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Wolves & B'ctry Cover - April_Layout 1 24/03/2014 18:17 Page 1 BLACK COUNTRY WHAT’S ON WHAT’S COUNTRY BLACK THE MIDLANDS ESSENTIAL ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE WOLVERHAMPTON & BLACK COUNTRY ISSUE 340 APRIL 2014 APRIL ’ Whatwww.whatsonlive.co.uk sOnISSUE 340 APRIL 2014 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IN THE MIDLANDS MIRANDA on the road with her My, What I Call, Live Show PART OF MIDLANDS WHAT’S ON MAGAZINE GROUP PUBLICATIONS GROUP MAGAZINE ON WHAT’S MIDLANDS OF PART JAMES BLUNT Moon Landings in Wolves interview inside... @WHATSONWOLVES WWW.WHATSONLIVE.CO.UK @WHATSONWOLVES EASTER TRAIL at RAF Museum WED 23 - SUN 27 APRIL Box Office 01902 42 92 12 BOOK ONLINE AT grandtheatre.co.uk ButtermarketApril14_Layout 1 24/03/2014 17:48 Page 1 SATURDAY 12 APRIL FRIDAY 25 APRIL RESCHEDULED CONCERT FROM SAT 22 FEB WITH BRUCE FOXTON FRIDAY 16 MAY FRIDAY 19 SEPT OVER 30 MILLION RECORDS SALES Following his sold out concert last year Britain’s biggest-ever black male recording star is back! 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News April region two_Layout 1 24/03/2014 12:19 Page 1 News A ROUND-UP OF LOCAL AND NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Peace and reconciliation at Shrewsbury Folk Festival To commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the start of World War One, this year’s Shrewsbury Folk Festival will fea- ture a touring marquee called the Peace Tent. The marquee seats up to two hundred- and-fifty people, and will be located in a tran- quil area of the festival site near to the banks of the River Severn. The tent is a touring venue in which ‘peace and reconciliation’ are celebrated through music, dance, drama, poetry and film. The 2014 folk festival is headlined by Bellowhead, Lau, Seth Lakeman, The Full English and BBC Folk Singer of the Year Bella Hardy. Commenting on the new venue, festival director Alan Surtees said: “I’m really pleased that we’ll be able to host the Peace Tent at the festival, particularly as the centenary of the start of the Great War is this year. It will be a great addition to the other four music stages.” The festival, which runs from 22 to 25 August, also offers a dedicated dance tent, dozens of workshops, a children's festival, a youth programme for eleven-to-twenty-year- olds, onsite camping, a craft fair and a food village. Tickets can be booked through Royal Shakespeare Theatre Live on DVD www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk or direct at www.gigantic.com/shrewsburyfolkfestival The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced that it’s joined forces with the Opus Arte label to release some of its filmed Live From Stratford-upon-Avon productions on DVD. Last year’s hugely successful version of Richard II, starring David Tennant in the title role, will be Bella Hardy the first in the series to be released by Opus. Directed by RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran, the production was broadcast live (on 13 November 2013) to over one hundred cine- mas around the UK, as well as to North America, Australia, Japan and northern Europe. The filmed performance of the production will be available on DVD, Blu-Ray and iTunes from Tuesday 6 May. DVD extras include an interview with David Tennant and commentary from Gregory Doran... Midlands Winnie the Pooh As You Like It in Ludlow Laureate announced Two familiar television faces will be taking starring roles in the Ludlow Shakespeare A Sutton Coldfield woman has been crowned and Arts Festival’s summertime production Disney Winnie the Pooh Laureate of the of As You Like It, which is being presented in Midlands. Sally Jenkins won the title after Library shortlisted for association with Stafford Gatehouse Theatre. entering Disney UK’s national competition. Only Fools And Horses favourite John national award - again! Aspiring Laureates were asked to share origi- Challis, who played droll yuppie Boycie in nal stories, inspired by their local area, in Dudley Library has been shortlisted in the the long-running BBC One sitcom, will star which Winnie the Pooh and friends enjoyed an Bookseller Industry Awards’ Library of the as the melancholic Lord Jaques, while Eric adventure outside their usual confines of Year category for the second year in a row. Potts - familiar to Coronation Street viewers Hundred Acre Wood. The venue was shortlisted following news as eccentric baker Diggory Compton - will Responding to the challenge, Sally took AA that the borough’s residents are bucking the play the court fool, Touchstone. Although As Milne’s legendary characters on a unique jour- national trend by increasing to more than You Like It will be performed in the open air ney to Birmingham, where they celebrated 1.1million the number of visits being made to at Ludlow Castle, all audience seating will be Christopher Robin’s birthday. local libraries. Last year, the library’s team covered. The Commenting on her win, Sally said: “I loved John Challis organised more than four thousand, five eleven-perform- taking Winnie the Pooh and friends on an hundred public events, attracting more than ance production adventure around Birmingham - I think they fifty-five thousand people. A panel featuring runs from 14 to 22 enjoyed it too! I really enjoy telling stories prominent figures June. For further inspired by my local area - there’s so much on from publishing, details of all the offer right on our doorstep, so it was hard journalism and liter- performances, as choosing which areas to actually write about. I ature will judge the well as informa- still can’t quite believe I’m a regional winner!” Library of the Year tion on how to Disney UK announced the results of its Pooh category, with the book, visit the fes- Laureate competition to coincide with the winner being tival website at launch of its Story Time With Pooh series, announced at an www.ludlowarts- which will see free, weekly storytelling ses- awards ceremony in festival.co.uk. London next month. sions for children and parents taking place in Adele Parks Disney stores nationwide. 4 www.whatsonlive.co.uk News April region two_Layout 1 24/03/2014 12:19 Page 2 NIA date for Voice judge Kylie Minogue has announced that she’s to perform in Birmingham for the first time in nearly a decade, stopping off at the National Indoor Arena on 7 October as part of her new UK tour. Currently appearing as a judge on BBC One talent show The Voice, the one-time Neighbours star will hit the road in the autumn in support of new studio album Kiss Me Once, which was released last month. Kylie last per- formed in Birmingham in 2005.. New Art West Midlands winners revealed Five promising new West Midlands artists have each won £1,000 prize money and the chance to see their work exhibited in a pres- tigious Midlands gallery. A Turning Point West Midlands initiative, New Art West Midlands exhibits the work of twenty-four artists, all of whom have graduated from Julian Clary having a Ball in Wolverhampton one of the region’s undergraduate and post- graduate fine art degree courses in the past Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre has announced that the inimitable Julian Clary will play three years.