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| Workshop: Sumptuous Silk Receptacles | 10:00-12:00 |
Using delicate, beautifully dyed silk and other luxuriant fibres you will discover how to construct these light, lustrous yet surprisingly strong bowls. Embellish your work with oddments of threads, sequins, beads and buttons that you may wish to bring along.
Trinity Hall
£15
Age: 14+, limited numbers
Event Code: 1101 • Primary Category: Workshops
| Festival Cream Teas and Entertainment | 12:00-16:00 |
For details see Wed 9 July, event no. 902.
Monmouth House Garden, Cork Street
Free admission
Event Code: 1102 • Primary Category: Miscellaneous
| Oboe and Organ: Recital by Peter Rees and David Wakefield |
13:00-14:00 Doors open 12:30 |
The recital will consist mainly of music from the Baroque to Romantic periods. Peter Rees lives in Bath and is a professional teacher and performer on the oboe. David Wakefield is an amateur organist who plays regularly at Holy Trinity Church.
Holy Trinity Church
£5 / £4 conc
Event Code: 1103 • Primary Category: Classical Music
| Workshop: Carving In Soapstone | 13:00-18:00 |
An opportunity for adults and children over 8 years to work with soapstone.
Led by Bay Deane, who will help you carve into your piece of stone using nature as inspiration. Materials and equipment supplied. No previous experience necessary.
Enigma Gallery
£25
Age: 8 + (under 12's to be accompained by an adult)
Event Code: 1104 • Primary Category: Workshops
| Trees and Clouds | 14:00-18:00 |
For details see Thu 10 July, event no. 1002.
Additional screening times:
10/07 - 14:00-18:00 - event no. 1002
12/07 - 14:00-18:00 - event no. 1209
13/07 - 14:00-18:00 - event no. 1308
Frome Museum Studios
Free
Event Code: 1105 • Primary Category: Visual Arts
| 'Mother of Pearl' Book Launch | 18:00 |
Celebrating the publication of the fourth poetry collection from local poet Rose Flint; poetry of spirit that celebrates women, wildness and the way we live with the natural world, in all its endangered beauty.
Join Rose for some poetry, some music, some wine.
See related workshop with Rose Flint (Event Code 702)
Café La Strada
Free
Event Code: 1106 • Primary Category: Literary
| Blue Remembered Hills | 19:30-20:30 Doors open 18:00 |
For details see Wed 9 July, event no. 908.
Blue House
£6 / Update: £5 Concessions
Event Code: 1107 • Primary Category: Comedy, Dance & Drama
| One Night Of Queen with Gary Mullen | 19:30 Doors open 19:00 |
Performing on stage at the Frome Memorial Theatre after a sell-out tour of the States, Gary, winner of Stars In Their Eyes, presents a fabulous night of QUEEN.
Memorial Theatre
£17.50
Event Code: 1108 • Primary Category: Other Music
| Concert by Vallis Chamber Orchestra | 19:30 |
Greig Holberg Suite, Mendelssohn Symphony no 12, J S Bach Harpsichord
Concerto in A major (soloist, Steve Hollas), Edward Elgar Chanson du Matin, J S Bach Brandenburgh Concerto No 3.
Holy Trinity Church
£5 / £4 conc
Event Code: 1109 • Primary Category: Classical Music
| Clare Teal & Her Exceedingly Good Musicians! | 20:00-10:30 Doors open 19:30 |
"One of the best vocal talents to emerge from the UK in a long, long, time - Wonderful!'
Michael Parkinson
'Have to say I was knocked out by Clare Teal, what a fabulous live performer'
Radio Times
'The New Queen of Swing'
Mail On Sunday
SNG presents Clare Teal, three times winner of Jazz Vocalist of the Year. Singer, songwriter, BBC Radio 2 personality, and damned funny woman to boot, Clare performs at the Frome Festival with her band of "Exceedingly Good Musicians" and a night of top class jazz and fun is guaranteed.
See website: www.clareteal.co.uk
Cheese & Grain
£19 adv
Age: 14+
Event Code: 1110 • Primary Category: Jazz Music
| Dudley Sutton: A Close Encounter | 19:30-21:00 Doors open 19:00 |
Variably described as a 'genius' (his agent), an 'idiot' (his dad), and 'judas' (Dylan), Dudley Sutton is arguably best known as Tinker in Lovejoy.
Dudley can't wait to hit Frome with his salacious prose, torrid verse and scurrilous songs. Miss at your peril - a true one off!
Check him out on YouTube: www.dudleysutton.com
Rook Lane Chapel
£8
Age: 14+
Event Code: 1111 • Primary Category: Comedy, Dance & Drama
Other Relevant Categories: Other Music
| Cabaret Sans Frontières | 20:30 - late |
Inventive ~ irreverent ~ risky ~ witty ~ strange
Mesdames et messieurs, bask in the bedecked ambience of faded splendour, where echoes of Moulin Rouge and burlesque tangle with edgy contemporary performance.
Artists, poets, singers, dancers, knitters, cinematic illusions and big-top tricks will fire your imagination and explode the frontiers of your expectations.
Dress up - Mimi and Fifi's magic wardrobe will be at your service on the night.
Masonic Hall
£6 / £5 conc
Age: 16+
Event Code: 1112 • Primary Category: Comedy, Dance & Drama
| The Bad Detectives | 22:00-23:00 |
From the primordial soup of rock and roll came The Bad Detectives... They showed us the way of the B-Movie Scientist - Do Not Miss. High octane rock and roll with a garage heart.
Griffin Inn
Free
Event Code: 1113 • Primary Category: Other Music
| Frome's Ghoulish Goings-On! | 23:30-00:45 |
For details, see Fri 4 July, event no. 409.
Meeting point and information with the ticket.
£12
Event Code: 1114 • Primary Category: Talks & Walks