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Photography by Karla-Gowlitt
Escape
Sara Barron
Watch The Rondo Theatre is hosting a number of awardwinning performances this month including the smash hit Fringe stand-up show from star of Live At The Apollo, Sara Barron, who tours the UK for the first time and arrives in Bath on 2 October. Also look out for Cindy Stratton Band on 16 October, contemporary song-writing in the folk and Americana genres, tinged with a little bit of soul. Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian comedy legend Steve Hughes will be live on 27 October. Visit The Rondo Theatre’s website for the full list of events and performances: rondotheatre.co.uk
Meet
Ravneet Gill
Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath is set to welcome some more very special guests to the city this month. If you missed Rick Stein – our current cover star – then look out for the likes of bestselling author Tim Parks, Rock Royalty Steven Van Zandt, comedian Ruby Wax, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, acclaimed military historian Max Hasting, Nan Shepherd Prize-winner Nina Mingya Powles and Channel 4’s Junior Bake Off judge Ravneet Gill – to name just a few – speaking about their extraordinary lives and works. Visit Topping & Company’s website for the full list of literary occasions and fun-filled evenings. toppingbooks.co.uk
Enjoy
Party The Trowbridge Craft Beer and Cider Festival will be held at Innox Mills from 15–17 October. This month the festival is set to feature a wide variety of regional beers and ciders, plus street food, live music and evening sessions to ensure a fun, buoyant atmosphere. DeCanter Mobile bar will be serving a range of different alcoholic drinks including gins and wines, plus a selection of soft drinks to make sure no one is left thirsty. The Pump, an organisation that aims to promote musical talent within the town and surrounding area, will provide music. Tickets cost £12.50, which includes two beer tokens. trowbridgebeerfest.co.uk
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On 30 October, Bath Bach Choir is performing in a concert entitled Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem at Bath Abbey. Described by Clara Schumann as “an immense piece that takes hold of one's whole being like very little else”, Brahms’s German Requiem combines magic, poetry and romanticism with profound seriousness, to deeply moving effect. As a Lutheran rather than a Roman Catholic, Brahms wrote the oratorio in German and called it “a human requiem”, weaving together themes of consolation for the living, as well as hope for the life to come. In 1871, two years after completing the orchestral version, Brahms produced an intimate chamber version for piano and four hands as a work in its own right. It is this exquisite so-called ‘London version’ that Bath Bach Choir will perform at this autumn concert, bringing the music’s eternal message of love and joy to inspire us all with hope for the future. bathbachchoir.org.uk
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This month, Chapel Arts is hosting a variety of unmissable concerts and welcoming incredible talent to the stage, including the likes of Nate Simpson, whose career has spanned all areas of the music industry and has seen him perform in the smash hit West End musical Motown as Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. In a concert titled What’s Going On: A Celebration of Marvin Gaye, Nate will be bringing you all the biggest hits from the Grammy award-winning ‘Prince of Motown’ on 23 October. Noble Jacks Noble Jacks, hailed as the finest purveyors of folk-influenced Americana, will also be taking no prisoners with their high-energy footstompin’ rhythms on 29 October. Visit the website for more information: chapelarts.org ■
