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Pete Mustill Mayfield, Stapleton, Nr Presteigne, Powys LD8 2LW Tel: 01544 260051 Email: info@broadsheep.com Website: www.broadsheep.com

Macadam meets the locals

ACK in the early 70’s I went on a two week holiday to a very quiet little Balearic Island called Ibiza and then look what happened. Twenty years later the whole joint went crazy. Then, when I moved to the Borders, I hung around Hay-on-Wye for a few years. At the time this dingy little washed up market town had not a single cafe or restaurant, just a few dusty old bookshops. Then look what happened. I once briefly had a flat in Golborne Road, Notting Hill when Hugh Grant was still in short trousers - enough said. You see the thread that’s running through all these stories. My mere prescence has a dramatic effect on the desirability of any location. I’m a sort of one-man upcycling machine. I don’t have to mess around with funny beards, weird sorts of coffee or tortoise shell specs. I’m that rare phenomenon, a natural born, untrained, organic trendsetter. Of course it took me a few years to realise that I had this talent, but now that I’ve cottoned on I’ve started selling my skills to the highest bidder and I’m going to specialise in towns on the Borders. So if you live in some boring little dump that’s just had it’s primary school closed lost its last shop and the pub’s full of charmless old codgers discussing the price of cattle feed, call me up and I’ll come and do a bit of trendsetting then before you know it the place will be overflowing with tapas bars and micro breweries. My first proper upscale was Talgarth. Five years ago when they called me in, half the shops were boarded up and the poor disenchanted populace were pacing around the streets in the rain. All it needed were a couple of visits from me, a word or two dropped in the right ears and now look look at the results. There is Talgarth Mill with it’s super-trendy cafe and Watermilled Stoneground Bakery. W.J. George, the traditional builder has opened a new delicatessen and Alan McGee (?) has bought the Tabernacle and turned it into a spanking new venue showcasing some of the best cover bands around. There is also a nice new gastro pub on the way, so now the locals are strutting up and down the street whistling Oasis tunes in bright sunshine - what a difference and all thanks to me! More recently I was asked to have a bash at Llandod, but after a quick recce, I thought it was probably best if I didn’t bite off more than I could chew, but I can now reveal what I have been working up to for the last six months. You’re not gonna believe this but I have decided to make Hereford trendy. Yes, you read that right, Hereford. Yes, that ungainly lump of bricks and concrete we all try only to go to on Christmas Eve when all other ideas for presents have failed, I’m gonna make it into the Shoreditch of the West. Already my vibes are having some pretty extraordinary effects. As you have probably noticed, some kind person has got rid of that smelly old cattle market and given us a nice new Waitrose instead. The big church in the middle has given God the day off and is serving up some cracking good food. The tapas bars are all over town like a rash (I’m particularly partial to the Manchego and Serrano ham croquettes at the Old Bridge). Both The Beefy Boys and Rule of Tum are knocking out gourmet burgers like there is no tomorrow (see page 22). A fortnight ago I helped run a gig for French street performer Macadam Piano at the newly resurgent Left Bank and to publicise the gig we had a quick spin round town at lunchtime and there is some good news and some bad. High Town was buzzing, what with the pavement coffee outlets, the market stalls and three; yes, three different lots of buskers plying their trade. But sadly a lot of the population are still not actually dancing in the street. Macadam Piano is quite extraordinary and spins round and drives itself while Jean Louis plays beautiful music, it’s quite a sight. However, a good 75% of the population scurried past with faces averted, perhaps thinking that the crazy Frenchman might jump off his piano stool and assault them. Anyway the other 25% got into the swing of things and (as is the modern way) whipped out their camera phones and got filming. So there you have it, my job in Hereford is nearly finished and there is no point in moaning that you liked it the way it was. You need to buckle down and get with the programme. Maybe you could start a little shop selling stoneground cupcakes or some other nonsense. No hang on, here is an idea, an Indian Chai stall that also sells fixed wheel bikes. Ding!! Remember you heard it here first.

Cover pic: Spooky Men’s Chorale, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 19 Aug. Spookyfest, Bransford, Worcs., 5 Sept.

small ads LONDON FLAT, HOLIDAY OR SHORT-BREAK LETS Portobello Road/Nottinghill Gate area. Sleeps up to 5. Please call 01544 260352 email: peter.rda@freeuk.com DRUM LESSONS @ KJM STUDIOS. For all ages and abilities, private one-to-one tuition, all styles covered. Free introductory lesson! Quote ‘Broad Sheep’. Call Andy on 07969 168921. EXPERIENCED HEREFORDSHIRE SOUND ENGINEER NEEDED for professional function/wedding band, based in Hereford. Clean driving licence preferred. We pay £100 per gig and the diary is filling fast. Please call 07884 245665. ART TUTOR/CLINICIAN IN ALL FORMS OF ART Traditional and new media. Mindfulness is the key to creativity. Contact Chris on 077453 10321. GETTING STARTED IN BUSINESS FREE workshop from the Small Business Clinic. Give your business the kick start it needs. Kidwells House, Hereford on Tuesday 15th September 9:30 – 1:00. Further information on this and other workshops at www.smallbusinessclinic.co.uk or call 07825 987114. CHAIR CANING / RUSHING Furniture repairs. Advice. Paul Richards, 01544 267367. COURTYARD ANTIQUES, HIGH ST, PRESTEIGNE. A most unusual shop offering an eclectic and interesting collection of fine quality antiques, decorative and quirky items, Staffordshire pottery, country furniture and books. 01544 267033. aeleavis@yahoo.co.uk www.facebook.com/courtyardantiquespresteigne BEEKEEPING TUITION. Want to keep bees but don’t know where to begin? Our two-day Bee Ready course will give you the knowledge of how to start and allow you to handle bees under tuition before you take the next step. Courses are held on our family smallholding on the Worcestershire/ Herefordshire border, with lunch included on both days. Bookings now being taken for the next course on July 4th and 5th. For further details please email woodruffbank@btinternet.com or contact Robin Hill on 01886 884752/07813 276308. CELLO, BASS, PIANO AND FLUTE LESSONS Contact Ludlow 01584 875659. GUITAR TUITION, LUDLOW. Electric, acoustic or classical guitar. Most styles taught. Blues, pop, rock, classical. Learn any song off your playlist quickly. Rhythm, lead, fingerstyle, sight reading, theory. Tel: 07729 059 847.

JAZZ PIANO TUITION A specially created course for beginners through to intermediate level students. Also coaching for Associated Board jazz exams. Now taking students in Presteigne and surrounding area. Simon Deeley, 07890 303681. simon.deeley@aol.com CARRY ON DRAWING & PAINTING with help from experienced tutor, Sue Purcell. Based near Llangurig 01686 440668 sue@suepurcellart.co.uk www.suepurcellart.com Tuition in traditional and contemporary styles. PRESTEIGNE.ORG.UK ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS FROM ONLY 50P PER WEEK 1000 direct unique hits per month, top of the page on Google when you type in Presteigne, all administrative work done by volunteers, project is not for profit. SUPPORT YOUR TOWN WEBSITE. Very cheap rates: 50p per week, or full page £1 per week. For more information go to www.presteigne.org.uk, email jtennanteyles@gmail.com or telephone James Tennant-Eyles on 01544 267363. MODEST 2 BED HOUSE WITH GARAGE/WORKSHOP WANTED in rural location. Off grid property is no problem. Contact: 07789 484034 or 07816 473988. A STITCH IN TIME Careful repairs & creative alterations to well-loved clothes. Vintage a speciality. Anne 01544 267997. CHERRY TREE HOME HELP Would you like help with:• Shopping? • Getting to appointments? • Household tasks? • Companionship while pursuing hobbies? We can assist at home and out and about. DBS checked. Fully insured. Clean driving licences. Hereford based. Vicky: 07941 412 885 Cathy: 07990 630 850 www.cherrytreehomehelp.co.uk TWO BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY PROPERTIES IN NEW RADNOR Sleep 10 with hot tub and the other sleeps 8 with sauna. Both with wood-burners and large private gardens. Up to two dogs welcome. Full white linen service and 5* graded. Ideal for group holidays. Direct access to Radnor Forest and fantastic hill walking. Short walks to village, pub and shop. Tel: 01544 350456. www.radnorhillsholidaycottages.com

AARDVARK BOOKS & CAFE New website: www.aardvark-books.com

50,000+ titles; North Herefordshire’s largest indie bookseller; We buy books CROSSING THE BORDER EXHIBITION 1-16 August

Specialist in art, design, photography, history, gardening

Also open our superb CAFÉ!

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR SOCIETY: BRAMPTON BRYAN SIEGE 15-16 August, 10am-5pm. ECWS will be bringing a squadron of cavalry, cannons, muskets, pikes, a living history village, 100 re-enactors and more. Food/bar.

The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, SY7 0DH Off A4113 Knighton Road. VIDE GRENIER / EMPTY YOUR ATTIC Tel: 01547 530744 OPEN EVERY DAY aardvaark@btconnect.com www.aardvark-books.com Monday 31 August, 9am-3pm Lots of stalls, live music from the Poohbahs, bar and Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm great eats! Stalls cost £8; book in advance.

Conquest Theatre Bromyard Screenings Thurs 20 Aug Old Vic THE CRUCIBLE Thurs 26 Aug RSC OTHELLO

Films

Fri 7 Aug LONDON ROAD Fri 14 Aug FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Fri 21 Aug SELMA Fri 28 Aug A LITTLE CHAOS

Box office 01885 488575 www.conquest-theatre.co.uk

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art POWYS Courtyard Antiques, High St, Presteigne, 01544 267033 Aug Art from the last 215 years. Open Mon-Sat 10am-3pm. Facebook Courtyard Antiques, Presteigne. Zani Lady Brocante, High St, Presteigne, 07968 842219 Aug ‘Floret of Creations’. A continuous, changing exposition space. GO KIMONO period kimonos. LITTLE AMULET, VISUAL NARRATIVE - textile art. Plus other works using recycled materials. Open Fri & Sat 10am-3pm. Ivy House Gallery, Montgomery 01686 668746 Aug Local artists and locally produced crafts. Open daily 9am-5pm. Radnorshire Museum, Temple St, Llandrindod Wells 01597 824513 Until 8 Aug ‘Early Birds & Boys in Blue. Flight and flying in the County of Radnorshire 1912-1990. Open Tues-Sat 10am-4pm and Bank holidays. Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne 01544 260149 24 Aug - 6 Sept ‘Gallipoli’. SIR SIDNEY NOLAN. 100 years since Australian and New Zealand troops spearheaded the landing of Allied forces on the Gallipoli peninsula. Works painted between 1958-1963 explore the subject and echoes of the ancient Trojan War myth. 11am-5pm. Part of Presteigne Festival. CARAD, Unit 1 East St, Rhayader, LD6 5ER 01597 810561 Until 4 Sept ‘Siku’ GLENN MORRIS a sculptor’s response to change in the Arctic. Open Tues-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm. The Hay Makers Gallery, St John’s Place, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5BN 01497 820556 Until 13 Sept Summer exhibition. CAROLINE REYNOLDS & ROBIN KINSMAN BLAKE - jewellery. DRUSILLA COLE - prints. DENISE BROWN - ceramics. SALLY HARRIS sculpture. Open Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm.

Knighton Fine Art, 2 Broad Street. 01547 528052 Aug ‘Local Scenes’. New works by WENDY DAVIES, VIVIENNE FAULKNER, LOIS HOPWOOD, CIARA LEWIS, ANTHEA STILWELL, PETER STILWELL, JANE THOMAS. 20th century art, plus crafts & greetings cards. Open Wed-Sat 10am-5pm.

Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws 01686 688369 Until 6 Sept ‘Of Time and The Railway’. ROBERT DAVIES Until 6 Sept The 56 Group Wales: Mid Summer Show. THE 56 GROUP. An exhibition will include new works by renowned Welsh artists. 11 Sept - 31 Oct ‘Ymuno’. SUZYBEE * GINI WADE - new projections, animations, prints and paintings. 13 Sept - 31 Oct ‘A Personal Journey in Clay’. ANDY WARREN - ceramics. Open Thurs-Sun 10am-4pm. Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth 01654 703355 Until 3 Sept MARTIN WENHAM DENIS CURRY - sculpture. Until 19 Sept ‘Bird/Land’. JEREMY MOORE. Until 3 Sept Tabernacle Art Competition. Adult theme: ‘The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper’. Under 18 theme: ‘Magical things under the magnifying glass’. Until 8 Aug ‘Picture the Eisteddfod’. DEWI GLYN JONES - photographs. Open Mon-Sat 10am-4pm. Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown 01686 625041 1 - 8 Aug Oriel Davies will be at the National Eisteddfod in Meiford. Featuring GWYN WILLIAMS & CATRIN WILLIAMS. Until 9 Sept GWYN WILLIAMS. Until 9 Sept ‘Flora’. Large-scale exhibition featuring work by contemporary artists including EMMA BENNETT, MICHAEL BOFFEY, ANYA GALLACCIO, ORI GERSHT, OWEN GRIFFITHS, ANNE-MIE MELIS, JACQUES NIMKI, YOSHIHIRO SUDA & CLARE TWOMEY. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes 01686 413467 Until 12 Sept Minerva Quilts 15. Open Mon-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm. Shepherd’s Ice Cream Parlour, 9 High Town, Hay-on-Wye 01497 821898 Until mid Oct MANU SONG a collection of original batik paintings. Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm, Sun 10.30am-5.30pm. Erwood Station Gallery, Llandeilo Graban, Builth Wells, LD2 3SJ 01982 560674 Aug & Sept Exhibition of sculpture by the celebrated PERRYN BUTLER. Open daily 10.30am-5pm.

Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 01544 260777 1 Aug Arts and Crafts Fair. Local artisans working in silver, wood, wool, jewellery, pottery, furniture, paintings and carvings. Open 9am-3pm. 27 Aug - 1 Sept ‘Rhoda’s Retrospective.’ RHODA PARTRIDGE. Part of Presteigne Festival. Open 10am-5pm, although not available during events and rehearsals. Tower House Gallery, 29 High St, Knighton 01547 529530 Aug DAVID STOVES. Homemade soups, breads and cakes, Italian blend coffee and over 30 different varieties of leaf tea. Wed-Sat 9.30am-5pm. Theatr Brycheiniog, Canal Wharf, Brecon 01874 611622 Until 3 Aug GUSTAVIUS PAYNE distinctive, large scale oil paintings. Open theatre times. Wyeside, Builth Wells 01982 552555 Until 20 Aug BUILTH WELLS HIGH SCHOOL - showcase. Open theatre times. The Workhouse Studio, Presteigne Industrial Estate 01544 267864 27 Aug - 1 Sept TONY COLLIER: A Retrospective. Paintings, drawings and prints. Part of Presteigne Festival. Aug Interesting and unusual gifts for all. Rare antique carpets and kilims. Cafe. Tues-Sat 10am-4pm. HEREFORDSHIRE The Old Mayor’s Parlour, Church St, Hereford Until 2 Aug ‘Zadok’. An exhibition of paintings and drawings by STEVE BROOKS, based on Handel’s Zadok the Priest. Open 10am-6pm. Leg of Mutton, 17 Duke St, Kington 01544 231563 Until 10 Aug ‘Abstractions from Kasimierz’. HELEN ORLOWSKI - new work. Also featuring sculpture and wall art by SHANNON DONOVAN & ANDREW EASTWOOD. By appointment through 10 August. 14 Aug - 6 Sept ‘Leafy Spaces, Open Skies’. DENISE FORDYCE - new drawings. Also featuring sculpture and wall art by SHANNON DONOVAN & ANDREW EASTWOOD. Open 14-16 Aug, 10am-5pm, then by appointment. Market Hall, Mill St, Kington 01544 388708 21 - 23 Aug KINGTON ART SOCIETY. Exhibition and sale of paintings. Open 10am-5pm.

Mariette Voke, The Courtyard, Hereford Denise Fordyce, Leg of Mutton, Kington

Tony Collier, The Workhouse Gallery, Presteigne Sam Cannon, Lion Gallery, Leominster

Sir Sidney Nolan, The Rodd, Presteigne

Robert Cunning, Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan

Keith Noble, Silk Top Hat Gallery, Ludlow

The Granary, The Old Farmhouse, Lingen 01544 267800 27 Aug - 1 Sept ‘Earth Song’. ANN LEWIS RCA. Open 10.30am-6pm. Part of Presteigne Festival. Museum of Cider, Pomona Place, Hereford, HR4 0EF 0845 652 1823 1 Aug ‘Pomona: Illustrated Works of Art’. 1 Aug ‘John Evelyn 1620-1706’. Open 10am-5pm, usual admission charges apply. Mike Gell, Contemporary British Jewellery, 3 East Street, Hereford. 01432 278226 Aug Jewellery, silverware and studio glass by more than 80 designers. Open Mon - Sat 10am-5pm. St Peter’s Church Hereford 1 Aug THE GUILD OF HEREFORDSHIRE CRAFTSMEN & COTSWOLD CRAFTSMEN - pottery, jewellery, textiles, woodwork and other products. Free entry. Hereford Cathedral 01432 374261 Until Dec ‘15 ‘Flags of Freedom’. CHRIS WHITE - evocative calligraphic banners. Until 30 Sept ‘Magna Carta Icon of Justice - Pledge of Freedom’. Open Mon-Sat, 10am-4pm. Ross-on-Wye Library 01432 383280 1 Aug WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE ART SOCIETY. Free art exhibition. A wide selection of work for sale by local artists. Open Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 9.30am-5.30pm, Sat 9.30am-1pm. Closed Wed & Sun. South Chapel, All Saint’s Church, Hereford 01432 370414 3 - 8 Aug JAN BISHOP - Indian silks and saris. 10 - 15 Aug LOVE ZIMBABWE. Fairtrade arts, crafts and charity information. 17 - 22 Aug GOLDEN VALLEY CRAFT SOCIETY. 25 - 30 Aug PAM BROWN - local arts and crafts. 31 Aug - 5 Sept HEREFORD LEISURE PAINTERS. 7 - 12 Sept LOVE ZIMBABWE. Fairtrade arts, crafts and charity information. Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm. The Print Shed, Swinmoor, Madley, Hereford, HR2 9JD 07796 673123 www.theprintshed.net Artist-made etchings, lino prints, screen prints, handmade, original cards, textile and other unique gift ideas. Open daily 10am-4pm.

Dorstone’s Front Room (across from The Pandy Inn) 01981 550722 Aug CLAIRE VAUGHAN - framed prints and stationary. Open Mon-Fri 9am-1pm.

Cathedral Barn, Cathedral Close, Hereford 0845 652 1823 1 Aug ‘Fine Cell Work’. Needlcraft exhibition by a volunteer-led organisation which works with over 400 prisoners a year. Prisoners are paid for their work, which is sold around the world. Open 10am-5pm, free. Part of Three Choirs Festival Plus. Monnow Valley Arts Centre, Walterstone, Hereford 01873 860529 Until 5 Sept The McDowall Collection of Neo-romantic paintings, drawings and prints. Until 5 Sept Garden exhibition. MATTHEW LANE SANDERSON & RACHEL WOOD - sculpture. Thurs & Fri 11am-5pm, Sat & Sun 2-5pm, closed Mondays and Bank holidays. Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad St., Hereford 01432 260692 Until 31 Oct ‘Spun Gold: the Rich History of Wool’. The importance of Ryeland sheep. Until Oct ‘Elgar, Herefordshire and the Three Choirs Festival’.Tues-Sat 10am5pm, Sun 10am-4pm, closed Mon. Apple Store Gallery, Unit 1, Rockfield Road, Hereford, HR1 2UA 01432 263937 Until 2 Aug Responses, Art/Music. 5 Aug - 6 Sept ‘Exploring Herefordshire’. RICHARD BAVIN. Meet the artist on 8, 12, 22, 30 Aug and 5 Sept. Phone for times. Wed-Fri 9.30am4.30pm, Sat 10am-1pm, Sun 2pm5pm. Framing also available. Lion Gallery, Broad St, Leominster 01568 611898 Aug SAM CANNON - nature based watercolours and prints, overlaid with words. KATIE ALMOND - new work. SAMANTHA ROBINSON. Plus an eclectic mix of English arts and crafts. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Gallery 54, Ross-on-Wye 01989 567917 Aug Summer exhibition with gallery artists. Plus new works and a new direction from STEPHEN RIPPINGTON. A picture framing service is also available. Open Thurs-Sat 10am-4pm. Blue Ginger Gallery, Home End Farm, Cradley, WR13 5NW 01886 880240 Aug A selection of arts and crafts, handmade contemporary silver jewellery by SILVERFISH DESIGNS, picture framing, prints and images, plus a showcase of local artists. Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Tobias James Art & Framing Gallery, St Owen St, Hereford 07760 316959 Aug Works by local artists and from artists further afield.

Weavers Gallery, Church Lane, Ledbury, HR8 1LP 01531 633325 Until 9 Aug TONY BATEMAN paintings. 10 - 16 Aug JOANNA DIXON & CAROL RANDELL - paintings. 18 - 30 Aug MALVERN MAKERS textiles. Open daily 10am - 5pm. Market House Heritage Centre, Ross-on-Wye 01432 260675 Aug Various arts and crafts from local artists. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10.30am-4pm. The Courtyard, Hereford 01432 340555 Until 6 Sept ‘The Dressing Room’. MARIETTE VOKE. Until 6 Sept ‘Made in Knucklas: The Village Show’. An insight into the art and cultural life of a small village on the Welsh side of the border of England and Wales. Artists include WENDY DAVIES, TONY HALL, LOIS HOPWOOD, MAGGIE JONES, ROBERT M WOOD, ANDY KENYONWADE, CORINNA KENYON-WADE, WILL O’LEARY, LOTTIE O’LEARY, JANE THOMAS - ceramics, paintings, sculpture, wood, stone, glass and plaster. Open theatre times. Hereford Art College, Folly Lane Campus, Hereford 01432 273359 Until 21 Aug Young Artist of the Year. Open Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm. Old Chapel Gallery, Pembridge 01544 388842 Until 31 Aug Summer exhibition. ‘Images & Reflections’. CAROLINE McLACHLAN, SUE WILLIAMS, DEBORAH PROSSER, ARWYN JONES and more. Paintings, textile collage, and pottery. Aug Garden Sculpture Exhibition 2015. Showing a collection of unique pieces for your outdoor space in a variety of media. HELEN SINCLAIR, DAVID ENGLAND, ANDREW FINDLAY, LYNETTE FORRESTER and more. Open Mon-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm, Tues by appointment. West Malvern Arts Festival www.westmalvernarts.org 07801 818260 21 - 23 Aug A wide variety of art for show and sale, up to 70 artists. All venues are along the B4232 road between Elim College and The Brewers Arms in West Malvern, WR14 4BB. Open Fri 2-7pm, Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-5pm. Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Foregate St, Worcester, WR1 1DT 01905 25371 Until 5 Sept ‘Way of the Warrior’. Arms and armour from epic historical movies. Mon-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm.

SHROPSHIRE Shropshire Hills Art Week - Open Studios and Exhibitions 0773 638 1287 Until 18 Aug ART CAFE ARTISTS local artists. Open 11am–5pm every day. www.ShropshireHillsArtWeek. co.uk for more details. St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow 01584 529231 22 - 31 Aug Summer exhibition. LUDLOW ART SOCIETY. Open 10am-5pm, 31 Aug 10am-4pm. Gallery 3, The Gateway Arts Centre, Shrewsbury 01743 355159 Until 10 Aug JAS DAVIDSON & DAVID - sculpture and photographs. 17 Aug - 21 Sept The Art Panel Show. SADDA ART PANEL & FRIENDS. Mon-Fri 9am-4.30pm. Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge, Telford 01952 433424 12, 22 Aug & 9 Sept FAYE CLARIDGE - portraits. Artist in residence. Open 10.30am-4pm. 22 Aug ‘The House of Fairy Tales’. Families are invited to embark on a quest and follow an amazing trail. Until 10 Sept ‘To Check the Tide of Prejudice’. JOHN COOKE BOURNE - lithographs, original sketches and painting of the construction of the London & Birmingham Railway. Open Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, free entry. 28 Sept - 18 Dec ‘Landscapes with Machines’. JEREMY DELLER & TONY CRAGG - an eclectic exhibition. Until 18 Dec ‘Shifting Worlds’. Contemporary Art and the Birthplace of Industry. 9 & 10 Oct ‘Reimagining the Industrial Revolution’. Symposium. Open Mon-Sun 10am-5pm. Silk Top Hat Gallery, Quality Square, Ludlow 01584 875363 1 Aug ‘In the Blink of an Eye’. SHELAGH POPHAM - new work. 1 Aug ‘The Reader’s House, Castle Lodge and Other Paintings’. MATTHEW WOOD - new work. 1 Aug Isaac Smart’s Showcase. HANNAH WILLOW & ELIZABETH TERZZA - silver jewellery. 8 Aug - 5 Sept Summer exhibition. NOEL SHEPHERDSON, KEITH NOBLE, MARY GRIFFIN - oils pastels and watercolours. VICTORIA KEEBLE, ANNA RAVENSCROFT, SARAH VAN NIEKERK, DON SMITH & COLIN SEE-PAYNTON - prints. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Chang Thai Bar, Market St, Ludlow Until 23 Aug ‘Ludlow in Watercolour’. VALERIE ALEXANDER - recent paintings.

Church Stretton School 01694 724106 www.strettonfestival.org.uk Until 8 Aug Art and Crafts Exhibition. SHANNON DONOVAN & ANDREW EASTWOOD, plus paintings, photographs, original prints and designer crafts with over 600 works in a wide range of media. Open 27 July 7.30pm, £2 on the door, 28 July - 8 Aug, 11am-6pm, £1. Part of Church Stretton Arts Festival. Gallery Eighteen, Market Square, Bishop’s Castle, SY9 5BN 01588 630200 Aug Art by local artists. 10am-4pm. Hightown Community Room, Vicarage Rd, Clun 01588 640401 Until 2 Aug Clun Art & Craft Show. Sale of work by 40 artists and craftspeople in the Clun Valley. Admission free, catalogue 50p. 10am-6pm, Sun 2 Aug, 10am-12pm. Twenty Twenty Gallery, 3-4 High St, Much Wenlock 01952 727952 Open daily 10am-5pm. Land of Lost Content, Craven Arms, SY7 9NW 01588 676176 National Museum of British Popular Culture. 11am-5pm daily, closed Wed. Aardvark Books & Cafe, The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, SY7 0DH 01547 530744 1 - 16 Aug ‘Crossing the Border’. ROBERT CUNNING, MICHELLE ANDERSON, RUSSELL MORRIS, LOTTIE O’LEARY & ANDREW FARMER. 6, 13, 20, 27 Aug Free children’s activities in the Bookburrow, 2-4pm. 15 & 16 Aug English Civil War Society: Siege of Brampton Bryan. 31 Aug Vide Grenier; Aadrvark’s annual market with music from Dave Luke’s Poobahs. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm. Town Hall, Bishop’s Castle www.bishopscastletownhall.co.uk 01588 630023 1 Aug Flea & Antiques Market. Open 9am-4pm. From 8 Aug ‘Music in the Hills’. MIKE JOHNSON. Open 10am-4pm, please phone to check. The Old Surgery Gallery, Clun 01588 640506 Aug Summer exhibition. BRIAN FLETCHER, JACQUELINE FLETCHER, PAUL HIPKISS, TIM NASH, NOEL SHEPHERDSON, ANN-MONIQUE STELLINGA, GORDON YAPP, WENDY LANTOS & JACQUE WAKELY - textiles. RALPH JANDRELL - ceramics. LIN BROWN jewellery. 10m-5pm.

Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, The Square, Shrewsbury, SY1 1LH 01743 258885 Aug ‘Archaeopteryx’. The missing link between dinosaurs and birds. Open Tues-Sun 10am-5pm. Admission £4 adults, £3.50 ages 5-17 years, students (with card, £3.60). The Gallery, 32 High St, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630555 Contemporary arts including glass, ceramics, metal and wood, textiles, paintings, prints and jewellery. Thurs-Sat 11am-5pm.

Art & Craft Workshops Single listings are free. Year round, £40 per year

GINN’S CREATIVE WORKSHOPS Fun, recreational art sessions for EVERYONE. Start painting, drawing, printing & textiles. Guided by Ginn with 25 years in teaching & inspiring art & design. PLUS Ginn’s School of Sewing Tel: 01432 760961 www.ginnscreativeworkshops.co.uk WESTHOPE COLLEGE, NEAR CRAVEN ARMS Wonderful craft courses taught by talented tutors in a beautiful location in South Shropshire for over 30 years. Discover Westhope College at its Annual Exhibition and Craft Fair on 11th and 12th July. Free admission. Refreshments available. www.westhope.org.uk YOUNG PEOPLE’S ART COMPETITION Junior Group for ages up to 12 years. This categrory is for group art project. ‘Montgomeryshire: Our Special Place’. Entries should focus on a specific aspect of rural Montgomeryshire such as a stream, hill, farm or wood. Individual for ages 13-18 years of age. ‘Inspired by Montgomeryshire: A Special Place’. Entries should capture an aspect that exemplifies rural Montgomershire for you. Entries to be submitted by 10 Sept. Register before 1 August. Email jilly.oldrectory@virgin.net RADNORSHIRE ARTS & CRAFTS FOUNDATION Starting 19 July - Beginner’s Crochet. Basic stitches for beginners. Starting 26 July - Creative Crochet Stitches. Hay-on-Wye. Also Upholstery, Creative Crochet and Spinning and Dyeing in New Radnor. Details of classes www.radnorshireartsandcraftsfoundation.org or phone Rosamund 01544 260777.

SILK SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOP Create your own silk screen prints with Royal College of Art graduate and Elle Decoration’s ‘Name to Watch’, Sunny Todd, in his Ledbury studio. A highly skilled and passionate designer with years of teaching experience at all levels, Sunny will share his knowledge and enthusiasm for this addictive process. Suitable for absolute beginners or those with screen printing experience. With a maximum of only 4 students you will have the time and support to produce or develop your own patterns and leave with your own collection of printed textiles. Half day taster session weekend workshop, 9.30am- 1pm. Includes materials and refreshments. One day weekend workshop, 10am- 5pm, £100. Includes materials, refreshments and lunch. Five week evening course, Mondays 6.30-9.30pm, £150. Includes materials and refreshments. For more information visit www.sunnytoddprints.co.uk or 07527 048749. WILD WICKER Basket weaving workshops. Learn to make an attractive willow basket using various colourful willows and hedgerow materials, for beginners and more experienced. clyde@wildwicker.com or 07866 138436, www.wildwicker.com

celebrating 21 years

in business from knucklas

Will & Lottie O’Leary Upper House, Knucklas, Knighton, Powys

TEL: 01547 528 792 www.stonecarving.co.uk

POP UP STONE CARVER Available for demonstrations, workshops, have a go sessions or childrens birthday parties. Can be from our workshop in Knucklas or at your own location. Stone and tools are all supplied and all ages catered for. Starting every Thursday - evening classes. Contact Lottie on 01547 528 792 or email her at info@stonecarving.co.uk CREATIVE BREAKS Learn a new skill and explore your creativitiy with experienced tutors. We offer a wide range of art and craft courses throughout the year:- Basketmaking, dyeing, spinning and weaving, earth ovens, glass fusing, green woodworking, hand and machine knitting, hedgerow medicine, jewellery, painting, photography, pottery, printmaking, rag rug making, stained glass, story telling, upholstery and woodworking. Visit our website: www.creativebreaks.co.uk for full details of our courses. Make it yourself - take it home - keep it, treasure it: give it with pride! Deadline 14 August SUBMISSIONS WANTED FOR THE HEREFORDSHIRE OPEN EXHIBITION Exhibition dates: 18 Sept- 8 Nov. Free exhibition. The Courtyard Centre for the Arts and Brightstripe are appealing for submissions to the Herefordshire Open Exhibition 2015. The exhibition will coincide with h.Art and aims to provide a platform for and to demonstrate the wide range of artists’ practice within Herefordshire. It will show work of all kinds, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, film and video, sound and performance. The exhibition and projects will feature work by artists living or working in Herefordshire and the adjacent counties. For more information about the Open Exhibition and the submission process, visit www.courtyard.org.uk/open15 CREATIVE WILLOW Weekly classes for beginners and intermediates, exploring willow weaving techniques for basketmaking and garden structures. Clyro, Builth Wells and Crickhowell. Mary Zammit, 01982 552072, mary@marywillowgarden. co.uk August AARDVARK CRAFT ACTIVITIES For children. In the Bookberrow, Aadvark Books, The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, 2-4pm, 01547 530744.

ART WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Free Art sessions, for 11-18 year olds. Wednesdays 4-6pm. With different art techniques by local artists. Teme Valley Youth Project, Wigmore. Email: youthtvyp1@yahoo.co.uk or call 01568 770110. BASKET MAKING COURSES With Jenny Crisp. 25 - 26 Aug - Fitched Oval Arm Basket (some experience necessary), £180. 5 - 6 Sept Fitched Oval Arm Basket. 26 - 27 Sept - Round Log Basket (some experience necessary), £200. Tools, materials and lunch included. Accommodation available for all courses £25 per night. 135 Bargates, Leominster (except Hoops course), 01568 615079, 07840 780618. August ASSEMBLY ROOMS WORKSHOPS 4 Aug - Clay Castles Workshop with Charlie Goode of Crafty Fox Arts. For ages 6+, 10am, £5, www.craftyfoxarts.com 11 Aug - Illuminated Letters Workshop with Charlie Good. For ages 6+, 10am, £5. Magical creaturesSat - SmART, art and craft club for 8-14 years, 10.30am12.30pm, £35 per term. First Thurs every month - Ludlow Arts Society, talks and demonstrations, 7.30pm, £4. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 878141. August EASTNOR POTTERY Family pottery fun through-out the Summer at Eastnor Pottery. Tues-Sat 10am-4pm. Simply email admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk or tel 01531 633886 to book a session. Projects start at just £5. A go on the potter’s wheel £10. A brilliant and creative activity for individuals, families and friends. August TREDEGAR HOUSE SUMMER HOLIDAY FUN Summer crafts, dress up, shadow puppet play, croquet, garden games and more. Tredegar House, Newport, 11am-4pm. Normal National Trust admission charges apply, 01633 815880. August STAINED GLASS WORKSHOPS Sat 1 Aug, Fri/Sat 21 & 22 Aug (one or two days). The Tithe Barn, Brecon Cathedral, 10am-4pm, £45 per day includes materials. Advance booking essential, 01874 622672 or 07745 972230, hazelbarham@googlemail. com

August & September ORIEL DAVIES ART WORKSHOPS For children and families. 4 Aug - T-shirt Printing. 11 Aug - Silk Painting. 18 Aug - Mask Making. 25 Aug - Creative Writing for ages 8 and over. 1 Sept - Free storytelling and picnic, 10.30am-1pm, £5. Sat - Life Drawing Workshop led by Caroline Ali, 10.15am-1.30pm, £18 per workshop. Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, 10.30am-1pm, £5 per person, 01686 625041. August & September SIDNEY NOLAN COURSES, WORKSHOPS & STUDIO SESSIONS 12 - 14 Aug - Japanese Woodblock Printmaking with tutor, Peter Brown. 10, 17 & 24 Sept - Stone Carving Evening Classes, with tutor, David Walker. Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne, 01544 260149. For regular print studio, litho, screen-printing sessions and more go to website www.sidneynolantrust.org Until October GET CRAFTY THIS SUMMER WITH SPUN GOLD WORKSHOPS Ever wanted to have a go at spinning or weaving, knitting or crochet or a host of other woolly crafts. Now here’s your chance to have a go. Every week until 29th October there are exciting workshops taking place at the Museum Resource and Learning Centre, as part of the Spun Gold Exhibition at the Hereford Museum and Art Gallery. For full details of all the workshops taking place please contact Julia Radburn on 01432 383599 or email jradburn2@herefordshire.gov.uk

August & September MID WALES ARTS CENTRE WORKSHOPS 6 - 28 Aug - Children’s Holiday Workshops. Every Thursday and Friday, 10am-4pm, art activity days aimed at 7-14 year olds. Pre booking essential. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown, £15 per session, 01686 688369. Tues 11 & Wed 12 August ENAMELLING MASTERCLASS With Elizabeth Turrell, a world renowned expert. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown, 10am, £50 per day including lunch, tea/coffee/cakes, 01686 688369. Fri 14 - Sat 22 August TIBETAN CALLIGRAPHY RETREAT With Tashi Mannox who will instruct how to properly construct the classical Uchen script. There will also be meditation instruction and daily sitting practice. New Inn, Brilley. All-inclusive prices for whole 8-day course per person, £590 double room, £480 two people sharing, £492 single dormitory, £346 camping, no accommodation £299, to book email: contact@tashimannox.com Sat 12 September LIVING MOSAICS WORKSHOP Learn how to make mosaics with Victoria Harrison. Suitable from beginners to advanced, no drawing or artistic skills required. Upper Newton Farmhouse, Kinnersley, 10am-4.30pm, £50 includes all materials and a light lunch, 07768 080947, email v.a.harrison@btinternet.com Mondays KNITTING CLUB Trumpet Corner Tea Rooms, Trumpet Crossroads, Ledbury, £3 per session + materials, 01531 634047.

ARTS & CRAFTS AT THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS, PRESTEIGNE

Sat 1 august 10AM

3PM

LOCAL ARTISTs WORKING WITH WOOD, WOOL, STONE, silver, paintings, photographs, hand made soaps with more in the green room

TEA & VEGAN CAKES

CLASSES

CROCHET IN HAY-ON-WYE & NEW RADNOR UPHOLSTERY AND FURNITURE RESTORATION IN NEW RADNOR for details contact Rosamund 01544 260777

Wednesdays VISUAL ART WORKSHOPS For 11-16 year olds. Mortimer Enterprise Centre, Kings Meadow, Wigmore, 4-6pm, 01568 770110.

EMILY JONES - Decorative China

Wednesdays POTTERY CLUB All ages and abilities. Materials and refreshments included. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown, 7-9pm, 01686 688369. Wednesdays KNITTING GROUP At the Workhouse Cafe, Presteigne, 2-4pm, 10% discount on food and drinks. All welcome, 01544 267864. Thursdays (4-6pm) VISUAL ART WORKSHOPS Designed to suit 11-16 year olds. In these sessions young people will be introduced to different art techniques by established local artists. Refreshments and snacks are available. Workshops run by enthusiastic volunteers from TVYP at Mortimer Enterprise Centre, Kings Meadow, Wigmore, HR6 9UX, 4-6pm. Workshops are free of charge. Tel: 01568 770110.

www.emilyjoneschina.co.uk 01568 614843

Every Thursday STONE & LETTER CARVING Letter Carving with Will O’Leary and Stone Carving with Lottie O’Leary 7-9pm, £10, Upper House, Knucklas, Knighton, Powys, 01547 528792. www.stonecarving.co.uk Fridays AFTER SCHOOL ART CLUB For children aged 5 - 12 years. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown, 3.45-5.15pm, 01686 688369.

ON PLANTING TREES AMONGST MANY OTHER THINGS TREES PROVIDE FUEL, OXYGEN, WATER AND MEDICINES. THEY ARE ALSO ESSENTIAL FOR MANY INSECT, PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES. YET 13 MILLION HECTARES OF FOREST ARE DESTROYED ANNUALLY... THE EQUIVALENT OF 50 FOOTBALL PITCHES EVERY MINUTE.

h-Art at ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, EARDISLEY Venue 27 Julienne Braham, art. Jason Braham, salt-glaze pottery. Kim Davis, woodwork. Deborah King, jewellery. Anthea Stilwell & Peter Stilwell, art. Brontë Woodruff, art. Dilwyn Silversmiths. Sat. 12th – Sun. 20th September. 11am to 5pm daily. Refreshments Preview - Friday 11th September 6pm – 9pm - All welcome

Contact Jenny Davis 01544 327 614

cinema IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF HOLLYWOOD Since this mighty organ majors on healing the troubled soul, it’s fortuitous that this month finds three fine music-based flicks. The first is the unhappily–titled RICKI & THE FLASH, and although director Jonathan Demme made possibly rock’s greatest ever performance movie, STOP MAKING SENSE, here his fictional fading guitar heroine Ricki Rendazzo (66 year-old Meryl Streep, oddly convincing) abandons her perpetual touring to soothe grown-up daughter Julie (played by actual daughter, Mamie Gummer) whose engagement has abruptly ended. But like her entire family, including an harassed ex-hubby (Kevin Kline), Julie has abandonment issues, not helped by one of the backing band (real-life popstar Rick Springfield) wanting to bed her mum. Written by the maverick Diablo Cody (JUNO) and conducted with typical aplomb by Demme, it’s a bittersweet, often hilarious family reunification saga, with a great soundtrack.

The Choir

Ricki & The Flash

A different music in a (very) different kitchen provides the narrative spine for THE CHOIR where following his boozy, single mother’s fatal car crash, 11 year-old Stet (talented newcomer Garrett Wareing) reluctantly agrees to attend an elite choral college thanks to the efforts of his rundown school’s headmistress (Debra Winger). Recognising Stet’s natural talent, the college’s brusque choirmaster (Dustin Hoffman) submits Stet to a regime of harsh discipline, whilst Stet’s lowly background prompts much bullying from his classmates. Only the world-weary headmistress (Kathy Bates) champions the boy who also must reconcile an unexpected reunion with his wealthy, absentee father (Josh Lucas). Canadian director Francois Girard has form here with THE RED VIOLIN and his latest exhibits a canny empathy for his characters and subject matter.

During 2010-2013, Pink Floyd’s co-founder and main songwriter, guitarist/bassist Roger Waters, toured The Wall Live, an extraordinary, multi-media experience based on the band’s 1979 concept album about a rock star teetering on the edge of madness, haunted by the wartime death of his absentee father, who decided to literally wall himself off from his demons. The tour involved state-of-the-art digital projection, Gerald Scarfe’s acerbic animations and the gradual erection of a giant wall. Regretting that he’d not filmed some of his previous, almost equally ambitious solo tours, Water explains that, “there was no question that we would make a cinematic document of the work Roger Waters The Wall that we did over the last five years.” As well as proving an emotive visual condemnation of war itself, ROGER WATERS THE WALL peppers concert footage with scenes which serve as a kind of road movie chronicling Waters’ efforts to reconcile his past mistakes and moral dilemmas. And of those three aren’t enough, also newly released are the excellent and moving documentary AMY (Winehouse), LONDON ROAD, a filmed version of the stage musical about the Ipswich prostitutes murders and DANNY COLLINS, another tale of a faded, screwed-up rockstar, starring Al Pacino. Mark Williams

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, LUDLOW

PHOENIX THEATRE, R-O-W

1 Aug SPY (15) 3 - 5 Aug QUEEN AND COUNTRY (15) 4 - 6, 8 Aug JURASSIC WORLD (12A) 7, 10 - 13 Aug MINIONS (U) 7 Aug THE WONDERS (LE MERAVIGLIE) (15) 10 - 12 Aug MR HOLMES (PG) 13 & 15 Aug SLOW WEST (15) 17, 18 & 21 Aug SONG OF THE SEA (PG) 17 Aug AMY (15) 18 & 20 Aug THE CHOIR (PG) 21 Aug THE SALT OF THE EARTH (12A) Details 01584 878141

11 Aug THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY 13 Aug TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD 25 Aug STILL ALICE Details Phoenix Theatre, Ross-on-Wye 01989 564570

BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP 2 Aug SPY (15) Until 6 Aug MINIONS (U) 7 - 11 Aug LOVE & MERCY (12A) 14 - 16 Aug AMY (15) Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye. Films every weekend. Full programme www.boothbooks. co.uk 01497 820322

CONQUEST, BROMYARD

7 Aug LONDON ROAD 14 Aug FIFTY SHADES OF GREY 21 Aug SELMA 28 Aug A LITTLE CHAOS Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd, Bromyard. Details 01885 488575

COURTYARD, HEREFORD 1 Aug MINIONS (U) 1 Aug THE THIRD MAN (PG) 11 - 13 Aug TWO BY TWO (U) 11 - 13 Aug SALT OF THE EARTH (12A) 14 - 20 Aug SONG OF THE SEA (PG) 14 - 20 Aug SPY (15) 21 - 27 Aug SELF/LESS (12A) 21 - 27 Aug ANT-MAN (12A) Details 01432 340555

OLD MKT. HALL, SHREWS. 1 - 13 Aug MINIONS (PG) Until 6 Aug MR HOLMES (PG) 3 - 5 Aug THE FORGOTTEN KINGDOM 4 Aug 8½ (15) 7 - 13 Aug DANNY COLLINS (15) 8 - 10 Aug COULDS OF SILS MARIA (15) 11 - 13 Aug TIMBUKTU (12A) 14 - 27 Aug INSIDE OUT (U) 14 - 20 Aug QUEEN AND COUNTRY (15) 21 - 27 Aug GEMMA BOVERY 28 Aug - 3 Sept SONG OF THE SEA (PG) 28 Aug - 3 Sept MANGLEHORN (PG) 29 Sept ROGER WATERS THE WALL Pink Floyd songwriter fuses the epic and personal in a concert film. Details 01743 281281

PLAYHOUSE, LEOMINSTER 15 Aug SUITE FRANCAISE (15) 22 Aug CINDERELLA (U) 5 Sept THE WATER DIVINER (15) Details Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 612583

REGAL CINEMA, TENBURY 1 Aug JURASSIC WORLD 4 Aug SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE 5 Aug PADDINGTON 7 Aug INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 3 8, 10 & 11 Aug MINIONS (U) 12 Aug SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY 14 & 15 Aug TERMINATOR GENISYS 17 & 18 Aug SPY (15) 19 Aug MISS JULIE 21 & 22 Aug TED 2 24 Aug THE NUT JOB 25 & 26 Aug SONG OF THE SEA 28 & 29 Aug ANTMAN 29 Aug FROZEN SING-A-LONG Regal Cinema, 47 - 49 Teme Street, Tenbury Wells. Details 01584 811442

THEATRE SEVERN, SHREWS.

1 Aug SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (U) Great Witley VH 01299 896412 4 Aug X + Y (12A) Talbot Theatre, Whitchurch 01948 660660 19 Aug PADDINGTON (PG) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125

PLAYHOUSE, LEOMINSTER 15 Aug SUITE FRANCAISE (15) Details Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster, 01568 616460

2 Sept OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL Showcasing the world’s most amazing ocean films, above and below the water’s surface. £14/£12. 01743 281281

WYESIDE, BUILTH WELLS Until 13 Sept INSIDE OUT (U) 4 - 8 Aug MAN UP (15) Until 6 Aug TED 2 (ctbc) Until 3 Aug THE LONGEST RIDE 2 (12A) 7 - 13 Aug ANT-MAN (12A) 9 - 11 Aug LONDON ROAD (15)

12 Aug - 12 Sept PIXELS (12A) 14 Aug - 13 Sept MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION (ctbc) 14 - 17 Aug SONG OF THE SEA (PG) 14 - 16 Aug MAGIC MIKE XXL (15) 21 - 27 Aug FANTASTIC 4 (ctbc) 28 Aug - 2 Sept JURASSIC WORLD (12A) 28 Aug - 3 Sept THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (12A) 28 Aug - 10 Sept TRAINWRECK (ctbc) 4 - 15 Sept ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING (12A) 4 - 13 Sept PAPER TOWNS (ctbc) Wyeside, Builth Wells 01982 552555

LIVE EVENTS ON SCREEN 9 Aug RAPE OF LUCRETIA Glyndebourne. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, 01497 820322. 13 Aug THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Royal Shakespeare Company. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 7pm, 01982 552555. 14 Aug THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Globe on Screen. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 2pm & 7.30pm, 01584 878141. 15 Aug RAPE OF LUCRETIA Glyndebourne. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, 01432 340555. 20 Aug THE CRUCIBLE Old Vic. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 01885 488575. 26 Aug OTHELLO Royal Shakespeare Company. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7pm, 01600 719401. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7pm, 07967 517125. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7pm, 01584 811442. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 7pm, 01982 552555. SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 7pm, 01588 630321. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 01885 488575. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, 01432 340555. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, 01497 820322. 3 Sept THE BEAUX’ STRATAGEM National Theatre Live. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7pm, 01600 719401. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 7pm, 01982 552555. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7pm, 01952 728911. SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 7pm, 01588 630321. 8 Sept JULIUS CAESAR Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 7.30pm, 01982 552555.

WORKSHOPS

Wednesdays INTERMEDIATE FILM MAKING The Courtyard, Hereford, 5-7pm, £70 per term, 01432 340555. Thursdays BEGINNER FILM MAKING CLUB Courtyard, Hereford, 5-7pm, £70 per term, 01432 340555.

dance Dance Performance Fri 1 August LES BERRIAUDS DANCERS Nineteenth century folk dance with period costumes and instruments from Hereford’s twin town of Vierzon in France. High Town, Hereford, 11am, free. Part of Three Choirs Festival Plus, www.3choirs.org 0845 652 1823. Fri 1 August TANGO ARGENTINO Come and watch the performance and perhaps join in! Old Market, Hereford, 11am, free. Part of Three Choirs Festival Plus, www.3choirs.org 0845 652 1823. Fri 1 August JIVE WITH COOLMOVES DANCE Come and watch the performance and perhaps join in! Old Market, Hereford, 1pm, free. Part of Three Choirs Festival Plus, www.3choirs.org 0845 652 1823. Fri 1 August RENAISSANCE DANCE Come and watch the performance and perhaps join in! High Town and Old Market, Hereford, 2pm, free. Part of Three Choirs Festival Plus, www.3choirs.org 0845 652 1823.

Dance Workshops

Single listings are free. Year round entries £40 LEARN 2 JIVE BEGINNERS CLASSES Monday, 8-9pm, Bartestree Village Hall, Hereford, HR1 4BY. Tuesday, 8-9pm, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, SY8 1AZ. Tuesday, 8-9pm, Stretton Sugwas Village Hall, HR4 7PT. NEW - Wednesday, 8-9pm, Tenbury Pump Rooms, WR15 8BA. Wednesday, 8-9pm, Leigh & Bransford Memorial Hall, Malvern, WR13 5DE. Thursday, 8-9pm, Bishops Frome Community Centre, WR6 5AZ. Contact Matt or Sarah on 01989 750354 orinfo@coolmovesdance. co.uk www.coolmovesdance.co.uk Coolmoves Dance & Fitness for adults.

Mon YOUTH DANCE CLASSES For ages 11 and over. With Powys Dance. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 5.45pm, £2-£3.50, 01982 552555. Tues DANCE @ THE COURTYARD Contemporary Dance for Adults 6.30-7.30pm, £48 per term or £5 per week. Junior Youth Dance for ages 7-11 4.15-5.15pm, Senior Youth Dance for ages 12-18 5.15-6.15pm, 01905 611199. Tues LEARN TO JIVE Fun, easy to learn and no partner/experience needed. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £5, 01989 750354. Weds CIRCLE DANCING Leominster Community Centre 2.00-3.30pm All welcome, £4 per session. Transition Leominster 01568 620180. Thurs URBAN DANCE CLUB WITH 2FACED DANCE COMPANY Ages 7-11 years 4-5pm, ages 11+ 5-6pm. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 813711. Fri CHANCE TO DANCE A gentle programme of creative dance for the over 50s. The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.15am-11.15pm, £3.50 per session, 01432 340555. Fri DANCING TOTS Drop-in sessions. No need to book. The Courtyard, Hereford. 11.30am-12.15pm, £4, £1 for an additional child, 01432 340555.

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MELY’S ZUMBA Mon - Dorstone, 7pm. Tues - Zumba class at St Peter’s Centre, Peterchurch, 10am. Mely 01497 820991, 07837 160505. Mon BREAKDANCE With 2Faced Dance Company. 4-5pm 4-7 year olds, 5-6pm. 7-11 year olds, 6.15-7.15pm 11+ year olds. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 276807. Mon DIZZY DAZZLERS DANCE CLASSES For 4 - 7 year olds. With Powys Dance. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 4pm, £2-£3.50, 01982 552555. Mon RIPPLERS DANCE CLASSES For 8-11 year olds. With Powys Dance. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 4.45pm, £2-£3.50, 01982 552555.

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The Burger Shop, Hereford

ANY years ago, when Mr Pernickety first found himself living in Marcher country, he always enjoyed a visit to the old Hereford Livestock Market, and indeed bought his first half-dozen grey speckled Marans hens there for 70p each. They went on to deliver large, brown speckled eggs steadily, if not plentifully, for years, encouraged, no doubt, by his sung exhortation every morning (like Bob Dylan’s): ‘Lay, ladies, lay; lay a dozen big brown eggs’. When the livestock market moved to its new, traffic-friendly site out of town, he was sorry to see it go. He was even more sorry when a gang of developers, chartered surveyors and no doubt a few Hereford ‘businessmen’ got together to make a pile of money out of a surprising number of gullible multiple retailers by persuading them to open branches to cater for an increased flow of punters that was never going to materialise. And in doing so, of course, they plunged a dagger deep into the already dicky ticker of the old town of Hereford, now dressed in a gloomy cloak of To Let signs and empty shop-fronts. No less than ten new multiples eateries were seduced into an unattractive, bland development such as you could find in any of a thousand dreary homogenised town centres throughout the country. And every one of these eateries is equally characterless, cynically overpriced and seriously depressing to eat in. But Herefordshire folk are resilient and, when roused, can be unexpectedly resourceful; they are fighting back. One notable recent arrival is the Shack Revolution, housed in what was one of Mr P’s favourite old hunting grounds, the former Dinosaur Market in Bastion Mews. Skilfully (and economically) decorated with discarded wooden pallets, and serving apple-based (this is Herefordshire) cocktails, craft beers and ciders, and freshly made pizzas, it looks purpose built for the hordes of students that may one day throng the streets of Hereford. Mr P and his daughter happily sampled a cocktail and a Snails Bank cider but were unable to eat a pizza as they had just eaten lunch at another notable new eatery in the heart of old Hereford. The Rule of Tum Burger Shop is in Aubrey Street, behind the Green Dragon. Despite its punning moniker, the Burger Shop looked promising as soon as Mr P and Miss P walked in. Tables and benches constructed of what looks like recycled scaffold board and square section iron tube have a joyous, knocked together look that flies in the face of the hideous multiples in the Old Market ‘Mall’. There is an inviting outside area, too, with similar rustic furniture. But it was a blazing hot day, there were no parasols, and Mr P is too wise to sit out and eat in the full glare of the sun.

The range of burgers on offer is imaginative but not excessive. Miss P had a Farmer Tom’s Beef Burger with lots of ‘lovely things’ added, and shared with her father a bowl of top-notch Rosemary Salted Chips (with their crunchy, healthy skins still attached) and a

pleasing Celeriac Slaw. Mr P, always attracted to the less obvious, chose a Pulled Ryeland Lamb Burger. This choice was made in the knowledge that the Ryeland sheep was bred for its wool, not its meat, which has a slight tendency to fattiness. However, that at least makes it suitable for the long cooking which pulled meat requires, presumably rendering it more suitable for burgerfication, but he would like to have tried a Welsh Hill Lamb Burger. The burger arrived at Mr P’s table wrapped in a sheet of greaseproof paper, without utensils. Mr P isn’t averse to moderness, (although he draws the line at drinking beer straight from the bottle), however he has always found eating main meals with his hands an unedifying, often messy business – and so it proved with unacceptable quantities of the burger’s filling of pickled red pepper, onion, garlic mayo, mint pesto, leaves and brioche spurting out from the bun at each bite and landing on his freshly laundered (dark) red cotton trousers. Small plastic knives and forks were offered, but weren’t much help. The burger was, in every other respect, a triumph, and worth searching for, but the option of a warm plate and sharp knife would have been good. To drink, Mr P chose a delicious Hearstease Apple & Rhubarb pressé, while Miss P had their elderflower. Being from London town, in her 20s and not yet a millionaire, she is an expert on burgers, and rated hers at the Burger Shop at least on a par with those served by Honest Burgers in Brixton. She then insisted on having a Nutty Chocolate Brownie while Mr P asked for a cup of coffee, but they don’t serve it. Mr P’s irritation at this was swiftly quelled by the mouthful of rich, moist, delicious brownie which his daughter offered him. The ambience is chilled (as Miss P would have it), the music right, and the staff attractive and intelligent – at no point ordering Mr P to ‘ENJOY!’, thank God. Mr P left feeling well-fed, delighted to find such a place materialising in an unpromising back street of old Hereford. You’d certainly not find anything like it in the red-brick anonymity of the Old Market Shopping Mall. www.misterpernickety.com

EVENTS

Sat 29 - Mon 31 August CIDER & SAUSAGE FESTIVAL King George V Playing Fields, Hereford, www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/herefordshire Sat 5th September THE LEOMINSTER FOOD FAYRE Local Food and Drink Market in Leominster Town Centre, Cookery Demonstrations & Kids Kitchen in Grange Court and The S&A Big Picnic with HWAR Dog Show on The Grange. 10am until 4pm. Free. www.leominsterfoodfayre. co.uk First Sat of every month FARMER’S MARKET The Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, 9am-1pm. First Sat of every month PRESTEIGNE LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET Memorial Hall, Presteigne, 9am-1pm, 01544 262773. 3rd Saturday of every month FARMER’S MARKET Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 01588 630023. 3rd Saturday of every other month PRODUCE MARKET Hightown Community Rooms, Vicarage Rd, Clun, 10am-2pm, 01588 641145. Every Thurs BURGER NIGHT Castle Inn, Wigmore, 01568 770203. Every Thurs MARKET Bread, cakes, crafts, fruit and vegetables, baskets and pottery. Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 10am-2pm. Last Friday of every month PIZZA NIGHT The Old Mill, High Street, Llanidloes. To book, call 01686 807 506. Every Fri KINGTON LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET Market Hall, Kington, 9am-2pm, 07765 404759.

FOOD BYTES Why not advertise? Only £40 per year. AARDVARK BOOKS LTD, THE BOOKERY, MANOR FARM, BRAMPTON BRYAN, BUCKNELL 01547 530888 Cafe serving refreshments, cakes etc. Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm. THE CIDER BARN IN PEMBRIDGE 01544 388161 www.the-cider-barn.co.uk Serving the best that Herefordshire growers produce in imaginative and inspired dishes cooked by Sophie Griffiths-Goddard the young chef patron. Full à la carte menu and lunchtime specials. POTS & CROCKS to hire for any occasion. Reasonable rates. 01568 709142. Classic white plates, cups & saucers, tea pots (silver & vintage), jugs, sugar bowls, cutlery, cake stands, carafes, large saucepans, table cloths, tea urn etc. Stored in Kingsland. Collection or delivery plus wash up service. THE GREEN BEAN CAFE, WEOBLEY 01544 318865 Good, locally sourced, homemade food. Soups, all day light lunches, cakes and scones. Set in the heart of Weobley. Free wifi. Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm, Sat 10am-2.30pm. With The Green Bean Shop/Deli under the same roof. THE LION RESTAURANT BRIDGE STREET KINGTON 01544 231002. Offering modern English food. Open for lunch Wed-Sun 12 - 2.30 and open for dinner Tues-Sat 6-9.30pm. THE OLD STATION TEA ROOM, THE OLD RAILWAY STATION, NEW RADNOR, LD8 2SS 01544 350543. Visit us at the Old Station Caravan Park for hot drinks and homemade cakes. Superb views and free Wi-Fi. We can cater for small groups, meetings and other events. Accommodation also available. Open daily 9am-5pm, 1st March-31st October. The India & China Tea Company at TOWER HOUSE GALLERY, HIGH STREET, KNIGHTON 01547 529530 www.towerhousegallery.blogspot.co.uk/ We serve homemade soups, breads and cakes, Italian blend coffee and over 30 different varieties of leaf tea. Wednesday to Saturday 9.30 to 5.00, (Sun, Mon & Tues - CLOSED). Open Sundays, POLLY’S TEAROOM / GALLERY At the foot of The Narrows, Knighton 01547 528591 (eve) Light lunches,cakes, a variety of teas and coffees. Selection of original paintings. Open all week except Fridays 11am-5pm Summer, 11am-4pm Winter THE WORKHOUSE CAFE, INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PRESTEIGNE 01544 267864 Cafe gallery, light lunches, good coffee, homemade cakes. Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm. RHOS MARKET GARDEN, KNIGHTON 01547 528315 Growers & providers of organic veg, fruit & flowers. Old Garage Shop, Knighton. Tues-Sat. Free parking, opposite library. Friday morning market stall in Presteigne. Veg boxes delivered to local area weekly. Restaurant orders welcome. info@rhosorganic.co.uk www.rhosorganic.co.uk SCRUMMY BITES ‘made locally with you in mind‘ Local chef Sam Bruce produces delicious food for any occasion using ingredients from our great Herefordshire producers. Now cooking at the newly refurbished Oak at Wigmore. Bookings: 01568 770424 or Kitchen: 07837 848923. Awarded Ludlow Food Festival’s Graeme Kidd Bursary 2010. UNCLE G’S ICE CREAM PARLOUR, BRIDGE STREET, KINGTON 01544 231002 Open daily from midday, offering a variety of our own home made ice creams available in cones and party tubs of different sizes.

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AUGUST Sat 1 August TOOLS FOR SELF-RELIANCE A weekend of music, crafts and enjoyment. Yew Tree Inn, Peterstow, Ross-on-Wye, £40 inc. 2 nights camping. In aid of Tools for Self Reliance Cymru. www.goldengiving. com/event/EngageWithTools CATCH 22 The Stag, Llanidloes. SEAN SAYE Baron’s Cross Inn, Leominster, 9pm. THREE CHOIRS FESTIVAL Featuring Ferio Saxophone Quartet, The Courtyard, 11am, £15. Bach Organ Masterclass, Lugwardine Parish Church, 2pm, £10. Song of the Widow, Holy Trinity Church, Whitecross Rd, 2.30pm, £25, £20. The Gathering Wave, community and school choirs from Hereford City and beyond come together, Hereford Cathedral, 7.45pm, £14-£3. www.3choirs.org 0845 652 1823. HEYMOONSHAKER The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm. FIRECROW DJ. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £3, 01497 821762. THE FABULOUS BORDELLOS Great mod revival band. The King’s Head, Tenbury Wells. STEVIE YEOMANS White Horse Inn, Clun. OUTLAWED Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford. OPEN MIC Ledbury Community Hall, 7pm, £5, bring a bottle, 01531 632968. OUT OF ORDER Blues and rock. The Boar’s Head, Brecon, 8.30pm, 01874 622856. RHYTHM THIEVES Royal Oak, 70 Compton Rd, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton. LIVE MUSIC Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

HANNAH LOCKERMAN BAND & LITTLE RUMBA Jazz, fusion, soul and then enticing Latin grooves. Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. GOLD ROOM Malthouse, Ironbridge. AFTERNOON AFTER PARTY The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 3pm. CHURCH TOWER OPEN St James’ Church, Wigmore, 10am-4pm hourly. £3.50, minors (8+) £2.50, 01568 770150.

Sun 2 August HOT ROD 55 Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. PANIC STATION Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. SKATE OF EMERGENCY Skate Park, Holmer Rd, Hereford, 3pm. OPEN MIC The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, free, 01497 821762. LEE JONES TRIO & SAM HUFFER Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. WARREN JAMES Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

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BLACK CAT JOE AND MISS CORINA Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

Mon 3 August CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen’s St, Hereford, 01432 274968. ROEBUCKANEERS FOLK CLUB The Roebuck Inn, Brimfield, near Ludlow, 8pm, 01584 711854. CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Organ recital, All Saints’ Church, Little Stretton, 12pm. Retorica. Violin duos played by Harriet Mackenzie and Philippa Mo. Programme includes Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev and Wieniawski. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, £10, 01694 724106, www.strettonfestival.org.uk JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051. ORGAN RECITAL By Anthony Pinel. All Saints’ Church, Little Stretton, 01694 722257.

Tues 4 August LIVE MUSIC SESSION Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne, 8pm onwards, 078070 18110. ULTIMATE ELTON & THE ROCKET BAND With tribute artist, Paul Bacon. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, £12, 01694 724106, www.strettonfestival.org.uk Part of Church Stretton Arts Festival.

Wed 5 August THE DRAGON BAND 12-piece band playing traditional favourites, swing and mainstream big band arrangements. The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke, 8pm, free, donations. ORGAN RECITAL By John Goodwin. St Margaret’s Church, Acton Scott, 01694 724106, www.strettonfestival.org.uk Part of Church Stretton Arts Festival.

GLASBURY ARTS AND THEATR BRYCHEINIOG Wednesday, August 26 to Saturday, August 29, 2015

Harp Summer School

Supported by Arts Council Wales, Welsh Assembly Government, The Lottery The fifth annual Harp Summer School will offer workshops and master classes for young people and adults, culminating in a gala concert featuring the students and teachers at the theatre. The school will be led by Harriet Earis (jazz/fusion harp and improvisation); Lily Neill (Celtic harp), Eleanor Turner (classical harp), and Eleri Turner (Welsh harp).

Ticket prices: Summer School, £175 (full price adults); £125 (adult concessions); £75 (in full time education) and will include tea/coffee/ soft drinks throughout. To book your place at the Harp Summer School, go to www.glasburyarts.co.uk to download an application form.

Saturday, August 29, 2015, 10am to 5pm

‘Have a Go Day’ at Theatr Brycheiniog – free Supported by Telynau Teifi

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to play the harp, this is your chance. Everyone is welcome, no experience necessary. There will be demonstrations and opportunities for beginners to try the harp, free of charge. Book a place by contacting Theatr Brycheiniog, (contact details below).

Saturday, August 29, 2015. 7.30pm

Harp Summer School Concert

For the past four years, the Harp Summer School has closed in stunning style with a concert featuring more than 30 harpists – students and tutors – on stage. This year’s concert, promises to be equally spectacular – a unique opportunity to enjoy harp playing at its most diverse and exciting. Concert: £12, adult, £10, concessions (over 60s, claiming disability benefit, registered unwaged); £5 (accompanied children). Booking fee per ticket of 50p. Pre-event meals available at Tipple ‘n Tiffin. Booking essential on 01874 611866.

Free wheel chair accessible bus, with pick up points, available between Hay, Glasbury and Brecon, must be booked in advance on 07583 544110. Tickets for Harp Summer School Concert are available only from the box office at Theatr Brycheiniog Canal Wharf, Brecon, Powys, LD3 7EW, in person, by telephone on 01874 611622 or online at www.theatrbrycheiniog.co.uk.

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CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Organ recital, St Laurence’s Church, Church Stretton, 12pm. Huw Wiggin saxophone and James Sherlock piano. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, £12, 01694 724106, www.strettonfestival.org.uk RAIN BREAKERS Malthouse, Ironbridge. KAMIKAZE MILLIONAIRES Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford. JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Simon Deeley and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass. Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 820841. DARYL The Stag, Llanidloes. THE CRAMS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

Wed 5 August TIM ERIKSSON Widley regarded as the best ballad singer of his generation, with savvy arrangements for fiddle, banjo and guitar. Oscars, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 8pm, £10, 01584 878141.

Thurs 6 August OPEN MIC NIGHT The King’s Head, Tenbury Wells. CELTIC SWING Hot Club jazz. CARAD, East St, Rhayader, 7.30pm, £7 in advance, £8 on the door, 01597 810561. Part of Brecon Jazz Festival. MATT WOOSEY Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 8pm.

BRECON JAZZ FESTIVAL Featuring Kenny Barron & Dave Holland. Theatr Brycheiniog, 6pm, £25. Nia Lynn’s Bannau Trio, Brecon Cathedral, 6.15pm, £15. World Wide Wales: Wales Meets Brazil, The Memorial Hall, Christ College, 6.45pm, £15. Junior Jazz, Brecon Guildhall, 7.30pm, £12.50. Ray Davies & Band, Market Hall, 8.30pm, £37.50. Winstone/Gesing/Venier, Brecon Cathedral, 9.30pm, £18. www.breconjazz.com THE FLOYD EARL BAND Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford. LET’S GET QUIZZICAL The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £2, 01497 821762. ORGAN RECITAL By Richard Walker. St Laurence’s Church, Church Stretton, 01694 722257.

Sat 8 August CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Final concert featuring The Piccadilly Dance Orchestra. Concord College, Acton Burnell, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £15, 01694 724106, www.strettonfestival.org.uk K TOWN Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. BLACK ‘N’ BLUES BAND The Stag, Llanidloes. BRECON JAZZ FESTIVAL Masterclass: Trefor Owen, Christ College, 11am, £8. Masterclass: Dudley Phillips, Christ College, 2pm, £8. Masterclass: Gareth Williams, Christ College, 4pm, £8. Brecon Jam, Theatr Brycheiniog, 10.30pm, £5. Neil Cowley presents The Other Side of Dudley Moore, Theatr Brycheiniog, 1pm, £18.50. RWMCD Presents..., Brecon Guildhall, 1pm, £10. Huw V Williams, Christ College, 1.15pm, £12.50. Julian Arguelles Tetra, Brecon Cathedral, 1.30pm, £16.50. Adriano Adewale, Brecon Elim Church, 1.30pm & 4pm, Pigfoot, Brecon Guildhall, 4.30pm, £15, Timo Lassy Band, Chist College, 4.45pm, £15. Scott Hamilton Quartet, 5pm, £20. Huw Warren: Tails of Wales, 5.30pm, £12.50. Partisans, Brecon Guildhall, 7.45pm, £15. GoGo Penguin, Christ College, 8.15pm, £17.50. ‘Spirit of Satch’, Market Hall, 8.30pm, £37.50. Taraf de Haidouks, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 9.30pm, £22.50. Courtney Pine, Brecon Cathedral, 9.30pm, £22.50. www.breconjazz.com AIR BAG Malthouse, Ironbridge. SYNERGY & JONATHAN EVANS Superb acoustic duo with some Flamenco among the hits. Old Market, Hereford, 1-5pm.

OPEN MIC Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. CHURCH STRETTON ARTS FESTIVAL Teatime concert. ‘The Glorious Violin’ with Michael Bochmann who will be joined by some of his pupils for part of this concert. Methodist Church, 3pm, £8. School’s Out @ The Art Festival, local youngsters show off their perfomance talents, Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, £8, 01694 724106, www.strettonfestival.org.uk

Fri 7 August HEREFORD CATHEDRAL JAZZ Featuring Remi Harris Trio, red-hot swing from award winning gypsy jazz guitarist. Chapterhouse Garden, Hereford Cathedral, 1pm, donations welcome, inside if wet.

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Sat 8 August SEAN SAYE Stanton Lacy Village Hall Summer Ball, 7.30pm, £10. SYNERGY & JONATHAN EVANS Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. THE LINE RUNNERS The King’s Head, Tenbury Wells. PHOENIX Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford. MARCHES OBOE SUMMER SCHOOL: FINAL CONCERT A regular feast of oboes and bassoons. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 3pm, £7 on the door, children free.

Sun 9 August FOLK SESSION Arvon Ale House, Temple St, Llandrindod Wells, 4pm, 07477 627267. KIM CYPHER QUARTET & SAM HUFFER Jazz swing, then solo guitar/vocals. Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. GWYN ASHTON Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. TASHA Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

BRECON JAZZ FESTIVAL Jazz Festival service, Brecon Cathedral, 10am, free. Masterclass: Scott Hamilton, saxophone, Christ College, 11am, £8. Masterclass: Mark Lockheart, composing through improvisation, 1pm, £8. Masterclass: Laura Jurd, beyond the instrument, Christ College, 3pm, £8. Martin Taylor Solo, Brecon Guildhall, 3.30pm, £18. The Gareth Williams Power Trio, Brecon Elim Church, 5.30pm, £12.50. Deirdre Cartwright Band & Friends, Brecon Guildhall, 6.15pm, £12. Capital City Jazz Orchestra, Christ College, 12.30pm, £12.50. Major Swing (Brittany) with guest Remi Harris, Brecon Guildhall, 12.30pm, £14. The Guildhall Welsh Jazz Club concert, ‘The Jazz Guitar’, Brecon Guildhall, 12.15pm, £35. Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro, Chapterhouse, Brecon Cathedral, 1.30pm, £16. Digby Fairweather’s Half Dozen, Theatr Brycheiniog, 1.30pm, £20. Sons of Kemet, Christ College, 3.45pm, £18. Songs for Quintet, Brecon Cathedral, 5pm, £17.50. Phronesis, Theatr Brycheiniog, 6.30pm, £17.50. Robert Glasper Trio, The Grolsch Market Hall, 8.30pm, £25. Julia Biel, Brecon Cathedral, 9pm, £17.50. www.breconjazz.com

TOMMY ALLEN & JOHNNY HEWITT Blues duo. The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 4pm.

Mon 10 August JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051. MUSIKVEREIN GROMACH BAND From Bad Rappenau, Germany, playing a wide variety of music from big band sound to music from the show. Joining the band will be local choir Ffrindiau, . Holy Trinity Church, Llandrindod Wells, 7.30pm, free entry, retiring collection in aid of the church.

Tues 11 August LIVE MUSIC SESSION Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne, 8pm onwards, 078070 18110. LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT Featuring David Bednall, Bristol. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm, free, retiring collection.

Wed 12 August JORDAN BROWN Housmans, Church Stretton. OPEN MIC With Troy Redfern. White Horse Inn, Clun.

THE BARRELS 69 ST OWENS STREET HEREFORD 01432 274968 proudly presents

THE 28TH ANNUAL CHARITY BEER FESTIVAL

FRI 28th - MON 31st AUGUST OVER 40 DIFFERENT REAL ALES ~ OVER 20 TRADITIONAL CIDERS

15 BANDS INCLUDING:JOAN THE GATE, JOHN OTTWAY, THE FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE, VO & TYLER, THE NUKULELE MAN, HEREFORD BIG BAND, BANDEMONIUM, STEVE GUMMERSON, THE BOON DOGS, SLIPPERY SLOPE, THE PLAYBOYS + SPECIAL GUESTS A MONTH OF SUNDAYS

TIMES :-

FRI 28th 7.30pm-MIDNIGHT SAT 29th 11am-6pm & 7.30pm-MIDNIGHT SUN 30th 12am-6pm & 7.30pm-MIDNIGHT MON 31st 11am-6pm

Lunchtime sessions are free, donations welcome Food available all weekend ALL PROCEEDS DONATED TO LOCAL CHARITIES

Tickets on sale from THE BARRELS: HEREFORD’S LOCAL

Wed 12 August THE DRAGON BAND 12-piece band playing traditional favourites, swing and mainstream big band arrangements. The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke, 8pm, free, donations.

Thurs 13 August GRAVY TRAIN Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

Fri 14 August HEREFORD CATHEDRAL JAZZ Featuring Val Sinclair with Dave Price Quartet, celebrating the 100th birthday of Billie Holiday. Chapterhouse Garden, Hereford Cathedral, 1pm, donations welcome, inside if wet. BLACK AND BLUES BAND White Horse Inn, Clun. JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Dave Price and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass. Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 820841. HMV BAND Dun Cow, Shrewsbury. RHYTHM THIEVES Chindit Inn, Merridale Rd, Wolverhampton. THE BRIGHT EYES Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford. SEAN SAYE The Wine Bar, Ludlow, 8.30pm. CULT FILM NIGHT A Space Odyssey. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, 01497 821762. FARMER PHIL’S FESTIVAL Featuring Dr Feelgood, Troy Redfern Band, Are You Experienced? Hobo Jones & The Junk Yard Dogs, Soul Preachers, Savannah UK, Battle of the Bands, Gaz Brookfield, Mezzotonic, Brad Dear Band, Thin Vision, Dan Williams, Robin Taylor, Paige Seabridge, Sonya Smith. Near Gatten Farm, Ratlinghope, Shrewsbury, www.farmerphilsfestival.com

NAOMI’S HOTSY-TOTSY BAND & HARRIET WILLIAMS Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free.

ENGLISH CIVIL WAR SOCIETY: BRAMPTON BRYAN SIEGE See 15 Aug for details. Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan, 01547 530744.

BREN HAZE Solo artist playing original material. The King’s Head, Tenbury Wells.

GARY HALL Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm.

SEAN SAYE The Bell, Cleobury Mortimer, 9pm. ENGLISH CIVIL WAR SOCIETY: BRAMPTON BRYAN SIEGE The return of the ECWS to Brampton Bryan commemorating the great siege of 1643. This time they are bringing a squadron of cavalry, together with cannons, muskets, pikes, a Living History Village and much more. Over 100 re-enactors will bring to life this important event. Food, bar and refreshment available on site. Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan, near Bucknell, 10am5pm, adults£2; parking and under 16s free, 01547 530744. JOHNNY TRASHED Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford. FARMER PHIL’S FESTIVAL Featuring Ferocious Dog, Mad Dog McRea, BC/DC, Envy of the State, Dubvocaliza, Talisman, Hot Rod 55, The Rainbreakers, Battle of the Bands winner, Emma & The Professor, Sam Jones, The Endings, Cooper & Davies, Stevie - one Bloke One Mandolin, Doozer McDooze, Nikki Rous, Lydia O’Dowd. Near Gatten Farm, Ratlinghope, Shrewsbury, www.farmerphilsfestival.com

Sun 16 August JAYNE SARAH & DAN PHELPS + JONATHAN EVANS Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. SEAN SAYE Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm.

LIVE MUSIC Malthouse, Ironbridge.

Mon 17 August JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051.

Tues 18 August LIVE MUSIC SESSION Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne, 8pm onwards, 078070 18110. HEREFORD LIVE The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 8pm. LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT Featuring Hilary Norris. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm, free, retiring collection.

Wed 19 August THE DRAGON BAND 12-piece band playing traditional favourites, swing and mainstream big band arrangements. The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke, 8pm, free, donations.

Thurs 20 August

WORRIED MEN Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford.

ELECTRIC BLUES REACTION Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

SLOWBURNER Ludlow Brewery, Railway Shed, Station Drive, Ludlow, 8pm, £8, 01584 873291. All profits to Cancer Research UK.

FOLK SESSION The King’s Head, Tenbury Wells.

Fri 21 August

Sat 15 August

CONSPIRITUALISTS The Stag, Llanidloes.

CHRIS GREVE The Stag, Llanidloes.

FARMER PHIL’S FESTIVAL Featuring 3 Daft Monkeys, Letherat, John Otway, Abdoujaparov, The Bar Steward Sons of Val Donnican, Cartoon Violence, Dan Owen, Paul Henshaw & The Scientific Simpletons, The Leylines, Reign of Kings, Lost the Plot, Over the Hillbillies, Alaxandra Jayne, Claire Owen. Near Gatten Farm, Ratlinghope, Shrewsbury, www.farmerphilsfestival. com

SPOOKY MEN’S CHORALE Georgian table songs, immaculate ballads and vaudevillian nonsense with sly and witty commentary on their own favourite body parts, a surfing anthem and a mock Sufi ode to the Bee Gees. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 8pm, £18, £13 children, 01584 878141.

HEATHER BEBB The Stag, Llanidloes.

RESTLESS DOG Malthouse, Ironbridge.

TONGUE ‘N’ GROOVE Saxophone quartet. Dinham Millenium Green, Ludlow, 2.30pm, free, 07957 392074.

Harriet Williams

THE VANS Aussie band touring the UK. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

SUMMERTIME CEILIDH The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, £8-£4, 01497 821762. JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Dave Price and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass. Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 820841. THE HANNAH LOCKERMAN BAND Plus support from Michael Adcock, virtuoso jazz ukulele. All Saint’s Church, Richard’s Castle, 7pm, £9. Bar with Hobsons beer, wine and complementary nibbles. Tickets from Trevor Davies Music, Leominster or 01584 529379. OPEN MIC With the Rhythm Thieves. Sun Inn, Leintwardine. ELEMENTARY DIDGERIDOO FESTIVAL An exploration into contemporary world music. Featuring Olive Tree Dance, Yogev haruvi, Didg-Beat Turtle and Quinto. Alchemist’s Wardrobe, Karssen & Jefferson, Soma. Live performances, workshops and more. Baskerville Hall Hotel, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, £65 adult weekend, £25 chidren 12 - 15 years, under 10s free, 07795 557945.

ELEMENTARY DIDGERIDOO FESTIVAL See 21 Aug for details. Baskerville Hall Hotel, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, 07795 557945.

Sun 23 August SCHERZO BRASS Trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba play music for all tastes. Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, 3pm, £12, under 15’s £6. Tickets from Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 01497 820322. Hay Music. WHISKEY RIVER CAJUN QUARTET Bell Inn, Redbrook, Glos, 4pm free. ELEMENTARY DIDGERIDOO FESTIVAL See 21 Aug for details. Baskerville Hall Hotel, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye, 07795 557945. BROTHERS GROOVE Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. MINNIE’S MOOCHERS & JONATHAN EVANS Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free.

LIVE MUSIC Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm. MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL Featuring Cymanfa Ganu, David Kempster, baritone, The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, 7.30pm, free, 01654 703355. FOLK SESSION Arvon Ale House, Temple St, Llandrindod Wells, 4pm, 07477 627267.

Mon 24 August MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL Featuring Arpando Harp Duo, 1pm, £8. Three Welsh Tenors, 7.30pm, £15. The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, 01654 703355. JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051.

Tues 25 August LIVE MUSIC SESSION Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne, 8pm onwards, 078070 18110.

PAUL PARKER & FRIENDS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury. POKER JACK Malthouse, Ironbridge. HEREFORD CATHEDRAL JAZZ Featuring Brownfield Byrne Hot Four. Jazz standards and beebop favourites from the ‘40s and ‘50s. Chapterhouse Garden, Hereford Cathedral, 1pm, donations welcome, inside if wet.

Sat 22 August NAKED BLUE BOYS The Stag, Llanidloes. SASHA MCVEIGH & ROD KELLY TRIO Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. BLACK COUNTRY ROCK Malthouse, Ironbridge. MACMILLAN FUND RAISER Live music all day, including The Tenbury U3A Ukelele Orchestra, Steve Roberts, Drews Brew, Don’t Blame The Bear, Neptune’s Bounty, Ohm Bombs and more. The King’s Head, Tenbury Wells. MR B DJ. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £5-£3, 01497 821762. THE NOTORIOUS BROTHERS Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford. WHISKEY RIVER ACOUSTIC QUARTET Old Railway Garden Centre, Three Cocks, near Glasbury, 11am-4pm, free.

Tues 25 August

Fri 28 August

MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL Featuring Children’s Concert: The Erlkings, 1pm, free. Cor Godre’r Aran, 7.30pm, £15. The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, 01654 703355.

SHREWSBURY FOLK FESTIVAL Featuring Richard Thompson Electric Trio, La Bottine Souriante, Sharon Shannon, Kate Rusby, Oysterband Special, Dawes, Steve Knightly, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, Spooky Men’s Chorale, False Lights, Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain and much more. www.shrewsburyfolkfestival. co.uk 01743 892800.

ROY JOHNSON QUARTET Housmans, Church Stretton. LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT Featuring Edmund Aldhouse from Ely Cathedrall. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm, free, retiring collection.

Wed 26 August MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL Featuring Darlith Hallstatt Lecture: Jeremy Moore, 1pm, £6. John Etheridge & Chris Garrick, 7.30pm, £15. The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, 01654 703355. THE DRAGON BAND 12-piece band playing traditional favourites, swing and mainstream big band arrangements. The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke, 8pm, free, donations.

Thurs 27 August OPEN MIC NIGHT Hosted by Howard & Clare. The Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford, 01952 610888. MOON STREAM Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL Chamber Opera Double Bill; Entanglement plus That Man Stephen Ward. Nova Music Ensemble. St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 8pm, £30-£10, 01544 267800, www.presteignefestival. com MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL Featuring Plamena Mangova, piano, 1pm, £12. Teithiau Cook’s Tour, 6pm, free. Bennewitz Quartet, 7.30pm, £20. The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, 01654 703355.

MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL Featuring Eirian Owen, 1pm, £6. Masterclass: Nicolas Altstaedt, cello, 3pm, £8. Teithiau Cook’s Tours, 6pm, free. Tim McInerny & Lucy Parham, 7.30pm, £18. Late Night Bach with Altstaedt & Kelemen, 10pm, £10. The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, 01654 703355. REIGN OF KINGS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

SEAN SAYE The Exchange, Newtown, 9.30pm. JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Simon Deeley and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass. With special guest, Chris Gumbley, alto saxophone. Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 820841. THE BARREL’S BEER FESTIVAL Featuring Joan the Gate, John Ottway, The Festivals Experience, Vo & Tyler, Hereford Big Band, Bandemonium, The Nukukele Man, Slippery Slope, A Month of Sundays, Steve Gummerson, The Boon Dogs, The Playboys + Special guests. Over 40 different ales, over 20 traditional ciders, food available all weekend. All proceeds donated to local charities. Tickets on sale from The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 01432 274968. HMV BAND Malthouse, Ironbridge. PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL Sibelius and Nielsen in Perspective. St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 2pm, £12.50-£6. Festival Evensong with Choir of Royal Holloway. St Mary Magdalene, Bleddfa, 4.30pm. Northern Lights and Variations, St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 7.45pm, £22-£6. 01544 267800, www.presteignefestival.com STAGGERED EDGE The Stag, Llanidloes. LIVE MUSIC Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

HEREFORD CATHEDRAL JAZZ Featuring Little Rumba, an eclectic programme from longstanding local favourites. Chapterhouse Garden, Hereford Cathedral, 1pm, donations welcome, inside if wet.

Sat 29 August MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL Featuring Alexander Lonquich, piano, 1pm, £14. Teithiau Cook’s Tours, 2.30pm & 6pm, free. Trio Lonquich, Kelemen, Altstaedt, 7.30pm, £20. Emre Gokalp, Spanish guitar, 10pm, £10. The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, 01654 703355. SOULFUL G The Stag, Llanidloes. THE BARRELS BEER FESTIVAL See 28 August for details. Tickets on sale from The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 01432 274968. GREYHOUND INN BEER FESTIVAL Featuring the Rhythm Thieves. Greyhound Inn, Llangunllo, 9pm, 01547 550400. PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL Bach to the Future I. St Mary’s Church, Kinnerton, 11.30am, £12.50-£6. Upon Entering a Painting, St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 2pm, £12.50-£6. Choir of Royal Holloway a capella, St Mary’s Church, Pembridge, 4.30pm, £12.50-£6. Navarra Quartet, St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 7.45pm, £19-£6. 01544 267800, www.presteignefestival.com FRUIT MACHINE Malthouse, Ironbridge.

RHYTHM THIEVES Phone 01568 770134

Sat 1 Aug Fri 14 Aug Fri 21 Aug Sat 29 Aug Sun 30 Aug -

Royal Oak, Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton Chindit Inn, Merridale Rd, Wolverhampton Sun Inn, Leintwardine - Open Mic (3rd Fri) Greyhound, Llangunllo - Beer Festival Sun Inn, Leintwardine - Beer Festival

www.rhythmthieves.co.uk

Sat 29 August HARP SUMMER SCHOOL CONCERT Performed by tutors and participants. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £12/£10, £5 accompanied children, 01874 611622. See Music Workshops. BLACK AND BLUES The King’s Head, Tenbury Wells. HANNAH LOCKERMAN BAND & LEE JONES TRIO Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. LIE DETECTORS Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. SHREWSBURY FOLK FESTIVAL See 28 Aug for details. 01743 892800, www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk

Sun 30 August THE RHYTHM BOMBERS Lichfield Vaults, Church St, Hereford, 4pm, 01432 266821. SEAN SAYE The Kerry Lamb, Kerry, near Newtown, 3pm. HEREFORD CIDER & SAUSAGE FESTIVAL Featuring James Hunt’s Tongue ‘n’ Groove Saxophone Quartet at 12.55pm. King George V Playing Fields, Hereford. CHRIS QUINN Housmans, Church Stretton. PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL Festival Eucharist, St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 11am. Navarra Quartet, St Stephen’s Church, Old Radnor, 3pm, £12.50-£6. Countless and Wonderful are the Ways to Praise God. St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 7.45pm, £22-£6. 01544 267800, www.presteignefestival.com IAN PARKER Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. GOT 2 SING CHOIR & SAM HUFFER Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. SUN INN BEER FESTIVAL Featuring The Rhythm Thieves.

SHREWSBURY FOLK FESTIVAL See 28 Aug for details. 01743 892800, www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk THE BARREL’S BEER FESTIVAL See 28 August for details. Tickets on sale from The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 01432 274968. WHISKEY RIVER BOYS Duo. Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3pm, free. MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL Featuring Sir John Tomlinson, bass and Julius Drake, piano, 1pm, £15. Teithiau Cook’s Tours, 3pm, free. Sacconi Quartet, 7.30pm, £20. The Tabernacle, Machynlleth, 01654 703355. GROOVE CITY Malthouse, Ironbridge. GREYHOUND INN BEER FESTIVAL Featuring Rumours of Spring. Greyhound Inn, Llangunllo, 9pm, 01547 550400. THE FLOURISH WIND QUINTET Flute, clarinet, oboe, horn and bassoon. Members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Music by Handel, Debussy, Bozza and later, some jazzier pieces! Hay Castle, Hay-onWye, 5pm, £12. Tickets from Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 01497 820322.

Mon 31 August SALOP STEAM ENGINE SOCIETY RALLY Featuring The Welsh Horse Yeomanry. Onslow Park, Shrewsbury, £12 adults, OAP £11, children £1, under 5s free, 01743 792731. POOBAHS Vide Grenier; Aardvark’s annual market with music. Aardvark Books, The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, 01547 530744. PUMA CREEK & HARRIET WILLIAMS Old Market Shopping Centre, Hereford, 1-5pm, free. THE BARRELS BEER FESTIVAL See 28 August for details. Tickets on sale from The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 01432 274968.

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PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL Flights of Angels. St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 2pm, £12.50-£6. Tom Poster in Recital. St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 7pm, £19-£6. Bach To The Future II - by Candlelight, 9.45pm, St Michael’s Church, Discoed, £12.50-£6. 01544 267800, www.presteignefestival. com SHREWSBURY FOLK FESTIVAL See 28 Aug for details. 01743 892800, www.shrewsburyfolkfestival.co.uk JAZZ @ GRACIES Featuring Mark Latimer, Steve Tarner and Trevor Davies. Gracie’s Wine Bar, Leominster, 8pm, free, 01568 610051.

SEPTEMBER Tues 1 September PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL Navarra in the Afternoon, St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 2pm, £12.50-£6. In Honour of John McCabe (19392015), St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, 7.45pm, £22-£6. 01544 267800, www.presteignefestival.com LIVE MUSIC SESSION Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne, 8pm onwards, 078070 18110. LUNCHTIME ORGAN CONCERT Featuring Laurence John and Jason Richards, Oundle award winners. Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm, free, retiring collection.

Wed 2 September THE DRAGON BAND 12-piece band playing traditional favourites, swing and mainstream big band arrangements. The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke, 8pm, free, donations.

Thurs 3 September OPEN MIC Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. NEIL IVISON Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 8pm.

Langstaffe Violins John Langstaffe

Maker & Restorer of Violins, Violas & Cellos Repairs, Fitting Up, Tonal Adjustments etc Room 12, 2nd Floor, Lion House 15, Broad Street, Leominster HR6 8BT

We also stock a selection of new and antique instruments and accessories T: 01568 620120 M: 07501 724663

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GREYHOUND INN LLANGUNLLO “SHORT AND SWEET” TWO DAY BEER FESTIVAL AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY * Sat 29th - 12pm till late Live music 9pm - RHYTHM THIEVES * Sun 30th - 12pm till late Live music 9pm - RUMOURS OF SPRING Everything you would expect, condensed into two awesome days. Quality range of ales and ciders, locally and nationally sourced. Hot food cooked fresh to order as usual by the wonderful Chris and Rachel. Come along and join in the AMAZING UNIQUENESS that is THE

GREYHOUND

All enquiries to Paul or Jake 01547 550400

Fri 4 September BLACKSMITH HILL The Stag, Llanidloes.

STEVE AJAO BLUES GIANTS Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm.

ADAM HODSON & ACOUSTIC UNDERDOGS Malthouse, Ironbridge.

MARK BEBBINGTON Piano recital including major works by Beethoven and Chopin. Hellens, Much Marcle, 3pm, £16, students £8 includes strawberries and cream. 01905 570979 or www.orpheus-events.com

THE DELRAY ROCKETS Rock-a-billy. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford. JAZZ @ THE BLACK LION Featuring Simon Deeley and Dayne Cranenburgh Duo, piano and bass. Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 820841. THE CARPENTERS’ STORY Claire Furley’s uncanny representation of Karen Carpenter combine to bring back memories of pop’s most melodic duo. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £23-£19, 01600 772467.

Sat 5 September OPEN MIC Ledbury Community Hall, 7pm, £5, bring a bottle, 01531 632968. UNDERCOVER The Stag, Llanidloes. KING MANTIS Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford. LIVE MUSIC Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. FAMILY BARN DANCE Featuring Bandemonium, tunes and dances from around the world. Court Farm, Aylton, near Ledbury, 7pm, details from The Music Pool, Hereford, info@musicpool.org.uk XL5 Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford. OVER THE HILLBILLIES Llanfair Show, 5pm. THE JENTS Malthouse, Ironbridge. SPOOKYFEST Featuring Australia’s zany Spooky Men’s Chorale, known for their fine singing and deadpan humour will also present special guest artists, dance band Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra, folk icon Roy Bailey, Folk Dance Remixed and the acclaimed Bristol-based quartet, Spiro. Also appearing will the The Rought Island Band. The Fold, new House Farm, Bransford, Worcestershire, midday - 11pm. Organic food and drink. Advance tickets £37 adults, £45 on the gate. Children £15 for 12-18 year olds, £10 for 5-11 year olds. Camping available on Saturday night at £6 per person. 01886 833633/833112 or www.thefold.org.uk

Trevor Davies Music

For all your musical needs 87 Etnam Street, Leominster, Herefordshire, HR6 8AE tel: 01568 613611

We stock Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, ESP, Fernandez, Epiphone, Indie, Aria, Ovation, Adamas, Martin, Taylor, Yamaha, Crafter, Burns, Washburn, Jackson, AER, Marshall, Hartke, Carlsbro, Laney, Zoom, Digitech, Tama, Casio. Plus many other brands.

Sun 6 September

Approximately 500 guitars in stock and Brass, Woodwind, Drums, Keyboards, accessories and thousands of music books and sheet music.

NEW ROPE STRING BAND The last chance to see the acclaimed trio before they gig no more. An evening of joy unbound intertwined with fabulous musicianship. Knighton Community Centre, 7.30pm, £10, children £5, 01547 528315.

Music Workshops

Aug & Sept INSTRUMENT REPAIR COURSES 1 - 3 Aug - Advanced General Woodwinds, £438. 10 - 14 Aug - Brass Repair (foundation), £617. 15 & 16 Aug - Trombone (specialist), £326. 24 - 28 Aug - General Woodwinds (foundation £617. 29 - 31 Aug - Double Reeds (specialist), £428. 5 - 7 Sept Brass Open Workshop. 14 - 18 Sept General Woodwinds (foundation, £617. 19 & 20 Sept - Flute (specialist), £326. Trevor Head, Llangunllo School, Llangunllo, Knighton, 01547 550622. Wed 26 - Sat 29 August HARP SUMMER SCHOOL Workshops and masterclasses for up to 40 young people and adults. Led by Harriet Earis (jazz/fusion harp and improvisation); Lily Neill (Celtic harp); Eleanor Turner (classical harp) and Eleri Turner (Welsh harp). Workshops and classes run over the first three days at Gwernyfed High School, Glasbury, rehearsals and masterclass at Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon on the final day. Gala Concert featuring students and teachers. £175/£125 adult, £75 students in full time education including tea/coffee. www. glasburyarts.co.uk to download an application form. Sat 29 August HAVE A GO DAY At playing the harp. No experience necessary. Demonstrations and opportunities for beginners. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 10am-5pm, free, 01874 611622. Sat 5 September THE BIG SING (MAMMA MIA) A fun day for anyone who loves to sing. Led by West End performers. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 12-6pm, £25 students, over 60 £20, 07908 853914 for details.

PIANO TECHNICIAN & TUNER ROBBY TONER (A.E.W.V.H.) Tuning, Regulation, Repairs & Transportation of Concert, Grand & Upright Pianos. Fine Tune/Concert Pitch

Please Call:- 07884 245665

Sat 19 September CHORAL WORKSHOP - BRAHMS GERMAN REQUIEM (Sung in English). A day singing and exploring this sublime work, with Roger Langford. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 10am-4.30pm, registration 9.30am, £12 + £2 music hire. Pre-booking essential. Text 07968 044853, kingtonchoral@ mail.com, www.kingtonchoral.org.uk Saturday 19 September BMEMF WORKSHOP FOR SINGERS & INSTRUMENTALISTS Tutor: Justin Doyle. Monteverdi: opera choruses and sacred works. The Great Barn, Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, Ledbury. 10am-4.30pm. £18 for Early Music Fora members, £20 for non-members, £5 for students. Prior booking essential. Contact Marna Gowan on 01684 565 707 or Marna.gowan@btinternet.com For further details see www.bmemf.org.uk Monday ALIVE & KICKIN’ CHOIR Coleg Powys (now NPTC), Brecon, 7-9pm, £5 public, £3 students/staff. tanyawalkermusic@hotmail.com Monday FUN & PLAY WITH RHYTHM & HARMONY All taught by ear so no need to read music! Meet 8pm term time Mondays at the Methodist chapel in Leintwardine. Email charlotte@naturalvoice.net or call 01547 540603. Monday BANDAMANIA Traditional dance music from far and wide. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 7.15pm, Sue Harris 01547 550158. Tuesday BANG ON DRUMS Drum circle. Black Lion, Bridge St, Hereford, 7-9pm, bring your own hand drums or drums and percussion instruments provided, 07870 747248, www.bangondrums.co.uk Tuesday DOLAU MIXTURES Mixed choir. Dolau Community Hall, near Llandrindod Wells, 8pm, 01597 851427. Tuesday WHITTON VOICES Mixed community choir. Songs from around the world, traditional and contemporary. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8-10pm, £5. All welcome. Led by Sue Harris, 01547 550158. Wednesdays BISHOP’S CASTLE EARLY MUSIC GROUP Singing renaissance and baroque music a cappella. All music readers welcome, 7.30pm. Contact Mark, 075385 68378 or email jacquelinesw@hotmail.co.uk Wednesday ROCKSPRING COMMUNITY CHOIR All welcome particularly men! Minimal charge. Rockspring Community Centre, Ludlow. 01584 529053. Wednesday LUDLOW LARKS COMMUNITY CHOIR Led by Polly Bolton. Songs from around the world - from the Beatles to Bulgaria. Ludlow Women’s Centre, 7.30pm9.30pm. Polly on 01584 823609 or info@oak-barn.co.uk or check our website www.jollypages.co.uk/larks Thursday COME SINGING IN CLUN New group meeting in the mornings. For everyone who fancies singing. Uplifting songs drawn from many traditions around the world, all taught by ear. Meet in Hightown Hall –along from the church, 10am–11.30am starting Feb 5th. Led by Sue Harris 01547 550158. sumarieharris@btinternet.com Thursday CANTORION LLANDRINDOD Mixed choir, early/classical music. Howey VH, 7.45pm, 01874 754774. First Thursdays BLACK HILL TUNE CLUB 2pm at the Crown Inn Longtown. Free. 01432 263495. Friday MUSIC TIME A session of music and movement for under 5s. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10.30am-11.30am, £5 per child, 01743 234970. Friday FAMILY MUSIC MAKERS Fun sessions for parents and toddlers 12.30-2pm, £4 per adult and child pair, under 1s free. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

SESSIONS BACK IN NEXT MONTH

VENUES ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Mill Street, Ludlow 01584 878141 BARRELS, St Owen Street, Hereford 01432 274968 BASKERVILLE ARMS, Clyro, near Hay-on-Wye 01497 820670. BASKERVILLE HALL HOTEL, Clyro Court, near Hay-onWye 01497 820033. BELL HOTEL, Commercial St, Newtown 01686 625540 BELL INN, Etnam St, Leominster 01568 612818 THE BRIDGE HOTEL, Tenbury Wells 01584 810434. THE BRIDGE, Ludlow 01584 872963 BLACK LION, Bridge St, Hereford, 01432 266000 CARAD, East St, Rhayader, 01597 810192 CHARLTON ARMS, Ludlow, 01584 872813 CONQUEST THEATRE, Bromyard, 01885 488575 THE COURTYARD, Edgar St, Hereford. 01432 340555 THE DUKES ARMS, Presteigne 01544 267318 DUN COW, Shrewsbury 01743 356408 THE EXCHANGE, Newtown 01686 621814. GARWAY VILLAGE HALL, Hereford 01981 580056 THE GEORGE & DRAGON, Knighton 01547 528532 GLEANINGS, near Bishop’s Castle, 01743 891412 THE GOLDEN CROSS INN, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford 01432 880274. GRAPE VAULTS, Broad St, Leominster 01568 611404. THE GRANARY, Leominster 01568 614290. THE GROVE HOTEL, Belle Vue, Shrewsbury, 01743 271227 THE HARP INN, Glasbury-on-Wye 01497 847373 THE HERDSMAN, Widemarsh St, Hereford, 01432 277330 HOPE & ANCHOR, Rope Walk, Wye St, Ross-on-Wye. 01989 563003. HOTSPUR CAFE & BAR, Shobdon Airfield 01568 708783. HUNDRED HOUSE INN, Purslow, 01588 660541 KNIGHTON & DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE, Knighton 07751 221487. THE LAKESIDE CAFÉ, Llandrindod Wells, 01597 825679 LICHFIELD VAULTS, Church St, Hereford. 01432 266821 LION BALLROOM, Broad St, Leominster. 01568 611588 THE LOWFIELD INN, Marton, Welshpool 01743 891313 LUDLOW BREWING COMPANY, The Railway Shed, Ludlow 01584 873291 THE MALTHOUSE, Ironbridge, 01952 433712 MINER’S ARMS, Priest Weston 01938 561352 NELSON INN, Ludlow 01584 872908 OAKENGATES THEATRE, Telford. 01952 619020 THE OLD MILL, High Street, Llanidloes 01686 412008 THE OXFORD ARMS, Duke St, Kington 01544 230322 THE PLOUGH INN, Whitecross Road, Hereford 01432 343360 THE RETREAT, Ledbury, 01531 632766. ROSE & CROWN, Tenbury Wells, 01584 811336 ROYAL FOUNTAIN, Cleobury Mortimer 01299 272720 ROYAL OAK, Presteigne, 01544 260842. THEATR BRYCHEINIOG, Canal Wharf, Brecon 01874 611622 THE HAFREN, Llanidloes Road, Newtown 01686 614555 THE THREE ELMS, Hereford. 01432 273338. THREE TUNS, Bishop’s Castle. 01588 638797 THE VICTORY, 88 St Owen St, Hereford 01432 274998 VOLUNTEER, Harold St, Hereford 01432 276189. WHITEHORSE INN, The Square, Clun. 01588 640305. WHITE SWAN, Eardisland, 01544 388577 WYESIDE ARTS CENTRE, Builth Wells, 01982 552555 YORKSHIRE HOUSE, St Mary’s St, Shrewsbury 01743 362622

band directory

APPLEBY KINSEY 4-piece acoustic jazz, contemporary folk, singer-songwriter group: acoustic guitar, saxophones, flute double bass, beautiful female lead vocals. Collectively we produce a different kind of purely acoustic sound, one that is familiar enough to be instantly accessible, while being original, sophisticated, and played with great instrumental skill, to grab and hold on to the audience’s attention. Perfect for your special occasion. Visit www.applebykinsey.com for music/details/contact. THE BAGGAGE HANDLERS - acoustic duo playing classic covers from the likes of R.E.M. to Johnny Cash, Snow Patrol to The Jam. We can be contacted at www.facebook.com/thebaggagehandlers www.myspace.com/baggagehandlersmusic or simply ring 07824 787168. BANDAMANIA Community band playing wild and wonderful traditional music. Perfect for ceilidhs, parties and all sorts of local events. Sue Harris 01547 550158 sumarieharris@btinternet.com MARTIN BLAKE: Fingerpickin’ good guitar, banjo and vocals, solo or with a variety of bands from duo to six piece, including Whiskey River (5/6 piece playing swamp music from America’s Deep South with fiddle, Cajun accordion and sax), The Whiskey River Boys (duo version of the same), The Grass Snakes (5 piece trad bluegrass band with high lonesome harmony vocals), Blakes III (an eclectic acoustic trio with fiddle, clarinet, guitar and 3 part harmony) and The Blake Plowman Hot Band (red hot 4 piece rocking country band). Pubs, Clubs, Weddings, Divorces, etc. Contact: 07846 669890 or 01432 342018. Email: info@martinblake.org Website: www.martinblake.org THE CASTLE STREET QUARTET: Vocal and sax led combo playing all of your favourite jazz standards. From ballads to boogie-woogie and samba to swing, we can provide the perfect music for wedding receptions, parties and fundraising concerts. Check out our repertoire and hear some samples on castlestreetquartet.co.uk or call Jon Weller on 07850 019489. DREWS BREW – hear the harmony, feel the beat. 3 piece band bringing you songs from Eagles, Lady Antebellum, Queen, Blondie, Amy Macdonald, Alan Jackson, KT Tunstall and more. So, sit and listen or party the night away. Contact: drewsbrew@icloud.com Richard on 01885 489119 or Peter on 0777 0851450. FLATWORLD Roots ‘n’ grooves from Eastern Europe and beyond. Lively 5-piece band with magnificent tunes and kicking rhythm for your festival, wedding, party or pub. Also circle dancing with caller. Contact Neil on 01684 569611 or 07866 021489; www.flat-world.org.uk or email info@flat-world.org.uk THE FLOK Duo/Trio/Band suitable for most occasions. Kate Thomas lends her stunning voice to a refreshing mix of material from the likes of KT Tunstall, Pink and Mumford & Sons, ably supported by Dave Luke (guitar/mandolin/ vocals) and a solid but subtle rhythm section. Dave 07967 029159 Kate 07817 019918 daveluke1@hotmail.com - or like us on Facebook!

THE HANNAH BAILEY BAND play soul, classic rock, pop and blues. Featuring Hannah, the queen of midland soul on vocals and guitar. Double keyboards, guitar, bass and electric drums (they can be turned down - or up!) and vocal harmonies provide their funky sound. You just “gotta, gotta, gotta” book them for your party or pub. Contact Bill Pitt on 01584 819394. HOT CLIMATE Ultimate party band, best 6-piece line up ever. For top musical entertainment at your party/ wedding/festival or corporate function. Book now! New footage on www.hotclimate.co.uk. Contact Charlie 01568 613895 or mobile 07702 528088 anytime! HOTSY-TOTSY If you’re seeking musical entertainment with a vintage twist from the golden age of swing, delivered by experienced performers, dancers and musicians who exude elegance, sophistication and glamour, also specializing in strict tempo for ballroom, latin and fun sequence dancing, then Hotsy Totsy Entertainment Inc. can help. Different line ups for different occasions, tailor made entertainment for your event. Parties, Weddings and Corporate Events catered for. Contact Naomi 01588 674823 or email npayne14@yahoo. co.uk www.hotsytotsyentertainmentinc.co.uk LE FREAK Upbeat party covers band. Great 5-piece outfit for any dance event. Hear us on soundcloud.com/ lefreak357066067 or phone Nick on 01981 540348 or 07952 415487. LITTLE RUMBA A classy four piece band featuring Hugh, John, Jacqui & Pete, from The Tango Band and The Rumbajax, playing moody, melancholy music everything from East European and South American to the Blues. Viola, violin, accordion, saxophones, guitar, vocals and bass. 01547 520339 www.littlerumba.com MELOMANICS Really fun duo, trio, or full Ceilidh band, more than just great music - stilts as well if appropriate! Modern, traditional and original tunes with a cosmopolitan flavour. (Specialité: Timoléon pour vos soirées Françaises). Ideal for parties, weddings, fund raising events, festivals, shows, pubs, restaurants etc. For info call Tim on 01743 719438 or Rich 01743 718612, email tim@melomanics.co.uk, website www.melomanics.co.uk MOSTLY JOHN CEILIDH BAND Cast aside that economic gloom. Why not let our merry minstrels, aided by the lovely Pammy (“no, no, no!”) restore your joie de vivre at your party, wedding or knees-up. John 01588 661096. MUCH ADO - The band for your ceilidh or barn dance. 4-piece band with caller for ceilidhs, barn dances, weddings, parties, shows, fetes, etc. Alan Oberman 01982 570432, email alan.oberman@gmail.com. See website www.muchadoband.com OVER THE HILLBILLIES - Lively, foot stomping, rip-roaring band performing everything from Led Zep to Kylie, Dolly to Motorhead, and Blur to the Bee Gees. With a look fashioned straight from “Deliverance”, playing on a banjo, fiddle, tea-chest bass, drums, harmonicas, geeetar and a suitcase(!) we are perfect for pubs, festivals and anything else that involves drinking and dancing. For bookings call Linda on 01686 670409 or find us on Facebook.com/Over-the-Hillbillies. YEEEEEEHAAAAAA!

PIANIST FOR ALL OCCASIONS BAFTA winning composer Ric Lloyd (founder member of The Flying Pickets) will play for all your corporate events, weddings, functions, parties, restaurants and other celebrations. A wide repertoire of standards, jazz favourites, pop and boogie-woogie. Many pro years experience in the music and theatre world, which includes playing shows and accompanying singers. I can also do gigs with a female vocalist and trio. Wearing my other hat I am Musical director for The Hornettes (female trio) who sing Tamla Motown and 60’s songs. Dust off your beehives and bring your dancing shoes for this one! www.facebook.com/riclloydhornettes Phone: 01974 282515. E-mail: pianist@mm.st RAY STROUD Respected electro-acoustic finger style guitarist/singer. Huge repertoire of songs and tunes from 60s-90s and originals plus ragtime and country picking. Sets to suit venue - folk, roots, jazzy pop, soft rock, or a mixture. Also available in the duo Thyme Bandits and four piece power pop Hush. Friendly and professional. Call 07962 916333 or email raystrack@talo5.plus.com http://www.bandmix.co.uk/ray-stroud RHYTHM THIEVES Funky, folky and fun. Firm favourites at festivals, pubs, parties and events around the Midlands and beyond, Rhythm Thieves are a lively must-see band who deliver an unforgettable and highly entertaining night out. “Full of fire and enthusiasm” Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2 “Great, super, lovely - our resident band” Genevieve Tudor. BBC Radio Midlands Folk Show. “If they don’t make you smile, you’re probably dead.” Wheaton Aston Folk Festival Tel: 01568 770 134, e-mail rhythmthieves@hotmail.com SEAN SAYE Music from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Great party music, capturing the retro vibe. Contact tel: 07734 399497 or email seansaye@yahoo.co.uk. Website www.seansaye.com. SILVER BRANCH Ceilidh/folk band, complete with caller and PA system. Multi-instrumental 5-piece band playing traditional Irish/world music and contemporary tunes. David: 01981 540832, Anna: 07980 961187. SLIPPERY SLOPE Silly, melancholy and beautiful music played on accordion, fiddle, guitar and steel pan. From ska to klezmer via a Parisian cafe and a Russian vodka bar. For more info please call Jo or Ben on 01981 510136 see www.slipperyslope.org.uk or email slipperyslope@hotmail.com SOUL SUPPLY 6-piece soul, Motown and R & B Party Band. Guaranteed to turn your event into a hive of nonstop dance floor activity. Available for weddings, parties and corporate events. Full PA, lights, staging and disco as required. 079905 75531 or 01568 708868 www.soulsupplyband.co.uk info@soulsupplyband.co.uk STASH Rockin’ good folk. Firey fiddle, souring guitar, pounding rhythms, with bouncing energy. Folk rock at its best. Please phone Mick on 01432 840475, Wizzy on 01432 263317 or Will on 07960 569784.

STOMPING-GROUND Versatile 3 piece party band. Ideal for weddings and function’s. Contact Richie 07817 620644. www.stomping-ground.co.uk www.stomping-ground.co.uk STONED CHERRIES Are: Dave Evans, guitar, mandolin, vocals; Roger Pugh, guitar, mandola, vocals; Aly May, whistles, vocals and Matt Donaldson, bass, percussion and vocals. A dynamic folk / rock fusion of original, traditional and modern songs and tunes. Roger 01885 483425 / 07779 694615 / pugh@live.co.uk or Dave 01886 822132 / 07817 220016 / dgand2@btinternet.com www.dgand2.wix.com/ thestonedcherries THE ROCK OF AGES EXPERIENCE BackTrack to the 80s with The Rock Of Ages Experience Tribute Band. Ian: 07736 816136. See our live video on our website www.therockofagesexperience.com STEADY EDD & THE BOOGIEMEN Boogie Woogie and its best, jazz and soul - let the good times roll! Contact Edd, on 01432 769077, www.steadyedd.co.uk TROVATORI Classical singers Darren and Caroline perform opera and musicals through to modern ballads and folk accompanied on guitars. Live, stylish and bespoke entertainment. www.trovatori.com Tel: 07971 880794 or email mail@trovatori.com THE TRENSETTS ROCK BAND: Good dancin’ good listenin’. Real authentic music. For parties, weddings, clubs, pubs. Reasonable fees. Contact Gwyn on 01686 625665 /07831 557292. THE VILLAGE QUIRE - a reputation for spine-tingling harmony singing with all the emotional clout, subtlety of expression and love of life that you get when voices are raised together in song. Music from and inspired by the folk harmony, west gallery and shape note traditions all woven together with words and stories performed by actor Phil Smith. New show for 2014. ‘Precious Bane’ by Mary Webb: “Phil Smith injects a gamut of humanity ... The Village Quire deliver with conviction and gusto ... authentic passion and the enduring quality of the original prose.” (Mike Lewis) (01497) 847676. www.villagequire.org.uk TRIO TANGENTE Violin and vocal led spicy fun energetic Latin/Tango/Hot Club/ Gypsy influenced band. For all occasions. Contact Faith 07870 320022. XL’S Maximum R’n’B, Feelgood Rock & Roll. 01588 650686. ZIGGY STARDUST EXPERIENCE The Spiders from Kington play early Bowie; from “Space Oddity” to “Aladdin Sane” in full costume! Available for festivals, gigs and parties. Release Your Inner Starman Let All The Children Boogie! Call Richie Cotterill on 07777 661252.

theatre PERFORMANCE

Sat 1 August EMMA HEARTBREAK PRODUCTIONS. Admire the wit and humour of Jane Austen’s characters that are still recognisable and relevant today. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, £12, 01694 724106, www.strettonfestival.org.uk Wed 5 August MY DEAREST GIRLS: THE LETTERS BOOK Tells the stories of six women across county, town and country as their friendships evolve, history happens and the war begins to draw to a close. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, £10, 01694 724106, www.strettonfestival.org.uk Sat 15 & Sun 16 August ROMEO & JULIET - FAMILY CAMP Tents, campfires and the world’s greatest love story! Willow Globe Theatre, Shakespeare Link, Penlanole, near Llandrindod Wells, LD1 6NN, £65 per family for weekend, www.shakespearelink.co.uk Thurs 20 - Thurs 27 August FAIRYTALES NICOLE & MARTIN’S AMAZING TRAVELLING THEATRE. Award-winning Nicole & Martin tell spine-tingling fairytales in a way you’ve never seen before. Funny, poetic, jaw-dropping, imaginative, awe-inspiring and brilliant! Suitable for the whole family, (over the age of 6+). 20 Aug - The Musicians of Bremen, 3pm, (in aid of St Michael’s Hospice). 21 Aug - Hansel & Gretel, 7pm. 22 Aug - The Girl Without Hands, 7pm. 23 & 25 Aug - The Fisherman and His Wife, 3pm. 26 Aug - Hansel & Gretel, 7pm. 27 Aug - The Girl Withouth Hands, 7pm. The White Tent, Went’s Meadow, Presteigne, £15/£12, children £8, family deals. Box office by the White Tent opens one hour before the show. Thurs 3 & Fri 4 September WATCHERS A MARKET THEATRE SHOWCASE PRODUCTION. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 8pm, £7, 07967 517125. Thurs 3 - Sat 5 September ABSENT FRIENDS Exploring friendship, marriage and what it means to be happy. Ayckbourn’s writing and acute social observation have never been sharper or more biting. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, £17/£15, 01743 281281. Sat 5 September THE MAN CALLED MONKHOUSE Blending film archive and stand-up material, this is Monkhouse’s story, the man with a ‘Teflon’ veneer, an expert comedy technician and a stand-up legend. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, £16/£14, 01743 281281. Wed 9 September THE HITCHIKERS GUIDE TO THE FAMILY A one-man show about love, loss and motorways. Actor, writer and UK poetry slam champion, Ben Norris battles service stations and lower league football in search of the man who became his father. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 8pm, £10, 07967 517125.

Wed 9 - Fri 11 September WAITING FOR GODOT Beckett’s ground-breaking, meditation on the meaning of life and death. That moves seamlessly between absurdist comedy and philosophical drama. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, £17/£15, 01743 281281.

MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA Thurs 6 August SCHOOL’S OUT @ THE ART FESTIVAL The performance will showcase what local youngsters have achieved during an initial 4-day workshop in musical theatre, culminating in a stage performance. Church Stretton School, 7.30pm, 01694 724106. Part of Church Stretton Festival. Thurs 13 - Sat 15 August THE WIZARD OF OZ Performed by participants of THE BIG SING SUMMER YOUTH PROJECT. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7pm, plus Sat matinee, 2pm, 07967 517125.

CHILDREN’S THEATRE

Thurs 20 August SONG OF THE TURTLE LEMPEN PUPPET THEATRE. A beautiful story about following your dream, told with shadows, table-top puppets and traditional storytelling. Oscars, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 2pm, £6/£5, 01584 878141.

DRAMA WORKSHOPS

Mon 3 - Sat 15 August BIG SING SUMMER YOUTH PROJECT Run by West End performers to perform the Wizard of Oz (see Musical Theatre). Market Theatre, Ledbury, 10am-4.30pm. For more details facebook.com/BigSingUk or 07908 853914. HAY SENIOR YOUTH THEATRE For 12-17 year olds. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye. Call Janine Sharp on 07733 055430 for details or to express an interest. MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Tuesdays Junior Youth Theatre 8-11, 4.15pm-5pm. 11-14 years, 5.15pm-6.15pm. Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells Senior Youth Theatre 14+ 7pm-9.30pm. The Drama Centre, Llandrindod Wells. Contact Ralph Bolland on 07810 350994. Mondays NO STRINGS ATTACHED Puppetry and Mask Theatre with The Fetch Theatre Co. 11-16, 6.30-8pm. Ludlow Assembly Rooms, 01584 878141. Mondays APPLETREE THEATRE Junior Youth Theatre for children 7-11 years, 4.15pm-5.30pm. Senior Youth Theatre for 11-16 years, 5.45pm-7pm. The Appletree Studio, 15 Lower Galdeford, Ludlow, SY8 1RU. £60 per term. office@appletreetheatre.co.uk or phone 01584 318015.

Mondays YOUTH THEATRE Conquest Theatre, Bromyard. Ages 6-11 4.30-5.30pm, ages 11-14 6-7.30pm, ages 14-18 7.30-9.30pm, 01432 340555. Mondays (during term time) BRYCHEINIOG YOUTH THEATRE Led by Andrew Sterry and Gareth Williams. Ages 9-12 6-7.15pm, ages 13-25 7.30-9pm. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622. Tuesdays SENIOR YOUTH THEATRE The Courtyard, Hereford, £62 term, 01432 340555. Tuesdays DAI Y BANNAU Focussing on acting, scriptwriting, singing and dancing, storyboarding and set design. Dai Y Bannau is a Welsh medium multimedia theatre group. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 4pm, for ages 7-12 years, 01874 611622. Tuesdays THE ITC / IMPROV THEATRE For ages 11-25, £24 for 6 week block. SpArC, Bishop’s Castle, 3.45-5.15pm, 01588 630243. Tuesdays YOUTH THEATRE IN WIGMORE Wigmore group runs at Teme Valley Youth Project, 3.30-4.30pm for 6-11 year olds, 5-6.30pm for 11-16 years old. £40 per term. 01568 770110 or visit www.courtyard.org.uk Tuesdays YOUTH THEATRE Drama workshop for 7-14 year-olds after school. Ledbury Market Theatre, 01432 383663. Wednesdays KINGTON YOUTH THEATRE With Kington Primary School. Wed - Years 5 & 6, 4-5.30pm. Years 7,8 & 9 5.30-7pm. Senior 7.15pm-8.45pm, £40 per term, 01432 340555. Wednesdays THE COURTYARD KIDS For reception Year 2, led by Helen Durant, £65 per term. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555. Wednesdays and Fridays INTERMEDIATE YOUTH THEATRE Year 10s Wed and Year 11s Fridays. The Courtyard, Hereford, £60 per term, 01432 340555. Thursdays and Saturdays SHROPSHIRE YOUTH THEATRE Providing training in a range of theatre skills for ages 5-25. All abilities welcome. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury. Contact Maggie Love: 07813 026367. Every Thurs ADULT DRAMA CLUB AT THE GLOBE IN HAY for anyone interested in having fun trying out some performance skills with Janine Sharp. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7-30pm-9-30pm. £6. Janine on 07733 055430. Thursdays LEINTWARDINE YOUTH THEATRE Run by Teme Valley Youth Project. For ages 11+. Leintwardine Community Centre, 4-5pm, 01568 770110. Thursdays LUDLOW DRAMA WORKSHOP For all ages: 16 + and adults, 7.30-9.30pm at Appletree Theatre, 15 Lower Galdeford, Ludlow SY8 1RU. No experience needed. www.ludlowdramaworkshop.org.uk Contact 01588 673219. Thursdays IMPULSIVE THEATRE COMPANY For ages 13-19. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 5-6.45pm, 07916 277928. Fridays and Saturday JUNIOR YOUTH THEATRE For Year 3 - 9 led by either David Durant or Ellen Dorsett. The Courtyard, Hereford, £75 per term, 01432 340555. Saturdays PETERCHURCH DRAMA AND FUN CLUB Open to all abilities. For ages 6-12, 10am-11.30pm, £3 per session, 01432 340555. Every Saturday HAY YOUTH THEATRE AT THE GLOBE IN HAY for ages 7-11. Excl. half term, 10.30-12.30pm, £6. Loads of fun! Call Janine Sharp on 07733 055430.

For the first time ever in Presteigne! Nicole & Martin’s amazing travelling theatre, present 4 fairytales.

20th - 27th August on Went’s Meadow, Presteigne, LD8 2BW Show on 20th in aid of St. Michael’s Hospice. Shows for everyone over the age of 6, teenagers & adults too. Don’t miss it. Tickets: £8 children, £12 concs, £15 adults + family tickets. ‘Funny, jaw-dropping, imaginative, magical, awe-inspiring, brilliant!’ What to see: Lyn Gardner’s theatre tips The Guardian, 2013 tickets@nicole-et-martin.ch www.nicole-et-martin.ch

word Poetry & Storytelling

Sat 1 August POETRY EVENING Allen Fisher will read his poems inspired by a range of concerts and events from the Three Choirs Festival. Apple Store Gallery, Hereford, 7-8.30pm, £5 to include a glass of wine. Part of Three Choirs Festival Plus, www.3choirs.org 0845 652 1823.

Comedy

Sat 5 September SEAN HUGHES: MUMBO JUMBO The show consists of stories including being serenaded at the break of dawn by Robert Smith, trekking mountain gorillas in Rwanda and coming to the conculsion that he will never have a proper conversation with his mum. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 8pm, £14/£12, 01982 552555.

Talks

Sat 1 August MUSIC AND... GOSKONTSERT Soviet Control of music and musicians. A talk by Michael Bordeaux, a Russian scholar. Left Bank Coach House, Hereford, 11am, £5. Part of Three Choirs Festival Plus, www.3choirs.org 0845 652 1823. Sat 1 August & Sat 5 September THE TOWER OF ST JAMES’ CHURCH, WIGMORE Open for guided tours from 10am-4pm. Juniors under 8 can be occupied with drwaing or stickers while waiting for older members of the family, 01568 770150. Mon 17 August ROSS ON WYE CLASSICAL MUSIC SOCIETY ‘Handel and His Singers’. His relationships with his ‘Divas’. With speaker Tony Robson. Christ Church, Edde Cross St, Ross-on-Wye, 7.30pm, £6, visitors welcome, 01989 567750.

Thurs 27 August - Sat 1 September PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL 27 Aug - Medieval Radnorshire, a talk by Nigel Jones followed by a coach trip. Village Hall, Evenjobb, 11am, £10. Espansiva, a film by Barrie Gavin. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 2.30pm, free. Pre-Performance Talk, Assembly Rooms, 7.15pm. 28 Aug - Why Shakespeare? Poetry with Paul Edmondson. St Michael’s Church, Discoed, 11am, £7.50. A Good Honest Trade, an illustrated talk by Peter Lord. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 4pm, £6. Pre-Performance Talk, Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7pm, free. 29 Aug - PrePerformance Talk, Assembly Roooms, 7pm, free. 30 Aug - Around the Buildings of Presteigne, an historical walk with Duncan James, St Andrew’s Church Hall, 12.30pm, £6. Burton, a one-man show with Rhodri Miles. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 5pm, £15, students £6. Pre-Performance Talk, Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7pm, free. 31 Aug - Barrie Gavin at 80. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 11am, £6. Music & Life, Matthew Taylor in conversation with Thomas Hyde. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 4.30pm, £6. Pre-Performance Talk, Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 6.15pm, free. 1 Sept - The Sounds of Life. Musical discovery with Stephen Johnson. Village Hall, Titley, 11am, £7.50. Why Outreach, Sophie Lewis leads a discussion. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 4pm, £6. Pre-Performance Talk, Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7pm, free. 01544 267800, www.presteignefestival.com

Workshops & Courses WEA HEREFORD BRANCH ADULT COURSES Six-seven week morning courses in:Art & Culture of Central & South America. Calligraphy & The Art of Magna Carta. Early European Renaissance Art. Tess of the D’Urbervilles & Hardy’s Poetry. Study Days 10am-4pm, £20 each include 19 Sept - Blanche Parry, Herefordian and Courtier. 10 Oct - The Eye: How We See. All in Hereford. Details contact 01531 634460 or 01981 251426. Email: herefordbranch@wea.org.uk ORIEL DAVIES 2015 OPEN WRITING COMPETITION Writers are invited to submit either poems (up to 50 lines each) or prose (up to 1,000 words each) that focus on the theme of ‘flora’, The winning entries (one for best prose and one for best poetry) will receive a £50 voucher to

Barrie Gavin, Presteigne Festival

spend in the gallery shop. The entry fee is £3 per piece submitted. Closing date: 2nd Nov 2015. Contact: desk@orieldavies.org / 01686 625041. STORYTELLING WORKSHOPS Led by Carol Florence Graham at the Story Space studio, Grange Court, Leominster. Next workshop October 17th 2015. Also available are creative coaching sessions, CPD training for educators and individual tuition in Tai Chi Movements for Wellbeing. For more information see www.storyspace.co.uk Every Tues READING ROOM The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.30am-12.30pm, £48 per term, 01432 340555. First Wednesday of the month POETRY CAFE, Charlton Arms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 872813. 2nd Wed of each month MID WALES WRITERS GROUP An informal writers’ group for wordsmiths of all kinds. Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells, 7.30pm, £2.50, 01982 552555. Last Wed of each month POP UP POETRY - GRIOTS ARTS Tomatitos, 38 Lion St, Hay-on-Wye. Also featuring a visiting poet with an open mic. Page and performance poets, call 07961 589616 to register for the open mic. Admission by donation, www.griotsarts.com 4th Thurs of each month HAY-ON-WYE AMNESTY GROUP The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7-8pm, 01497 821153. International Poetry Writers’ Collective: Abergavenny 01873 856350 Leominster Writers' Circle, Leominster Community Centre, 01568 610451. Mid-Border Arts Writers’ Circle, Presteigne 3rd Tues, Assembly Rooms, 7.30pm. 01544 260255 Tenbury Writers’ Group Tenbury Library, 01584 812585. Border Poets 01547 530380.

WEA HEREFORD BRANCH Adult Courses available From September 2015 6/7 week morning courses in Hereford City: Art & Culture of Central & South America Calligraphy & the Art of Magna Carta Early European Renaissance Art Tess of the D’Urbervilles & Hardy’s Poetry Saturday Study Days 10am-4pm Cost £20 each 19th Sept: Blanche Parry, Herefordian and Courtier 10th Oct: The Eye: How we see Brochures available at Herefordshire Libraries Fee remission may be available for those in receipt of income related benefits, please ring to check. For more information or to book your place contact 01531 634460 or 01981 251426 Email: herefordbranch@wea.org.uk Further courses and Resource Centre workshops in Spring 2016.

grass roots Green Events Until Sun 2 August GUIDED WALKING TOURS IN HISTORIC HEREFORD Meet at the Elgar statue in the Cathedral Close. Walks last between 60-90 minutes. 11.30am, 2.30pm on Sundays, £4, £1 under 16s, 0845 652 1823. Part of Three Choirs Festival Plus. Sun 2 August SCARECROW SUNDAY Enjoy the Scarecrow Trail. Flowers and organ recitals all day in the church. Open workshops and scarecrow trail, secret auction, dog show, children’s sports, bouncy castle, produce, plants and cakes, castle tours and much more. Brampton Bryan, near Bucknell, 11am-5pm, £2 entry to the fete, children free. Sun 2 August KNUCKLAS CASTLE COMMUNITY LAND PROJECT Allotment celebrations. Barbecue, local produce, tea, cakes, drinks, raffle, quiz, music and fun. All welcome, 3-6pm, 01547 520263. Sat 15 August ORLETON & DISTRICT GARDENING CLUB SHOW Plants for sale, raffle, tea and refreshments from 2pm. Auction of produce 3.30pm. Orleton Village Hall, www.orletongardeningclub.co.uk Sat 15 August BISHOP’S CASTLE CHALLENGE WALK A 24 mile hike with 4000ft of ascent. Starts and finishes at Bishop’s Castle Town Hall. Details 01588 638467. Wed 19 & Thurs 27 August WHEELS FOR ALL SHROPSHIRE Come and join the Shropshire inclusive cycle session on the new cycle trail for all abilities. Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, 11am-2pm, free, to book a cycle or find out more, contact Ian Tierney, 01952 234213, ian.tierney@cycling.org.uk Thurs 20 August BROMYARD GREEN PARTY FORUM A social meeting to discuss local issues. Traffic calming of High St, Bromyard, planning application for local solar array, local housing, wildlife preservation and any other ideas. The Falcon, Bromyard, 7.30pm, all welcome, 07779 694615. Wed 26 August SUMMER WALK WITH DR NIGEL BAKER Freelance archaeologist and historic towns’ specialist. Shrewsbury walk. Meet outside Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery. 6.30-8.30pm, £5 adult, £3 child. 01743 258881. Sun 30 & Mon 31 August LUDLOW GREEN FESTIVAL 30 Aug - The Green Fair, Castle Square, Ludlow, 10am4pm, free. Stalls and green products, music, food and fun activities. 31 Aug - Ludlow Green Festival Walks Programme. Various starting points in Ludlow town centre, 10am-5pm, free. 31 Aug - Music with Little Rumba and Jess Hall, supported by Take Four. Ludlow Brewery, The Railway Shed, Station Drive, Ludlow, children’s games 6-7pm, band from 7pm. www.greenfestival.co.uk for full details.

August & September SOUTH WEST SHROPSHIRE GARDENING CLUB 20 Aug - Outing to Cwm-Weeg, Dolfor, near Newtown. 5 Sept - Annual Club Show. 23 Sept - A Flower for Ever Day, the 12 month Garden with Pam Pittwood. Lydbury North Village Hall, 01588 620055. August - October TREDEGAR HOUSE EVENTS Until 22 Oct - Behind the Scenes Tours, every Tues & Thurs, 12.30pm & 3pm. Until 30 Oct - Architectural Tours, every Friday, 12-3.30pm. Until 24 Aug - Nature Club for Kids, every Monday, 12-3pm. Tredegar House, Newport, 01633 815880. Normal National Trust charges apply. August FESTIVAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 2015 A series of historic guided walks with the myths and legends of Shropshire. 6 Aug - Stapley Common, A Bronze Age Landscape, meet at Mitchell’s Fold. 13 Aug - Bury Ditches, An Iron Age Hillfort, meet at Bury Ditches car park. 20 Aug - More and Lydham, Motte and Bailey, Saxon and Norman Villages, meet at Lydham Village Hall car park. 27 Aug - The Bog, A Mining Heritage, meet at the Bog car park. All 2-4pm, £5 for adults, under 16s free, booking not necessary. greenefate@hotmail.co.uk August SHROPSHIRE HILLS DISCOVERY CENTRE 17 - 21 Aug - Pirate Adventure. Fun on the seven seas, 1-2.30pm, £3.50 per accompanied child aged 3 - 11 years. 24 - 28 Aug - Stone Age Mammoth Hunters, 1-2.30pm, £3.50 per accompanied child aged 3 - 11 years. 3 - 7 Aug & 31 Aug - 4 Sept - Tree Spirits, 1-2.30pm, £3.50 per accompanied child aged 3 - 11 years. 10 -- 14 Aug - Science with a Bang! 1-2.30pm, £3.50 per accompanied child aged 3 - 11 years. Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, 01588 676060. Sat & Wed, Until September HEREFORD CATHEDRAL GARDEN TOURS 2.30pm, £5 from the Cathedral Shop, 01432 374210. Group tours booked at other times. Cream teas served in the College Hall, www.herefordcathedral.org October HEREFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE TRUST 21 Oct - Fungus Foray, 10.30am-2.30pm. The Woolhope Dome which encompasses the village of Woolhope, Haugh Wood, Broadmoor Common and four HWT nature reserves. Further details and bookings www.herefordshirewt.org or 01432 356872.

Local Environmental Groups

Knighton Tree Allotments Trust (KTAT): Christine Baker 01547 529990. Presteigne Freegle (formerly Presteigne Freecycle) Terry Wells 07766 097600 www.freegle.in/presteigne Transition in Hay-on-Wye, Stephen Ainsleigh Rice, 01497 820332 and tthayonwye@googlemail.com Hereford Christian Ecology Group, meets occasionally for talks and outings. 01432 279740. Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, www.herefordshirewt.org enquiries@herefordshirewt.co.uk 01432 365872. Transition Ledbury Paul/Beverley Kinnaird 01531 634788 or transitionledbury@googlemail.com. Transition Leominster, Regular meetings, contact Ann Ashley, 01885 420473 or Anne Adams, 01568 780886. Knucklas Castle Community Land Project (KCCLP), secretary Kevin Jones, 01547 520266, www,knucklascastle.org.uk, info@knucklascastle.org.uk Hereford Carbon Rationing Action Group www.carbonrationing.org.uk - Vey Straker - T: 01432 840955 - M: 07961 125470 - vey.straker@virgin.net Kington Local Environment & Energy Network (KLEEN) meets regularly 2nd Thursday of every month, 7.30pm, The Oxford Arms, Kington. Planning local action, supporting initiatives, open to all. Contact kleen@momentary-lapse.co.uk Teme Valley Environment Group - Anne-Mary Davies 01547 528833 Will O’Leary - 01547 528792 amdskyborry@hotmail.com www.tveg.org.uk Transition Presteigne meets first Thurs of every month, (except Jan, April & Aug), Wine Bar, Presteigne, 7.30pm, 01544 267768 or email transitionpresteigne@gmail.com Ludlow LA 21 - David Currant - 01584 875501 davidcurrant@phonecoop.coop, www.ludlow21.org.uk Shrews. Friends of the Earth - http://www.shrewsfoe.org. uk- Frank Oldaker 01743 260971 frankoldaker@yahoo.co.uk Herefordshire Friends of the Earth - Paige Mitchell 01432 277857 - www.herefordshirefoe.org.uk co-ordinator@herefordshirefoe.org.uk Lightfoot Enterprises - The Old Primary School, Church St, Bishop’s Castle, Tel 01588 630683, E mail info@lightfoot.org.uk, www.lightfoot.org.uk Herefordshire Action for Mammals (HAM) Dave Smith, 7 Primrose Close, Hereford, HR2 7QX. 01432 266937 davetreesmith@aol.com https://sites.google.com/site/herefordshiremammals/ Abergavenny & Crickhowell Friends of the Earth www.monmouthshiregreenweb.co.uk - Barry Greenwood 01873 852245, bgreenwood@ntlworld.com LLES – Llanidloes Energy Solutions - www.lles.co.uk Diana Berriman - 01686 411128 - office@lles.co.uk Brilley Mountain Eco - (Brilley and Michaelchurch Environment Group) - Peter Davies, 01497 831376, peterandgilldavies@hotmail.com Golden Valley Environment Group - Vanessa Hembling, 01981 550377, golden_valley@mail.com, www.goldenvalleyenvironmentgroup.org.uk Transition Hereford - Charlotte Lake 01432 343577 www.transitionhereford.org Rea Valley Environmental Group (ReaVEN) Aims to promote sustainability and environmental concerns throughout the Rea Valley. reaven@live.co.uk. Radnorshire Wildlife Trust - 01597 823298, info@rwtwales.org, www.rwtwales.org Presteigne Freecycle for Presteigne and surrounding area, groups.yahoo.com/group/presteignefreecycle. For other areas www.freecycle.org Upper Onny Wildlife Group. Meetings at The Crown Inn, Wentnor, Bishop’s Castle. Richard.keymer@yahoo.co.uk

complementary therapies Disclaimer. We would like to emphasise that these listings relate to COMPLEMENTARY medicine practitioners. Broad Sheep does not endorse any of the practitioners or healing methods listed. We provide no recommendation and take no responsibility for their content. A RANGE OF THERAPIES AVAILABLE IN LEOMINSTER including Indian Head Massage; Aromatherapy Massage and Reflexology. Humphrey Clement Bsc MFHT offers an holistic personal approach using organically sourced products where possible. On-site Chair Massage available for groups or in the workplace. To enhance your mental or physical wellbeing call 07702 038063 for a consultation or email healing.rose@icloud.com www.healing-rose.co.uk ACCREDITED COUNSELLOR REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND CLINICAL SUPERVISOR, offers supportive, non-judgemental, face-to-face, skype and telephone sessions to individuals, couples and groups. Richard Lewis MSc Integrative Psychotherapy, Post-Grad Dips - Consultative Supervision and Children and Young People. BACP Sen. Accred., UKCP Reg. 01547 510360. A is for ACUPUNCTURE with Joanna Bruce RGN, B.Ac, M.B.Ac.C. Traditional Acupuncture for pain management, acute and/or chronic health problems. Phone for free initial discussion on 01568 709142. Stoneleigh, Kingsland, HR6 9QS. registered and insured with the British Acupuncture Council since 1986. ACUPUNCTURE. Sandy Sandaver Lic Ac MBAcC. I practice an integrated style of acupuncture using 5 element and TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and am a member of the British Acupuncture Council. I also carry out home visits. Hay Acupuncture Clinic, Rose Cottage, Cusop Dingle, Hay-On-Wye 01497 821625/07980 596218 sandysandaver@onetel.com or www.hayacupunctureclinic.co.uk ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE in Hereford. Individual lessons and small groups with Ann Rowan MSTAT. BA. ARCM, 01432 279536. ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE in Leominster HR6 8QJ. Individual lessons with Janet Jameson MSTAT. 01568 613467. ALLERGY &/OR FOOD INTOLERANCES? Find out the complete picture by having a blood test to help you make the best choices for your health. Enquiries: 01568 709142. AROMATHERAPY & REFLEXOLOGY TREATMENTS OFFERED IN LUDLOW. Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils extracted from plants, which have a number of properties, that may, when used, help improve overall emotional health. Reflexology can be a wonderfully relaxing treatment that in turn may help relieving everyday tension. Both treatments may aid you in your overall sense of well being. Contact Emily Baker BA Hons, MIFPA, MAR and CNHC registered, on 01584 529053 or 07775 652993. HILARY FOXWELL BTAA, AHSC, GWCG. Recovery, self-maintenance, health & well-being for your individual needs. Bowen technique treatment for muscle, skeletal, nerve, respiratory, intestinal conditions. Alexander technique tuition to retrain muscle action, breathing, body-mind reactions. Energy and emotional healing release for stress, grief, old trauma. Practitioner since 1984. Clinics in Tenbury Wells and Tenbury Wellness Centre. 01584 819010. COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY for depression, anxiety, panic, stress, OCD, relationship problems and more! Couple counselling, relationship counselling and individual counselling for most issues. Sessions held in the Presteigne area, Leominster and Hereford. Contact Gail Venables on 01544 350384 or see www.cbtgail.co.uk. MBACP (Accred).

CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY Specialist in treating & assessing children & young people with mental health or behavioural issues or dealing with distressing situations. I also offer support to parents, carers and adopters (providing them with a space to think separately about their children) or work with parents/carers and children together. I am also able to help mothers and babies with attachment issues. I can provide supervision to other therapists, consultations and training to professionals. I can provide services at the Family Place in Hay-on-Wye and Hereford, I can provide services throughout the area. ACP accredited. Valérie Mortin BSc. 07961 885646 or Email: vivalavie@yahoo.com COUNSELLING/PSYCHOTHERAPY. Jane Cooke Dip Gestalt Therapy, CSS, RCN Cert Group & Family Work, Registered Member MBACP, CAPO. Presteigne & Llandrindod. Safe, creative, equal approach. I have wide life & work experience; I work to support your increased understanding of yourself, & do not judge or try to change you – change comes through your awareness & when you are ready. jane.cooke@heartfeltwork.co.uk 07771 950899. COUNSELLING IN LUDLOW area. Talk in complete confidence, with warmth and without judgement, with Julia Walling BA(Hons), PGCE, Dip.EH.P.NLP (BHR), MAC. In private practice for 25 years, I am trained in a wide variety of therapies and combine them to meet your needs. Clients consistently report improvements in wellbeing within a few sessions. Panic/anxiety specialist. Short and long term for individuals, couples and families. 01584 874636 07796 596451 julia.walling@btinternet.com and www.juliawalling.co.uk CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY with Jess Pailthorpe RCST. Safe, effective, light-touch treatments to help you heal & repair. Muscle/joint problems, stress, anxiety, fatigue, trauma…. Clinics in Leominster, Kingsland and Hereford. Phone to talk or book: 07981 866 667 / www.touchtreetherapy.co.uk CRYSTAL THERAPY Touchstones School of Crystal Therapy provides fully accredited training in Crystal Therapy in Mid Wales. Principal Lauren D’Silva is Chair of the Affiliation of Crystal Healing Organisations (ACHO), she is fully qualified and experienced teacher, therapist and author of Touchstones Manual for the Crystal Therapist. Whether you want to learn more about crystals for your own enjoyment and well-being, or work as a Crystal Therapist, Touchstones has a course for you. Lauren is also available for Crystal Therapy sessions and can offer Hypnosis and Colour Therapy. Call 01597 822749 or visit www.crystal-therapy.co.uk EMOTIONAL THERAPYAnne Cummings MFETC (Adv Dip) BAoG (Dip). Safe, effective therapy to improve and enhance personal potential. Specialist knowledge and experience with panic attacks, anger issues, severe anxiety, bullying, bereavement and depression. If you have difficulty relating to others, or persistent, troublesome emotions call Anne on 01547 530977. See also www.thewritetofeel.com See also www.thewritetofeel.com EXPERIENCED THERAPIST based in Bleddfa. Treatments for:- Back, neck and joint pain, weight issues, including hypno gastric banding) fears, phobias, stress, anxiety, addictions, alcohol and nicotine dependency etc. Contact JAN LLOYD B.Ed Hons, DHyp, CPNLP, DEMDR. Bowen Therapist (ECBS and US Bowen trained), Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master and Teacher. 01547 550215 or email oghanlloyd@msn.com

HEALING and COUNSELLING in Bishops Castle. Energy healing can help you create Positive Change by relieving blockages which may be causing physical, emotional or spiritual difficulties. Such blockages may prevent you from living a full and nourishing life. I also offer individual counselling sessions. I am a fully qualified personal counsellor and accredited CRUSE bereavement counsellor. Contact Philomena Houlihan-Wood BA, Cert. ESH, Dip. Couns. Tel : 01588 638242. Email : Philomena@soul-healing.net Web : www.soul-healing.net. MASSAGE THERAPY WITH MARIAN HARDIMAN (MTI, CNHC, MLDUK). Remedial, Sports, Holistic, Indian Head Massage. Organic Facial and Manual Lymph Drainage. Clinics in Presteigne (The Retreat) and Llandrindod Wells (Rock Park) or at your workplace or event. Contact: marian@ silvanmassage.com, www.silvanmassage.com, 07816 981454. JENNIFER HODGE DO Registered Osteopath. Cranial Osteopath. The Old Rectory, New Radnor 01544 350241. HOMOEOPATHY Sandy Underhill RSHom. Homoeopathy is a system of medicine which involves treating the individual with highly diluted substances, given mainly in tablet form, with the aim of triggering the body’s natural system of healing. Based on their individual symptoms, the homeopath will match the most appropriate medicine to each patient. Clinics in Llandrindod Wells, Kington and Presteigne. 01597 851021. HOMEOPATHY : My name is Shayna, I have worked as a registered nurse for 23 years and am now a registered Homeopath. I work in the Newtown and Montgomeryshire and am happy to visit you at home should you prefer. Following a consultation to determine your unique ailments, be they physical, mental or emotional, a remedy will be carefully selected to match your specific disease. The remedy prescribed will help to stimulate your body’s natural ability to heal itself. I am very approachable and welcome any interest whether to ask questions or simply to book an appointment. Please contact Shayna Cashmore RN LicWSH RSHom. 07528 774 032. LEOMINSTER NATURAL HEALTH CENTRE: Qualified therapists offer acupuncture, structural re-alignment, medical herbal medicine, remedial and holistic massage, reflexology, ear candling, reiki, psychotherapy, cognitive behaviour and couple counselling, hypnotherapy, health kinesiology, nutrition at the Leominster Natural Health Centre, Community Centre, Leominster, 01568 616411, www.leominstercommunitycentre.com. MARIE HUDSON. Yoga classes in Presteigne and Titley. One-to-one tuition available for individual needs. Registered Association for Yoga Studies practitioner. Registered with Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council for Yoga Therapy. 01544 260352. MASSAGE THERAPY Injuries, stress, relaxation. Claire Williams I.T.E.C. / N.I.M. 01544 267172. Clinics in Presteigne, Ludlow and Hereford. PHYSIOTHERAPY, CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY, REFLEXOLOGY & YOGA with Hermione Evans, Chartered Physiotherapist at Radnor Physiotherapy. For all back and neck pain, headaches, sports injuries, RSI, stress related illness and more. To discuss your needs or to make an appointment, please phone 01544 350691 or email contact@radnorphysiotherapy. co.uk or view www.radnorphysiotherapy.co.uk PSYCHIC READINGS: Clairvoyance, Tarot & Astrology (tape inc). Gifted & compassionate reader with over 20 yrs professional experience. Personal and telephone readings (pre-booked) available. ROWIE 01432 820684. REFLEXOLOGY Helping to relieve stress, regulate hormonal imbalances, sleep and eating patterns. Aid the release of toxins and restore energy levels. Over 20 years experience - Jo Davies ITEC 01544 267100 or 07876 796885. Clinic in Presteigne, home visits available.

SIAM SMILE TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE BY (GAN) JANYARAK MORRIS. Stressed out? Neck and shoulders tension from too much time on computer? Low back pain? Or just want to pamper yourself? I can help! I am qualified in Traditional Thai Massage, Reflexology-Foot Massage, Facial Massage and Aromatherapy. Certificates recognized by the Ministry of Education in Thailand. Ground Floor, 3 Broad Street, Knighton LD7 1BL. Tel: 07538 572123 or (eve) 01547 550249 www.siamsmilettm.webs.com SPIRITUAL HEALER Naturally gifted in releasing emotional grief in present and past lives. 25 years professional experience with physical and mental health. Private healing sessions and talks given. Gillian Williamson, MNFSH. Field House, Kinnerton. 01547 560874. SPIRITUAL MEDIUM - Emily Baker, clairvoyant, clairsentient, and clairaudient, spiritual art, offering individual or party bookings. For more information call Ludlow 01584 529053 or 07775 652993.

Workshops

WORKSHOP LISTINGS - Single listings are free. Year round, ongoing workshops will cost £40 per year for inclusion in the magazine and website. Tues 4 August YOGA MONKS - BACK TO BASICS A unique workshop with world-renowned teacher and founder of the Yoga Monks method, Jonathan Monks. Suitable for all. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, £30, to book, email info@yoga-hayonwye.com

HEDGEROW MEDICINE, KITCHEN PHARMACY: Herbal Medicine Making Courses with Rowan McOnegal, Medical Herbalist. Practical weekend courses which explore identifying, growing, harvesting, drying, storing and using herbs. Covers the basic principles of herbal medicine, and making and using teas, tinctures, infused oils, ointments, creams, syrups, inhalations and baths. www.rowanmconegal.co.uk or 01531 670075. YOGA CLASSES AND ONE-TO-ONE LESSONS An integrated and holistic approach to working with movement, breathing and mindful, restorative practice. Classes in Moccas, Hereford, Eaton Bishop and Peterchurch. 1:1 sessions at Hereford Centre For Natural Health, Belmont, Yeleni Support and Therapy Centre, Hereford. Contact Nicky at www.nickyjaquesyoga.co.uk or 07817 268689 for more info. TAI CHI MOVEMENTS FOR WELLBEING A simple sequence which can promote physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing. This enjoyable form of movement meditation can enhance creativity and help realise true potential. One to One sessions available at Grange Court in Leominster and in Hereford. Contact Carol Florence Graham carol.florence@tmwtraining.com or phone 01432 507703.

YOGA IN PRESTEIGNE

Group classes and individual tuition Marie Hudson 01544 260352 www.theyogapractice.org.uk