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10am WORKSHOP: WIRE SCULPTURE SHADOWS WITH CELIA SMITH Popular wire sculptor and tutor Celia Smith will once again be teaching you the skills necessary to produce your very own wire sculpture. There will be an additional charge for materials depending on the type of sculpture you create (approx £5). BLACK SWAN ARTS Ends 4pm • £28 (£25) 10.30am WORKSHOP: MORRIS DANCING Bathampton Morris Men will once again be leading a workshop aimed at anyone and everyone. Whatever your age come along and have a go! Try simple handkerchief and stick dances. It is great fun and good exercise. If you can’t make the whole workshop, just drop in for a while. Please bring two handkerchiefs. UNITED REFORMED CHURCH HALL Ends 12noon • £2 • Tickets from: James Sturgess 01373 467579 or on the door 11am MEET THE AUTHOR:
FROME LIBRARY £2.50 (from library) 11am WRITER IN RESIDENCE DAY If you wander up Cheap Street today, you won’t fail to notice Frome’s finest local writers in full flow. Based in a number of the shops they’ll be battling it out for the title of Writer in Residence for a Day. Come and observe the creative process and later read the finished product. CHEAP STREET Ends 3pm • Free 1pm DOMANI – MUSIC FOR FLUTE AND GUITAR Helen and Denian Arcoleo present an exciting and varied concert of Latin music from the Baroque to the present day. They have performed as a duo and individually at many prestigious venues, including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall, National Theatre and the Barbican, as well as at music festivals and cathedrals throughout the country. HOLY TRINITY CHURCH £5 (£4) • Event 0205 2pm WORKSHOP: FAMILY SINGING Bring your family on a world tour of terrific tunes with Caroline Radcliffe as your musical guide. There will be action songs and rounds, both rousing and soothing. Impress your kin with your ability to sing in Japanese or Swahili! Caroline is choir leader at St John’s First School and leads Songbirds projects for Jackdaws in local schools. TRINITY HALL Ends 3.30pm • £3.50 Max 35 • Booking essential • Event 0206 2.30pm STEVE VOAKE: THE DREAMWALKER ’S CHILD AND THE WEB OF FIRE Ever thought flying insects might be manned fighter planes from another planet? In Steve Voake’s first novel for children, Sam Palmer is abducted into a world where such planes exist and an evil leader threatens to take over Earth. Steve, headmaster at Kilmersdon School, reads extracts from the novel and the forthcoming sequel. Ages: 8–12 years. FROME LIBRARY £2.50 (from library) Enjoy the Big Band sounds from this award-winning local band. This twenty-piece community-based Big Band is conducted by David Dayman-Johns. Refreshments available. This is a fundraising event for the Blue House. See also Exhibitions. BLUE HOUSE Ends 4.30pm • £4 (tickets from the Blue House or on the door) |
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3.45pm WORKSHOP: MOBILE PHONE PHOTOGRAPHY In this innovative workshop, photographer Jax Murray will explore different ways of using mobile phone cameras to create fun and interesting imagery and discuss the effect that mobile phone photography has on our everyday lives. Age: 13–19yrs TRINITY HALL Ends 5.15pm • £4 Max: 14 • Booking essential • Event 0209 5.30pm WORLD FOOD FEAST
TOWN CENTRE Ends 9pm • Free 7.30pm THE SOLSTICE STRING QUARTET With David Campbell, Clarinet ST MARY'S CHURCH, FROME Supper 9pm
• Concert £10; Concert & supper £19.50 8pm THE BRISTOL SHANTYMEN: ENGLAND EXPECTS - TRAFALGAR 200 To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the world-renowned Bristol Shantymen are carrying out a series of concerts. They will be performing their show, England Expects, featuring the songs, anecdotes and stories of the period. They will also be singing many other shanties and songs and there will be plenty of opportunity for you to join in! THE GRANARY Doors 7.30pm • Ends 10.15pm • £5 • Limited Seating 8pm A CELEBRATION OF FLANDERS AND SWANN Talented entertainer Gordon Peters (Are You Being Served?, Hi-di-Hi, Dad’s Army) recreates Flanders and Swann comedy songs with humorous anecdotes and audience participation. Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud, I’m a Gnu, The Gas Man Cometh and more. Accomplished musical director David Carter is at the piano. Come along to a stylish evening of humour from a gentler age. Nothing quite like it! MEMORIAL THEATRE £12.50 • Event 0213 Doors 8pm RIK WALLER'S MIGHTY SOUL BAND Rik Waller’s Mighty Soul Band plays extraordinary music of great passion and vitality and are renowned in today’s music scene on both sides of the Atlantic. So forget Pop Idol – as audiences young, old and new discover the big man with the big voice who will, in time, claim a unique place in the history of soul music. CHEESE & GRAIN £11 adv £12.50 door 8.30pm THE CELTIC SESSION This extremely popular event takes place twice monthly at The Griffin. The festival session is always packed so get there early to ensure your place. Get set for a ripping, marching, jigging, reeling evening with the odd eye watering ballad, and of course a little bit of ceol agus craic. Players, singers, dancers and drinkers are all welcome. GRIFFIN INN Free • Event 0215 9pm SPIRIT JAZZ Last year, pianist/composer Keith Harrison-Broninski’s Spirit Jazz quartet was a festival highlight, packing out St John’s Church with thrilling jazz reinventions of gospel, spirituals and African chant. This year they’re back for another candlelit concert with old favourites and new material inspired by Coltrane’s iconic masterpiece, A Love Supreme. ST JOHN'S CHURCH Ends 11pm • £6 (£4) |
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