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Shopping and Disinformation I

AM very aware of the problems people living in small rural communities face, but I am here to help and give advice. There is nothing worse, after you have been banging on about shopping locally and not using plastic bags, than one of your neighbours catching you in the act of sneaking around Leominster Morrisons with a trolley full of crap. Luckily I can give you a quick run down on the local superstores and (in the event of meeting anyone you know) a ready made set of excuses as to why you might have ended up there. Well since we started in Morrisons, Leominster, let us continue there. Leominster - Morrisons A chap I knew, who did a lot of flying out of Shobdon Aerodrome, told me about navigating home in the dark. Apparently Leominster Morrisons is the most outstanding feature in the night-time landscape, lit up like a fairground, all you have to do is head for Morrisons, then hang right and bingo you’re back at the airfield. However, apart from crash-landing your plane on top of it, there isn’t a single other good excuse for being in the place. It used to be the only place to get fresh fish, but both Kington and Presteigne now have good fish shops. The wine selection is improving but is still nothing special. In short, the only excuse for being there is the man selling AA membership in the foyer. Pete’s Advice - wear dark glasses and if somebody greets you, just dump the trolley and run. Leominster - Aldi & Co-op Facing each other across the street by Leominster Bus Station these two offer shoppers a cornucopia of possibilities. For a long time Aldi was jam-packed and the Co-op was empty so if you needed a can of dog food, it was no contest. You could be in and out of the Co-op in 17 seconds, not to mention the free parking. Then they re-organised and refitted the Co-op and very, very surprisingly, it was a success and although Aldi is still winning two to one, the Co-op is buzzing. They have even been known to open a second cash till on occasions. Incidentally, talking of cash tills, why does Aldi only have a teeny-weeny one foot square bit of space to load your groceries after the till? Is it meant to hurry you up? The problem with Aldi and specifically with Aldi’s wine selection is although extremely good value and usually great quality, everybody else shops there and they recognise the labels. So if you’re running a bar at a gig and trying to get away with £15 a bottle the punters are all going “Oh yes, we drink that at home, it’s only £4.26”. Meanwhile over at the ‘good old’ Co-op, the excellent Piemont Barbera is only £5 a bottle and no one will recognise it and you can pick up some of their equally good own brand salted caramel ice-cream while you’re at it. If you run into anyone you know, well you’re right in the middle of town and can pretend you were on your way to the wholefood shop or the library or perhaps your yoga class at the Community Centre. Okay, now it’s time for some advice about shopping in the big city.

Sainsbury’s - Hereford Sainsbury’s is a bit of a tough one. Like Morrisons, Leominster, it’s kind of down it’s own cul de sac, so you can’t pretend you’re going anywhere else except the Hereford Travel Lodge which is down the same alley. I did try staying at the Travel Lodge one desperate night when my E-bike ran out of battery and the rather snotty woman at the desk said ‘That’ll be £85”. “85 quid, you must be effing joking, I’d rather sleep on a park bench”. You’re bound to run into someone you know so you’d better have your excuses ready. I was forever running into Martin Blake there (local celebrity, stalkers advice - he lives round the corner). The best thing to do is pretend you are buying either something very hard to obtain elsewhere like Bio Degradeable Potato Starch Poo Bags, or something very embarrassing. I am reliably informed ‘Women’s things’ will stop the conversation in its tracks, although like you, I have no idea what that could mean. Waitrose - Hereford Before Waitrose opened, one was hoping it was going to be really posh like Henley, Harrods and Hampstead. But in fact, given it’s situation next to TK Maxx, Costa Coffee and Nando’s, it’s about as posh as my Uncle Alf (the only person I’ve ever known who actually bought a Wartburg!) Basically it’s identical to all the other supermarkets, only everything is a quid more expensive and it’s got an awful lot of fizzy wine. If you should unfortunately run into one of Barbour-coated mates there, the best thing to do is pretend you’re buying something even posher than they have in their basket like Partridge Bone Marrow or Gluten Free Pâté de Fois Gras. Lidl - Hereford This is far and away my personal favourite. It is situated at the end of that fabulous bit of new road, the dual carriageway linking Edgar Street and Commercial Road. Nobody, but me, knows about this bit of road, so consequently you are never likely to meet anyone you know. It’s a great place to park if you are going to the hospital and don’t want to take out a second mortgage to pay for the hospital car park. That also provides you with a perfect alibi, but more important than that, nobody’s going to recognise the labels on your wine choice. How about Grignon-les-Adhémar at £4.99 a pop. No one’s ever heard of that. Finally and most importantly, find a lay-by with a really big rubbish bin you can stop at on the way home so you can ditch all the plastic wrapping and stick it all in brown paper bags. “I’m home dear. Just been to the Farmer’s Market”. Cover pic: ‘Revellers’ Mass, National Dance Company Wales The Hafren, Newtown, 21 March + Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7 May

small ads LOOKING FOR CALM, MATURE, POSITIVE, EMPLOYED LODGER to share country cottage near Weobley, Pembridge. SINGLE ROOM £400 PER MONTH , 9 miles from Leominster, email Pippa for details at pippa.heaven.1967@gmail.com JOIN US FOR AN AMAZING ADVENTURE TOUR TO REMOTE VILLAGES OF UKRAINE, experience its culture, cook with locals, visit old wooden churches and visit enchanting city of Lviv UNESCO heritage site! We travel in small groups up to 8 people. Dates: 19-26th of May 2019. For more info visit http://www.experienceukraine.co.uk or phone Nataliya on 07963 090838. WYNNES OF DINMORE COUNTRYSTORE Tea room, Poultry, Pygmy Goats, Supplies & Housing. Tuesday Saturday 9am-4.30pm. Wynnes.co.uk 01568 797314 BEES, BEES, BEES! Are you interested in keeping bees but don’t know how to start? Our ‘Bee Ready’ weekend course can provide you with the basic knowledge you need, plenty of encouragement and the opportunity to handle bees before getting your own. Held on our family-run smallholding, and with lunch and tea provided on both days, learning is easy-paced, with small groups giving plenty of time for questions. Now taking bookings for our next course on May 18th and 19th - please phone on 01886 884752/07813 276308 or email woodruffbank@btinternet.com. VIOLINIST & TEACHER - Emma Gardiner. Technique is your tool for creative expression! emmagardinerviolin@gmail.com 077305 71882. HANCOCK & MONKS MUSIC, 6 Broad Street, Hay-on-Wye. Tel: 01591 610555. Specialists in recorded and printed Classical Music for over 40 years. Huge stock of secondhand CDs, sheet music, scores and books on music. Open daily 10.30am - 4.30pm. Online catalogue at www.hancockandmonksmusic.co.uk VIOLIN & VIOLA LESSONS given by experienced professional in Presteigne. All abilities and styles taught. John Hymas 07969 440183. LEARN GUITAR (ACOUSTIC OR ELECTRIC) Individual tuition for adults 16 plus, music graduate, professional guitarist. Whatever level, you’ll learn songs or music you enjoy. 07729 059847, 01584 876584, paul.wrightson@gmail.com PIANO TUNER AND TECHNICIAN Based in Llanidloes, serving Mid-Wales. Please contact Matt 01686 412753 or 07843 440789 or email vicky@mousematt.net

BLACKSMITHING EVENING CLASSES MORNING CLASSES AND SHORT COURSES at Bluefoot Forge. For details, phone 01544 267810. info@wherethelightgetsin.co.uk or visit www.wherethelightgetsin.co.uk P/T OR OCCASIONAL WORK WANTED Cheerful, fit, educated, mature woman seeks employment. Clean driving licence, DBS checked. Anything considered from office/ business support to house sitting including driving, gardening and dog walking. Phone Katie 01547 520328.

CHAIR RUSH AND CANE SEATS. Furniture repairs. Paul Richards 01544 209067. CATERING CROCKERY, CUTLERY AND GLASSWARE FOR HIRE. Up to 100 settings. Contact Ruth on 01544 350559 or 07870 752325. JAZZ PIANO TUITION A specially created course for beginners through to intermediate level students. Also coaching for Associated Board jazz exams. Presteigne/Knighton, but happy to travel. Simon Deeley, 07890 303681. simon.deeley@aol.com TREE PRUNING SERVICES From one branch to an entire orchard. Tel: 01544 260656. PIANO LESSONS. Lavinia O’Meagher, LRAM, has been a senior tutor at the Music Department of the City Literary Institute in London, and had long experience of teaching adult amateurs of all grades, from beginners to postgraduate students and professionals. She has given recitals for many years. She is a performing and teaching member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. 01547 510 355. laviniaomeagher@gmail.com PRESTEIGNE POP CHOIR Every Thursday. Contact John Hymas for details: 07969 440183, john@johnhymas.com WANTED URGENTLY VINTAGE CLOTHING for male/ female, plus accessories including jewellery, shoes, etc. Also wanted: quality curtains, lace and textiles, even damaged. Plus designer clothing including male/female... tweeds, evening dresses etc. Also unusual items including fans etc. Please telephone: Annie 07798 632247. Teagowns and Textiles. annies.30@hotmail.com VIOLIN/VIOLA LESSONS All styles, all ages, beginners to advanced. Help with composition, theory, aural training. Accompaniment also offered. Ring Tony on 01544 321925 or visit his website: http://camelmusic.co.uk for a CV and more information. 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. A STITCH IN TIME Careful repairs & creative alterations to well-loved clothes. Vintage a speciality. Anne 01544 267997. 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

HAYSTACKS MUSIC, Backfold, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EQ. Tel: 07527 298199. Headline making independent music shop only a one minute walk from the main car park. A destination shop packed with new and machine cleaned vinyl records, CDs, books and more. 1000’s of items £4 or less.

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Are You Quite Sure? I

T’S Descartes’s fault. Well, not entirely: Plato and Kant must take some of the blame, so must particle physics, not to mention a member of the Magic Circle. I know what you’re thinking: ‘When you’ve stopped rambling, perhaps you’d like to get to the point - assuming there is one.’ Oh yes, there is one alright. Several actually. It’s about appearance and reality. And scepticism and humility. You remember the song ? - ‘Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be’ - well, this little offering is about things not being what they SEEM to be, and what we should all do about it. It was Plato who put an early spanner in the works by driving a wedge between how things ‘really’ are and how they appear to be. His idea was that there’s a reality beyond what we experience with our senses, so what we experience is merely a pale reflection of that reality. [Readers wishing to take their minds off Brexit might like to read Plato’s parable of The Cave, in The Republic.] So according to him reality is always beyond our reach. Unknown and unknowable. We live in the shadows of the cave, not in the light. [By the way, a colleague once asked me to talk to his students about Plato’s Theory of Forms. The man’s secretary later wrote to remind me that I had agreed to give a talk about Pluto’s Theory of Farms!] As for Descartes, if he’d got himself a proper job we might never have benefitted from his advice urging us not to trust our senses, because they sometimes fool us. Or that we mustn’t trust anybody who tries to tell us what’s what, such as politicians, the clergy, or the judges on Bake Off. What he said we need is a thorough-going scepticism. Doubt everything, until you are sure it’s true. And be careful, very careful, about what makes you believe you are sure. He has a point, don’t you think? People’s claim to be certain is surely a major scourge of our times, and the cause of many of today’s ills - wars, religious bigotry and political unrest. A little doubt is a breath of fresh air, and can be refreshingly creative. Speaking personally, I try to have doubts about at least six things each day. But it takes courage, because doubt is often seen as weakness. What politician wouldn’t go up in our estimation if s/he

had the confidence to say ‘Actually I haven’t a clue what policies to adopt, or how to vote’? Or if a church leader were to admit ‘Well, I THINK there’s a god, but who knows? Your guess is as good as mine.’ Kant, in those rare bits of his writings that anyone has ever managed to disentangle, pointed out that to some degree our senses create the world we live in. What we see - or think we see - depends on our eyesight. And some things we will never be able to see, because that’s how our eyes are; by the same token certain sounds too are beyond our hearing, unless you happen to be a bat. So in a way the world we inhabit is not the world that animals inhabit: it doesn’t look the same, smell the same, taste the same. Nor is awareness of time and space the same for all living creatures. Maybe we each live in our own world, a world we cannot fully share with others. We certainly can’t assume that others experience things just as we experience them, and we should be jolly grateful, otherwise there would be no music, or poetry, or science or S4C. We live in a world of contradiction. Everywhere. Particle physics assures us that solid objects aren’t solid at all. They just SEEM solid. We experience the world as still, yet we know it’s moving through space at unimaginable speed. Things Ain’t What They Seem To Be. Appearance and reality are not identical, which comes as a relief when you’ve just seen a man walk through a wall or make an elephant vanish. My father used to have a friend who was a member of the Magic Circle. Through him I developed a professional interest in magic and illusion, since questions about appearance and reality, belief and evidence, perception and the mind, are topics of lasting interest to philosophers. A strong case could be made that if ever there was a time when these matters needed to be taken with urgent seriousness, that time is now. It is only through talking to one another - and even more crucially, listening to one another - that some of the apparent chasms existing between people might be bridged. I’m sure we need less certainty and more, much more, creative doubt. [Well, I’m almost sure.] Philosopher-in-Residence

Letters I really enjoyed Pete’s column on T.V. car programmes (Feb. 2019), especially his description of the Car SOS presenter Tim Shaw as “lanky and obnoxious”... I couldn’t have put it better myself! There really are too many useless presenters clogging our TV screens these days, the most obvious candidate is Tim Wonnacott (or Winnalot) with his stupid voices, sniggering, Bertie Wooster mannerisms, and out-dated 1950’s phrases. I enjoy the general run of antique programmes, but surely the BBC could resurrect some of the programmes where Winnalot does the voiceover and simply use a different voiceover? AND, “off” is not pronounced “orff”; sick-making! Cheers,

John Gray, Knighton

art POWYS St Michael’s Church, Discoed, near Presteigne LD8 2NW www.discoed.org 6 March - 22 April ‘The Seven Last Words’. The sixth Lent exhibition. Guided as in previous years by Charles MacCarthy, fourteen artists have been asked to respond to the ‘Words’, making a sequence similar to the Stations of the Cross. Featured artists include CAROLYN BLAKE, JULIENNE BRAHAM, NICK BUSH, YVONNE CROSSLEY, SIMON DORRELL, NICKY HOPWOOD, CIARA LEWIS, VIV LUXTON, ROGER LUXTON, CHARLES MACCARTHY, PETE MACKENZIE, KATIE SIMS, ANTONIA SPOWERS AND JANE TUDGE. Open 10am-5pm. Glasbury Village Hall, HR3 5TH 07583 544110 1 - 5 March 16th Annual Exhibition. With a range of local talent including students from GWERNYFED HIGH SCHOOL, guest artists and two significant paintings by the late Kyffin Williams and Martyn Jones, on loan from Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Gallery. Open Fri 6-8pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm, Mon & Tues 10am-4pm. Entry fee, £3, but free to Glasbury Arts members and children. Caffi Sosban, The Square, Llanwrytd Wells LD5 4RB 07900 350146 March ‘Perspectives’. MIKE LEWIS photographs. Open 9.30am-3.30pm, closed Wed. Tower House Gallery, 29 High St, Knighton LD7 1AT 01547 529530 March ‘Down on the Farm’. Paintings, ceramics, bronzes, Welsh wool, wood and cards. Wed-Sat 10am-4.30pm. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 9 March Grand Spring Sale. Clothes, vintage, collectables and jumble, refreshments. 10am-2pm, £1 in aid of Shelter and Help Refugees, 01544 262864 or 01544 370637. 23 March New! Courtyard Antiques at The Assembly Rooms, 9am-2pm.

Erwood Station Gallery, Llandeilo Graban, Builth Wells, LD2 3SJ 01982 560674 March A constantly changing mix of materials and styles occupying over 2000 square feet. Complimented by paintings and sculpture, plus seasonal exhibitions. Open daily 10.30am-5pm, tea room closes 4.30pm.

Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown 01686 688369 From 24 March ‘Poems and Prints’. ANDREW BALDWIN - printmaking with non toxic mediums for intaglio printmaking. Open Thurs-Sun 11am-4pm. Knighton Fine Art, 2 Broad Street, Knighton 01547 528052 www.knightonfineart.co.uk knightonfineart@btinternet.com March ‘Radnor Spring’. ANDY HAZELL, LOIS HOPWOOD, KATE MCLEAN, LAURA LUNN,STUART ROPER, BETH WILLIAMS, BRONTË WOODRUFF, LESLEY WOOTTON. C20 & C21st British art, crafts and greeting cards. Wed-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-1pm. Pavilion Mid Wales, Spa Rd, Llandrindod Wells LD1 5EY 01497 258118 9 March Artisan Market. Arts, crafts and makers showcasing their work. Open 10am-4pm. The Hay Makers, St John’s Place, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5BN 01497 820556 18 March - 12 May Easter exhibition. RODNEY LAWRENCE - ceramics. ELIZABETH RAEBURN - ceramic sculpture. JAMIE POOLE - collage pictures. HOLLY BELSHER jewellery. Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Closed on Tues & Sun until - mid March. Andrew Lamont Gallery, Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, Canal Wharf, Brecon 01874 611622 Until 24 March ‘Celebrating Women in The Outdoors’. An exhibition of art and photography. 21 March - 23 April ‘Wild Things’. TESSA WAITE. Open theatre times. Minerva Arts Centre, Llanidloes 01686 413467 23 March World Textile Day Wales with guest artist Jacqui Carey. Featuring exhibition of woven, printed and embroidered textiles, Fair Trade market, weaving and braiding demonstrations, presentations and talks. 30 March - 13 April Vintage Style Spring 2019. Sale exhibition of textiles, clothes, china and ephemera from yesteryears. 10.30am-4.30pm. Closed Sun. Cheese & Butter Market, Hay-on-Wye 07866 843538 Every Fri & Sat Flea & Vintage Market. Vintage clothing, bric a brac, antiques and jewellery. Open 9am-5pm.

The Workhouse Studio, Presteigne Industrial Estate 01544 267864 March Rare antique carpets and kilims. Cafe. Mon-Sat 10am-4pm. Wyeside, Castle St, Builth Wells 01982 552555 Until 8 March ‘Winter Medley’. KNIGHTON PAINTING & SKETCHING GROUP - paintings. Tues-Fri 5-9pm, Sat & Sun 2-9pm. The Table, 43 Lion St, Hay-on-Wye 01497 822802 www.thetablehay.com 2 - 23 March PAUL OSBORNE & CHARLES SHEARER. 30 March - 20 April KAREN BIRKIN & SOPHIE WINDHAM. Open Thurs-Sat 10am-4pm. The Globe, Newport St, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5BG 01497 821762 Open 11am-6pm. The Drawing Room, 10 High Town, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AE gallery@thedrawingroomathay.uk Until mid March ‘Black Snow’. Curated by MARK HARRELL. Inspired by the condition S.A.D. (seasonal adjustment disorder), monochrome show of drawing and sculpture. From mid March ‘Spring Trees’. Open Thurs-Sun 10.30am-3.30pm. Museum of Modern Art, Tabernacle, Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth SY20 8AJ 01654 703355 info@moma.machynlleth.org.uk Until 2 March - BARRY DAVIES anatomical studies of natural history in bronze sculpture. Until 2 March Roy Marsden’s Heatherdene Group. Until 6 April ‘Strata’. PHILIP HUCKIN. Until 6 April ‘ Interventions 2019’. Culture Colony. 9 March - 4 May Past Winners of the Tabernacle Art Competition. 9 March - 4 May ‘People’. Portraits and figures from the Tabernacle Collection. 13 April - 22 June ‘The Lost Whaling Stations of the Sub-Antarctic’. THEO CRUTCHLEY-MACK - paintings. Mon-Sat 10am-4pm. Courtyard Antiques, High St, Presteigne, 01544 267033 March Antique pottery, country furniture and art. 10.30am-3pm. Eirian Studio Glass, 5, The Craft Centre, Oxford Rd, Hay On Wye, HR3 5DG 01497 821346 March EIRIAN STUDIO GLASS Handmade glass design and manufacture. Thurs- Sat 12-4pm.

Mark Harrell, Drawing Room, Hay-on-Wye Jenni Stuart-Anderson, Creative Breaks, Old Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parlour, Hereford

Matthew Day, Apple Store Gallery, Hereford

Angela Lewin, Tinsmiths, Ledbury

Alys Wall, Made in the Marches Gallery, Kington

St Andrew’s Church Hall, Presteigne 07968 842219 23 March Zany Lady and friends. Flea Market Brocante supporting Macmillan Nurses. Open 9am-2pm. Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown 01686 625041 Until 18 March ‘Cartographic Imaginaries’. Group exhibition. A collection of twelve commissioned artworks that respond to twelve English language novels set in Wales. 6 April - 5 June ‘In Between the Folds are Particles’. ANNA FALCINI. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. HEREFORDSHIRE Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad St, Hereford 01432 260692 Until 2 March ‘Textiles in Context’. Hereford College of Arts BA (Hons) Textile Design first year students. 16 March - 18 May ‘BrickHistory’. Lego works created by WARREN ELLESMORE. Open Tues-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-12.30pm. Hereford College of Arts, Folly Lane & College Rd Campus, Hereford 01432 273359 23 March & 1 May University Level BA (Hons) Degrees Open Day at College Rd Campus, 11am. 14 March, 9 April & 15 May College Level (post GCSE), Foundation Diploma & Portfolio Course at Folly Lane Campus, 6pm. 2 May MA Open Evening Contemporary Crafts and Fine Art at College Rd Campus, 5pm. The Prospect, Ross on Wye www.createross.co.uk 17 March ‘Museum Without Walls’. Unveiling of the first locations of Museum Without Walls using augmented reality. The fountain that once stood in the centre of The Prospect has been recreated. 4pm, free. Part of Ross Reinvented Festival. Tinsmiths, 8A High St, Ledbury 01531 632083 19 March - 29 April ‘Prints, Pots & Plants’. A joint exhibition by artist, illustrator and printmaker, ANGIE LEWIN and potter, MARK DE LA TORRE. The two share an interest and draw inspiration from the plant world; Angie taking this as the subject for her work and Mark creating pots to plant into or that use leaves to decorate the clay surface. Tues-Sat 10am-5pm.

Tobias James Art & Framing Gallery, St Owen St, Hereford 07760 316959 March Works by local and national artists.

Wobage Makers Gallery, Upton Bishop, Ross on Wye HR9 7QP 01989 780495 March Contemporary craft work by makers BEN CASSON - furniture and treen. CLYDE HOARE - baskets and willow weaving. CLAIR HODGSON - silver, gold and precious stone jewellery. PATIA DAVIS, SHEILA HERRING, ANDREW McGARVA, JEREMY STEWARD, PETRA STEWARD - ceramics. Open Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm. South Chapel, All Saint’s Church, Hereford 01432 370414 1 March SIAN THOMAS - stained glass. PREETI THAPA Nepalese handicrafts. 4 - 9 March THE HEREFORD LEISURE PAINTERS. 11 - 16 March GOLDEN VALLEY CRAFT SOCIETY. 18 - 23 March Arts and crafts sale organised by Mary O’Grady. 25 - 30 March Exhibition and sale of Indian silks and saris by Jan Bishop. Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm. Mike Gell, Contemporary British Jewellery, 3 East Street, Hereford. 01432 278226 Jewellery, silverware and studio glass by more than 70 designers. Open Mon - Sat,10am - 5pm. The Old Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, 23 Church St, Hereford HR1 2LR 01432 354460 Until 30 March An exhibition of the finest crafts in the county from Creative Breaks tutors. GINN DOWNES needlework. TRICIA JONES - mosaic. TERESA KENT - enamelling. JANE MEREDITH - dyeing, weaving. BILL ROBSON - glass fusing. MARIANNE RYAN - painting and drawing. JENNI STUARTANDERSON - rag rugs. PEARL TAYLOR - felt making. JAMES WOOD - porcelain pottery. Demonstrations 11am-3pm. 13 March - Jenni Stuart-Anderson, Vintage Rag-Rug Techniques. 21 March Marianne Ryan, Sketching Techniques. 15 March - Jane Meredith, Brinkley Loom Weaving. 5 & 26 March - Ginn Downes, Hand Embroidery & Upcycling Techniques. www.creativebreaks.co.uk Open Tues-Sat 9.30am-5pm. The Courtyard, Hereford 01432 340555 Until 18 March ‘Landscapes of the Mind’. HEREFORDSHIRE ART AND CRAFT SOCIETY. 21 March - 29 April ‘Shared Freedom, Shared Future’. Students from Whitecross School, Hereford. Open theatre times.

Made in the Marches Gallery, 12 Church St, Kington, HR5 3AZ 07544 368547 www.madeinthemarches.com 2 - 4 March ‘Ar y ffin’ - Anglo-Welsh slipware & paintings. From 5 March Spring Exhibition ‘Homegrown’. Featuring work from our resident local artists and makers PAUL BAINES, GILL DAVIES, REBECCA FINNEY, NANCY FROST, JANE KEAY, CELIA KIBBLEWHITE, MALCOLM MELLEN, DEE MILLS, DAVE MULLIN, HELEN SMITH & ALYS WALL. Plus JAMES BURNETT STUART, CLARE CONRAD, DEBBIE TODD, KATIE GAMBLE, LEWIS GOLDWATER, FIONA SHONE & SARAH TASSELL. Also featuring ‘A Lifetime’s Work’, an exhibition in memory of Huntington painter Mary Clarke. Ceramics, paintings, prints, textiles, jewellery, sculpture, stone, wood, metal and willow. Cards, gifts & art materials. Commissions and vouchers available. See website for details of demonstrations & workshops. Open Tues–Sat, 10am-5pm. Thurs 10am-2pm in Term Time for Art Class. Gallery 54, 54 High St, Ross-on-Wye 01989 567917 March Continuing exhibition of gallery artists. ZOE TAYLOR, RACHEL SUDWORTH, KARLIN RUSHBROOKE & STEPHEN RIPPINGTON. Thurs-Sat 10am-4pm. Blue Ginger Gallery, Cradley, WR13 5NW 01886 880240 www.blue-ginger.com 30 March - 2 June ‘Summer is a Cumin’. An exhibition of new work by prestigious British artists to welcome the start of British Summertime. Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm. Heritage Centre, Church Lane, Ledbury www.artistreegallery.org From 6 March - ARTISTREE, cooperative of local artists, paintings, sculpture, furniture, photographs, ceramics, glass, textile and encaustic work. Wed-Sun 10.30am-4.30pm. Hereford Cathedral’s Mappa Mundi & Chained Library 01432 374258 Until 1 June ‘Creatures of the Mappa Mundi’. Part of ‘Hidden Gems’. YINKA SHONIBARE MBE (RA). Inspired by the map and its foreign creatures he has created new textile work. Meadow Arts. Greenstage Gallery, Hop Pocket, Bishop’s Frome WR6 5BT 01885 490839 Until 31 March New Year’s Show, with a mixture of work by Gallery Artists. Open Thurs-Sun or by appointment.

Apple Store Gallery, Unit 1, Rockfield Road, Hereford, HR1 2UA 01432 263937 Until 6 April ‘Next Steps’. FRAMEWORK HEREFORDSHIRE, members and friends. Open Wed-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm. Framing available. Old Chapel Gallery, Pembridge 01544 388842 www.oldchapelgallery.co.uk 2 March - 30 April ‘Song of the Earth’. Featuring new work by Featuring new work by BARBARA SHAW, MARY ANN ROGERS, JEMIMA JAMESON, ELAINE PETO, RHYS PARTRIDGE, KARIN CELESTINE , HANNAH WILLOW and more. Textile art, watercolours, acrylics, ceramic sculpture, linocuts, needle felt, silver jewellery. Open 11am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Tues by appointment. Lion Gallery, Broad St, Leominster 01568 611898 March CRAIG SUMNER - still life, landscape and pen and ink studies. Plus a variety of quality contemporary ceramics, jewellery and prints. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. The Art Shop, Cross St, Abergavenny NP7 5EH 01873 852690 2 March - 6 April ‘The Dream-Map & The Reflective Landscape’. ANDREA McLEAN - paintings, drawings and painted books. 2 March Talk with the artist, Andrea McLean, 3-4.30pm. Open Tues-Sat 9.15am-5pm. Creates Gallery & Coffee Shop, Dean Heritage Centre, Camp Mill, Soudley, Forest of Dean GL14 2UB 07535 160712 www.createsgallery.com Fine art, sculpture, glass, ceramics and jewellery. Tues-Sun 10am-4pm. Creates Gallery, Contemporary Fine Art, 15 Church St, Monmouth NP25 5DZ 07535 160712 www.createsgallery.com Fine art, sculpture, glass, ceramics and jewellery by Master Jeweller, PAUL HATTON. Tues-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-3pm. SHROPSHIRE Bishop’s Castle Town Hall 01588 630023 Until 16 March BAMBER HAWES. Open 10am-4pm. 2 March Antiques & Flea Market, 9am-4pm. 23 March - 20 April ALAN JEFFERIES.

Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, SY7 9RS 01588 676060 Until 16 April ‘Victorian Crafts’. TAMARA BURGESS - cross stitch, embroidery, diamond dotz, scratch art and paper craft. Until 16 April CAROL BOWEN pastel and watercolour paintings. GORDON BAILEY - photographs. Open 10am-5pm. Much Wenlock Guildhall, Wilmore St, Much Wenlock TF13 6HR 01952 727509 1 - 29 April ‘Mammoths in Shropshire, Lions in Venice’. DIANA NUTTALL acrylic paintings. A unique depiction of some famous scenes. Plus cards, prints, cushions, tablemats and coasters. Open Fri-Mon 11am-4pm. Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, The Music Hall, Market Square, Shrewsbury SY1 1LG 01743 258885 Until 28 April ‘Bears!’ An exhibition from Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books. Original manuscripts and illustrations from PHILLIP PULLMAN, MICHAEL ROSEN, MARTIN WADDELL, JULIA DONALDSON and many more. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Smithy Studio, Brampton Bryan SY7 0DH 07811 042478 From 30 March Rustic English home wares and design led by locally made artisan crafts and fine art. Thurs - Sat and Bank Holiday Mon 11am-4pm. Twenty Twenty Gallery, 4 Quality Square, Ludlow 01584 875363 Until 2 March ‘Polar Artists and Friends of the Scott Polar Institute’. ANDREW LANSLEY, NICK JONES, SHELLEY PERKINS. 8 March - 6 April ‘Spring Greens’. New and mature artists showing fresh new work. CLAIRE SCOTT, RACHEL REA, ANGHARAD TARIS and many more. Tues-Sat 10am-5pm.

Art & Craft Workshops

Single, dated listings are free. Ongoing workshops, £40 per year. ALEX ALLPRESS POTTERY SCHOOL - POTTERY WORKSHOPS Newbridge on Wye, Mid Wales. Pottery Workshops, tuition, courses. Half day, tasters or full day. Bespoke family/group/school and corporate team building. Book my studio or I can come to you. Throwing, slab, coil and hand building work. DBS checks. 20 Exp. Daily 9am-5pm, Late till 10pm.

By Appointment Only. 01982 552854 / alexallpressceramics@gmail.com / alexallpress.co.uk VILLAGE ART CLUBS Welcomes both beginners and experienced painters to our friendly classes where you will enjoy good company and professional tuition at a village near you. Website - www.villageartclubs. co.uk - will give you all the details, or you are welcome to ring Liz on 07938 563716 for a chat about joining. We have clubs currently running in Kington, Staunton on Arrow, Kingsland, Tupsley in Hereford, Three Elms in Hereford, Wellington Chapel and Wellington Village Hall. Our next new club will start in Leominster. Look out for details in the local press. Look forward to seeing you! CREATIVE BREAKS Learn a new skill and explore your creativity with experienced tutors. We offer a wide range of courses throughout the year:- Basketmaking, Enamelled Jewellery, Felt making, Glass Fusing, Hand Block Printing, Hedgerow Medicine, Mosaics, Painting, Pastels, Photography, Plant Dyeing, Spinning and Weaving, Pottery, Rag Rug Making, Sewing, Stained Glass, Stonecarving, Woodblock printing and Upholstery. For full details visit www.creativebreaks.co.uk Make it yourself - take it home treasure it – or give it with pride! GINN’S CREATIVE WORKSHOPS Discover your creative potential at one of my workshops covering, Art, Textiles and Sewing Techniques, catering for the experienced and inexperienced. Flexible dates to suit you. Guided by Ginn with over 30 years in teaching art & design. 01432 760961. STONE CARVING WORKSHOPS Monthly in Llangarron. HR9 6PH. Lead by Glenn Morris, experienced trainer and sculptor. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience. Full tuition and guidance tools, safety equipment and homemade refreshments. Contact Frances@artsinthemarches.co.uk or call 01989 770776. SILK SCREEN PRINTING CLASSES With Sunny Todd. 5 week evening classes, 6.30-9.30pm, £150. New Friday taster session 10am-1pm, £50. Small class sizes, outstanding tuition, homemade refreshments, classes suitable for all, beginners to experienced. Studio in Ledbury. Details 07527 048749, email sunnytoddprints@outlook.com www.ginnscreativeworkshops.co.uk

Cup Ceramics

CUP CERAMICS COMMUNITY: A NEW POTTERY STUDIO IN HEREFORD! 10 Week ceramics for all courses. One Day pottery intensives. Introduction to ceramics taster mornings. Affordable open-access membership for our beautiful, well equipped studio. For more details email info@cupceramics.com or visit www.cupceramics.com Instagram @cupceramics Facebook/cupceramics Or call 07855 868771. March THE ARTHOUSE STUDIO Creative workshops including lino printing, glass fusing, jewellery making, fabric printing, traditional glass painting, stained glass. The Art House Studio, Weobley, 07467 941208, www.thearthousestudio.co.uk March & April TRUMPET CORNER WORKSHOPS 9 March, 1 April, 6 May & 3 June - Fun morning for beginners, sketch, draw and paint with Kate Culling. 10am-1pm, £30 to include drink and cake, to book 07545 331587. 14 March & 18 April - Quilt in a Day Workshop with Bee-spoke Quilts. 10am-4pm, £65pp, per day, lunch/refreshments included, to book 01981 501043. 29 March - Indian Block printing, 10am-3pm, £95, includes all materials, lunch, refreshments, take away your creations, please book 01885 490326. Mons - Knit, Stitch & Natter Group, 1-4pm, £2. Weds - Knit and Craft Group, 10am-1pm, £2. Weds - General silver classes, 10am-12.30pm, £125 for block of 5 classes. Sat monthly - General silver classes, 10am-12.30pm, £40. Trumpet Corner Tea Room & Gallery, near Ledbury, 01531 670082. March & April PEAK WORKSHOPS 8 March - 5 April - Pottery with Martin Craddock, 2-5pm, £170 for 6 weeks, £305 for 12 weeks. 9 March - Tribe, a workshop for ages 7-11 year olds, donation £3 towards materials. 4-25 March - Basket Making with Mary Zammit, suitable for beginners, £120, 4 weeks. Tues 5, 12, 19 & 26 March + 2 & 9 April - Life Writing with Renee Stanton, 2-4pm, £55. 6 April - Botanical Illustration with Debbie Devauden, 10am-3pm, £45. Peak, The Old School, Brecon Rd, Crickhowell, 01873 811579. March & April MID WALES ARTS CENTRE WORKSHOPS 6 - & April - Two day pottery workshop with Andy Warren: Slab built forms. Booking essential. Every Wed & Thurs - Pottery and Ceramic Sculpture Club, 7-9pm, £10, all ages and levels welcome. Every Thurs - After School Club, 5-6.30pm. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, 07970 671819.

March THE CHAPEL, ABERGAVENNY WORKSHOPS 15 - 17 March - Weekend Life Drawing Course with Meriel Gold, Fri 6-9pm, Sat & Sun 10am-5pm, £200 includes lunch and refresments. 23 March - Children’s Workshop. Adventures in Movement, Music and Drawing, all ages welcome, 10am-4pm, £15 includes lunch and refresments. The Chapel, Market St, Abergavenny, 01873 736430. March EASTNOR POTTERY Potter’s wheel fun for individuals, couples and families during March. Tues-Sat 10am-4pm. Call to book a session. Potter’s wheel projects start at £30 inclusive of firing & glazing. Fabulously creative indoor activity. Potter’s wheel workshops 2 & 3, 9 and 23 March. Spend the day or weekend relaxing and creating pots on the potter’s wheel. £150 day £280 weekend. Includes materials, refreshments and lunch. Simply email admin@eastnorpottery.co.uk or tel 01531 633886. March HEREFORD COLLEGE OF ARTS Short Courses - Aspect of Garden. 6 March - Donald Everitt: ‘The Fascination of Foliage’. Folly Lane Campus, 7pm, £8 per talk to include a drink. Details shortcourses@hca.ac.uk or call 01432 845302. March BLEDDFA CENTRE WORKSHOPS 9 March - Inscriptional Lettering workshop led by John Rowlands-Pritchard, 10am-5pm, £45. 15 March - Mad March Hares: Needle Felting, led by Sue Wilson, 11am-4pm, £50 materials included. Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, 01547 550377. March CLASSES AT THE OLD SCHOOL, WHITTON Introduction to Welsh quilting followed by a six week afternoon or evening class learning to work one technique each week. Forthcoming classes, furniture restoration and upholstery, rag rug, Kantha and Boro stitching (quilting traditions from India and Japan). Details 01547 550155 or www.radnorshireartsandcraftsfoundation.org March THE GLOBE, HAY ON WYE WORKSHOPS Sat 9 & Sun 10 March - Big Skills. Wonderful Weekend Workshops from wreath weaving to Botanical Gin making (18+ for gin making). Family friendly events, from 10am. Every Sunday - Lego Club, 11am, free. Every Tuesday - Chess Club, 4.15pm, free, contact Drew on 07714 767779. One Tuesday a month (26 March) Globemakers - an informal craft group, 7.30pm, further details contact corin@lordburgess.co.uk The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 01497 821762. March COURTYARD WORKSHOPS & FAMILY SATURDAYS 23 March - Free pre-activity, make a paper plate, dog face, before film, ‘A Dog’s Way Home’, 10.30am. 30 March - Free pre-activity, make animal bookmarks, before live show, ’The Three Billy Goats Gruff’, 10.30am. Thurs - Life Drawing, 10am-1pm, £7. Tues - Playing Together, bringing older people and pre-school age together. Dementia friendly. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555. March GLASBURY ARTS WORKSHOPS 10 March - Playing with Light Digital Workshop for young people with Nick Brown. Fun sound effects and audio editing workshop, £13. Booking essential for both workshops. Glasbury Village Hall, www.glasburyarts.co.uk

Village Art Clubs welcomes both beginners and experienced painters to our friendly classes where you will enjoy good company and professional tuition at a village near you. Our website - www.villageartclubs.co.uk will give you all the details, or you are welcome to ring me on 07938 563716 for a chat about joining. We have clubs currently running in Kington, Staunton on Arrow, Kingsland, Tupsley (Hereford), Three Elms (Hereford), Wellington Chapel and Wellington Village Hall. Our next new club will start in Leominster. Look out for details in the local press. Look forward to seeing you! Best regards, Liz Watson.

March CREATIVE BREAKS DEMONSTRATIONS 13 March - Jenni Stuart-Anderson, Vintage Rag-Rug Techniques. 21 March - Marianne Ryan, Sketching Techniques. 15 March - Jane Meredith, Brinkley Loom Weaving. 5 & 26 March - Ginn Downes, Hand Embroidery & Upcycling Techniques. Old Mayor’s Parlour, Church St, Hereford, 11am-3pm, www.creativebreaks. co.uk March THE HIVE, BELMONT WORKSHOPS Fri - Buzzy Beats for under 5s. Creative, music filled workshop with Mary Keith, 10.30am, £6. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 01743 234970. March ASSEMBLY ROOMS, WORKSHOPS Twice monthly, Tues, Oscars, 7.30pm, Ludlow Photographic Club, 01584 879180. First Thurs, Studio, 7.30pm, Ludlow Arts Society, talks and demonstrations, 01584 831458. Fri, Studio, 10am-4pm, Life and Portrait Workshop, contact Chris Bean, 01584 841668. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 01584 878141. April PYSANKY WORKSHOP Designs/symbols written with bees wax with tutor Helena Orlowski in Kingsthorne, Hereford. 8 April - Adult workshop, 9.30am-1pm, £35 to include all materials and Ukrainian lunch. 16 April - Children’s workshop for ages 7+, 10am-12pm, £15 to include all materials. To book call Nataliya 07963 090838. Sat 16 March BEGINNERS CALLIGRAPHY SESSIONS Monkland Village Hall, 10am-1pm, £9. Celtic script. For info & booking please ring 01544 327657 Marches Scribes.

Wed 14 & Wed 20 March STONE CARVING COURSES With Glenn Morris. Beginners and continuers welcome. Llangarron, Ross-on-Wye. Arts in the Marches. Info and to book, contact Frances 01989 770776. Wed 20 March LEARNING AT LUNCHTIME Bring your lunch and be inspired. Watercolour with George Loades. Demonstration and Q&A. Ludlow Library, 1pm (50 mins). Tea/coffee provided, free, no need to book, 01743 250510. Thurs 21 or Sun 24 March PLANT, BORDER SUPPORT & CLOCHES One day courses making willow supports for your garden. With Jenny Crisp. 135 Bargates, Leominster, 10am-5pm, £90, 01568 615079.

CUP CERAMICS COMMUNITY: A NEW POTTERY STUDIO IN HEREFORD! We offer: 10 Week ceramics for all courses One Day pottery intensives Introduction to ceramics taster mornings Affordable open-access membership for our beautiful, well equipped studio For more details email info@cupceramics.com or visit www.cupceramics.com @cupceramics /cupceramics Or call 07855868771

GEORGINA FRANKLIN Jewellery Individual Contemporary Design Commissions undertaken

Please see website for studio opening times.

www.georginafranklin.co.uk

The Forum, 18 Market Square, Tenbury Wells, Worcs. WR15 8EA

Phone 01584 810085

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on a Western Wind...

cinema Movie-Going in the Marches

E’RE trying a new format for the Film Section which will hopefully provide a little more context and insight into what’s happening movie-wise in the Marches than just plugging a few titles, although rest assured reviews will still feature, so here goes (and do let our Esteemed Editress know what you think, see page 3). Of course for many years now Flicks In The Sticks (FITS) has valiantly filled in gaps that our few commercial cinemas and volunteer-run film society’s cannot but this writer tended not to review the films they show in rural venues across the Marches because they follow a few months behind their initial cinema release, but that’s now changing as FITS is actually quite a big organisation who can exercise clout with the film distributors. For example, an indie cinema such as Hereford’s Courtyard might show, say, A STAR IS BORN for four nights within a month of its UK release. However with their geographical reach, FITS can show it at ten or more of their village hall venues and pretty much guarantee bigger audiences and, although they’re a part publicly-funded charity, a bigger revenue for the distributors. Which means that FITS often now shows films near or at the same time our few remaining and largely independent cinemas do. This is great news for those living in small towns and villages who can’t or don’t like to drive, as I do, for 30–45 minutes to get to Builth, Ludlow or Hereford to see films on a big screen, with top-line projection kit, good sound and comfortable seats. So obviously if you’re a film fanatic and look forward to seeing new titles soon after they’re ballyhoo’d in the national media, it’s increasingly a case of paying your money and taking your choice. Where the indies do tend to excel compared to FITS (and Hereford Odeon and Shrewsbury’s Cineworld, about which more next month), is in showing, well, indie films which have necessarily limited appeal and which, I admit, I review disproportionately often here, although many of them do get shown further down the road at local film societies, which Broad Sheep also list.

What They Had

In this category I unashamedly recommend SHOPLIFTERS and WHAT THEY HAD, the former a warm if unlikely parable built around a Japanese family who eke out living on their granny’s pension by, well obviously, shoplifting. However their thefts are modest and accomplished with a sort of resigned humour and when the patriarch (Lily Franky) and his son (Jyo Kairi) stumble across a six year-old abandoned girl (Miyu Sasaki) one freezing cold night they adopt her and inculcate her into the caring if immoral nature of their family. Director Hirokazu Kore-eda has tackled family poverty and its emotional consequences before, e.g. NOBODY KNOWS, but this latest, Palme d’Or winning effort is a small, heartwarming masterpiece. That can arguably also be said of WHAT THEY HAD, American t.v actress Elizabeth Chomko’s directorial debut which explores the rather topical – well hereabouts anyway – subject of coping with a descent into dementia. But don’t be deterred by the ‘challenging’ subject matter, for this is a marvellous ensemble piece, peppered with wry humour as well as telling insights. It stars two of my favourite, often under-appreciated actors, Hillary Swank (LOGAN LUCKY, BBCtv’s wildly compelling TRUST) and Michael Shannon (99 HOMES, ELVIS & NIXON) as the siblings reluctantly coming to terms with the gradual loss of their mother (the legendary Blythe Danner, quietly sensational) and in-denial father (Robert Foster, never better). Both films should stay with you long after you’ve seen them… wherever that might’ve been. Mark ‘Cyclops’ Williams

SHEEP MUSIC AGM Wednesday 6 March, 8pm Assembly Rooms, Presteigne

All welcome Shoplifters

BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL FRIDAY 1 - SUNDAY 17 MARCH Each year the Borderlines Film Festival, the largest rural film festival in the UK, centred on The Courtyard, Hereford, but also spread across numerous venues in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Powys, brings a vast selection of new and old films. Details www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

CONQUEST, BROMYARD 1 March A STAR IS BORN (15) 3 March FAHRENHEIT 11/9 (15) 6 March THE SEAGULL (12A) 10 March THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST (15) 12 March FACES PLACES (12A) 15 March THE WIFE (15) 3 April CAROUSEL: A HEREFORDSHIRE LIFE THROUGH A LENS Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd, Bromyard. Details 01885 488575

ABERGAVENNY FILM SOC.

COURTYARD, HEREFORD

6 March A FANTASTIC WOMAN (15) 20 March THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT (15) 3 April UNDER THE TREE (15) Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, doors open 6.45pm, films start 7.30pm, 01873 850167

1 - 3 March POLINA (12A) 1 - 3 March FREE SOLO (12A) 1 March WALKABOUT (12A) 1 - 4, 6 & 7 March GREEN BOOK (12A) 1 March TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (15) 1 - 3 March COLETTE (15) 1, 3, 4 March BURNING (15) 1 March EVERYBODY KNOWS (15) Opening gala. 2 March TORTOISE & THE HARE 2, 4 March ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS 2 - 7 March VICE (15) 3 March AGA (PG) 3 March THUNDER ROAD (15) 4 March GIRL (15) 4 & 5 March BEAUTIFUL BOY (15) 4 March THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER (15) 5 March ASH IS PUREST WHITE (15) 5 March THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHRINA BLUM (15) 5 March HAPPY AS LAZZARO (15) 6 & 7 March MONSTERS AND MEN (15) 6 March SHORT FILMS (15) 6 March RAY & LIZ (15) 7 March KESULAT: A STORY OF KOSOVO (15) 7 & 8 March OF LOVE & LAW (15) 7 March EIGHTH GRADE (15) 8 - 14 March ALL IS TRUE (12A) 8 - 10 March DESTROYER (15) 8 March THE SECOND AWAKENING OF CHRISTA KLAGES (15) 8 March CAPERNAUM (15) 8 March SILENT WOMEN FILM PIONEERS: LOIS WEBER 8 March OUT OF BLUE (15) 8 & 9 March THE THIRD WIFE (15) 9 March RAFIKI (12A) 9 - 12 March A PRIVATE WAR (15) 9 March EUREKA (18) 9 March THE WHITE CROW (15) 10 March SHARED FREEDOM, SHARED FUTURE (U) 10 - 11 March IRENE’S GHOST (PG) 10 March ROSA LUXEMBURG (PG) 10 March YULI (12A) 10 March BEING FRANK (15)

ALL SAINTS, HEREFORD 15 March I CONFESS (PG) 16 March LEANING INTO THE WIND: ANDY GOLDSWORTHY (PG) All Saints Church, High St, Hereford 01432 370415

ASSEMBLY ROOMS, LUDLOW 1 March THE SEAGULL (12A) 8 March SHOPLIFTERS (15) 12 March CAT BALLOU (PG) ‘A Life More Ordinary’ screening 22 March A STAR IS BORN (15) 29 March PETERLOO (12A) Assembly Rooms, Ludlow 01584 878141

BISHOP’S CASTLE FILM SOC. 6 March SWEET COUNTRY 20 March THE ILLUMINATION 3 April BOMBSHELL Three Tuns, Bishop’s Castle, 8pm. Details 01588 680445

BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP 2 March THE THIRD WIFE (15) 6 March BEING FRANK: THE CHRIS SIEVEY STORY (15) 10 March BEL CANTO (15) 13 March STYX (15) Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye. 01497 820322

BRECON FILM SOCIETY 4 March I AM NOT A WITCH (12A) 18 March STRIKE (15) 1 April DAPHNE (15) Doors open 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Brecon Coliseum Cinema, Wheat St, Brecon. Membership enquiries 01874 623166

BRYCHEINIOG, BRECON 13 March BANFF FILM FESTIVAL Showing the Red Films, incredible adventurers. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622

11 & 14 March MARIA BY CALLAS (PG) 11 March TRANSIT (15) 11 & 12 March CAROUSEL: A HEREFORDSHIRE LIFE THROUGH A LENS 11 March 3 FACES (12A) 12 - 14 March THE RAFT (12A) 12 & 13 March JELLYFISH (15) 12 March MID 90S (15) 12 March WOMAN AT WAR (15) 13 March PERFORMANCE (18) 13 March FUTURE FILMMAKERS (15) 13 March THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME (15) 13 March POND LIFE (15) 14 March GIRLS OF THE SUN (15) 14 March BEL CANTO (15) 14 March BIRDS OF PASSAGE (15) 15 - 17 March FOXTROT (15) 15 - 17 March BENJAMIN (15) 15 - 17 March BORDER (15) 15 - 17 March IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (15) 16 March THE WITCHES (PG) 17 March THE GERMAN SISTERS (15) 17 March WILD ROSE (15) 17 March STYX (15) 17 March IN FABRIC (15) 20 March A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH (U) Dementia friendly screening 23 March A DOG’S WAY HOME (PG) Plus pre-activity 25 - 28 March IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (15) 25 March - 3 April DOWN TO EARTH (U) 26 March - 1 April BOY ERASED 30 March INCREDIBLES 2 (PG) 31 March MAMMA MIA: HERE WE GO AGAIN (SINGALONG) (PG) Details 01432 340555

1 March THE WIFE Bedstone and Hopton Castle VH 01547 530282 1 March DOGMAN (15) Garway Community Hall 01600 750465 1 March COLD WAR (15) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 1 March THE WIFE (15) The Simpson Hall, Burghill 01432 760816 1 March SWIMMING WITH MEN (12A) Staunton-on-Wye VH 01981 501031

1 March EDIE (12A) Fownhope New Memorial Hall 01432 860065 2 March THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY (12A) Ballingham Old School Hall 07967 017759 2 March SHOPLIFTERS (15) Lady Emily Hall, Tarrington 01432 890720 2 March THE SEAGULL (12A) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 568705 3 March THE WIFE (15) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 4 March THE CHILDREN ACT (12A) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 4 March BLACKKKLANSMAN (15) Church Stretton School 01694 724330 5 March A STAR IS BORN (15) Lydbury North VH 01588 680302 5 March COLD WAR (15) Garway Community Hall 01600 750465 5 March LA FAMILLE BELIER (12) All Stretton VH 07812 583113 7 March DOGMAN (15) Pudleston VH 01568 760606 7 March A STAR IS BORN (15) Brilley VH 01544 327227 7 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (12A) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 7 March WAJIB (15) Escleyside Hall 01981 510352 7 March SHOPLIFTERS (15) Leintwardine Community Centre 07572 442903 8 March THE POST (12A) Bodenham Parish Hall 01568 797932 8 March FUNNY COW (15) Marton VH 01938 580116 8 March THE CHILDREN ACT (12A) Sarn VH 01686 670943 8 March THE WIFE (15) Knighton Community Centre 01547 520602 8 March THE SEAGULL (12A) Bedstone & Hopton Castle VH 01547 530282 8 March SHOPLIFTERS (15) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 8 March FIRST MAN (12A) Stoke Prior VH 07850 0300821 8 & 9 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (12A) Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms 01588 676060 9 March SWIMMING WITH MEN (12A) Bayston Hill Memorial Hall 01743 873940 9 March COLD WAR (15) Brilley VH 01544 327227 9 March THE WIFE (15) Cawley Hall, Eye 01568 615836 9 March BLACK 47 (15) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 568705 9 March FIRST MAN (12A) Chapel Lawn VH 07964 710983

9 March SMALLFOOT (U) Dolau Community Hall 07904 883038 10 March MEMENTO (15) New Inn, Pembridge 01544 387571 10 March WAJIB (15) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 11 March ALPHA (12A) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 11 March A STAR IS BORN (15) Welshpool Assembly Room 01938 552043 12 March THE LITTLE STRANGER (12A) St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross-on-Wye 01989 568705 12 March THE CHILDREN ACT (12A) Ashford Carbonell VH 01584 874684 12 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (12A) Garway Community Hall 01600 750465 13 March SMALLFOOT (U) Clun Memorial Hall 01588 640109 13 March THE SEAGULL (12A) Cawley Hall, Eye 01568 615836 13 March A UNITED KINGDOM (12A) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 14 March A STAR IS BORN (15) Leintwardine Community Centre 07572 442903 14 March THE SEAGULL (12A) Much Birch Community Hall 01981 540097 15 March EDIE (12A) Bodenham Parish Hall 01568 797932 15 March THE POST (12A) Little Wenlock VH 01952 505497 15 March COLD WAR (15) Knighton Community Centre 01547 520602 15 March A PRIVATE FUNCTION (15) Cound Guildhall 01743 761451 15 March THE POST (12A) Bosbury Parish Hall 01531 640415 15 March A STAR IS BORN (15) The Simpson Hall, Burghill 01432 760816 15 March PUZZLE (15) All Stretton VH 07812 583113 15 March WHERE TO INVADE NEXT (15) Colwall VH 01684 540926 16 March THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG) Hanley Broadheath VH 01886 853195 16 March FIRST MAN (12A) Everest Hall, Llanfair Waterdine 01547 510672 16 March THE WIFE (15) Aston on Clun VH 01588 660545 16 March SHOPLIFTERS (15) Yarpole Parish Hall 01568 780279 16 March A BUNCH OF AMATEURS (15) Cleobury Mortimer Parish Hall 01299 271129 16 March THE WIFE (15) Lady Emily Hall, Tarrington 01432 890720 16 March A STAR IS BORN (15) Much Birch Community Hall 01981 540097

16 March SMALLFOOT (U) Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms 01588 676060 18 March BLACKKKLANSMAN (15) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 19 March THE LITTLE STRANGER (12A) Acton Scott VH 01694 781260 20 March SWIMMING WITH MEN (12A) Escleyside Hall 01981 510352 21 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (12A) Pudleston VH 01568 760606 21 March FIRST MAN (12A) Gorsley VH 01989 720358 22 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (12A) Knighton Community Centre 01547 520602 22 March WIDOWS (15) Little Dewchurch VH 01432 840333 22 March THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS (PG) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 23 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (12A) Clifton on Teme VH 01886 812238 23 March CAROUSEL: A HEREFORDSHIRE LIFE THROUGH A LENS (U) Cawley Hall, Eye 01568 615836 25 March COLD WAR (15) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911 26 March BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (PG) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 27 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (12A) Lea VH 01989 750679 28 March FINDING YOUR FEET (12) Almeley VH 07557 659291 28 March A STAR IS BORN (15) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 28 March FIRST MAN (12A) Goodrich VH 01600 890609 29 March STAN AND OLLIE (12A) Stoke Prior VH 07850 030821 31 March STAN AND OLLIE (12A) New Inn, Pembridge 01544 387571

THE HIVE, BELMONT 1 March SHOPLIFTERS (ctbc) 15 March EL SUR (PG) 20 March FUNNY COW (15) 29 March LOVELESS (15) The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 01743 234970

LEFT BANK, HEREFORD 15 & 16 March OPEN SCREEN (15) Left Bank, Bridge St, Hereford 01432 357753

LINGEN FLIX 8 March THE SEAGULL (12A) Lingen Village Hall, 7.30pm, 01544 267736. www.lingen.org.uk

OLD MKT. HALL, SHREWS. 1 - 7 March BEAUTIFUL BOY (15) 8 - 14 March GREEN BOOK (12A) 15 - 21 March IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (15) 22 - 28 March VICE (15) 29 March - 4 April FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS (12A) Details 01743 281281

PLAYHOUSE, LEOMINSTER 2 March A STAR IS BORN 4 March THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST 5 March THE GUARDIANS 6 March THE GUILTY 7 March COLD WAR 8 March BLACKKKLANSMAN 9 March THE SEAGULL 10 March FAHRENHEIT 11/9 16 March THE WIFE 17 March BLACK 47 24 March STAN AND OLLIE 25 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Sing-a-long version Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster 01568 612583

PRESTEIGNE SCREEN 1 March COLDWAR (15) 8 March THE GUARDIANS (15) 15 March WAJIB (15) 29 March HEAL THE LIVING (15) 12 April BLACKKKLANSMAN (15) Assembly Rooms, Presteigne. www.presteignescreen.org.uk

REGAL CINEMA, TENBURY 1 - 5 March THE MULE (15) 7 - 14 March ALL IS TRUE (12A) 8 - 11 March GREEN BOOK (12A) 18 & 19 March CAROUSEL: A HEREFORDSHIRE LIFE THROUGH A LENS (PG) From 21 March WIDOWS Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells 01584 811442

SAVOY THEATRE, MONMOUTH 1 - 7 March THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING (PG) 1 - 7 March GREEN BOOK (12A) 12 March THE WIFE (15) 24 March BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY SINGALONG (PG) Details Savoy Theatre, Church St, Monmouth 01600 772467

THEATR HAFREN, NEWTOWN 6 March THE WAY BACK 8 March SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN 1.30pm, pre-show light lunch available, pre-booking essential. Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 01686 614555

WYESIDE, BUILTH WELLS 1-3 March HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD (ctbc) 1 - 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24 & 30 March THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART (ctbc) 1 - 3 March A DOG’S WAY HOME (ctbc) 1 - 3, 5 - 7 March THE KID WHO WOULD BE KING (ctbc) 1 - 3, 5 - 7, 15 & 16 March ALL IS TRUE (12A) 1 - 3, 5 - 7, 17, 19 & 20 March IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (15) 6, 7, 15, 16 March GREEN BOOK (12A) 8 - 11, 13 & 14 March INSTANT FAMILY (12A) 8 - 14 March ON THE BASIS OF SEX (ctbc) 8 - 21 March CAPTAIN MARVEL (ctbc) 17 & 26 March THE FAVOURITE (15) 20 March COLETTE (15) 22 - 24, 26 - 28 March WHAT THEY HAD (ctbc) 22 - 28 March EVERYBODY KNOWS (ctbc) 24 March MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (15) 27 & 28 March STAN & OLLIE (12A) 27 & 28 March BOY ERASED (15) 29 & 30 March, 1 - 3 April THE AFTERMATH (ctbc) 29 - 31 March, 1 - 4 April DUMBO (ctbc) 29, 30 March, 1 & 3 April FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY (ctbc) Wyeside, Builth Wells 01982 552555

LIVE EVENTS ON SCREEN 2 March LA FILLE DU REGIMENT Met Opera. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 5.55pm, 01600 719401. The Courtyard, Hereford, 5.55pm, 01432 340555. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 5.55pm, 01885 488575.

THEATRE SEVERN, SHREWS. 4 April BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL (12A) Collection of short films from the world’s most prestigious mountain film festival. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury 01743 281281

3 March LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN Oscar Wilde season. Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster, 7.15pm, 01568 612583. 3 March LA FILLE DU REGIMENTS Met Opera. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 3pm, 01584 878141. 10 March I’M NOT RUNNING National Theatre live. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 3pm, 01584 878141. 24 March DON QUIXOTE Royal Opera House. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 3pm, 01584 878141. 27 March AN IDEAL HUSBAND Oscar Wilde Season from the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Encore screening. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7pm, 01952 728911. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7pm, 01584 811442. 30 March AN IDEAL HUSBAND Oscar Wilde season. Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster, 7.15pm, 01568 612583. 30 March DIE WALKURE Met Opera. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 5pm, 01600 719401. The Courtyard, Hereford, 5pm, 01432 340555. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 4pm, 01885 488575. 31 March DIE WALKURE Met Opera. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 3pm, 01584 878141. 2 April LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Royal Opera House. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 6.15pm, 01600 719401. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 6.15pm, 01952 728911. Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury, 01743 281281. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, 6.15pm, 01497 820322. 4 April LA FORZA DEL DESTINO Royal Opera House. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 6.15pm, 01982 552555.

WORKSHOPS Sun 10 March PLAYING WITH LIGHT Join Nick Brown from Mash Cinema for a full day of video projection mapping, live light graffiti and VJing. Suitable for ages 9-13 years. Glasbury Village Hall, 10.30am-4pm, £13, 07583 544110. Glasbury Arts. Wednesdays FILM MAKING CLUB The Courtyard, Hereford, 5.30pm, Ages 8-14 years, £73 per term, 01432 340555.

La Fille du Regiment

dance Kab-Er’Esque

Sat 30 March HERE COME THE GIRLS A fresh and innovative mix of Ballroom and Latin routines. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £29.50/£28.50, VIP meet and greet £59.50, 01743 281281. Tues 2 April GIOVANNI PERNICE - DANCE IS LIFE The action packed production combines the Italian’s wit and charm and features seven other world class professional dancers. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £30, VIP meet and greet £50, interval treats £7.95, 01432 340555. Wed 3 April ONE NIGHT ONLY THE VIV KELLY SCHOOL OF DANCE AND THEATRE. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £15-£12, 01743 281281.

Dance Performance 1 March THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE LILA DANCE. The Hotel Experience becomes a night of doubt, hope, crisis and unexpected encounters. Steiner Academy students make a guest appearance alongside four professional dancers. Steiner Academy, Hereford, 7.30pm, £10/£6/£30, 01981 540221. Fri 1, Thurs 21 March & Tues 7 May AWAKENING - REVELLERS’ MASS + TUNDRA NATIONAL DANCE COMPANY WALES. Revellers’ Mass is an unlikely dinner party inspired by old paintings and Tundra is an ultra-modern, mesmerising retelling of Russian folk dance and revolution. 1 March - The Riverfront, Newport, 7.30pm, 01633 656757. 21 March The Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, £9/£7, 01686 614555. 7 May - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 01743 281281. Wed 20 March CIRCUIT DANCEFEST. Dance from local schools, colleges, community groups and youth companies. Hereford College of Arts, College Rd Campus, Hereford, 7pm, £6/£4, 01905 611199, www.dancefest.co.uk Mon 25 March KAB-ER’ESQUE ENCORE DANCE COMPANY. 3rd year graduating dance and musical theatre students from Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01874 611622. Fri 29 March SBRI DAWNS POWYS DANCE. Community dancers in North Powys take to the stage in a variety of dances. The Hafren, Newtown, 6.30pm,£7/£5, 01686 614555.

Sat 30 March DANCING AROUND THE WORLD ALISHA-JAYNE DANCE ACADEMY. From students aged 2 years through to adults. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 3pm & 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01743 281281.

Dance Workshops

Single, dated listings are free. Year round entries £40 Fri 22 March DISCOVER DANCE With National Dance Company Wales. Learn some moves from your seats, get on stage and ask the dancers anything you like! The Hafren, Newtown, 1pm, £2.50, 01686 614555. ASSEMBLY ROOMS, LUDLOW CLASSES Mon - Circle Dancing, Studio, 1.45pm-3.45pm. Contact Kathryn Louhichi, 01584 877446. Tues Learn To Jive. Fun, easy to learn and no partner/experience needed. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30-8.30pm, 01989 750354. MID WALES JIVE CLASSES Mondays Rock’n’Roll [R&R] Jive in Llandovery, Tuesdays - Hundred House Village Hall, Wednesdays Modern Jive [MJ], Pant-y-Dwr Village Hall, [MJ + R&R], Thursdays Brecon Con Club [MJ + R&R], Fridays - Tywyn area [MJ + R&R], classes and dancing 7.30-10.00 £5pp. Beginners and experienced dancers welcome. Just turn-up & join-in at 7.20, with or without a dance partner. ‘Mid Wales Jive’ teaching Modern Jive, 50s Rock’n’Roll Jive, Swing-Jive. Call/Text 07767358079 - facebook Mid wales Jive http://www.peterphillips.dj/MidWalesJive/. Please call/text to check in advance, as some classes may be affected by weather or prior hall commitments.. ECSTATIC RHYTHMS DANCE – WITH CLIVE HEDGER This is a freestyle dance class drawing upon elements of 5 Rhythms, ecstatic / shamanic dance with some of the best ever music on a great sound system. No experience necessary. No steps to learn, just following your inner rhythms. Wear loose clothing and bring water. BRILLEY VILLAGE HALL HR3 6JG 1st Saturday of each month. The village hall is signposted from the Brilley to Kington road and is approximately 500 yards from St Mary’s church, Brilley. (These dates may occasionally be subject to change). 7.30pm £10 (concessions available). Info clivephilippa@hotmail.com 07905 743272 / 01982 552535.

ALANYA’S BELLYDANCE CLUB - OPEN LEVEL Monkland Village Hall - Mondays 7.30-9pm. Miro Studio, Hereford - Fridays 10.30am-12pm. No-obligation taster £6, then pay per term or block. For information and other classes visit www.alanyabellydance. com or call Abbie on 07962 161081. DANCEFEST Mon - Hereford Chance to Dance (55+), 12.30am, St Barnabas Church Hall, Hereford; Contemporary Technique (13-18), 5-6pm & Elevate Youth Dance Company (10-18) 5-7pm, Hereford College of Arts, College Rd Campus; Wed - Jigsaw Performance Company, 5-7pm, St Owen’s Centre, Hereford. www.dancefest.co.uk, 01905 611199. COURTYARD, HEREFORD CLASSES Mondays - Find Your Feet, dementia friendly dance and movement class, 10am, £2 per session. Fridays - Dancing Tots 11.30am, ages 2-4, £4 per session, £1 per extra child. Fridays - Chance to Dance 10.15am, for over 50s. Tuesdays - Zumba 1.30pm, £5, all abilities. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555. LEARN 2 JIVE BEGINNERS CLASSES Mon, 7.30-8.30pm, Bartestree Village Hall, Hereford, HR1 4BY. Tues, 7.30-8.30pm, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, SY8 1AZ. Tues, 7.30-8.30pm, Stretton Sugwas Village Hall, HR4 7PT. Tues, 7.30pm-8.30pm Pembridge Village Hall, HR6 9EB. Wed, 7.30-8.30pm, Methodist Church Hall, Tenbury Wells, WR15 8EE. Wed, 8-9pm, Holy Trinity Parish Hall, Malvern, WR14 4LR. Thurs, 6.30-7.15pm Charlestone Fitness, Point 4, HR1 1DT. Thurs, 7.30pm8.30pm, Northolme Community Centre, HR2 7SP. Thurs, 7.45pm-8.45pm Ledbury Dance Studio, HR8 2A. Fri, 11am-12pm, Tupsley Whitehouse Community Hub, Gentle Jive. Contact Matt or Sarah on 01989 750354. or info@coolmovesdance.co.uk www.coolmovesdance.co.uk Coolmoves Dance & Fitness for adults. Fortnightly Saturdays CHORUS LINE Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 07943 417561. Mondays SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING Join an enthusiastic adult group on Monday evenings to learn how to dance jigs, reels and Strathspeys at Llanelwedd School Hall, Builth Wells from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. £2.50 per session (first free). No need to bring a partner. Beginners and experts welcome. 01982 570324/01544 350707. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays MID WALES DANCE ACADEMY Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 07943 417561. Tuesdays FOXWELP MORRIS Why not try Morris dancing? We practice every Tues evening at 7.30pm in Moccas Village Hall from Sept to May. Mainly dances from the Cotswolds, but also some from the Welsh Borders. All sexes welcome, and ability to dance not necessary! Beginners welcome. Contact Emma on 01544 327311 or Paul 01497 821003. Wednesdays BIG FISH LITTLE FISH FOR MUMS AND TOTS! Dance Centre, Llandrindod Wells, 2-3pm, £3 drop in, for tots aged 8 months+, 01597 824370.

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Elliots at Dinham Hall Hotel, Ludlow

HE current lack of a decent town-centre hotel makes discerning residents and shop-keepers of Ludlow jolly cross. It’s bad enough to have lost their three Michelin-starred restaurants which, besides offering the natives somewhere special to eat, also used to draw in a steady flow of well-heeled, metropolitan punters seeking respite from the rigours of getting too rich by indulging in sex’n’noshing weekends, always leaving a little time for shopping in the town’s quite respectable array of distinctive shops. Mr P only hopes that Crest Hotels (new owners of The Feathers) have enough sense to see that the famous old place will function far more profitably if they play on all the obvious riches it brings with it and turn it into a top boutique hotel. This could be achieved with a sensible investment in creative and sophisticated restyling, backed up by the appointment of a destination chef in the cuisine. Sadly, a quick glance at Crest Hotel’s existing establishments on their website doesn’t offer much encouragement. The other potentially desirable hotel in the town, The Dinham Hall was described in Mr P’s original Guide to Eating in Ludlow, 2009, thus: Within bowshot of the castle walls and overlooking the deep, wooded Teme Valley, this handsomely built (1792) and beautifully sited hotel has, thank goodness, been taken on by new owners since the last time Mr Pernickety ate there, when his companion, a lady in rude health, had some mullet that kept her on the loo for most of the next day. It has since been bought by Frenchman, M. Franck Choblet. In this early edition of his Guide, Mr P cannot offer a first-hand account of the place under the new management, but reports so far are encouraging. They have appointed Wayne Smith as their chef d’equipe, and one imagines they aim high. Since then, somehow, this place has never really delivered on its potential. Mr P has the impression that it was conceived as an English Country House Hotel by people who don’t really get the concept, and haven’t invested the flair, the good taste and the pleasure in their customers’ company that these places require if they are to deliver on punters’ expectations and justify their premium charges. M. Choblet it turns out, has a history of taking on places with much trumpeting and great plans that never seem to come to fruition – The Overton Grange Hotel, The Salwey Arms and The Roebuck in Brimfield, for example. Mr P has the impression from many who have stayed at Dinham Hall that it simply doesn’t live up to the image of itself or the standards it tries to project on its website. Most puzzling of all is the restaurant, or ‘French Bistro’, as it describes itself, despite its distinctly English name, Elliots. Inexplicably, the owners have placed it in the least attractive space in the hotel – something like a broad corridor in a government office, with a cold hard floor and only one, fairly viewless window at one end – when they could have used a lovely bow-windowed room with a view south over Whitcliffe, currently used as the breakfast room.

To review Elliots, Mr Pernickety ate there for the first time in years, with his ancient chum, the Wrinkle-Rocker, piano player and former chef. Sitting in the scantily peopled room, with a glass of perfectly good house white, Mr P found the combination of catalogue chairs and various disconnected decorative elements created an unsatisfactory and irritating ambience. The background cocktail music was the kind of stuff they used to play in the tea-room at Harrods in the old days, Mr P and the WR reminisced. The original chef, Wayne Smith has moved, now to be found wielding a skilful skillet at Mortimers in Corve Street. The current chef is Olivier Bussot, with whose cuisine Mr P was familiar from the years he cooked at the French Pantry before it was sold. M. Bussot is a classic French provincial chef of considerable talent, and occasional bursts of inventiveness. The WR kicked off with a Devon Crab Gateau, which put an instant smile on his craggy visage. ‘Couldn’t be better!’ he gasped with his mouth full. Mr P helped himself to a slither (he was paying) and nodded in agreement. ‘Almost as good as my Scallop and Seafood Gratin,’ he added with his usual competitiveness, pleased by his dish’s perfect cheesy crunchiness with the soft succulence of the scallops. The WR stayed on the white wine with his Ray Wing, Caper Sauce and Sauteéd potatoes. Mr P prefers his batoids with a plain beurre noir, but his guest was more than happy with what he’d got, regretting only that the sautéed potatoes had been placed under the fish, making them soggy and less crunchy than he would have liked. Mr P had only one cavil with the Cassoulet that he’d ordered; it contained not the traditional Toulouse Sausage which he recalled M Bussot using at the French Pantry, but a fat local sausage – no doubt of championship pedigree, but not from Toulouse. Otherwise, the dish, a favourite, was just as it should have been. The Salted Caramel Creme Brulée with Pain d’Epice they had to end with was an unexpected delight, with lovely undertones of possibly ginger ... or mace? Agreeing that all-in-all they’d had a damn fine dinner (and incidentally, very good service) in spite of the undouce-ambience, Mr P and the WR decided to carry on the French theme of the soirée and staggered over to the Church Inn where they demanded, and got Armagnac and Calvados. Food: 9/10. Ambience etc: 4/10. www.misterpernickety.com

Fri 1 March & Fri 4 April SWAN BREWERY TASTING 1 March - Black Swan & Priory Porter, 9am-4pm. 4 April - Swan Blonde, 9am-6pm. Unit 17, Rural Enterprise Centre, Leominster, 01568 617709. Fri 1 March PIZZA NIGHT With Funke and Two Tone Baby. Music, pizza and pud. The Lost Arc, Bridge St, Rhayader. Family friendly sitting 5pm, £15, £7.50 children, www.thelostarc.co.uk Sun 10 March MAKE MEXICAN TAMALES With Pete from The Green Goat Cafe. Booking essential. The Old Mill Cafe, Llanidloes, 11am, 01686 412008. Sun 10 March MAMMA MIA - OH NO, NOT AGAIN! Dinner prepared by Leon and live entertainment. Memorial Hall, Presteigne, 6pm, £20 tickets from The Salty Dog. In conjunction with Presteigne & Norton Twinning Association. Wed 27 March POETRY BREAKFAST Poems and a delicious breakfast. Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, 9.30am, £8. Further details contact Anna, annadreda@icloud.com Every Saturday LUDLOW COUNTRY MARKET 9am-12pm at The Womens Centre, Ludlow. Local produce, handicrafts, plants & veg, cut flowers, cards. First Saturday of every month PRESTEIGNE LOCAL FOOD MARKET Memorial Hall Presteigne, 9am-1pm. The best collection of artisan food producers in the area. 2nd and 4th Saturday of every month KNIGHTON COMMUNITY MARKET Knighton Community Centre, 9.30am-12.30pm, 07751 221487. 3rd Saturday of every month FARMER’S MARKET Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 9am-1pm, 01588 630023.

3rd Saturday of every month PRODUCE MARKET Hightown Community Rooms, Vicarage Rd. Clun, 10.00am - 12.00pm. 01588 641180. Every Wednesday CURRY NIGHT Curry, naan bread and a drink, £10. Vegetarian option available. Oxford Arms, Kington. Every Thursday HAY MARKET DAY Local produce, meat and fish, hot food, artisan bread, cakes, crafts, vintage, plants. Memorial Square and Clock Tower, Hay-on-Wye, 9am-4pm, www.haymarkets.co.uk Every 2nd & 4th Thursday LUDLOW LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET 9-2pm Castle Square 01584 872043. Every Friday KINGTON LOCAL PRODUCE/CRAFTS MARKET Market Hall, Kington, 9am-1pm, 07867 483135.

FOOD BYTES 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. BLEDDFA CENTRE READING ROOM CAFE 01547 550377Bleddfa Centre Reading Room café reopens Good Friday, but we have events which include food on 1st March (Celtic Ceilidh), 16th March (piano concert and supper) and 24th March (Permaculture talk with lunch). See Broad Sheep listings. www.bleddfacentre.org 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. Tues-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm, Sat 9.30am-4pm. With The Green Bean Shop/Deli under the same roof. THE HEREFORDSHIRE GOLF CLUB, WORMSLEY, HR4 8LY Open daily for food and beverage also a Sunday Carvery 12.30pm-3pm every week, one course £9.95 two courses, £13.95. We can also cater for your private event, price includes free room hire. Call Martin on 01432 830219. THE ORGASMIC CIDER COMPANY, GREAT PARTON, EARDISLEY, HEREFORDSHIRE, HR3 6NX 01544 327244 or 07773 037448 Craft cider and perry off licence and gift shop with local products. Open Friday and Saturday 12 to 5pm. Group tours available. The India & China Tea Company at TOWER HOUSE GALLERY, HIGH STREET, KNIGHTON 01547 529530 www.galleryknighton.co.uk Homemade soups, breads and cakes, Italian blend coffee and over 30 different varieties of leaf tea. Wednesday to Saturday. 9.30 to 4.30pm, (Sun, Mon & Tues - CLOSED). THE WORKHOUSE CAFE, INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PRESTEIGNE 01544 267864 Cafe, gallery, light lunches, good coffee, homemade cakes. Mon - Sat 10am - 4pm. RHOS MARKET GARDEN, KNIGHTON 01547 528315 Growers and providers of Organic veg, fruit and flowers. Eco cleaning products and refills. Large range of groceries and wholefoods. Old Garage Shop, Knighton. Open Tues-Sat, free parking, opposite the old 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 RUTH WATSON RESTAURATEUR AND PRIVATE COOK. Bespoke Food for all Occasions. Parties, special occasions, holiday home catering, pop-up food. Friendly personal service. Ring or email: 01544 350559/ 07870 752325. ruthwatsonfood@gmail.com YARBOROUGH HOUSE BOOKSHOP, MARKET SQUARE, BISHOP’S CASTLE 01588 638318 CAFE serving coffee, tea and cakes. Open Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun, 10am-5pm. SPECIALISES IN Secondhand classical music, 5000 CDs, 1000 LPs, 7000 books. Come and browse.

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EVENTS

music

MARCH Fri 1 March THE BLUES BAND: 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Featuring Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Rob Townsend, Gary Fletcher and Tom McGuiness. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £23, 01600 772467. AN EVENING WITH THE BAND OF THE WELSH GUARDS Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.45pm, £16, 01874 611622. MARK LATIMER / TREV DAVIES TRIO Chequers, Etnam St, Leominster. UNDER THE FRIDGE White Horse Inn, Clun. FUNKE & TWO TONE BABY Music, pizza and pud. The Lost Arc, Bridge St, Rhayader. Family friendly sitting 5pm, £15, £7.50 children, www.thelostarc.co.uk STONY & CO Disco. Chang Thai Bar & Restaurant, Market St, Ludlow, 8pm, free. GOOD TO GO Dun Cow, Shrewsbury. ST DAVID’S DAY CELEBRATIONS The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £7, 01497 821762. CROONERS A rip-roaring comedy musical. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £23.50, children £10, 01743 281281. HAMS SONG SESSION Monkland Arms, Monkland, near Leominster, 01568 720510. DJ DAN Funk and soul. Reet Petite, West St, Leominster.

COMPLETELY CELTIC CEILIDH An evening of song, dance and supper to celebrate St David’s Day. The band is Henry Marten’s Ghost playing traditional and original Celtic folk music. Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, 7pm, £16, 01547 550377.

LET’S GET QUIZZICAL The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £2, 01497 821762.

THE SWITCH Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm.

THE WILBUR & DADDY SHOW Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

CATCH 22 Red Lion, Llanidloes.

TWO PUSH CHARLIE Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. PAUL PARKER & FRIENDS Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. WHISKEY RIVER BOYS Aidan and Martin with a host of Blues, Cajun, Roots and more. Bell Inn, Redbrook, near Monmouth. MANRAN Scottish band, with a powerful combination of Gaelic and English songs. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £18, 01743 281281.

Sat 2 March CITRUS SOCIETY Jazz sextet. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8.30pm, £6, 01497 821762. SATURDAY SHENANIGAN Featuring Citrus Society, a jazz sextet. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £6 in advance, 01497 821762. JOEY THE CROW Plough Inn, Whitecross Rd, Hereford. LITTLE RUMBA Castlemorton Village Hall, 7.30pm, plus social supper.

Catch 22

CABARET EVENING With music, song and fun. Everest Hall, Llanfair Waterdine, 7.30pm, bar, soup, finger food, £6 in advance, £8 on the door, 07813 454077. Knucklas Castle Community Land Project. BEKI BRIDDLE USA. The Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. BLAKE III Superb near-legendary local trio. Saturday Cafe, The Courtyard, Hereford, 12-2pm, free. BUILTH MALE VOICE CHOIR St David’s Day Concert with Huw Ynyr (tenor), Builth Wells Ladies Choir plus Builth Wells High School and Primary School Choirs. Strand Hall, Builth Wells, 7pm, £8 on the door or www. WeGotTickets.com or 01982 552922. ORIGINAL WANTED Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. TEENAGE STICKS Showcasing multi-genre percussive skills from local teenage drumming talent. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 6pm, free, 01743 234970. CHOKED/TERMINAL RAGE/ALVIN & THE ANGRY BARRELS Reet Petite, West St, Leominster.

Sat 2 March CURRY & QUIZ Bring your own drinks. Eaton Bishop Village Hall, 7pm, www.eatonbishopvillagehall.btck.co.uk

Jon Boden & The Remnant Strings

QUIZ Escleyside Hall, Michaelchurch Escley, 7pm, £5pp, includes nibbles, tea/coffee, max 6 per table. Cash prize, raffle, bar. Escleyside Gardening Club.

DJ CHRIS The Bull Hotel, Ludlow. LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS Featuring The Shrewsbury Light Orchestra. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £13.50-£11.50, 01743 281281.

THE WEEKENDERS Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. FRIDAY LIVE Featuring Mica Jane, Indie folk music. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £5 in advance, 01497 821762.

Sun 3 March JENNY & THE JERMS Acoustic pop. The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3-6pm. JON BODEN & THE REMNANT STRINGS Former Bellowhead front-man and multiple BBC Folk Award winner. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow event, hosted at Castle Hall, Bridgnorth, 8pm, £21.50, under 18s £15, 01584 878141. RED DRAGON JAZZ BAND Live jazz. The Richmond Club, Edgar St, Hereford, 7.30pm, £7, 01432 276304. FRAN MCGILLIVRAY & MIKE BURKE Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. SETH LAKEMAN BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £27, 01743 281281.

Mon 4 March LUNCHTIME CONCERT Featuring Andrey Lebedev and Johnathan Radford. Lion Hotel, Shrewsbury, 1-2pm, 0333 666 3366. QUIZ NIGHT Teams of four max, £2.50 pp to include food and prizes. Hosted by Martin Chapple. Volunteer Inn, Hereford, 7.30pm. AMERICANA SESSION Grape Vaults, Leominster, 8pm. THE FUREYS Legends of Irish music and song. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm, 01584 811442. CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen’s St, Hereford, 01432 274968. BRIMFIELD FOLK CLUB Brimfield Village Hall, Brimfield, near Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 711480 www. roger435.wixsite.com/brimfieldfolkclub

Tues 5 March VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose and Crown, Ludlow, 9pm.

OPEN MIC NIGHT The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 821762.

LOKIA Feel good house music. Chang Thai Bar & Restaurant, Market St, Ludlow, 8pm, free.

CALL OF THE KRAKEN Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm.

ST DAVID’S DAY CONCERT 2019 Featuring Blaenavon Male Voice Choir and local performers. Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £8/£7, 01873 850805.

Wed 6 March THE DRAGON BAND The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke. ROY SAINSBURY TRIO Housmans Bar and Restaurant, Church Stretton, 01694 724441. THE BUTCHERS DOGS Toby and John invite you to a fun musical evening plus support. Dukes Arms, Presteigne, 8.30pm, £3 on the door.

FOLK IN THE FOYER Featuring Finbar Magee and Breige Quinn. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, 01885 488575. THE SULTANA BROTHERS Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford. LIVE MUSIC Dun Cow, Shrewsbury. THE DIME NOTES Small band - huge swing! Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £15 & £12.50, 01600 772467.

Sat 9 March LIVE @ THE WATERFRONT Featuring Genevieve. Celebrating Women’s Festival. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 1-3pm, free, 01874 611622.

EDDIE MARTIN Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 8pm.

RECORD FAIR Come along and grab yourselves some vinyl! Undercroft, Pavilion Mid Wales, Llandrindod Wells, 10am-4pm, 01597 258118.

BLACK ‘N’ BLUES BAND The Vaults, Bishop’s Castle.

WILDSIDE Vaga Tavern, Hereford.

WEIRDSHIRE GIG Featuring David Ian Roberts, promoting his new album. Babar Cafe, Union St, Hereford, 7.30pm, free.

LIVE IN THE BAR Featuring Calling Card. Monkland Arms, Monkland, near Leominster, 9pm, 01568 720510.

Thurs 7 March

ALMELEY STEADY SESSION The Bells Inn, Almeley, near Kington, HR3 6LF, www.almeleysteadysession. wordpress.com

Fri 8 March MUSIC IN QUIET PLACES Featuring Apollo 5, a vocal quintet giving a lively a cappella performance of classical, folk, jazz and pop. St Mary’s Church, Kington, 7pm, £10, free under 18s, www.hhct.co.uk GILBERT DE GREEVE Piano recital. 24 preludes by Debussy. The Chapel, Market St, Abergavenny, 8pm, £12, 01873 736430.

Folk in the Foyer, Finbar Magee & Breige Quinn

LIVE JAZZ Plus Sunday roasts. Local quartet plays well-known standards, Latin and blues. Free entry, cocktails, light bites or book a table for lunch. The Cliffe at Dinham, Ludlow, 12.30-3pm, 01584 872063. OPEN MIC Hosted by Whose Hands Are These. All musicians welcome. The Yew Tree, Peterstow, near Ross-on-Wye, 3pm.

Luke Daniels & Nancy Kerr

Sat 9 March KICKBACK Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. MUSIC IN NEW RADNOR Featuring students and graduates from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Programme includes Beethoven, William Byrd, John Dowland and William Lawes. Community Hall, New Radnor, 7.30pm, £10, under 14s £3, 01544 350268. REBOOTED The Bull Hotel, Ludlow. BETH PRIOR COLLECTIVE Plus Fat Cat Sounds. The Lost Arc, Bridge St, Rhayader, 8pm, £7.50, www.thelostarc.co.uk KEMASTREE Reet Petite, West St, Leominster. RP MCMURPHY The Secret Garden, Coldwells Rd, Hereford, 07715 953497. CONTRABAND Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. 40TH BIRTHDAY PARTY Plough Inn, Whitecross Rd, Hereford. RAPSQUILLION AND FRIENDS Clun Memorial Hall, 8pm, £9, bar and raffle. Tickets from The White Horse Inn, The Maltings, Richard’s Hairdressers and Bright’s Flowers, Clun. JOEY THE CROW The Wobbly Brewing Co, Beech Business Park, Tillington Rd, Hereford, 8pm. CITIZEN Duncan Eagles (saxes) David Preston (guitar) Matt Robinson (pano) Max Luthert (bass) Dave Hamblett (drums). The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £16, under 22s £8, 01743 234970. Shrewsbury Jazz Network.

Sun 10 March

CARDUCCI QUARTET Programme includes Shumann and Mozart. St Mary’s Church, Bridgnorth, 2.15pm, 01743 365561.

BLACK ‘N’ BLUES BAND Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. NANCY KERR & LUKE DANIELS First concert in New Radnor’s new venue. A stunning mix of contemporary folk music inspired instrumental virtuosity from two multi-award winning musicians. Plus support from Mandra and Catherine Hughes. The Hub, School Lane, New Radnor, 7.30pm, £10, 01544 350407 or 01982 551116.

TOMMY EMMANUEL Plus special guest JD Simo. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7pm, £29, 01743 281281.

Tues 12 March VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose and Crown, Ludlow, 9pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 821762. BRECON JAZZ CLUB Featuring Victoria Klewin with the Dave Cottle Trio. The Muse, Glamorgan St, Brecon, 8pm, £12/£10, info@breconjazzclub.org

WOODCHUCK The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3-6pm.

Wed 13 March

MAMMA MIA - OH NO, NOT AGAIN! Dinner prepared by Leon and live entertainment with Jenny & The Jerms, acoustic pop, 70s Abba-themed fundraiser. Memorial Hall, Presteigne, 6pm, £20 tickets to include 3-course meal from The Salty Dog. In conjunction with Presteigne & Norton Twinning Association.

JOHN HYMAS & DAVE LUKE Curry buffet and puds, £20. Nori’s Cafe, Church St Leominster, 01568 612876, noriscafe@yahoo.com please book.

BLUES SUNDAY Featuring The Fugitives. Richmond Place Club, Edgar St, Hereford, 3-5pm, 01432 270211. QUIZ NIGHT In aid of local charities. King’s Head, Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm.

THE DRAGON BAND The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke.

NORTHERN HARMONY An American/international choir. Wem Town Hall, 7.30pm, £11/£5/£9, 01939 232299. Arts Alive.

Thurs 14 March THE DEMON BARBERS Folk music and dance spectacular. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £19.50, 01743 281281.

The London Klezmer Quartet

5.15 Two-tone and mod. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford. LEOMINSTER EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL WEEKEND Featuring Simon Ponsford (countertenor) and David Ponsford (virginals). Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 7.30pm, £12, students £6, 01568 616460. A4 BRASS Programme includes Rossini, Strauss, Debussy, Bruckner and Bramwell Tovey. Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £15, 01873 850805.

Sat 16 March

Thurs 14 March ELIO PACE Presents Elvis Presley. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £26/£24, 01743 281281. ED CONWAY & THE UNLAWFUL MEN Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford. PAPRIKA BLUES BAND The Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. WELSHPOOL MUSIC CLUB ‘The Instrument of the Devil: Chris Swann and Heather Gould offer an exploration of the clarinet family. Methodist Church, High St, Welshpool, 7.30pm, £10, 01938 559087. CONCERT & CAKES Featuring ConunDrum. Pavilion Mid Wales, Spa Rd, Llandrindod Wells, 2.30pm, 01597 258118. Dementia friendly.

Fri 15 March KIT & MCCONNEL Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, 01600 719401. XLS Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. KING DARK Dun Cow, Shrewsbury. FRIDAY LIVE Featuring Spindle Ensemble, an experimental instrumental quartet. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £5 in advance, 01497 821762. INDIGO MACHINE Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. HEARING AID Featuring Jack Brett, Dan Nichol, Steph Watters and more. St Michael’s Village Hall, near Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm, 01584 810291. Raising funds for Yemen people.

BLIND EYE White Horse Inn, Clun.

BARRY STEELE AND FRIENDS The Roy Orbison Story. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £23, 01874 611622. L MOORE EAGLES FRED DJ Funkadelic disco. Chang Thai Bar & Restaurant, Market St, Ludlow, 8pm, free. NEIL MAYA QUARTET The Brubeck Project. Jazz. Winforton Community Hall, 7.45pm, £10/£5/£25, 07914 924605. Arts Alive. OPEN MIC Hosted by Mark Richards. The Oak, Wigmore, 8pm. KNIGHTS AND SPIERS Music and entertainment. Town Hall, Bishop’s Castle, 7.30pm, £14, 01588 630023. OPEN MIC Hosted by Artigo Son. Reet Petite, West St, Leominster. THE MIGHTY PLEDGE 60’s soul music. The Venue, Ross-on-Wye, 7.30pm, £15, www.createross.co.uk Part of Ross Reinvented Festival. THE FUREYS Legends of Irish music. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £24, 01743 281281.

OCD Rock and blues. The Wobbly Brewing Co, Beech Business Park, Tillington Rd, Hereford, 8pm. BLACK MAX AND THE PIRATES Reet Petite, West St, Leominster. LONDON KLEZMER QUARTET Played on violin, clarinet, accordion and double bass and featuring the sultry vocals of Indra Buraczewska, Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm, £12 from The Workhouse and online wegottickets.com FAITH The George Michael Legacy. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £26.50, 01743 281281. LEOMINSTER EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL WEEKEND Mary Collings (baroque dancers) with leading instrumentalists. 11am, £12, students £6. ‘Craftsman’s Art & Music’s Measure’. A presentation on the making and playing of medieval instruments by Alan Crumpler. 3pm, £6. ‘Behold the Spring!’ Vivabiancaluna Biffi (soprano and viol), David Hatcher (viols). 7.30pm, £12, students £6. All at Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 01568 616460. £30 ticket available for all three concerts.

Jed and Allie welcome you to the pub with folk at it’s heart

WHAT’S ON IN MARCH Fri 1 March - HAMS SONG SESSION Sat 9 March - CALLING CARD ‘Live in the Bar’, 9pm Sun 17 March - MUSIC SESSION 7.30pm Sat 23 March - SLIPPERY SLOPE ‘Live in the Bar’ 9pm Wed 27 March - QUIZ NIGHT 8.30pm start Sun 31 March - DAY OF DANCE - local and not-so-local Morris sides from lunchtime onwards DINNER AND DRINK every Mon/Tues, £8.95

Monkland Arms, Monkland, Leominster, HR6 9DE 01568 720510 www.themonklandarms.co.uk

Sun 17 March NEIL MAYA QUARTET The Brubeck Project. Jazz. Bedstone & Hopton Castle VH, 7.30pm, £10/£8, 01547 530282. Arts Alive. NICKY ROUS The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3-6pm.

Andrew Riverstone

Sat 16 March BLACK HEART ANGELS Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. SATURDAY SHENANIGANS Featuring Shackleton Trio. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £5 in advance, 01497 821762. SAVANNAH The Bull Hotel, Ludlow. DOREEN’S BIG TOP A hilarious, irrevent, satirical look at the circus of political madness we all now live in. A mixture of music, magic, mayhem and modern-day freakery. For ages 16+. Regal Cinema, Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm, £16.50, 01584 811442. RED HOT BOOGIE An evening of jive, swing and boogie-woogie. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7.30pm, £12, 07967 517125. KINSTRIFE Plough Inn, Whitecross Rd, Hereford. NEIL MAYA QUARTET The Brubeck Project. Jazz. Priest Weston VH, 7pm, £10/£6/£28, 07753 659981. Arts Alive. CATHERINE NARDIELLO A talk and concert. Supper included. Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, 6.30pm, £14, please book, 01547 550377. THE RAIDERS Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. STAR OF THE SEA St Patrick’s Day. Housmans Bar and Restaurant, Church Stretton, 01694 724441. SHEEP MUSIC AGM All welcome. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm.

ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN ‘Battles, Beauty and Beasts’. Programme includes Bach, Corelli, Marcello, Biber and Vivaldi. The Venue, Ross-on-Wye, 7.30pm, £10, 01989 566644. Part of Ross Reinvented Festival.

LEOMINSTER EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL WEEKEND ‘Vivat Hercules! Music for the Dukes of Ferrara’. Border Voices with Evelyn Tubb (soprano) and Linarol Consort of Viols. Leominster Priory, 7.30pm, free, collection in aid of Leominster Priory Restoration. ST PATRICK’S DAY Mark Richards performing at 4pm, acoustic session at 7pm, Irish food served. The Oak, Wigmore. MUSIC SESSION Monkland Arms, Monkland, near Leominster, 7.30pm, 01568 720510. WILL KILLEEN BAND Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. HAY MUSIC Featuring Milly Forrest - soprano. St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, 3pm, £12, students £6, tickets from Richard Booth’s Bookshop, 01497 820322. MILE TWELVE Award-winning young American band playing contemporary and traditional bluegrass. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 7.45pm, £12, 01743 234970.

Tues 19 March VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose and Crown, Ludlow, 9pm. OPEN MIC NIGHT The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 821762. KNIGHT AND SPIERS Legendary violinist and melodeon player on today’s folk scene, perform live. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £16.50, 01743 281281.

Wed 20 March MID WALES MUSIC TRUST ‘One Small Step’. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 moon landing, music inspired by the moon by the musicians of Sinfonia Cymru. The Hafren, Newtown, 10.30am & 1.30pm, £2, 01686 614555. THE DRAGON BAND The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke. LITTLE RUMBA Housmans Bar and Restaurant, Church Stretton, 01694 724441.

JOHN ILLSLEY One of the founder members of Dire Straits. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £22, 01600 772467.

Thurs 21 March ANDREW RIVERSTONE Weaving gritty soulful vocals and imaginative guitar work into classic hits from Tom Petty, JJ Cale, The Eagles and more. Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 8pm, 01531 632250. BEEZ NEEZ The Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. JAZZ NIGHT With Mark Latimer & Peter Cabara. Reet Petite, West St, Leominster. OPEN MIC Full PA, acoustic and electric guitar amps and leads provided. No drum kits (unless set up prior and left until end) or extra amps except bass. Hosted by Martin Chapple. Sign up on the night. Wobbly Brewery, Beech Business Park, Hereford. martinchapple1@gmail.com KATHRYN ROBERTS & SEAN LAKEMAN Folk, traditional ballads and a varied evening of music and song. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £15/£13, 01874 611622.

Fri 22 March TERENCE BLACKER Whether finger-picking his guitar or strumming a ukulele, his gentle humorous domestic sketches are witty and touching. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm, £10 from The Workhouse and online wegottickets.com DJ DAN Reet Petite, West St, Leominster.

Terence Blacker

FELIX PROJECT

Sunday 10th March

First concert in New Radnor’s new venue. A stunning mix of contemporary folk music and inspired instrumental virtuosity from two multi-award winning musicians. Support from Mandra and Catherine Hughes.

The Hub, School Lane, New Radnor. 7.30pm. £10. 01544 350407 or 01982 551116

Rachel Edwards from Presteigne is running the London Marathon to fundraise for The Felix Project, a small UK charity having a big impact: just 19 paid staff and over 200 volunteers work to address food poverty and food waste by collecting surplus food and distributing to schools, community halls, day centres, homeless shelters, women’s refuges and food banks to provide cheap, hot, nutritional meals for those most in need. Food is not only essential to thrive and live a healthy life but also enables us to share, connect and bond with others. This is why Rachel has chosen to run for this cause. If you or your business would like to sponsor Rachel and support The Felix Project’s work please donate to (virgin giving page) E: racheledwards88@gmail.com

Steve Knightley

ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? Jimi Hendrix tribute. Pavilion Mid Wales, Spa Rd, Llandrindod Wells, 8.30pm, 01597 258118.

Sat 23 March MONMOUTH CHORAL SOCIETY Programme includes Brahms and Mendelssohn. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, 01600 719401. KALEIDO DJ night. The Wobbly Brewing Co, Beech Business Park, Tillington Rd, Hereford, 4pm. LIVE IN THE BAR Featuring Slippery Slope. Monkland Arms, Monkland, near Leominster, 9pm, 01568 720510. CUSTARD CONNECTION Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. BETH PRIOR COLLECTIVE Plus support guests. Caribbean food shack! Outside bar. The Vaults, Bishop’s Castle, 8pm, £5 on the door.

Fri 22 March BOONDOGZ The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 8.30pm. LIVE MUSIC Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES Dun Cow, Shrewsbury. FRIDAY LIVE Featuring Wednesday’s Wolves, a female contemporary folk duo. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £5 in advance, 01497 821762. BIGFEAT From Swansea. The Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. MARTIN TAYLOR & ULF WAKENIUS Two of the greatest jazz guitarists. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £24, 01743 281281. WHISKEY RIVER BOYS Aidan and Martin with a host of Blues, Cajun, Roots and more. Nag’s Head, Granville St, Monmouth. THE OUTCASTS Rock and roll. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford. STEVE KNIGHTLEY ‘Songs and Stories’. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 7.30pm, £19, 01982 552555. MAX BOYCE Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £27.50, 01873 850805.

BLACK ‘N’ BLUES BAND Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

WEDDING VENUE OPEN WEEKEND Town Hall, Bishop’s Castle, 10am-4pm, 01588 630023. RUBBLE Plough Inn, Whitecross Rd, Hereford. SATURDAY SHENANIGANS Featuring Mr Tea and the Minions, Gypsy flavoured party music. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £8 in advance, 01497 821762. FIRED UP Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. GARETH REES-ROBERTS Spring lunchtime concert. Full programme of Spanish and Latin American guitar music. Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan, 11am-2pm, free, 01547 530744.

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

MIDNIGHT IDOLS Reet Petite, West St, Leominster. CONCERTS FOR CRASWALL Featuring The Hexad Singers. Programme includes Byrd, Cornish, Debussy, Poulenc, Stanford and others. St Michael’s Church, Michaelchcurch Escley, 5pm, £15, £7.50 students and under 25s, 07768 020129. BONJOVI TRIBUTE The Bull Hotel, Ludlow. HEREFORD CHORAL SOCIETY Programme includes JS Bach, Mass in B minor. With Marches Baroque, Geraint Bowen conductor. Hereford Cathedral, 7.30pm, tickets from £10, up to two children under 16, free. 01432 340555, unreserved tickets from Hereford Cathedral shop. MATT FORD & THE FODEN’S BRASS BAND Salute to Sinatra and the swing legends. The Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, £15, 01686 614555. MAX BOYCE Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £27.50, 01873 850805.

Sun 24 March VERSATILITY SERENADERS Blackburn Theatre, Prestfelde School, Shrewsbury, 01743 365561. BLUES SUNDAY Featuring Whiskey River. Richmond Place Club, Edgar St, Hereford, 3-5pm, 01432 270211. LITTLE RUMBA Queen’s Head, Monmouth, 8.30pm. KATHRYN ROBERTS & SEAN LAKEMAN Henry Tudor House, Barracks Passage, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £15, 01743 361666.

SONS OF THE DELTA Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE HARP WORKSHOPS AND RECITAL For anyone who plays the harp, irrespective of standard. With Eleanor Turner and a quartet. Free to all harp players. Plus hour-long recital is open to anyone who wishes to come along. Workshop booking essential, email Eleanor.Turner@bcu.ac.uk Recital can be booked 07583 544110. FIVE MINUS THREE The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3-6pm. GWENIFER RAYMOND With support from Alula Down. SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle, 7pm, £10, under 18s £5, 01588 630321. WEDDING VENUE OPEN WEEKEND Town Hall, Bishop’s Castle, 10am-4pm, 01588 630023.

Tues 26 March ST MICHAEL’S HOSPICE Charity Race Day. Hereford Racecourse. VIP and fine dining, eight race card including Charity Flat Race, £16 in advance, £18 on the day, www.st-michaels-hospice.org.uk

Gwenifer Raymond OPEN MIC Full PA, acoustic and electric guitar amps and leads provided. No drum kits or extra amps, except bass. Hosted by Martin Chapple, sign up on the night. Volunteer Inn, Hereford. martinchapple1@gmailc.om OPEN MIC NIGHT The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, free, 01497 821762. VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose and Crown, Ludlow, 9pm.

BLUE ROSE CODE Soul, jazz, folk and pop. Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £15/£13, 01873 850805.

Wed 27 March THE DRAGON BAND The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke. QUIZ NIGHT Monkland Arms, Monkland, near Leominster, 8.30pm, 01568 720510.

MARCH MUSIC Fri 1

Funk & Soul with DJ DAN

Sat 9

KEMASTREE

Sat 2

Fri 15

Sat 16

Thurs 21 Fri 22

Sat 23 Sat 30

CHOKED/TERMINAL RAGE/ ALVIN & THE ANGRY BARRELS OPEN MIC hosted by Artigo Son BLACK MAX & THE PIRATES

JAZZ NIGHT with Mark Latimer & Peter Cabara Mixed Bag with DJ DAN MIDNIGHT IDOLS SLIPPERY SLOPE

Reet Petite, 18 West Street, Leominster

07484 545368

RAISING CAIN Three-piece rock and blues band. Golden Cross, Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford.

THE FUREYS Legends of Irish music and song. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £21, 01600 772467.

DANGER INC. White Horse Inn, Clun.

Sat 30 March

MR TEA & THE MINIONS With support from Candy Mountain. The Lost Arc, Bridge St, Rhayader, 8pm, £7.50, www.thelostarc.co.uk OPEN MIC Hosted by Mark Richards. The Sun, Leintwardine, 8pm. ONE TOO MANY Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Nick Harper, Wild Hare Club

Wed 27 March THE FUREYS Legends of Irish music and song. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £21/£20, 01874 611622.

Thurs 28 March THE BROTHER BROTHERS Folk. The Chapel, Market St, Abergavenny, 8pm, £12, 01873 736430. THE BLUES DUO Tommy Allen and Johnny Vaughan. Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 8pm. FROZEN CABIN The Vaults, Bishop’s Castle. ELO EXPERIENCE Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £24.50, 01743 281281.

Fri 29 March LIVE DINNER JAZZ Local quartet plays well-known standards, Latin and blues. Free entry, cocktails, light bites or book a table for dinner. The Cliffe at Dinham, Ludlow, 8 - 10.30pm, 01584 872063. WILD HARE CLUB ‘58 Fordwych Rd’. Presents Nick Harper’s show about the 60s musical luminaries (Bert Jansch, Paul Simon, Marc Bolan, Sandy Denny et al) who were part of his childhood and helped set folk and popular music on a new trajectory. Green Dragon Hotel, Hereford, 8pm, £12, www.wildhareclub.com PAUL PARKER Dun Cow, Shrewsbury.

ALCATRAZ Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm.

THE WHISKEY RIVER TRIO ‘Blues from the Bayous’ - an eclectic mix of Cajun, blues and country. Martin and Aidan with Dave on fiddle. Linton Village Hall, 7pm, £8, 07974 484141 for tickets.

DAYLEVEL & VAL LITTLEHALES An evening of wit, wisdom and music. Town Hall, Bishop’s Castle, 7.30pm, £8, 01588 630023. RP MCMURPHY Vaga Tavern, Hereford. SATURDAY SHENANIGANS Featuring Northern Soul + Ska Night. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £3, 01497 821762. DYNAMITE DICK BAND Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. LUDLOW JAZZ QUARTET Saturday Cafe, The Courtyard, Hereford, 12-2pm, free.

Quartet Lunoire

DJ CHRIS The Bull Hotel, Ludlow. SLIPPERY SLOPE Reet Petite, West St, Leominster. BOONDOGZ Duo covering rock and pop numbers. Credenhill Social Club, 9pm, visitors welcome, £1. Daoiri Farrell LUDLOW MUSIC SOCIETY Featuring the Notos Quartet. Programme includes Mozart, Jean Francaix and Schumann. Henderson Hall, Moor Park School, 7.30pm, £18, students £6, children free from Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, online or on the door, 01584 878141. SONYA SMITH Acoustic guitar playing music from the 60s to the present day. Mid Wales Music Centre, Newtown. SONS OF YODA Plough Inn, Whitecross Rd, Hereford. QUARTET LUNOIRE Music in the moonlight. A programme of music by John Hymas, Kurt Weill and others. St Mary’s Parish Church, Dilwyn, 7.30pm, £10, 01544 319272, or 01544 260220

BAD SPANIEL Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. RYAN COOK IN CONCERT Mixing classic country music with modern satire. Shipton Village Hall, 7.30pm, £10/£5, 01694 771790. Arts Alive. SHREWSBURY CHORAL SOCIETY Featuring Elgar’s The Kingdom. Shrewsbury Abbey, 7.30pm, £15, under 16s free, from Pengwern bookshop, choir members or Shrewsbury Choral Society website. GRUFFYDD WYN Pavilion Mid Wales, Spa Rd, Llandrindod Wells, 7pm, 01597 258118.

Sun 31 March DAOIRI FARRELL Singer and bouzouki player. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 7.30pm, £14/£13, 01982 552555.

RYAN COOK IN CONCERT Mixing classic country music with modern satire. Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre, Leominster, 7.30pm, £12/£8, 01568 616460. Arts Alive. PAUL LAMB & CHAD STRENTZ Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. DAY OF DANCE Local and not-so-local Morris sides from lunchtime onwards. Monkland Arms, Monkland, near Leominster, 01568 720510. SIMON KNIGHT The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3-6pm. BLACK MOUNTAIN JAZZ Featuring Chube and jazz harpist Ben Creighton Griffiths. The Melville Theatre, Pen y pound, Abergavenny, 8pm, £10, £3 students on the door, www.blackmountainjazz.co.uk CRAVEN ARMS BIG BAND Swing music of the 30’s and 40s. SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle, 2pm, £6, under 18s £4, 01588 630321. KNIGHTON & DISTRICT CONCERT SOCIETY Featuring Astaria String Quartet. St Edward’s Church Hall, Knighton, 3pm, £12 adults, £2 students, 01547 530530.

A CONCERT OF BAROQUE & RENAISSANCE MUSIC For Harpsichord, Voice and Viola Da Gamba St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye 13 April, 7.30pm, £12 on the door or

www.eventbrite.co.uk 07904 784239 Sun 31 March TRIS WALROND White Horse Inn, Clun. THE SUNDAY EVENING CHILL Live music from local bands and artists. The Red Lion, Knighton, 7.30pm, 01547 428080.

APRIL Mon 1 April CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen’s St, Hereford, 01432 274968. AMERICANA SESSION Grape Vaults, Leominster, 8pm. BRIMFIELD FOLK CLUB Brimfield Village Hall, Brimfield, near Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 711480 www.roger435.wixsite.com/brimfieldfolkclub

Tues 2 April VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose and Crown, Ludlow, 9pm.

Wed 3 April THE BUTCHERS DOGS Toby and John invite you to a fun musical evening plus support. Dukes Arms, Presteigne, 8.30pm, £3 on the door. STONED CHERRIES £22 includes meal. Nori’s Cafe, Church St Leominster, 01568 612876, noriscafe@yahoo.com please book. THE DRAGON BAND The Horse and Jockey, Churchstoke.

Thurs 4 April WEIRDSHIRE GIG Featuring Howie Reeve. Babar Cafe, Union St, Hereford, 7.30pm, free. ARTHUR EBELING Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford. THE KINGSIZE SLIM Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 8pm. ALMELEY STEADY SESSION The Bells Inn, Almeley, near Kington, HR3 6LF, www.almeleysteadysession.wordpress.com

Phoenix Singers

Fri 5 April HE WRITES THE SONGS The Manilow Songbook. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £20, 01743 281281. 60S BIG NITE OUT Featuring The Merseybeats and supported by The Dakotas. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £21.50, 01743 281281. ALTERNATIVE ROUTES Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. HELLS BELLS AC/DC tribute. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, 01600 719401. PASSAMEZZO EARLY DANCE The musicians of Fleur de Lys present ‘A Handefull of Pleasant Delites’. 15th century music and dance from the courts of Europe. The Lion Ballroom, Leominster, 7.30pm, £12, students £6, 01568 616460 or on the door. THE WEEKENDERS Dun Cow, Shrewsbury. MARK LATIMER / TREV DAVIES TRIO Chequers, Etnam St, Leominster.

Sat 6 April THE ELVIS YEARS The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £22.50/£20.50, interval treats £7.95, 01432 340555. THE TIME DIVERS Crown Inn, Oakengates, Telford. MARCHES CHOIR AND SINFONIA 65 strong choir. Programme includes Puccini and Mozart. St John’s Church, Bishop’s Castle, 7.30pm, £12, children/ students free, 01588 650448 or on the door. HEREFORD STRING ORCHESTRA Programme includes Handel, Mozart, Rutter, Svendsen and Grieg. Holy Trinity Church, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01568 760633. PHOENIX SINGERS Spring concert. ‘Hear My Prayer’. An evening of sublime music including Rutti’s Requiem and Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer. Natalie Clifton-Griffith & Catherine Rooney (sopranos), James Berry (bass) and Alexander Mason (organ). St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £12, under 18s free, 01939 291467 or on the door. www.phoenixsingersshrewsbury.co.uk THE UNCONVENTIONALS Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. SIRKIS / BALIAS IQ This quartet creates music with influences from contemporary classical, Polish folk, South India and the best of jazz. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £18, under 22s £9, 01743 234970. Shrewsbury Jazz Network.

Sun 7 April A VERY SPECIAL EVENING WITH RUSSELL WATSON Accompanied by his pianist and guest choir. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £45, interval treats £7.95, 01432 340555. ANDREW PEARCE The Grape Vaults, Leominster, 3-6pm.

LIVE JAZZ Featuring Dixie Hotshots. Richmond Club, Edgar St, Hereford, 7.30pm, £7, 01432 276304.

Eleanor Turner, Harp Workshop

Sat 16 March AN INTRODUCTION TO SIGHT SINGING THROUGH GREGORIAN CHANT Tutor, Robert Evans. All voices welcome. The Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 10am-1pm, £15, light refreshment included. Booking essential, robertcevans@hotmail.com Sun 17 March TAIZÉ AT THE PALES Join for a day of singing and reflection led by Susie Ennals and Angela Coleridge. All welcome. The Pales Quaker Meeting House, Llandegley, 10.30am, thepales.org.uk Tues 19 March & Tues 26 March A LIFE MORE ORDINARY Acitivites for people living with dementia and memory loss, their families, friends and carers. 19 March - Songs for You. Run by Sal Tonge, musician. 26 March - Moving to the Rhythm. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 2pm, £2, carers free, 01584 878141.

FRENCH HORN CONNEXTION AND THE HOLCOMBE ALPHORN DUO David Garbutt and friends. Town Hall, Bishop’s Castle, 3pm, £7, 01588 630023. PANIC STATIONS Prince of Wales, Ledbury, 4pm. WINTERREISE International tenor Ilker Arcayurek and piano accompanist Martin Pickard perform Schubert’s great song cycle, Winterreise. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm, £15 from The Workhouse and online wegottickets.com

Sat 23 March CHORAL WORKSHOP Of Mozarts’s Requiem in D Minor. Run by Robert Evans, Kington Choral’s Music Director. Weobley Village Hall, regristration 9.30am, workshop 10am-4pm, £15, under 18s free, plus £2 for score hire, www.kingtonchoral.org.uk Sun 24 March ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE HARP WORKSHOPS AND RECITAL For anyone who plays the harp, irrespective of standard. With Eleanor Turner and a quartet. Free to all harp players. Plus hour-ong recital is open to anyone who wishes to come along. Workshop booking essential, email Eleanor. Turner@bcu.ac.uk Recital can be booked 07583 544110.

Music Workshops Sat 2 March SING FOR FUN! Workshop for all singers. Mozart’s Coronation Mass, with conductor Geraint Bowen and accompanist, Peter Dyke. Broadlands School Hall, Broadland Drive, Hereford, HR1 1HY, 9.30am-1pm, £15, under 25s free. www.herefordchoralsociety.org Sun 3 March TAIKO TASTER SESSION Family session 10.20-11am. Children 12+ 11.15am-12pm. Adults 12.15-1.3pm, £20 family, £5 child, £7 adult. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622. Mon 4 & Mon 18 March DRUMS FOR ALL Dementia-friendly music making session ideal for older adults. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 10.30-11.30am, £2, 01874 611622. Sat 9 March THE SATURDAY COFFEE SESSIONS Enjoy playing traditional fiddle tunes in fresh arrangements with two or three-part harmony. These monthly sessions combine sociable ensemble playing with expert tuition: technical tips, advice on style, ornaments and bowing patterns plus a strong emphasis on developing musicality and confidence within the group. £15 per workshop, Kitty Greenwood, www.folkfiddleteacher.co.uk The Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, 10.30am-12.45pm, 01584 841564.

Sunday 24 March SHROPSHIRE HARMONY QUIRE We sing and play mainly West Gallery music, which is energetic, rousing, no-nonsense stuff that is great fun to perform. It is what you would have heard in rural parish churches in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Led by Sue Harris. FREE for newcomers! Bishop’s Castle Methodist Hall, Station Street. 2-5 pm. trevorchalkley@gmail.com. Sat 30 March BORDER MARCHES EARLY MUSIC FORUM IN PRESTEIGNE ‘The Magic of the Medieval’. Explore vibrant interpretations of sacred and secular medieval music with specialist Lizzie Gutteridge. A day’s workshop for singers and instrumentalists. A dinner, open to all, by chefs Ruth Watson and Sarah Green. A recital by Lizzie. Workshop 9.30am-4.30pm. Dinner 5pm-7pm. Recital 7.30pm. Prior booking is essential. For further details of all the events, contact Fran Johnstone on fjjohnstone@btinternet.com or see www.bmemf.org.uk Sat 30 March EARTH SONGS Singing workshop with Sandra Kerr. All welcome. Canon Frome Court, near Ledbury, 10am-4pm, £40 including lunch, www.canonfromecourt.org.uk/events Monday THE NEW TITLEY PHIL Good sight-reading skills and interested in playing mostly baroque music in a friendly chamber orchestra? Come and join “The New Titley Phil” – directed by baroque cellist and gambist David Hatcher. 2.15pm-4.45pm, Titley Village Hall, 07989 091949 for more information. Monday BRECON TOWN BAND REHEARSALS Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7pm, 07779 390954. Monday THE GARRICK SINGERS For over 60s/retired. The Courtyard, Hereford, 2pm. £5 per session, 01432 340555. Mondays ALIVE & KICKIN’ CHOIR Old Muse, Glamorgan St, Brecon, 7-9pm, £5 public, £3 students/staff. tanyawalkermusic@hotmail.com Mondays CRAVEN ARMS MALE VOICE CHOIR All ages welcome singing a broad repertoire of traditional and modern songs. Practice at The Craven Arms Community Centre, 7.30pm. Martin on 01694 722500. Monday BANDAMANIA Traditional dance music from far and wide. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne 7.15pm, Sue Harris 01547 550158. Tuesday DOLAU MIXTURES Mixed choir. Dolau Community Hall, Llandrindod Wells, 8pm, 01597 851427.

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

Tuesday LUNCHTIME UPLIFT SINGING SESSIONS Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 12.30pm, 01874 611622. Tuesday LEOMINSTER COMMUNITY CHOIR Choir leader: Olivia Preye. No auditions, no need to read music. World, folk music, anything goes. 7-8.30pm at Leominster Community Centre. 01568 369074. Tuesday ST MICHAELS SINGERS Welcome interest from new singers, (particularly basses and tenors!) If you are interested please phone our Chairperson Pat Mutton on 01584 819875. We meet on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm in St Michael’s Village Hall, near Tenbury Wells. Tuesdays SAMBA BRECON Sue on 07792 165481 or Gill on 01497 821631. 7-9pm, Village Hall just outside Brecon. Tuesday WHITTON VOICES Mixed community choir. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8-10pm, £6. All welcome. Led by Sue Harris, 01547 550158. Wednesdays CASTLE VOICES Community choir, songs from around the globe, all taught by ear, led by Sue Harris. Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 7-8.30pm, £6, 01547 550158. Wednesday ROCKSPRING COMMUNITY CHOIR All welcome particularly men! Minimal charge. Rockspring Community Centre, Ludlow. 01584 529053. Wednesdays fortnightly PLAY IT BY EAR Scottish tunes. Stirring strathspeys, danceable jigs, brooding airs and romping reels from the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Tunes are taught at a gentle pace, with plenty of help and encouragement along the way. All melody instruments welcome! Kitty Greenwood: www.folkfiddleteacher.co.uk £52 (8 weeks) or £7.50 p.w. The Pilgrim Centre, Craven Arms, 7.30 to 9.30 pm To book your place, contact Kitty, 01584 841564 Wednesday LUDLOW LARKS COMMUNITY CHOIR Led by Polly Bolton. Songs from around the world. Ludlow Women’s Centre, 7.30pm-9.30pm. 01584 823609 or info@oak-barn.co.uk or www.jollypages.co.uk/larks Wednesday MUSIC MAKING WITH A BEAT BANG BONG Creative classes, dementia friendly. The Courtyard, Hereford, 2-3.30pm, £2 per session, 01432 340555. Thursday EDGE CHAMBER CHOIR Auditioned chamber choir led by Ros Crouch. Friends Meeting House, Ludlow, 7.30-9.30pm. 01584 841053 or ros.crouch@gmail.com Thursday CLUNSONGBIRDS 10 -11.30am in Hightown Hall. Songs to brighten up the day, all taught by ear. £5 per week. Led by Sue Harris 01547 550158 sumarieharris@btinternet.com Thursday KINGTON COMMUNITY CHOIR Come and join us for rehearsals on Thursday evenings - 7pm-8.30pm at Kington Primary School. We are a non auditioning, mixed choir formed three years ago, now with 30 or so voices. We sing songs from the musicals, traditional, folk, pop and ballads, usually in 3 and 4 parts and give several performances a year. £4 per session. Enquiries to Teresa at t3mbk@hotmail.com Thursday BELLA A CAPPELLA All-female 4-part close harmony singing group. Oscars, Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.15-9.45pm, email aimoevo@hotmail.co.uk Thursday PRESTEIGNE POP CHOIR Contact John Hymas for details: 07969 440183, john@johnhymas.com Thursday VOICE ACADEMY AT THE COURTYARD For ages 13+. The Courtyard, Hereford, 4.30-6pm, £4 per session, 01432 340555.

Thursday CANTORION LLANDRINDOD Mixed choir, early/classical music. Howey VH, 7.45pm, 01874 754774.

Friday MUSIC TIME For under 5s. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10.30am-11.30am, 01743 234970.

First Thursdays BLACK HILL TUNE CLUB 2pm at the Crown Inn Longtown. Free. 01432 263495.

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.

Friday LITTLE HEREFORD VOICES COMMUNITY CHOIR We are a non-audition choir formed 7 years ago with 30+ mixed voices. Rehearsing at Little Hereford Village Hall, 7.30pm- 9.15pm. Subscriptions £3 per session (2018/2019 rate). Broad repertoire (usually 3 & 4 parts) – all welcome. More information, term dates etc: lhvoices.wix.com/home

Sessions back next month

Friday BUZZY BEATS! A fun music filled morning for the under 5s. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10.30am-11.30am, £6, £5 sibling, 01743 234970.

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

50,000+ titles; North Herefordshire’s largest indie bookseller; We buy books SPRING MUSIC EVENT

Specialist in art, design, photography, history, gardening

Also open our superb CAFÉ!

Saturday 23 March, 11am-2pm. Free entry. After many years absence, Gareth Rees-Roberts returns to play a full programme of music on the Spanish Guitar. See website for details.

The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, SY7 0DH Off A4113 Knighton Road. POETRY BREAKFAST @ AARDVARK BOOKS Tel: 01547 530744 OPEN EVERY DAY aardvaark@btconnect.com www.aardvark-books.com Wed 27 March, 9.30am Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm £8. Contact Anna Dreda, annadreda@icloud.com

band directory ACOUSTIC DUO, ‘SMITH JOHNSON’, have recently reformed and offer a repertoire of original material, along with some interesting covers of the likes of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Family. Smith & Johnson are - Dave Haigney-Smith (Sultana Brothers), vocals and harmonica. Martin Johnson (previously, The Blues Occasionals), guitar and harmonies. Original, live and local! Contact Martin - 01686 411089 / 07400 190040. Dave - 01686 688408 / 07957 520235. Available for house parties. ADD A BAND - Real instrument backing to your own music. Perfect for singer songwriters etc. Studio near Newtown. Www.addaband.co.uk, 07515 401635. APPLEBY KINSEY a contemporary folk and jazz quartet: acoustic guitar, flute, saxophones, double bass, two female vocalists. A large repertoire of original songs from tender, lyrical, slightly dark, to up-tempo latin jazz and folk. Live original music with authenticity and sophistication for events, festivals, weddings, clubs. www.applebykinsey. com or call Ken on 07979 542 449. 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 THE BUTCHER’S DOGS - Two crazy, high octane Irish Bluegrass Country Americana Rockabilly loving dudes with a lust for life have guitars, banjos and mandolins to bring a borderland Ho-Down to a place of your choice. Will travel, have played in London, Liverpool, Bristol and Cardiff. Contact Toby 07870 781853, John 01544 230699, email john.wood795@btinternet.com CATCH22 is a lively and energetic party band playing a wide range of well known hits from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s in their own inimitable retro-rock style. For bookings call Mel on 07903 104877 or email meltons5@hotmail.com Join us on facebook.com/Catch22.Wales CHRISIE J LOCAL VOCALIST! I sing Jazz. Soul, Musical Theatre, Pop and Rock. For more information or to make a booking email chrisiej20@gmail.com or phone 07968 893719. Have a look at my social media for performance videos and more information. Also looking for a band so get in touch if interested. DISKAN Breton-Irish-Balkan music, well established band with wide touring and festival experience, available for gigs, private events, ceilidhs, art’s centre performances. Various formats available (from two to four musicians: flute, fiddle, guitar, bouzouki, double bass, vocals). Follow us on Facebook. Tel: 07588 858010. Email: imiletitch@aol.co.uk ENGLISH DULCIMER DUO Sue and Lisa both play Hammer Dulcimers, conjuring up evocative music with their interpretations of traditional tunes and jaunty eighteenth century melodies. The effect of their combined sounds is spellbinding and suitable for a wide variety of happenings. Contact info@englishdulcimer.co.uk THE FORDSONS. The Fordson family present a programme of old-timey, mountain and early bluegrass music - the content is morally good. String band music from the early 20th century - breakdowns, fiddle and banjo tunes and cautionary songs of love and loss. Contact Pa Fordson on 01981 241436 or email thefordsons@gmail.com

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! THE LUDLOW JAZZ COLLECTIVE Local Quartet/Quintet with singer if required, playing smooth sounds of well-known standards, Latin and blues. Available for all types of events and celebrations. Contact Paul Brooks 07980 822014. Email pppbrooks@gmail.com LITTLE RUMBA This is a band that will entertain and delight any audience that has its wits about it and has an ear for beautiful melodies infectious beats and songs that tell stories. From Winchcombe Live “Absolutely fantastic evening from you guys tonight. We had so many positive comments from the audience; very gratifying! Great musical talent, great humour, variety, and warmth of performance.” Contact Jacqui Savage 07966 943314 Email – jaxbass.xs@btinternet.com http://www.littlerumba.com MAMMAFUNK are a 6-piece funk and soul band available for parties, weddings, corporate and charity events. Covering classical and modern hits we are also available to offer a bespoke set list for any specific song requests you may have. www.mammafunk.com Call 078144 86028 / 079693 27030. MELOMANICS Principally a wacky Duo with an amazingly dynamic sound, playing their eclectic and cosmopoloitan repertoire with engaging humour and infectious energy (sustainable). Far more than just great music. And stilts if appropriate. Find out just how much fun a ceilidh really can be. Either with the minimal, but inspirational option of Tim calling and playing, or if really necessary, with a separate caller. Ideal for parties, weddings, fund-raising events, festivals, shows, pubs, restaurants, etc. Scottish, Irish and French-themed specialities (Timoléon pour vos soirées francaises). For info call Tim on 01743 719438, or Rich 01743 718612. Email tim@melomanics.co.uk. Website www.melomanics.co.uk THE RAGTIME JUG ORCHESTRA A roots string-band (duo) recreating the sounds of the early 20th century America, playing a good-time mix of blues, skiffle and Americana music. We like to get audiences involved! Available for festival, events, parties, folk clubs, pubs and bars; performance presentations and workshops for all occasions too. Web: www.ragtimejug.co.uk Contact: John; 01594 861151. Email: info@ragtimejug.co.uk Facebook. com: ragtime jug orchestra. 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

SAMBUCA Ludlow based acoustic trio, playing a nice mix of jazz standards, classic blues, sambas etc. For more information call Richard 07974 399524. SEAN SAYE Singer/guitarist, professional, self contained, large repertoire. Music mostly, but not exclusively, from the 60’s and 70’s. Great sound. Contact tel: 07734 399497 or email seansaye@yahoo.co.uk. FInd me on YouTube: Sean Saye. www.seansaye.co.uk SILVER BRANCH (Ceilidh and Concert Band). CEILIDH BAND with caller. Available for weddings/birthday parties/fund raisers, etc. For photos/videos please see our Facebook page. For further enquiries, ring David on 01981 540832 or Anna on 07980 961187. SILVER BRANCH (UN-CALLED FOR) - Five piece cutting edge instrumental Folk Band. Available for concerts/gigs. Tel nos. as above. SIR DANCELOT 4/5 piece ceilidh/twmpath band. Far and away the best exponents of traditional dance music of the British Isles and beyond for miles around and leagues beneath. Concertina, mandolin, fiddles, whistles, cittern, jews harp... Available for weddings, parties and public events. For information and bookings, contact: Cornelius 01686 411147 corns@mousemusic.co.uk or Peter 07561 820509. www.sirdancelot.co.uk 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 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

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 THE SULTANA BROTHERS Fine R&B from one of the best bands around! The ultimate hip swingin’, foot tappin’ party band - guaranteed to help you dance the night away. For bookings/enquiries contact Phil 07791 129391 or Adam 07855 037092. Website www.thesultanabrothers. vpweb.co.uk or find us on Facebook.com/thesultanabros THE VILLAGE QUIRE spine-tingling harmonies sung with all the emotional clout, subtlety of expression and love of life that you get when voices are raised together in song. Sensational vocals mingled with enthralling stories. Various shows to book, including ‘Songs for Silas’ melting harmonies and tall tales inspired by H. E. Bates’ evergreen My Uncle Silas. “... Absolutely delighted that you have chosen to weave your magical sound around that old rogue, Silas.” Victoria Wicks (Skins, Shadowlands and H. E. Bates’ grand-daughter). For bookings / further info ring 01497 847676 www.villagequire.org.uk / www.songsforsilas.org.uk VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Ludlow-based, 6-piece, New Orleans/Trad band. Comprising trumpet, sax, trombone, banjo, tuba and washboard, playing and singing popular foot-tapping songs mostly from the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s. Available for all functions. See us every Tuesday at the Rose and Crown in Ludlow. Tel: Rob 01584 318088, email: vintagejazzrevival@gmail.com website: www.vintagejazzreival.co.uk WHISKEY RIVER is a 5/6 piece electric Americana band that play swamp blues, Cajun, Zydeco and good country music to set the dance floor rocking. To suit smaller venues and smaller budgets, pruned down acoustic versions of the band are available as “The Whiskey River Quartet”, “The Whiskey River Trio” or as a Duo [“The Whiskey River Boys”]. Laissez les bon temps rouler!! Contact Martin, phone: 07846 669890, 01432 342018, email: martin@ whiskeyriver.co.uk. website: www.whiskeyriver.co.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.

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PERFORMANCE Sat 2 March INTO THE LIGHT A thought-provoking piece of physical theatre that explores our need for interaction, connection and validation through social media. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01874 611622. Sat 2 March VULVARINE FAT RASCAL THEATRE. Bryony Buckle is astoundingly average. But following a dose of hormone therapy gone wrong and a well-timed bolt of lightning, Bryony gains superhero abilities and a brand-new persona. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £15/£13, students half price, 01743 281281. Mon 4 - Sat 9 March THE FULL MONTY Simon Beaufoy’s award winning play and based on the Fox Searchlight Pictures motion picture. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, Wed & Sat matinee 2.30pm, £40.50-£28.50, 01743 281281. Thurs 7 & Fri 8 March SPARKPLUG BOX OF TRICKS. A new play by David Judge. Manchester, 1983. A punchy and poetic exploration of family, race, identy and love. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £15/£13, 01743 281281. Sat 9 March LADYKILLER THE THELMAS THEATRE COMPANY. One of the top ten shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018. A chambermaid, a hotel room and a dead woman! It’s a tale about victimhood and tearing up the gender rule book on phsychopathy. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 8pm, £14/£8, 07967 517125. Sat 9 March ORLANDO DYAD PRODUCTIONS. Who is she? Who is he? Find out in the life-affirming, comedic tale of an immortal poet, whose spirit cannot be caged. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £15.50/£13.50, 01743 281281.

Sat 16 March HUSH NOW, HIDDEN WOMEN FERAL PRODUCTIONS. Nine women sing the unsung stories of Herefordshire’s unmarried mother and baby institutes. Town Centre, Ross-on-Wye, 11am-3pm, free. www.createross.co.uk Part of Ross Reinvented Festival.

Wed 13 March A BRAVE FACE VAMOS THEATRE. Afghanistan: 2009. Under bright blue skies, a small girl stands and watches the soldier... Created from two years of research with ex and serving soldiers, families and health professionals, A Brave Face explores Post Traumatic Stress. Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £14, 01873 850805. Thurs 14 & Thurs 28 March PEELING TAKING FLIGHT. In shadow, three performers await their brief moment in the light, their words buried in dust through the long corridor of time... 14 March - Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01874 611622. 28 March - Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £14, 01873 850805. Thurs 14 - Sat 16 March WEEKEND BEAKS In a comedy about culture clashes, wine, wit and Whitby, Martin rediscovers his roots and what it really means to love your parents... Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £12, amateur production, 01600 772467. Sat 16 March LOVE LETTERS FROM BLACKPOOL RUTH E. COCKBURN. A comic theatre piece about love and Blackpool. For ages 14+ and adults. Meole Brace Peace Memorial Hall, 7.30pm, £10/£8, 01743 235384. Arts Alive. Mon 18 & Tues 19 March THE ISLE OF BRIMSKER FROZEN LIGHT. A new multi-sensory story from Frozen Light, specialists in making theatre for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities. The Courtyard, Hereford, 11am & 1.30pm, £9/£6, 01432 340555. Mon 18 - Sat 23 March ART Starring Nigel Havers, Denis Lawson and Stephen Tompkinson. Yasmina Reza’s dazzling study of friendship, prejudice and tolerance. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, Wed & Sat matinee 2.30pm, £40.50-£28.50, 01743 281281. Thurs 21 - Sat 23 March HEREFORD COUNTY DRAMA FESTIVAL Up to six one-act plays over three sessions featuring the best of the county’s amateur talents. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7.30pm, £8, £20 all sessions, 07967 517125. Fri 22 March INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMERICAN SERVICEMEN IN BRITAIN FOL ESPOIR. It’s 1942 and Yankee servicemen have just arrived in England. A crack team of experts attempts to explain the rules of British life... Silvester Horne Institute, Church Stretton, 7.30pm, £12/£8, 01694 720132. Arts Alive.

Fri 22 & Sat 23 March INSPIRED FESTIVAL INTERMEDIATE YOUTH THEATRE GROUPS. A collection of plays specifically written for young people. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, £10, 01432 340555. Mon 25 March MERCHED CAERDYDD / NOS SADWRN O HYD (CARDIFF GIRLS / SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER) Two contemporary plays based in the capital city of Wales, by two distinct voices. A Welsh language production. Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £14, 01873 850805. Fri 29 & Sat 30 March A REGULAR LITTLE HOUDINI DANIEL LLEWELYN-WILLIAMS. Set in the heavily industrialised docklands of South Wales between 1905 and 1913, we follow a boy, obsessed with Houdini... 29 March - Alveley Parish Memorial Hall, 7.30pm, £10/£6/£25, 01746 780478. 30 March - Chapel Lawn Village Hall, 7.30pm, £10/£5, 01547 530258. Arts Alive. Sat 30 March GAIR YN GNAWD A MYFI YW THEATR MALDWYN. A unique opportunity to hear two oratorios. The Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, £12/£10, 01686 614555. Sun 31 March ROUSE YE WOMEN TOWNSEND THEATRE PRODUCTIONS. A powerful story of the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath in the West Midlands retold through rousing traditional songs and ballads. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7pm, £15.50/£13.50, students £10, 01743 281281. Thurs 4 April LOVELY GIRLS THE HICCUP PROJECT. Lovely Girls meanders through real women’s stories using a blend of dance, theatre and comedy. For ages 12+. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.45pm, £13, 01432 340555. Thurs 4 & Fri 5 April STOLEN THE DEVIL’S VIOLIN COMPANY. Storyteller Daniel Morden weaves traditional stories into an epic narrative with hypnotic string accompaniement. For ages 10+. 4 April - Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, £10, 01885 488575. 5 April - Bitterley VH, 7.30pm, £10, 01584 890881. Arts Alive.

MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA Fri 1 March CROONERS A rip-roaring comedy musical packed with personality and humour, and a quintessentially British twist. Plus an injection of Big Band swing. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £23.50, children £10, 01743 281281. Tues 5 & Wed 6 March BAD GIRLS THE MUSICAL RAB PRODUCTIONS. Based on the popular ITV prison drama series. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £20, 01743 281281.

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Until Sat 2 March TREASURE ISLAND ABERGAVENNY PANTOMIME COMPANY. Join in the fun and set sail. Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, times and prices vary, 01873 850805. Mon 11 March PEN-BLWYDD POENUS PETE Welsh language theatre. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 1.30pm, £10/£8, schools £7 01874 611622. Tues 12 & Wed 13 March BING LIVE Join Bing, Sula, Coco and Pando as they tell stories by pretending, dressing-up and singing songs. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, Tues 1pm & 4pm, Wed 10am & 1pm, £20.50-£15.50, children £2 off, 01743 281281.

Thurs 7 - Sat 9 March MY FAIR LADY CONCEPT PLAYERS. Follow the story of cockney Eliza Doolittle as she is transformed by Henry Higgins into a lady. Borough Theatre, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £12, 01873 850805. Sat 9 March & Sat 16 March TOSCA MID WALES OPERA. Trapped in a life and death struggle against the corrupt police chief Scarpia, the diva Tosca and her artist lover face the ultimate sacrifice. 9 March - Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622. 16 March - The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555. Wed 20 - Sat 23 March THE MIKADO HEREFORD GILBERT & SULLIVAN SOCIETY. A topsy-turvy musical satire of English society set in the fictional Japanese town of Titipu. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm, £16, £14, students £5, 01432 340555. Wed 27 - Sun 31 March OLIVER OUR STAR THEATRE COMPANY in production with The Market Theatre vividly brings to life Dickens’ timeless characters with Lionel Bart’s songs. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7.30pm, (not Sun), Sat & Sun 2.30pm, £14, students £10, 07967 517125. Tues 2 - Thurs 4 April CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOL EDITION SHREWSBURY HIGH SCHOOL. A darkly satirical razzle-dazzle musical set to the backdrop of prohibition-era in Chicago. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £15/£10, 01743 281281. Wed 3 - Sat 6 April GUYS AND DOLLS MONMOUTH MUSICAL THEATRE. Set in New York it features showgirls, gamblers, do-gooders and down-andouts. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £15, under 16s £8, 01600 772467. Thurs 4 - Sat 6 April THE SOUND OF MUSIC NEWTOWN MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY brings a timeless classic. Based on a true story, this musical has enchanted generations with its uplifting message of family, love and courage. The Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £15/£12/50, 01686 614555.

Sun 17 March NOISY OYSTER THE DASILVA MARIONETTE CIRCUS TROUPE. One third life-size marionettes doing aerial acrobatics, flying trapeze, laughs and antics. St Mary’s Church, Ross-onWye, 2.30pm, £5. www.createross.co.uk Ross Reinvented Festival. Tues 19 March PINOCCHIO The story of a child free from prejudices: he’s disobedient and mischievous, yet at the same time, naive. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £10/£8, family £30, 01874 611622. Sun 24 March WHO’S PUSHING COMPAGNIE LUNATIC, FRANCE. Two characters, like new animals, come alive to explore their new world with aerial acrobatics and songs in an imaginary language. No language, for ages 3-8 years. Wyeside, Builth Wells, 2pm, £10/£8, 01982 552555. Mon 25 March ROMANY WOOD - A MUSICAL FOR CHILDREN Starring over 250 young people from across Shropshire. Theatre Severn’s 10th birthday revival production. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7pm, £15, 01743 281281. Sat 30 March THE THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF GARLIC THEATRE. A simple story of three hungry goats and a grumpy old troll, told with a gentle ecological message. For ages 3+. The Courtyard, Hereford, 11am, £7.50, 01432 340555. Sat 6 April JACK & THE BEANSTALK LYNGO THEATRE. Expect lots of surprises and beautiful images as Patrick Lynch (from Ceebies) tells the gripping story of Jack. For over 3’s and their giants. The Courtyard, Hereford, 11am, £7.50, 01432 340555.

DRAMA WORKSHOPS GOMADINLUDLOW Our inclusive Youth Theatre Group (ages 8-18) runs Drama Workshops 5-6:30pm Mondays in term-time* at “Oscar’s” in the Assembly Rooms. Enjoy Sessions from only £5 when booking a whole term. e-mail hello@gomadinludlow.org - or call 07484 289 215. *term-time = according to the Shropshire Local Authority Calendar.

MID POWYS YOUTH THEATRE Tuesdays Junior Youth Theatre 9-13, 4.30pm-6pm. Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells Senior Youth Theatre 14+ 7pm-9.30pm. The Drama Centre, Llandrindod Wells. Contact Ralph Bolland on 07810 350994. COURTYARD THEATRE, HEREFORD Wed - Courtyard Kids, reception 4.15-5pm, Year 2, 5pm, £63.50 per term. Sat - Junior Youth Theatre. From Year 3 - Year 9, phone for times, £68.50 per term. Wed - Intermediate Youth Theatre. For years 10 & 11, 6pm, £70.50 per term. Fri Senior Youth Theatre, for ages 16+, 6.30pm, £73.50 per term. Thurs - Courtyard Musical Theatre, 7.15pm, £68 per term, contact Laura Gale 07725 357531. Mons - Drama Tots,10am – 10.45am, Ages 2-4, £4 per session, £1 per extra child. Mon Bromyard Conquest Kids (Reception & Year 1), 3.45pm, £36 per term. Bromyard Juniors (Year 3-6) 4.50-5.30pm, £39 per term. Bromyard Intermediates (Year 7-9), 6pm, £43 per term. Bromyard Seniors (Year 10+), 7.30pm, £46 per term. Wed - Kington Juniors (Year 2-6) 4-4.45pm, £36 per term. Kington Intermediates (Year 7- 9), 5pm-6pm, £39 per term. Kington Seniors (Years 10+) 6pm – 7.30pm, £43 per termThe Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555. THEATR IEUENTID / BRYCHEINIOG YOUTH THEATRE With weekly sessions tailored to suit the needs of each year group, from 4 years and up. Mondays 3.45pm 4.45pm Roundabout, Reception & Years 1 & 2. Wednesdays 5pm - 6pm Junior Youth, Years 3,4 & 5. Wednesdays 6pm - 7pm Junior Youth, Years 6,7 & 8. Thursdays 8.30pm - 10pm Senior Youth, Years 9, 10 & 11, 16 - 25. Call 01874 611622, www.brycheiniog.co.uk ASSEMBLY ROOMS, LUDLOW Mon - Go MAD in Ludlow, 5-6.30pm, Oscars. Contact Simon 07506 478235 & Suzanne 07484 289215 or email hello@gomadinludlow. org Sat - Ludwig Academy of Musical Theatre. 7-11 years 1-2pm, 12-16 years 2-3pm. Oscars. Contact Jack Ludwig, 077922 66225. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow. Mondays BROMYARD YOUTH THEATRE Led by Becky Cook. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard. Ages 4-6. Juniors ages 6-10. Intermediate ages 11-14. All £30 per term. Senior ages 14-18, £35 per term, 01432 340555. Tuesdays (during term time) PRESTEIGNE YOUTH THEATRE for ages 9 - 13 years 4.30pm - 6pm £4 per week. More info: info@midborderarts.com / 01544 267163. PYT is an inclusive provision and is open to any young person. Tuesdays YOUTH THEATRE for 7-14 year-olds after school. Ledbury Market Theatre, 01432 383663. Wednesdays KINGTON YOUTH THEATRE Kington Primary School. Wed - Junior 7-11 years, 4-5.30pm. Intermediate 11+ 5.30-7pm. £42 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. Thursdays IMPULSIVE THEATRE COMPANY For ages 13-19. The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, 5-6.45pm, 07916 277928. Alternate Fridays (term time) HAVE A GO SHAKESPEARE All welcome, £5. Wyeside, Builth Wells, details Sue Best, 01597 811487.

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Sun 3 March JUNIOR JESTERS Family friendly comedy club for children and parents who likes comedy without the rude bits. Featuring MC Charlie Baker, George Rigden and Dan the Man. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 4pm, £7.50, family £25, 01743 281281. Sat 9 March RACHEL PARRIS: IT’S FUN TO PRETEND Presents a comedy show packed with stand-up, song, sketch and more. For ages 14+. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £14, 01600 772467.

Poetry & Storytelling Sun 3 March KING LEAR RETOLD BY DEBS NEWBOLD In this dark and challenging epic, Debs channels her love of Shakespeare’s language to whip up a great storm. Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 8pm, £10 from The Workhouse, Presteigne, or wegottickets.com Fri 8 March GAWAIN AND THE GREEN GIANT Powerful storytelling, songs and humour with Sarah Rundle. Town Hall, Bishop’s Castle, 7.30pm, £7, 01588 630023. Sun 24 March POETRY READINGS Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown, 3pm, 01686 688369. Wed 27 March POETRY BREAKFAST Poems and a delicious breakfast. Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, 9.30am, £8. Further details contact Anna, annadreda@icloud.com

Sat 30 March TITLE AND DEED FARNHAM MALTINGS. A monoglogue delivered by one man known simply as ‘Man’. A beautiful and poetic evening of storytelling. Black Mountains Barns, Longtown, 7.30pm, £10, 01873 860358. Arts Alive. Sun 7 April DR JOHN COOPER CLARKE: THE LUCKIEST GUY ALIVE Poet, movie star, rock star, TV and radio presenter, comedian and social commentator. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £18, 01600 772467.

Comedy

Sun 3 March SEVERN JESTERS Discover new stars of stand-up. Featuring Simon Wozniak, George Rigden and Charlie Baker. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £9 in advance, £10 on the door, 01743 281281.

Wed 13 March COMEDY NIGHT Starring ‘The Death Hilarious’. The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 7.30pm. Register for free tickets via Facebook. Fri 15 March MARK STEEL: EVERY LITTLE THING’S GONNA BE ALRIGHT The Hafren, Newtown, 8pm, £15, 01686 614555. Fri 15 March THE THINKING DRINKERS PUB CRAWL A hilarious, intoxicating bar-hop through history. You’ll learn a lot, you’ll laugh a lot and you get five free drinks! For ages 18+. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £16.50, 01743 281281. Sat 16 & Sat 23 March HAL CRUTTENDEN - CHUBSTER One of the top stand-up comedians working in the UK today. 16 March - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £19.50, 01743 281281. 23 March - Wyeside, Builth Wells, 8pm, £17, 01982 552555. Thurs 21 March COMEDY AT THE EDGE - JACK DEE (Work in Progress). Plus support. For ages 14+. The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 8pm, £15, 01952 728911. Fri 22 March GARY DELANEY: GAGSTER’S PARADISE Star of Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week. For ages 14+. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £17, 01600 772467. Sat 23 March CARL HUTCHINSON - I KNOW I SHOULDN’T BEHAVE LIKE THIS... Carl takes his unique adolescent approach to grown up issues. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £13.50, 01743 281281. Fri 29 March COMEDY NIGHT Launch of a new comedy night. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, 01497 821762. Fri 29 March RICH HALL’S HOEDOWN There’s stand-up, improvised ballads, cracking good musicianship and ultimately a hilarious time to be had. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, £17, 01874 611622. Fri 29 March HEINEKEN COMEDY CLUB Featuring Rory O’Hanlon, Chris Purchase and Steff Todd. The Courtyard, Hereford, 8.30pm, £12.50, 01432 340555.

Talks

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March & April BRECKNOCK ARTS SOCIETY 12 March - Marc Allum, ‘The Chair, 2000 Years of Sitting Down’. Antiques Roadshow specialist. 19 March - Study Day, Netherlandish Influence on Italian Art, lecture by Paula Nuttal (held at Henderson Hall, Talybont). 9 April Daniel Evans, ‘Leonardo, Anatomical Mindfulness’. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 2.30pm, 01874 611622.

Sun 31 March SEANN WALSH - AFTER THIS ONE, I’M GOING HOME Dischevelled, fiery, animated and fiercely idle. The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, £17, 01432 340555.

March HAY CAMERA CLUB 5 March - Carmarthen Cameras. 12 March - Presentation by Gareth Martin. 19 March - Presentation by Ed Marshall, ‘A New Dawn for Redonda. 26 March ‘Wedding Photography’, a talk by Jennifer Cox. 2 April - AGM. 9 April - Club Competition, ‘People at Work’. All meetings at Masonic Hall, Hay-on-Wye, 7.30pm, £5, www.haycameraclub.co.uk

Wed 3 & Thurs 4 April JASPER CARROTT’S STAND UP & ROCK Alongside his musical compatriots, the Bev Bevan Band. A night of classic songs and Jasper back where he belongs... making us laugh. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £30, 01432 340555.

March & April HEREFORD ARTS APPRECIATION SOCIETY 15 March - ‘From Canaries to Poppies 1941-2018’, a talk by Julie Orton-Davies, 2.30pm. 12 April - ‘Painters Working during two World Wars’, a talk by Professor Allen Fisher, 7.30pm. The Kindle Centre, by ASDA, Hereford, 01432 890469.

Fri 5 April HELEN WOOD - THE OS MAP FAN CLUB Join Ordnance Survey enthusiast as she grapples with a selection of rambling gadgets and shares out the Kendal Mint Cake. Habberley Village Hall, 7.30pm, £10/£5, 01743 790179. Arts Alive.

March & April SOUTH WEST SHROPSHIRE GARDENING CLUB 27 March - ‘Life as a Garden Editor’, a talk by Tamsin Westhorpe. 24 April - ‘Garden Design’, a talk by Christine Scott. Lydbury North VH, 7.30pm, £5, www.gardeningshropshire.co.uk

Conquest Theatre Bromyard Live on Stage Fri 8 March 7.30pm FOLK IN THE FOYER FINBAR MAGEE & BREIGE QUINN

Borderlines Films

1 March, 7.30pm - A STAR IS BORN (15) 3 March, 3pm - FARENHEIT 11/9 (15) 6 March, 7.30pm - THE SEAGULL (12A) 10 March, 7.30pm - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST 12 March, 7.30pm - FACES PLACES (12A) 15 March, 7.30pm - THE WIFE (15)

Screenings

2 March, 5.55pm LA FILLE DU REGIMENT New York Met 30 March, 4pm - DIE WALKURE New York Met

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

March & April LUDLOW ART SOCIETY 7 March - ‘Observations, Collections, Recollections’. Pete Davis, photographer. 4 April - ‘Observing Wildlife, Using Media to Depict Nature’, wildlife artist, Susan McLeod. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, £6 on the door, non-members welcome, 01584 873182. March & April LINGEN GARDENING CLUB 5 March - ‘Tool Sharpening for the Terrified’, talk and demonstration by William Scott. 2 April - ‘Murder, Magic and Potions’, a talk by Marion Stainton. Lingen Village Hall, 7.30pm, £15 annual membership, £4 non-members, 01544 267463. March & April LINTON & DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY 6 March - ‘Gertrude Bell’ by Jan Long. 13 March - ‘The Civil War in Herefordshire’, by David Ross. 20 March - ‘The Universe and Us’, a talk by Chris Barnett. 27 March - ‘Marianne North’, a talk by Geoff North. 3 April - ‘Eastnor Castle’, a talk by Patricia Wilkin. All talks are held in Linton Village Hall, 7.30pm start, £2 members, £3 visitors, students free, 01989 780634. Wed 6 March TIM MARSHALL - DIVIDED: WHY WE’RE LIVING IN AN AGE OF WALLS Money, race, religion and politics: these are the things that divide us. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £11.50/£10.50, 01874 611622. Fri 8 March INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: WOMEN TALKING Celebrate International Women’s Day with an evening of speech, image and film from some of Wales’ most inspirational and adventurous women. Featuring Sian Sykes and Ruth Pickvance. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7.30pm, £10, 01874 611622. Sat 9 March HARDY PLANT SOCIETY HEREFORDSHIRE & MID WALES ‘An American Nurseryman’s Reflections on English Gardening’, a talk by Mark Zenick. Glasbury Village Hall, 2pm, following AGM at 1pm, £4, 01544 262795. Tues 12 March & Tues 9 April THE ARTS SOCIETY HEREFORD (TASH) 12 March - ‘Iconic Objects of Art: The Shell’. An illustrated lecture by Anthony Buxton. 9 April ‘Herefordshire Churches and Their Treasures: Past, Present and into the Future’. A lecture by Tim Bridges. The Green Dragon, Broad St, Hereford, 2.15pm, £9 guests, new members welcome, refreshments available. www.theartssocietyhereford.org.uk, 01568 797703. Thurs 14 March JASON DONOVAN & HIS AMAZING MIDLIFE CRISIS Celebrating his 50th birthday and with a wealth of tantalising tales under his belt, plus some of the songs you know and love! Theatr Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, £27.50, 01686 614555.

Sat 16 March STEPHANIE MORIN-ROBERT - BLINDSIDE In a feat of riveting comedy, one-eyed storytelling champion and cancer survivor Stephanie Morin-Robert recounts her life as a feisty seven year old who wields her glass-eye as a superpower. Women’s Centre, Ludlow, 8pm, £10/£6, 07950 678693. Arts Alive/Ludlow Fringe.

Tim Marshall Sat 16 March MORTIMER HISTORY SOCIETY AGM & ANNUAL LECTURE ‘The Medieval Castle and Borough of Richard’s Castle’, a lecture by Philip Hume. Richard’s Castle Village Hall. Refreshments 9.15am, AGM 10am, lecture 11am. members free, non-members £5 on the door. www.mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk Sat 16 March IAN MCKELLEN ON STAGE Presented by Ambassador Theatre Group. The show starts with Gandalf, a few anecdotes and will probably end with an invitation to act with Ian on stage. The Hafren, Newtown, 7.30pm, £28 - £18, 01686 614555. Sat 16 March THE BOOK OF PEBBLES Angie Lewin and Christopher Stocks in conversation. The Feathers Hotel, Ledbury, 3pm, £5, organised by Tinsmiths, 01531 632083. Tues 19 March LUDLOW AND MARCHES HUMANISTS “Losing my Arrogance, a tale in Three Hats.” A talk by Andy Boddington, Shropshire Councillor for Ludlow North. The Friends Meeting House, St Marys Lane, Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01568 770282. Tues 19 March GARWAY HERITAGE GROUP ‘Hay Castle: its Past, Present and Future’, talk by historian and author, Mari Fforde. Garway Community Centre, 7.30pm, all welcome, £5 includes refreshments, www.garwayheritagegroup.co.uk Wednesday 20 March EATON BISHOP GARDENING CLUB 20 March - ‘Miss Jekyll’s Daisy Grubber’, a talk by Bill Lawes. Eaton Bishop VH, 7.30pm, eatonbishopvillagehall.btck.co.uk Thurs 21 March WIGMORE & DISTRICT GARDENING CLUB ‘Alpines’, a talk by Jim Almond. Wigmore Village Hall, £2 non members, 07813 733240. Thurs 21 March A CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO ART HISTORIANS Miles Wynn Cato and Hugh Belsey. Ludlow Methodist Church, Broad St, Ludlow, 2.30pm, £5. The Ludlow Palmers - The Conservation Trust St Laurence, Ludlow. www.ludlowpalmers.uk

Fri 22 March 22ND SIR JOHN LOYD LECTURE ‘Writing History: The World of Theophilus Jones, Our County Historian’, a talk by Prys Morgan. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7pm, free but ticketed, 01874 611622. Sat 23 March BOOK SIGNING AT TINSMITHS Jenny Crisp will be signing copies of her first book ‘Willow’. Tinsmiths, Ledbury, 10am-12pm. Sat 23 March CONTINENCE AND CARNIVAL IN THE RITUALISATION OF TIME A talk by author and anthropologist Stephen Hugh-Jones. Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, 6pm, £8, 01547 550377. Tues 26 March CONVERSATIONS AT THE CHAPEL Gillian Clark, National Poet of Wales 2008-2016 with Alastair Laurence. The Chapel, Market St, Abergavenny, 7.30pm, £10, 01873 736430. Wed 27 March DR MICHAEL MOSLEY - TRUE FAST HEALTH The man behind the iconic 5:2 Diet. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £25, 01743 281281. Thurs 28 March WELLINGTON PARISH HISTORY SOCIETY ‘Hill Forts of Herefordshire’, Tim Hoverd. Wellington Village Hall, 7.30pm, 01432 839109. Thurs 28 March THE ARTS SOCIETY MID WALES & BORDERS ‘Monumental History - Voices from the Grave’, a talk by Edward Parry. Royal Oak Hotel, Welshpool, 2.30pm, £6, 01938 555938 or 01938 555574.

Workshops & Courses Fri 1 March FREELANCER & SMALL BUSINESS DROP IN The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 10am, free, 01497 821762. Starting Wed 6 March SPANISH FOR BEGINNERS Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, 7pm, more information call Mely 07837 160505. Fri 8 March BRING BALANCE TO YOUR BUSINESS International Women’s Day 2019. A talk and networking opportunities for business women. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye from 10am, £7.50, 01497 821762. Mon 11 & 25 March PUBLIC SPEAKING GROUP Discover the speaking and leadership skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Mascall Centre, Ludlow, 7.20pm, first meeting free. Ludlowspeakers.org.uk Sat 16 & Sun 17 March LARFE - ANNUAL MEGA BOOK SALE Second-hand books, CDs and DVDs at bargain prices. Deliver during the week of the sale. Assembly Rooms, Ludlow, 10am-4pm, £5 before 11am on Saturday, 50p at other times, 01584 878141. SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP An opportunity to speak Spanish together monthly. (Intermediate+). Call Naomi 01597 851022.

WEA HEREFORD BRANCH 6 March - The Illustrated Letters from the Boyhood of Brian Hatton with Robin Thorndyke, 10am-12pm, £10. 12 March - Buttons by the Gross! A History of the Dorset Button Industry with Carolyn Mace, 10am-12pm, £10. All At Museum Resource and Learning Centre, 58 Friars St, Hereford. Study Day - 2 March: The Musical World of Louis XIV, the Sun King. Listen to and watch dance, ballet and vocal/instrumental music performances illustrating Baroque music. Study Day - 23 March: Harlem Renaissance-Art & Literature in 1920s New York. Workshops at HARC, Rotherwas, Hereford - 12 April - The Spanish Flu; Story and Science. 15 April - The Coningsby’s of Hampton Court and their Atlas. 24 April - Reformation and Repression in Herefordshire. 8 May - The Story of Democracy in the UK. For HARC contact 01981 250819. 13 April - Handwriting 1550-1700 part 2, HARC, Rotherwas, 01531 634460. Places limited, to book or details email herefordbranch@wea.org.uk 01432 880545. 1st Saturday READING GROUP Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, afternoons, free, 01547 550377. Mondays WRITING ROOM The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.30am-12.30pm, £75 per term, 01432 340555. Mondays STORY CORNER AT THE COURTYARD For ages 4 years and under. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555. Every 2nd & 4th Monday TERRIFIED AND TONGUE TIED? Toastmaster provide a friendly and supportive environment to practice public speaking. Constructive feedback to help you improve. An opportunity to grow. Ludlow Speakers, Blue Boar pub, Mill Street, Ludlow. Monthly, 7.20pm-9.30pm. Every Tues & Wed SPANISH LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS Tues - Level 1, 7pm, Wed - Level 2, 10am, with Mely. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, 07837 160505 or www.hayspanish.com Every Tues READING ROOM The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.30am-12.30pm, £55 per term, 01432 340555. Fourth Tuesday SCIENCE CAFÉ Informal group, talks and discussions on scientific topics. The Swan at Hay, 7pm, free, all welcome, sciencecafe@outlook.com First Wednesday of the month POETRY CAFE, Charlton Arms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 872813. 2nd Wed of each month WYESIDE WRITERS GROUP An informal writers’ group for wordsmiths. Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells, 7pm, £2.50, 01982 552555. Every other Thursday PHILOSOPHY CAFE Informal group which offers the chance to discuss philosophical issues. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, 01497 821762. philosphycafe@outlook.com Fridays READING ROOM EXTRA The Courtyard, Hereford, 6-8pm, £55 per term, 01432 340555. International Poetry Writers’ Collective: Abergavenny 01873 856350 Leominster Writers' Circle, Leominster Community Centre, Frank Pavitt, chairman LWC, 01568 614973, meet first Tuesday, monthly, 2pm. Presteigne Writers’ Circle, Assembly Rooms, 7.30pm. 01544 260255 Border Poets 01547 530380. Rhayader Writing Group CARAD, Rhayader, 01597 810561.

grass roots Who will pay the bill for collapsing nuclear power schemes?

HEN I wrote about Britain’s nuclear plans eighteen months ago, I described one major Japanese energy player, Toshiba, as being “in deep trouble” over its UK ambitions. In early 2019, it is Britain’s whole strategy for new nuclear power that is in grave danger. Some might think it matters little how the power companies generate electricity, so long as our supplies are reliable, and good value for money. But it is the sheer punishing cost of new nuclear power that nowadays tends to top the list of arguments against it. It is because of these eye-watering costs that, in the last three months, plans for three new UK nuclear plants have gone into meltdown. In early November, the Japanese industrial giant Toshiba revealed that plans by its subsidiary Nugeneration to build reactors at Moorside in Cumbria had fallen apart. The decision was described as “a crushing blow to hopes of a revival of the UK nuclear energy industry”. That was not a cry of triumph from Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth, but the gloomy verdict of Tim Yeo, a former Tory MP, who chairs a pro-nuclear group, the New Nuclear Watch Institute. In January this year, another nuclear power scheme came crashing down. This time it was a new station at Wylfa, on the island of Anglesey, which was cancelled. It was to have been built by another Japanese player, Hitachi. Indeed, Hitachi was turning its back altogether on developing additional nuclear power in Britain. And that meant that a third nuclear plant it had planned, at Oldbury, on the River Severn, was also biting the dust. All of a sudden, the map of shiny nuclear power projects for the future begins to resemble a catalogue of failures. The one new nuclear power station that is still firmly under construction is Hinkley Point C in Somerset. But its estimated cost went through the roof long ago and the eventual bill is now likely to be four or five times what was being predicted in 2008, by the then Labour government. The cost of electricity from Hinkley Point C will be, in today’s money, £108 per megawatt hour. A vast sum compared with recently commissioned offshore wind schemes, which came in at £57.50 per megawatt hour. You don’t need to be Einstein to see that power from new nuclear stations is shaping up to be around twice as pricey as from offshore wind. Moreover, electricity customers will be tied to paying the swingeing costs of Hinkley C for 35 years - the seemingly endless period for which Hinkley C will be guaranteed that £108 per unit of power. Yet the energy secretary Greg Clark isn’t yet throwing in the towel on nuclear power. He says other nuclear plants, at Sizewell and Bradwell in East Anglia, are under regulatory

Greg Clark, Business and Energy Secretary

consideration. However, he concedes that no such nuclear project can be backed “at any price”. His warning is the coldest blast of air from government that the nuclear power lobby has felt for many years. Under David Cameron’s coalition, the pretence was that new nuclear plants could be developed without government subsidies. But it is now obvious that taxpayers are also at risk of having to stump up. In the case of Hinkley C, this was finally revealed through a freedom of information request two years ago. After a long tussle to get at the facts, a Welsh nuclear power boffin, Dr David Lowry, learned from the department of energy that, when it came to dealing with nuclear waste, the operators of Hinkley Point C would have their financial risks firmly capped. Where costs exceed the cap, the department eventually admitted, “the residual risk…is being borne by the government.” What the collapse of Moorside, Wylfa and Oldbury means is that the costs of nuclear are now so high that no project can succeed without direct government funding. At Wylfa, taxpayers came within a whisker of seeing billions of pounds of their money being risked. The government was on the brink of paying a third of the building costs of £16 billion, as well as supplying further billions to cover the cost of borrowing the capital required for the whole project. Taxpayers were let off the hook only because, in the end, Hitachi walked away. In a presentation last year, Steve Thomas, emeritus professor of energy policy at the University of Greenwich, concluded that the cost of new nuclear power stations is now so vast “…that options such as renewables and energy efficiency measures would be a much more cost-effective way of meeting the UK’s climate change goals.” As a result, he argues, the government’s nuclear strategy is imposing huge extra costs on future electricity consumers. I can’t fault his argument. Julian O’Halloran

Green Events WYNNES OF DINMORE COUNTRYSTORE Poultry Keeping - Free 1/2 hour session. Covers laying hens, housing, feed, bedding, health & hygiene + Question & Answer time. Held at Wynnes of Dinmore Countrystore - off the A49 (through village centre). Open Tues - Sat 9am-4:30pm. For more information email info@wynnes.co.uk or telephone Roxy or Ann 01568 797314. Tues 5 March & Sat 6 April SHREWSBURY ABERYSTWYTH RAIL PASSENGERS’ ASSOCIATION Monitoring performance of the railway and campaign for improved services. 5 March - Shrewsbury Railway Station, 17.45pm, all welcome. 6 April - Royal Naval Club, Market St, Aberystwyth. Thurs 7 March GREENPEACE Informal meeting of local activists and supporters to discuss campaigns and environmental issues. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 01497 821762. Thurs 7 - Sat 9 March BRECON WOMEN’S FESTIVAL 7 March - Canal Canoeing session, 10am, free, but please book. 8 March - Dinky Donkey Walk, quiet stroll along the canal bank, 11am, £2 donation. 9 March - Walk to Pen Y Crug with Welsh Women Walking, 9.15am, free, but please book. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 611622. Sun 24 March EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT PERMACULTURE BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK A talk by Chris Evans of Applewood Permaculture Centre. Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, 11am-1.30pm, £10 includes morning coffee and veggie lunch. Please book, 01547 550377. March KNIGHTON TREE ALLOTMENTS TRUST Volunteer with us to learn about woodland management and associated skills such as coppicing, tree care and cutting firewood. Task days 2, 7, 17, 21 & 31 March in Beggar’s Bush. Details email woodland@tveg.org.uk 01547 520374 http://tveg.org.uk/wordpress/what-we-do/ woodland-project March SHROPSHIRE HILLS DISCOVERY CENTRE First Sunday of every month - Become a Habitat Helper! For all ages and abilities. Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, 01588 676060. Thurs 4 April ECO ENGINEERING Where science, engineering and sustainability meet. Explore hydrogen-fuelled cars in the morning and airand-ground source heat pump domestic heating in the afternoon. The Pales Quaker Meeting House, Llandegley, LD1 5UH. Details thepales.org.uk Sat 6 April EXCITING SCIENCE Exciting and educational, this brand new science show will amaze and astound all ages from 4 year upwards with live experiments. Full of wiz, bang, pop and splurt! Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 2pm, £10.50, 01743 281281. Sun 14 April SPRING PLANT FAIR The Shropshire Group of the Hardy Plant Society. Bayston Hill Memorial Hall, 12-3pm, free admission www.hardy-plant.org.uk Mondays & Wednesdays KNIGHTON MENS SHED Sharpening service available. Teme Mill, Station Yard, Knighton, 10am-2pm. John on 01544232750 or email jtknightonmensshed@gmail.com. First Sat of the month FARMERS MARKET Local produce, gifts and crafts. Eaton Bishop VH, 10am.

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. 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 ACUPUNCTURE Vanessa Hamilton LicAc MBAcC I am an experienced acupuncturist with 31 years’ experience and have expert skills in listening and communication which are essential for correct treatment. A free 15min phone consultation is available to help you decide whether or not acupuncture is suitable for you . The Retreat, Studio 2a, Presteigne Industrial Estate, Presteigne, LD8 2UF, 07811120386, 01547 550387, for more info visit www.hereford-acupuncture-clinic.co.uk ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE in Hereford. Individual lessons and small groups with Ann Rowan MSTAT. BA. ARCM, 01432 279536. 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. AMAZING HEALINGS Help is available for physical and mental challenges at the The Terrace Healing Centre, near Kington. Gentle, effective emotional guidance and bodywork can free your vitality! The therapist, James Gee, has been studying healing since 2004, and has an excellent track record. Call to discuss your situation: 01544 231348. AROMATHERAPY massage and facials - Bach Remedies Herbalism - Reiki. For comprehensive, holistic treatment: Roz Myers Brown, Dip. Ar. IPTI, MIPTI. Kington clinic. 07967 137208, roz.brown@btinternet.com BALANCED BEING -Is based near Church Stretton and a lovely environment where you can receive sessions of Natural Spiritual Healing, Progressive Counselling/Life Coaching, Hatha Yoga or Pure Meditation Foundation Alternatively come and see us in clinics in Brecon, Hay-on Wye, Ludlow or Shrewsbury. We offer bespoke residential retreats and B&B serving vegetarian food. Please call for details and also check the workshop listings for dates of our forthcoming longer courses in Pure Meditation, Animal Healing Training and Weekly Yoga classes. DipNsph / Dip Prog Couns Coach / Dip THY&R / SRMHC Reg’d Teachers and Associates. Members IYN, Reps. Tel: 01694 771559. www.balancedbeing.org.uk BOWEN TECHNIQUE Bowen is a holistic, non invasive therapy consisting of gentle moves over soft tissue and muscles, interspersed with periods of rest. Suitable for adults and children. Working from clinics in Bishop’s Castle and Church Stretton. Home visits available. Contact ROB ROWE MBTPA tel: 01588 630648, email rob@robrowe.co.uk or learn more at www.bowentherapy.org.uk BOWEN & ENERGY HEALING: Releasing imbalances on many levels; listening to the body with compassion. Gentle deep body-work for pain, muscles, joints, internal conditions & whole health. Also clearing emotional, spiritual, mind-brain-body stuckness. My passion is to help clients discover more freedom & ease, enabling them to move forwards in life! Tenbury Wells & Ludlow (also home visits). Phone me for a chat or appointment. Hilary Foxwell 01584 819010.

CLAIRE KERBY COUNSELLING (Post grad dip Counselling, MBACP). Having someone to talk to outside your normal circle of friends / family can really help to gain a new clarity and sense of perspective. I would love it if you would call me, in confidence, with no judgement on 07971 816541, or email me at Claire.kerby@btinternet.com. CHARTERED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST & PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPIST with over 25 years professional NHS experience, providing psychological help to adults. Please see website for details: www. drmatthewfaull.co.uk. I am highly trained and experienced in using evidence–based psychotherapies to relieve distress and help you achieve your life goals, and offer sessions in Ludlow and Leintwardine. I also offer supervision to mental health professionals. Please contact me by email: mfaull@btinternet. com, to arrange a free initial phone conversation to consider your needs. Registered with British Psychological Society, British Psychoanalytic Council, Health Professions Council. COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY (CBT), COUNSELLING AND COUPLE COUNSELLING Hello! CBT can work well for depression, anxiety, panic, OCD, anger, phobias, self-harm, eating disorders, low self-esteem and more. I also offer counselling for most issues, including sexuality, bereavement and past sexual abuse. Couple counselling is available and counselling for those who have problems concerning self-esteem, relationships or lack of them. Contact Gail Venables MBACP (Accred) on 01544 350384 or www. cbtgail.co.uk for sessions in Leominster and New Radnor COUNSELLING. Person-centred, focused on you. Do you need someone to talk to in confidence? I am a qualified counsellor based between Ludlow and Leominster. Home visits are also available. Contact me - Wendy Clare on 0792 3311550, email vivada.advice@gmail.com or visit my website wendyclare.weebly.com Together we discover what works for you. COUNSELLING & MINDFULNESS COACHING with Matthew Ward MBACP, Accredited Mindfulness Trainer. I provide a safe and confidential counselling service to explore the challenges that life can bring such as loss and anxiety. I also offer individual mindfulness coaching and run regular courses locally. 01568 708836 or 07982 466224 marchesmindfulness.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 Osteopaths and Kingsland. Phone for more info: 07981 866 667 / www.touchtreetherapy.co.uk DRUM MANTRA MEDITATE Lead by Roise (roe-sha) On the first Thursday of the month 9.50am - 11am. £8 It’s fun, it energises the body and calms the mind. Phone 07511 621 856. At S.E.N.S.E. in Tenbury Wells EMOTIONAL THERAPY: Anne Cummings FETC (Adv Dip), MNCS (Accred) offers this safe, effective therapy to help adults and children heal their emotional and spiritual wounds and fulfil their personal potential. If you have difficulty relating to others, or have troublesome emotions call Anne on 01547 530977. Specialist knowledge and experience of working with panic attacks, anger, stress, bullying, low self-esteem, bereavement/loss, anxiety and depression. Centres in Powys/ south Shropshire. Ffi including workshops and talks see www.thewritetofeel.com.

HEREFORD HOMEOPATH Juliet Ablett RHom, MARH, MNCHM. Experienced practitioner works with you as an individual, listening without judgement; working with whatever symptoms or issues you have. Natural, effective treatment suitable for all ages. I am very happy to chat with you on the phone about what treatment you are looking for before you commit to an appointment. Weekly clinics at Hereford Centre for Natural Health and Monmouth Natural Health Centre. Juliet Ablett www.julietablett.co.uk julietablett@rocketmail.com 01981 241456 HOLISTIC BEAUTY AND MASSAGE – JILL GRAHAM. MTIcertHM. CIBTAC. Reiki 3. Mindfulness Pract. Treatments to relax the mind and body in peaceful surroundings. Beauty Treatments, Massage, Massage 4 Pregnancy (Specialise), Indian Head, . ‘The Studio’ NORTON, PRESTEIGNE. 07766 722735 - www.holisticbeautyandmassage.co.uk email: jill.e.graham@btinternet.com Facebook: @holisticbeautyandmassage 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. 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. NO HANDS® MASSAGE works on every level: physical, energetic, emotional, mental and spiritual. It’s deep, transforming touch with no pain. Come and train with Wendy Mills, Master Therapist and Instructor. Clinic and Courses held in Sutton St Nicholas, Hereford. 07858137889; millsw1@tiscali.co.uk; www.wendymills.co.uk MASSAGE THERAPY Injuries, stress, relaxation. Claire Williams I.T.E.C. / N.I.M. 01544 267172. Clinics in Presteigne, Ludlow and Hereford. OSTEOPATH. Mr R A Hughes D.O. Registered Osteopath and Sports Therapist. Fully qualified and registered since 1995 Established in Presteigne for over 20 years. Sciatica, Arthritis, Trapped Nerves, Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain. Headaches, Sports Injuries. 07961 352056, rahughesosteo@gmail.com The Retreat, Presteigne – free car parking. 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 THE REAL BIRTH WORKSHOP - Birth physiology course with JILL GRAHAM – day workshop - includes lunch. Promoting positive attitudes whatever your choice! Helping you to feel confident in your abilities and the decisions that you make about your labour and birth. I will take you on a step by step journey of how your body works. 25 mile radius of Presteigne, individuals, couples or small groups. In clients home or @ ‘The Studio’ NORTON, PRESTEIGNE. For more information - 07766 722735, www.holisticbeautyandmassage. co.uk email: jill.e.graham@btinternet.com. SOUND BATH WITH ROISE (roe-sha) On the third Tuesday of the month 7 - 9 pm. Roise plays gentle sounds for groups for healing and relaxation. £12, or £10 with a friend. Roise also offers individual treatments. Phone 07511 621 856. At S.E.N.S.E. in Tenbury Wells.

SOUND HEALING TRAINING AND WORKSHOP RETREATS We run the 5 part Sound Therapy training programme for the College of Sound Healing as weekend retreats in the beautiful setting of Primrose Haven with lovely gardens and sacred spaces. Also Seasonal Sounds Days and weekend retreats: Sound Healing and Nature; Magical Resonance of Celtic Sounds and Sound and gardening for the soul. Retreat stays in our cosy Shepherd Huts. Occasional evening sound and Gong meditations. Please contact Paul Benham, paul@primrosehavenretreats.co.uk and www.primrosehavenretreats.co.uk. 01497 847299. SPIRITUAL HEALER Naturally gifted in releasing emotional grief in present and past lives. 28 years professional experience with physical and mental health. Private healing sessions and talks given. Gillian Williamson, MNFSH. Field House, Kinnerton. 01547 560874.

Workshops

WORKSHOP LISTINGS - Single (dated) listings are free. Year round, ongoing workshops will cost £40 per year.

Mon 4 March JOURNEY INSIDE OUTSIDE With Fi Latus and Sarah Hyde. A day of workshops in writing, drawing and movement; combining time spent ouside in the natural environment and indoor artistic exploration. Part of Brecon Women’s Festival. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 10am, free but please book, 01874 611622.

Wed 6 March - Wed 10 April, every Wednesday TYBERTON INTERFAITH TALKS 2019 Finding Common Ground. 7.30pm. Different speakers each week including Imam Sohayb from Craven Arms Mosque, Alison Turner from Herefordshire Jewish Community, Mary Bunting Western Sufism, Kirk Brown Vispassna Meditation Centre and Revd Simon Lockett from Tyberton Church where each event is held. Tyberton Church is on the B4352 mid-way between Hereford and Hay-on-Wye. Details contact Simon Lockett on 01981 250245 or email abbeydoredmc@gmail.com.

YOGA IN PRESTEIGNE New location

Group classes and individual tuition Stapleton Yoga Studio Marie Hudson 01544 260352

www.theyogapractice.org.uk

BUDDHISM AND MEDITATION CLASSES IN HEREFORDSHIRE Led by members of the Triratna Buddhist Order. HEREFORD Mondays, Near LEDBURY Wednesdays, LEOMINSTER Thursdays. All classes 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Give what you can, suggested donation £5. All welcome. More details from matthew@adhisthana.org 01531 641726 or Meg 01432 830322. Text 07980 892653.

Sat 23 March SPIRITUAL CONTEMPLATION, CONVERSATION, SONG AND DANCE Organised by Herefordshire Interfaith group for those of all faiths or no faith. The Friends Meeting House, Almeley, Wootton, HR3 6PX, 10am-4.30pm, £15/£8, booking advised. Please bring vegetarian foord to share for lunch, 01981 500764. Sat 23 March MINDFULNESS & CREATIVITIY DAY RETREAT ‘Garden of the Heart’. Mindfulness and meditation complement times of painting and making. No previous experience needed. The Way of Creativity runs retreats each year with small groups, open to all. Stapleton Village Hall, near Shrewsbury. A range of materials, retreat handouts, drinks etc included in the fee, bring a packed lunch. Booking esssential, www.wayofcreativity.org Sat 30 March MEDITATION FOR INNER PEACE & HAPPINESS A talk at the Library, Welshpool, 9.30am-1pm. All welcome. Contact Juliet 01547 510247. £3 or £5.

From Fri 12 - Wed 17 April, plus through to August WELL-BEING RETREAT IN PORTUGAL Tranquility, inner-happiness and calm. Spiritual awakening, vibrational energies, gong therapy and more. Organic vegetarian meals. £375 for five days, flights not included. For more information email melainaevans01@gmail.com

PILATES SESSIONS - Pilates is a method of exercise designed to elongate and strengthen the body. It promotes improved core strength and stability which in turn improves posture, flexibility, circulation and physical wellbeing. Classes available in Presteigne and various locations within the North Herefordshire, North Worcestershire and South Shropshire area. All sessions are based on small groups and working to individual abilities therefore booking is essential. Private sessions by arrangement. Contact Jackie on 0782 4114979 or justjackie39@gmail.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.hedgerowmedicine.org 01531 670075. First Saturday of the month MEDITATION Bleddfa Centre, 11am-12.30pm, free, 01547 550377.

Mon YOGA LESSONS All abilities welcome, bring a yoga mat, small cusion and blanket. Hall, Barn, Bleddfa, near Knighton, 01547 550377. Mondays & Wednesdays PILATES Pilates-Based Back Care - Mon 10.30am & Wed 5.45pm. Pilates-Based Body Conditioning - Mon 11.45am & Wed 7pm. Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 01874 625992.

Mr R A Hughes D.O. Registered Osteopath and Sports Therapist Fully qualified and registered since 1995. Established in Presteigne for over 20 years Sciatica, Arthritis, Trapped Nerves, Back, Neck and Shoulder Pain. Headaches, Sports Injuries.

07961 352056 rahughesosteo@gmail.com The Retreat, Presteigne 58

FREE CAR PARKING

GLASBURY ARTS Glasbury Village Hall Annual Exhibition Friday 1 – Tuesday 5 March 2019

Martyn Jones

This year we have another exciting line up including two paintings borrowed from Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Gallery, one by internationally renowned painter Martyn Jones and the other by the immensely talented, the late Sir Kyffin Williams. Other guests include, Caroline Ede, who produces startling but beautiful work, Hannah Firmin Print Maker and illustrator and photographer Mark Zytynski plus the wide range of local talent and of course the exciting work that always appears from Gwernyfed High School. Entry £4, free to Glasbury Arts members, over 65’s, young people in full time education and people unwaged. Special 2- Course Arts lunch (£14) at the River Café each day of the exhibition but must be booked in advance on 01497 847007. Opening Hours: Friday, 6 -7.30pm, Saturday/Sunday 11am – 4.30pm, Monday/Tuesday 10.30am – 4pm.

Glasbury Village Hall Sunday 10 March 2019 Playing with Light Digital Workshop for Young People with Nick Brown

Join Nick Brown from MASH Cinema for a full day of video projection mapping, live light graffiti and VJing in this fun, immersive, colourful and creative workshop. Ticket Price - £13, 10% Members discount applies. This event is supported by Gwernyfed Community Council. Booking essential through glasburyarts.co.uk

Gwernyfed High School Sunday 24 March, 2pm - 6.30pm Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Harp Workshops and Recital

The workshops are for anyone who plays the Harp, irrespective of standard. The afternoon is being organised by our new partner - the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire with Head of Harp, Eleanor Turner and a quartet from amongst their very talented students. The event is FREE to all harp players and the hour-long recital is open to anyone who would like to come along. Booking essential. To Reserve your place at the workshops email Eleanor Turner at Eleanor.Turner@bcu.ac.uk; THE RECITAL can be booked at john.fitzgerald@glasburyarts. co.uk or telephone 07583 544110.

Full details at glasburyarts.co.uk