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| Jazz Breakfast | 09:00-12:00 Doors open 8:45 |
Featuring the John Plaxton Quintet
Back by popular demand!
This year the jazz breakfast features the tasteful trumpet playing of John Plaxton and his jazz quintet.
What better way to start your day than by relaxing to cool jazz sounds while you eat.
Masonic Hall
Free admission
Event Code: 601 • Primary Category: Jazz Music
| The Green Fair | 10:00-16:00 |
A celebration of sustainable living,back for it's second year.
An inspiring and fun event for all the family, showcasing local green businesses and organizations spanning everything from nappies to coffins!
Children's crafts. Live music. Talks and films. Delicious food.
Cheese & Grain
£1 adult (children free)
Event Code: 602 • Primary Category: Green
| 'The Beauty of God's World' Flower Festival | 10:00-16:30 |
For details, see Sat 5 July, event no. 505.
Holy Trinity Church
Free
Event Code: 603 • Primary Category: Miscellaneous
| The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch & Other Stories | 10:30-11:30 |
Best-selling writer/illustrator team, Rhonda and David Armitage provide a spell-binding look in to the stories and pictures that have made them best-sellers.
Come and meet them, ask them questions and see them at work.
Frome Library
£3
Age: 4-8 (+ parents/guardians)
Event Code: 604 • Primary Category: Literary
| Writers' fiction for the 9-13 age group: A workshop with Katherine Roberts |
10:30-12:30 |
A chance to examine your own writing, try new ideas and discuss the life of a writer with best-selling author, Katherine Roberts.
Frome Library
£12
Event Code: 605 • Primary Category: Literary
| FROGS Riverside Walk and Workshops | 11:00-14:00 |
Frome Recreation and Open Ground Supporters are organising a nature trail, stone carving, den building, storytelling, tree sculptures and cooking marshmallows over a campfire.
Jack in the Box Toy Library will be providing a range of outdoor and wheeled toys in the playground area for young children.
Along the river from Welshmill to the Cheese and Grain
Free
Event Code: 606 • Primary Category: Green
Other Relevant Categories: Miscellaneous & Workshops
| Children's Circus Skills with Firestar Circus Arts | 11:00-12:00 now 13:30-14:30 |
Circus Skills with Emily and Yasmine Barrett of Firestar Circus Arts.
Activities include: tightwire unicycling, diabolos, juggling and much more!
Please wear trainers and sensible clothing. See also event no. 616.
PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGED TIME - DIFFERENT FROM ADVERTISED IN THE FF PROGRAMME
Trinity Hall
£4
Age: 4-7 • Max: 20
Event Code: 607 • Primary Category: Workshops
| Workshop: Glass Blowing | 11:00-13:30 |
Participants are offered the opportunity to come to a glass-blowing workshop with their own designs for a drinking vessel and see it being made by Sonja Klinger and KT Yun. Children very welcome, but must be accompanied by an adult.
The Garages, The Retreat
£12
Max: 10
Event Code: 608 • Primary Category: Workshops
| Blue House Open Day | 11:00-17:00 |
A full day of exciting events in this beautiful garden, including artists at work, live music from Primavera and a brunch BBQ.
Blue House
£3 adult / £5 couples (children free)
Event Code: 609 • Primary Category: Visual Arts
| I am the Great Horse | 13:30-14:30 Doors open 12:45 |
Katherine Roberts takes us on a journey through her new novel,
'I am the Great Horse', tells us how she developed the story and its characters, answers your questions, and will even sign books afterwards.
Related Link: Amazon.co.uk
Frome Library
£3
Age: 9-13
Event Code: 610 • Primary Category: Literary
| Picture Books for Children: Workshop for Writers and Illustrators |
13:00-15:00 Doors open 12:45 |
The best-selling team behind The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch and other well-known children's picture books provide aspiring writers/illustrators with the chance to share ideas and discuss publishers, trends in picture-book writing, and give an insight in to the writer's life.
Frome Library
£15
Event Code: 611 • Primary Category: Literary
| Acoustic on the Green | 14:00-18:00 |
An alfresco twist on the traditional acoustic club 'open mic' format. Performers and listeners welcome. Family friendly.
Donations go to the Frome Millennium Green trust.
Frome Millennium Green
Free
Event Code: 612 • Primary Category: Other Music
| Hidden Gardens | 14:00-18:00 |
For details, see Sat 5 July, event no. 512.
Various locations around Frome
£3.50
Event Code: 613 • Primary Category: Talks & Walks
| Walk: Frome's Historic Past | 14:30 |
Guided tours with local experts around historic Frome, starting at The Round Tower and ending at Frome Museum. Donations to the Museum are welcome.
Start at Round Tower
Free
Event Code: 614 • Primary Category: Talks & Walks
| Schuman to Shostakovich: Cello and Piano concert | 15:00 |
Promoted by Jackdaws Educational Trust
Richard May is one of Britain's most outstanding cellists. Since winning the string section of Young Musician of the Year 1984 he has performed throughout the world, including festivals in Berlin, Aldeburgh, Salzburg, and at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, South Bank and Barbican Centres.
Nicholas Oliver won the Young Pianist of the Year in 1984 and 2nd prize at the 1991 Dudley International Piano Competition. He has toured in many European countries and the Americas, Africa, Australia and Asia. Nicholas is joint Head of Accompaniment at Chetham's School of Music, Manchester.
Rook Lane Chapel
£10 / £5 (under 18s) to include tea and cake
Event Code: 615 • Primary Category: Classical Music
| Family Circus Skills with Firestar Circus Arts | 15:00-16:30 |
For details see 11:00, event no. 607.
Trinity Hall
£4
Age: For children from 4+ accompanied by adults • Max: 40
Event Code: 616 • Primary Category: Workshops
| Family Animation Workshop | 15:00-18:00 |
A fun and easy-peazy animation workshop (animation? you know, like Wallace & Grommit!) for parents and children.
All materials supplied (plasticene, camera, etc.)
Suitable for small family groups i.e. adult and one or two children.
Limited places so book early.
Priority places for local residents -
please book directly at The Key Centre on 01373 453371.
The Key Centre, Keyford
£3 per group, up to 6 family groups
Event Code: 617 • Primary Category: Workshops
| How to be a Travel Writer - All your questions answered |
16:00-18:00 |
Freelance journalist and international travel writer Diana Cambridge will discuss what commercial editors want, and answer your questions. She is joined by Laurence Shelley, author of Off the Wall Walking, who will talk about his route to successful self-publishing.
Frome Library
£4
Event Code: 618 • Primary Category: Literary
| Festival Songs Of Praise | 17:30-18:30 Doors open 17:00 |
Local church choirs and congregations are combining for a Festival Songs of Praise. This will involve local personalities and organisations as the churches engage with the community as part of the national Hope 08 Initiative.
Come for a good sing!
St John's Church
Free
Event Code: 619 • Primary Category: Other Music
| Pink Champagne | 17:00 |
Pink Champagne, the female harmony trio, provides an entertaining tea-time diversion of songs from the back catalogue of some of the finest popular song writers, in the secluded garden, or in the cafe in the event of bad weather.
Garden Cafe
£2 on door
Event Code: 620 • Primary Category: Other Music
Other Relevant Categories: Jazz Music
| Ken Dodd | 19:00 - late Doors open 18:30 |
One of the biggest box-office stars in the history of the theatre.
A comic genius whose humour has made him Britian's best-loved comedian.
His fertile imagination has given birth to his famous Diddymen, The Jam Butty Mines and the Black Pudding Plantations in his native Knotty Ash.
Memorial Theatre
£18
Event Code: 621 • Primary Category: Comedy, Dance & Drama
Other Relevant Categories: Other Music
| Electric Silents: Live Film and Music | 19:30-22:00 |
Music improvised to film, and vice versa!
A highlight of previous festivals, this event features some of Frome's finest musicians improvising to a classic, rarely screened silent film. And for a unique contemporary twist, the first half of the programme reverses the process, with a film being edited live to music!
Merlin Theatre
£5
Event Code: 622 • Primary Category: Film and Film & Music
Other Relevant Categories: Jazz Music
| Deltics | 20:00-23:00 |
Screaming Gretches; Green on Red have head on collision with The Jayhawkes.
What a great night!
Griffin Inn
Free
Age: 18+
Event Code: 623 • Primary Category: Other Music
| Andy Fairweather Low + the Low Riders | 20:30-23:00 Doors open 20:00 |
Andy Fairweather Low's pedigree is the stuff rock dreams are made of.
As the lead singer in Amen Corner, he had hit after pop hit such as Bend Me Shape Me, Hello Suzy and (If Paradise is) Half As Nice.
Since that time Andy has gone on to work with many rock legends, including Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Roger Waters, and The Who.
A superlative musical evening.
Cheese & Grain
£16
Event Code: 624 • Primary Category: Other Music