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1 FRIDAY 6 JULY WITH THANKS TO: WELCOME TO THE 18TH FROME FESTIVAL

Patron: Morag McLaren Welcome to the We’d like to thank Frome Town Council and all our Founder and President: Martin Bax MBE 18th Frome Festival. generous sponsors for their support. Special thanks Vice Presidents: Rt Hon David Heath CBE, John Birkett-Smith Once again we have to our volunteers who work hard for many months to Chairman: Dr Robert Morris Treasurer: Margaret Perry been inundated achieve the sponsorship, run the Festival Friends, our Creative Director: Martin Dimery with applications to volunteer stewards, and the Board of Directors who Board of Trustees / Directors of Frome Festival Ltd: perform or present oversee the organisation year round. My personal Theresa Clark, Dr Robert Morris, Dara O’Hare, Gail Norris, Simon Norris, Gavin Rea, Dr Mick Randall, Roger Southard, work this year. It’s thanks also to Bev Jones, Margaret Perry and Tracey Hugh Deed, Dr Rick Rycroft, Jeremy Towler, Karen Ogborn. always hard selecting Rawlins, our compact professional team, who work so Festival Administrator/Marketing: Beverly Jones events, but we are effectively in the limited time they have throughout Workshops and Food Feast Co-ordinator: Tracey Rupp Rawlins greatly indebted to the year to maintain the Frome Festival under the The Sponsorship Team: Marjorie Morris, Suzanne Cooke, Gavin Rea, Dr Rick Rycroft those who run Frome’s superb Chairmanship of Dr. Bob Morris.

The Stewarding Team: Theresa Clark, Paul Hewitt © Chris Bailey 2018 fantastic venues for Website: stellasoft.co.uk organising much of Martin Dimery, Creative Director Printers: Avon Printing Services Ltd. the programme. The Merlin Theatre, Cooper Hall, Design: blackinkstudio.co.uk The Silk Mill, The Memorial Theatre, Rook Lane Arts, Cover and Poster Illustration: Sholto Walker www.myportfolio.com/sholtowalker The Black Swan and the Cheese and Grain directors Photography: Frome Wessex Camera Club and staff have all been busy helping to make this line-up perhaps the best ever. Also Trinity Church,

With Special Thanks to: Christ Church and St. John’s are all opening their Frome Town Council, our sponsors, event organisers doors for some terrific concerts, shows and talks. and venues. Pubs and cafes also get involved offering many free performances over the course of the ten days. The Festival wishes to thank Mercer Design and PPS Commercial Print for their generous support of Frome’s Hidden Gardens. Our job in the Festival office is to add a significant number of promotions of our own choosing, and work with organisers to add in walks, talks, exhibitions and workshops. We are grateful to those who run the Open Studios, Hidden Gardens, Frome Writers Collective on behalf of the Festival and the numerous other volunteers and local organisations who take part. Many of our presentations are engendered by local contributors and feature Frome-based talents which helps to generate the excitement and sense of participation that make the Frome Festival so special.

Charity no: 1120329 Mozart’s Bastien & Bastienne / Bach’s Coffee Cantata 2 Frankenstein Must be Destroyed / Event 1015 INSIDE...

04 - 33 Festival Events 34 - 39 Workshops 40 - 43 Visual Arts & Exhibitions 44 - 49 Information / Booking Form 50 Map 51 Venues & Places

Blazin Fiddles + Captain Cactus & The Screaming Harlots / Event 821

OVERTURE SUNDAY 1 JULY // 18:00 – 19:00 CHORAL EVENSONG AT CHRIST SATURDAY 30 JUNE // 19:30 – 21:30 CHURCH : BICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS GIPPESWYK SINGERS: SUMMER Consecrated in September 1818, Christ Church was CONCERT TOUR built for the poor people of Frome, who couldn’t The Gippeswyk Singers are a 40-strong chamber afford to pay pew rent. Music will include S S Wesley’s choir from Ipswich. Under their inspirational epic Evening Service in E, hymns “Jerusalem” and conductor Geoff Lavery, tonight will be the “O praise ye the Lord” by Charles Hubert Hastings world premiere of the ethereal ‘An Abundance of Parry (1848-1918), and two settings of poems by Blessings’ for baritone, choir and harp written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: first performance of “The chorister Brian Latchem. Three Choruses from St Human Cry”, music by Ann Burgess, Director of John Passion (J S Bach) and Bob Chilcott’s ‘Little Music at Christ Church; and to commemorate the Jazz Mass’ are highlights. In aid of Frome Food end of WW1, Parry’s beautiful and reflective anthem, Bank and Christchurch. “Crossing the bar”. Retiring collection. Christ Church // £10.00 // Event 1 Christ Church // FREE // Event 2

Mozart’s Bastien & Bastienne / Bach’s Coffee Cantata 5 Opera Double Bill / Event 1420 3 events FRIDAY 6 JULY

flavours of Moorish Spain on your way to an event or 19:00 - 23:00 FRIDAY 6 JULY make it a festival event in its own right. Family friendly, FROM PERU TO YOU PRESENT: ‘LET’S table football, ping-pong, BBQ and music! DANCE’ WITH DON KIPPER The Silk Mill // Event 605 Don Kipper are a multi award-winning 7-piece 10.15 - 11.45 ensemble playing a wide range of traditional musical FROME GREAT WAR COMMEMORATION 19:00 - 20:30 forms reflecting the cultural diversity of North East WALK BOB FOSSE ‘ALL THAT JAZZ’ DANCE London, from Turkish and Greek Folk Music to Romani Meet at 10:15 in St John’s Forecourt – short WORKSHOP music and Klezmer. From 7pm the ‘From Peru to introduction by Dr Jim Clipson followed by guided See Workshops section page 34 for details. You’ team will have an open buffet for an additional walk around the Great War graves of Frome. Starts Masonic Hall // £10.00 // Event 606 £10.00, bringing foreign flavours together to celebrate at 10:30, approx 75 minutes. food from around the world. Dips, salads, rice dishes, Frome // FREE // Event 602 19:00 - 20:00 skewers, beans, slow cooked lamb, steamed fish, THE TROJAN WAR – MYTH & HISTORY - chicken curry, vegan curry, and more. 11:00 - 17:00 PROF MICHAEL WOOD Assembly Rooms // £20.00 // Event 609 HIDDEN GARDENS Prof Michael Wood will be returning to Frome A longstanding and popular linchpin of the Frome after his sell-out talk in 2016. One of the UK’s best Festival, this is your annual chance to have a peek into loved historians and broadcasters, and author the wide variety of Frome gardens that are normally of numerous popular history books including ‘In hidden from public view. As always there will be some the footsteps of Alexander the Great’, ‘In Search new gardens as well as old favourites. Gardens to see of Shakespeare’ and ‘The Story of England’, he will include the large, small, fully mature and even wild. For take us on a compelling and fascinating journey full details see feature on page 44. examining the myth and history of the Trojan War. Frome // £5.00 // Event 603 Rook Lane Chapel // £14.00 // Event 607

14:00 - 18:00 19:00 - 23:00 COFFEE, CAKE, POT OR PAINT ASTON MERRYGOLD See Workshops section page 34 for details. Aston Merrygold sold millions worldwide as part of Enigma Pottery // Event 604 the mega boy band JLS, as well as receiving two Brit

and 5 Mobo Awards. Aston received international Event 608 / 17:00 - 23:00 acclaim with his debut single “Get Stupid”, leading THE HIGH PAVEMENT FIESTA TAPAS BAR to performances on James Corden’s “Late Late Frome favourite - The High Pavement - is hosting a Show” in the US, and guesting on X Factor. He was Moorish inspired café/bar on the Silk Mill’s sun terrace also a contestant on the last series of “Strictly for the duration of the festival. Expect delicious sharing Come Dancing”. His first solo appearances on “The plates, ice cold sherries, Spanish beers and cocktails, Precious Tour” last year were instant sell-outs. Ashton Merrygold Ashton Catalonian cava and a fiesta atmosphere! Enjoy the Cheese & Grain // £22.00 // Event 608 4 FRIDAY 6 JULY Box Office01373 455420 // fromefestival.co.uk

19:30 - 23:30 20:00 - 22:00 based Linda Kitchen has changed her own pants to SWEET MACHINE & LAUGH CLAUDE BOURBON, MEDIEVAL become writer and director of this unique performance CLOWN LAUGH & SPANISH BLUES piece. It takes two to tango and Cherubino needs Original live Synth-pop music from Sweet Machine & Claude Bourbon takes in different flavours of his Susanna in this fun and poignant romp with two Laugh Clown Laugh, with DJ support. With a diverse Europe and beyond, fusing every conceivable genre international professional singers accompanied by range of influences, Sweet Machine fuse 70s / 80s of acoustic guitar music into a master-class stage piano. Join Linda for a 20 minute pre-show talk followed synth with 90s dance & bittersweet lyrics to create performance. His Spanish medieval blues evolves by the performance. lindakitchen.com modern, original electro-pop, joined by singer/ into Gypsy, Eastern European, with a splash of Paco Cooper Hall // £18.00 // Event 614 songwriter Sara Vian on vocals. Laugh Clown Laugh de Lucia, Delta Blues and more. are Frome’s original electronic duo, comprising Sam The Silk Mill // £10.00 // Event 613 21:00 - 23:30 Findlay & Dominic O’Brien, delivering a killer set of WASSAIL BLUES BAND super-catchy synthpop of snappy drum machine 20:00 - 21:50 With their origins steeped in folklore, cider and rhythms & squelchy synths. PANTS! WHO WEARS THE TROUSERS IN shotguns, the WBB bring a fine cocktail of heavy The Granary // FREE // Event 610 YOUR OPERA? Blues and funky grooves to the party, with a locked Cross-dressing, gender-bending operatic trouser roles in rhythm section, cascading lead guitar, breathless 19:45 - 22:00 are explored in this British Premiere of Pants. With a harmonica and soaring vocals. ESP 2.0 professional singing career spanning 25 years, Seattle The Sun Inn // FREE // Event 615 Peter Coyle (ex Lotus Eaters) and Tony Lowe (Composer/Producer/Guitarist) with Full Band will perform music from their new prog rock album, ’22 LAYERS OF SUNLIGHT’, along with songs from ‘Invisible Din’ the 2016 release which earned over 14 top reviews by the music industry. Merlin Theatre // £12.50 // Event 611

20:00 - 22:30 SULTRY SONGS OF THE JAZZ AGE The Frome Jazz Club Speakeasy’s diva is the lovely Victoria Klewin (vocals), backed by the smoking hot Jake McMurchie (sax) with the Keith Harrison- Broninski Trio. Order a legendary Cornerhouse cocktail and we’ll take care of the rest. Cornerhouse // FREE // Event 612

The Trojan War – Prof Michael Wood / Event 607 Sultry Songs of Jazz, Victoria Klewin / Event 612

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11:00 - 20:00 is a real treat for art lovers and is an excellent way of SATURDAY 7 JULY BLUE HOUSE OPEN GARDEN WEEKEND supporting Frome’s creative community. See Open SUPPORTED BY FROME LIONS Studios brochure for contact information for individual The Blue House Gardens will be open to the public venues/artists for individual details and opening times 10:00 - 12:00 on Saturday 11.00am to 8.00pm and Sunday or download www.fromeopenstudios.co.uk. Brochures MAKING A WET FELTED PICTURE 10.00am to 5.00pm. There will be a selection of free from local venues, the Cheese & Grain, Black Swan See Workshops section page 34 for details. food and drink available and a bounty hunt for Arts, Library, Town Hall and many shops and cafés. Cheese & Grain // £12.00 // Event 701 the children. On Sunday afternoon, Frome’s trad Various // FREE // Event 707 jazz band, The New Academic Feetwarmers will be 10:00 - 12:00 playing. This is an ideal venue for families to enjoy a 11:00 - 12:00 ANIMATION WORKSHOP - tranquil oasis in the heart of the town. Donations: ZUMBATHON WITH BODYBASICS DAVID DANIELS Blue House Charity. See Workshops section page 34 for details. See Workshops section page 34 for details. Blue House // FREE // Event 706 Cheese & Grain // £5.00 // Event 708 Postscript // £20.00 // Event 702 11:00 - 17:00 12:00 - 23:00 10:00 - 16:00 FROME OPEN STUDIOS (SEE SEPARATE THE HIGH PAVEMENT FIESTA TAPAS BAR THE FROME SMALL PUBLISHERS’ FAIR BROCHURE FOR FULL DETAILS) See Event 605. A day for readers, writers, publishers, artists and visitors Frome artists once again open their studio doors to The Silk Mill // Event 709 of all stages and ages. Books, book arts and small press show and sell their work direct to the buyer. This event publications to interest and excite. Browse the fabulous range of books and illustrations for sale. Writers – whatever your genre, you’ll find printers, writing services and friendly advice on publishing at our Frome Writers’ Collective and Silver Crow tables. New: 1:1 writers’ advice sessions, book: fromewriterscollective.co.uk The Silk Mill // FREE // Event 703

11:00 - 17:00 HIDDEN GARDENS See Event 603. Frome // £5.00 // Event 704

11:00 - 17:00 COFFEE, CAKE, POT OR PAINT See Workshops section page 34 for details. Frome Festival Food Feast / Event 716 Enigma Pottery // Event 705 6 SATURDAY 7 JULY Box Office01373 455420 // fromefestival.co.uk

12:00 - 16:00 This is a second opportunity to learn of their site Sir Walter Raleigh. Songs are based on his poetry; CREAM TEAS AND LIVE MUSIC investigations, historical document research, connected with the Queen; his arch-rival the Earl of Come and join us at The Archangel for an afternoon interviews and tip-offs. Essex; the tragic young Prince Henry; and Raleigh’s of delicious cream teas and an exciting line up of The Three Swans // £12.50 // Event 714 nemesis King James. Wine, soft drinks,crisps from 18.00. live music. Ticket price includes unlimited refills Christ Church // £10.00 // Event 717 on tea, coffee and squash and there will be a raffle 15:00 - 16:00 available. All money raised will support Frome based BRONZE CASTING DEMONSTRATION 19:30 - 22:00 charity WHY, We Hear You (formerly PAC) in funding Watch the stunning bronze pour technique, meet VADI WORLD MUSIC professional support for local families affected or the established bronze artists involved in ‘The Named after the most prominent note in the scale of bereaved by life threatening conditions. Chemistry of Bronze’ show upstairs in the Long an Indian raga, Vadi is Ricky Romain, Ramut Gonzalez Archangel // £5.00 // Event 710 Gallery, and enjoy the arts centre and courtyard & Steve Scott. Ricky has been studying, performing & Café. Exhibition 26 May - 15 July. teaching sitar since 1972. Ramut has been studying 12:00 - 14:00 Black Swan Arts // FREE // Event 715 with Ricky for 7 years. He plays sitar, cajon & a slide ‘MAKE A POSY’ WORKSHOP guitar of his own design. Steve has been studying See Workshops section page 34 for details. 17:00 - 22:00 with Ricky for 18 months on bass guitar. Vadi play a St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 711 FROME FESTIVAL FOOD FEAST number of different ragas, each signifying different The ever-popular Food Feast returns to the Market moods & emotions. Influences include folk, funk, & 13:30 - 16:00 Yard for a night of food and live music. As always Hendrix, with a strong emphasis on improvisation. DISCOVER FROME’S GREEN SPACES there will be a wide range of tempting food stalls to The Silk Mill // £12.00 // Event 718 This is a five mile walk, organised by Frome Walkers tantalise your taste-buds and some fabulous live Welcome, linking many of the green spaces in Frome bands to get you moving to the music. Frome Street 20:00 - 22:30 Cheese & Grain // FREE // Event 712 Bandits kick off the event at 5:30pm with a parade CATS IN THE KITCHEN from St Johns Church. Live music from: Train to Sam’s Kitchen Deli opened its doors in Frome on 14:00 - 16:00 Skaville, the Front Runners, and the Raggedy Men. the corner of Stony Street and Palmer Street in ANIMATION WORKSHOP - Also a street market of edible treats and gifts. Plus November 2016, with amazing views of cobbled DAVID DANIELS street theatre and fun for all the family. St.Catherines Hill. Join us tonight upstairs for Cats See Workshops section page 34 for details. Cheese & Grain - Market Yard // FREE // Event 716 in the Kitchen which features four of the West Postscript // £20.00 // Event 713 Country’s most prolific musicians whose credits 18:30 - 19:30 include Robert Plant, Jamie Cullum, Joss Stone and 15:00 - 16:30 AMORE ET VIRTUTE: LUTE SONGS Roni Size. Sam Crockatt - sax, Dan Moore - keys, FROME TUNNELS TALK ASSOCIATED WITH SIR WALTER Riaan Vosloo - bass, Dave Smith – drums. The Frome Tunnels Project is a group of “tunnel RALEIGH Sam’s Kitchen // FREE // Event 719 myth” enthusiasts investigating the popular folklore To mark the 400th anniversary of his death, Musick of the legend of Frome tunnels and following in the Ayre (singer Jane Hunt and lutenist Din Ghani) the success of last year’s talk and presentation. create a musical portrait of West Country gentleman,

7 EVENTS SATURDAY 7 JULY / SUNDAYFRIDAY 68 JULY

20:00 - 21:00 BACH BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS SUNDAY 8 JULY Frome Consort with soloists Katalin Kertesz (violin), Colin Bloch (trumpet), James Watts (oboe 10:00 - 16:00 & recorder) and Neil Moore (recorder) play SUMMER ART CAR BOOT Brandenburg Concertos no.2 in F major and no.4 Artists, craftspeople and designer-makers will be selling in G major, together with solos and trio sonatas their work directly to the public at the 13th annual by Marcello, Vivaldi and Bach. Refreshments will Black Swan Arts Summer Art Car Boot Sale in the Old be on sale. Cattle Market car park. It’s a fantastic chance to meet St. John’s Church // £12.00 // Event 720 the makers, buy affordable art without commission and support local creatives and a good cause – raising 20:30 - 22:30 valuable funds for Black Swan Arts, Frome’s Art Centre, THE CRITTERS which is almost entirely run by volunteers. The Critters, founded by the legendary Black Swan Arts // FREE // Event 801 Griff Daniels are reforming so that Griff’s presence in the Frome Festival lives on. The 10:00 - 17:00 Small Publishers Fair / Event 703 Cornerhouse Festival programme could not BLUE HOUSE OPEN GARDEN WEEKEND be complete without an appearance of the SUPPORTED BY FROME LIONS Cats in the Kitchen / Event 719 Critters performing a selection of Americana, See Event 706. to jazzy arrangements of some songs, to good Blue House // FREE // Event 802 ‘ol country. Collection in aid of Griff’s favourite charities. 10:00 - 17:00 Cornerhouse // FREE // Event 721 LANGEFEST FAMILY FUN DAY & MOTOR CYCLE RIDEOUT 21:00 - 23:30 Langefest is an annual charity event created to THE HAMMERVILLES commemorate Stuart Lange. Money raised will be With many of the finest pop and rock dance floor donated to The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance & fillers in the repertoire, this four piece Somerset Lisa’s Army. A fantastic day for all the family to enjoy. band will keep you on the dance floor all night. Activities available will include Bouncy Castles, Arts The Hammervilles deliver performances to rival & Crafts, Stalls, Live Music, Food & Drink and much the originals, from classics by Elvis, Queen, The more. Motor Cycle Ride Out - Registration at 8.30am Who and Thin Lizzy to modern sizzlers from the & Ride Out leaves at 10.30am. Motorcycle charity ride likes of Kings Of Leon or The Killers. for around 65 miles - cost will be £5 per rider and £5 The Sun Inn // FREE // Event 722 per pillion. www.langefest.co.uk Frome Rugby Club // FREE // Event 803 8 SUNDAY 8 JULY Box Office01373 455420 // fromefestival.co.uk

10:00 - 16:00 12:00 - 18:00 JEWELLERY MAKING WORKSHOP FROME CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL See Workshops section page 35 for details. In Victoria Park and Mary Bailey playing field. Lots Christina Oswin Jewellery // £65.00 // Event 804 of creative activities and performances including music, forest school, dance, crafts, puppets, magic, 10:00 - 12:00 circus skills, sports, storytelling and face painting. FROME PHOTO WALK WITH FROME Accessible and fun - not just for children. Parents WESSEX CAMERA CLUB remain responsible for children at this event. For See Workshops section page 35 for details. more details go to fb fromechildrensfestival.

Cheese & Grain - Market Yard // £5.00 // Event 805 Victoria Park - Bandstand // FREE // Event 811 Event 811 /

11:00 - 17:00 13:00 - 15:00 HIDDEN GARDENS CROSSING THE ROCKIES See Event 603. The six-piece band is made up of talented musicians, Frome // £5.00 // Event 806 playing traditional, Irish/Celtic music inspired by The Flecktones, Sean Egan, Christy Moore and The Bothy 11:00 - 17:00 Band. Crossing The Rockies is a group emerging COFFEE, CAKE, POT OR PAINT from the traditional sessions in Frome. They are See Workshops section page 34 for details. all dynamic instrumentalists and Trevor Mills is a Frome Children’s Festival Enigma Pottery // Event 807 powerful singer in an old time, white gospel style. Cornerhouse // FREE // event 812 11:00 - 17:00 FROME OPEN STUDIOS 13:00 - 14:00 See Event 707 and page 43. ‘THE LIGHT IN SELWOOD’ - Various // FREE // Event 808 TOUR OF ST JOHN’S Join us on a tour around St John the Baptist church, 11:00 - 13:00 Grade II* listed, and the final resting place of Thomas INDIAN HEAD MASSAGE Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells in C17. Built originally as See Workshops section page 36 for details. a small mission church by St Aldhelm in AD685, the

Cheese & Grain // £14.00 // Event 809 church is a major architectural and artistic feature Event 801 of Frome. The external Via Crucis approach from / 12:00 - 23:00 the North East is unique. The tour will start with a 15 THE HIGH PAVEMENT FIESTA TAPAS BAR minute introductory talk by local historian Michael See Event 605. McGarvie. Refreshments on sale. The Silk Mill // Event 810 St. John’s Church // Donations welcome // Event 813

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14.30 - 16:30 16:30 - 18:20 ingredients in Buffalo Gals’ remedy. Led by funny FROME TOWN WALKS PANTS! WHO WEARS THE TROUSERS IN lady and champion fiddler Kate Lissauer, they bring Frome Town Walks are organised by the Frome YOUR OPERA? a musical and visual delight to all ages. Society for Local Study. They are designed to give See Event 614. Merlin Theatre // £12.50 // Event 819 an understanding of the development of the history Cooper Hall // £18.00 // Event 816 and economy of the town from its foundation in 685 19:00 - 23:00 AD by St Aldhelm, through the Middle Ages to the 18:00 - 20:00 EXCURSIONS IN AMBIENCE – AN present day. There is special emphasis on Frome CIRCLE DANCE EVENING OF AMBIENT ELECTRONICA listed buildings. Age 10+. Meet opposite the Round Join us for our regular monthly Frome circle dance White Noise (David Vorhaus and Michael Painter), Toby Tower in Justice Lane. - traditional dances and tunes from this land and Marks (Banco de Gaia), Andrew Heath (Disco Gecko £3.00 // Event 814 many others. Simple steps, no experience or partner Recordings), Joseph Hyde (Sensonic) & Patrick Dunn needed. Live music and singing by the Fabulous Frome (visuals). Artists in sight and sound come together to 16:00 - 18:00 Circle Dance Band. Dances taught and led by Tara explore contemporary ambient and experimental FROME PHOTO JOURNEY WITH Greaves, [email protected], 01373 302219. electronic music. Featuring the self-made instruments CHRIS BAILEY Tickets via box office and on the door. of the legendary White Noise, the ambient end of Toby See Workshops section page 36 for details. Christchurch Hall // £6.00 // Event 817 Marks’ solo and Banco catalogues, Andrew Heath’s Frome // £20.00 // Event 815 lower-case piano and field recordings and Joseph 19:00 - 22:00 Hyde’s modular analogue experiments, plus Patrick Dunn’s live video interpretations. Excursions in Ambience / Event 820 MUSIC OF THE SOUL Dark, sensual, transporting, and supremely melodic The Silk Mill // £10.00 // Event 820 – tango is the music of the soul, and its greatest exponent was Astor Piazzolla. Frome Jazz Club 19:30 - 22:30 celebrates Piazzolla’s extraordinary music with BLAZIN’ FIDDLES PLUS CAPTAIN CACTUS one of today’s greatest accordionists, Karen Street, & THE SCREAMING HARLOTS appearing with the Keith Harrison-Broninski trio. Described as “The Led Zeppelin Of The Folk Optional Argentine tango dance workshop at start World” the multi award winning group have wowed of event. audiences across the world with their dynamism Cornerhouse // FREE // Event 818 and truly infectious enthusiasm for the music they love. They manage to combine everything there is 19:00 - 21:00 to enjoy in their music - gently soothing melodies BUFFALO GALS MIRACULOUS MEDICINE and the stirring glorious sound of multiple fiddles in SHOW harmony. Augmented by keyboards and guitar, no Buffalo Gals offers you a guaranteed cure for the other band captures Scottish fiddle music’s variety 21st century! The magic of fiddle and banjo, the and energy like this amazing band. uplifting joy of percussive dance and the edifying Cheese & Grain // £17.00 // Event 821 effects of a good story well told, are the key 10 SUNDAY 8 JULY / MONDAY 9 JULY Box Office01373 455420 // fromefestival.co.uk

19:30 - 23:00 audience with 300-year-old examples on politics, A FRENCH AFFAIR music, drinking and smoking, country pursuits and MONDAY 9 JULY One of Frome’s newest restaurants, Bistro Lotte smut. Age 18+. Audience participation encouraged. will be hosting a night of classic French cuisine The Three Swans // £10.00 // Event 823 accompanied by the wonderful Coralie and Bonne 10:00 - 12:00 Nouvelle. An evening to relax and enjoy a three 19:30 - 22:00 WILLOW LANTERN WORKSHOP course Bistro menu and be transported to a French SOUTH WEST FESTIVAL CHORUS See Workshops section page 36 for details. Jazz cafe. Three course meal with live entertainment PRESENTS BRAHMS GERMAN REQUIEM The Studio // £15.00 // Event 901 £30.00 per ticket. For more information please call South West Festival Chorus gathers singers from a Bistro Lotte 01373 300646. wide area and has performed in Frome, Bath Forum, 10:00 - 13:00 Bistro Lotte // £30.00 / Event 822 Wells Cathedral and in Paris, Leipzig, Goa, Mumbai, BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN Beijing and Shanghai. This year they present Brahms WORKSHOP 19:30 - 21:30 glorious Ein Deutsches Requiem, with the Frome See Workshops section for details. FROME FESTIVAL CATCH CLUB Festival Orchestra and young soloists Jessica Leary and Cheese & Grain // £28.00 // Event 902 A popular pastime in the 17th and 18th centuries Peter Brooke; from their acclaimed Handel Messiah in was going to the local pub with one’s friends, having February and studying with Iford Young Generation 10:00 - 13:00 a drink and singing some songs. These songs or Artists programme; conducted by George Bevan. WILD EARTH WALK - REDISCOVER ‘Catches’ were incredibly popular and the Frome Trinity Church // £15.00 // Event 824 YOUR WILD NATURE Festival Catch Club singers will entertain the Join Amanda and Elaine - two passionate nature enthusiasts - on a multi-sensory meander through Vallis Vale, discovering wild plants, trees and bird song along the way. Reconnect with your wild side through taste, touch, aroma, sound, sight and silence - harmonising body, mind and spirit. Ends with a cup of herbal tea, brewed on our own Kelly kettle. To book: [email protected]. Age - 16+. Frome // FREE // Event 903

10:00 - 15:00 MIXED MEDIA WORKSHOP See Workshops section page 36 for details. The Silk Mill // £60.00 // Event 904

Buffalo Gals Miraculous Medicine Show / Event 819

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11:00 - 16:00 17:45 - 20:30 HOLY TRINITY CHURCH OPEN DAY FROME TUNNELS TOUR The newly refurbished church will be open for Popular folklore holds that vast tunnel systems viewing the Burne-Jones stained glass windows. 12 exist beneath the town. The Frome Tunnels Project noon: Meditation on St Patrick led by Rev Graham have run their famous tour for several years now. Owen; 1 – 2 pm; Lunch: Soup and a roll (£3); 2 – 4 The tour consists of explaining what we have heard, pm: The Good Afternoon Choir will be running an what we know and visiting a few of the sites and Open Workshop – join in, or just listen. access points we have investigated. You won’t be Trinity Church // FREE // Event 905 underground for very long but there are some awkward spaces, a lot of mud and running water. 11:00 - 17:00 What to bring and where to meet issued with ticket Event 910 / FROME OPEN STUDIOS - please make sure you have read this! Age 12+, Max See Event 707 and page 43. no 15. (Max 2 tickets per person). Various // FREE // Event 906 Frome Library // £12.50 // Event 910

11:00 - 12:30 18:00 - 19:30 ‘RAINSONGS’, WITH SUE HUBBARD TREE TALK - THE ARBOREALISTS Sue Hubbard’s latest novel, ‘Rainsongs’, set on Tim Craven, founding member of The Arborealists Frome Tunnels Tour Tour Tunnels Frome the remote west coast of Ireland, deals with will give an illustrated talk on the group and its memory, faith and love and has been described as aims. Founded in 2013, The Arborealists are a loose a meditation on the fragile, improbable ways that association of over 60 artists of diverse art practice history, landscape and unlikely intimacies can offer who share the rich and versatile subject of the tree. Event 913

/ quiet redemption. Sue will introduce and read from Exhibition: 21 July- 2nd Sep. her novel and answer questions. Black Swan Arts // FREE // Event 911 Frome Library // FREE // Event 907 18:00 - 19:00 14:00 - 16:00 FAURÉ REQUIEM WITH OAKFIELD CHOIR COME AND SING AND FRIENDS See Workshops section page 36 for details. Oakfield Choir join with some singers from other Trinity Church // FREE // Event 908 choirs in a concert featuring Fauré’s beautiful Requiem along with other much-loved shorter 16:00 - 17:30 choral works, directed by Neil Moore. Ticket price BEEKEEPING TASTER SESSION includes a glass of wine/soft drink and nibbles. See Workshops section page 37 for details. Trinity Church // £10.00 // Event 912 Frome Library // £8.00 // Event 909

12 A Career in Ruins – A Talk By Julian Richards MONDAY 9 JULY

19:00 - 21:00 A CAREER IN RUINS - A TALK BY JULIAN RICHARDS FROME SOCIETY for LOCAL STUDY is delighted to welcome Julian Richards - presenter on radio and TV, writer and archaeologist. He will explain how a disastrous time at school led to an obsession with Stonehenge, his experiences with chemical toilets and his passion for bringing the past to life. Presentations include ‘Meet the Ancestors’, ‘Blood of the Vikings’, ‘Mapping the Town’. Julian’s extensive knowledge of Stonehenge has resulted in a series of books, the latest of which is ‘ Stonehenge: the story Established in 1997, we are one of the South so far’. Books will be on sale. West’s leading independent record retailers Merlin Theatre // £9.00 // Event 913 with shops in Frome & Warminster.

19:30 - 21:30 Oakfield Choir & Friends/ Event 912 FROME FESTIVAL POETRY CAFE NEW CHART VINYL Featured guest is Rob Barratt, comic poet, humourist and singer whose performance & CD RELEASES combines word-play, verse and song with satire, Rare Collectable & Second Hand Vinyl parody and audience participation. Our popular 7”s/45s / DVDs / Second Hand CDs Open Mic event will choose the new FESTIVAL POET Next Day Mail Order Service / FREE Postage LAUREATE! With this year’s theme of Frankenstein Merchandise / Music Magazines in mind, we’re hoping for monstrously wild poems Big DISCOUNTS on Bulk Buys inspired by any aspect of Mary Shelley’s story - one lucky reader grabs the coveted certificate and bottle of bubbly. Door tickets only. ravesfromthegrave.com Garden Cafe // £5.00 // Event 914 [email protected]

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19:30 - 20:30 who along their way to nowhere, share personal The Six Sixes Ball Mystery’, recalls both the famous DEFINITELY LOUISE experiences of their past romantic misadventures. feat and the bizarre fate of the sold ball. An iconic At times both funny and moving it explores themes Their fragile voyage contains interruptions, and moment, a disturbing tale of fake news and a of confidence and insecurities, friendship and loss, eventually the comedic tales of three love stories whodunnit, but with a ball instead of a body. and finding your way in the modern world. From emerge, stories of love, betrayal and revenge. Cricket Club (Frome) // £8.00 // Event 917 the comfort of her flat, an excitable, precocious, The Silk Mill // £10.00 // Event 916 irrepressible woman with a dirty mouth and a lot to 19:30 - 21:30 say discusses life, her many opinions and her best 19:30 - 20:30 UKULELE WORKSHOP friend, all the while avoiding the advances of her FIFTY NOT OUT: THE SIX SIXES REVISITED See Workshops section page 37 for details. over eager neighbour. Written and performed by When Garry Sobers hit Malcolm Nash for an historic Cheese & Grain // £12.00 // Event 918 Bethany Heath. 16+ Warning on explicit language. 36 runs off six deliveries at Swansea in 1968, The Three Swans // £6.00 // Event 915 cricket’s Everest was finally conquered. In 2006, 19:45 - 22:30 the ball supposedly bowled in the over fetched a FSB BIG BAND 19:30 - 22:00 record £26,400 at Christie’s - but it couldn’t have Just like Victor Frankenstein we have been JACQUES AND HIS MASTER been the right one because it was the wrong experimenting! From blissful ballads, to exciting up- Jacques and His Master is a fascinating play written make. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sobers’ tempo numbers and some swinging standards there by Milan Kundera, following the journey of two men, achievement, Grahame Lloyd, author of ‘Howzat? will be moments that raise a smile, stir a memory or help you get sentimental. We look forward to discovering the jazzy musical creature created by our 17-piece big band and our feature vocalists. Rook Lane Chapel // £10.00 // Event 919

20:00 - 22:00 WARMINSTER MILITARY WIVES CHOIR The National Charity are making their debut performance at the Festival, celebrating 100 years of the cessation of hostilities of the First World War. Led by the celebrated Warminster branch, they will be joined by other choirs from the South West. They have shared the stage with the likes of Cliff Richard & Lulu, and appeared at the Invictus Games and the Welsh Proms. All the national choirs are volunteers, raising millions for the support of British Forces and their families. Conductor: Donna-Kate Wilson, Accompanist: Tanya Michaels. Warminster Military Wives Choir / Event 920 Fifty not out: The Six Sixes Revisted / Event 917 Cheese & Grain // £15.00 // Event 920 14 TUESDAY 10 JULY PROUD SPONSOR OF THE FROME FESTIVAL

and more. The recitalist David Turner (organist Expert, friendly legal TUESDAY 10 JULY of Colinton Parish Church in Edinburgh) is a service on your doorstep former organ scholar of Merton College, Oxford. Refreshments available. 11:00 - 19:00 Christ Church // £10.00 / £5.00: Student / under TRY YOUR HAND AT BOWLS 18 / Event 1004 A free event open to all ages over 12 years old. Our Frome Park bowlers will be on hand to assist and 15:00 - 19:00 advise. Please bring trainers or flat soled footwear. WALKING: AN EVERY DAY MIRACLE! Refreshments will be available. Would you like to inspire your creativity, Victoria Park - Bowls Club // FREE // Event 1001 connect with your senses and create a deeper understanding of place? This walkshop is an 11:00 - 16:00 opportunity to experiment with ways of walking HOLY TRINITY CHURCH OPEN DAY which combine observation, memory and For help or advice contact our Frome offi ce The newly refurbished Church will be open for imagination, whilst introducing new ways to 01373 463311 www.fdc-law.co.uk viewing the Burne-Jones stained glass windows. 12 capture your impressions. Bring note pads/pen/ 22 Bath Street, Frome, BA11 1DL noon: Meditation on Brother Lawrence led by Alex sketch pads/cameras if you’d like to capture the Howell; 1 – 2 pm: Lunch: Soup and a roll (£3); 2 pm: experiences. Meet in the courtyard of the Black Vallis School Choir. Swan Café. Trinity Church // FREE // Event 1002 Black Swan Arts // £5.00 // Event 1005 Let us

11:00 - 17:00 18:00 - 20:00 land FROME OPEN STUDIOS VINTAGE MAKE UP WORKSHOP See Event 707 and page 43. See Workshops section page 37 for details. your next Various // FREE // Event 1003 Cheese & Grain // £20.00 // Event 1006 home! 13:00 - 14:00 18:30 - 19:30 A BACH MIXTURE: LUNCHTIME ORGAN TALK ON BURNE-JONES WINDOWS RECITAL BY DAVID TURNER John Samways will talk about the background to An all- Bach programme of organ music by the these beautiful windows. Booklets will be available universally celebrated composer, Johann Sebastian to purchase. Donations welcomed. Bach (1685-1750) including the exuberant Concerto Trinity Church // FREE // Event 1007 in A minor after Vivaldi and the gigantic and the ethical agency powerful Prelude and Fugue in C minor (BWV 546) 01373 453600 www.glproperty.net EVENTS TUESDAYFRIDAY 10 6 JULY

19:00 - 20:00 The Frankenstein Films, Terence Fisher / Event 1015 19:30 - 21:30 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC THE MEDDLING OF MRS HARRIS Trio Paradis – Jacquelyn Bevan (piano), Lisa What connects a missionary’s wife, a famous American Betteridge (violin) and Linda Stocks (cello) - are author, and a European King responsible for atrocities joined by Anne Hipperson (reader) for an evening of in the Belgian Congo? The answer is the Kodak camera evocative music and poetry on a night-time theme. of the meddlesome woman who photographed human With classical favourites – Nocturnes by Grieg & rights abuses, alerting the world to the appalling reign Chopin and Barcarolle by Offenbach – alongside of terror in Africa under King Leopold II. That woman jazz and popular songs in original arrangements, was Alice Seeley Harris from Frome. Local writer Peter interspersed with a variety of well-known and Clark presents a performance version of Mark Twain’s less familiar poems, this promises to be a magical satirical “King Leopold’s Soliloquy”, first delivered in evening. Refreshments available. 1905. Supported by Nevertheless Productions. Profits St. John’s Church // £10.00 // Event 1008 go to Anti-Slavery International. Rook Lane Chapel // £6.00 // Event 1011 19:00 - 20:30 WILFRED OWEN, A SOMERSET SON 19:30 - 21:30 & THE GREAT WAR SOFAR SOUNDS FROME FESTIVAL A hundred years since the Armistice, local author Ed SPECIAL Green talks about his book which covers his great Sofar transforms everyday spaces (like a living room uncle’s journey, aged 19, from a farm in Somerset to the or shop) and turns them into captivating venues for front line in France. The tale is interwoven with the story secret live shows - creating an immersive experience and poetry of Wilfred Owen, climaxing with the last that brings guests and artists closer together. Each battle of the war where their stories come together. Sofar session is small, and typically features three Archangel // £5.00 // Event 1009 diverse acts, with no headliner. Apply for tickets: www.sofarsounds.com/Frome. We’ll let you know Event 1010

19:30 - 22:30 / via email if you’re invited to attend and then you can FROME FESTIVAL FASHION SHOW pay online. Our Charity Frome Festival Fashion Show is back again Frome // £10.00 // Event 1012 this year. Our Fairytale themed event will be showcasing local shops, designers, hair and make up artists and 19:30 - 20:30 more. Plus a Charity Raffle and live entertainment. DEFINITELY LOUISE Proceeds to Frome Festival and Cheese & Grain. See Event 915. Cheese & Grain // £10.00 // Event 1010 The Three Swans // £6.00 // Event 1013 Frome Festival Fashion Show

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19:30 - 22:00 company’s heyday, between the late 1950s and early JACQUES AND HIS MASTER 1970s. He is famous for a large number of classic See Event 916. horror films in the Gothic style, not only the best The Silk Mill // £10.00 // Event 1014 of the Frankenstein movies but they also include Dracula, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Hound of 20.00 - 22.30 the Baskervilles and The Phantom of the Opera. THE FRANKENSTEIN FILMS OF DIRECTOR Merlin Theatre // £8.00 // Age 16+ // Event 1015 TERENCE FISHER Tony Dalton, author of the new biography ‘The 20:00 - 21:30 Art of Terence Fisher’, will be giving a talk about TOM ALLEN - ABSOLUTELY Hammer’s classic Frankenstein films as well as the The sharply dressed, well-spoken, disparagingly genesis of Hammer’s horror films followed by a camp son of working class Bromley, Tom Allen Q&A session. This will be followed by a showing embarks on his debut solo tour. As seen on Mock of cult Hammer horror film: Frankstein Must be The Week, Live at the Apollo, The Great British Bake Destroyed. Terence Fisher was the most respected Off’s Extra Slice, The John Bishop Show, Channel 4’s and successful director at Hammer Films during the Comedy Gala at the O2 and heard on Radio 4’s Just a Minute and News Quiz. ‘riotous stuff, perfectly delivered’ Scotsman. Memorial Theatre // £14.00 // Event 1016

20:00 - 22:00 NOT ABOUT HEROES BY STEPHEN MACDONALD Beginning with their awkward first encounter at the Craiglockhart Hospital for Nervous Disorders, this moving drama charts the growth of an intense relationship between the confident, upper class Siegfried Sassoon and the stuttering, provincial Wilfred Owen. Weaving dialogue from their letters with their celebrated poetry, it elegantly pieces together the mysteries of this most unlikely friendship. In this WW1 centenary year, Frome Drama Club’s play remembers those who fell and those who survived hell between 1914 and 1918. Assembly Rooms // £8.00 // Event 1017 Tom Allen / Event 1016 EVENTS TUESDAY 10 JULY / WEDNESDAYFRIDAY 11 6 JULY

20:00 - 21:50 13:00 - 14:00 CLARE HAMMOND SOLO PIANO WEDNESDAY 11 JULY “THE DANCE CONTINUED” : SONGS BY RECITAL FINZI AND FAURÉ Acclaimed as a pianist of “... amazing power and Tenor, Richard Pinnock, and pianist, Ann Burgess, panache.” The Telegraph, Clare has devised 10:00 - 12:00 will perform a lunchtime concert of songs by two an imaginative programme for her return visit EMBROIDERED FLAG WORKSHOP composers with the initials GF. Gerald Finzi (1901- to Frome: Schubert - Impromptus, D. 899; See Workshops section page 37 for details. 1956), who set to music ten of Thomas Hardy’s poems Mendelssohn - The Bee’s Wedding Op. 67, No. 4; Welsh Mill Hub // £15.00 // Event 1101 in his song cycle, “A Young Man’s Exhortation”, and Finnis – Youth; Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Rachmaninov) French composer, Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) who - Flight of the Bumblebee; Debussy - Selection from 10:00 - 13:00 wrote “Trois Mélodies”, opus 23, beautiful songs Préludes (Voiles, Feuilles Mortes, Feux d’artifice, BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN about boats rocking on the sea, our love and an La cathédrale engloutie, Les Collines d’Anacapri; WORKSHOP emotional secret. Wine / soft drinks from 12.30. Campbell - Flight of the Killer Bee; Stravinsky - See Workshops section page 36 for details. Christ Church // £10.00 // Event 1106 Petroushka Suite (16’) clarehammond.com Cheese & Grain // £28.00 // Event 1102 Cooper Hall // £15.00 // Event 1018 14:00 - 16:00 11:00 - 13:00 MAKE A POSY WORKSHOP MAKING A FELT WALL HANGING See Workshops section page 34 for details. See Workshops section page 37 for details. St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1107 Cheese & Grain // £15.00 // Event 1103

11:00 - 16:00 HOLY TRINITY CHURCH OPEN DAY The newly refurbished church will be open for Event 1018

/ viewing the Burne-Jones stained glass windows. 12 noon: Meditation on St Augustine led by Event 1104 Lesley Owen, 1 – 2 pm: Lunch – Soup and a roll / (£3). Trinity Church // FREE // Event 1104

11:00 - 17:00 FROME OPEN STUDIOS See Event 707 and page 43. Various // FREE // Event 1105 Clare Hammond Solo Piano Recital Holy Trinity Church Open Day

18 WEDNESDAY 11 JULY WINDOWS | DOORS | CONSERVATORIES ORANGERIES | SOLID ROOFS 17:30 - 19:30 18:00 - 20:00 FROME FOOD ASSEMBLY TASTING COLOUR MIXING & OTHER NEW A+ PLUS EXTRAVAGANZA AND POP UP MARKET TECHNIQUES IN WATERCOLOUR The Frome Food Assembly has featured on BBC See Workshops section page 38 for details. UPVC WINDOWS Countryfile and Radio 4’s Farming Today. Sample Cheese & Grain // £26.00 // Event 1110 delicious local food, meet Frome’s farmers, growers Insulating your home in the and food makers face to face and shake the hand 19:00 - 20:15 same way that cavity wall and loft insulation does, but it does that feeds you. Stay and eat your supper, enjoy a HOMELINESS, EXILE AND LONGING; not just stop internal warmth drink, and buy local produce to take home from our THE POEMS OF MAHMOUD DARWISH escaping, it also lets natural pop up market. Find out more about Frome’s very Mahmoud Darwish is the greatest modern external warmth in, and so the benefit is twofold. own online farmers’ market and how, by shortening Palestinian poet. “The most celebrated writer of the supply chain, you can get better quality, more verse in the Arab world” NYT. His family were ejected Call today for a FREE quote sustainable food, with no waste, and fairer prices. from their home village during the Naqba when he 0137301373 452022 452022 Steiner Academy // FREE // Event 1108 was six. His poetry expresses the rage and sadness www.permaframe.co.uk of exile. On the 10th anniversary of his death, 17:45 - 20:30 Frome Friends of Palestine present a selection of Unit B4 . Southgate Commerce Park . Frome . BA11 2RY FROME TUNNELS TOUR his poems. Readers will be Jim Laurenson, Cryssse See Event 910. Morrison and Hazem Al Asaad and the poems will Frome Library // £12.50 // Event 1109 be introduced by Peter Clark. The poems will be interwoven with Middle Eastern music from Chai for All. Middle Eastern buffet from 6pm (by donation). Trinity Hall // £10.00 // Event 1111

19:30 - 21:30 TELL ME THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE: ART, SONG & OPERA EVENING From Purcell to Puccini; Mendelssohn and Monteverdi; Britten, Gershwin and more. Soprano Julia O’Connor and mezzo-soprano Your best choice for carpets and vinyls in and Marie Elliott enjoy international singing careers around Frome. We offer great prices plus and have sung with the ENO and Glyndebourne fast quote turnaround and installation Opera respectively. They are accompanied by Frome-based pianist Liz Kozlowski. Buy tickets for 11th and 12th at Rook Lane and get a free 01373 303733 Tell Me The Truth About Love: Art, Song & Opera Evening / Event 1112 ticket to Sunday’s Rook Lane event. Rook Lane Chapel // £10.00 // Event 1112 UNIT 6, MANOR RD . FROME . SOMERSET . BA11 4BN EVENTS WEDNESDAYFRIDAY 11 6 JULY

19:30 - 23:00 passionate concerts, creating a beautiful blend of folk, 20:00 - 22:00 MIK ARTISTIK’S EGO TRIP jazz, pop, world and classical music. This concert is part NOT ABOUT HEROES BY STEPHEN The surreal punk, funk, electric comedy phenomenon of their first UK tour. The CD Many Hours Still to Come, MACDONALD should be on the NHS and are a tonic in these released in 2015, will be on sale. See Event 1017. troubled times. BBC 6Music regularly play their tunes, The Silk Mill // £10.00 // Event 1115 Assembly Rooms // £8.00 // Event 1117 Keith Allen has one of their teapots. John Cooper Clarke called them sensational and Glastonbury 20:00 - 23:00 20:00 - 21:00 love them, having been at Worthy Farm 10 years on THE VILLAGE BAND LAURA-DOE’S VAUDEVILLE the trot. They say they are influenced by people like Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth OF THE VULVA Reeves & Mortimer & The Fall but their mix of Rock ’n’ centuries, many villages could boast a band. The Written and performed by comedienne and Roll & dry West Yorkshire wit is unique. musicians accompanied singing in church but also sexologist, Laura-Doe, it features a host of Cheese & Grain // £12.00 // Event 1113 played for dancing, as well as leading the way at the “clever & creative” characters including ‘The Whitsun Club Walk and militia parades. An Hour Vulva Underground’, a troupe of unusually vocal 20:00 - 21:30 with the Somerset Russets offers a window into velvet vulvae. This show is ‘funny, sexy & wise’ THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF the life and music of the old bands, mixing music, and involves no nudity. It seeks to gently lift the OLLI MÄKI - FILM CLUB images and readings from contemporary accounts taboos, using humour to release tension whilst This upbeat, warmly observed tale concerns the true and literary sources. The second half will be an addressing disempowering attitudes to female story of the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot open folk session, bring along your instruments and sexuality. Although ‘sensitive & respectful’ it is at the 1962 world featherweight title. Talented and voices and join in. Ticket includes light bites. Bar. not suitable for the easily offended. See www. modest, Olli’s small town life is transformed when he Witham Friary Church & Village Hall // £5.00 // vaudevilleofthevulva.com. is swept to national stardom and suddenly regarded Event 1116 The Granary // £8.00 // Event 1118 as a symbol of his country; he struggles to cope with the hype, and would rather spend time with his new love, Raija. With its luxuriant black and white cinematography, this touching film has straightforward purity and generosity of spirit at its heart. Merlin Theatre // £6.50 // Event 1114

20:00 - 22:30 ROOS GALJAARD & SEBASTIAAN WIERING Roos Galjaard started singing and playing the guitar at an early age. She started composing her own songs when she was sixteen, first in the Netherlands, later on in Southern Africa. Roos writes atmospheric, powerful

songs. Since 2011 she has been touring with cello player Roos Galjaard & Sebastiaan Wiering / Event 1115 Frome Food Assembly Extravaganza / Event 1108 Sebastiaan Wiering. Together they give very lively and 20 THURSDAY 12 JULY 25 Market Place Frome, BA11 1AH 01373 462573 13:30 - 14:30 THURSDAY 12 JULY BABAR, THE LITTLE ELEPHANT Pianist Stephen Marquiss brings to life The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant. This engaging, interactive 10:00 - 12:00 concert is especially suitable both for under 9s and LINOCUT WORKSHOP - STEVEN JENKINS the young at heart. Alongside Babar, narrated by See Workshops section page 38 for details. Alan Burgess, enjoy excerpts from The Carnival of Postscript // £25.00 // Event 1201 the Animals and Mother Goose, along with audience participation. Please bring a soft toy. Admission price 10:00 - 12:00 £8 for adult/ child pair. For an extra child add £2. No RIVER WALK unaccompanied children. Explore Frome’s amazing riverside parks. Please Christ Church // £8.00 // Event 1206 wear comfortable/weatherproof clothes and appropriate footwear. Children are the responsibility 14:00 - 16:00 of the adults who bring them. A walk of two or three LINOCUT WORKSHOP - STEVEN JENKINS miles which gives views of the river and discusses of See Workshops section page 38 for details. 20% OFF WITH THIS ADVERT some of what River Friends do. Postscript // £25.00 // Event 1207 Cheese & Grain - Market Yard // FREE // Event 1202 15:00 - 17:00 11:00 - 16:00 TEA DANCE HOLY TRINITY CHURCH OPEN DAY Get your Dance Shoes ready for a swing afternoon The newly refurbished church will be open for to a delightful selection of vintage tunes, ballroom, viewing the Burne-Jones stained glass windows. 12 Latin and swing music and songs. Local Jazz singer Jo noon: Meditation on St Ignatius led by Felicity Hill, Johnson, and West End actor and singer Lloyd Notice. 1 – 2 pm: Lunch – Soup and a roll (£3), 2 pm: Talk on Price includes tea and cake. Tickets:Trinity Church Burne-Jones windows by John Samways. office (Mon – Fri: 9.30 – 12.30)/ Festival Box Office. Trinity Church // FREE // Event 1203 Trinity Hall // £5.00 // Event 1208

11:00 - 17:00 16:00 - 17:30 FROME OPEN STUDIOS BEEKEEPING TASTER SESSION See Event 707 and page 43. See Workshops section page 37 for details. Various // FREE // Event 1204 Frome Library // £8.00 // Event 1209 SECTIONEVENTS THURSDAYFRIDAY 12 6 JULY

17:00 - 23:00 19:30 - 21:30 THE HIGH PAVEMENT FIESTA TAPAS BAR SACRE: TWO PIANO CONCERT WITH See Event 605. JOHN LAW AND DAVID GORDON The Silk Mill // Event 1210 Two of the UK’s foremost pianist/composers, combine to present their personal take on the 17:30 - 19:00 classic masterpiece: The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du INTRODUCTION TO LINDY HOP Printemps). Since its premiere in 1913 - a concerts See Workshops section page 38 for details. in Paris which sparked a riot - Stravinsky’s ballet has The HubNub // £15.00 // Event 1211 consistently fascinated musicians and public alike. John Law and David Gordon will be playing, in the first 19:00 - 20:00 set, five movements from the work, in Stravinsky’s own two piano transcription, plus four original Jazz

Event 1215 MAGNIFICENT & MONSTROUS? / Revd Colin Alsbury shares a mixture of anecdotes compositions. Buy tickets for 11th and 12th at Rook and stories about folk from the Frome area who have Lane and get free ticket to Sunday’s Rook Lane event. produced work or lived lives that have been described Rook Lane Chapel // £15.00 // Event 1214 as ‘magnificent’, and others who have done deeds or lived lives that have excited reaction to their ‘monstrous’ 19:30 - 23:00

Badly Drawn Boy behaviour. Light refreshments will be on sale. BADLY DRAWN BOY St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1212 In June 2000, the Mercury Prize-Winning “The Hour of the Bewilderbeast” heralded the arrival of the badly 19:15 - 21:15 drawn genius of Damon Gough. Since then he has FRANKENSTEIN FLASH released four subsequent studio albums, “Have You Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley published Fed the Fish?”; “One Plus One is One”; “Born in the ‘Frankenstein’, a story which continues to fascinate UK”; and “It’s What I’m Thinking Part 1: Photographing

Event 1214 and is as relevant as ever today, in an age of the Snowflakes”, as well as three film soundtracks, / transplants, clones and artificial intelligence. Maker or including “About a Boy”, taken from the Nick Hornby monster, scientist or robot – bring your Frankenstein- novel and starring Hugh Grant, which spawned two inspired monologue to read aloud (maximum length singles “Silent Sigh” and “Something to Talk About”. 650 words), or just come to listen and vote for your Cheese & Grain // £22.50 // Event 1215 favourite. Small prize and huge kudos to the winner! The Three Swans // £4.00 // Event 1213 19:30 - 22:30 REG MEUROSS WITH SUPPORT FROM THE PORTRAITS Featuring two Somerset acts. Reg Meuross’s clever and imaginative lyrics have earned him the title of “Master Storyteller” (PennyBlack Music) and led

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Mike Harding (Mike Harding Folk Show) to introduce 20:00 - 22:30 Fresh wholesome food him onto the stage of The Royal Albert Hall as “one THE HIP YAK POETRY SLAM specially for you of the finest singer-songwriters this country has The Hip Yak Poetry Shack will be hosting the Frome produced”. Support comes from The Portraits, whose Fest Poetry Slam; a quick-fire knock-out incredibly upbeat, worldly songs call for unity in these turbulent cuddly poetry competition, featuring 12 slammers. times and whose Jo Cox tribute song was described Prepare yourself for a fun, friendly and exhilarating Viva Latina Lunch Menu by Clare Balding (Good Morning Sunday) as “So night of poetry for both audience and poets, hosted Monday to Friday, 11am - 5pm Beautiful, So Powerful”. Free for under 12’s. by national spoken word stars Chris Redmond, The Silk Mill // £8.00 // Event 1216 Jonny Fluffypunk and Liv Torc. Poets will be Peruvian evenings competing for a slot on the Hip Yak Poetry Stage at Thursday & Friday 5pm - 10pm 19:30 - 22:30 WOMAD 2018, along with a backstage festival ticket. Saturday 11am - 10pm FROME FESTIVAL QUIZ Archangel // £8.00 // Event 1219 Popular quiz master Paul Hewitt returns with this 07904 935077 annual contest. The winning team receives (and 20:00 - 22:00 [email protected] retains for a year) the Martin Bax Shield, four bottles NOT ABOUT HEROES BY STEPHEN fromperutoyou of wine and individual miniature shields to keep. MACDONALD 6a Badcox, Frome, BA11 3BQ Prizes for runners-up and bottom two teams. This See Event 1017. is a fun event but with a serious side, suitable for all Assembly Rooms // £8.00 // Event 1220 ages. There will also be a raffle with desirable prizes donated by local businesses. Bar open. Frome Rugby Club // £12.00 // Event 1217

19:45 - 22:30 GEORGE EGG DIY CHEF Following two sell out years in a row at the Edinburgh Fringe with his first show ANARCHIST COOK, award winning comedian George Egg returned to Edinburgh last August with his BRAND NEW SHOW Event 1218 demonstrating more ingenious live cooking and / laugh-out-loud stand-up comedy. As George is banished to his shed by his family, to stop him defying his doctor’s dietary demands, we can expect power tools, gardening equipment and office supplies to be re-purposed and abused. Proudly sponsored by Burton Sweet Accountants – Shepton Mallet. George Egg DIY Chef Merlin Theatre // £14.00 // Event 1218 EVENTS FRIDAYFRIDAY 13 6 JULY

an award winning charity for people with learning welcomed them here and new tales to tell through FRIDAY 13 JULY disabilities, tell Fanny’s story through drama, dance song in this engaging acoustic space. http://www. and song. The performance is followed by a Q and trevormossandhannahlou.com/ http://www. A session focusing on the relevance of Fanny’s wiltshirefolkarts.org.uk/bobandgill/The off-grid 10:00 - 12:00 experience to the lives of disabled people today. Tin Church will be lit by oil lamps & candles as the MAKE A POSY WORKSHOP Merlin Theatre // £8.00 // Event 1305 evening light fades. Refreshments, included in the See Workshops section page 34 for details. ticket price. St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1301 19:30 - 21:30 The Tin Church - Brokerswood // £16.00 // Event CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT 1308 11:00 - 16:00 The Woodbury String Quartet with Neil Moore, HOLY TRINITY CHURCH OPEN DAY clarinet. The Programme will include Beethoven 19:30 - 23:00 The newly refurbished church will be open for op.18 no. 5 and The Clarinet Quintet in B minor by RODNEY BRANIGAN - TEXAN ROOTS viewing the Burne-Jones stained glass windows. 12 Brahms, op.115 BLUES noon: Meditation on Julian of Norwich led by Ann Christ Church // £15.00 / £10.00 // Event 1306 The Texan local who learned to play in Austin, Phillips, 1 – 2 pm: Lunch – Soup and a roll (£3), 2 perform in Los Angeles, craft songs in Nashville, pm: Talk on Burne-Jones windows by John Samways. 19:30 - 21:00 and put it all together in London, is coming back Trinity Church // FREE // Event 1302 RENOWNED ORGANIST AT HOLY to Frome Festival for his 2nd year. His music was TRINITY CHURCH recently described as “Stunning!” BBC Radio 2, 11:00 - 17:00 Music to include: Bach, Stanford, Whitlock and ‘Impossibly Talented’ Music Connections USA. FROME OPEN STUDIOS Vaughan-Williams, performed on the new organ Support act will start at 8pm. See Event 707 and page 43. at Trinity Church. ASHLEY MARSHFIELD studied The Silk Mill // £10.00 // Event 1309 Various // FREE // Event 1303 organ at the Royal College of Music with Margaret Phillips and improvisation with Sophie-Véronique 20:00 - 22:30 17:00 - 23:00 Cauchefer-Choplin, winning the Harold Darke Prize BLUE MIDNIGHT THE HIGH PAVEMENT FIESTA TAPAS BAR for Organ Performance. Ashley is now Director of The terrific “spacey folk-dub brass fiesta” that is See Event 605. Choral Studies at King’s School, Bruton. Tickets from Blue Midnight will be live at The Cornerhouse. Their The Silk Mill // Event 1304 Box Office/ Trinity Church (Mon–Fri: 9.30-12.30) “eccentric crossover music combo” is a line-up of includes a glass of wine. violin, trombone, harmonica and vocal backed by bass 19:30 - 21:00 Trinity Church // £10.00 // Event 1307 and drums. They will be playing tracks from ‘Father of THE FORTUNES AND MISFORTUNES OF Apples’, ‘Balance’ and latest release ‘White Moon’. FANNY FUST 19:30 - 22:00 Cornerhouse // FREE // Event 1310 Meet Fanny Fust – an heiress with severe learning COUPLES – TREVOR MOSS & HANNAH disabilities living in Bristol in 1787. Her mother wants LOU + BOB & GILL BERRY her to be independent. Can she trust Fanny’s school Two flavours of folk, four wonderful voices, friends? Who is the charming Henry Bowerman? embraced by the walls of this delightful venue. Using records from the law courts, Openstorytellers, Both couples have new recordings since we last 24 FRIDAY 13 JULY

20:00 - 22:30 THE BUSQUITOS WITH SPECIAL GUEST PEE WEE ELLIS Hailing from Holland, The Busquitos were an outstanding hit in last year’s Festival. Their funny, engaging and entertaining show presents brilliantly played jazz standards by Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Django Reinhardt amongst others. The band will be joined by the great Pee Wee Ellis, sax player and arranger for James Brown, Van Morrison and many others. A great night for jazz fans. Rook Lane Chapel // £14.00 // Event 1311 Event 1311 / 20:30 - 21:30 SAM & TOM: INTERVIEW Sam & Tom are a local start-up/upstart company, specialising in audience-oriented comedy deliverance. After review of your recent application they would like to extend to you the opportunity to interview for the position of ‘Audience’ at the Frome Comedy Conference. They will go over the basics of the job and tell you a little more about themselves. Directed by

The Busquitos & Pee Wee ellis ellis Wee Pee & Busquitos The Adam “Weirdo” Larter. The Granary // £5.00 // Event 1312

21:00 - 23:30 STOLEN JAM This exciting young band is definitely one not to miss. Crammed full of talent and enthusiasm, these guys not only cover some superb classic tunes but also perform their own home grown original tracks. Their new release ‘The Creep’ is available to download now. The Sun Inn // FREE // Event 1313 EVENTS SATURDAYFRIDAY 14 6 JULY

11:00 - 15:00 SATURDAY 14 JULY EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OPEN DAY See Workshops section page 39 for details. Christchurch Hall // FREE // Event 1405 09:00 - 13:00 FROME CHEESE & GRAIN FARMERS 11:00 - 13:00 MARKET MEDICINAL PLANT WALK Come and visit one of the biggest award winning Join Medical Herbalist, Nurse and Author of Wild Event 1415

farmers markets in the area with over 30 stalls Drugs, Zoe Hawes for a gentle stroll along the / made up of traditional family farms, market gardens, river from Vallis Vale towards Mells, identifying smallholdings, cheese & cider makers, bakeries and our common natural plants and learning about a spring fed trout farm alongside new innovative their uses from historical magical beliefs to the artisan producers . All share a passion for the food discoveries modern science has made about the they are producing and are keen to tell their story. valuable properties they have and how they can play With tasters available, producer talks, live music and in sustaining our health. an on-site cafe, its a tasty morning out! Various // £10.00 // Event 1406 Cheese & Grain // FREE // Event 1401 11:00 - 14:00 In The Footsteps of Siegfried 10:00 - 12:30 HOLY TRINITY CHURCH - OPEN DAY MATILDA CHILDREN’S DANCE The newly refurbished church will be open for viewing WORKSHOP the Burne-Jones stained glass windows. 1-2 pm: See Workshops section page 38 for details. Lunch: Soup and a roll (£3). Masonic Hall // £10.00 // Event 1402 Trinity Church // FREE // Event 1407

10:00 - 12:30 11:00 - 17:00 AN INTRODUCTION TO CALLIGRAPHY - FROME OPEN STUDIOS NEIL INGHAM See Event 707 and page 43. Event 1413

See Workshops section page 39 for details. Various // FREE // Event 1408 / Postscript // £25.00 // Event 1403 12:00 - 20:00 10:45 - 13:45 THE HIGH PAVEMENT FIESTA TAPAS BAR FROME TUNNELS TOUR See Event 605. See Event 910. The Silk Mill // Event 1409 Frome Library // £12.50 // Event 1404

26 Hattie Briggs Live & Acoustic SATURDAY 14 JULY

12:00 - 14:00 up to the freshly minted. We are a proper big band, MAKE A POSY WORKSHOP with up to 26 players from the local area ready to See Workshops section page 34 for details. swing those beats through the afternoon. Bring a rug St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1410 or a chair, or just your dancing shoes! Victoria Park - Bandstand // FREE // Event 1414 13:30 - 16:00 AN INTRODUCTION TO CALLIGRAPHY - 14:30 - 17:30 NEIL INGHAM IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SIEGFRIED See Workshops section page 39 for details. SASSOON Postscript // £25.00 // Event 1411 This easy 3-mile walk features readings from a selection of First World War poets, men and women. 14:00 - 16:00 There is a particular emphasis on the poems of SERVING FOOD ALL DAY MEDICINAL PLANT WALK Siegfried Sassoon who is buried in Mells Churchyard. See Event 1406. The walk will be led by writers Crysse Morrison and DURING THE FESTIVAL Various // £10.00 // Event 1412 John Payne, and Festival President Martin Bax. Tea 01373 456111 . archangelfrome.com available at the Village Shop or the Walled Garden. 1 King St, Frome . BA11 1BH 14:00 - 15:45 Please car share or come on foot or by cycle. Meeting HATTIE BRIGGS LIVE AND ACOUSTIC place in Mells on tickets. Hattie Briggs is a 24-year-old singer, songwriter Mells // £3.00 // Event 1415 & multi-instrumentalist. Recently named Fender Undiscovered Artist of the Year 2017, she has released 15:00 - 16:00 fourteen EPs, two critically acclaimed albums, GROOVE TOTS GIGS PRESENTS BATCH CASTELLO had airplay on BBC Radios 1, 2, and 6 Music, and GUEYE Italian & Mediterranean Cuisine embarked on tours around the UK, Netherlands and Groove Tots Gigs offers the experience of high the U.S. Influenced by Foy Vance and Jeff Buckley. quality live acoustic music at a family-friendly time Her crystalline vocals, and insightful lyrics resonate featuring creative and talented musicians from across all ages, rekindling old memories and capturing the local area and afar. We have the incredible imaginations. hattiebriggs.co.uk cooperhall.org Senegalese Bristol-based singer and guitarist Batch Cooper Hall // £12.00 // Event 1413 Gueye, who sings the music of the Baye Fall folk magically bringing the heart of West Africa to you. 14:30 - 16:00 Come down, meet friends, treat yourself to a coffee Late lunch? Early dinner? TERRY HILL BIG BAND and get in the groove. batchgueye.com facebook. You’ll be very welcome The Terry Hill Big Band is delighted to return to Frome’s com/groovetotsgigs. Sam’s Kitchen // Suggested very own thatched bandstand, armed with a clutch donation: £8.00 family / £5adult / £1child Open every day from noon Mon - Thurs until 10pm of fine new numbers, and raring to lay down fantastic //Event 1416 Fri & Sat until 10:30pm, Sunday until 9:30pm tunes and songs from the stomping 40s classics right 17 Palmer Street BA11 1DS . 01373 228100 EVENTS SATURDAYFRIDAY 14 6 JULY

16:00 - 17:00 19:30 - 21:15 ‘SOUND THE TRUMPETS!’ MOZART’S BASTIEN AND BASTIENNE/ Colin Bloch gives a recital based on the evolution BACH’S COFFEE CANTATA OPERA of the trumpet through the ages, with accompanist DOUBLE BILL Jacquelyn Bevan. Suitable for all ages, especially Bastien was written when Mozart was only 12 years old families/children, where you can also have a and is about a boyfriend and girlfriend who try to make go at playing a trumpet. All welcome, age 6+. each other jealous. Bastienne asks a quack doctor to do Refreshments available. some magic and put a spell on Bastien. A fake magician St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1417 does this speaking in a made-up language. In the Coffee Cantata an angry father scolds his daughter for being 18:30 - 22:00 addicted to coffee (the latest trend in those days). He FROME FESTIVAL CEILIDH won’t allow her to marry unless she stops drinking Fun, family ceilidh to celebrate the last weekend of coffee. She finally only agrees to a husband if he is the the festival. Music by Paul Hutchinson (Belshazzar’s sort of guy who lets her drink coffee. Family friendly Feast, Hoover the Dog and Pagoda Project) and comedy. Accompanied by the London Gala Orchestra. friends. No experience or partner necessary, all Trinity Church // £16.00 // Event 1420 dances explained by our expert caller. Lungi Baba Event 1420 vegetarian curry available from 6.30pm, dancing 19:30 - 21:00 from 7pm. Licensed bar available. DIDO AND AENEAS: CHRIST CHURCH Nunney Village Hall // £10.00 // Event 1418 SINGERS A concert performance of the earliest English 19:30 - 23:30 opera, accompanied by a small band of instruments PAUL LAMB & THE KINGSNAKES conducted by Alan Burgess. Dido and Aeneas by A class act regarded by blues fans as the finest Henry Purcell is based on an extract from Virgil’s band in Europe, able to hold their own with the top Aeneid. With cackling witches, drunken sailors, an Americans, winning every award going including off-stage echo chorus and one of the most beautiful BEST BLUES BAND (5 times), ALBUM OF THE YEAR and poignant arias in the repertoire, “Dido’s lament”. (3 times), Instrumentalist of the Year-PAUL LAMB The parts of Dido and Aeneas will be sung by (5 times). Recently elected to the BLUES HALL soloists, Steph Collishaw and Gareth Burgess. OF FAME in America. A sensational Blues review, Christ Church // £12.00 // Event 1421 from West Coast Swing to Chicago Southside , unmatched by the mighty all-star line up, including 19:30 - 22:00 ex Van Morrison bassman Rod Demick and FORAGED FICTIONS – STORIES legendary blues hollerer Chad Strentz out front. GATHERED FOR A TIN TABERNACLE Beckington Memorial Hall // £15.00 // Event 1419 Over the last 5 years “Kilter Theatre” have collaborated with local writing company “A Word

28 Mozart’s Bastien & Bastienne / Bach’s Coffee Cantata Opera / SATURDAY 14 JULY in Your Ear” to curate a collection of over 200 short stories, written by local writers. Professional performers will read a handful of home-made Local, Independent estate agents stories. As always, the off-grid Tin Church will be lit by oil lamps and candles as the evening light fades. Refreshments, included in the ticket price, during the intermission. The Tin Church - Brokerswood // £16.00 Proud sponsors of Event 1422 Frome Festival 2018 19:45 - 22:15 VIV GROSKOP Following three years of five star sold-out shows at the

Event 1423 Event If you are thinking of selling, Edinburgh Fringe comes VIVALICIOUS, a brand new / call or email us for a free, show from Viv Groskop, star of BBC1’s ‘This Week’ and no obligation valuation on: BBC Radio 4’s ‘It’s Just a Joke, Comrade’. In this age of therapy and reinvention, Viv’s latest work-in-progress 01373 464040 or is about being the best version of yourself you can Viv Groskop [email protected] be. In Viv’s case - her most Vivalicious self. “Fresh and original” (Sara Pascoe) “Viv is brilliant” (Jo Brand). Merlin Theatre // £12.00 // Age 16+ // Event 1423

20:00 - 22:30 Free professional photography DR JOHN COOPER CLARKE Poet, movie star, rock star, TV & Radio presenter, Offices in Frome, Bath, Corsham comedian, social commentator - a man of many parts and Devizes and a master of them all! JCC shot to fame in the 70’s as the original “people’s poet” and since then his Prominent online marketing on career has spanned cultures, audiences, art forms hunterfrench.co.uk, rightmove.co.uk and continents. Today he is as relevant and vibrant Event 1424 & onthemarket.com / as ever and his influence just as viable on today’s pop culture. “John Cooper Clarke uses words like Chuck Local print advertising Berry uses guitar riffs with melody, anger, humour and disdain in equal measure.” KATE MOSS A modern approach to selling using Cheese & Grain // £12.00 // Event 1424 social media Dr JohnCooper Clarke EVENTS SATURDAY 14 JULY / SUNDAYFRIDAY 15 6 JULY

20:00 - 23:00 20:30 - 23:00 PRAYING FOR THE RAIN IN CONCERT FLASH HARRY SUNDAY 15 JULY Blending contemporary folk, roots and world music Folk Rock Cajun Balkan Band. The rhythms weave with irresistible rhythms, memorable melodies, their magic as the instruments take you on a rootsy beautifully crafted vocals and inspired musicianship. mystery tour. Strange tales unfold of mice and men, 10:00 - 14:00 Inspired by Crosby, Stills and Nash, Robert Plant, to of hamsters and humans, of love and lust and joy and FROME HALF MARATHON Fleet Foxes and the Dave Matthews Band, creating debauchery. Their music puts a smile on your face, The Frome Half Marathon returns to the town a truly uplifting experience. An exhilarating night of sweat on your brow and stomp in your feet. https:// for the 7th time in 2018 and will again be run on high energy, movement and engaging songs. www.flashharryband.co.uk/ closed roads around the town and surrounding Rook Lane Chapel // £12.00 // Event 1425 Cornerhouse // FREE // Event 1428 villages. The event is open to runners aged 17 and above and will be run under a RunBritain 20:00 - 23:30 21:00 - 23:30 Licence. Start: 10am Sunday 15th July 2018. ALAN CLAYSON AND THE ARGONAUTS TRAIN TO SKAVILLE Entries cost 5K £11.00, 10K £16.00 and Half Song writer and music biographer ALAN CLAYSON Formed in 2011, Train to Skaville have built a well Marathon £22.50. The start and finish lines are returns with his band THE ARGONAUTS. In the eyes of deserved reputation for becoming West Wiltshires in the race village at Frome Town Football Club, some, the greatest group ever formed - not least for finest purveyors of SKA reggae and rocksteady. BA11 2EH. Visit www.fromehalfmarathon.co.uk a stage act that still defies succinct description four Covering songs by such notaries as The Specials, or see P45 for more information and to sign up. decades after they were thrust swiftly to ‘a premier Madness, Bob Marley and Bad Manners, Train to Frome Football Club // £ Various // Event 1501 position on rock’s Lunatic Fringe’ (Melody Maker). Skaville are the ultimate sunshine band. Be sure to Their latest album, “This Cannot Go On”, might stand jump aboard when the Train stops at the station..... 11:00 - 13:00 as an artistic apotheosis, were it not for the promise of Mind the Gap! MEDICINAL PLANT WALK surprises yet to come.‘Somewhere there is a parallel The Sun Inn // FREE // Event 1429 See Event 1406. universe where they are bigger than The Beatles! Various // £10.00 // Event 1502 The Granary // £9.00 // Event 1426 11:00 - 17:00 20:00 - 24:00 FROME OPEN STUDIOS THE VINYL SOCIAL See Event 707 and page 43. The Vinyl Social is an open policy strictly vinyl DJ night Various // Event 1503 that has been popping up in various spaces throughout Frome and the surrounding areas for the past few 12:45 - 14:15 years. We take over the Silk Mill for the first time on this PARTNERS IN CRIME special Frome Festival edition! Vinyl enthusiasts from Three local writers explain their approaches to Frome and beyond share their rare finds as they dig the world of crime: David Lassman’s ‘The Awful deep through their crates to spin you choice cuts of Killing of Sarah Watts’ is in the tradition of ‘The Soul, Jazz, Disco, World Sounds and much, much more! Suspicions of Mr Whicher’ and recounts Frome’s Praying for the Rain in concert / Event 1425 The Silk Mill // £4.00 // Event 1427 most infamous murder; Nikki Copleston’s D.I. 30 SUNDAY 15 JULY

Jeff Lincoln novel, ‘The Shame of Innocence’, was 14:30 - 16:00 inspired by real-life crimes; while in ‘Girl Cop’, JACKDAWS SONGBIRDS 2018 Sandy Osborne draws on her own experience as This is the 5th consecutive year that Jackdaws a serving police officer with her tales of ‘Bridget Songbirds have performed at the festival in the Jones in Uniform’ (My Weekly). glorious acoustic surroundings of Christ Church. Frome Library // £7.00 // Event 1504 We will sing and swing through the afternoon with a joyous a cappella blend of songs from the deepest 14.30 - 16:30 soul to the lightest of fancies. Hearty homemade FROME TOWN WALKS treats and tea on sale at half time. Retiring collection See event 814. for Jackdaws Educational Trust. Tower in Justice Lane // £3.00 // Event 1505 Christ Church // FREE // 1508 Contemporary & Vintage items including jewellery, gifts & handmade crafts 14:00 - 19:00 14:30 - 16:30 All sorts of beautiful things... FESTIVAL CRICKET MATCH FROME TOWN BAND The commemoration of the writer and poet Edward Join Frome Town Band at the bandstand in First Sunday of the month from March - December Thomas in the 2017 Festival saw a Bax family cricket Victoria Park for an afternoon of musical 10am - 3pm | Admission FREE | Cheese & Grain, Frome team defeat a team from Broughton Gifford. The entertainment. The band, which has been going village side has demanded a rematch! They also for 20 years, will play a varied programme with lost the 1912 match when Edward Thomas played something for everyone. Why not bring a rug and for the Old Broughtonians in a touring cricket team picnic and make an afternoon of it? Lawyers you can talk to organised by the brothers Clifford and Arnold Victoria Park // FREE // Event 1509 Bax. Tom Gerrish, captain of the village side, is the Friendly, approachable and highly experienced legal great-grandson of Charles Gerrish who played in the professionals who work hard to look after your best interests. 1912 match. The New Bax Broughtonians will have at least half of their players from the Bax family. With offices in Wells and Frome and a team of specialist solicitors we have practically every legal aspect covered. Refreshments available at The Bell on the Common. Broughton Gifford // FREE // Event 1506 So when you need a lawyer, for whatever reason,

14:00 - 16:00 come and talk to us MEDICINAL PLANT WALK See event 1406. Various // £10.00 // Event 1507

Wells: 01749 674747 Frome: 01373 463366 Frome Half Marathon / Event 1501 www.harris-harris.co.uk SECTIONEVENTS SUNDAYFRIDAY 15 6 JULY

14:30 - 16:00 15:00 - 17:00 19:00 - 22:00 FROME FESTIVAL SHORT STORY TAKEN ILLYRIA -THE MERCHANT OF VENICE COMPETITION PRIZE-GIVING A remarkable one man drama. From the standpoint Shakespeare’s great courtroom drama is by turns The annual short story competition regularly of a hostage, Lloyd Notice re-enacts Mark’s Gospel. thrilling, funny, romantic and unsettling. International draws entries from all over the UK and beyond. Lloyd trained as a Shakespearian actor and has award-winning Illyria promise a production to keep Whether you’re a writer or a reader, come and hear performed regularly in the West End. His formidable you on the edge of your seat! Outdoors on ECOS our guest judge, best-selling novelist Margaret acting skills will provide new insights into this account Amphitheatre. Please bring a picnic and blankets. In the Graham, announce the winners, present the prizes as he performs the part of a prisoner – TAKEN – as event of bad weather the performance will move inside. and comment on the shortlisted entries. Some of a hostage. Tickets: Box office / Trinity Church office Merlin Theatre // £15.00 // Event 1514 the successful stories will be read and the winner (Mon – Fri: 9.30 – 12.30). of the previous weekend’s ‘Writer in Residence’ Trinity Church // £10.00 // Event 1511 19:30 - 21:30 competition will also be announced. HOLST: THE PLANETS Frome Library // FREE // Event 1510 16:00 - 18:30 Frome Symphony brings a large-scale orchestra THE PETE GAGE BAND to the Cheese and Grain for a programme of 20th Frome Festival at the Cornerhouse is not complete century British music, opening with Ralph Vaughan without the Pete Gage Band closing. As a musician, Williams’ overture to Aristophanes’ play, The Wasps. he sings & plays blues piano in various settings Local musician George White is the soloist in the from solo to the full band. The Pete Gage Band is Viola Concerto by William Walton. The concert characterised by original and powerful renditions concludes with a full performance of Gustav Holst’s of classic blues tunes from the early days of blues famous Planets suite. Conducted by Mark Gateshill. music up to the present time. Known mostly for his Cheese & Grain // £12.00/£5.00 under 18 vocals and piano-playing, Pete is primarily a “live” Event 1515 gigging bluesman. Cornerhouse // FREE // Event 1512 20:00 - 22:00 JOHN LAW QUARTET PLAYS 16:00 - 17:00 THELONIOUS MONK FESTIVAL CHORAL EVENSONG John Law, piano; Sam Crockatt, saxophones;Riaan The combined choirs of St John’s and St Katharine’s Vosloo, bass Dave Smith, drums. A quartet of four Event 1515

/ churches will sing music composed and arranged by powerful individual voices. The band will be exploring local musicians, including the Magnificat and Nunc the music and legacy of the pianist and composer Dimittis to the setting by Robert Stannard, organist who’s been called The Genius of Modern Music. One at St John’s 1940 - 1960 and father of Bob Stannard, of the founders of the style Be-Bop, Monk’s quirky former president of FMTC. compositions continue to fascinate musicians and St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1513 public alike. Continuing afterwards over the road at

Holst: The Planets Planets The Holst: the Cornerhouse, the regular home of Frome Jazz. Rook Lane Chapel // £5.00 // Event 1516 32 SUNDAY 15 JULY Box Office01373 455420 // fromefestival.co.uk

20:00 - 22:45 ENCORE regular workshops happen the first Monday of BOOK LOVERS’ QUIZ every new exhibition upstairs in the Long Gallery. A light-hearted quiz for serious book-lovers. Put FRIDAY 20 JULY // 20:00 - 23:00 Black Swan Arts // £5.00 // Event 13 together a team and get your thinking caps on as LEO SAYER - FROME FESTIVAL FINALE David Heath and his team set the questions to find The Grammy winning, multi-platinum disc selling out who will be Frome Festival’s Bookworms of the star has wowed audiences worldwide with 16 Hit Year 2018, all in the convivial atmosphere of the Singles & 26 Hit Albums to his name and over 80 Event 11 Cornerhouse Pub. Space is limited to 10 tables of 4. million record sales making him one of the most / Cornerhouse // £12.00 for table of 4 successful ever UK acts. One of the all time great Event 1517 stage artists, he will be performing all the classic &

mega hits such as The Show Must Go On, One Man Leo Sayer Band, Thunder In My Heart, I Can’t Stop Loving You, Raining In My Heart, Love You More Than I Can Say etc. Sing, dance & party like it’s 1979!!! Cheese & Grain // £25.00 // Event 11

SATURDAY 21 JULY // 13:00 - 14:00 FROME FESTIVAL TRIO An uplifting lunchtime recital for the unusual trio combination of piano, clarinet and violin. The programme includes Piazzolla and Poulenc, Bartok, Milhaud, Shostakovich and Khachaturian’s masterful Trio, blending both classical and exotic eastern folk music. Frome Festival Trio brings together violinist Katalin Kertesz, clarinettist Neil Moore and pianist Liz Kozlowski. Doors open 12.30pm with pre-concert refreshments. Christ Church // £10.00 // Event 12

MONDAY 23 JULY // 15:00 - 16:30 WORDS AT BLACK SWAN ARTS Words at the Black Swan is a drop-in writing workshop to respond creatively in words to the visual exhibitions at Black Swan Arts. These The Pete Gage Band / Event 1512

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FRIDAY 6 JULY 10:00 - 12:00 ANIMATION WORKSHOP - 14:00 - 18:00 DAVID DANIELS COFFEE, CAKE, POT OR PAINT Learn the art of stop motion animation with Drop in for some pottery making or painting, or David Daniels. A great opportunity to mix just relax with coffee and cake. Pottery making technology with creativity through the use £15 per pot. Pottery painting priced per item of iMotion. Suitable for ages 8 +. Max 8 per from £5 to £45. session.

Enigma Pottery // Event 604 Event 804 Postscript // £20.00 // Event 702 /

19:00 - 20:30 11:00 - 17:00 BOB FOSSE ‘ALL THAT JAZZ’ DANCE COFFEE, CAKE, POT OR PAINT WORKSHOP See event 604. Join Amy Morgan-Bell of Tri.Art Theatre and Enigma Pottery // Event 705 Dance Academy in a Bob Fosse style dance workshop, learning the moves for All That Jazz! A 11:00 - 12:00 fabulous opportunity for adults to join a dance ZUMBATHON WITH BODYBASICS class with a talented and leading choreographer. Join Gina Fry for a giant Zumba class in the www.tri-art.co.uk. Workshop Making Jewellery Cheese & Grain Main Hall. A great taster if you’ve Masonic Hall // £10.00 // Event 606 wanted to try Zumba or a fun class to join in if you are a Zumba fan! Cheese & Grain // £5.00 // Event 708

SATURDAY 7 JULY 12:00 - 14:00 MAKE A POSY WORKSHOP 10:00 - 12:00 Frome Floral Art flower arrangers will guide MAKING A WET FELTED PICTURE you through the art of making a posy to take Join Bessie Bidder, a local Felt Artist who works home with you. Please bring secateurs and a few flowers if you have some. All welcome.

on collaborative projects in the community and Event 702 in Frome’s schools (see Open Studios brochure / Children must be accompanied by a parent for her exhibition) in this special children’s or guardian. Donations towards flowers workshop creating a picture using wet felting appreciated. Light refreshments available. techniques. 8+ years. St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 711 Cheese & Grain // £12.00 // Event 701

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14:00 - 16:00 10:00 - 12:00 ANIMATION WORKSHOP - FROME PHOTO WALK WITH FROME DAVID DANIELS WESSEX CAMERA CLUB See event 702. Photographer David Chedgy will be leading Postscript // £20.00 // Event 713 the walk, which will finish with time for a chat, and refreshments around Noon. So take that old dusty film camera off the shelf, charge up your new DSLR, free up space on your phone 4* rated accommodation SUNDAY 8 JULY and come along, take pictures, make friends. 28 En-suite rooms . Food served all day Everyone is welcome to attend. Conference facilities . No.5 Coffee Shop 10:00 - 16:00 Cheese & Grain, Market Yard The Granary – Music & Events, available to hire JEWELLERY MAKING WORKSHOP £5.00 // Event 805 This course is for complete beginners to spend a day making a piece of silver jewellery. Learn 11:00 - 17:00 01373 462584 techniques such as sawing, filing, hammering and COFFEE, CAKE, POT OR PAINT MARKET PLACE . FROME . BA11 1AF GEORGEHOTELFROME.CO.UK soldering to make a pendant, ring or bangle. The See event 604. cost of the silver is additional. All of the ticket price Enigma Pottery // Event 807 is donated to the Frome Festival. Christina Oswin Jewellery // £65.00 // Event 804 Event 902 / Featured in The Times and Suitcase Magazine

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11:00 - 13:00 10:00 - 13:00 INDIAN HEAD MASSAGE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN Learn the techniques of Indian Head Massage. WORKSHOP Great for relieving stress and tension. This Create your very own blue and white porcelain

workshop will teach you the basics enabling Event 815 vase, dish or pot. During this 3 hour workshop / you to treat friends and family. You practise on with local ceramic artist Hans Borgonjon, you will each other in pairs. Adults only. have fun making and decorating blue and white Cheese & Grain // £14.00 // Event 809 porcelain vessels. All materials, tools, glazing and firing are included. The only things you will need 16:00 - 18:00 are an apron, an old tea towel and your creative FROME PHOTO JOURNEY ideas. Minimum age 16yrs. WITH CHRIS BAILEY Cheese & Grain // £28.00 // Event 902 Join Chris Bailey on this 2 hour workshop & pick up some insightful portrait tips whilst exploring the 10:00 - 15:00 picturesque streets of Frome with Pinup Model, MIXED MEDIA WORKSHOP Scarlett Luxe. This beginner workshop will aim Join Frome artist Amanda Bee in Studio 14 at to help you understand basic camera settings, the Silk Mill and learn to create a mixed media

composition and posing techniques for outdoor Frome Photo Journey with Chris Bailey landscape. You will have a go at techniques portraiture. All types of cameras are welcome, including mono printing, collage and working bridge to DSLR but a basic understanding of with water based paints. All materials are operating your camera is needed. included in the cost. This is an adults only Cheese & Grain // £20.00 // Event 815 workshop. Spaces are very limited so early booking is advised. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided but please bring a packed lunch. The Silk Mill // £60.00 // Event 904 MONDAY 9 JULY 14:00 - 16:00 10:00 - 12:00 COME AND SING WILLOW LANTERN WORKSHOP Singing workshop - all welcome! Come and Make a beautiful lantern using locally grown join Matt Finch, leader of the Frome Good Event 918 willow withies and tissue paper. Decorate with / Afternoon Choir in an open rehearsal and fairy lights for a unique display in your home or singing workshop. There is a special welcome garden. Please bring apron and secateurs if you for those who have never sung in a choir have them. For info: [email protected]. before. It is a great hobby, come along and The Studio // £15.00 // Event 901 bring a friend. www.goodafternoonchoir.org. Trinity Church // FREE // Event 908

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16:00 - 17:30 WEDNESDAY 11 JULY BEEKEEPING TASTER SESSION Come along and explore the wonders of the 10:00 - 12:00 honey bee. See inside a working beehive. Identify EMBROIDERED FLAG WORKSHOP Workers, Drones and hopefully the Queen bee. See Make a colourful flag for your garden or home, developing bees in the comb as well as stored honey using free machine, hand embroidery and and pollen. Bee-suit and gloves provided but please applique techniques. You will need: Scraps of wear wellies. Meet at Frome Library. Visitors may be fabric, Machine and Embroidery thread, Sewing taken on a short car journey to nearby apiary. Age toolkit, Sewing machine with drop feed. 14+. Not suitable to those who suffer with allergies For info: [email protected] to bee stings. All profits from this event will go to Welsh Mill Hub // £15.00 // Event 1101 Bees for Development. Frome Library // £8.00 // Event 909 10:00 - 13:00 BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN 19:30 - 21:30 WORKSHOP UKULELE WORKSHOP See Event 902. Learn the ukulele with Roger Southard from the Cheese & Grain // £28.00 // Event 1102 Frukes. Suitable for beginners. There will be a limited amount of instruments to borrow if you 11:00 - 13:00 need one - please advise when booking tickets. MAKING A FELT WALL HANGING Cheese & Grain // £12.00 // Event 918 Join Bessie Bidder, a local Felt Artist who works on collaborative projects in the community and in Frome’s schools (see Open Studios brochure for her exhibition). Making a Felt Wall Hanging using TUESDAY 10 JULY wet felting techniques. Beginners welcome. All Lodestone Property materials included. 18:00 - 20:00 Cheese & Grain // £15.00 // Event 1103 is pleased to sponsor VINTAGE MAKE UP WORKSHOP Come and learn basic Vintage makeup techniques with 14:00 - 16:00 The Frome Festival international makeup artist Lauren Glover aka Lolita MAKE A POSY WORKSHOP Noir. If you fancy learning how to apply foundation See event 711. properly, the technique to the perfect winged eyeliner St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1107 or how to keep your red lippy in place, then this class is for you. Please bring your own make-up and brushes. Please come and visit us in our office at Fry’s Halt, Station Road, Bruton Cheese & Grain // £20.00 // Event 1006 www.lodestoneproperty.co.uk 01749 605099 (sales) [email protected] 01749 605088 (lettings) WORKSHOPS Box Office01373 455420 // fromefestival.co.ukFRIDAY 6 JULY

18:00 - 20:00 17:30 - 19:00 COLOUR MIXING & OTHER INTRODUCTION TO LINDY HOP TECHNIQUES IN WATERCOLOUR Our fun workshop will be aimed at complete Colour mixing and other techniques in Lindy Hop beginners and will be about Watercolour. Painting in layers, wet on wet, wet getting everyone dancing and trying different on dry, and textures. Leave the workshop with a moves to swing music! Age 16+. For info. still life painting http://www.painters-online.co.uk/ email: [email protected], www. artist/AnnieDavenport. swingtimefrome.co.uk. Cheese & Grain // £26.00 // Event 1110 The HubNub // £15.00 // Event 1211 Event 1201 THURSDAY 12 JULY / FRIDAY 13 JULY

10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 12:00 LINOCUT WORKSHOP - STEVEN MAKE A POSY WORKSHOP JENKINS See event 711. From design to print learn the easy way to St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1301

create your own cards with Steven Jenkins. No Workshop Linocut experience necessary just bring enthusiasm and an inspiring image to get going! All materials provided. Max 6 people per session. SATURDAY 14 JULY Postscript // £25.00// Event 1201 10:00 - 12:30 14:00 - 16:00 MATILDA CHILDREN’S DANCE LINOCUT WORKSHOP - WORKSHOP STEVEN JENKINS Learn the moves and dance for a choreographed See event 1201. excerpt from the hit musical Matilda with the Postscript // £25.00 // Event 1207 brilliant Amy Morgan-Bell of Tri-Art Theatre and Dance Academy. Age 6 - 12 years. Squash & 16:00 - 17:30 biscuits included. www.tri-art.co.uk. BEEKEEPING TASTER SESSION Masonic Hall // £10.00 // Event 1402 See event 909. Frome Library // £8.00 // Event 1209

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10:00 - 12:30 AN INTRODUCTION TO CALLIGRAPHY - NEIL INGHAM Neil Ingham leads an introduction to the art of calligraphy from basic strokes to the full alphabet. All materials included. Postscript // £25.00 // Event 1403

11:00 - 15:00 Event 1211 EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OPEN DAY / Frome and District branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild invite you to: a Pop Up Exhibition ‘What’s in the Garden’. Fascinating demonstrations include dolls faces, using a soldering iron, hand and machine embroidery; Young people’s corner and UNIQUE NEW HOMES Have a Go area. Christchurch Hall // FREE // Event 1405 NOW AVAILABLE IN BRUTON Introduction to Lindy Hop 12:00 - 14:00 Innovatively designed to be MAKE A POSY WORKSHOP energy effiientt, ooering See event 711. iontemporary rural living. St. John’s Church // FREE // Event 1410 Bespoke 3 and 4 bedroom houses 13:30 - 16:00 from £315t,000 - £660t,000 AN INTRODUCTION TO CALLIGRAPHY - NEIL INGHAM Aiorn Property Group are proud to support the See event 1403.

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22 JUNE - 2 AUGUST // 9:00 - 17:00 26 MAY - 15 JULY // 10:00 - 16:00 CELEBRATION OF FROME FESTIVAL THE CHEMISTRY OF BRONZE This summer, the Black Swan Arts Café are delighted ‘The Chemistry of Bronze’ exhibition at Black to be hosting work by local photographers from the Swan Arts celebrates bronze sculpture and Christina Oswin

Frome Wessex Camera Club. Featuring a range of curator Hans Borgonjon also showcases the / framed photographs from previous Frome Festival bronze process itself. Five established UK artists events, this extraordinary record of work will also will be exhibiting and selling their incredible have individual prints for sale. Don’t miss this bronze sculptures. They will also be showing the exciting showcase of local photographic talent and different steps in bronze making (especially the the opportunity to own a unique souvenir of the lost wax method) with artefacts, tools, videos, marvellous festival events over the years. pictures and stunning demonstrations. The Black Swan Arts show will give a rare insight into the workings Exhibition Jewellery and making of bronze at an established and 1 - 31 JULY // 9:00 - 20:00 longstanding foundry, ‘Artofafinenature’. Bronze FROME FESTIVAL SKETCHBOOK casting demonstrations 26 May & 7 Jul 3pm. EXHIBITION Black Swan Arts A record in sketches of last year’s Frome Festival by Ann Harrison-Broninski. Ann has been 23 JUNE - 15 JULY // 10:00 - 16:00 drawing events and audiences from life at Frome BACK TO BLUE Festival for several years. She works in charcoal, Carolyn Griffiths’ exhibition in the iconic Round pencil and watercolour. All work is for sale. Ann Tower, an 18th century wool drying building, will also be recording events in this year’s Frome showcases the history of Frome’s cloth and dye Festival as Frome Festival Sketch Artist. trades and weaves its way towards the relevance The George Hotel & Granary of textile production in today’s society. Work by mixed media artists Hans Borgonjon and Sue 6 - 15 JULY // 9:30 - 17:30 Conrad provides a wonderful contemporary JEWELLERY EXHIBITION twist that ebbs and flows between the past and Black Swan Arts

An exhibition of new jewellery by local designers. the present. Supported by Black Swan Arts, / Showing exciting new pieces by Christina Frome Society for Local Study and Creative Oswin, Jess Oldham and Heather Streeter. Open Frome. See website or pop by for details of the throughout the Festival, Mon - Sat 9:30 - 5:30. exciting workshops for all ages and abilities. www. Christina Oswin Jewellery woadtothis.com. Black Swan Arts

40 Chemistry Bronze The of FRIDAYVISUAL 6 JULY ARTS & EXHIBITIONS The much-loved indie bookshop in 6 - 15 JULY // 10:00 - 16:00 BLACK SWAN ARTS - STUDIO SHOPS the heart of Frome The three popular studio shops at Black staffed by friendly, Swan Arts offer visitors the opportunity to knowledgeable watch crafts people at work and buy directly people. from them. The Studio Shops overlook the courtyard and provide a shop window for people to purchase individual and bespoke Choose from our wide ranging yet eclectic selection of pieces, as well as talk to the artists about over 9000 titles; with a further 500,000 titles available how they are made. Studio 4, between the for next day delivery. courtyard Café and historic Round Tower, is the home for Discover Frome, the information We also stock a great selection of greetings cards, centre for all residents and visitors to Frome. wrapping paper and book-related gifts. Pop in for town maps, latest news and event information, Festival trail maps and souvenirs. Winstone’s trading as Hunting Raven Books Black Swan Arts 9-10 Cheap St, Frome, 01373 473111

6 - 8 JULY // 10:00 - 16:30 FLOWER FESTIVAL Christ Church was consecrated in September 1818. Join us to celebrate Christ Church’s 200th birthday in a Flower Festival! There will be arrangements all round the church on the theme

Ann Harrison-BroninskiAnn of “The Church Year”, from Advent , Christmas, / Epiphany, Lent, Passiontide, Easter, Ascension to Pentecost. Church vestments will also be on display. Refreshments will be available. Donations gratefully received! Opens 12:30 on Sunday. Christ Church

7-15 JULY // 11.00-17.00 SCULPTURE GARDEN EXHIBITION Exhibition of sculpture throughout sculpture garden and studios. Ian Marlow Sculpture Frome Festival Sketchbook Exhibition VISUAL ARTS & EXHIBITIONS FRIDAY 6 JULY

6 - 15 JULY // 10:00 - 16:00 and A level work. There will be a launch night on MAKING, SHAPING, Saturday 7th July at 6.30pm. & CREATING FROME Rook Lane Chapel Floral and visual displays by the people of St John’s Church, in conjunction with the Frome 7-15 JULY // 11.00-17.00 Floral Art Society, Frome Museum and local FROME OPEN STUDIOS schools - the displays will look at Frome’s past Frome artists once again open their studio doors associations with mills, foundries, printing, to show and sell their work direct to the buyer. breweries, crafts, agriculture and other See P43 for further information. See Open Studios industries that have helped shaped Frome brochure: www.openstudios.co.uk throughout the ages. Come and join us for Frome & Surrounding Area a nostalgic look back on Frome’s socio- economic Memory Lane. 10:00 - 16:00, (11:00 on Sundays) may be closed for special events. Light refreshments will be on sale. St. John’s Church

6 - 15 JULY // 10:00 - 16:00 FROME SOCIETY FOR DISABLED ARTISTS: ART EXHIBITION Frome SODA, the local branch of the national registered charity, presents a Festival-long exhibition of original work by members of the group: paintings in a variety of media, decorated ceramics, greetings cards, local notelets and bookmarks. Most exhibits are for sale. 10.00 - 16.00 (opening 11.00 - 16.00) on Sundays. St. John’s Church

9 - 13 JULY // 13:00 - 14:00 CREATIVITY AT FROME COLLEGE This exhibition showcases the art, photography and graphics work of Frome College students. This will include both GCSE

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Emerging and established Frome artists once again open their studio doors to show and sell their work. This event is a real treat for art lovers and is an excellent way of meeting the artists and supporting Frome’s creative community. Open on both weekends, with many artists opening during the week too, there is ample opportunity to treat yourself to something wonderful. Discover paintings, sculpture, textiles, glass, ceramics, jewellery and so much more. This is an unmissable event which has become a real highlight of the Festival.

Our Open Studios brochure contains maps and all the contact information plus opening times for individual venues and artists or you can download from our website. fromeopenstudios.co.uk or the festival website fromefestival.co.uk. Brochures are FREE from local venues including the Cheese & Grain, Black Swan Arts, the Library, the Town Hall and many shops and cafés in Frome and the surrounding villages. Please follow us on Facebook and Instagram (@fromeopenstudios) to see previews and any last minute updates. FREE EVENT. INFORMATION Box Office01373 455420 // fromefestival.co.ukFRIDAY 6 JULY

HIDDEN GARDENS Entrance is with the Hidden Gardens guide WORDS @ FROME FESTIVAL and map (£5.00) available from the Cheese Once again you have the opportunity over and Grain Box Office, as well as Ellenbray A ten day feast of monstrous words to celebrate 3 days of the Festival to explore and get in the Westway precinct, the Visitor the bicentenary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, inspiration from the Hidden Gardens of Frome. Information Centres at Frome Town Hall will start with a lecture “The Trojan War – Myth Gardens to explore include the mature to and the Black Swan Gallery, and Enigma & History”, by Professor Michael Wood at Rook those still very much ‘under construction’. Gallery in Vicarage Street, both before and Lane. The Small Publishers’ Fair at the Silk Mill, Frome’s industrial and social history means during the Festival. All proceeds from the the following day, hosted by the Frome Writers that around every corner there is another guide go to the Festival. The gardeners are Collective, makes a popular return for readers and surprising and inspiring garden for you to see. rewarded by your pleasure and interest. writers alike, and Monday’s Poetry Cafe welcomes Linger and enjoy a cup of tea and perhaps cake Profits from any refreshments provided go poems on any aspect of the monstrous. On and chat to the gardener. towards their chosen individual charity. No Tuesday you can catch a one-man performance, dogs please. based on a Mark Twain monologue which satirised human rights abuses in the Congo, ‘The Meddling OPEN of Mrs Harris’, and more monsters are expected TH JULY in Frankenstein Flash, a short monologue FRIDAY 6 TH JULY competition on Thursday at the Three Swans. SATURDAY 7 TH JULY SUNDAY 8 Author talks on Monday 9th include ‘The Six Sixes 11.00-17.00. Revisited’, at Frome Cricket Club; sports writer See map for Grahame Lloyd will present a talk on his book further details. about the famous Gareth Sobers achievement; Sue Hubbard will introduce her novel ‘Rainsongs’, at the Library; Frome Society for Local Study hosts Julian Richards with his latest book: ‘ Stonehenge: the story so far’ at the Merlin theatre, and at the Archangel on Tuesday 10th, Ed Green presents: ‘Wilfred Owen, A Somerset Son & The Great War’.

A guided walk will start at the Black Swan on Tuesday 10th to inspire writing and creativity: ‘Walking an Every Day Miracle’, and there will be a poetry walk around Mells on Saturday 14th featuring readings from Siegfried Sassoon and his contemporaries.

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For Hammer Horror film buffs, Tony Dalton, the biographer of Hammer filmmaker Terence FROME FESTIVAL SHORT STORY JOIN THE RUNNING Fisher, will be giving a talk on the director’s work at COMPETITION the Merlin theatre on Tuesday 10th followed by a HEROES OF FROME! showing of “Frankenstein Must be Destroyed”. On For full details of the Thursday 12th Revd Colin Alsbury shares a mixture of anecdotes and stories about folk from Frome area, competition, please visit FROME HALF MARATHON, 10K, who have produced work or lived lives that have fromeshortstorycompetition. 5K AND 1K FAMILY FUN RUN been described as ‘magnificent’, and others who co.uk. Deadline for entries have excited reaction to their ‘monstrous’ behaviour, SUNDAY 15 JULY 2018 AT 10.00AM in a free talk at St John’s Church. At the Tin Church 31st May 2018. Results will be on Saturday 14th, Kilter Theatre and local writing announced at the prize-giving on The Frome Half Marathon, 10K, 5K and 1K Family company ‘A Word in Your Ear’ present ‘Foraged Fun Run return for the sixth year and promise Fictions - Stories Gathered for a Tin Tabernacle’. Sunday 15th July. to be bigger and more exciting than ever! Over 1,000 people of all ages from Frome, the wider Words at Frome Festival finishes on Sunday 15th Margaret Graham South West and further afield, will gather at the library, where three local writers explain is an Arrow to conquer the miles of beautiful race route their different approaches to their work in Partners author, and through Frome town centre and the villages of in Crime. On the same afternoon, five months of also writes for Nunney and Whatley. Runners will take over the literary effort will be finally whittled down to the Arrow as Milly town – through Clink, Keyford, Nunney, Whatley, winners at the Short Story Competition Prize-Giving: Adams. She has Egford Hill, the town centre and Berkley Road novelist Margaret Graham will award the prizes. been writing, – creating a brilliant atmosphere. If you’re not The annual Book Lovers pub quiz will be held at the teaching and running, why not volunteer or find a spot on Cornerhouse in the evening. mentoring for 30 the street to cheer? With thousands of pounds years. She writes raised for local charities, our running heroes short stories for appreciate every last bit of support. women’s magazines, and has been a columnist for Writers’ Forum. She founded the Yeovil Sign up now to guarantee a place to run or Literary Prize, and is contributing editor to e - contact the organisers if you’d like to be involved Frost Magazine and founder and administrator as a volunteer. fromehalfmarathon.co.uk of Words for the Wounded, which raises money for injured and ill veterans through creating Please note: road closures across the town centre writing opportunities. and surrounding routes may affect your journey between 9.45am – 1pm. Find more details on the event website.

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FromeFM is the town’s local community radio station. Broadcasting from new studios in the Town Hall with an extended FM licence taking us into 2022, the station is dedicated to serving and entertaining the people of Frome.

Tune in to FromeFM for Festival news and events on 96.6FM on your radio and on-line at frome.fm. YOUR FESTIVAL NEEDS YOU! Festival shows every morning and a host of other programmes including live music, stories, quizzes and interviews. To follow our coverage of the 2018 Do you value The Frome Festival? In order to Frome Festival and to find out how to get involved in keep this wonderful event operating for the your local community radio station visit frome.fm next few years we need your support. FRIENDS OF FROME FESTIVAL Feel free to drop in to the new studios to give us The festival relies heavily on donations (mainly from your take on what you’ve seen and heard in this the Friends of Frome Festival) and commercial year’s Frome Festival. sponsorship as a significant proportion of its income. As a Friend you will receive priority Name booking for festival tickets and access to a range of social events held throughout the year (trips, Address concerts, etc). To get priority booking for this year’s festival, you need to join by 11th May. Annual membership starts at just £20 per person and you can join and get further details on fromefestival.co.uk/frome-festival-friends.

Fender Undiscovered Artist Email address of the Year 2017 Otherwise please fill in form below and post Written by Linda Kitchen, starring to: the Frome Festival office, 25 Market Place, For the latest festival news visit: Mary Hegarty and Nerys Hughes Frome, BA11 1AH fromefestival.co.uk Telephone number Please consider joining the Friends of Frome Festival to keep your community festival alive Follow us on: and well. Thank you.

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BOX OFFICE OPENING 2018 Collection and Postage Festival Box Office: Cheese and Grain, Market Festival Friends: Friday 18th & Saturday 19th May Tickets must be collected in advance from the Yard, Frome BA11 1BE. 01373 455420. 9:00 - 20:00 Cheese & Grain Box Office. You can have your cheeseandgrain.com General Public: Sunday 20th May tickets posted to you for £1.50 but allow 7 In person, 9:00 - 17:00 working days for delivery. Opening Times: 9am-8pm Monday - Saturday, Monday 21st May Sunday 9am-5pm and also during evening events. In person and online 9:00 - 20:00 BOOKING INFORMATION Tickets for Festival events held at the Merlin, Memorial Theatre and Cooper Hall, can also be We accept most major credit and debit cards, cheque Please note: Some major Frome Festival events will be purchased directly from their Box offices. Events or cash. There is a booking charge of £1.00 for all on sale prior to Friday 18th (Festival Friends) / Sunday that are free may need booking directly with the tickets with a value greater than £5.00. 20th May (General Public) from the box office of the event organiser as places may be limited - please host venue only. An allocation of tickets for these events check event detail. If an event hasn’t sold out, you All online sales are subject to a £1.50 per ticket fee. will be held back for the Festival Box Office opening. should be able to buy a ticket on the door.

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D Y R 1 Archangel 14 Cornerhouse 26 Memorial Theatre 39 The Three Swans 1 King Street, Frome, BA11 1BH 1 Christchurch St West, Frome, BA11 1QA Christchurch St West, Frome, BA11 1EB 16-17 King Street, Frome, BA11 1BH

2 Assembly Rooms 15 Cricket Club (Frome) 27 Merlin Theatre 40 The Tin Church - Brokerswood Behind Memorial theatre, Christchurch St The Showfield, Rodden Road, Frome, Bath Road, Frome, BA11 2HG All Saints, Fairwood Road, North Bradley, West, Frome, BA11 1EB BA11 2AH BA13 4EJ 28 Nunney Village Hall 3 Beckington Memorial Hall 16 Ellenbray Press Off Derry Hill, Nunney, BA11 4NR 41 Trinity Church 36 Bath Road, Beckington, BA11 6SH The Old Library, Westway, Frome, BA11 1BS Trinity Street, Frome, BA11 3DW 29 Postscript 4 Bistro Lotte 17 Enigma Pottery 15 Stony Street, Frome, BA11 1BU 42 Trinity Hall 23 Catherine Street, Frome, BA11 1DB 15 Vicarage St, Frome, BA11 1PX Trinity Street, Frome, BA11 3DW 30 Rook Lane Chapel 5 Black Swan Arts 18 Frome Football Club Bath Street, Frome, BA11 1DN 43 Vallis Veg Festival Campsite 2 Bridge Street, Frome , BA11 1BB Blindman Brewery Stadium, Berkley Egford, Frome, BA11 3JQ Road, Frome, BA11 2EH 31 Sam’s Kitchen 6 Blue House 8 Stony St, Frome, BA11 1BU 44 Victoria Park - Bandstand Bridge Street, Frome, BA11 1AP 19 Frome Library Victoria Park, Frome, BA11 1ED Justice Lane, Frome, BA11 1BE 32 St. John’s Church 7 Broughton Gifford Church Steps, Frome, BA11 1PL 45 Victoria Park - Bowls Club The Street, Melksham, SN12 8PN 20 Frome Rugby Club Victoria Park, Frome, BA11 1ED Gypsy Lane, Frome, BA11 2NA 33 Steiner Academy 8 Festival Box Office (Cheese & Grain) 3 Park Road, Frome, BA11 1EU 46 Welsh Mill Hub Market Yard, Frome, BA11 1BE 21 Frome Town Hall The Welsh Mill, Park Hill Drive, BA11 2LE Christchurch St West, Frome, BA11 1EB 34 Swallow Barn 9 Cheese & Grain - Market Yard The Cross, Buckland Dinham, BA11 2QS 47 Witham Friary Church & Village Hall Market Yard, Frome, BA11 1EH 22 Garden Cafe Witham Friary, Nr Frome, BA11 5HF 16 Stony Street, Frome, BA11 1BU 35 The HubNub 10 Christ Church Whittox Lane, Frome, BA11 3BY Christchurch St West, Frome, BA11 1EH 23 George Hotel & Granary Please note: Venues not included on 5 Market Place, Frome, BA11 1AF 36 The Silk Mill town centre map are outside Frome. 11 Christchurch Hall Merchants Barton, Saxonvale, Frome, Park Road, Frome, BA11 1EU 24 Ian Marlow Sculpture BA11 1PT = Hotel / B & B The Sculpture Garden Ebenezer Chapel, 12 Christina Oswin Jewellery Buckland Dinham, BA11 2QT 37 The Studio = Campsite (20 – 30 minute walk 3 Bath Street, Frome, BA11 1DH 5 Beechwood Avenue, Frome, BA11 2AX from the Market Place) 25 Masonic Hall 13 Cooper Hall at Selwood Manor 18 North Parade, Frome, BA11 1AU 38 The Sun Inn = Point of Sale for Jacks Lane, Frome, BA11 3NL 6 Catherine Street, Frome, BA11 1DA Hidden Gardens Map

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