues, composer, and intended for players of varied levels of experience. Arbery Arcade, Wantage Market Place The St Denys’ Handbell Ringers will demonstrate tune ringing folk and rock music in the Park. MANOR ROAD RECREATION All players of Brass Band instruments (including percussion) £10 (Book direct with shop or 01235 760821) using different methods such as ‘in-hand’ and ‘off-the-table’. GROUND, Wantage FREE are invited. Details from Eileen Sykes 01235 767541 Members of the audience will be invited to participate. It is not (email [email protected]) or from the Museum. KING ALFREDS’ SCHOOL CENTRE SITE, Wantage £2 necessary to be able to read music as the team plays from a SATURDAY 7THJULY 7.30pm numerical system. MASONIC HALL, Wantage FREE THE LETCOMBE SINGERS SUNDAY 8THJULY 1.00pm-7.00pm SATURDAY 30THJUNE Concert Version of THE SWEATBOX 2.30pm ‘Come And Sing’, 7.30pm Concert Gilbert & Sullivan’S Sweatbox Rock in the Park WANTAGE CHORAL SOCIETY ‘the Pirates Of Penzance’ Wantage Sweatbox present the very best of live local jazz, blues, Come and Sing Handel with Supper folk and rock music in the Park. MANOR ROAD Come and spend an enjoyable afternoon rehearsing with Wantage The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert’s story of a young man RECREATION GROUND, Wantage FREE Choral Society, then bring your friends to the evening concert of accidentally apprenticed to the trade of piracy, has everything: Handel Coronation Anthems. Singers should pre-book a Come Rollicking Pirates, Plodding Policemen, a Modern Major SUNDAY 8THJULY 6.00PM and Sing ticket, music hire cost included, by 16th June. For further General, a coloratura soprano, elaborate muddles over leap FESTIVAL EVENSONG information and an application form please telephone 01235 763075 years and an improbably happy ending, washed down with A traditional Choral Evensong in the beautiful setting of Morris Men in front of the Bear Hotel, Wantage Town Square or see www.wantagechoralsociety.co.uk PARISH CHURCH, wonderful, lively music. LETCOMBE REGIS VILLAGE HALL Wantage Parish Church, celebrating the end of the Festival Wantage£10 Singers, £10 Audience (£8 Concessions) £8 (£6 Concessions) including supper PARISH CHURCH, Wantage FREE

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