Tuesday 17th July 2007
FULL DETAILS OF ALL FESTIVAL EVENTS CAN BE FOUND IN THE 88 PAGE SOUVENIR PROGRAMME WHICH INCLUDES A VOUCHER FOR 10% OFF TICKET PRICES (Programmes and Tickets Available from 1st June)
JUNIOR SCHOOL WORKSHOP with SALLY MANN
Award winning artist will again be visiting Monteclefe School to work with pupils to create a withy sculpture. Sally has produced works with the Millennium Commission, Sedgemoor Rural Regeneration Project, the River Brue Sculpture Trail and works with a variety of mediums exploring the boundaries between visual arts, performance and digital media.
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CRAFT DAY
Sue McGregor, in conjunction with Festival 2007, will be using the Festival Marquee to present a craft day. Come and spend a half or full day making your own greetings cards to take home. There will be the opportunity to learn a variety of paper craft techniques throughout the day including rubber stamping, embossing, cutting, layering and punching. Come and find out what to do with sticky ribbon, outline stickers, see D's, embossing stencils, Die cuts, 3D tape and more! Today's sessions will be from 9.30am to 11.30am and 12 noon to 2.00pm at £5.00 each session. You are welcome to bring some lunch and stay all day for £8.00. Tickets are available directly from Sue McGregor on 01458 270130 and not from the Festival Ticket Office. Please note the programme 10% discount voucher does not apply to this event
ART & PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Come along and spend a pleasant few minutes absorbing and appreciating our local artists' undoubted proficiency. Parish Rooms 10.00am – 7.00pm Entry Free
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COUNTRY & WESTERN with DENVER SPUR
We welcome back Denver Spur to our festival, who last appeared in 2005 with great success. The Spur, as they affectionately known by other musicians in their home county of Somerset, have been a prominent part of the musical establishment of the South West since 1970 when they were formed by Dave Beck as a cabaret band out of a larger, highly regarded dance band called The San Antones. Dave Beck. www.denverspur.com
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JULIE DUNN with PETE MAXFIELD
Sassy Jazz Vocalist/Pianist Julie Dunn returns to this year's festival together with dynamic Acoustic Bassist Pete Maxfield [also appearing incidentally with the Monfi Cats the night before!] for an evening of popular jazz , blues and latin favourites - think Ipanema, Fever and artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra and Diana Krall. She'll also be performing some great new arrangements of jazz standards from her brand new cd What's it All About - specially written for the album by Cleo Laine's pianist John Horler (who also appears on the album and is featured on Julie's website www.juliedunn.co.uk ) If you want to know what you're in store for, here's what a couple of reviewers had to say when she brought out her debut album a couple of years ago: "Dunn possesses a rich vocal timbre, big range and can also conjure up some wonderful backing vocals..."Peter Quinn, Jazzwise "The music is simply irresistible both for those who are jazz fans and those who are not..." Roger Kaye, Wessex Muse Magazine
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RADIO MATTERS WITH HEDLI NIKLAUS (KATHY PERKS) AND TREVOR HARRISON (EDDIE GRUNDY) FROM BBC RADIO 4'S 'THE ARCHERS'
Calling all Archer's addicts!!!
Come and enjoy an entertaining evening with Hedli Niklaus (Kathy Perks) and Trevor Harrison (Eddie Grundy) from BBC Radio 4's long-running soap 'The Archers'Between them Hedli and Trevor have notched up over fifty years of radio experience, ranging from plays and poems to programmes for children. Few can forget their magical presentation of Wiggly Park! They are of course most well known for their portrayals of the long suffering Kathy Perks (after all, she lives next door to the Grundys) and Eddie Grundy (who Trevor calls a loveable rogue, 'though others have a different name for him). They'll take you on a roller coaster ride, describing the pitfalls and pleasures of working in theatre, television and radio. You'll have the opportunity to meet the actors for a chat during the evening and perhaps purchase some Archers memorabilia. Ask them any questions you like and they've promised they'll do their best to answer them. One thing's for sure, you will certainly find out why, to Hedli and Trevor, 'Radio Matters'.www.archers-addicts.com
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