10am Frome Instrument Makers’ Display and Concert
Hear a variety of music played on instruments made locally by two professional craftsmen. Laurence Parnell (guitars, mandolins and accomplished finger-style guitarist) and Christopher Barlow (harpsichords and fortepianos) will display some of their latest creations. Come and meet the makers, try the instruments and then enjoy the lunchtime concert. Refreshments available.
Holy Trinity Church
Display from 10am Concert 12noon • £4
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5pm Workshop: Dramarama
A fun drama workshop for adults (16+) wanting to try something new and different. No experience needed, just enthusiasm and a positive attitude. Performer and director Marina Sossi will lead the group with drama games and improvisation exercises in a relaxed and easygoing atmosphere. Lots of laughs guaranteed!
Trinity Hall
Ends 6.30pm • £5.50 • Max 16
Booking essential
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6.30pm Thank You For our Music
The Ultimate tribute to ABBA & QUEEN
Dig out your flares and glitter wigs and get on down to the Festival’s biggest party. This great family evening concert features live performances of all your favourite Abba and Queen hits performed by two of the country’s best tribute bands. The evening will finish with a breathtaking firework display set to ‘Dancing Queen’
– a stunning night of music under the stars.
Marston House
6.30pm (Picnic from 6pm)
£16.50 (£20 on gate) Child 5–14 years £5 • Pre 14th May: Adults £14.50
Private terrace tables for ten available; contact: 01373 453889
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7pm Chants: solo improvised piano recital
John Law (‘one of Europe’s most imaginative pianists’ The Times) will play a completely improvised new work based on the ancient Gregorian plainchant for the feast of Pentecost. In the second half John will play some smaller jazz compositions and three pieces by J S Bach: two from The Art of Fugue and the three-part Ricercar from The Musical Offering.
St John’s Church
£8 (£6)
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8pm Robb Johnson Concert & free late-night film
Robb Johnson has played pubs, clubs, pavements, pickets & benefits, arts centres & festivals, BBC Radio 3 & 4, Belgian Radio 1, Nicaraguan TV, Channel 4 and London’s Albert Hall. He recently released his 15th album. Folk with something to say is still alive and kicking and here in Frome! Free screening of folk film A Mighty Wind follows at 10.45pm.
The Granary
Doors 7.30pm • Gig ends 10.15pm • £7 (includes A Mighty Wind) • Limited seating
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7.30pm Violin Recital with Contemporary Dance
Award-winning violinist Ruth Palmer presents a recital with pianist, Alexei Grynyuk, featuring Bach B minor solo partita, movements of which are choreographed and danced by Antonia Grove, who was nominated best young dancer for the Critics Circle National Dance Awards. Ruth and Antonia have previously collaborated at the Cheltenham Festival to critical acclaim.
To coincide with this performance, there is an all-day workshop with Rambert Dance involving Year 8 pupils from both Frome Middle Schools.
Selwood School
£7 (£5)
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7.45pm Scottish Dance Theatre presents In fact you can - and LUXURIA
Following last year’s huge success, the Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaugh’s, we present Scotland’s principal contemporary dance company in Michael Popper’s In fact you can keep a good dog down, but the dog – not knowing this – will keep trying to get up. This piece is a little like a circus, very much like a cabaret, and often like a cartoon. Plus Liv Lorent’s starkly poetic LUXURIA.
Merlin Theatre
£10 (£6.50)
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8pm Music Mayhem
Another Music Mayhem brought to you especially for the Frome Festival, featuring three of the area’s top young bands. Music Mayhem has established itself as the biggest live music event in Frome for under 18s.
Frome Youth & Community Centre
Ends 11pm • £2 on the door
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8.30pm Seize the Day &
‘O’
UK Folk icons, Seize the Day won the 2003 BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards Audience poll (and were quickly denied the honour because of their anti-war lyrics). Blending compelling arrangements, powerful lyrics, and a fine song sense. Guardian columnist John Vidal says they’re, ‘Bold Beautiful frontline folk’.
‘O’ is multimedia music by creative obsessives – Big Themes, Little songs, Digital cabaret.
Assembly Rooms
Doors 8pm • £7(£5)
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8 30pm Slippery Fish
With creamy lead guitar licks, a wailing harp, driving rhythm section and a drummer who never misses a beat, Slippery Fish deliver the Blues with inimitable style. From Stevie Ray-Vaughan to T-Bone Walker; from John Mayall to Muddy Waters, if you love R&B then catch Slippery Fish!
Griffin Inn
Free
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9.30pm Pee Wee Ellis Assembly
Sweat-driving rhythms, sharp solos, the joy of playing and improvisation are the unmistakable hallmarks of Pee Wee Ellis’s music. Ready to thrill you, with the Pee Wee Ellis Assembly at this year’s Frome Festival, he’ll be playing what he loves best – Funk, Soul, Gospel and Jazz.
Cheese & Grain
Doors 9pm • £10 adv (£12 door)
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10.45pm A Mighty Wind (2003, 12A)
‘The Spinal Tap of Folk.’ Telegraph
Late-night screening of this gentle music ‘mockumentary’. After decades away from the limelight, folk acts from the 1960s, including the Folksmen (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer) and old partners and ex-sweethearts Mitch and Mickey (Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara), reunite for a show to memorialise a concert promoter.
The Granary
Ends 12.15am • £4 on door - FREE to those with Robb Johnson tickets • Limited seating
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