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FESTIVAL STORYTIME WITH (PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN AND PARENTS) Listen to your favourite stories and some exciting new ones, sing your heart out and create a masterpiece in the party atmosphere of this jovial storytime. Zainab combines creative talent with considerable teaching experience to offer a memorable storytime with activities. Why not enrol the children at the library at the same time? It’s free to join and borrow books. FROME LIBRARY 11am-12noon.
£1 (numbers limited) Tickets from the Library only CIRCUS SKILLS Circus skills for older children with Emily Barrett of Firestar Circus Arts (see Wednesday 7th). Refreshments available. FESTIVAL CLUB 4-5.30pm.
Ages 12-16, £3 DISNEY
FILM PREVIEW: WESTWAY CINEMA 5.30pm (see Filmfrome) THE CUCKOO TREE ST JOHN'S CHURCH 6.30pm.
£6.50 (Children 12 & under: £3.50) AN EVENING WITH HELEN DUNMORE Novelist, poet and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, Helen Dunmore will be giving a talk, and answering questions about her work. She will be reading from her latest novel, Mourning Ruby, and presenting the prizes for the first Frome Festival Short Story competition. Licensed bar. ROOK LANE CHAPEL 7.30pm.
£6.50 BROOK STREET BAND
CHRIST CHURCH 7.30pm.
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ILLYRIA THEATRE PRESENTS The magician Prospero invokes a mighty storm to summon to his mysterious desert island all those who have wronged him. His daughter Miranda steals away to be with the son of his greatest enemy, whose servants, meanwhile, decide to kill Prospero. Internationally acclaimed Illyria promise the most original production of Shakespeare’s great comedy. An outdoor event suitable for families. (Bring cushions, blankets etc.) ECOS 7.45pm.
£9 (£7.50) BEN GUNSTONE Having spent the last few months in studios recording his third album, Ben has kindly agreed to give a special festival performance in his home town. His songs are full of the emotions, images and words that frame our everyday lives. His influences include Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Kraftwerk, Talk Talk and the Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Recently Ben has been described as the ‘Nick Drake of the 21st Century’. GRIFFIN INN 8pm. FREE SOUL COMMOTION
THE GRANARY Doors: 8pm.
£5 (£4) THE BAGHDADDIES & DJ ANGO Eastern harmonies and foot-tapping high-energy dance-floor grooves inspired by the Roma wedding and brass band music of the Balkans. Musical influences range from calypso and jazz to punk that you can dance and sing along to. DJ Ango – Svatbarska Muzika. FESTIVAL CLUB Doors: 8pm. Start: 8.30pm.
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The Brook Street Band . . . are gaining quite a reputation
for their stylish and imaginative programmes. They bring a delightful freshness
and lack of affectation . . . playing in a vivacious style…that makes
it very clear that they are enjoying themselves. Their pleasure in the music
is infectious.’ Gramophone.
Soul Commotion is an eight-piece band with frontman
Laurie Challoner providing powerful lead vocals. He is supported by two perfectly
synchronized and harmonized backing singers together with an irrepressible
horn section. Underpinning this, the rhythm section provides a groove that
will draw you from your seat and get everyone, young and old, dancing.
