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Top trio line up for gallery's 21st Christmas show

Leaping cat by Alison Englefield

1:43pm Thursday 20th November 2008

THE Hay Makers’ Gallery completes its 21st anniversary year of exhibitions by welcoming back three successful past artists – jewellers Jan Fryer with her bright metallic contemporary look and Alison Englefield, whose original brooches are made from layered silk paper, textiles and sequins, decorated with silk threads and fragments of antique fabrics and embroidery.

CBSO at Malvern

Andris Nelsons, the newly appointed musical director of CBSO

1:35pm Thursday 20th November 2008

THE newly appointed music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, is to conduct the orchestra in Malvern on Friday, November 28.

Tim Prince live at The Imperial

Tim Prince and the Paupers headline at The Imperial on November 27

1:38pm Thursday 20th November 2008

TIM Prince and the Paupers headline the next Live at the Imperial gig on Thursday, November 27.

Final tour date for Boyan Ensemble

1:36pm Thursday 20th November 2008

THE Boyan Ensemble of Kiev will give the final concert of their 2008 tour at St Francis Xavier Church in Broad Street next Thursday – and fans of the singers are being asked to reveal their reminiscences of the choir for inclusion in a book to mark the Boyan Ensemble’s 20th tour in three years’ time.

D-Day approaches for young musicians

1:24pm Thursday 20th November 2008

D-day is approaching for young musicians THE deadline for entries for the Young Musician of Malvern competition is fast approaching and talented young musicians must apply by Sunday, November 30.

Requiem starts choral society season

1:27pm Thursday 20th November 2008

VERDI’S mighty and dramatic Requiem comes to Hereford Cathedral on Saturday, opening Hereford Choral Society’s 2008/2009 season.

Welsh flavour to Tidal Wave exhibition

Tenby Harbour by Vivienne Luxton

1:31pm Thursday 20th November 2008

FOLLOWING the success of Tidal Wave Gallery’s h.Art exhibition, which featured paintings of the north Wales coast and mountains, owner Steve Davies is holding a Christmas exhibition entitled Three Artists from Wales, featuring artists with a love of the north Wales landscape.

Panto stars prepare for merriment and mayhem

Clockwise from front – Simon Mayhew, John Buckridge, Rob Swinton, Lyndsay Maples, Robert Traynor, Max Gell, Sacha Nella, Natalie D

1:07pm Thursday 20th November 2008

IT’S that time of year again – the time for mischief and mayhem, thigh-slapping and the odd double entendre – as the panto makes a triumphant return to town with Jack and the Beanstalk, which promises to be a giant of a show.

Reduced Shakespeare Company's irreverent triumph

1:12pm Friday 14th November 2008

IT wasn’t the first time I’d seen this Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) version of the Bible – but it might have well as been.

Rambert leap into action for Malvern show

Ballet Rambert present Eternal Light at Malvern

2:05pm Thursday 13th November 2008

AFTER a record-breaking season in London last year, Rambert Dance Company returns to Malvern on November 19-22 with a brand new programme, including Eternal Light and a dramatic revival of Christopher Bruce’s outstanding and hugely popular Swansong.

A wry look at the body beautiful

The Protein Dance Company will be bouncing into Hereford.

2:10pm Thursday 13th November 2008

DEAR Body, the latest project from Protein Dance Company, is a witty satire on our growing obsession with body care and image.

Quartet played with maturity belying their youth

1:51pm Thursday 13th November 2008

FORMED only three years ago, the British-based Brodowski Quartet has already won several important international prizes and the Hereford Concert Society performance at The Courtyard showed why.

Gus gets all fired up

John Read tours village halls with Anorak of Fire this month

1:58pm Thursday 13th November 2008

GUS Gascoigne’s life is dominated by trainspotting and has been from the moment he heard his first train from his pram. His obsession with trains has left him with something of a one-track mind, which leaves him oblivious to all the finer nuances of the world around him.

Line-up guaranteed to get you moving

1:49pm Thursday 13th November 2008

BOKA Halat, a storming dance and concert band playing English folk melodies on fiddle and melodeon and Gambian rhythm section (sabars, djembe, bongo etc) are appearing at Gwernyfed Drama Studio at Three Cocks, Glasbury, on Saturday at 7.30pm.

A golden moment for string orchestra

Associate conductor Hazel Davis

1:48pm Thursday 13th November 2008

FIFTY years ago, a music master at Kingstone School sounded out string players in the county to see if there was enough interest to start an advanced evening class for strings.


Tenby Harbour by Vivienne Luxton Clockwise from front – Simon Mayhew, John Buckridge, Rob Swinton, Lyndsay Maples, Robert Traynor, Max Gell, Sacha Nella, Natalie D Andris Nelsons, the newly appointed musical director of CBSO Leaping cat by Alison Englefield

Tenby Harbour by Vivienne Luxton at Tidal Wave Gallery

The cast of Jack and the Beanstalk arrive in town

Andris Nelsons, new musical director of CBSO, conducts Tchaikovsky in Malvern

A leaping cat by Alison Englefield at Hay Makers Gallery




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