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MUSIC AND DANCE FOR An adventure in music, song and dance using rhythms, action songs and our imaginations to get us moving in a creative way. Children and their parents will have a chance to dance together to live music led by Annabelle Macfadyen and Joanna Harvey. Annabelle is a performer and accordionist and leads creative dance and drama workshops throughout Somerset. Joanna is a violinist, singer and music leader who works with young people of all ages and abilities. Workshop repeated on Friday morning. Refreshments available. FESTIVAL CLUB 11am-12noon.
Ages 2-4 £3 LITERARY LUNCH WITH Delicious two-course lunch with glass of wine. Tickets limited. Sarah Harrison began her career as an editorial trainee on Woman’s Own, turning freelance to write fiction. She has written 16 novels, including international bestsellers The Flowers Of The Field, An Imperfect Lady and most recently the 600-page epic The Dreaming Stones. Sarah has also written children’s books and How to Write A Blockbuster. MENDIP HOUSE HOTEL 12.30 for 1pm.
£8 CIRCUS SKILLS Experiment with juggling, stilt walking, tight wire, unicycling and walking globe under the expert tuition of Emily Barrett. Emily leads workshops for Firestarter Circus Arts and has taught all over Britain. For 7-11 year olds. See Thursday’s workshop for 12–16 year olds. FESTIVAL CLUB 4-5.30pm.
£3 COUNTRY HOUSE ANTIQUES
ROOK LANE CHAPEL 6pm.
£3 THE CUCKOO TREE The Cuckoo Tree, by Rachel Stott and
directed by Rosa Mannion, is an opera
in two acts commissioned jointly by The
Frome Festival and the National
Foundation for Youth Music, based on
the children’s story by Joan Aiken, from
the Wolves of Willoughby sequence. It will involve children from
every school in Frome as soloists, chorus and orchestra, as well as professional
musicians from Bath Philharmonia, conducted by Jason Thornton. It is Frome
Festival’s
most ambitious education project to date. The adventures of the heroine Dido
Twite are certainly not to be missed. ST JOHN'S CHURCH 6.30pm.
£6.50 Children (12 & under): £3.50 AUCTION WITH KATE ALCOCK Kate will auction a series of exciting and varied goods and pledges, as a fundraiser for the Frome Festival. After a brief introduction, the wine will flow and then it is your chance to bid for unusual opportunities ranging from conducting the Bath Philharmonia during the Festival Proms to blasting 25,000 tons of Mendip Limestone at Torr Quarry, floating away in a balloon or riding on the footplate of a locomotive. ROOK LANE CHAPEL 7.30 for 8pm.
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'INDIAN INK' Joe Roberts has been described by Eric Newby as a writer of ‘the best sort of travel book’. The Bath-based author will speak of his experiences in India as recounted in his critically acclaimed books: Three Quarters of a Footprint and Abdul’s Taxi to Kalighat. Join him for a fascinating and evocative evening interweaving words and images of his Indian journeys including a preview of his forthcoming work. FROME LIBRARY 7.30pm.
£3 Tickets from the Library only MIREN THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS LEAVE TO REMAIN An Argentinian clown, a
Greek film actress and a quirky Spanish buffoon who is rather good at Martial
Arts. This is Miren Theatre, a truly international physical theatre company
who bring you Leave to Remain, a dark tragic-comedy that throws asylum seekers,
refugees and displaced people into an absurd world of Terry Gilliam’s
Brazil-like bureaucracy, where countries are the size of postage stamps and
border officials paint your portrait. Recommended: 13 plus MERLIN THEATRE 7.45pm.
£8.50 (£7) CARA DILLON
THE GRANARY Doors 8pm £12 (£10) NORDIC VOICES The main work in this concert will be the beautifully written and highly evocative Mass for Double Choir by the Swiss composer Frank Martin. There will also be a performance of Kevin Duggan’s own Irish Trilogy, which sets medieval Irish poems depicting nature and spirituality, and some Nordic music too. CHRIST CHURCH 8pm.
£7 (£5.60) THE MIGHTY ROOSTER Frome’s own folk rock band return for another great night. The band are promoting their new live CD and DVD and are touring folk festivals around the country with great reviews. Powerful harmony vocals, breathtaking soloists, a tight rhythm section and highly original songs combine to stunning effect. GRIFFIN INN 8pm. FREE CAFÉ KAZAAM & THE MALARCHY WEDDING BAND A night of surreal comedy, ludicrous song and silly dance from Café Kazaam, the regular Bristol cabaret where the cream of the city’s Street Theatre performers come indoors. A mixture of deep and shallow humour, absurd stories (the rise and fall of Elfish Presley) and poetry. Malarchy rip the Klezmer rulebook to shreds, inviting Romani, Balkan, and Jazz guests to a never-ending party. Passionate, intricate, and extremely danceable festive five-piece. Food available in the Undercroft from 6pm. FESTIVAL CLUB Doors: 8pm. Start:
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Celebrity auctioneer Kate Alcock is well known
for her appearances in TV’s Bargain Hunt and Flog it. She is taking
time out from her busy schedule to give a taste of some of the fascinating
antique treasures held in the English country house. Pictures, furniture,
ceramics and objet d’art are looked at in the context of their historic
surroundings and the families who acquired them.
Cara Dillon, who recently won the
Meteor Award for ‘Best Irish Female
Singer’, seems to have seduced the
entire nation with her mesmerising ability
to relate a great story in traditional
Irish song. After two sell-out nights in
Frome earlier in the year, Cara returns
for the Festival to perform an intimate
concert at the Granary.
