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Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts. Welcome to the sixth annual Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts, in which we aim to build upon the success of previous Festivals with a varied programme of music, poetry, art, sculpture and workshops in and around Winchcombe. This Festival could not take place without the vital support of many individuals and organisations who have given their time and provided funding for many of the events. We also appreciate the generosity shown by the town’s churches and businesses for making venues available free of charge. The following organisations have provided vital support to fund specific Festival events: The Oldham Foundation (Festival-wide sponsor) Warner’s Budgens (Festival-wide sponsor) www.warnersbudgens.co.uk ADB Consult Ltd Benjamin Chocolatier Ltd www.benjaminchocolatier.co.uk Cotswold Eye Care Centre www.cotswoldeyecare.co.uk Food Fanatics www.food-fanatics.co.uk Newsum Antiques www.newsumantiques.co.uk Ros Martin Tax Consultancy www.taxdr.co.uk Strawberry Hill Vineyard www.strawberryhillvineyard.com Vale & Hills Family Butchers www.valehills.co.uk Discover 1,000 years of Winchcombe Country Show www.winchcombeshow.org.uk British history and explore The Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts is run by a dedicated team supported by award-winning gardens at a many volunteers who help with the management of individual events. much loved family home, in Festival team: David Banks, Lynne Banks, Lil Brooks, Sue Brooks, Judy Crombie, The Cotswolds the heart of the Cotswolds. Barbara Curry, Rob Davies, Lesley Davies, Ros Martin, Celia Royle, Jane Smoczynski. Media partner: 10% Open daily until discount th Festival updates on Impromptu, the Breakfast when you Sunday 30 October 2016, Show and the John Oldham show. book online 10am - 5pm Events throughout the season Discounts for group bookings www.sudeleycastle.co.uk WIN H OM E Time Out Tel: 01242 604 244 of the Ordinary MUSI & ARTS 23 30Ma 2016 2 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk ART TRAIL JAZZ SUPPER STARTS Tickets £25 (to include supper) TE03 Entry Free NT01 TODAY FOR 7 DAYS Venue St Mary’s, Cowl Lane Venue At 14 open studios Time 7.30pm Time Open daily throughout the Festival. Details Talented jazz duo - singer Hannah Davey and pianist Tom Details Winchcombe’s popular Art Trail offers a unique Lindsay - bring you an evening of your favourite jazz tunes opportunity to view and buy original works of arts from the American songbook, in an intimate setting. Known and crafts directly from the artist. Just a short for their stunning melodies, witty lyrics and toe-tapping drive out of Winchcombe, other artists’ venues can rhythms, there will be songs you know and perhaps a few new be found in the picturesque villages of Stanway gems to discover from Gershwin, Kern, Ellington and more. and Guiting Power. Art workshops for adults and Event supported by ADB Consult Ltd children will be held throughout the week. For more information visit www.winchcombefestival.co.uk BACH: PURE AND SIMPLE Event supported by Please see separate Tickets £8; £5 under 18s TE04 The Oldham Foundation Art Trail leaflet Venue St Peter’s Church Gloucester Street for full details. Time 7.30pm Details This cello recital will highlight some of Bach’s most famous and touching works. Bach, born in 1685, is known as the MONDAY 23 MAY inventor of "counterpoint" which is the foundation of all later western compositions. Nella Hunkins illustrates this ART AT SUDELEY CASTLE EXPERIENCE through the solo cello suites and with short explanations. Tickets £5 to include refreshments TE01 Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street Time 10.30am – 1.00pm TUESDAY 24 MAY Details 'Belinda Durrant, Artist in Residence at STARTS TODAY FOR Sudeley Castle, will be demonstrating her SCULPTURE EXHIBITION 6 DAYS fine papercut work from 10.30am to 11.30am. Entry Free NT02 From 12 noon to 1pm Belinda will talk about Venue Charingworth Court, Broadway Road her 'Sudeley experience’ and what draws her Time Tuesday 24th May and Wednesday 25th May 2.00pm - 5.00pm to the Castle. Work inspired by her residency is Thursday 26th May – Monday 30th May 11.00am - 5.00pm now on display at the castle. Ticket holders will Details Cotswold, national and international sculptors will be be entitled to entry to Sudeley Castle on the same exhibiting their work in the beautiful setting of the private day for £7 (a reduction of up to £7.50). gardens of Charingworth Court, Winchcombe. Curated by Winds of Change Gallery, the exhibition embraces a wide range of work and styles to include mosaic, glass, metal and stone. REMEMBERING QUATIA By kind permission of Susan and Richard Wakeford. Tickets £5 TE02 Venue The Methodist Church Hall, High Street Time 2.00pm HOW POETRY CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE Details On 6th August 1914, the local Royal Tickets £5 TE05 Gloucestershire Hussars, including well-known Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street local men, rode off to war from the George. Time 2.00pm – 3.00pm Sent first to guard the coast, they later fought at Details In this talk poet Jennie Farley will discuss the healing Gallipoli and in Egypt, where they met tragedy power of poetry, featuring poets past and present. An open in the desert in 1916. Come and learn more mic session will provide an opportunity for members of about these events from Carol Harris. the audience to share their own life-saving poems.
4 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 5 NEEDLE FELTING WORKSHOP - FELTED FLOWERS WEDNESDAY 25 MAY Tickets £28 to include materials and a drink TE06 Venue ‘Winds of Change’ Art Gallery, NEEDLE FELTING WORKSHOP – FELTED BIRDS Hailes Street Tickets £28 to include materials and a drink TE08 Time 10.00am – 12.00noon Venue ‘Winds of Change’ Art Gallery, Hailes Street Details This workshop is led by Jayne Time 10.00am – 12.00noon Emerson, whose work has sold to Details Jayne Emerson leads this second needle felting workshop. Chanel, Calvin Klein, John Lewis, The lovely birds you will learn to create are now infamous M and S and Boden. Needle felting after Jayne taught Kirstie Allsopp how to make them on involves using barbed needles that Kirstie's Handmade Britain! They are very simple to make, mesh wool fibres together to create and once you have mastered the robin you can experiment felt. The process is simple, quick with different-coloured fleeces and feathers to make your and perfect for beginners. Learn own choice of exotic (or garden) bird! how to make colourful blooms that can be attached to stems, or even appliquéd onto a backing fabric. STILL LIFE FOR BEGINNERS Tickets £12 to include materials and refreshments TE09 CLASSIC WIND Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street Time 2.00pm – 4.00pm £8; £5 under 18s Tickets TE07 Details If drawing is something you’ve always Venue St Nicholas’ Church, Chandos Street wanted to try this workshop is for Time 7.30pm you. Even if you haven’t picked up a Details Classic Wind was established in 1993 and comprises pencil for years come along and find the five principal wind players from the Cheltenham your hidden creative talent! Covering Chamber Orchestra. For the Winchcombe Festival the basic principles of drawing such they have devised a programme entitled ‘Rhythm and as composition, line, tone, texture and Dance’. This will be an attractive and approachable shading, local illustrator Gemma Hastilow mix of well-loved and original tunes from around the will guide you through drawing a still life. world. Refreshments available – donations in aid of All materials provided. St Nicholas’ Church. ISLAMIC ART: BARBARA CURRY FOLK NIGHT (GUEST PERFORMER JOHNNY COPPIN) Tickets £5 TE10 Time 3.00pm Tickets £8 at the door NT03 Venue The Methodist Church Hall, Details For over a thousand years, from Venue The Garden Room, The White Hart Inn, High Street Marrakesh to the Taj Mahal, from High Street Jerusalem to Mecca, the Muslim Time 8.00pm – 10.45pm world has celebrated art and the Details Johnny Coppin is an established singer/songwriter, craftsmanship of makers in glass, theatre music composer and poetry anthologist who is stonework, pottery, manuscripts, famous for his eloquent songs of Gloucestershire. His carpets, calligraphy and garden strong, clear vocals have taken his music to festivals design. What does the Qur’an say all over Europe, including Cambridge and Edinburgh, about art? Are faces allowed to be produced many solo albums, and a wide range of TV portrayed? Are there any images and radio programmes. This is an Open Night, in the of the Prophet? This fascinating middle of which Johnny will play and sing two sets. and fully-illustrated talk may surprise you.
6 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 7 TEA WITH THE OBSESSIVE COLLECTOR THURSDAY 26 MAY Tickets £20 TE11 STARTS The Wesley House, High Street TODAY FOR Venue WINCHCOMBE ART CLUB EXHIBITION 4 DAYS Time 3.00pm Entry Free NT04 Details Come to see and handle some favourite objects as local dealer and Venue The Guide Hall, High Street collector Mark Newsum guides you through a lifetime of collecting antiques Time Thurs: 2.00pm – 5.00pm; Fri and Sat: 10.00am – and curiosities. Cost includes full afternoon tea: sandwiches, freshly baked 5.00pm; Sun: 10.00am – 4.00pm scones, jam and cream, an assortment of cakes and a choice of teas. Details Winchcombe Art Club’s three day summer Event supported by Newsum Antiques exhibition opens this afternoon. On display will be paintings in oils, pastels, watercolours THE HARPSICHORD COLLECTIVE and acrylics, many of which will be on sale. Tickets £8; £5 under 18s TE12 Venue St Nicholas’ Church, Chandos Street SKETCH, WALK AND TALK Time 7.30pm Details Baroque chamber group, the Harpsichord Collective, Entry Free AB01 (advanced booking required) present an evening of Italian cantatas and sonatas by Venue Meet in the Library Car Park, Back Lane, Winchcombe Vivaldi, Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti. Scarlatti is most Time From 10.00am famous as an opera composer, but his solo cantatas Details Enjoy a morning of sketching with local artist Katie display in miniature the same dramatic sense and Morgan, resident artist of Sudeley Castle. While walking masterful use of instrumental colours, using as his theme and sketching Katie will share old stories and folklore of the pains and pleasures of Arcadian love. Refreshments Winchcombe. All levels of experience welcome. Bring a available – donations in aid of St Nicholas’ Church. sketch pad, pen/pencils. Event subject to cancellation POETIC VOICES in the event of bad weather - please check on website. Tickets £8 to include a complementary glass of wine TE13 Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street POETRY PROMENADE Time 7.30pm Entry Free NT05 Details Anna Saunders’ work has been described as “dazzling and Venue The Methodist Church Hall, High Street intoxicating” and “bold and beautiful”. Anna will be reading from Time 2.00pm her latest collection ‘Burne Jones and The Fox’. Aled Thomas is a Details As part of the cultural exchange between Cheltenham Poetry Senior Reporter at The Gloucestershire Echo. His first collection of Festival and Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts, a group poetry is due to be launched in Autumn 2016. Poet and children’s of poets from Cheltenham have written poems inspired by author, Matt Black, writes poetry for adults and for children that the historical town of Winchcombe. Come and join us for a ranges from the serious and educational to the crazy and sublime. promenade, in poetry, through these much loved streets.
THE APPLE MASHERS THE ENGLISHMAN WHO INVENTED CHAMPAGNE Tickets £8 (to include a complementary glass of fizz) TE15 Tickets £8 TE14 Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street Venue The Garden Room, The White Hart Inn, High Street Time 7.30pm Time 8.00pm Details Jean Bray raises a toast to Winchcombe born Details A local band who originally met while making cider physician and scientist Christopher Merrett who first from local apples. After a day’s hard graft one of the guys put the fizz into ‘sparkling wine’ in the 17th Century – picked up a guitar at which point they realised that three 20 years before the French. A distinguished naturalist of them could play. The band now includes keyboards, and specialist in metallurgy and glass-making he drums & bass in a ‘more the merrier’ approach to music survived the Great Plague and the Fire of London and while simply having fun. They play a wide variety of enjoyed a glass with Samuel Pepys. songs, including cover versions of various well known Event supported by The Oldham Foundation Country, Pop & Rock tunes. and Strawberry Hill Vineyard 8 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 9 HOW TO UY TI ETS
Use our planner below to highlight the events you would MUSIC VISUAL ARTS TALKS & POETRY like to attend and remind you WORKSHOPS STREET FAIR FESTIVA AT A G AN E which ones you have booked. DATE EVENT TIME LOCATION 3 DATE EVENT TIME LOCATION 3
Mon 23 May - Art Trail NT01 See separate See separate programme Thu 26 May Brothers Aloud 8.00pm The White Hart Mon 30 May programme TE16
Art at Sudeley Castle Experience 10.30am – Chandos Hall Fri 27 May Dragon Tales to Start Art TE17 3.30pm – Winchcombe Abbey C of E TE01 1.00pm 5.00pm Primary School
Mon 23 May Remembering Quatia TE02 2.00pm The Methodist Church Hall Gloucestershire 1016 TE18 3.00pm Methodist Church
Jazz Supper TE03 7.30pm St Mary’s, Cowl Lane Winchcombe Poets NT06 6.00pm – St Nicholas’ Church 7.00pm Bach: Pure and Simple TE04 7.30pm St Peter’s Church Tales of Love & Chocolate TE19 7.30pm – Chandos Hall OPEN Tue 24 May Sculpture Exhibition UNTIL See listing on Charingworth Court 8.30pm NT02 MONDAY page 5 A Night of Romantic Opera TE20 7.30 pm St Peter’s Church How Poetry Can Save Your Life 2.00pm – Chandos Hall TE05 3.00pm Ramon Goose TE21 8.00pm The White Hart
Needle Felting Workshop – 10.00am – Winds of Change Sat 28 May Children’s event – Drawing 10.00am – Abbey fields Community Felted Flowers TE06 12.00noon Art Gallery Dragons and Unicorns TE22 12.00noon Centre
Classic Wind TE07 7.30pm St Nicholas’ Church An Introduction to Chalk Painting 2.00pm – Abbeyfields Community TE23 4.00pm Centre Folk Night – Guest performer 8.00pm – The White Hart Johnny Coppin NT03 10.45pm The Big Knit NT07 2.00pm – The Methodist Church Hall 4.00pm Wed 25 May Needle Felting Workshop – 10.00am – Winds of Change Felted Birds TE08 12.00noon Art Gallery Festival Brunch TE24 12.00 noon – The Plaisterers’ Arms 2.30pm Still Life for Beginners TE09 2.00pm – Chandos Hall 4.00pm Cheltenham Community Choir 7.45pm Winchcombe School TE25 Islamic Art: Barbara Curry TE10 3.00pm The Methodist Church Hall Emi McDade/Why We Love TE26 8.00pm The White Hart Tea With The Obsessive Collector 3.00pm Wesley House TE11 Sun 29 May Jazz in the Garden TE27 12.00-3.00pm St Mary’s, Cowl Lane
The Harpsichord Collective TE12 7.30pm St Nicholas’ Church Bryn Haworth TE28 3.00pm Encounter Church
Poetic Voices TE13 7.30pm Chandos Hall An Evening With Octavo TE29 7.30pm St Peter’s Church
The Apple Mashers TE14 8.00pm The White Hart Roving Crows TE30 7.30pm Toddington Village Hall OPEN Thu 26 May Winchcombe Art Club UNTIL See listing on The Guide Hall Exhibition NT04 SUNDAY page 9 Mon 30 May Winchcombe History Group 10.00am – The Guide Hall Exhibition NT08 4.00pm Sketch, Walk and Talk AB01 From 10.00am Meet in the Library Car Park, Back Lane Bank Holiday Street Fair with 10.00am – North Street Entertainment NT09 4.00pm Poetry Promenade NT05 2.00pm Methodist Church Hall Winchcombe Festival Fringe NT10 10.00am – North Street The Englishman Who Invented 7.30 pm Chandos Hall 4.00pm Champagne TE15
10 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 11 THURSDAY 26 MAY WINCHCOMBE POETS BROTHERS ALOUD Entry Free NT06 Venue St Nicholas’ Church, Chandos Street Tickets £8 TE16 Time 6.00pm – 7.00pm Venue The Garden Room, The White Hart Inn, High Street Details If you enjoy poetry, you will love this hour of Time 8.00pm readings by the creative and talented members of Details Brothers Aloud are seasoned musicians, most of whom Winchcombe Poets. The diverse group promises have been performing in various bands since the late poetry readings to provoke thought, laughter and reflection. 1960s. They play a selection of material including some Refreshments available – donations in aid of St Nicholas’ Church. Beatles, Tom Petty, Bad Company and a good slice of energetic Wishbone Ash. The band is made up of Lead, Rhythm and Bass Guitarists/Vocalists…the Bevan TALES OF LOVE & CHOCOLATE: TRADITIONAL Brothers, with Bingo Starr featured on Drums. AND CONTEMPORARY STORY CABARET Tickets £10 to include a complementary glass of wine FRIDAY 27 MAY and gourmet chocolate TE19 Venue Chandos Hall, Castle Street DRAGON TALES TO START ART WITH Time 7.30pm – 8.30pm AGENT GREEN THE DRAGON WHISPERER Details Forbidden desire, spicy romance, pure greed! Deliciously naughty stories sizzling with sensuality. Tickets £5 per child; adults free; drink and biscuit From passionate porcelain in Worcester to the included TE17 legendary Japanese striptease that saved the world – Venue Winchcombe Abbey C of E Primary School, and the truth about our favourite chocolate dessert… Back Lane Funny, racy and only for adults 16+. Contains mild Time 3.30pm – 5.00pm adult references: BBC Radio 4 style – lightly spiced Details Gorgeously costumed Agent Green, the world’s only but never blue. No scripts, no reading. This is genuine living dragon whisperer, is alleged to work for top verbal jazz: live action spoken word. secret DCHQ - Dragon Conservation Headquarters. The www.midnightstorytellers.co.uk draconics expert tells vivid stories about dragons from Event supported by Benjamin Chocolatier Ltd around the world, designed to inspire painting / collage / and Food Fanatics mask making. Recommended for age 7-12 but all dragon fans are welcome. Basic materials provided - please bring your favourite sketchbook + pens if you wish. All children must be accompanied: and they’ll be telling the adults what to do! www.midnightstorytellers.co.uk A NIGHT OF ROMANTIC OPERA Event supported by Winchcombe Country Show Tickets £14; £6 under 18s TE20 Venue St Peter’s Church, Gloucester Street GLOUCESTERSHIRE 1016 Time 7.30pm Tickets £6 TE18 Details Hosted by Swansea City Opera, A Night of Venue The Methodist Church, High Street Romantic Opera takes audiences into a world of Time 3.00pm romantic opera from our most loved composers Details Following the success of 'Voices from the including Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Mozart and many Trenches', Winchcombe Volunteers are more. With a cast of four singers drawn from the proud to present a miscellany of readings, major national and international opera houses poems and songs by Gloucestershire accompanied by piano, A Night of Romantic composers and writers to celebrate our Opera is a beautiful evening of arias and county, a thousand years after the very ensemble singing. first mention of Gloucestershire in the Event supported by Ros Martin Tax Consultancy Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
12 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 13 RAMON GOOSE FESTIVAL BRUNCH Tickets £7 TE24 Tickets £8 TE21 Venue The Plaisterers’ Arms, Abbey Terrace Venue The Garden Room, The White Hart Inn, Time 12.00 noon – 2.30pm High Street Details The ‘Campus City Trad Jazz Band’ returns to play Time 8.00pm their infectious mix of Trad Jazz in the lovely Details Ramon Goose is one of the most versatile garden setting of the Plaisterers Arms while you and unique Blues artists of his generation. enjoy a superb brunch. Price includes pitta bread He was the guitarist and chief songwriter stuffed with spicy chicken and salad OR Chinese for the acclaimed British band NuBlues and style vegetables with egg noodles.In the event of worked with world music star Diabel Cissokho to form the seminal band bad weather, the band will play indoors. The West African Blues Project. He has drawn inspiration from artists such as Event supported by Vale and Hills Family Butchers Blind Boy Fuller and Ry Cooder. An artist simply not to be missed! SATURDAY 28 MAY CHELTENHAM COMMUNITY CHOIR Tickets £10; £6 under 18s TE25 DRAWING MYTHICAL BEASTS Venue Winchcombe School, Greet Road Tickets £5 to include materials; adults free TE22 Time 7.45pm Venue Abbeyfields Community Centre, Back Lane In this special festival Time 10.00am – 12.00noon Details concert, the Cheltenham Details If you really love drawing and mythical beasts then don’t miss this fun workshop. Join children’s Community Choir and illustrator Gemma Hastilow as she shows you how to soloists, showcase a wide make your pictures really come to life! This workshop variety of popular musical numbers ranging from classics first performed in the ‘50s is for children aged 8-12 years old. All children must be to contemporary West End shows and songs. With relaxed, ‘cabaret-style’ seating accompanied by an adult. and a paying bar supported by the Friends of Winchcombe School, a superb evening’s entertainment is guaranteed! Event supported by Winchcombe Country Show AN INTRODUCTION TO CHALK PAINTING EMI McDADE / WHY WE LOVE Tickets £10 (to include materials) TE23 Tickets £8 TE26 Venue Abbeyfields Community Centre, Back Lane Venue The Garden Room, Time 2.00pm – 4.00pm The White Hart Inn, Details Katy Hammond, of Archway Barn, specialises in giving furniture High Street and accessories a new lease of life using chalk paints. In this Time 8.00pm introduction to chalk paints you will be able to take away your very Details Emi McDade, folk/ own hand painted frame. All materials included. pop singer-songwriter and Gloucestershire Artist of the Year 2014, THE BIG KNIT has supported artists such as Red Hot Chilli Entry Free NT07 Peppers and Toyah Willcox. She is joined in this Venue The Methodist Church Hall, High Street double bill by Why We Love, a sibling fronted Time 2.00pm – 4.00pm alternative indie pop band, recognisable for their Details The ever-popular Big Knit returns to Winchcombe. sparkly guitar pop, bittersweet lyrics and bold Come along with your knitting and enjoy a sociable harmonies, all showcased in energetic live shows. afternoon with entertainment from Shepherd’s Music to make you dance and cry. Crook. Beginners welcome as needles and wool (and tuition!) provided.
14 www.winchcombefestival.co.uk www.winchcombefestival.co.uk 15 SUNDAY 29 MAY MONDAY 30 MAY JAZZ IN THE GARDEN WINCHCOMBE HISTORY GROUP EXHIBITION Tickets £7: £2 under 18s TE27 Entry Free NT08 Venue St Mary’s, Cowl Lane Venue The Guide Hall, High Street Time 12.00-3.00pm Time 10.00am – 4.00pm Details Come and enjoy an informal few hours listening to the music of the Details Within living memory and before it. fabulous John Stillman Jazz Quartet, featuring John on keyboard and piano. Bring A display of local photographs from your picnics, rugs and garden chairs for this ever-popular informal event, this year many sources, collected to build up to be held in the garden of St Mary’s, by kind permission of David and Lynne Banks. the growing photographic archive in the museum. BRYN HAWORTH Tickets £8; £5 under 18s TE28 Encounter Church, Gretton Road BANK Venue HOLIDAY Time 3.00pm BANK HOLIDAY STREET FAIR MONDAY FUN Details Back by popular demand is singer/songwriter and acclaimed WITH ENTERTAINMENT slide guitarist Bryn Haworth, who has worked with music Entry Free NT09 legends including Chris de Burgh, Joan Armatrading and Gerry Venue North Street Rafferty. Bryn tours extensively in the UK and Europe, sharing Time 10.00am – 4.00pm his faith and performing music with a strong gospel influence. Details With dozens of stalls, exhibitions and street Don’t miss this opportunity to experience truly uplifting music entertainers the Festival Street Fair promises to played by an exceptional professional performer. be a day packed full of fun and frolics for all the family. Stall holders will be selling everything AN EVENING WITH OCTAVO from food and local produce to crafts, jewellery, furniture and gifts will set up shop on North Street, Tickets £10 TE29 which will be closed to traffic for the day. Singing, Venue St Peter’s Church, Gloucester Street dancing and live music will be provided by the Time 7.30pm Winchcombe Festival Fringe. Details Octavo present a beautiful programme of vocal harmony, featuring poetic depictions of animals, birds, the seasons and food. Something for everyone - WINCHCOMBE FESTIVAL FRINGE from ‘traditional’ to Hindemith, Jannequin to Vaughan Entry Free NT10 Williams, Monteverdi to Morten Lauridsen. A selection of a cappella songs Venue North Street across the centuries in different genres. Performed in their relaxed and light- Time 10.00am – 4.00pm hearted style! Event supported by Cotswold Eye Care Centre Details Singing, dancing and live music to delight and entertain you as you soak up the lively atmosphere ROVING CROWS of the Street Fair and enjoy a great day out. Performances take place on the Tickets £10 TE30 Fringe Stage and performance Venue Toddington Village Hall area in North Street. Time 7.30pm Details Roving Crows are an original must-see act, with roots in Folk and Celtic music. Renowned for their high-energy live performance, their shows pull together funked up traditional tunes and catchy original song. Band of the Year - FATEA Music Awards 2014 Best Live Act – Spiral Earth Music Awards 2014
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