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What’s On - Herefordshire & The Marches

A weekend of chamber music with The Fitzwilliam String Quartet in Hay-on-Wye

Friday 10th September 3.30 7pm

Richard Wigmore workshop on the works to be performed Fitzwilliam String Quartet and Simon and Callaghan • Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor • Schumann Piano Quartet in E Flat • Schubert Trio in B flat

Saturday 11th September 7pm 10am 3pm 7pm • • • • •

Richard Wigmore workshop on the works to be performed Film “The Passions of Vaughan William” (John Bridcut) Fitzwilliam String Quartet, James Gilchrist & Anna TIlbrook Vaughan Williams’ “On Wenlock Edge” Gurney “Ludlow & Teme” Bliss “Elegaic Sonata” Vaughan Williams’ String Quartet No 2 in A minor Wordsworth “Tintern Abbey”

Sunday 12th September 2pm 4.30

Richard Wigmore workshop on the works to be performed Fitzwilliam String Quartet & Anna Tilbrook • Schubert Piano Quintet in A major D664 “The Trout” • Wolf “Italian Serenade 1887” • Haydn String Quartet in D major D76/5

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Taken For a Ride

IN’T that always the way? You wait all lockdown for an epic motorcycle travel book and then, just when you given up waiting, three come along all at the same time. I have spent a lot of my life being an enthusiastic biker but, apart from one rather exciting trip down the length of Spain in the early 80’s on a XR 350 Honda, I have either just ponced around North London (1960’s) or noodled around the Welsh Hills on off-road machines (1970’s on). I hit rock bottom in the early 2000’s while riding an XT Yamaha to a gig in Fishguard. The rest of the band went by car while I got caught in a thunderstorm in the hills above Tregaron and arrived at the gig cold, miserable and determined not to repeat the experience. Within a year I’d fallen in love with electric bicycles and it’s been that way ever since. The three writers of the books I am about to recommend, all women, are made of much sterner stuff. The first one I encountered, thanks to my friend Ian, is by Steph Jeavons who decided to hop on her 250 Honda (called Rhonda) and visit seven continents! Blimey, even Antartica. Ex-Junkie Steph, already a seasoned biker is very good company on this mammoth trek, particularly because she is not averse to having a fair bit of fun along the way – be it singing karaoke, drinking too much, hanging out with bike gangs or getting involved with a variety of blokes. However by Chapter 31 I was feeling as exhausted as she was and happy to see her back to The Ace Café on the North Circular where her trip began. The book is called Home By Seven and is widely available but you might also like to look at her website www.stephjeavons.com or her YouTube channel and see some films she made while circumnavigating.

The next book was recommended by Hilary in Presteigne Library and is written by Lois Pryce. She was inspired Clare Edwards to ride the length of Africa by the The Lodge, Westhide, reading the third book The Hereford, HR1 3RQ Rugged Road written in 1935 by Tel: 01432 850444 Theresa Wallach about her and Email: info@broadsheep.com her friend Florence Blenkiron’s Website: www.broadsheep.com trip the length of Africa on a 600cc single cylinder Panther with a sidecar and a trailer. I have a small amount of experience of Panther 600’s as my friend Bob bought one while I was staying with him outside Kabul (poor, poor, Afghanistan about to enter another period of misery and political mayhem). Bob gave it to the local truck painters who decorate the fabulously colourful Afghan trucks. They painted it, literally, all over, so that when it was started up all the ordinary gloss paint on the cylinders and exhaust begin to burn and turn dark bubbly brown rather spoiling the effect. I rode this bike a bit and on that basis I wouldn’t want to ride a Panther sidecar and trailer to Titley Junction let alone the length of Africa. Still like I said these women are all made of sterner stuff. Amazingly some of the cine film that they shot on route can be viewed on YouTube https://youtu.be/ UjNmXQdgqhA THE RUGGED ROAD. Lois read Theresa’s book and was inspired to ride her 250 Yamaha from Tunis to Cape Town. The book is quite different to Steph’s and Lois is much more focused on the people she meets along the way and how she coped with her two big fears about the journey which were, the heat in the Sahara Desert and the possible dangers of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The book is called, for obvious reasons, Red Tape and White Knuckles. And you can see Lois on film at https://youtu.be/nE1LWtypWFE ADVENTURE MOTORCYCLIST LOIS PRYCE. I’m off to the post box to see if Rugged Road has turned up yet meanwhile anyone got a good book? Cover pic: The Meadows - 1 October, The Globe, Hay-on-Wye

small ads CHAIR REPAIRS: seats rushed & recaned. Paul Richards, 01544 209140. Email - paulrichardsft@gmail.com GEORGIAN POLYPHONIC SINGING. Native Georgian musician welcomes keen singers to join Georgian polyphonic choir in Presteigne. Contact Mzia 07981 752405, mziag@hotmail.co.uk GARDEN MAINTENANCE JOBS Including Small Tree removal, Hedge Cutting, Lawn Mowing, Weeding, Fence Painting, Shed Felting and Basic Garden Repairs. Call Brian on 07722 233417. PIANO LESSONS IN PRESTEIGNE. All ABRSM grades or simply for fun. Contact Mzia 07981752405, mziag@hotmail.co.uk EXPERIENCED LIFE-MODEL AVAILABLE for figure drawing and portraits. Contact David 07495 947916. RETIRED PROFESSIONAL PAINTER AVAILABLE for local work. References available. £75.00 per day. Try me. Roy 01547 520164. WYNNES OF DINMORE COUNTRYSTORE Tea room, Poultry, Pygmy Goats, Supplies & Housing. Tuesday Saturday 9am-4.30pm. Wynnes.co.uk 01568 797314. BEEKEEPING COURSES FOR BEGINNERS Interested in keeping bees in 2020? Our weekend ‘Bee Ready’ course will prepare you with essential information and allow you to develop confidence before you get your own hive of bees. For further details phone 01886 884752/07813 276308 or email woodruffbank@btinternet.com. PIANO TUNER AND TECHNICIAN Based in Llanidloes, serving Mid-Wales. Contact Matt 01686 412753 or 07843 440789 or email vicky@mousematt.net 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 FRUIT TREE PRUNING From one branch to an entire orchard. Tel: 01544 260656. CATERING CROCKERY, CUTLERY AND GLASSWARE FOR HIRE. Up to 100 settings. Contact Ruth on 01544 350559 or 07870 752325. 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 Katy 01547 520328. 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 HAYSTACKS MUSIC, Backfold, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EQ. Tel: 07527 298199. Hay’s Headline Making Independent Music Shop - only a one minute walk from the main car park. Hay’s destination shop packed with pre-loved machine cleaned and new vinyl records, CDs, Books and more.

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 AND HARP LESSONS Beginner to advanced. All ages taught by a Royal Academy of Music graduate. Email nickyviola24@gmail.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. VIOLIN & VIOLA LESSONS given by experienced professional in Presteigne. All abilities and styles taught. John Hymas 07969 440183. A STITCH IN TIME Careful repairs & creative alterations to well-loved clothes. Vintage a speciality. Anne 01544 267997.

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Don’t Sell The Crown Jewels T

HEY say lightening never strikes twice. Last summer in Cluttersville HR1 (BS July 2021) I retold the story of the Mayor of Hereford who ordered the demolition of the 16th century Town Hall, which once graced the centre of High Town. Pevsner described it as an act of municipal vandalism. Setting aside the insane idea that the Cathedral’s 14th century Mappa Mundi would have made a suitable subject for one of those dreadful ‘flog-it’ afternoon TV auctions (mercifully cancelled at the 59th minute of the 11th hour; the priceless artefact now enjoys its own purpose-designed museum in the Cathedral Precinct), we come to the here-and-now. Herefordshire Council has let it be known that, due to a list of accrued repairs and maintenance totalling an eye-watering £12-million, its terracotta-faced Town Hall (designed by Henry Cheers and opened in 1904 by King George V and Queen Mary) may be put up for sale. The City Council opposes the move and critics of the idea – including Indie Cabinet member Gemma Davies - have already spoken of the loss of a ‘community asset’. If avaricious developers are to be kept at bay a community use makes the most sense. Unfortunately, the county doesn’t haven’t a very good track record in this department. Functionally, it was never an iconic building. Housing a rabbit warren of cellular offices, its main ‘civic’ areas are a Council Chamber, a Mayor’s Parlour, an Assembly Room for public meetings, civic events and private functions, the Electoral Office, the Coroner’s Court and the Registrar’s domain. There would certainly be some logic in moving the Town Hall’s ‘judicial’ operations across St Peter’s Square to the Shire Hall. Architecturally – apart from its majestic wooden lantern - it’s an also-ran. Henry Cheers was an inveterate competition entrant – picking up 5 town halls, 4 libraries, 2 schools and a country club during his 40-year career though Ludlow’s Tudorbethan market Hall (demolished in 1986) was damned with faint praise by Pevsner as ‘Ludlow’s bad luck’. If Hereford City Council was to bite the bullet and take on the building, given its Grade II listed status a substantial Heritage Lottery Fund grant would probably be on the cards; and if Listed Building Consent could be negotiated, the lofty first floor Assembly Room would convert into a spectacular two-tier hi-tech Library and Study Centre for NMITE. And be put to much better use than the occasional christening or funeral wake. When building work was being carried out at the City Library in Broad Street a few years back, the Town Hall acted as a popular public library.

Notwithstanding the questionable size of the repairs bill (or how the current owners could have kept their eye off the ball for so long) what could this Grade II-listed

Masstrich’s award-winning Selexyz Bookstore

Edwardian baroque oddity have to offer to other intending purchasers? For the Great-and-the-Good, it is ideally placed, in terms of its proximity to Hereford Cathedral, to become a top-of-the-range apartment block (Alban House, High Town is finished and the conversion of the nearby Booth Hall is well advanced). Wedding venue? We’ve already got shedloads of these littering the countryside, thank you. A night club that discharges drunken revellers at 4.00am? I can hear the residents of St Owen Street drawing up a petition already. As the Victorian Society will attest, recycling unwanted municipal buildings - museums, magistrates courts, hospitals, libraries and town halls - is a problem which has been with us since the post-War era (the Luftwaffe assisted by demolishing a fair few). St John’s Smith Square, Westminster (bomb-damaged church to concert hall) remains the paradigm, though half a century on I doubt whether the denizens of the Westminster Swamp would nod that one through today (they’d be more likely to convert it into a Brexit Museum). Locally, Worcester’s magnificent Guild Hall positively celebrates its civic art treasures, while Hereford’s dowdy Shire Hall probably has one-hundredth the number of visitors. In north London’s Chalk Farm, against all the odds (and using his own money) local MP Jesse Norman’s father Torquil converted a redundant Victorian steam locomotive turning shed into a live music venue. Merkx + Girod’s award-winning hi-tech Selexyz Bookstore in Maastrich (containing over 40,000 volumes), which was lovingly inserted into the interior of a redundant 13th century Dominican monastery, has to the best example of a contemporary use being found for an old building anywhere in Europe. I understand that NMITE’s Blackfriars campus on Widemarsh Street will include some library facilities. But a bespoke reference library and study centre inside the old Town Hall would be so much more impressive. To plagiarise an apposite Jesse Norman Facebook blog, it would be ‘Engineering, but not as you know it.’ Nick Jones

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h.Art - Herefordshire Art Week 4 - 12 September Open studios, exhibitions and workshops, galleries and group exhibtions. FREE guides with pull-out maps can be picked up from tourist outlets. Or download from www.h-art.org.uk POWYS Schwetz Gallery, 2 Hereford St, Presteigne LD8 2AW Until 10 Sept ‘Elements of Dutch’. Photography exhibition. Open 1pm. Stapleton House, Ford St, Presteigne LD8 2LW 01544 267811 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. RUTH KIRKBY exhibiting and demonstrating botanical art in watercolour and oil, paintings of landscapes, nocturnes and still life. Open 11am-5pm.

Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne LD8 2LL 01544 260149 Until 26 Sept ‘Colour of the Sky’. SIDNEY NOLAN - Auschwitz paintings. Until 26 Sept ‘Jackdaws For Company’ SIMON DORRELL. The result of Dorrell’s solitary ramblings at The Rodd during lockdown. Twenty ink and gouache paintings of the house and historic farm buildings present a unique record of The Rodd resting dormant. Open Fri-Sun & Bank Holiday Mondays 11am-4pm. Radnorshire Museum, Temple St, Llandrindod Wells LD1 5DL 01597 824513 Sept Search Radnorshire Museum Facebook page for up-to-date exhibitions, workshops and events. Open Tues-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 10am-1pm.

The School House Gallery, The Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, LD7 1PA 01547 550377 2 - 26 Sept h.Art. ABIGAIL St Michael’s Church, Discoed, COOMBS, FRANCESCA KAY, CHRIS Presteigne LD8 2NW 01547 560813 HENEGHAN, JACQUELINE 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. TAMSIN ABBOTT, RICHARD BAVIN, CAROLYN BLAKE, SEYMOUR, WINNE HENEGHAN, KARIN MEAR, LINZI MORGAN, MARY ROBERT CUNNING, KIM DAVIS, STEPHENS, COLIN DAVIES, CERI MAGGIE DAVIS, KATE KATO, LEIGH, PAUL THOMAS, HEATHER VICTORIA KEEBLE, CLAIR DICKENS. Willow works, sculpture, MURPHY, SHELAGH POPHAM & metalwork, ceramics, paintings and ZOE WRIGHT. Open 11am-5pm. textiles. Open 11am-5pm during h.Art. The Judges Lodging, Broad St, Thurs - Sun, plus Bank Presteigne www.judugeslodging.org.uk Holiday Mondays, 11am-4pm. Until 31 Oct ‘William Henry Jones The Table, 43 Lion St, Hay-on-Wye 1880-1887’. Previously unseen 01497 822802 www.thetablehay.com sketches of Presteigne and its 4 - 18 Sept SUE HILEY HARRIS. surroundings by artist and educator. 25 Sept - 16 Oct DAVID PEARCE & Open Tues-Sun 10.30am-5pm. STEPHANIE RICHARDS. (Closes 4.30pm during Oct). Open Thurs-Sat 10am-3pm. Pavilion Mid Wales, Llandrindod Court Cupboard Gallery, New Court Wells LD1 5EY 01597 258118 Farm, Llantillio Pertholey, 18 Sept Artisan Market. Local arts, Abergavenny NP7 8AU 01873 852011 crafts and handmade items. Open Sept ROSIE FAREY & MANDY COATS 10am-4pm. - baskets. SUSAN GALLAGHER Far Hall, Dolau, near Llandrindod paintings. Open daily 11am-4pm. Wells LD1 5TW 01597 851181 Art by Osian (Celf gan Osian), 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. JULIENNE 3 Short Bridge St, Llanidloes BRAHAM - paintings. JASON BRAHAM - pottery. Open 10am-5pm. SY18 6AD 07484 763507 www.osiangwent.com Castle Hill Farm, Knucklas, near Open all year ‘Art by Osian’. Knighton LD7 1PS 01547 529670 OSIAN GWENT. A working studio 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. TONY HALL and gallery of contemporary, modern terracotta garden pottery, stoneware and expressive art by Welsh artist. ceramics and portrait sculpture. Open Mon-Sat 10am-4pm. LOIS HOPWOOD - paintings. Open 11am-5pm.

Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, Near Newtown 01686 688369 Until 30 Oct STEFAN KNAPP Centenary exhibition in the new Art Shed. Until 26 Oct Summer exhibition. ‘Colour, Form and History in the Welsh Landscape’, showcasing artists MARY LLOYD JONES, DIANE ROSE, LINDSEY DAVIES, GILL CROZIER, SARA PHILPOT, GINI WADE, ALISON LOCHHEAD, JUDITH CRAWFORD. Also showing: JO MATTOX & ALISON FINNIESTON - ceramics. SCULPTURE CYMRU. Open Thurs-Sun, 11am-4pm. The Hay Makers, St John’s Place, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5BN 01497 820556 Until 31 Oct Autumn exhibition. BETHAN JONES & KYRA MIHAILOVIC - ceramics. DEMELZA WHITLEY - ceramic sculpture ALICE KEELER - jewellery. FRANCES CARLILE - prints. Open Mon-Sat 10.30am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Courtyard Antiques, London House, High St, Presteigne, LD8 2BA 07974 356128 outside normal hours. Antique pottery, country furniture and art. Mon-Sat 10am-4pm. Erwood Station Gallery, Llandeilo Graban, Builth Wells, LD2 3SJ 01982 560674 A constantly changing mix of materials and styles occupying over 2000 square feet. Complimented by paintings and sculpture, plus seasonal exhibitions. Open 10.30am-4.30pm. Knighton Fine Art, 2 Broad Street, Knighton 01547 528052 www.knightonfineart.co.uk knightonfineart@btinternet.com Sept ‘Autumn Leaves Fall’. Featured artists include ALLIN BRAUND, BERYL COOK, MICHAEL FAIRCLOUGH, CRISPIN THORNTON JONES, BRONTË WOODRUFF. SALE: many paintings £30-£50. Over 450 different greeting cards in stock. Open Wed-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm. Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown 01686 625041 Until 25 Sept ‘Masterpiece Tour’. Presenting ‘The House of Cards’ by JEAN-SIMÉON CHARDIN from The National Gallery, London. Open Tues-Sun 11am-5pm.

Julienne Braham, Far Hall, Dolau, near Llandrindod Wells

Silvia Pastore, Open Studio, Pudleston, Leominster

Sarah Rick Harrison, Apple Store Gallery, Hereford Andrew Richards, Found Gallery, Brecon

Jonathan Adams, Ashford Carbonell

Peter Horrocks, Found Gallery, Brecon

Lion Street Gallery, 6 Lion St, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AA 01497 822900 Showcasing some of the very best artists from Wales and the Borders. Open 10.30am-5pm daily except Tues, Sun 11.30am-4pm. Found Gallery, 1 Bulwark, Brecon LD3 7LB 07736 062849 www.foundgallery.co.uk Until 4 Sept ‘Guided by the Light: Brecon and Beyond’. DAI DAVID artist. STEPHEN HENDERSON Master Craftsman. CERI LEIGH photographs. 8 Sept - 9 Oct ‘Found in The Earth’. PETER HORROCKS - paintings. PAUL HARRIS - photographs. ANDREW RICHARDS - pottery. LOTTIE O’LEARY - sculpture. Open Tues-Sat 10am-4.30pm. The Workhouse Studio, Presteigne Industrial Estate 01544 267864 Rare antique carpets and kilims. Plus locally made pottery, art materials, textiles, haberdashery, jewellery, cards and gifts. Cafe. Wed-Sat 10am-4pm. Museum of Modern Art, Tabernacle, Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth SY20 8AJ 01654 703355 info@moma.machynlleth.org.uk Until 4 Sept ‘All the Things I could have Been’. NATALIE CHAPMAN. Until 4 Sept ‘Women’s Art in Wales A Personal View’. Until 4 Sept Women Artists from the Tabernacle Collection. Until 18 Sept The Tabernacle Art Competition. 18 Sept - 13 Nov ‘Paradoxes’. CERI H PRITCHARD. 18 Sept - 13 Nov ‘GWLANA: To Gather or Pick Wool’. RUTH JÊN. Wed-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm, by appointment only. Llanwrtyd & District Heritage & Arts Centre LD5 4RG 01591 610067 Until 27 Sept ‘Auguries’. ANNALISA COLEMAN - sensual, figurative paintings. Thurs-Sun 10am-4pm, free, includes entry to local history museum. Knighton Museum, 1 Broad St, Knighton The Museum is run entirely by volunteers and reflects the social history of the area. The majority of the exhibits have been either donated or lent by local people and reflect the varied history of this border town from the drovers to the flannel weavers; from trade to agriculture. Wed- Sat, 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-4pm.

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.

HEREFORDSHIRE The Forum, 18 Market Square, Tenbury Wells WR15 8EA 01584 810085 www.georginafranklin.co.uk GEORGINA FRANKLIN jewellery. Individual contemporary design. Commissions undertaken. The Studio, Barnfield Farm, Pudlestone HR6 0RB 01568 750008 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. SILVIA PASTORE. Studio exhibition of watercolours and pastels, comprising of narrative and imaginary paintings as well as landscapes exploring the local rural views and still life. Open 11am-6pm. Canwood Gallery, Checkley HR1 4NF 0777 6138668 www.canwoodgallery.com Until 5 Sept An exhibition of paintings, drawings, photos, installations and sculpture to celebrate the gallery and sculpture park are now ‘OPEN’. Open daily, 11am-5pm. Gallery 54, 54 High St, Ross-on-Wye 01989 567917 Sept ZOE TAYLOR, JO JENKINS, START ELLIS, MARIA PIERIDES & ANNICA NEUMULLER. Plus LEYLA MURR, DAN HOLDEN & ROSS BRUCE. Thurs-Sat 10am-4pm. Market Hall, Kington 07867 483135 3rd Saturday of the month Quality work by local makers. Kington Market Hall, 9.30am – 3pm. Plus KLEEN Repair Café on site. Contact AKCrafts@gmx.com Hereford Museum & Art Gallery, Broad St, Hereford 01432 383383 Until 11 Sept Alfred Watkins exhibition. Celebrating Watkins’ life, achievements and inventions and explore his influential involvment in local history and archaeology. 1 - 29 Sept h.Art. Inspired by Local Heroes. SUSAN EDWARDS paintings. Open Tues-Sat 10am-4pm. Berrington Hall, near Leominster HR6 0DW 01568 615721 Until 31 Oct ‘Skin Deep’. OLIVER JONES - large-scale pastel drawings. Garden open 10am-5pm. Meadow Arts. Croft Castle & Parkland, Yarpole, near Leominster HR6 9PQ 01568 780246 Until 31 Oct ‘All Alone’. Contemporary art in the landscape and online exhibition re-examines the human condition of aloneness. From enforced isolation to the ‘bliss of solitude’. Artists include ADAM CHODZKO, KRUSE, EDIE JO MURRAY, SIMON ROBERTS & DAVID BETHELL. Meadow Arts. Garden open 10am-5pm.

Wobage Makers Gallery, Upton Bishop, Ross on Wye HR9 7QP 01989 720495 www.wobage.co.uk Throughout the summer HEILA HERRING - pottery. ANDREW McGARVA stoneware pots. CLARE McGARVA - stitched textiles. PATIA DAVIS - porcelain & earthenware pots. BEN CASSON - furniture. SHEILA CASSON - stoneware & earthenware pots. CLAIR HODGSON - silver. JEREMY STEWARD - wood-fired salt-glazed pottery. CLYDE HOARE baskets. Open Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm throughout the summer. The Lion Ballroom, Lion Yard, Leominster HR6 8BT 01568 612277 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. EMMA BAKER-JONES - leatherwork. ROGER BROOKES - carved walking sticks. SIWAN GILLICK - abstract paintings. JOANNE BRAZIER & DAVID MULLIN - ceramics. ARDYN GRIFFIN - paper mache. TIM GIBBS - salt & pepper grinders. VERONICA GUEST - watercolours. HELENA BARRELL - weaving. SHARON FRANCIS - jewellery. CLAIR MURPHY - baskets. ALEX ORGILL & SUSIE CAWLEY - paintings. KARLIN RUSHBROOKE - steel heads. JACQUELINE SEYMOUR - quilts. Open 10am-5pm. Grange Court, Pinsley Rd, Leominster HR6 8NL 01568 737980 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. JILL BAGNALL glass. KAREN BESWICK - ceramics. CATRIONA CARTWRIGHT - stonecarving. DAVID COPE - paintings. ANGELA DAVIS - paintings and pastels. MAGGIE DAVIS - mixed media. LIBBY GARDINER, CAROL MORETON & JOCELYN PERRY jewellery. SARAH JAMESON - prints. ROBERT GOLDSWORTHY - enamel. CLAUDIA PETLEY & PAUL SHEPHERD - metal. 11am-5pm. 1 Sept - 5 Oct ‘Writers: Readers: Thinkers: Dreamers’. Calligraphy exhibition by members of the MARCHES SCRIBES. Open 10am-2pm, check opening times. Made in the Marches Gallery, 12 Church St, Kington, HR5 3AZ 07544 368547 www.madeinthemarches.com 1 Sept - 30 Oct h.Art. ROSAMUND BLACK, ANDY COMPTON, SHANNON DONOVAN, REBECCA FINNEY, NANCY FROST, FREYA GAMBLE, TESSA GAVIN, JANE KEAY, GINNETTE NEWMAN, REBECCA REYNOLDS, LAURA ROWLATT & HELEN SMITH. Baskets, ceramics, hand-cut paper, jewellery, paintings, photographs, textiles, sculpture, cards and more. Tues–Sat, 10am-5pm.

The Courtyard, Hereford 01432 340555 3 Sept - 2 Oct H.Art. Herefordshire Open and Young Open exhibition 2021. Supported by H.Art and Apple Store Gallery. Framework Herefordshire, a support network for young and emerging artists, have arranged an exhibition of artworks by local artists. Open theatre times.

Trumpet Corner Cafe, Ledbury HR8 2RA 01531 670082 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. LISA DEAR - mixed media. ED ELLIOTT - sculpture. KIRSTIE ELLIS - jewellery. NANCY NICKLIN - textiles. EMMA MARRIAGE - leather. FIONA PRINGLE watercolour and ink. SIMON PROBYN - metal. KAREN TACEY - ceramics. Open 11am-5pm.

Artistree, Above the Heritage Centre, Church Lane, Ledbury www.artistreegallery.org ARTISTREE, co-operative of local artists, paintings, sculpture, furniture, photographs, ceramics, glass, textile and encaustic work. Wed-Sun 10.30am-4.30pm.

The Old Mayor’s Parlour, 23 Church St, Hereford HR1 2LR Sept h.Art prize winners - JESS BUGLER, LOIS KAREN MEIKLEJOHN & JANINE MARTIN. Open 11am-5pm.

Apple Store Gallery, Unit 1, Rockfield Rd, Hereford HR1 2UA 01432 263937 www.applestoregallery.com Until 18 Sept h.Art. Artists in their studios and in the gallery. JILL CROWTHER, DAVID LAWS & CHRIS WILLIAMS - paintings. ANNA KNIGHT - paintings and sculpture. KATE DAWSON - ceramics. MICHELLE GORDON - letterpress printing. MARION CAMPBELL - glass. SARAH RICK-HARRISON - textiles. Open Wed-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 10am-1pm. Open daily, 10am-5pm during h.Art Week.

The Glebe, Westhide, Hereford, HR1 3RQ 01432 850615 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. ROBIN PEERS watercolours. CAROLYN SPILLER - paintings and prints. ERIC SPILLER - 2D artwork. RACHEL FENTON decorated ceramics. Open 11am-5pm. Made in Ross, The Upstairs Gallery, Market House, Ross-on-Wye HR9 5NX 01989 769398 www.madeinross.co.uk 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. Made in Ross. Sept Made in Ross. A co-operative of local art and craft makers who produce a wide range of beautiful work, for all tastes and budgets. Open daily, 10am-4pm.

The Mappa Mundi & Chained Library, Hereford Cathedral, Cathedral Close 01432 374200 Until 31 Dec ‘Lost and Found’. Why have things gone missing from the Cathedral over the years? The latest exhibition follows the story of things lost but later found and of some special things lost but not found... yet! Admission charges apply. Open Mon-Sat 10am-5pm. Babar Cafe, Union St, Hereford HR1 2BT 01432 342334 4 - 12 Sept ‘Femmeboy’. SUE KREITZMAN. A vibrant exhibition of diverse queer and allied artists. Open Tues 11am-10pm, Wed 11am-11pm, Thurs 11am-12pm, Fri-Sun 11am-9pm. Timothy Hawkins Gallery, 14 Church St, Hereford HR1 2LR 01432 507007 4 - 12 Sept TIMOTHY HAWKINS wooden art furniture. Open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Green Dragon Hotel, Broad St, Hereford HR4 9BG 01432 272506 4 - 12 Sept HEREFORDSHIRE ART & CRAFT SOCIETY. Open 11am-5pm. Old Chapel Gallery, East St, Pembridge HR6 9HB 01544 388842 www.oldchapelgallery.co.uk 4 Sept - 30 Oct h.Art. ‘Glorious Awakening’. New work by TAMSIN ABBOTT, ANNA RAVENSCROFT, BARBARA SHAW, ALI TREGASKES, SARAH JAMESON, MARY STEPHENS, KARIN CELESTINE. All year ‘Shadows on the Grass’. Garden sculpture exhibition. An ever-changing collection of unique sculpture for your outdoor space in a variety of media including ironwork, carved stone, stone resin, bronze resin, ceramic and stainless steel. Open Wed-Sat 11am-4.30pm, Sun & Mon by appointment. Hereford College of Arts, Folly Lane, Hereford HR1 1EB 01432 273359 4 - 12 Sept HCA Staff Showcase.

Julienne Braham, Painter Jason Braham, Potter

Open 10am - 5pm, Saturday 4th - Sunday 12th September Tel: 01597 851181 julienne@farhallstudios.co.uk

Greenstage Gallery, Hop Pocket, Bishop’s Frome WR6 5BT 01885 490839 www.greenstagegallery.co.uk Until 26 Sept h.Art Week show. BETH RICHARDSON, DOUG EATON & PIERRE WILLIAMS. Tues-Sun 10.30am-5.30pm, Sun 11am-5pm or by appointment. The Basement, 18 Gloucester Rd, Ross-on-Wye HR9 5BU email gabydevitt@live.com Beautiful handwoven lampshades, fabrics, pottery, willow baskets and glass. Also a range of eclectic lighting. Open Wed-Sat 9.30am-4pm.

Oxenham Art, Broad St, Leominster 01568 611898 Sept TARA DAVIDSON - fragile and delicate lace ceramics. SUSAN STEVENS-JENKINS - printmaker. NEIL LOSSOCK - garden sculptures. Open Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-3pm. All Saints Churd, Hereford 01432 370414 20 - 25 Sept ‘Banning the Bomb’. Hereford Peace Council. Weavers Gallery, Church Lane, Ledbury 07881 926661 1 - 12 Sept h.Art. ‘Something to Talk About’. CALAMANCO - textiles. 13 - 19 Sept SUE & LARUA BULLOCK - paintings. 20 Sept - 3 Oct ARTISTREE. 10am-5pm. SHROPSHIRE Bishop’s Castle Town Hall 01588 630023 4 Sept Antique and Flea Market, 10am-4pm. Until 4 Sept ‘Brothers and Sisters’. MARK ZENICK - portraits. 11 Sept - 9 Oct ‘Plottings and Mappings from a Shropshire Garden’. KATY ALSTON. 18 Sept Michaelmas Craft Fair. Willow weaving, jewellery, cards, textiles, pewter gifts, musical intstruments, art and more, 10am-4pm. 25 Sept Farmers Market. 9am-1pm. Mon, Tues, Thurs - Sat 10am-4pm. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury 01743 234970 3 - 27 Sept ‘Hanging by a Thread’. ALEX BUSI - embroidery. 1 - 28 Oct ‘Black History Month’. A collection of events including traditional African textiles, storytelling, photographs, literature and collaborative art. Open 10am-4pm. The Chapel, Ashford Carbonel, Ludlow SY8 4BX 01584 831343 4 - 12 Sept h.Art. JONATHAN ADAMS - original oil paintings, old master copies and examples of restoration. Open 11am-5pm. Twenty Twenty Gallery, 4 Quality Square, Ludlow 01584 875363 www.twenty-twenty.co.uk 11 Sept - 9 Oct ‘Stay Close to Nature’. ELERI MILLS, DAVID INSHAW, ADAM BUICK, ASTRID DE GROOT, ALEX DE VOL, MANDY COATES & MELIN TREGWYNT. Tues-Sat 10.30am-4.30pm.

Ogilvie Vaile Conservation, Unit 9, Lower Buckton Barns, between Leintwardine and Brampton Bryan SY7 0JU 07780 616067 www.ogilvievaile.com Specialising in the conservation and restoration of fine art.

Ragleth Gallery, 1 Sandford Place, Church Stretton SY6 6DY 01694 723225 A contemporary gallery full of original art, inspired by the landscape and wildlife of the Shropshire Hills. Sculpture, paintings, ceramics, glass, jewellery, prints, photographs, automata and more. Open Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri & Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Closed Wed. The Artists’ Gallery, Ludlow Farm (formerly Ludlow Food Centre), Bromfield, Ludlow SY8 2JR 07974 652866 Sept Artists include SHELLY PERKINS - wildlife artist. PRISCILLA HANN - bronze sculpture. DANIELLE FLOWERS - contemporary jewellery. KIM DAVIS - wood turning. MEGAN EVANS - collagraph prints. JAN JAY - textile designs and screen prints. PIP JONES - watercolours. SARAH BILLINGHAM - pottery. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm. www.theartistsgalleryludlow.co.uk Open daily 10am-5pm. Facebook - The Artists’ Gallery. Aardvark Books, The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, near Bucknell SY7 0DH 01547 530744 www.aardvark-books.com 4 - 19 Sept h.Art. 8 artists from Abstract Edge. TOTTIE AARVOLD, ALISON McGREGOR GRIMLEY, RAE HARRISON, LOIS HOPWOOD, MAGGIE JONES, CIARA LEWIS, CHERYL WILLIAMS, ROBERT M WOOD. A riot of colour and shape. Open Tues-Sun 10am-4pm, open throughout h.Art, 11am-5pm. SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 3 - 30 Sept ‘Pocket Paradise’. A collection of over 200 photos of our time in lockdown. Mon 4pm-9pm, Tues 8pm-9pm, Wed 4pm-9pm, Thurs 4pm-9pm, Fri 8pm-9pm, Sat & Sun 9am-12pm. Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, The Music Hall, Market Square, Shrewsbury SY1 1LG 01743 258881 10 Sept - 12 Dec ‘Gathering Light’. British Museum Spotlight Loan Exhibtion. 18 Sept - 13 Nov ‘Brick By Brick’. Lego brick art. 18 artists, designers and photographers from around the world. Open Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11am-4pm. Smithy Studio, Brampton Bryan SY7 0DH 07811 042478 Rustic homewares, fine art and craft. Local makers. Turned wood, slipware, lavender products, textiles, cards and gifts. Thurs-Sat 11am-4pm.

Art & Craft Workshops Single, dated listings are free. Ongoing workshops, £40 per year. MID WALES ARTS CENTRE 25 Sept - Enamel Workshop with Ann Jones, 10am-4pm, £70 materials included. Starting in September Pottery & Ceramic Sculpture. Wed & Thurs, 7-9pm for all ages and ability. Thurs 2-4 - adults all abilities. Thurs 5-6.30pm - After School Club, primary school age. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, Newtown, 01686 688369. ALEX ALLPRESS POTTERY SCHOOL - POTTERY WORKSHOPS Newbridge on Wye, Mid Wales. Courses/workshop throughout the year. Throwing, Hand building, glazing, kiln firing and much more. Clay and equipment and your own wheel included. For more details 01982 552854 / alexallpressceramics@gmail.com / alexallpress.co.uk GINN’S CREATIVE WORKSHOPS Discover your creative potential at my workshops covering, Art, Textiles and Sewing Techniques, catering for the experienced and inexperienced. Flexible dates to suit you. 01432 760961. STONE CARVING WORKSHOPS Monthly in Llangarron HR9 6PH. Glenn Morris, sculptor, leads an informal, friendly group. Suitable for beginners and those with some experience. Full tuition, safety equipment and tools provided. Stone available if required. Copious refreshments guaranteed. 01989 770776. Frances@artsinthemarches.co.uk CREATIVE BREAKS Learn a new skill and explore your creativity with experienced tutors, all based in beautiful countryside with outstanding views and local produce. 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, Rag Rug Making, Sewing, Stained Glass, Stonecarving, Woodblock printing, Drawing, Quilting and Upholstery. For full details visit www.creativebreaks.co.uk Make it yourself - take it home - treasure it – or give it with pride!

h.Art venue no. 92

Jonathan Adams Original oil paintings, old master copies and examples of restoration.

4th - 12th September Open 11-5pm

Still Life

The Chapel, Ashford Carbonel, Ludlow, SY8 4BX

SILVIA PASTORE OPEN STUDIO VENUE 95 h.Art 2021

Saturday 4th- Sunday 12th September Open : 11am- 6pm (or other times by appointment)

The Studio, Barnfield Farm Pudleston, Leominster, HR6 0RB e. silvia18pastore@gmail.com silviapastore.com

www.tents4elements.co.uk

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 BASKETMAKING USING RUSH Presteigne. Courses available throughout the year covering many techniques. Small groups and all levels taught. All materials and equipment included. For more information see Rushmorebaskets.com or contact Clair at rushmorebaskets@gmail.com 07713 514902. Wed 1 September SENSORY JOURNEY Summer family workshop around the Cathedral. Suitable for children and young people with additional needs or those wo may benefit from a more relaxed visit to the Cathedral. Hereford Cathedral, 10am, £2.50 per child. Fri 3 September THE FRIDAY LIFE DRAWING & PORTRAIT WORKSHOP Has relocated to The Mascall Centre, Ludlow, 10am. Details contact Chris 01584 841668. Sat 25 September FUN WITH A RULING PEN Mark-making and a basic script with tutor Caroline Owen-Thomas. Monkland Village Hall, 10am-4pm, 01544 327657. September EASTNOR POTTERY INTO TO THE POTTERS WHEEL £40 per person. Perfect indoor activity for individuals, couples and small groups. 1.5 hr sessions take place Thursday – Saturday during September. Please book. DAY & WEEKEND POTTERS WHEEL COURSES £150/£280. 18, 25 & 26 September. Spend the day or two relaxing and creating pots on the potter’s wheel. Booking essential. www.eastnorpottery.co.uk Email admin@eastnorpottery. co.uk or tel 01531 633886.

CUP CERAMICS WORKSHOPS Offer taster sessions, one day intensive, 10 week ceramics for all courses, one week intensive, 4 week throwing course plus membership Further details www.cupceramics.com Cup Ceramics, Unit 10 Foley Trading Estate, Hereford, HR1 2SF, 07855 868771. September & October MINERVA ARTS CENTRE WORKSHOPS 17 Sept - Birds and Beautiful Creatures, batik on tissue with Jenny O’Leary, £60. 2 Oct - Willow Loom Weaving with Fleur Richardson, no experience necessary, £10 plus £5 for materials. 11 & 12 Oct - Mixed media textiles with Suzette Smart. One day workshop £60. Experiment with layers of bondaweb, fabric collage and stitching. Minerva Arts Centre, High Street, Llanidloes 01686 413467, email quilts@quilt.org.uk September FRIDAY FAMILY ART WORKSHOPS Every Friday of the summer holidays. 3 Sept - Screen printing. The Rodd, Presteigne, 1.30-3pm, suitable for ages 5 years and over, www.sidneynolantrust.org 01544 260149. September THE HIVE WORKSHOPS 5 Sept - Poetry and Visual Arts Workshops with local artists Jamila Walker and Emily Wilkinson. The session will explore words and visual to inspire your creative talents. For ages 16+, 10.30am-12pm & 1pm-2.30pm. 5 Sept - Environmental Arts Family Workshops under the pergola with artist, Zoe Needle. Create art with sustainability in mind. For ages 5+. 10.30am-11.30am, 1-2pm & 3-4pm. All free, but booking is essential for all workshops. Every Tues - Life Drawing for all ages, 7-9pm. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 01743 234970. Wednesdays INFORMAL ART GROUP All welcome, help given if required. The Old School Community Hub, New Radnor, 2-4pm, 01544 350242.

AARDVARK BOOKS & CAFE Website: www.aardvark-books.com

50,000+ titles; North Herefordshire’s largest indie bookseller; We buy books Specialist in art, design, photography, history, gardening

Also open our superb CAFÉ!

The Bookery, Manor Farm, Brampton Bryan, Bucknell, SY7 0DH Off A4113 Knighton Road. Tel: 01547 530744 aardvaark@btconnect.com www.aardvark-books.com Bookshop open to visitors Tues-Sun 10am-4pm.

Herefordshire Art Week: Abstract Edge 2021 4th - 19th September 2021

8 Artists from the Abstract Edge group of painters and sculptors come to Aardvark with a riot of colour and shape. Not to be missed. We are now open again for light lunches in the Cafe!

Specialising in the conservationrestoration of works of art on paper and archive material. Unit 9, Lower Buckton Barns, between Leintwardine and Brampton Bryan, SY7 0JU.

Please call or email Louise Vaile for appointments and further information.

T: 07780 616067 E: info@ogilvievaile.com W: ogilvievaile.com

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

The second collection of funny, erudite, deeply unconventional essays based on its garden, which Sam Llewellyn has made with the hindrance (frequent) and help (occasional) of an itinerant Duchess.

www.diggingwiththeduchess.co.uk

cinema Film Reviews by Mark Williams

THE LAST BUS (12A) The ever-versatile Timothy Spall stars as recently bereaved pensioner, Tom, who elects to carry his wife’s ashes from John O’Groats to Land’s End where they first met. The film’s title supplies the essential plot twist, i.e. he decides to make the entire journey using his bus pass and director Gillies MacKinnon (HIDEOUS KINKY, 2016’s WHISKY GALORE re-make) and noted t.v. screenwriter Joe Ainsworth (HOLBY CITY, NEW TRICKS) wring a considerable amount of humour and a smidge of pathos as the cantankerous Tom is met with varying degrees of bemusement, disbelief and sympathy along the way. His responses and determination to complete his task – something of a challenge given the parlous state of Britain’s public transport – are driven by his depth of feeling for his departed spouse, played in flashback by the often underrated Phyllis Logan (t.v’s DOWNTON ABBEY’s Mrs Hughes, and BAFTA winner for ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE) but inevitably the success of the enterprise, in both senses, is down to Spall who gives perhaps his best, most nuanced turn since MR. TURNER, or perhaps THE PARTY. SOUND OF METAL (15) Newbie director Darius Marder took on an abandoned documentary project about a real-life grime-metal duo, JUCIFER, and hired that film’s putative director, Derek Cianfrance (THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES) as his co-writer for a tale about Reuben, a heavy-metal drummer (Riz Ahmed) who suddenly loses his hearing whist touring America with his singer and partner Lou (Olivia Cooke) in their mobile home. Any resemblance to the recent NOMADLAND ends there for although Lou is clearly sympathetic, she realises that it could be the end of her career, too. The main gist of the film then becomes Reuben’s efforts to come to terms with his hearing loss and forges a new future, considerably aided by visiting a kind of commune for those with the same predicament run by the charismatic Joe (veteran stage actor, Joe Raci, himself the child of deaf parents). For me this provides Ahmed, who performed live in concert early in the film, with his best performance since NIGHTCRAWLER and establishes him as an international star who deservedly won an Oscar nomination for it. AFTER LOVE (12A – some subtitles) Having transitioned from mild-mannered Anglican to devout Muslim housewife who’d just been chatting happily to her husband, Ahmed (Nasser Memarzia), Fatima, neé Mary (Joanna Scanlan) finds him dead in the living room they share in a nondescript part of Dover. What follows is a story that’s at once heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting as Fatima quickly discovers, and is forced to try and come to terms with the fact that her late husband, who worked on cross channel ferries, had another wife and family just across the water in France. Scanlan, best known as the chubby, bossy but slyly comic actress in t.v’s THE THICK OF IT and GETTING ON, gives an extraordinarily powerful performance infused with grief and, thanks in part to first-time writer/director Aleem Khan and cinematographer Alexander Dynan, use of metaphor, aided by a multi-lingual cast of largely little known actors, although Ahmed’s other wife, (Nathalie Richard) will be familiar to French T.V. audiences and who also must come to terms with the shocking news. Hankies at the ready, then, but be mighty impressed by Scanlan and the skillful storytelling.

LIVE EVENTS ON SCREEN 1 Sept EXHIBITION ON SCREEN Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, 01885 488575. 4 Sept ANDRE RIEU: TOGETHER AGAIN Summer concert. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, 01885 488575 7 & 12 Sept MICK FLEETWOOD & FRIENDS Live from the London Palladium. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, 01885 488575. 14 & 29 Sept DANGEROUS LIAISONS: NORTHERN BALLET Set to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. 14 Sept - The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock, 7pm 01952 728911. 29 Sept - Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, 01885 488575. 21 Sept LA TRAVIATA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7pm, 01600 772467. 25 Sept LA TRAVIATA Opera Australia. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, 01885 488575. 27 Sept ROMEO & JULIET National Theatre. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

BOOTH’S BOOKSHOP 11 Sept THE PASSIONS OF VAUGHAN WILLIAMS With introduction by Richard Wigmore. Part of Fitzwilliam Quartet at Hay, 3pm. Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye. 01497 822010

BRECON FILM SOCIETY 6 Sept CINEMA PARADISO Doors open 7.15pm for 7.30pm start. Brecon Coliseum Cinema, Wheat St, Brecon. Membership enquiries 01874 623166

CONQUEST, BROMYARD 3 Sept NOMADLAND (12A) 24 Sept AFTER LOVE (12A) Conquest Theatre, Tenbury Rd, Bromyard. Details 01885 488575

COURTYARD, HEREFORD Until 2 Sept OLD (15) Until 9 Sept MINAMATA (12A) 4 Sept PETER RABBIT 2: THE RUNAWAY (U) 4 - 16 Sept THE COURIER (12A) 6 & 14 Sept TWO LANE BLACKTOP (15) The Courtyard Theatre, Edgar St, Hereford 01432 340555

THE EDGE, MUCH WENLOCK

13 Sept AMERICAN WOMAN (15) 20 Sept GOOD LIAR (15) 27 Sept JOKER (15) 4 Oct THE FAREWELL (PG) The Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock 01952 728911

2 Sept SUMMERLAND (12) Brilley VH 01544 327227 3 Sept THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (PG) Oliver Jones Memorial Hall, Pontfadog 07802 584536 3 Sept NOMADLAND (12A) Conquest Theatre, Bromyard 01885 488575 3 Sept LOVE SARAH (12) Knighton Community Centre 01547 520602 6 Sept MR TURNER (12A) Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge Community Centre 01952 433297 6 Sept MRS LOWRY & SON (PG) Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge Community Centre 01952 433297 6 Sept MINARI (12) The Hive, Shrewsbury 01743 234970 6 Sept THE GOOD LIAR (15) The Red House, Albrighton 01902 373854 7 Sept NOMADLAND (12A) Lybury North VH 01588 680302 8 Sept JUDY (12A) Hope Bowdler VH 01694 723648 10 Sept ROCKETMAN (15) Great Witley VH 01299 896412 11 Sept GREASE (PG) Bayston Hill Memorial Hall 01743 873940 15 Sept ETERNAL BEAUTY (2020) (15) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125 16 Sept SUMMERLAND (12) Castlemorton Parish Hall 01531 631503 16 Sept THE GOOD LIAR (15) Claverley VH 01746 710528 16 Sept EMMA (2020) (U) Gorsley VH 16 Sept MINARI (12) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 17 Sept ROCKETMAN (15) Leintwardine Community Centre 07572 442903 (outdoor screening) 17 Sept AMMONITE (15) Little Dewchurch VH 01432 840333 17 Sept NOMADLAND (12A) Knighton Community Centre 01547 520602 17 Sept OFFICIAL SECRETS (15) Bosbury Parish Hall 01531 640333 18 Sept THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (PG) Yarpole Parish Hall 01568 780196 18 Sept NOMADLAND (12A) Lady Emily Hall, Tarrington 01432 890720 18 Sept SUMMERLAND (12) Bicton VH 01743 850495

18 Sept TOM & JERRY THE MOVIE (PG) Leintwardine Community Centre 07572 442903 18 Sept DARK WATERS (12) Lindridge Parish Hall 01584 881615 19 Sept THE WOLF OF BAGHDAD (PG) The Hive, Shewsbury 01743 234970 20 Sept BRASSED OFF (15) Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge Community Centre 01952 433297 21 Sept EMMA (2020) (U) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle 01588 630321 23 Sept MIDNIGHT COWBOY (18) Pudleston VH 01568 750292 23 Sept THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD (PG) Much Birch Community Hall 01981 540097 24 Sept THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON (12A) Colwall VH 07891 668124 24 Sept AFTER LOVE (12A) Conquest Theatre, Bromyard 01885 488575 25 Sept DREAM HORSE (2020) (PG) Upton upon Severn Memorial Hall 01684 592273 29 Sept JUDY (12A) Market Theatre, Ledbury 07967 517125

THE HIVE, SHREWSBURY 6 Sept MINARI (12A) Shropshire Supports Refugees, Shropshire Ethnic Minority Alliance, The Hive and Arts Alive event. 24 Sept GLORIA (15) 4 Oct SOUND OF METAL (15) The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, 01743 234970

MKT. THEATRE, LEDBURY 15 Sept ETERNAL BEAUTY (15) 29 Sept JUDY (PG) Market Theatre, Market St, Ledbury 07967 517125

SAVOY, MONMOUTH Until 4 Sept THE LAST BUS Savoy Theatre, Church St, Monmouth 01600 772467

SPARC, BISHOP’S CASTLE 16 Sept MINARI (12A) Bishop’s Castle Film Society. 21 Sept EMMA (PG) SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle, 01588 630321

WYESIDE, BUILTH WELLS 12, 12, 18 & 26 Sept PAW PATROL 17 - 19 Sept SNAKE EYES 24 - 26 Sept OUR LADIES Wyeside, Builth Wells 01982 552555

WORKSHOPS

Wednesdays FILM MAKING CLUB The Courtyard, Hereford, 5.15pm & 6.45pm, £73 per term, 01432 340555.

dance Dangerous Liaisons 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.

Dance Performance Sat 4 & Sun 5 September WE MADE IT! ASPIRE DANCE. Showcase 2021 featuring a full variety of dance styles including tap, ballet, modern, jazz, musical theatre and acro. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7pm, £15/£12.50, 01432 340555.

Dance Workshops

Single, dated listings are free. Year round entries £40. 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. COURTYARD, HEREFORD CLASSES Tues - Zumba, 1-2pm, £5.50 per session. Fri - Chance to Dance for the over 50s, 10.15am-11.15pm, £5 per session. Tues - Laura Gale Contemporary Dance, energetic class for beginners and experienced dancers, 8-9pm, £8 drop in or £39 for 6 weeks. Tues - Laura Gale Street Jazz, 7-8pm, £8 drop in, £39 for 6 weeks. Thurs - Silver Swans Adult Ballet for the over 55s, 1.30-2.30pm, £5 per session. Fri - Dancing Tots for ages 2-4 years, 11.30am-12.15pm, £4 per child. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555. Starting Wed 8 September DANCING GROUP A variety of Playford dances under the tutorledge of Marget Gill. Beginners welcome. St Peter’s Church Hall, Glasbury, 10am-12pm, drop-in charge £3 includes refreshments or 15 weeks in advance £40. Enquries Susan 01544 327337 or email John.c.warne@googlemail. com

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, 7.30-8.30pm, Holy Trinity Parish Hall, Malvern, WR14 4LR. Thurs, 7.30pm-8.30pm, 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. 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 CIRCLE DANCING Leominster Community Centre, 2-3.30pm. Telephone 01568 616411 or 01584 877446 Kathryn. 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. Thursdays WILD WEST SALSA Left Bank Village, Bridge St, Hereford, 7.45pm, £6, students £5, social dance only £4, 01432 357753. Fridays CHANCE TO DANCE For the over 50s. The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.15am, £4.50, 01432 340555. Fridays DANCING TOTS For ages 2-4 years. The Courtyard, Hereford, 11.30am, £4, 01432 340555. Fortnightly Sunday HIGHFLYERS YOUTH DANCE COMPANY For ages 11-18 with disabilities or additional needs and their siblings. All welcome. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 2-4pm, 01743 234970 or email Rachel youthsidance@gmail.com

BOOKING FOR CAR BOOT SALE AND STALLS: 01497 847777 GENERAL INFORMATION: 01497 847428 Proceeds to the village hall refurbishment fund, Hay & District Dial a Ride, All Saints Church, Love toilets, Pat’s Play Park and others.

food page Greeks on the March

R Pernickety has been something of a Hellenophile since he was a boy and obliged to study ancient Greek in order to further his juvenile (though ultimately doomed) academic career. He felt some affinity with a tongue whose most used example of a conjugating verb was Λυω: I play, in contrast to the Latin, Amo. The young Mr P liked the idea of ‘play’; he had heard about playboys – slothful, sybaritic fellows, he imagined – and they seemed to represent a career to which he could aspire. Subsequently, as he matured, he began to encounter different peoples from the eastern Mediterranean and, in the days when this sort of discernment was permissible, he found Greeks markedly more attractive than Turks, more forthright and less devious than Italians, and certainly more humorous and less lugubrious than Slavs. The Greeks, he gleefully observed, would sing, play the bouzouki and dance; they flirted vigorously and gambled boldly; they were, he felt, his kind of people. His first encounter with Greek ‘cuisine’, in 1965 was in a scruffyish street off the Tottenham Court Road at an unembellished dinery called the Venus Kebab House – strip lit, bare white-walled, melamine-and-iron-tabled. On his own at the time, but ever of an enquiring disposition, he went in and eagerly sampled the exotic unsubtle flavours of feta cheese, green pickled peppers, taramasalata, kebabs, tzatziki, sheftalia, souvlaki, kleftiko and, above all, that demon among banausic wines of the Mediterranean, Retsina – cheap wine into which a preserving layer of pine resin has seeped. The romantic appeal of this warm-hearted peasant food never waned for Mr P. As an erratic entrepreneur in 1970s London, living in the still slightly Bohemian hubbub of the Fulham Road, Mr P’s default diner was a dingy candle-lit Greek-Cypriot restaurant unconfusingly named Wine & Kebab, run by a small charming man who always wore a black suit and a greasy black bow-tie. In its squalid basement was one of the most odiferous lavatories in Chelsea. A positive attraction was that Mr P was sometimes invited by the soulful Armenian who strummed a guitar in a dark corner of banquette seating to sit beside him and croon old Nat King Cole songs, strengthening further Mr P’s affection for the place and its food.

For many years eating Greek food in the Marches was confined to risking one’s gastric well-being by consuming wedges hacked from a vertically barbequed lump of unidentifiable meat well past its usable shelf-life and, possibly, deceased abandoned pets and road kill, called doner kebab. When Mr P became aware recently that there was what seemed like an authentic Greek restaurant beside the old docks in Gloucester, he summoned his daughter and they met there for lunch. The place is called, also unconfusingly, Greek on the Docks. To an afficionado of Greek food, it couldn’t have been more cheering, Run by people originally from Thessalonika, its menu, ambience and service were entirely authentic. While ‘fine dining’ is not a category of Greek cooking, Greek on the Docks offers the best of what there is, and on the strength of this one visit the ingredients appear to be the best they can buy. Eating under an awning beside the flat, lazy surface of the superannuated docks, Mr P’s keftedes to start were spicy, succulent balls of

Greeks on the Docks, Gloucester minced beef and pork served with a finely nuanced tomato sauce. He wanted to drink retsina for added nostalgia, but it only available by the bottle, too much for Mr P’s maturing constitution, but a Greek chardonnay was a happy substitute. Miss P’s selection of taramas, hummus and tzatziki quickly made up for her father’s customary lateness. Mr Pernickety’s main course of lamb chops cooked a la Greque with lots of oregano and served with a big Greek salad suited the baking heat above the awning. After this very satisfactory return to Greek food, Mr P attempted to locate other nearby sources of this kind of food. He had noticed in the region a sporadic street food pop-up called the Greek Gourmet and tracked its HQ to Bewell Street in Hereford. Unprepossessing as the premises turned out to be, he went and found he could eat on a tall table around the back of the premises. He ordered a lamb kebab which arrived atop a salad and tump of chips of Herefordian proportions. The cubes of meat were delicious, super quality and cooked just right, which cheered Mr P greatly, The salad under it was disappointingly un-Greek, with green olives instead of black, ordinary supermarket tomatoes that tasted of nothing, iceberg lettuce, and no hot pickled green peppers. Mr P would have preferred rice to chips. It seemed that the chef was determined to anglicize the dish to cater for unsubtle local tastes, thereby diluting its authenticity. Nevertheless the kebabs easily made up for those shortcomings. Eating in the hideous surroundings of Bewell ‘Square’ provided the place with nul points for ambience. Mr P also discovered that Ludlow’s Blue Boar has a new chef who is Greek and is offering some of his native dishes there. Dutifully Mr P and his Lovely Companion popped in to sample them. The salad was notably more authentic than the Greek Gourmet’s; the LC loved her hummus, and the chicken souvlaki that followed, with particular praise for the home-made pitta bread. However, the kleftiko, although enjoyable, had been too anglicised for Mr P’s understanding of the dish. He was served good quality, medium cooked lamb, where traditionally a kleftiko is an inferior piece of sheep/lamb shank which has been wrapped and cooked for ages until the meat is very dark and flaking off the bone – in a way which would, no doubt, have had some unsavvy punters sending it back in horror. Although Mr P completely understands the thinking behind this compromise, he wonders if, in the long run, it would be wiser to risk serving the real thing. For the time being, though, when he wants a genuine Greek experience, he’ll go back to the Greek on the Docks. Mr Pernickety

EVENTS Sat 4 & Sun 5 September SHREWSBURY FOOD FESTIVAL Plans for 200 food, drink and craft exhibitors, with live demonstrations and talks from Rob Gibson; Rotts and Wings. Murf from the Beefy Boys. James Sherwin, The Wild Chef. Stuart Collins, Docket No 33. Jimmy Worrel, The Bear Inn, Upton Magna. Paul Crowe. Csons. Chris Burt & Vicky Enderson. Gennaro Addagio, Adam Purnell, The Shropshire Lad. A chef school, live performances on the music stage and children’s activities. The Quarry, Shrewsbury and around the town centre, Sat 10am6.30pm, Sun 10am-5pm.www.shrewsburyfoodfestival.co.uk Fri 10 - Sun 12 September LUDLOW FOOD FESTIVAL Featuring more than 180 different food and drink producers, top chefs and food experts, Exhibitors, vendors, demonstrations, interactive talks, tastings, cookery school, food photography courses, wine and gin-tasting workshops. Ludlow Castle, Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-6.30pm, Sun 10am-5pm, 1-day ticket £12, 5-13 £4, under 5s free. www.ludlowfoodfestival.co.uk Sat 18 & Sun 19 September ABERGAVENNY FOOD FESTIVAL Interaction with top culinary stars giving demonstrations and talks. Attendance will be limited, stroller tickets and event tickets will be pre-sold, no walk-up on the day. Plus Party at the Castle. www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com Fri 1 & Sat 2 October SHROPSHIRE OKTOBERFEST 150+ real ales, lager bar, cocktails, Gin den, gin school, street food, comedy, wine bar, live music, silent disco and more. Quarry Park, Shrewsbury. www.shropshireoktoberfest.co.uk Sat 2 October TENBURY APPLEFEST Apple displays, apple juicing, demonstrations, food and drink, Leominster Morris, Animal Encounters, classic cars, magician, Blue Moon Blues Band and more. The Burgage, Tenbury Wells, 10am-4.30pm, £4, under 16s free. 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 (except August) FARMER’S MARKET Produce, craft, gifts, kitchen cafe open. Eaton Bishop Village Hall, 10am-12pm. 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. 2nd Satrday of every month LEOMINSTER FARMER’S MARKET Corn Square, 9am-1pm, 01568 797427. Third Saturday of every month PRODUCE MARKET Hightown Community Rooms, Vicarage Rd. Clun, 10.00am - 12.00pm. 01588 641180.

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-2.30pm, www.haymarkets.co.uk Every 2nd & 4th Thursday LUDLOW LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET Castle Square, 9am-2pm, 01584 872043. Every Friday KINGTON 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 550377 (11am – 4pm every Thurs - Sun). Teas, coffees, cake and soup. www.bleddfacentre.org 01547 550377 hello@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 £10.95 two courses, £14.95. We can also cater for your private event, price includes free room hire. Call our Catering Team on 01432 830219, option 3. 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. PLANTASTIK cic, 15 WEST ST, LEOMINSTER’s new cafe serving plant-based food from supermarket waste produce. Open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 10am-3pm. Lunches from 11am, cakes, drinks, vegan pastries from Alex Gooch on Fridays. Run by volunteers. plantastik@myphone.coop RHOS MARKET GARDEN, KNIGHTON 01547 528315 Growers & providers of organic veg, fruit & flowers. Eco cleaning products & refills. Large range of groceries & whole foods. The Old Garage Shop, Knighton. Tues-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-3pm. Free parking, opposite Old Library. Friday Morning Market stall in Presteigne. Local deliveries of veg. boxes. info@rhosorganic.co.uk www.rhosorganic.co.uk RUTH WATSON RESTAURANTEUR 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

First Thursday EVENING FARMER’S MARKET The Barn, Ledbury, HR8 1EA, 6-8pm. www.ledburyfoodgroup.org

ST. MICHAEL’S HOSPICE COFFEE & BOOKS, UNIT 6-8 STATION YARD, LEOMINSTER, HR6 8TN (near Hintons). Large range of specialist and fiction books, maps, CDs, DVDs, vinyl and sheet music. Local coffee, light meals, homemade soup, cakes and scones. Open 9am-4pm, free parking.

Every Thursday MONTGOMERY TOWN MARKET Regular stalls on the lower floor. First Thurs of the month, using both floors with community cafe. Open 9am-3pm, www.montgomery-wales.co.uk/market 07790 100462.

THE WORKHOUSE CAFE, INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PRESTEIGNE 01544 267864 Cafe, gallery, light lunches, good coffee, homemade cakes. Wed-Sat 10am - 4pm.

Third Saturday of every month FARMER’S MARKET Bishop’s Castle Town Hall, 9am-1pm, 01588 630023.

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SEPTEMBER

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

Wed 1 September

MARK LATIMER & TREV DAVIES TRIO Chequers, Etnam St, Leominster.

OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Thurs 2 September ALMELEY STEADY SESSION The Bells Inn, Almeley, near Kington, www.almeleysteadysession.wordpress. com CLUN VALLEY MUSIC Featuring Ruisi Quartet: Alessandro Ruisi & Oliver Cave - violins: Luba Tunnicliffe - viola: Max Ruisi - cello. Programme includes Matthew Locke, Caroline Shaw, Haydn and Beethoven. St George’s Church, Clun, 7.30pm, £15/£20, 01588 640162, www.clunvalleymusic.co.uk

Fri 3 September CLUN VALLEY MUSIC Featuring Ruisi Quartet. Programme includes Purcell, Stravinsky, Haydn and Beethoven. St Cuthbert’s Church, Clungunford, 7.30pm, £15/£20, 01588 640162, www.clunvalleymusic.co.uk DAVID BUGSBY The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. SWAN BREWERY TASTING DAY Plus food from El Cerdo Verde. Enterprise Park, Leominster, HR6 0LX, 10am-7pm. THE BIG WEEKEND Featuring Acoustic session with Kentucky Moon. Monkland Arms, near Leominster 01568 720510.

HATS OFF TO LED ZEPPELIN Pavilion Mid Wales, Llandrindod Wells, 7.30pm, £12 special offer, 01597 258118, www.pavilionmidwales.org.uk MID WALES RHYTHM & BLUES CLUB Featuring Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse. The Muse, Brecon, 8pm, 07866 000596, www.midwalesrandb. club

Sat 4 September SHREWSBURY FOOD FESTIVAL Live on the Woodings Music Stage. Call of the Kraken, Dave Busby. Juliet Falls. Chasing August. Dirty Rockin’ Scoundrels. Vertigo. Shaun Kelly and Returned Gifts. Lost The Plot. The Quarry, Shrewsbury, www.shrewsburyfoodfestival.co.uk

KICKBACK Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. ARTS @ ST LAURENCE’S LUDLOW Summer Season. Jonathan Scott, concert organist, will perform wellknown works on the famous Snetzler organ. The Space, St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, 1pm, free, donations welcome. www.stlaurences.org.uk JANICE DAY & MARTIN LITTON The Songs of 1924: All new material from The Great American Songbook. Piano and vocals. St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, bar available, £15 from www.hayjazz.com or Green Ink Booksellers in Hay or on the door. Concessions 07748 652194. THE BIG WEEKEND Featuring The Jitterbuggers. Martin Blake (guitar, vocals), Ted Bunting (saxes and flute) and Denis Schiavon (double bass, backing vocals) all from Whiskey River, in a special acoustic line-up. Monkland Arms, near Leominster, 7.30pm, free, 01568 720510. UNCONVENTIONAL The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

The Jitterbuggers The Big Weekend

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BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL See 9 September for details. www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk 07990 629203.

Sat 11 September BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL See 9 September for details. www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk 07990 629203. UP FRONT The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. THE CHICAGO BLUES BROTHERS 11-piece band with all singing, all dancing hit parade presenting the greatest movie anthems of all time. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £26.50, 01432 340555.

Sat 4 September WEIRDSHIRE GIG Featuring Kavus Torabi (Gong), Arch Garrison, Emily Jones, Valve. Babar Cafe, Union St, Hereford, book tickets via Babar Cafe website or pay on the door.

Sun 5 September THE BIG WEEKEND Featuring Massed Morris. Monkland Arms, near Leominster 01568 720510. SHREWSBURY FOOD FESTIVAL Live on the Woodings Music Stage. Featuring Untamed Shrew. The Endings. Good To Go. Radio Rumours. Dirty Rockin’ Scoundrels. Something 4 The Weekend. The Quarry, Shrewsbury, www.shrewsburyfoodfestival.co.uk

Mon 6 September BRIMFIELD FOLK CLUB Brimfield Village Hall, 7.30pm, 01584 711480. Please bring your own drinks/glasses. CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 01432 274968.

Tues 7 September ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN Programme includes Henry V & Façade. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £18, 01432 340555. LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Featuring Laurence John (Exeter Cathedral). Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm, retiring collection, booking strongly advised, www.herefordcathedral.org

AN EVENING WITHOUT KATE BUSH Sarah-Louise Young explores the fans and music of one of the most influential voices in British pop culture. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £16.50, 01743 281281.

VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose & Crown, Ludlow, 9pm.

Wed 8 September FASCINATING AIDA Featuring Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman with a selection of old favourites. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £22.50/£20.50, 01432 340555. OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Thurs 9 September THE ILLEGAL EAGLES Tribute band. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £27.50/£26.50, 01432 340555. QUILL Classic Midland’s folk rock band. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £19, 01743 281281. BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL Featuring Edward II, Breabach, Kinnaris, The Breath, The John Martyn Project, Calan, Crows, Granny’s Attic, Aiden Patterson Dashwood, Kit Hawes and Aaron Catlow, She Shanties and many more. Family friendly folk music festival, food, drinks, songs, dance. Bromyard, www.bromyardfolkfestival. co.uk 07990 629203.

Fri 10 September THE UPBEAT BEATLES Tribute band. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £23, 01432 340555. STEVE KNIGHTLEY Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £19.50, 01743 281281. HASH TAG WORST KEPT SECRET The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET With pianist Simon Callaghan. Programme includes Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, www.thefitzwilliamathay.com

THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. RP MCMURPHY The Secret Garden, Coldwells Rd, Hereford, 07715 953497. FITZWILLIAM QUARTET With tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook. Programme includes Gurney. Bliss, Vaughan Williams and Wordsworth. St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm. www.thefitzwilliamathay.com ANDREA VICARI BAND Eclectic piano improviser and composer. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £23, 01743 234970. SATURDAY SHENANIGANS OPEN MIC Hosted by Martin Chapple. Credenhill Sports and Social Club, Hereford, 7pm, martinchapple1@gmail.com

Sun 12 September THE LUDLOW JAZZ COLLECTIVE 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, SY8 2JE, 12.30-3pm, 01584 872063. GLASBURY CHARITY FETE & FAMILY FUN DAY Car boot sale, plant stall, children’s games, treasure hunt, craft stall, pony rides, Splat the rat, raffle, archery, beat the goalie, Harry Putter and the Goblet of Fire and more! Barbeque, refreshments, live music. Glasbury House, HR3 5NW, 12pm-4pm, all welcome. Booking for car boot and stalls 01497 847777 / 847428 for info. THE MERSEY BEATLES Tribute band. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £23-£21, 01743 281281.

COLTRANE DEDICATION The Nave, Grosmont, 7.30pm, £10 on the door or in advance, 01600 712613.

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BLIND ALLEY Classic rock and blues music from the 60’s and 70’s and beyond. Burton Hotel, Kington, 8pm, £7 on the door or pre-booked at www.kingtonwalks.org or Kington TIC. Part of Kington Walking Festival. HERITAGE OPEN DAY ‘Edible England’. A series of delectable flora and food inspired activities held in the Cloisters. Hereford Cathedral, 1am, 12pm or 2pm, free, booking essential, www.herefordcathedral.org MUSIC NOUVEAU 6th year of annual event of new and original music in fantastic acoustic of St Michael’s Church, Tenbury Wells, 7.30pm, entry by donation, suggested £10. Contact cookandrew011@gmail. com

Sun 12 September FITZWILLIAM QUARTET With pianist Anna Tilbrook. Programme includes Wolf, Haydn and Schubert. St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, 4.30pm. www.thefitzwilliamathay.com BROMYARD FOLK FESTIVAL See 9 September for details. www.bromyardfolkfestival.co.uk 07990 629203.

Tues 14 September LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Featuring Jonathan Allsopp (Southwell Minster). Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm, retiring collection, booking strongly advised, www.herefordcathedral.org VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose & Crown, Ludlow, 9pm.

Wed 15 September OPEN MIC Hosted by Martin Chapple. Babar Cafe, Union St, Hereford, 7pm, martinchapple1@gmail.com OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Thurs 16 September IMAGINE - THE JOHN LENNON SONGBOOK Tribute. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £24.50, 01432 340555.

Fri 17 September HEY YAHS 2021 Bringing you a host of new numbers from great festival acts like Elbow, Dua Lipa and Oasis. The Courtyard, Hereford, 8pm, 01432 340555. THE PEAS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

MAD ABOUT THE MUSICALS Two hours of songs from the greatest musicals, brought to you by Michael Courtney, his cast of singers and live band. The Albert Hall, Llandrindod Wells £20, 0333 666 3366. ENGLISH MUSIC WEEKEND Featuring Mark Bebbington - piano. Celebrating the works of 20th century composers. The Great Barn, Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, near Ledbury, 7.30pm, 01531 660504, www.hellensmanor.com

MOSCOW DRUG CLUB A curious musical experience, where elements of 1930’s Berlin Caberet, Hot Club de France and Gypsy Campfire meet. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7.30pm, £14, students £12, 07967 517125. SATURDAY SHENANIGANS Featuring Crinkle Cuts, a blasting of tantric funk, smooth reggae and new-wave Latin ska. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £8 in advance, £10 on the door, 01497 821762.

Sat 18 September

Sun 19 September

ENGLISH MUSIC WEEKEND Featuring Coull Quartet and Mark Bebbington - piano. Celebrating the works of 20th century composers and contemporary English composers. The Great Barn, Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, near Ledbury, 7.30pm, 01531 660504, www.hellensmanor.com

LESLEY GARRETT Soprano singer with an evening of song, reminiscences and chat. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £29.50-£25.50, 01743 281281.

THE JITTERBUGGERS (Blake, Bunting and Grimes). The Castle Hotel, Bishop’s Castle, 2pm.

ENGLISH MUSIC WEEKEND Featuring Peter Cigleris, Nicholas Roberts and Mark Bebbington. Celebrating the works of English composers of the last 150 years. The Great Barn, Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, near Ledbury, 7.30pm, 01531 660504, www.hellensmanor.com

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Laugh-out-loud sketches and classic pop anthems that define being a 21st century woman. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £27/£25, 01432 340555. ETERNITY ROAD The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. ARTS @ ST LAURENCE’S LUDLOW Summer Season. Featuring solo violinist, Zoe Beyers. Programme includes works by Bach, von Westoff, Klouda and others. The Space, St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, 1pm, free, donations welcome. www.stlaurences.org.uk

THE BUSH PILOTS Richmond Club, Edgar St, Hereford, 3-5pm, free, 01432 356529.

Tues 21 September LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Featuring Emily India Evans (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge). Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm, retiring collection, booking strongly advised, www.herefordcathedral.org VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose & Crown, Ludlow, 9pm.

The Hawkmen

THE GOLD ROOM The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. MUSIC OF THE NIGHT Featuring highly acclaimed West End performers and live band, celebrating the world of musical theatre. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £24.50/£22.50 01432 340555. FRONTRUNNER Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. QUEEN ALIVE! Tribute. The Albert Hall, Llandrindod Wells £18/£15, 0333 666 3366. SATURDAY SHENANIGANS Featuring Jo Carley and The Old Dry Skulls playing a unique hybrid of early 20th century music infused with dark imagery. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £7 in advance, £9 on the door, 01497 821762.

Sun 26 September Wed 22 September OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Wed 22 September THE QUIREBOYS Rock band. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £22, 01743 281281.

Thurs 23 September ANNA ASH Anna Ash captures those long late afternoons when the sun is low but the heat hasn’t yet broken. SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle, 7.30pm, £10, under 18s £6, 01588 630321. COUNTRY SUPERSTARS Hosted by Sarah Jayne with Andy Crust. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £22/£20, 01432 340555.

Fri 24 September THE BOOTLEG BEACH BOYS Tribute. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £24.50/£23.50, 01432 340555. OPEN MIC Hosted by Mark Richards. The Sun, Leintwardine, 7.30pm-10.30pm. Please pre-book your slot by emailing markianrichards@hotmail.com THE BARN AGAIN BALL Sheep Music presents two top local bands plus support. The Poobahs (Cowjazz celticana) and Little Rumba (tango inspired original songs). Bar and food. Presteigne Community Barn, Wents Meadow, Presteigne, 7.30pm, £10 adults, £5 under 18s, under 12s free. Check Sheep Music website for details.

THE DORIS DAY STORY An expose of the life of Doris Day. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £20, 01743 281281.

HR4K OPEN MIC Hosted by Martin Chapple. Unit 12A, Thorn Business Park, Hereford, HR2 6SJ, 7pm. martinchapple1@gmail.com

GOOD TO GO The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Tues 28 September

NORTHERN LIVE ‘Keep the Faith’ an 11-piece band perform over 30 original Northern Soul hits. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £24, 01743 281281. THE LOST CHORD Gordon Bennetts, St Peter’s Square, Hereford, 9pm. THE HAWKMEN + THE FLYRITES Pavilion Mid Wales, Llandrindod Wells, 7.30pm, £8, 01597 258118, www.pavilionmidwales.org.uk THE LUDLOW JAZZ COLLECTIVE Live dinner jazz. Free entry, cocktails, light bites or book a table for dinner. The Cliffe at Dinham, Ludlow, SY8 2JE, 7-10pm, 01584 872063.

Sat 25 September THE OPERA BOYS ‘A Night at The Musicals’. Regal Cinema, Tenbury, 7.30pm, 01584 811442. BRIMFIELD FOLK CLUB Featuring Edwina Hayes in concert. Brimfield Village Hall, bar, £10, admission ticket only, www.ticketsource.co.uk/brimfieldfolkclub ARTS @ ST LAURENCE’S LUDLOW Summer Season. Ulrich Heinen, cello and John Humphreys, piano. Programme includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Janacek and Shumann. The Space, St Laurence’s Church, Ludlow, 1pm, free, donations welcome. www.stlaurences.org.uk

LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITAL Featuring Peter Dyke (audience requests). Hereford Cathedral, 1.15pm, retiring collection, booking strongly advised, www.herefordcathedral.org VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose & Crown, Ludlow, 9pm.

Wed 29 September JOHN HYMAS AND DAVE LUKE Meal and music. Plantastic Cafe, 15 West St Leominster, 7.15pm. Southern Indian vegan 3-course meal (cooked by Hannah) bar by Norrie, £20 per head, please book, 01584 831386 or email noriscafe@yahoo.com OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Thurs 30 September BUDDY HOLLY & THE CRICKETERS Tribute. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £24.50/£23.50, 01432 340555.

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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.

BORDERS BAND OFFER POSITION Established group requires someone to help with gig/concert booking and promotional work. Financial and working arrangement by mutual agreement Contacts: rohosmit@aol.com 07890 303681

Langstaffe Violins John Langstaffe

Maker & Restorer of Violins, Violas & Cellos

Repairs, Fitting Up, Tonal Adjustments Bow Repairs etc

PEMBRIDGE M: 07901 064875

www.langstaffe-violins.co.uk

Fri 1 October

Thea Gilmore

ARCADIA MUSIC FESTIVAL Ensemble Arcadiana features Eleanor Alberga and Thomas Bowes, artistic directors. Karen Jones, flute, Thomas Bowes and Patrick Kiernan, violin. Ralph de Souza, viola and Tim Gill, cello. Programme includes Beethoven. St Michael and All Angels Church, Kingsland. Pre-concert talk 7pm, concert 7.30pm. www.arcadiamusic. org.uk FRIDAY LIVE Featuring The Meadows, a vibrant multi-instrumentalist Celtic-Crossover folk band. Plus Paul Lloyd Nicholas who has played at festivals and folk clubs across the UK and Europe. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £6 in advance, £8 on the door, 01497 821762. DIRE STREETS Tribute to Dire Straits. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £21.50/£20.50, 01432 340555. MID WALES RHYTHM & BLUES CLUB FeaturingThe Achievers with special guest Bryony Sier. The Muse, Brecon, 8pm, 07866 000596, www.midwalesrandb.club

Sat 2 October ARCADIA MUSIC FESTIVAL See 1 Oct for details. St Mary Magdalene Church, Leintwardine, pre-concert talk 7pm, concert 7.30pm. www.arcadiamusic.org.uk A WHOLE LOTTA ROCK Vaga, Hereford, 8.30pm. HOLDER AND SMITH QUARTET Jazz at it’s best. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, £16, 01885 488575. PAUL PARKER & ALL THE RIGHT FRIENDS The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury. TENBURY APPLEFEST Apple displays, apple juicing, shopping, food and drink, demonstrations, Leominster Morris, Animal Encounters, classic cars, magician, Blue Moon Blues Band and more. On the Burgage, Tenbury Wells, 10am-4.30pm, £4, under 16s free. EIRA SNOW The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 8pm, £6 in advance, £8 on the door, 01497 821762. THE BLUEJAYS - RAVE ON 50’s and 60’s rock and roll. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £23/£21, 01432 340555.

Sun 3 October THEA GILMORE Folk singer. With support. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £22, 01743 281281. ARCADIA MUSIC FESTIVAL See 1 Oct for details. Programme includes Telemann: Fantasias for solo violin and solo flute, Canonic Sonatas for flute and violin. www.arcadiamusic.org.uk

Mon 4 October BRIMFIELD FOLK CLUB Brimfield Village Hall, 7.30pm, 01584 711480. Please bring your own drinks/glasses. CIDER CITY JAZZMEN The Barrels, St Owen St, Hereford, 01432 274968.

Tues 5 October VINTAGE JAZZ REVIVAL Rose & Crown, Ludlow, 9pm.

Wed 6 October OPEN MIC The Bull Inn, Shrewsbury.

Thurs 7 October REDLAKE VALLEY - THEN AND NOW A four day celebration of the beautiful Redlake Valley, its history, landscape and its people. Flower festival and display of wedding dresses in the Church. Sunday ‘Mechanical Morning’ (bring your old bike or car). 50 years of Chapel Lawn WI. Talks on specialist subjects. Historic photos. Apple pressing, clog making and other demos. Local art and crafts, competitions and games, foraging walk, tea, coffee and cakes. Lunch on Saturday by The Cider Barn on tour. Chapel Lawn, SY7 0BW. Full programme www.redlakevalleycbs.org/festival ALMELEY STEADY SESSION The Bells Inn, Almeley, near Kington, www.almeleysteadysession.wordpress.com

Music Workshops

Sat 4 September UNDER 5S SUMMER MUSIC MAKING With Sal Tonge. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10am, free, 01743 234970. Sun 5 September JEMBE DRUMMING WORKSHOP With musicians Jonathan Bannister and Josh Arrowsmith. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 11am, free, no need to book, all abilities, for ages 10+, 01743 234970. Sun 5 September SONGWRITING WORKSHOP Led by musician and songwriter Beth Prior. All abilities welcome, free, please booking. The Hive, Shrewsbury, 10.30am-12pm & 1-2.30pm, for ages 13+, 01743 234970. Fri 10 - Sun 12 September FITZWILLIAM QUARTET AT HAY Workshop with Richard Wigmore and musicians on the works included in the evening’s programme. St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye. Fri 3.30pm. Sat 10am. Sun 2pm. www.thefitzwilliamathay.com Sun 26 September GEORGIAN POLYPHONIC SINGING WORKSHOP (3-4.30pm) in Presteigne. Price £7 (includes light refreshments). Participants will receive recordings and texts of songs in advance. Limited places. Contact Mzia on 07981 752405 or email: mziag@hotmail.co.uk

Monday BRECON TOWN BAND REHEARSALS Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 7pm, 07779 390954. Monday THE GARRICK SINGERS For over 60s. 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 Bright and breezy traditional and original music.Youth Centre, Presteigne. Mondays at 7pm, Sue Harris 01547 550158 Monday GARRICK SINGERS The Courtyard, Hereford, 2-3.30pm, £5 per session, first session free, 01432 340555. Tuesday DOLAU MIXTURES Mixed choir. Dolau Community Hall, Llandrindod Wells, 8pm, 01597 851427. Tuesday LUNCHTIME UPLIFT SINGING SESSIONS Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 12.30pm, 01874 611622. Tuesdays SAMBA BRECON Sue on 07792 165481 or Gill on 01497 821631. 7-9pm, VH, near Brecon. Tuesday LEOMINSTER COMMUNITY CHOIR Choir leader: Olivia Preye. No auditions, no need to read music. World, folk music, and more. 7-8.30pm at Leominster Community Centre. 01568 369074. Tuesday WHITTON VOICES Mixed community choir. Traditional, world and original songs.As yet we have no fixed venue.We are meet in beautiful outdoor places, 7pm. Call Sue Harris 01547 550158 to find out where! Wednesdays CASTLE VOICES Community choir, songs from around the globe. As yet we have no fixed venue. We are meet in beautiful outdoor places at 7pm. Sue Harris 01547 550158 to find out where!

Under 5s Summer Music Making

Wednesday ROCKSPRING COMMUNITY CHOIR All welcome particularly men! Minimal charge. Rockspring Community Centre, Ludlow. 01584 529053. Wednesday LUDLOW LARKS COMMUNITY CHOIR Led by Polly Bolton. Songs from around the world. Ludlow Women’s Centre, 7.30pm-9.30pm. 01584 823609 or info@oak-barn.co.uk or www.jollypages.co.uk/larks 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 KINGTON COMMUNITY CHOIR Rehearsals term time 6.45-8.30pm at Kington Primary School. Formed in 2014 we are a non-auditioning mixed choir of all ages. Website: kccchoir.wordpress.com kccherefordshire@gmail.com Thursday CLUNSINGERS Informal community choir, traditional and original songs taught by ear. 10am in High Town Hall, Clun. Sue Harris 01547 550158. 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 CANTORION LLANDRINDOD Mixed choir, early/classical music. Howey VH, 7.45pm, 01874 754774. First Thursdays BLACK HILL TUNE CLUB 2pm at the Crown Inn Longtown. Free. 01432 263495. Friday LITTLE HEREFORD VOICES COMMUNITY CHOIR We are a non-audition choir formed 8 years ago with 30+ mixed voices. Rehearsing at Little Hereford Village Hall, 7.30pm- 9.15pm. Subscriptions £3 per session paid termly, first session free. Broad repertoire (usually 3 & 4 parts) – all welcome. More information, term dates etc: lhvoices.wix.com/home Friday CRAVEN ARMS SAMBA CIRCLE Craven Arms Community Centre. 4.15pm - 5.45pm. Traditional drum rhythms and fun drumming activities. All ages, including accompanied children, welcome. Adults £5 (+ child £1, second child free). Enquiries carol@mkgriffs.plus.com Friday BUZZY BEATS! A fun music filled morning for the under 5s. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10.30am-11.30am, £7, 01743 234970. Friday FAMILY MUSIC MAKERS Fun sessions for parents and toddlers 12.30-2pm, £4 per adult and child pair, under 1s free. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

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band directory ADD A BAND - Real instrument backing to your own music. Perfect for singer songwriters etc. Studio near Newtown. www.addaband.co.uk, 07515 401635. ANIMAL Solo entertainer, piano/vocals, harmonica, mixed music. Also session player on drums. Experienced TV, theatre, cruises, holiday parks, radio, concerts, Britain’s Got Talent 2012. Backed Stella Parton, Tommy Cash, Screaming Lord Sutch, Dr Feelgood, Wishbone Ash, Ruby Murry. To book please phone Paul 0751 484 7966. APPLEBY STONE Live acoustic duo/trio, guitar, flute, saxophones, voices, double bass, jazz, folk, R&B, pop, many originals, perfect for private and public events. applebystone.com 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 BEST FOOT CEILIDH BAND The hottest dance band on the borders + caller. Available for weddings, barn dances and parties. Contact: 07969 440183 or john@johnhymas. com

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BROAD

Band Directory ONLY £40 FOR THE WHOLE YEAR Just post the details of your band (around 40 words) with a cheque for £40 payable to Broad Sheep and post to: The Lodge, Westhide, Hereford, HR1 3RQ

Just call Clare on 01432 850444 or email: info@broadsheep.com DON’T FORGET... if you have any gigs in the area, email/phone by the 15th of the preceding month for FREE LISTINGS.

BIG MAGIC DANCE BAND 10-piece jive/R & R group. ‘Does what it says on the tin!’ Parties/festivals/happenings/weddings etc. Call Eddy on 01691 648729 or 07796 148448. Web: eddygartry.com Email: w.gartry@hotmail. com Management also for The Werewolves of Powys and Blues State UK THE CHICAGO SWING KATZ - New Orleans Blues to Chicago Swing. 6/7 Piece band playing foot-tapping, fun music that will make you feel happy. Weddings, Birthdays, Corporate events, Festivals, even funerals - but book well in advance for those! Traditional Jazz Trios, Quartets also available. Come and hear the band every 2nd Sunday of the Month at the Wild Pig, Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, SY3 9JT. Email: chicagoswingkatz@aol.com, www.thechicagoswingkatz.co.uk Jeff: 07831 - 383636 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. THE DRAGON BIG BAND - 14 musicians playing Basie, Ellington, and exclusive arrangements. Jazz to Swing to Latin. Trumpets, trombones, saxes, bass, guitar, keyboard, drums. Come and listen every Wednesday, 8.00 - 10.30, The Horse & Jockey, Churchstoke, Powys, SY15 6AE, 01588 - 620060. Comfortable venue, bar, food (book), large car park, fun and with free admission. Band Enquiries: Mike 01686 – 668675 KERI HOFFMAN Keri Hoffman is an energetic yet classy performer. Keri is a well-known name and firm favourite within the industry. Dynamic and versatile her extensive repertoire means she is perfect for any occasion, from small laid back intimate settings, to those high octane concerts of festival proportions. Follow Keri on facebook - @vocalsbykeri. Contact via www.kerihoffmanvocalist.co.uk Keri.hoffman@hotmail.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! 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 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. pppbrooks@gmail. com

MELOMANICS A wacky, Shropshire-based Duo with an amazingly dynamic sound, playing their eclectic and cosmopolitan repertoire with engaging humour and infectious energy (sustainable). Far more than just great music. And stilts if appropriate. Find out how much fun a ceilidh can be with Tim calling and playing. Ideal for parties, weddings, fund-raising events, festivals, shows, pubs, restaurants, etc. Scottish, Irish and French-themed specialities (Timoléon pour vos soirées francaises). For more info call Tim on 01743 719438, or Rich on 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. REVEREND FERRIDAY Upbeat One Man Blues Band. Playing driving slide guitar with rockabilly flair, seasoned with a touch of Americana, a mix of stomping originals and traditional classics. Available for all occasions, large or small. Contact the Reverend: 01584 711700 - 07766 185451 - revferriday@gmail.com - www.revferriday.com 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 THE ROTUNDAS are a pair of jolly chaps who sing and play contemporary versions of industrial and social folk songs from Birmingham and the Black Country. Listen on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/therotundas and contact us at our Facebook page @TheRotundas or email therotundasband@gmail.com SHRED BELLY Ludlow/Shropshire based acoustic duo, playing covers of popular ‘Dad’s Rock’ songs from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and more. Full band can also be available. All bookings and enquiries please contact: Kevin on 07873 426205 or Paul on 07957 247851. 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. Concerts/gigs. SIMON THE PIPER Highland Piper with 20 years experience. Available for all occasions - weddings, funerals, Burn’s Night, Hogmanay, festivals, processions etc. Based in Hereford. Call 07791 045831 or facebook. com/simonthepiper Email simonthepiper@hotmail.com

SINGLED OUT Experienced, 3-piece band covering the best pop and rock music from the 50’s to the current era. We focus on great tunes that don’t usually get played by other bands, but which everyone will know. Of course, we do some of the more usual songs as well! www.singledoutband.com email: info@singledoutband. com Phone 07518 291 676. 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 THE CHERRYSTONES are Aly (whistles, flute, accordion, vocals), Matt (bass, foot drum, vocals) and Dave (guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, vocals) who bring you a mix of original and traditional folk songs and tunes. From thoughtful, well-crafted songs to infectious uptempo Irish whistle tunes, we will warm your heart and stir your souls and soles! Contact : Dave 07817 220016, dgand2@btinternet.com. Find us here Facebook.com The Cherrystones. Website coming soon! 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 drums, 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.vintagejazzrevival.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

theatre PERFORMANCE

Birth

Fri 3 September FORBIDDEN NIGHTS Abandon your inhibitions at the door as the talented cast of acrobats, live male vocalists, fire acts, aerial artists and renowned circus performers flip and spin across the stage. For ages 18+. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £25.50 & £22, 01432 340555. Sat 4 September ROMEO AND JULIET THE FONTAINEBLEAU SCHOOL OF ACTING. The Willow Globe, Penlanole, Llanwrthwl, near Llandrindod Wells, 3pm & 9pm, £12, £6 under 16s, £30 family, 01597 811487. Sun 5 September IDYLL PENTABUS THEATRE. Take a journey in to this rural idyll – you know it is beautiful, but scratch under the surface and tempers fray and danger bubbles… A captivating new play by award-winning playwright Matt Hartley. For ages 12+. An outdoor performance. The Rodd, Presteigne, 4pm, £10 tickets from The Workhouse, Presteigne (cash only) and www.wegottickets.com Free under 25’s tickets: info@pentabus.co.uk Promoted by MBA & The Sidney Nolan Trust. Mon 6 - Sat 11 September DIAL M FOR MURDER TV and stage favourite, Tom Chambers stars alongside West End star Diana Vickers in the seat-gripping drama. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 12pm, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, 01743 281281. Wed 8 - Sat 11 September AGNES OF GOD LADS. Dr Martha Livingstone a psychiatrist, is summoned to a convent to assess the sanity of novice Agnes who is accused of murdering her new-born.. Market Theatre, Ledbury, 7.30pm, £11, students £8, 07967 517125. Sat 11 September THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT The School of Night makes up stories and interludes inspired by suggestions from the audience. Willow Globe, Penlanole, Llanwrthwl, near Llandrindod Wells, 3pm & 9pm, £12, £6 under 16s, £30 family, 01597 811487.

Thurs 16 - Sat 18 September JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL EXIT FOOL PRODUCTIONS. Jeffrey has found himself locked in overnight at this favourite public house, and uses the occasion to share anecdotes from his life with the audience. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.45pm, £12/£10, 01432 340555. Fri 17 September THE CATERBURY TALES DAVID MYNNE. A one-man performance. Experience a journey down the foul and fetid footpaths of 14th century England. This is Chaucer... but not as you’ve ever seen it! For ages 12+. Conquest Theatre, Bromyard, 7.30pm, £10, 01885 488575. Arts Alive. Fri 24 September RADIO STAGED PLAYS Featuring ‘Welcome to Our Village; Please Invade Carefully’, ‘Round The Horne’ and ‘Clare in The Community’. Regal Cinema, Tenbury, 7.30pm, 01584 811442. Wed 29 September BIRTH THEATRE RE. A rich tapestry of ongoing humanity about the evolution of family and life. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £15.50/£12.50, 01432 340555.

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

Sat 2 October THE KILLER QUESTION ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ meets ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ in a dark comedy thriller. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £13, 01743 281281.

Tues 5 October THE UNREMARKABLE DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE A drama revealing a biting intelligence and an imperfect body, leading us in real time to the very moment of Marilyn’s death. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £16, 01743 281281. Thurs 7 October COLD TURTLE KEY ARTS in partnership with THE COURTYARD present an OPEN SKY PRODUCTION. A dark fairy tale for adults begins with a couple attending an ante-natal hospital appointment before being mysteriously transported to a stark frozen forest. Addressing themes of love, grief, madness and redemption. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £10/£8, 01432 340555.

MUSICAL THEATRE & OPERA Fri 3 & Sat 4 September LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL SHREWSBURY’S CURTAIN CALL THEATRE COMPANY return with an all singing, all dancing romantic comedy based on the 2001 film. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, £19.50-£15.50, 01743 281281. Wed 8 - Sat 11 September MAGIC OF THE MUSICALS LIVE An evening celebration of dance and song from musicals throughout the ages. Regal Cinema, Tenbury, 7pm, Sat 2pm & 7pm, 01584 811442. Sat 11 September 13 THE MUSICAL GET YOUR WIGLE ON teen group perform on stage with Jason Robert Brown’s musical comedy. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 5pm & 7.30pm, £16, 01743 281281. Sat 18 September GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Join four honest and unreserved girls, Maureen Nolan, Niki Evans, Stephanie Dooley and Leanne Jones for a riotous evening of laugh-out-loud sketches and classic pop anthems that define being a 21st woman. The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, 01432 340555. Sun 26 September THANK ABBA FOR THE MUSIC A theatre spectacular featuring all ABBA’s greatest hits. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £25-£23, 01743 281281. Sat 2 October IL TABORRO MID WALES OPERA. Featuring six singers and four musicians. Puccini’s passionate late masterpiece with alluring melodies and fast-moving pace, bringing to life the sights and sounds of 1900s Paris. SpArC Theatre, Bishop’s Castle, 7.30pm, £14, under 18s £7, 01588 630321.

CHILDREN’S THEATRE Sat 4 & Sun 5 September INSECT SAFARI PUPPET SHOW FETCH THEATRE COMPANY. Amazing bug hotel, leading you into a fantastical world of creatures that creep, crawl, fly, flutter and buzz, for ages 5+. 11am & 2pm both days. Shrewsbury Food Festival, SY1 1JA, www.shrewsburyfoodfestival.co.uk Arts Alive.

Insect Safari Puppet Show, 4 & 5 Sept

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. Fri - Intermediate Youth Theatre. For years 10 & 11, 5.15pm, £68.50 per term. Fri - Senior Youth Theatre, Year 12+, 7pm, £73.50 per term. Courtyard Musical Theatre, Tues for ages 4-8 years, 4-4.55pm, £60 per 12 week term. Thurs for ages 9-17 6.15pm-7.25pm, £66 per 12 week 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 2), 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. 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. 07810 350994.

Sun 5 September THE LITTLE MERMAID JR THE CURTAIN CALL JUNIOR THEATRE COMPANY. Journey ‘under the sea’ with Ariel and her aquatic friends. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £15.50, 01743 281281. Fri 17 & Sat 18 September IN THE NIGHT GARDEN... LIVE Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and friends in a new live show ‘Igglepiggle’s Busy Day!’ Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 10am. 1pm & 4pm, £20.50-£15.50, 01743 281281. Sat 18 & Sun 19 September DISNEY’S MOANA JR GET YOUR WIGLE ON JUNIOR THEATRE COMPANY present a thrilling and heart-warming musical adaptation of the 2016 Disney animated film. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 12pm, 3.30pm & 7pm, 01743 281281.

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.

In The Night Garden - Live

DRAMA WORKSHOPS 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.

Conquest Theatre Bromyard

The Bleddfa Centre

Streamed Events

Wed 1 Sept, 7.30pm EXHIBITION ON SCREEN Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers Sat 4 Sept, 7.30pm ANDRE RIEU: TOGETHER AGAIN Tues 7 & Sun 12 Sept, 7.30pm MICK FLEETWOOD & FRIENDS Sat 25 Sept, 7.30pm LA TRAVIATA (Opera Australia) Wed 29 Sept, 7.30pm DANGEROUS LIAISONS Northern Ballet

Films

3 Sept NOMADLAND (12A) 24 Sept AFTER LOVE (12A)

Live Events Fri 17 Sept, 7.30pm CANTERBURY TALES This is Chaucer... but not as you’ve ever seen it! Sat 2 October, 7.30pm HOLDER & SMITH QUARTET Jazz at it’s best Saturday Coffee Shop open 10.30am-12.30pm

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

The Bleddfa Centre is near Knighton, and is usually open Thursdays – Sundays, 11am – 4pm.You can visit the gallery, craft shop and café, with its pretty garden, and of course keep up to date with any events that may be taking place in Hall Barn. Hall Barn can also be hired for your classes, meetings, parties and workshops, so if you would like to find out more, please email hello@bleddfacentre.org During September, Oriel Bleddfa will be exhibiting the very fantastic exhibition during h.Art (Herefordshire Art Trail), running from September 4th to 12th, NB this will be open ON EACH OF THOSE DATES, and which we will also have open to the public 16th – 19th too. Look out for workshops during the art trail too, and you can find out more on the h.Art website https://www.h-art.org.uk/explore/gallery/oriel-bleddfa Our monthly ‘Conversations With’ series continues each Thursday at 6pm – on 16th September you will be able to chat with Daniel Morden, including information about the Devil’s Violin performance at Bleddfa, on 13th November! This series is a result of a collaboration between The Bleddfa Centre and The Hours Bookshop & Café, and you can join in on Zoom and ask your own questions too! To register for your free place (donations welcome), please email enquiries@bleddfacentre.org We will be finalising dates for a Christmas Artisan Market soon, so do keep an eye out for these and the application details. PLEASE JOIN US AS A FRIEND OF BLEDDFA for just £50 per year… We would like to invite as many supporters as possible to join our Friends Of Bleddfa scheme – everyone who subscribes will receive a welcome gift, and other exciting benefits – please do email us to find out more: hello@bleddfacentre.org You can also keep up to date with monthly exhibitions and events, via the website: www.bleddfacentre.org, or by signing up to the newsletter, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @bleddfacentre

The Bleddfa Centre, LD7 1PA on A488 between Knighton & Penybont 01547 550377 hello@bleddfacentre.org

word Poetry & Storytelling

Kevin Walker

Thurs 2 September THE BALLAD SELLER LUKE WRIGHT. Back in Georgian times we got our news from poetry - scandoulous affairs, grisly crimes and colourful characters were brought to life in rhyming verse. Now Luke Wright has rewritten the very best of these stories for the modern ear. Dodington Lodge Marquee, SY13 1EN, 8pm, £7.50, (includes post performance chip butties). For ages 14+, some swearing, 01948 662539. Arts Alive. Until 4 September THE RETURN FERAL PRODUCTIONS. A sound experience like no other. Travel with us from the airy chatter of the foyer to the hidden whispers of the backstage areas. Free, booking essential. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555.

Comedy

Fri 10 & 24 September, Fri 22 October WESTONS CIDER COMEDY CLUBS Enjoy laugh out loud comedy from some of the hottest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit. For ages 18+. 10 Sept - Featuring Garret Millerick, Ania Magliano and Andrew White. 24 Sept - Featuring Jarlath Regan, Nick Page and Bella Hull. The Courtyard, Hereford, 8.30pm, £12.50, 01432 340555. Tues 14 & Wed 15 September AL MURRAY 2021. Questions have been asked and none answered. What we need is one man to step forward, one man with all the answers... 14 Sept - The Courtyard, Hereford, 7.30pm, £29.50, 01432 340555. 15 Sept - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 6pm & 9pm, £29.50, 01743 281281. Wed 15 September ARABELLA WEIR The mother of all confessional shows from the bestselling author and star of the Fast Show and Two Doors Down. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £18.50, 01743 281281.

Wed 22 September & Wed 13 October THE LAUGHTER LOUNGE £10 includes curry 6.30pm, comedy starts 8pm. The Secret Garden, Coldwells Road, Hereford, HR1 1LH, email bookings@secretgardenhereford.co.uk 07715 953497. Thurs 23 September GARY MEIKLE Scottish Comedy Award winner touring with his show ‘Surreal’. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £22.50, 01743 281281. Sat 25 & Sun 26 September GEOFF NORCOTT: I BLAME THE PARENTS The star of The Mash Report and Live at the Apollo. 25 Sept - Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £15, 01600 772467. 26 Sept - Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £15, 01743 281281. Thurs 30 September BRIDGET CHRISTIE A brand-new show from the Edinburgh Comedy Award, Rose D’or and South Bank Sky Arts Award winner. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £20, 01743 281281. Sun 3 & Mon 4 October JASPER CARROTT’S STAND UP & ROCK Join Jasper Carrott and friends for a night of comedy and music. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £30, 01743 281281. Wed 6 October THE NOISE NEXT DOOR Join comedy’s unstoppable force for an evening of hilarious scenes, mind-blowing songs and finely tuned anarchy. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £16.50, 01743 281281.

Talks

Arabella Weir

Thurs 2 & Fri 17 September KEVIN WALKER: NATURE OF THE BRECON BEACONS Highly visual presentation, examining the individual elements to help us appreciate the detail of the nature that surrounds us. 2 Sept - Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon, 8pm, 01874 611622. 17 Sept - Oxford Arms, Kington, www.kingtonwalks.org Part of Kington Walking Festival.

Tues 7 September SCIENTISTS IN THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE LECTURE The Revd. Canon Dr Maureen Palmer will talk about the structure of The Nuremberg Chronicle, the nature of woodcuts and also some of the scientific and medical characters which appear within it. College Hall, Hereford, 7pm, £8, www.herefordcathedral.org Mon 13 September NOEL FITZPATRICK Known to many as the ‘Supervet’, Noel talks about his life and his dedication in advancing veterinary orthopaedic surgery. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £30, 01743 281281. Tues 14 September FROM HELL TO THE STARS The 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. Canon Chris Pullin will speak about his life and thought with time to reflect using images of people and places Dante knew while enjoying the music of his day and age. Hereford Cathedral, 3pm, £7, www.herefordcathedral.org Thurs 16 September CONVERSATIONS WITH Zoom chat with Daniel Morden, including information about the Devil’s Violin performance in November at Bleddfa. To register for your free place, email enquiries@bleddfacentre.org Fri 17 September HEREFORD ARTS APPRECIATION SOCIETY ‘Inspecting Morse in Book and Film’. A talk by Dr Thomas Roderick. Kindle Centre, at the side of Asda, on the Belmont roundabout, Hereford. Year’s membership £10, 01432 357552. Fri 17 September AN EVENING WITH LUCY WORSLEY, OBE ‘An Intimate History of Your Home’. Lucy takes audiences on a trip through the home discovering the hygiene and homely habits. Blake Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, 01600 719401. Tues 21 September KENTON COOL Holder of the British record for most Everest ascents, Kenton Cool brings an evening of tales from his life of climbing and adventure. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 8pm, £19.50, 01743 281281. Wed 29 September CONVERSATIONS AT THE CHAPEL The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams is much respected as a theologian and poet. A wideranging discussion about his life, faith and writing. The Art Shop & Chapel , Market St, Abergavenny, 7pm, £10, 01873 736430.

Tues 5 October DR RICHARD SHEPHERD Forensic pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd brings and evening of fascinating stories of performing high-profile autopsies. For ages 16+. Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury, 7.30pm, £26.50, 01743 281281. Thurs 7 - Sun 10 October REDLAKE VALLEY - THEN AND NOW A four-day celebration of Redlake Valley, its history, landscape and people. Talks include:- Fri - ‘the Wildlife and Ecology of the Redlake Valley by Caroline Savage, Biodiversity Advisor for the Environment Agency, 7.30pm £3. Sat - ‘Farming Then, Now and the Future’, a conversation with rural chaplain, Nick Read about the sustainability of rural communities, 7pm, £3. Sat - ‘Field-Names of the Redlake Valley by Dr Jayne Carroll and Dr John Baker, Directors of the Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham, 7.30pm, £3. St Mary’s Church, Chapel Lawn, SY7 0BW. Details www.redlakevalleycbs.org/festival bookings, 01547 530347 or 01547 530395.

Workshops & Courses 1st Saturday READING GROUP Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, afternoons, donations, 01547 550377. Mondays WRITING ROOM The Courtyard, Hereford, 6.30-8.30pm, £75 per term, 01432 340555. Mondays STORY CORNER AT THE COURTYARD For ages 4 years and under. The Courtyard, Hereford, 01432 340555. Fourth Monday SCIENCE CAFÉ Informal group, talks and discussions on scientific topics. The Swan at Hay, 7pm, free, all welcome, sciencecafe@outlook.com Every Tues & Wed SPANISH LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS Tues - Advance beginners 5.30pm, beginners 7pm, Wed - Advance Spanish B1, 10am, with Mely. Private tuition - GCSE students and A Level. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7pm, 07837 160505. Every Tues READING ROOM The Courtyard, Hereford, 10.30am-12.30pm, £55 per term, 01432 340555. First Wednesday of each month BABARS’ BOOK CLUB All welcome, 6.30pm, Babar’s Cafe, Union St, Hereford, 01432 342334. First Wednesday of the month POETRY CAFE, Charlton Arms, Ludlow, 7.30pm, 01584 872813. 2nd Wednesday of each month WYESIDE WRITERS GROUP An informal writers’ group for wordsmiths. Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells, 7pm, £2.50, 01982 552555.

Sat 2 October AN EVENING WITH ALAN MCGEE: 26TH WHAT’S THE STORY MORNING GLORY ANNIVERSARY The man who discovered Oasis live and in person, tells his story of the band. This will be followed by a performance of the entire album by top Oasis tribute Definitely Mightbe. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 8pm, £17.50, 01600 772467.

Every Thursday WELSH CLASSES FOR ADULTS Presteigne Assembly Rooms, 10.30am-3pm, 01639 841751.

Sun 3 October DOM JOLY’S HOLIDAY SNAPS Hilarious and fascinating story of Dom’s travels in the danger zone. Savoy Theatre, Monmouth, 7.30pm, £18, 01600 772467.

Last Thursday of the month BOOK CLUB De Koffie Pot, Bridge St, Hereford, 8pm, 01432 357753, ECStarling@theherefordacademy.org.uk

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.

grass roots Curbing rampant climate change. Do we fancy it yet?

DOUBT if any of us will have the stamina to plough through the four thousand pages of the big UN climate crisis report now being released in stages. So, who can we trust to tell us what it means? Maybe Allegra Stratton, formerly media chief to Boris Johnson, and now spokesperson for the climate summit which Britain and Italy are hosting in Glasgow in November. Allegra was unleashed on a BBC Sunday lunchtime audience a few days before the first big IPCC document came out. She could not have been more charming - or revealing. She failed to give any verbal advance version of the government’s plans to tackle the growing climate crisis. But Stratton did give the presenter her personal thoughts on electric cars and other ways of curbing climate change. She seemed freely to break all interview rules, of the kind that press officers routinely use to try muzzle ministers and to stop them saying anything true or interesting. When asked if she drove an electric car, she said she didn’t fancy it yet!. She was content to go bowling along in her existing diesel car for the time being, thank you very much. To get us more revved up about cutting emissions, the man who will chair the huge Glasgow climate conference, Alok Sharma, was the next to allow himself to be wheeled out. Sharma is the former business and energy secretary. It was hard to focus on what he was saying because one kept on wondering about the 30 foreign capitals he had visited in the previous months, to get Britain on good terms with some of the key nations who will pitch up in Glasgow. Did Mr Sharma go to all these places on separate journeys or did he manage to cobble some of them into a grand Cook’s Tour? To save on a few air miles, I mean. Did he have any fun while he was meeting all these overseas ministers? Did they eat low-carbon food, or did they gorge on steaks and kebabs? One columnist in the Independent newspaper compared Sharma with a breeze block. Meaning, I take it, that he is a dull and unmemorable person. The next top Tory who came on, to bang the climate drum, was Kwasi Kwarteng, who is Sharma’s successor as business secretary. Mr Kwarteng does not exactly ooze charisma. He comes over as not so much a breeze block as a block of ice! He talked about some new wind turbines in the North Sea. And he tried to explain why Britain had, a few months ago, junked something called the Green Homes Scheme. Some of us were left wondering why we’d never heard of the Green Homes Scheme. Perhaps because we weren’t meant to? I seemed to recall a similar-sounding project that had been ditched by the government nearly ten years ago.

Right! I’ve looked it up now! The so-called Green Deal was given what was called a “soft launch” by the department of energy in 2012. It made no impact and

Alok Sharma, MP

soon ran into the sand. That was under the Tory-Lib Dem coalition led by David Cameron. The Green Deal was ended, because er...most of us knew nothing whatever about it. The “soft launch” is quite a ruse! You can truthfully say you’ve done it. But, since no one has heard of the scheme, no one applies for the grants. And it hardly costs the treasury a penny! Now, history has repeated itself. Johnson’s government has learned from one of Cameron’s fiascos and managed to repeat it exactly. Farewell Green Homes! What will they call it next time? I am sorry to have got bogged down in the weeds of energy policy, when I really wanted to talk about climate change. But I have done it only to show how, on carbon emissions and climate, the government seems to be all over the place. How can Britain expect nearly 200 other countries at the Glasgow climate summit to make good decisions when we in the UK set an example of such indifference? We have all the kudos of having passed the Climate Change Act in 2008, and the status of having our worldfamous Westminster democracy, and yet we still seem to be failing and faltering. An important green group, WWF, says the UK plans to spend only a hundredth of what is needed to play our part in fighting climate change. While the government asserts it will spend many billions! I hope to write about these conflicting claims before too long. In the here and now, if Stratton, Sharma and Kwarteng don’t inspire us, maybe we can turn to the great naturalist, Sir David Attenborough. He has been made People’s Advocate at the Glasgow climate summit. The odd thing about him is that, from the late 1980s, when our scientists began to sound alarm bells about global warming, it took Sir David another fifteen years to lend his weight to highlighting the threat of climate change. However, since he finally got the message, around 2005, Attenborough has energetically used his huge reputation to convince doubters and deniers. As the most trusted man in Britain, he will surely be a great asset when it comes to spreading the Glasgow summit’s message to the rest of the world. But will he be able to make up for all the damage done by the confusion, and even duplicity, so far? Julian O’Halloran

Green Events GARDENING ON THE ‘BORDERS’ Planting Schemes Perennial Borders Flower Meadows Nurture Maintain Restore Designs A Garden Sanctuary for You and Wildlife Call Michelle - A Plant Guru 01547 528003 M: 07793750691 E: mlrubybrink@gmail.com 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. Sat 4 & Wed 29 September OPEN GARDENS Explore the Chapter House, Cloister, Canon’s, Dean’s and the Bishop’s garden. Hereford Cathedral, 10am, 12pm or 2pm, £5 booking essential via www.herfordcathedral.org Thurs 16 - Sun 19 September KINGTON WALKING FESTIVAL Full details see www.kingtonwalks.org Sat 25 September PUTLEY OPEN GARDENS Gardens and church are accessible by well-marked footpaths. Start at Putley Parish Hall, HR8 2QN. 12-5pm. Light lunches, teas and plant sales. £5, under 15s free, no dogs in the gardens. www.putleygardens.org.uk

September VILLAGERS WALKS Route around the parish and further afield, 2-3 hours, varying terrain, dogs on leads welcome, Eaton Bishop. Enquries: Mick 01981 250461. September SHROPSHIRE HILLS DISCOVERY CENTRE Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, Craven Arms, 01588 676060. September KNIGHTON TREE ALLOTMENTS TRUST KTAT manages woodlands for the benefit of wildlife and members. Volunteer to learn. Details email woodland@ tveg.org.uk 01547 520374 http://tveg.org.uk Wednesdays LITTLE WILLOWS OUTDOOR NATURE PLAYGROUP The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 9.30am-11am, £1.50 per child, includes a bowl of porridge. Themes posted weekly on Facebook page, 01497 821762. Every Third Saturday in the Month PRESTEIGNE REPAIR Presteigne Youth Centre, Hereford Street. 10am-12pm. Household items repaired for free. Info: 01544 267997. Mondays & Wednesdays KNIGHTON MENS SHED Sharpening service available. Teme Mill, Station Yard, Knighton, 10am-2pm. John on 01544232750 or email jtknightonmensshed@gmail.com. 2nd Thursday of the month KINGTON KLEEN Networking drinks. Oxford Arms, Kington, from 7pm, www.kingtonkleen.org.uk

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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 BESPOKE MASSAGE THERAPY BY CHERYL LILWALL MTI. Sensitive communication through the medium of touch. For physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Clinic held at the Integrative Health Clinic, Holland House, 70 Belmont Road, Hereford. Tel: 07487 738089. www.herefordbespokemassagetherapy.co.uk 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. 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. 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 DEEPLY RELAXING Craniosacral Therapy can increase your well-being by releasing emotional and physical tensions. Given a safe space and correct focus, your body knows the way. I am an accredited practitioner, qualified since 2004, based in Shrewsbury, Crickhowell and Mid Wales. Email: cheryljonestherapy@gmail.com Mobile: 07476 012299. 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.

EQUINE FACILITATED LEARNING. Personal growth for individuals and groups through powerful yet gentle interactions with horses, with seasoned Eponaquest facilitator Angela Dunning. EFL sessions involve spending time outdoors with these beautiful sentient beings, where you will be guided to deepen your connection to yourself and your body; build true confidence; reconnect to your Soul’s purpose and bring greater authenticity to your life. No horse experienced required. Shropshire/Herefordshire/ Borders. Contact me on: 01588 630061/07583 726207; angela@equinereflections.co.uk; or visit www.thehorsestruth.co.uk HEALINGS, INSIGHT READINGS, PERSONAL GROWTH COACHING, ANIMAL COMMUNICATION Healings, insights into life path and situations, space and guidance to explore and help re-align with our inner truth. Also offer help understanding our animals’ behaviour and needs. Enquiries: Kohra 01544 262 110, kohra@gmx.co.uk 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 in Kentchurch, Hereford and Monmouth. Juliet Ablett www.julietablett.co.uk julietablett@rocketmail. com 01981 241456 HOLISTIC MASSAGE THERAPY: Meg Lawrence MTI. A listening and sensitive therapy, treating the whole person. For relief from aches and pains, easing of occupational and postural tensions, providing relaxation and calm in peaceful surroundings, 20 minutes from Presteigne, Hay-on-Wye and Kington. Email meg@radnorshire.com; phone or text 07910892172 HOMOEOPATHY Sandy Underhill RSHom. I have worked for 20 years treating individuals for many complaints, whether psychological, mental, emotional or physical. Homoeopathy is about bringing wellness to ones being by triggering the bodies natural system of healing. It is suitable for all ages. Clinics are held at Rock Park Complimentary Health Centre, Llandrindod Wells, Powys and Kington, Herefordshire. 01597 851021. LEOMINSTER NATURAL HEALTH CENTRE Chiropractic, Herbal Medicine, Kinesiology, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Reflexology, Emmet technique. Remedial and Holistic Massage. Counselling inc: Couples and Family, Cognitive Behaviour and NLP Stress Management, Child Birth Issues, Psychotherapy. Telephone 01568 616411 email infoleominstercommunitycentre@gmail.com Or visit Leominster Community Centre, School Road HR6 8NJ (behind Bridge Street car park). MASSAGE THERAPY WITH MARIAN HARDIMAN (MTI, CNHC, MLDUK). Remedial, Sports, Holistic, Indian Head Massage. Organic Facial and Manual Lymph Drainage. Clinic in Presteigne (The Retreat), Presteigne, LD8 2UF. 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, COACHING, YOGA, DECLUTTERING with Wellbeing Therapist Sophie Atkinson, Orleton SY8 Individual powerful sessions to help you create the space you need for the life you want. Web: www.sophieatkinson. co.uk Mob: 07930 353 118 Email: sophie@healing-energy. net MINDFULNESS Alithea Waterfield MBCT teacher offering Mindful Walks in Nature, 8-week Mindfulness courses and Mindfulness Guided Meditations. Committed to helping you reconnect with a more authentic and compassionate self and develop skills to manage life’s challenges resourcefully, skillfully and creatively. 07899 361316 alitheawaterfield@gmail.com www.midwalesmindfulness. co.uk 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

YOGA IN PRESTEIGNE Group classes - both live and online. Individual tuition in Stapleton. Moving consciously with the breath

Marie Hudson 01544 260352 www.theyogapractice.org.uk

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. 07811 816637. SPIRITUAL HEALER Naturally gifted in releasing emotional grief in present and past lives. 29 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.

Sun 19 September INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE CELEBRATION An opportunity for all people of all faiths and none to come together in a sincere desire to promote peace among all the peoples of the world. Madley Church, Hereford, HR2 7DJ, 3pm-4.15pm followed by refreshments. Please book your free ticket in advance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-day-of-peace-celebration-herefordshire-tickets 01981 500764. Thurs 23, 30 September & 7 October or Thurs 11, 18 September & 25 November YOGA FOR THE TERRIFIED Taster course led by Sue Salmon. Participants to bring their own mat and cushion for support. The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 11am, £18 for 3 session course, 01743 234970. FELDENKRAIS Awareness Through Movement Classes. Learn to move more freely, with greater ease, flexibility and grace, improving posture, balance and coordination; and awakening our innate capacity for life long vitality and continuing self development. Tenbury at S.E.N.S.E. Wednesdays 7pm - 8pm. £7 per class. Open to all. Contact Jane for more information on janesethi@yahoo. co.uk Booking essential. YOGA & AYURVEDA Individual yoga practice. Diet. Exercise. Life Balance. Jill Bonner BA PGCE Art. DIPL Yoga Therapy. DIPL Ayurveda Therapy. Details 07789 428109. 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.

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 Every Saturday RIVER FLOW YOGA With Graham Nolan. Mixed ability, open to all. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 9.30am, 01497 821762, phone to check class is on. First Saturday of the month MEDITATION For beginners or experienced meditators. run by The Bleddfa Centre, held at Cascob, near Presteigne, 11am-12.30pm, donations £3-£5, 01547 550377. Mondays MAMA MOJO YOGA FLOW The Hive, Belmont, Shrewsbury, 10.30am, £6, 01743 234970. 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. Thursdays TAI CHI FOR HEALTH Designed for health and those suffering with arthritus. Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws, near Newtown, 1-2pm, 01686 688369. Third Thursday of the month ECO SPIRIT CAFE An informal monthly meeting for people interested in spirituality and connection to the environment. The Globe, Hay-on-Wye, 7.30pm, free, 01497 821762. Kitchen Pharmacy

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