10am & 11.30am Workshop: Mini Movers and Shakers

Jump, whirl, shake, rattle and roll on a musical journey with Annabelle Macfadyen and Joanna Harvey. Explore different ways to move to the music, join in with action songs and fun games and be part of a percussion band. For pre-school children and their parents.

Trinity Hall

Each workshop 45mins • Max 14 each workshop• Booking essential • Child £3.50 (Parent free)
Event 0701/0702

1pm The Hanging Garden

An organ recital by Ann Burgess, Director of Music at Christ Church.
Music from the 13th century to the present day, for pedal organ and chamber organ, including Alain’s Le Jardin Suspendu, Franck’s Pastorale and works by Bach, Battishill, Boehm, Buxtehude, Gibbons, Leighton, the Edwardian Wolstenholme and more.

Christ Church

£4 (£3)
Event 0703

5pm Workshop: Arabic Dance

Learn to move those hips with Karine Butchart, an experienced teacher of traditional Belly dancing. Experience the joy and passion of this ancient art form. Fantastic fun and great exercise. Bring a scarf to tie on your hips or full costume!

Trinity Hall

Ends 6.30pm • £5.50 • Max 25 • Booking essential
Event 0704

5.30pm Charity Preview: Disney’s Herbie Fully Loaded (2005, not yet rated)

Start your engines! Herbie, the famous, free-wheelin’ Volkswagen beetle is back! In a special festival preview, Disney’s all-new comedy adventure can be seen over a month before its UK release. Herbie has some new tricks under his bonnet as his new owner, Lindsay Lohan, bids to become a NASCAR competitor. Presented by FilmFrome in association with Buena Vista International (UK) Ltd.

Westway Cinema

Doors 5pm • £4 (under 15: £3)
Booking advised • Tickets from the Cinema
Event 0705

7.15pm Apocalypse Now Redux (1982, 15) & live music

Full surround-sound screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s extended Vietnam magnum opus based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall, the film is exhilarating, uncomfortable and dazzling, from the infamous Wagner helicopter attack to ‘the horror’ of Colonel Kurtz. Local bands will perform live acoustic sets before the film.

Cheese & Grain

Doors 7pm • Film at 8pm • Ends 11.30pm approx • £5
Event 0708

7.30pm Jimmy Cricket

Jimmy Cricket is a well-known family entertainer and comedian both on television and radio as well as a live performer. Although he enjoyed great success appearing on TV in And there’s More for four series, Jimmy enjoys nothing better than a live audience to bounce his one liners off.

Memorial Theatre

£11
Event 0706

7.30pm A Venetian Celebration:
The Four Seasons

The Bradford Baroque Band; The Fitzhardinge Singers; Violin, Alison Townley; Conductor, Jason Thornton
The Fitzhardinge Singers make their Festival debut in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Lotti’s Crucifixus, accompanied by the authentic instruments of Bradford Baroque Band conducted by Jason Thornton. Alison Townley adds her expertise as one of Britain’s finest period instrument violinists in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

St John’s Church

Front pews: £16 (£15) Rear pews: £12 (£11)
Event 0707

8.30pm Buffalo Gals/Dr Stomp

A night of old-time country, folk and roots music. The Buffalo Gals infuse their authentic style with a unique brand of excitement and energy, mixing Bluegrass, Blues and Cajun tunes. The Dr. Stomp trio brings Appalachian ‘Old-Timey’ flat foot dancing, rootsy pining vocals, and banjo pyrotechnics to the evening. Their zany act needs to be seen to be believed.

Assembly Rooms

Doors 8pm • £7 (£5)
Event 0709

8.30pm 9 to the Universe

Back to wow you with their unique brand of Hendrix music memorabilia. They exude all the right energy and passion to take you back to one of the most influential periods in Rock and Blues. ‘Absolutely brilliant. The best since Jimi Himself’.

Griffin Inn

Free
Event 0710

9.30pm Andy Hague Quintet

Some of the best musicians around Bristol, the Andy Hague Quintet has recorded several times for national radio and appeared at leading jazz festivals. The repertoire combines Andy’s catchy originals with fresh treatments of standards. ‘Their musicianship & togetherness are impressive, matching the fire of Art Blakey’s groups’. Musicians’ Union Magazine.

The Granary

Quintet gig 9.30–10.30pm • Open jam session 10.45pm onwards £6 • Limited seating
Event 0711

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