July is looking like a busy month for local live music promoters Woodfired Summit, and what a diverse line up of artists they are bringing to our area. First up is award winning West End and Broadway star John Owen-Jones, perhaps best known for his portrayal of the character Jean Valjean in the ever popular […]
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wall2wall Jazz Festival to be Live Streamed
Now in its fifth year, for the first time much of Abergavenny’s wall2wall Jazz Festival will be live streamed, making the programme available to jazz fans far and wide. The event starts on Thursday 31st August with the Festival Dinner at the Angel Hotel, with Moscow Drug Club providing the after-eats music. The fine food/great […]
Jazz Impressions: for the love of art, music and sponsorship!
Brecon Jazz Festival this year is special – so every year is special for this iconic festival! As last year, the programming and organization is planned by local groups, many of them volunteers. But the energy is tremendous. Some highlights of this year’s festival on Fri-Sun 11-13 August are below, but we actually launched the […]
Tangled up in Dylan
Americana musician Steve Page’s performs his new solo project “Tangled up in Dylan” at the Dance Centre, Abergavenny on Saturday 8th April, 2017 at 7.30pm Steve Page writes and performs some of the best Americana being performed in the UK today. For the past two years he has performed Tangled up in Dylan with his […]
Therapeutic music at Abergavenny Community Centre
Therapeutic music can improve brain function underlying listening and learning skills, language, concentration, memory, behaviour, and mood in anyone. It especially can help stroke, fibromyalgia, autism, learning difficulties, dyslexia, ADHD and even the more profound complex learning disabilities. A free talk and demonstration of some of the music-based programmes developed by www.advancedbrain.com will be at […]
wall2wall Jazz
The wall2wall Jazz Festival which takes between 1st and 4th September is a home grown jazz festival that takes place right here in Abergavenny. If you’re visiting Abergavenny for the National Eisteddfod, here’s a good reason to come back and visit us again! Mike Skilton of Black Mountain Jazz gives us the lowdown on this […]
Brecon Jazz Weekend 12-14 August 2016
Theatr Brycheiniog in a partnership with Friends of Brecon Jazz is introducing The Brecon Jazz Weekend Young Musician’s Showcase. The Showcase will be supported by youth music development and activities for children and families including street/outdoor entertainment. The Showcase at Theatr Brycheiniog is working with leading specialist music colleges throughout the UK to bring the […]
Crickhowell Choral Society’s 22nd Music Festival
Crickhowell Choral Society celebrates its 22nd Music Festival as always during the first May Bank Holiday weekend, and it promises to be an occasion with something for everyone whatever your tastes! The festival kicks off in swinging style in the wonderful setting of The Manor Hotel in Crickhowell on Thursday 28 April with the Bristol-based […]
Friends of Cwmdu Music Present The Eilan Quartet
One of the key objectives of FCM is to introduce a series of music programmes employing students and young professional musicians. For our second concert of the 2016 season we are thrilled, therefore, to welcome an exciting young string quartet, the Eilan Quartet, through our trustees’ links with the Royal Welsh College of Music and […]
RING IN THE NEW!
A new year brings new music, new players and new challenges to Monmouth Concert Orchestra who are thrilled to welcome a cluster of new players to swell their ranks. The orchestra is now well established numbering some 50 regular players, many of whom had not picked up their instruments in decades, in many cases, since […]
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